The Specials -Olympia, November 14

gokgok

From the irish times blog

Per posters pasted up around the Oxegen site, The Specials are playing Dublin’s Olympia on November 14.

UPDATE Tickets for The Specials in Dublin are from €49.20 (including booking fee). They also play in St George’s Market in Belfast on November 16.

Saw them in Brixton in April and they were amazing. This should be great in the Olympia.

quaidox

gokgok wrote: »

From the irish times blog



Saw them in Brixton in April and they were amazing. This should be great in the Olympia.

they will be gone in seconds the morn they go on sale i'm sure. better get the f5 finger into training for it......

Bren Jacob

Its gonna be some scramble for the tickets for that one.
I cant wait!

vixenbees

the ticketmaster website says they're on november 15th..?

whats the capacity for the olympia? its mostly standing with some seating overhead is that right? i havent been in about 5 years!

gokgok

there's two tiers of seating

Fringe

Saw them at Oxegen and they were great. The rain killed it a bit but it was still good. I would love to see them again and this time actually wear a proper suit. A few of my friends brought suits to see them. One of them brought a checkered suit. When are tickets available?

quaidox

tickets are on sale this friday apparantly....

Ryaller

vixenbees wrote: »

the ticketmaster website says they're on november 15th..?

whats the capacity for the olympia? its mostly standing with some seating overhead is that right? i havent been in about 5 years!

They are definitely playing Saturday 14th as well. Ticketmaster will wait 'till the Sunday has sold out (which it will - in seconds) before announcing the "extra" date.

I believe the capacity for the Olympia is around 1700.

quaidox

think i will wait until the saturday tix go on sale so........

dearg lady

Ryaller wrote: »

They are definitely playing Saturday 14th as well. Ticketmaster will wait 'till the Sunday has sold out (which it will - in seconds) before announcing the "extra" date.

I believe the capacity for the Olympia is around 1700.

are ya sure sure sure? How do ya know? I'm afraid to leave it! Man it's gonna be class, they were savage at oxegen, pretty much the only reason i went

Ryaller

dearg lady wrote: »

are ya sure sure sure? How do ya know? I'm afraid to leave it! Man it's gonna be class, they were savage at oxegen, pretty much the only reason i went

Lynval said 2 Dublin dates on Phantom yesterday. Sunday Times ad only had Saturday 14th listed (plus the Oxegen posters). Obviously the Saturday is more likely to sell out, so I guess they're releasing the Sunday tickets first. Not saying it's definite, but...

dearg lady

oooh, I do hope so, Saturday would be better. Mind you, as long as I get to go I'll be happy

Bren Jacob

Yep its two shows, saturday and sunday.
Details of the suinday gig (including link to buy tickets) were sent to everyone on The Specials mailing list as far as I know.

dearg lady

gone at 9.00, how does that happen???!!

Qprmeath

I dont think the link ever came up???

dearg lady

for tix? Nah it did, got in right away, put in me captcha, none available. Sigh. C'mon saturday!!!!!

eefy

just tried there now at 9.22am
and got 2 tickets for saturday
you should try again

dearg lady

eefy wrote: »

just tried there now at 9.22am
and got 2 tickets for saturday
you should try again

am I having a stoopid moment, I see no saturday gig listed for Dublin

largerox

Tickets on sale now for Saturday

Ryaller

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/180042EA84B50FA4?artistid=977188&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

Got 2 tickets there no problem.

dearg lady

phew! Got em. For some reason the saturday wasn't comin up for me for ages, when it finally did I nearly had a heart attack thinkin they'll be gone now!

telecaster

Ryaller wrote: »

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/180042EA84B50FA4?artistid=977188&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

Got 2 tickets there no problem.

me too.

Davidth88

damn missed them


Grrrrrrrrrr

Tomohawk

Just got 2 tickets this afternoon for the saturday night from Ticketmaster. Someone let me know on the VCI website so try again lads, they must be returns or tickets they were holding back or something. get em while ya can...

Duchessofdoom

I got saturday night too, from someone on the Vespa Club Of Ireland!

Crackity Jones

got two for sunday. glad i randomly checked!

unachicagilmore

Want to try and get Specials tickets for the Saturday gig. Anyone know if there is there a good time to check the Ticketmaster website for when they re-open ticket sales? Or any other good bet to check?

quaidox

got a sunday standing ticket this afternoon, nice one!

gokgok

i got two standing for sunday yesterday as well. my wife panic bought two seated tickets friday but we decided we it's was a gig for dancing.

Scrumdog

Is Terry Hall singing with the Specials when they play the Olympia later this year? I alread have my ticket and have head that he is not singing. What a bummer.

Irjudge1

Scrumdog wrote: »

Is Terry Hall singing with the Specials when they play the Olympia later this year? I alread have my ticket and have head that he is not singing. What a bummer.

He played at glasto and Oxegenso i can't see why not??

johnnyjj

any one know or any guesses who is playing support for the specials, I hope its Present Arms they're a well decent Dublin ska outfit, they do cover a few special numbers no doubt not on the night.:)

rebecca9

johnnyjj wrote: »

any one know or any guesses who is playing support for the specials, I hope its Present Arms they're a well decent Dublin ska outfit, they do cover a few special numbers no doubt not on the night.:)

mcd says pama international will be supporting,

can't wait for this gig, they were brill at oxegen:)

tatoo

rebecca9 wrote: »

mcd says pama international will be supporting,

can't wait for this gig, they were brill at oxegen:)

What are pama international like , what time will the specials be on at?

rebecca9

tatoo wrote: »

What are pama international like , what time will the specials be on at?

No idea about the times?
Lynval Golding is in Pama International http://www.myspace.com/pamainternational

bombidol

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Roddy Radiation Acoustic Gig

littleredspot

Wonderful gig, brilliant, up for it crowd. They haven't slowed down a bit. Enjoy tonight rudeboys and gals.....

Crackity Jones

littleredspot wrote: »

Wonderful gig, brilliant, up for it crowd. They haven't slowed down a bit. Enjoy tonight rudeboys and gals.....

Cant wait...heading along tonite. What time were Specials on ..9?

Tomohawk

Worth seeing. Ska Legends. Came on at 9.30! RudeBOY!!

Kobayashi

Gotta say Sat night was outstanding, blew me away. Crowd were up for it in a big way and the band were brilliant. Always good to go home a sweaty, happy mess!

Setun

Unbelievable. Ghost Town was frighteningly relevant.

1968

Just back from The Olympia.

Absolutely fantastic gig.

Too tired to write up a long description now. Best weekend in a longtime. Four nights of ska.

cinnamon girl

Amazing gig. I don't think I've ever seen an audience enjoy itself so much.

Crackity Jones

cinnamon girl wrote: »

Amazing gig. I don't think I've ever seen an audience enjoy itself so much.

I dont think I've ever been at a gig in the Olympia where ppl in the circle danced so much! Bouncers just gave up telling ppl to sit down. Brilliant gig.

Setun

Crackity Jones wrote: »

I dont think I've ever been at a gig in the Olympia where ppl in the circle danced so much! Bouncers just gave up telling ppl to sit down. Brilliant gig.

As soon as they launched into "Do the Dog", everyone went mental. Fantastic!

tatoo

Anyone know if this years reunion was a once off , or might they be back next year ?