*** QUESTIONS *** All non specific gig questions in here.

whomenonotme

Toast wrote: »

Anyone no longer getting an option for physical tickets on ticketmaster.ie? I went to buy God Is an Astronaut tickets and they only have etickets for free or a gift wrapped ticket for a fiver. I've tweeted ticketmaster asking WTF here. Need to get a major stink going if they think they can just remove the option for physical tickets like that.

https://twitter.com/toutless/status/1218176360297967621

I got the same thing for buying GIAA tix earlier, and also when buying tickets for the Hu a while back (also in Academy).

I much prefer physical tickets and out of the twenty gigs I have tickets for this year, all but six I already have the tickets which were posted to me. Two of the gigs are collect at box office abroad with photo ID. (December was an experience month, hurray for the xmas bonus!)

I always buy physical tickets, so much handier to give other people their ticket in advance and just meet in the venue.

Count Hairyfoot

Do the Bord Gais release extra tickets close to a show date? Looking for tickets to William Shatner in March and they sold out pretty fast.

PTH2009

Anyone have pictures of the old point depot

How is it compared to what is there now ??

Did it have a concourse with bars/merch etc.

delbertgrady

I saw nearly seventy shows there over the years. It was a rudimentary, perfunctory building. At the time the venue was developed, it was regarded as a major asset, because we had nothing like it here, and it did serve its purpose, but it was lacking in many respects. The other thing to remember is that the stretch along the quays from the city centre to the East Link was a bit of a no man's land, still underdeveloped and architecturally barren, so the Point itself was very much an outlier. No LUAS at the time, obviously. No bus service.

This (above) was the only entrance, what is now Entrance 3. Concourse is too elaborate a term for the entrance area. There was a lobby with bars and merchandise and a ridiculously small number of toilets. Upstairs, there were more bars. After the renovations, the arena configuration was turned sideways to create the amphitheatre seating that is there now, so the wall facing you in the photo below (i.e. what was the right side wall as you faced the stage) is now where the stage is.

delbertgrady

Here is another interior shot for a seated show. The tiered seats under the balcony were unreserved for standing shows, so if you got there early, you could go there and get a decent vantage point. There was no gradient on the flat floor, which - unlike the current 3Arena, where flat seats only run fifteen rows or so - stretched back the entire length of the building, so anything far back was a bit pointless. There were tiered seats under the rear balcony too, but they were obviously quite far back.

You can also see in both these photos how the rear balcony was very far back and very high, with the front row almost in line with the last few rows of the side balconies.

The Nal

This is it in full flow before they made it look like Woodies in Tallaght.

https://vimeo.com/63826209

Fortyjocks

Count Hairyfoot wrote: »

Do the Bord Gais release extra tickets close to a show date? Looking for tickets to William Shatner in March and they sold out pretty fast.

Just got tweet to say some VIP tickets just released by Ticketmaster for this

blue note

Where's a good site to go for people selling unwanted tickets? I'm hoping to go to santana but am too cheap to pay full price so am hoping someone gets nervous with this coronavirus and sells theirs cheap.

wacotaco

Ludovici Einaudi Cancelled in Dublin.
Haven't seen anything to highlight this on Fb etc.
Just came across it accidentally on twitter from a concern attendee

Official on his site : https://ludovicoeinaudi.com/

The Nal

blue note wrote: »

Where's a good site to go for people selling unwanted tickets? I'm hoping to go to santana but am too cheap to pay full price so am hoping someone gets nervous with this coronavirus and sells theirs cheap.

Hes cancelled his European tour

blue note

The Nal wrote: »

Hes cancelled his European tour

I can't find anything about that online and ticketmaster are still selling them. Are you sure?

The Nal

blue note wrote: »

I can't find anything about that online and ticketmaster are still selling them. Are you sure?

https://guitar.com/news/music-news/carlos-santana-cancells-tour-covid-19-coronavirus/

https://bestclassicbands.com/santana-2020-tour-cancel-3-10-200/

PTH2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9pNLAss59Q

came across this the other day

A riot in Slane what the hell ??

PTH2009

When did the Hard Rock Hotel open in Dublin ?

Isn't the Tivoli and Vicar Street getting turned into something similar ?

Furious-Red

PTH2009 wrote: »

When did the Hard Rock Hotel open in Dublin ?

Isn't the Tivoli and Vicar Street getting turned into something similar ?

Think the Hard Rock Hotel opened not long before covid hit AFAIK.

Im pretty sure the vicar St revamp planning permission (venue size update and hotel) was rejected

The Nal

Furious-Red wrote: »

Im pretty sure the vicar St revamp planning permission (venue size update and hotel) was rejected

Was approved last time I heard about it? 8 story hotel. And another hotel behind it.

Furious-Red wrote: »

Think the Hard Rock Hotel opened not long before covid hit AFAIK.

Yeah literally a couple of weeks before.

PTH2009

The Nal wrote: »

Yeah literally a couple of weeks before.

Cool, i'll drop by for a pint when i'm up for a concert in the near future hopefully

Been in Temple bar it wont be the cheapest place i imagine

hynesie08

The Nal wrote: »

Was approved last time I heard about it? 8 story hotel. And another hotel behind it.



Yeah literally a couple of weeks before.

They had a delayed opening, missed valentine's Day, opened the next week and had to close for Paddy's Day. Horrible luck.

hynesie08

PTH2009 wrote: »

Cool, i'll drop by for a pint when i'm up for a concert in the near future hopefully

Been in Temple bar it wont be the cheapest place i imagine

The bar isn't a hard rock cafe, it's a sit down food and cocktail place.

PTH2009

hynesie08 wrote: »

The bar isn't a hard rock cafe, it's a sit down food and cocktail place.

Interesting

Was only ever the one Hard Rock Cafe in Manchester, it was grand but like many franchises a little gimmicky and not the cheapest

rubadub

PTH2009 wrote: »

Cool, i'll drop by for a pint when i'm up for a concert in the near future hopefully

Been in Temple bar it wont be the cheapest place i imagine

menu here, not cheap, but thought it would be pricier, beers are at the end.

5.90 for a guinness, 6.50 for a heineken

https://www.zampas.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Zampas_Bar_Drinks_Menu.pdf

trellheim

If I can't go to a "photo ID" required gig are the tickets effectively useless ? I'd much prefer to donate them to a friend.

PTH2009

Anyone have this issue when using Ticketmaster on Chrome Browser ?? Every time i hit 'Find Tickets' this comes up

Bawnmore

All things being equal - which seats are the best in Croke Park? Looking to bring our daughter and a friend (both 9) to their 1st gig, so want seated instead of standing to make things easier. Anything worth considering?

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983799#Comment_117983799

From my experience

Sections 336-330 or 301-307 are the best for gigs

Bawnmore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983898#Comment_117983898

Oh really - I had assumed (possibly incorrectly) that they were kind of.....behind.... the stage. I'm obviously not really basing that on anything but assumption. Is that completely wrong?

Bawnmore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983898#Comment_117983898

Is this true, or are you taking the p*&$ out of me? 🙂

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117987025#Comment_117987025

Nope was in some of those sections for gigs in the past. Great views and sound

hynesie08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983913#Comment_117983913

It's in the round, so a circular stage that Sheeran will move around, judging by that stage plan, there'll be some sort of screen in front of the hill, so something around 308/328 should give you a view of both without killing your neck.....

Bawnmore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117987779#Comment_117987779

Thanks for the photos - I see what you mean. From the ticketmaster illustration above, it looks like the stage in this case is much more forward than that, so I just wanted to double check!