Manic Street Preachers - Olympia - 16th May

Generation Terrorist

Week before Suede :eek:

Gonna be an expensive month

Tickets on sale this Friday

Furious-Red

Yea seen this yesterday , seen them at Oxegen 08 and they were great , Once tickets are not to steep i shall be getting one

kennyu272

Still nothing on Ticketmaster about this..aren't the tickets supposed to be onsale tomorrow?

MollyZ

kennyu272 wrote: »

Still nothing on Ticketmaster about this..aren't the tickets supposed to be onsale tomorrow?

According to the band's website they're not on sale until the 25th.

homerun_homer

There is a presale today. Must look it up later on my own computer and book some tickets. Joy Formidable supporting so it will be a good gig.

KnowYourEnemy

Any ideas if this well sell out? Last time they played the Olympia in June 09 there were loads of tickets left on the day

Furious-Red

Tickets go on sale Friday 25th February at 9am priced from €39.20 inc. booking fee

KnowYourEnemy

Decent price that

lukin

Can I buy these at the ticketmaster box office in Cork does anyone know?

who_ru

lukin wrote: »

Can I buy these at the ticketmaster box office in Cork does anyone know?

ring and ask - although i'm sure ticketmaster have a voice machine phone service so you probably won't get to speak to anyone. drop by and ask them in cork.

notahappycamper

Generation Terrorist wrote: »

Week before Suede :eek:

Gonna be an expensive month

Tickets on sale this Friday

It's on a Monday

Like your username by the way - Generation Terrorists was their best album - "Condemned to Rock & Roll" their best song.

lukin

Is this expected to sell out quickly? I could risk going to the box office but would buy them online if they are not going to be all sold ten seconds after I log in to ticketb*****d.

lukin

Got em anyway, surprised it was so easy.

bradlente

Dammit I've left it a bit late,Does anyone know how big of a difference there is between the upper circle and ground floor in the Olympia?I may make do now either way.

iambrazil

bradlente wrote: »

Dammit I've left it a bit late,Does anyone know how big of a difference there is between the upper circle and ground floor in the Olympia?I may make do now either way.

upper circle = unreserved seating high up - not a great view from anywhere other than the first few rows
ground floor = standing

the upper circle tickets should still be on sale on the day of the gig. keep an eye on toutless.com for standing tickets.

bradlente

I've got it now anyway,just gonna get in early forem try get a good seat.

Generation Terrorist

This day week

Anyone know where they're likely to stay/be?

James is a massive Forest fan and they're playing Swansea in the play offs the same night, would love to get him out for a pint or 2 for the match before the gig

teekayd25

It could easily have been Cardiff that they met . . . hmm, interesting thread here.

So anyone know of places in Dublin that they've drank over the years? They were meant to have been in Isobar in Cork back in '99.

Generation Terrorist

James was on Soccer Am last month bigging up the Tricky Trees

If we knew where they were staying we could crash the hotel bar!

notahappycamper

Generation Terrorist wrote: »

James was on Soccer Am last month bigging up the Tricky Trees

If we knew where they were staying we could crash the hotel bar!

Try the Merrion Hotel - a friend of mine saw Nicky come out or go into there last time they were here to play Oxygen.

Technocentral

Can't wait for Monday, seen them around 8 times but the best was at the Olympia for The Journal tour in 09, they really gave it their all.

who_ru

any of you reckon there'll be tickets available on the night?

Technocentral

who_ru wrote: »

any of you reckon there'll be tickets available on the night?

Seems to be some cropping up on Toutless, I got one from a person on that yesterday.

crouchie15

Looking forward to this.
Anyone know what time to expect them on?
Cheers

Technocentral

Always seems to be around 9pm kick off in the Olympia.

Furious-Red

An extra 30 tickets have just been released for Manic Street Preachers at The Olympia Theatre tonight, get them while you can folks!!!

scudzilla

Furious-Red wrote: »

An extra 30 tickets have just been released for Manic Street Preachers at The Olympia Theatre tonight, get them while you can folks!!!

Word for word!! Are you MCD in disguise :cool:

FunkZ

I'm going to see them with my brother tonight, it'll be my first time seeing them live whereas my bro has seen 'em well over ten times.

CAN'T WAIT!

Furious-Red

scudzilla wrote: »

Word for word!! Are you MCD in disguise :cool:

Ha sorry Scudz i just copied and pasted it from their FB site

me-skywalker

I'm heading myself and can't wait as a huge Manics fan and in my opinion one of the greatest bands of all time. I've seen them live 5/6times now always great live never been let down once!! Standing tonight too excellent!

Get of the couches, turn the Telly off and support some great live music!

homerun_homer

Just realised I've not seen them in 3 years - the Ambassador gig. Crazy, I've seen them loads but missed the Plague tour.

shanemhoban

ye goin too. support act any good?

homerun_homer

Hope you checked out the Joy Formidable- they are very good. Sound massive for a 3 piece.
Good greatest hits/classics set from the Manics.

Enjoyed hearing Stay Beautiful, Faster, Of Walking Abortion, Life Becoming a Landslide at it.

kellso81

Anybody at this any trouble getting in and around dame st last night? Heading to olympia on wed night but driving down from dundalk and freaking out about getting anywhere near the place and finding a place to park!!!

homerun_homer

Streets weren't closed off last night like they were today. Restrictions ease from 5/6pm so you might get around ok butstill might be tough.

lukin

I enjoyed the support act Joy Formidable (that leads singer is smokin hot!).
Was a bit disappointed the manics didn't play any songs off Journal for Plague Lovers (I am pretty sure they didn't anyway) as I thought that was a really great album.

Manic087

Really enjoyed the gig. Got the setlist. Couln't believe some of the older tunes played...you expect some of them like You Love Us, Motorcycle Emptiness and Motown Junk but to come right off the bat with Stay Beautiful and also play Suicide is Painless, Of Walking Abortion and Lie becoming a Landslide...fantastic gig. And the support were excellent too. I can't say enough good things!! Loved it!!

me-skywalker

Fantastic gig! Been a year or 2 since seen them last and they pulled out some tunes I've never heard them play live great to see them in great spirits and having some banter too. Pity they are playing Oxegen and not EP!

Manic087

me-skywalker wrote: »

Fantastic gig! Been a year or 2 since seen them last and they pulled out some tunes I've never heard them play live great to see them in great spirits and having some banter too. Pity they are playing Oxegen and not EP!

I tend to see them more at their own gigs rather than the festivals cos I just think they know they can get away with more at their own gigs as in playing tunes like 'Of Walking Abortion' or 'Life Becoming A Landslide'.

bradlente

In the nosebleeds but I'd always take those tickets for the Manics,A quality live band.The journal gig the last time they played over here was the best gig I've ever been to.

Enjoyed the joy formidable too,I could be mistaken but pretty sure I seen/heard double bass pedals from the drummer on two climatic outros in songs,impressed me as a metaldrums nerd:oAdd to that a fine lookin frontwoman with great chops on guitar and vox(and she had some cool pedal loop effects going on)and I was sold.Will be checking out some of their shtuff.

me-skywalker

Have to say underwhelmed by the Joy Formidable. Relied way too much on effects rather than guile or craft.