Waterford Music Festival - July 30th 2011

savic04

but the tickets will be easy to get.. why limit them to anyone??

gscully

savic04 wrote: »

but the tickets will be easy to get.. why limit them to anyone??

I meant as thank-you for offering support. If people who post the link on facebook are eligible, why not supporters on boards.ie?

Deise Dolly

Looking forward to the announcement. We were talking bout this in the pub last night and people seem to be pretty enthusiastic about it. Price is reasonable too considering what I've paid to see some bands/artists play in the likes of the RDS, the Point etc. Best of luck!

abouttobebanned

The price is reasonable if your a fan of the three main acts, no doubt about that.

jo06555

abouttobebanned wrote: »

The price is reasonable if your a fan of the three main acts, no doubt about that.

Do you know who the main acts are if so pm me as im eager to know if all the rumours are true or not

Minstrel27

The secrecy about the acts is stupid.

Deise Dolly

Minstrel27 wrote: »

The secrecy about the acts is stupid.

I know the rumours have been going around for quite a while now and people want to know who's definitley playing. But if the launch is on April 2nd then it wouldn't really make sense to make an announcement before then.

abouttobebanned

But what's the launch gonna be?

Minstrel27

Deise Dolly wrote: »

I know the rumours have been going around for quite a while now and people want to know who's definitley playing. But if the launch is on April 2nd then it wouldn't really make sense to make an announcement before then.

What difference would it really make? Is the launch going to be a spot on WLR or something.

jo06555

Ok to the people in the know can ye at least confirm or deny (hopefully) that the main act is 50 cent id love a good decent band to be headlining but if its the rumoured 50 c i wont be rushing out the door ...

Deise Dolly

Well the launch is going to be on Beat FM on saturday so I can see why they don't want to make an announcement before then.

Minstrel27

Unless Beat have paid an exclusivity fee I don't see the point.

Musicman2000

Sure most people know the line up anway. Its waterford's worst kept secert:)

Sully

Its Mary Byrne. She pretty much said it in the Late Late show. Support by Ronan Keating.

Good work Neill, fantastic acts for Waterford!

beegirl

Sully wrote: »

Its Mary Byrne. She pretty much said it in the Late Late show. Support by Ronan Keating.

Good work Neill, fantastic acts for Waterford!

Please be joking!!! Can somebody pm me, seen as the whole of waterford apparently knows what's the harm in telling little ol' me

abouttobebanned

Mary Byrne's brother is playing in the three Shippes in April. Doing a Tom Jones tribute. Rumour has it that herself may be joining him.

ziedth

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Mary Byrne's brother is playing in the three Shippes in April. Doing a Tom Jones tribute. Rumour has it that herself may be joining him.

That'd be nice.

I'd say there are so many PM's flying around over this it's nuts. I can confirm that the rumored return of Tupac Is not true

abouttobebanned

Its Hanson isn't it. The hmmmbop tour.

MitchKoobski

ziedth wrote: »

That'd be nice.

I'd say there are so many PM's flying around over this it's nuts. I can confirm that the rumored return of Tupac Is not true

What about 2Pac?











:pac:

AdMMM

Don't you mean:

ziedth

MitchKoobski wrote: »

What about 2Pac?











:pac:

I called him by his real name. I grew in the hood you see, can't you tell i'm gangster

Minstrel27

Musicman2000 wrote: »

Sure most people know the line up anway. Its waterford's worst kept secert:)

Spill the beans so.

BlaasForRafa

Sully wrote: »

Its Mary Byrne. She pretty much said it in the Late Late show. Support by Ronan Keating.

Good work Neill, fantastic acts for Waterford!

LOL

JPA

Jedward and 50 cent, together at last.

Dan133269

This is the most drawn out process I've ever seen. It's been building up for so long that the acts will have to be pretty good to justify the wait. I'm remaining sceptical but I hope I'm wrong!

Sully

Dan133269 wrote: »

This is the most drawn out process I've ever seen. It's been building up for so long that the acts will have to be pretty good to justify the wait. I'm remaining sceptical but I hope I'm wrong!

Anyone hear the rumour the announcement will be delayed two weeks? Apparently the promoters feel it hasn't built up that much hype. :pac:

gscully

Sully wrote: »

Anyone hear the rumour the announcement will be delayed two weeks? Apparently the promoters feel it hasn't built up that much hype. :pac:

No, but I've heard that Beat are only releasing the line-up to the 102nd caller

decies

This thread yawn yawn yawn

Icky Thump

in limerick they announced last week they would open the new milk market as a concert venue.

today they said that the coronas have signed and tickets are on sale


it took a week to organise with rumours only happening for about 3 weeks. thats a month in total.


the organisers of this event are ................................... well ill say over hyping to be nice

bigpink

Can someone please tell whos playing to pm it

gscully

^^^^^
Do you remember a boy/girl group from the 80s called Dollar? Well, rumour has it that half of them are playing the RSC.

beegirl

gscully wrote: »

^^^^^
Do you remember a boy/girl group from the 80s called Dollar? Well, rumour has it that half of them are playing the RSC.

groan....

Boooourns

Icky Thump wrote: »

in limerick they announced last week they would open the new milk market as a concert venue.

today they said that the coronas have signed and tickets are on sale


it took a week to organise with rumours only happening for about 3 weeks. thats a month in total.


the organisers of this event are ................................... well ill say over hyping to be nice

Ah come on, the bloody Coronas who are an Irish band!

Some load of ridiculous tantrams being thrown on this thread, whoever is organising this obviously had their reasons for keeping it quiet and are having a big launch for it at the weekend where it will all be announced.

We get no big gigs down here and here's someone who's trying to fix that yet people still throw their toys out of the pram because they want it done their way. Maybe the lads will learn from this since it's THEIR FIRST TIME ORGANISING A GIG THIS BIG.

Behave children.

ziedth

^ it's a fair point.

I think regardless if you like the line-up or not ya need to appreciate that what else would be going on the 30th of July? Nothing.

I hope it's a runaway success and the lads can build it into a proper main event on the national music scene.

beegirl

ziedth wrote: »

^ it's a fair point.

I think regardless if you like the line-up or not ya need to appreciate that what else would be going on the 30th of July? Nothing.

I hope it's a runaway success and the lads can build it into a proper main event on the national music scene.

Well that's not entirely true, Spraoi will going on that weekend! It never rains but it pours as they say

ziedth

Oh, I dunno why but I thought Sproai was the following week. I stand corrected

ComeraghBlue

Snip

Mod Note: please don't name the acts on thread without link to a source.

Cheers

Mick Electric

OK. It's 5 dimes and a small fella with anger management issues

dermo909

The only people who are talking about this gig are yourselves in this thread. I have'nt heard one person talk about it out in the real world.

The organisers should possibly think about how much more awareness and promotion they will get when they finally announce the acts involved.

Then people might actually have something concrete to talk about other than pure speculation.

I do hope the acts will cover a few bases and not be specialised. I'll prob go if its anyone half decent but I'll speak for alot of people when I say I would'nt cross the road to see 50 cent.

If this concert goes ahead and is a success it'll be a great summer in Waterford for sure.

Minstrel27

Mick Electric wrote: »

OK. It's 5 dimes and a small fella with anger management issues

A roaring success for sure if this is true.

jimbojazz

Mick Electric wrote: »

OK. It's 5 dimes and a small fella with anger management issues

All of that could refer to David Van Day.... half of Dollar and a screwball

AdMMM

ComeraghBlue wrote: »

Snip

Mod Note: please don't name any acts on thread without link to a source.

Cheers

Surely we're allowed speculate? There's entire threads dedicated to speculating about the lineups for gigs in the music forum!

ziedth

AdMMM wrote: »

Surely we're allowed speculate? There's entire threads dedicated to speculating about the lineups for gigs in the music forum!

Indeed we can speculate away. Its the worst kept secret in Waterford but the organisers have asked that we hold fire on naming the acts. It's only 48 hours at this stage so it's pretty much irrelevant.

ComeraghBlue kindly tried to let everyone know who the acts were. If it was up to me I would have put it in the title when the story broke but out of respect for the lads organising I'd appreciate it if we could just wait the two days before we get into that side of it.

AdMMM

ziedth wrote: »

Indeed we can speculate away. Its the worst kept secret in Waterford but the organisers have asked that we hold fire on naming the acts. It's only 48 hours at this stage so it's pretty much irrelevant.

ComeraghBlue kindly tried to let everyone know who the acts were. If it was up to me I would have put it in the title when the story broke but out of respect for the lads organising I'd appreciate it if we could just wait the two days before we get into that side of it.

Oh right. My apologies, I thought he was saying something like Radiohead and Arcade Fire!

ziedth

AdMMM wrote: »

Oh right. My apologies, I thought he was saying something like Radiohead and Arcade Fire!

No hassle, I wasn't very clear in the edit so it did look like I was saying that.

beegirl

dermo909 wrote: »

The only people who are talking about this gig are yourselves in this thread. I have'nt heard one person talk about it out in the real world.

Yeah that's true, I've been saying this to my hubby for ages and every time I mention it he says he STILL hasn't heard anybody else talk about it - I think he may think people on boards are just making it up Bit strange because he is a musician and would know a lot of other people in local bands, events organising etc, how come none of them are talking about it?

Terry Cotta

Mick Electric wrote: »

OK. It's 5 dimes and a small fella with anger management issues

Davy Fitz?

dayshah

ziedth wrote: »

Indeed we can speculate away. Its the worst kept secret in Waterford but the organisers have asked that we hold fire on naming the acts. It's only 48 hours at this stage so it's pretty much irrelevant.

ComeraghBlue kindly tried to let everyone know who the acts were. If it was up to me I would have put it in the title when the story broke but out of respect for the lads organising I'd appreciate it if we could just wait the two days before we get into that side of it.

It seems silly not to let people know. The main reason I use boards.ie is to get up to date information ahead of WLR and the papers.

ziedth

dayshah wrote: »

It seems silly not to let people know. The main reason I use boards.ie is to get up to date information ahead of WLR and the papers.

One thing I will say (at a guess) Beat are launching this on Saturday. I assume to do that the concert is getting some air time on the day and maybe even free/discounted advert time for the next 4 months. Now, if we were to openly blab away here Beat might not like it one bit and pull the plug making it harder for the organisers.

I'm not saying this is the case but for the sake of two days I think its safe to say us openly discussing the acts COULD have a negative effect.

Minstrel27

But if it's Waterford's worst kept secret (as some here say) why would anyone care.