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Roger Daltry performing 'Tommy', @thePark, July 26

  • 05-05-2011 2:27pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys, just heard on Radio Nova that theres a big "Nova" like band being announced at 8am tomorrow for a summer gig,

    Anyone have any ideas who it'll be?

    AC/DC
    Metallica
    Elton John
    Beyoncé


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,950 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    I hope its not Metallica because i cant afford to go see them this year lol.

    It could be Judas Priest,Megadeth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,798 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    My money be on Judas Priest in Marlay


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    I'm thinking it could possibly be Priest, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Metallica or Megadeth.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 15,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    I no i might get shot for this but could it be 30 Seconds to Mars??

    I know it would be as big as previous posters ideas but they have announced a Belfast show in August


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Dont think 30 seconds to mars would be played on nova much, more of old skool rock

    JP would be epic though in the summer :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    Also maybe the big 4? They're playing Sonisphere. Possible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Judas priest and queensrhyce @ the park would be my guess


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    I don't listen to the radio so I have no idea if this makes Priest a possibility, but it would be awesome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,921 ✭✭✭RayCon


    While I'd like Priest and Ryche to be announced , I can't see it selling Marlay Park ? ....the Priest / Megadeth / Testament triple bill didn't sell out the O2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    have the radio on now in work, shall update when i know


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 15,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    RayCon wrote: »
    While I'd like Priest and Ryche to be announced , I can't see it selling Marlay Park ? ....the Priest / Megadeth / Testament triple bill didn't sell out the O2

    i think he meant in the tent in Marley Park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Roger Daltry to Perform Tommy in Marlay park this July


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,921 ✭✭✭RayCon


    allanb49 wrote: »
    Roger Daltry to Perform Tommy in Marlay park this July

    I love The Who and I love the Tommy album .... so why am I not in anyway excited by this ... :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    RayCon wrote: »
    While I'd like Priest and Ryche to be announced , I can't see it selling Marlay Park ? ....the Priest / Megadeth / Testament triple bill didn't sell out the O2

    Marley park has a 5k capacity this summer I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    RayCon wrote: »
    I love The Who and I love the Tommy album .... so why am I not in anyway excited by this ... :confused:

    +1

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    Awh. :(

    /thread title changed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    CiaranK wrote: »
    Also maybe the big 4? They're playing Sonisphere. Possible.

    Not a ****ing chance. If they haven't announced a Sonisphere Ireland gig by now, it won't happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    +1

    'Cos it's yet another old fart living on his past.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    It's not so much that he's an "old fart living on his past", but - no disrespect to Roger - it's hardly going to be the same without Pete (cynics would say it's hardly the same without John and Keith either, but they probably didn't see The 'Oo at Oxegen, so let's be reasonable).
    My main grievance is that it's a terrible location. The UK dates are all in decent venues like the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, but in typical fashion, we get him in a big top in a field.

    Or rather, "under the dark atmospheric canvas of an intimate capacity tent" with the "picturesque backdrop of the Dublin Mountains", if the promoter's propaganda is to be believed.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,921 ✭✭✭RayCon


    - it's hardly going to be the same without Pete

    Yeah that's probably it .... the last time in Marlay Park and the year at Oxegen were both great gigs but I'll definately be giving this a miss ...

    ... hearing Tommy in it's entirety isn't enough of a draw for me , especially without Pete.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    Daltrey preforming Tommy!!!! For me this is the best the announcement could have been. I was contemplating going to England to see it. I can't wait for it!! I was hoping for this announcement when he announced the UK Tour. I seen the Who in Marley in '07. That was unreal! Brilliant!!! :):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 gourdo


    I'll be visiting from states and was thinking about taking my 2 kids to see Daltrey july 26. I can't figure out if it's a 20K + venue or a smaller
    "tent"? Will the reserved seats be close enough to stage or way out there?
    I want them to be able to see so would prefer "reserved" if it was close enough. Also, can "reserved" ticketholders venture down to front "standing room" area? thanks, M


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    gourdo wrote: »
    I'll be visiting from states and was thinking about taking my 2 kids to see Daltrey july 26. I can't figure out if it's a 20K + venue or a smaller
    "tent"? Will the reserved seats be close enough to stage or way out there?
    I want them to be able to see so would prefer "reserved" if it was close enough. Also, can "reserved" ticketholders venture down to front "standing room" area? thanks, M

    I believe the tent holds about 5'000 with tiered seating at the back. Hope that helps. Not sure about the Reserved Tickets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 gourdo


    thanks for reply. I believe what i called reserved are what you call "tiered". the ticket website shows 3 "blocks" of seating in back of "standing room" area.
    So w/ 5000 only, i would think that all the tickets offer a decent view?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,921 ✭✭✭RayCon


    gourdo wrote: »
    thanks for reply. I believe what i called reserved are what you call "tiered". the ticket website shows 3 "blocks" of seating in back of "standing room" area.
    So w/ 5000 only, i would think that all the tickets offer a decent view?

    Hi, sounds like a similar set up to the Marquee gigs they hold in Cork every summer ... I saw Roger Waters there in 2005. I had seated tickets but didn't like their location (side view - slightly obstructed by the rig) so I just went down to the standing area instead - no problems. Maybe the Tent set up at Marlay Park will be the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    From an article in The Sunday Times on "ageing stars" playing Ireland this summer:

    And when a comparatively youthful 67-year-old Roger Daltrey screeches the Mose Allison penned Young Man's Blues in Dublin's Marlay Park on July 26, as part of a performance of songs from the Who's "rock opera", Tommy (1969), you have to wonder whether he will register the irony in the famous lyric: "You know nowadays/Well it's the old man's got all the money."

    Yeah... the problem is Young Man Blues isn't part of Tommy. The writer is clearly mixing it up with Eyesight to the Blind, a song popularised by Mose Allison, which is part of the rock opera.
    Of course, that song doesn't provide him with any way to get a dig at Daltrey about the "old man having all the money", but never let the facts get in the way of a snide comment. :rolleyes:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Mrs Shuttleworth


    It's not so much that he's an "old fart living on his past", but - no disrespect to Roger - it's hardly going to be the same without Pete (cynics would say it's hardly the same without John and Keith either, but they probably didn't see The 'Oo at Oxegen, so let's be reasonable).
    My main grievance is that it's a terrible location. The UK dates are all in decent venues like the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, but in typical fashion, we get him in a big top in a field.

    Or rather, "under the dark atmospheric canvas of an intimate capacity tent" with the "picturesque backdrop of the Dublin Mountains", if the promoter's propaganda is to be believed.

    I'm headin to this tomorrow night in the IndigO2. Will post a review on Monday in advance of Tuesday's Marlay gig.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Mrs Shuttleworth


    Having just come in from this at the IndigO2 in London, for what it's worth, here's my 2p.

    Like a couple of other posters, when this was announced it sounded a bit miserable at best - and desperate at worst. Speaking for myself, having been at the gig tonight - f*ckin hell, was I wrong! This was one of the best gigs I've ever been at, even surpassing the two occasions I've seen The Who themselves (the remaining 50%). Although smaller in scale and scope, it was up there on a par with AC/DC at Punchestown in terms of performance.

    After a cheeky and deceptively pedestrian start ("Pictures of Lily", "Give Me A Stone" and "Freedom Ride") Daltrey and his magnificent seven piece band - including Pete's brother Simon and musical director/Jack White lookalike Frank Simes - take a 30 second pause, and then proceed to blister their way through "Tommy" and some of The Who's greatest hits for the next two and a half hours.

    Daltrey interacts with the crowd as if they are friends - and wisely, knowing he'll be judged out there on his tod, he's rebooted The Who as a concept, by using new young blood on a grander scale. It doesn't sound on paper like it should work - it sounds like sacrilege - but on the stage, it really does.

    His voice grew in strength as the night went on and the energy built - I go to a lot of gigs but there was a passion in that room tonight beyond my expectations which really surprised me. I actually spent a lot of the gig in involuntary tears hearing such amazing musical virtuosity from a new crew playing another era's music, running an acoustic steamroller over the turgid electro pop that daily drones in our ears.

    It grew out of a one off concert for charity earlier this year, and I'm not surprised given the response from the crowd tonight that Roger took it to the road. This was Daltrey's gig, doing things his way, and having initial reservations, I was completely wrong; it was brilliant.

    To anyone going on Tuesday I'm jealous. Hopefully the acoustics will hold up in Marlay. Thank you Roger and your band for an unforgettable night. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    Having just come in from this at the IndigO2 in London, for what it's worth, here's my 2p.

    Like a couple of other posters, when this was announced it sounded a bit miserable at best - and desperate at worst. Speaking for myself, having been at the gig tonight - f*ckin hell, was I wrong! This was one of the best gigs I've ever been at, even surpassing the two occasions I've seen The Who themselves (the remaining 50%). Although smaller in scale and scope, it was up there on a par with AC/DC at Punchestown in terms of performance.

    After a cheeky and deceptively pedestrian start ("Pictures of Lily", "Give Me A Stone" and "Freedom Ride") Daltrey and his magnificent seven piece band - including Pete's brother Simon and musical director/Jack White lookalike Frank Simes - take a 30 second pause, and then proceed to blister their way through "Tommy" and some of The Who's greatest hits for the next two and a half hours.

    Daltrey interacts with the crowd as if they are friends - and wisely, knowing he'll be judged out there on his tod, he's rebooted The Who as a concept, by using new young blood on a grander scale. It doesn't sound on paper like it should work - it sounds like sacrilege - but on the stage, it really does.

    His voice grew in strength as the night went on and the energy built - I go to a lot of gigs but there was a passion in that room tonight beyond my expectations which really surprised me. I actually spent a lot of the gig in involuntary tears hearing such amazing musical virtuosity from a new crew playing another era's music, running an acoustic steamroller over the turgid electro pop that daily drones in our ears.

    It grew out of a one off concert for charity earlier this year, and I'm not surprised given the response from the crowd tonight that Roger took it to the road. This was Daltrey's gig, doing things his way, and having initial reservations, I was completely wrong; it was brilliant.

    To anyone going on Tuesday I'm jealous. Hopefully the acoustics will hold up in Marlay. Thank you Roger and your band for an unforgettable night. :)


    Great review! I was worried about his voice not holding up but listening to the previous gigs on the download from the Who's site, and this review, I have nothing to worry about. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Sitting in the back garden listening to the concert, sounds good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    Nice, intimate show from Roger last night. It's great to be able to see the whites of the artist's eyes, without having a big screen in place. The 'Tommy' stuff was good, but for me, the Who-stuff, complete with a Johnny Cash medley and a lovely mellow bluesy version of 'My Generation' were the highlights. Good value for money too - he came on at 8.14pm, 1 minute ahead of the scheduled start time and finished around 10.40 pm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    Fantastic gig, He sounded on top form. Played a really long set for some of 67. Hopefully the download of this show will be on the Who's website. It said the UK leg is being recorded for a download and it works out at about 11 Euro. I'm sure the Dublin gig will be done too. The visuals on the screen for Tommy were very cool. Hard to pick a highlight. Hearing Tattoo was brilliant and the other early Who numbers at the beginning before they launched into Tommy. Tommy itself was top notch and the other stuff at the end was the icing on the cake. I ended up with VIP passes so I got to meet the band, not Roger though. I had a brilliant night altogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Mrs Shuttleworth


    CiaranK wrote: »
    Fantastic gig, He sounded on top form. Played a really long set for some of 67. Hopefully the download of this show will be on the Who's website. It said the UK leg is being recorded for a download and it works out at about 11 Euro. I'm sure the Dublin gig will be done too. The visuals on the screen for Tommy were very cool. Hard to pick a highlight. Hearing Tattoo was brilliant and the other early Who numbers at the beginning before they launched into Tommy. Tommy itself was top notch and the other stuff at the end was the icing on the cake. I ended up with VIP passes so I got to meet the band, not Roger though. I had a brilliant night altogether.

    It's great that the tour is going down so well. I think the American leg is next.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭PaulD77


    Great gig. As others have said Roger was on top form. Played for nearly 2.5 hours. Great value. Sound very good. No queues anywhere. Thats what you want!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭coolegrain


    CiaranK wrote: »

    somethings wrong....i bought it today when it went up and for the rest of the day my account says 'pre-ordered' with no download link..

    livedownloads.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    coolegrain wrote: »
    somethings wrong....i bought it today when it went up and for the rest of the day my account says 'pre-ordered' with no download link..

    livedownloads.jpg

    I haven't gotten mine yet. Thats strange, is there anyone you can contact on the site?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭coolegrain


    its downloading now...thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    coolegrain wrote: »
    its downloading now...thanks

    I just downloaded mine there too. Cool! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭CiaranK


    It sounds great by the way. A great little memento! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭coolegrain


    young man blues / water was amazing on the night....blew me away.....sounds great on the recording too.
    often times these unmixed from the soundboard recordings sound different than being at the gig...this is the same...but still a great listen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    Did anyone here get a freebie ticket from MCD, and then get hit up for a mandatory charitable donation at the box office? It just sounds a bit fishy to me.

    Any idea what charity was involved?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭rock whore


    Yeah, I got stung by that. It was for for autistic children. Worthy cause but underhanded method of soliciting. Little surprises me when ticketmaster are involved but that was a new one on me.


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