No reports of drunkeness at Slane concert

kevin99

I read on another discussion forum here about many concertgoers to Slane being drunk and causing fights etc.
When I read the Sunday papers and the daily papers today I didn't see any mention of this.
Why?
Is it because journos get VIP passes to bother mixing in the crowd?
As for the photographs of the event well enough said. Why do photographers take the same cliché photos of girls wearing coloured wellies? Lazy and lack of creativity.
Honest, accurate reportage seems a thing of the past. Have to revert to social media to read what really went on. Shame.

jack presley

kevin99 wrote: »

I read on another discussion forum here about many concertgoers to Slane being drunk and causing fights etc.
When I read the Sunday papers and the daily papers today I didn't see any mention of this.
Why?
Is it because journos get VIP passes to bother mixing in the crowd?
As for the photographs of the event well enough said. Why do photographers take the same cliché photos of girls wearing coloured wellies? Lazy and lack of creativity.
Honest, accurate reportage seems a thing of the past. Have to revert to social media to read what really went on. Shame.

Due to deadlines, the Sunday reports on Slane were probably written without leaving the office. The one in the Sindo definitely read like the writer wasn't even there. There was a line like "and the KOL brought the place down with Sex on Fire". That was the only song they mentioned.

Rigor Mortis

kevin99 wrote: »

I read on another discussion forum here about many concertgoers to Slane being drunk and causing fights etc.
When I read the Sunday papers and the daily papers today I didn't see any mention of this.
Why?
Is it because journos get VIP passes to bother mixing in the crowd?
As for the photographs of the event well enough said. Why do photographers take the same cliché photos of girls wearing coloured wellies? Lazy and lack of creativity.
Honest, accurate reportage seems a thing of the past. Have to revert to social media to read what really went on. Shame.

The argument doesnt really stack up when you consider the regular beating that the same journalists have given MCD over the years. Oasis gig in Slane, Barbara Streisand and the annual bitch fest about the 'national disgrace' that is Oxegen.

Chips Lovell

Drunk people at a rock concert? Stop the presses.

cungryhunt

MCD are extremely litigious when it comes to media reporting anything bad (even if true) at any of its events.
You write that people were pissed drunk and set fire to a tent, show a picture or two and MCD will set their little lawyers on you.

BrianD

Depends on whether it is representative of the event. They are entitled to their good name.

One would expect that an outdoor event with 80,000 people and with alcohol being consumed that a fight would be inevitable. Photographing the fight and presenting it as Slane '11 would neither be fair or representative.

In fairness to MCD, when things go wrong they generally take the necessary action - Slane, Oxegen, Barbara ...

Having said that I agree with the OP the amount of alcohol consumed by Irish audiences is ridiculous and even if nothing violent happens there is always an uncomfortable vibe that it might.