Why was Garth Brooks so popular in Ireland?

Plazaman

In before the lock. Up Garth.

krudler

Garth Brooks is playing? when was this announced?

Banjo String

How come nobody has started any Garth Brooks related threads yet

Banjo String

Plazaman wrote: »

In before the lock. Up Garth.

Wayne ftw.

SEPT 23 1989

27th night announced

Nemeses

Whats so "Special" about Brooks?

Duckworth_Luas

Nemeses wrote: »

Whats so "Special" about Brooks?

Spent 50 years in Shawshank and couldnt cope with the changes in the outside world after his release!

pragmatic1

I'm a proud Donegal man but I'd rather stick knitting needles in my ears than see Gareth Brooks live. Horrible cheesy, cringe music. Yuk.

zetalambda

According to the Examiner 70,000 of the Garth Brooks tickets have been snapped up by foreigners with 8 tickets being bought in Afghanistan!

http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2014/0214/ireland/70000-garth-brooks-fans-to-travel-from-overseas-for-croker-shows-258724.html

BuilderPlumber

zetalambda wrote: »

According to the Examiner 70,000 of the Garth Brooks tickets have been snapped up by foreigners with 8 tickets being bought in Afghanistan!

http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2014/0214/ireland/70000-garth-brooks-fans-to-travel-from-overseas-for-croker-shows-258724.html

The Afghanistan tickets are probably bought by US soldiers or so it would seem. But one must not stereotype the local population as Taliban either. I know that next door in Iran, US country music and blues is very, very popular. I know Iran is a much richer and developed country than Afghanistan, but I'm sure that there also is a side to Afghanistan we are not informed about too.

Some people hate him, more love him, but Brooks has both now and in the 1990s created more excitement about gigs than anyone since Elvis, The Beatles and other 1950s/60s rock 'n' roll acts.

LoganRice

Daniel O'Donnell's best friend no doubt

p_mac

GB is a legend!
Sorry now.... lol

Jamsiek

p_mac wrote: »

GB is a legend!
Sorry now.... lol

Lol indeed

Witchie

He is not so popular in one of my local pubs in Monaghan........:D

dalippy

bland middle of the road country and western.i didnt get it the 1st time and i was glad it was gone

dalippy

Even as a child in 97 i couldnt understand why perfectly reasonable adults who i respected up to that point were fighting over tickets to garth brooks
i remember my very dublin uncle saying to his sister."if you loved me you would give me that ticket"i remember thinking what the hell is going on here
im still left thinking the same thing in 2014
My personal opinion coming from somebody who plays and loves music is that if you are going to a garth brooks gig you have no real interest in music ..the only thing i can find comfort in is that like the previous postrr said its marginally better than the explosion of cardboard manufactered music talent shows

sabat

The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can - even if it's only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment - someone always came to save America at the last moment - especially in "B" movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at -like a "B" movie.

Gil Scott Heron-B-Movie

Nostalgia. It's nostalgia for an act that was nostalgic for oldtime country singers who themselves were nostalgic for a mythic America that existed only in stories and films, a place where things were simpler, fairer and whiter. His popularity in Ireland stems from the rural grudge against Dublin as the former seat of their oppressors, (hey he's a country singer, we're from the countryside, this is our music)-a theme you can see running throughout the main thread here about the concert-and has lingered as a manifestation of the rural resistance to modernity and their belligerence towards the different.

Duckworth_Luas

sabat wrote: »

His popularity in Ireland stems from the rural grudge against Dublin as the former seat of their oppressors, (hey he's a country singer, we're from the countryside, this is our music)-a theme you can see running throughout the main thread here about the concert-and has lingered as a manifestation of the rural resistance to modernity and their belligerence towards the different.

Possibly the greatest pile of **** I've ever read on Boards.

Sodeepithurts

sabat wrote: »

Gil Scott Heron-B-Movie

Nostalgia. It's nostalgia for an act that was nostalgic for oldtime country singers who themselves were nostalgic for a mythic America that existed only in stories and films, a place where things were simpler, fairer and whiter. His popularity in Ireland stems from the rural grudge against Dublin as the former seat of their oppressors, (hey he's a country singer, we're from the countryside, this is our music)-a theme you can see running throughout the main thread here about the concert-and has lingered as a manifestation of the rural resistance to modernity and their belligerence towards the different.

I admire your eloquence.

Da Shins Kelly

sabat wrote: »

Gil Scott Heron-B-Movie

Nostalgia. It's nostalgia for an act that was nostalgic for oldtime country singers who themselves were nostalgic for a mythic America that existed only in stories and films, a place where things were simpler, fairer and whiter. His popularity in Ireland stems from the rural grudge against Dublin as the former seat of their oppressors, (hey he's a country singer, we're from the countryside, this is our music)-a theme you can see running throughout the main thread here about the concert-and has lingered as a manifestation of the rural resistance to modernity and their belligerence towards the different.

What a load of bollocks.

dalippy

dalippy wrote: »

My personal opinion coming from somebody who plays and loves music is that if you are going to a garth brooks gig you have no real interest in music .

Your opinion is ridiculous and wrong though.

dalippy

Alexander Wrong Mesh wrote: »

Your opinion is ridiculous and wrong though.

this is democracy and im free to criticise garth brooks fans..(of which you are obviously one)

A person could argue that liking garth brooks is ridiculous and quote Alexander Wrong Mesh..."wrong" but like my distaste for garth brooks and his cheesy cliched southern americana ..people are entitled to their opinions..even if it is their opinion to travel to dublin on a train ..eat bacon and cabbage and then eat bacon sangwidges..go to garth brooks..piss in some poor basterds garden in drumcondra..go to copper face jacks..pretend to do the riverdance while listening to spin master billys top 5 on repeat and finish the night off singing friends in low places .and then literaly fall on top of some girl and ask her "how she is for the ride"..piss in someone elses garden..piss on the side of the m1..m50..n52 outside the coach home to the countryside..well so be it..we live in a free country with free speech..(but not free garth brooks tickets)

Da Shins Kelly

Talk about a ****ing high horse. :rolleyes:

dalippy

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Talk about a ****ing high horse. :rolleyes:

Well if i have to stay on my high horse to dislike garth brooks so be it..;)
under this comment will be a torrent of abuse from the country jump on the garth brooks bandwagoners

go on ..abuse me for disliking garth brooks...haha

dalippy

Here have a look at this

http: //m.youtube.com/watch? v=GbfNuMXA7x8
remove the space before the v and after the semi colon

dont get me wrong im not anti country..the best trad session i was ever at was in cavan at the fleadh ceoil..****in brilliant...im just not down with the country and western thing..i dont get the association country people get with garth brooks..im from a city ..i dont feel new york culture fits in with mine or culture from any other big city...****in americana it has too much crass cultural influence on the world..mcdonalds..baseball caps.coca cola rap music..fins on 60s cars..country and western .garth brooks.**** sake..can we not take a more refined culture to take influences from

Tarzana

Christ the Redeemer wrote: »

Every oulwan in the country at one point was doing line dancing.

And chung wan. All my friends in primary school were at it.

Tarzana

Chucken wrote: »

He made country music sexy

No, that would be Emmylou Harris.

Da Shins Kelly

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

What a load of bollocks.

And then some.

Da Shins Kelly

dalippy wrote: »

Here have a look at this

http: //m.youtube.com/watch? v=GbfNuMXA7x8
remove the space before the v and after the semi colon

dont get me wrong im not anti country..the best trad session i was ever at was in cavan at the fleadh ceoil..****in brilliant...im just not down with the country and western thing..i dont get the association country people get with garth brooks..im from a city ..i dont feel new york culture fits in with mine or culture from any other big city...****in americana it has too much crass cultural influence on the world..mcdonalds..baseball caps.coca cola rap music..fins on 60s cars..country and western .garth brooks.**** sake..can we not take a more refined culture to take influences from

If you're not "down with it", fine. I don't see the need to call other people out on what they like though. I don't have any fondness at all for Garth Brooks, but people like what they like, and they're entitled to get on with it without other people criticizing them. It's music ffs. Everyone has their favourites.

Also, you're completely deluded if you think that any music you listen to isn't influenced in some way by America. Where do you think rock n' roll comes from? Or the blues and soul and jazz? What about grunge and hip-hop? They pretty much all find their roots in American music traditions. Heck, even house music can be traced back to Chicago. The US has produced some of the best and most interesting artists to ever walk the planet - from Robert Johnson to Miles Davis, Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, the Pixies to Nirvana, Gil Scott-Heron to Public Enemy. A "crass cultural influence" indeed. :rolleyes:

Aglomerado

Aglomerado wrote: »

His song "The River" was my class song for Leaving Cert 1994, we sung it in unison at the Grad Mass!

...and at our 20 year reunion at the weekend!:D

Don't think anyone's going to the concerts though! (I'm not!) But each to their own. I doubt Mick Flavin could pack out Croke Park.