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Arcade Fire - Marlay Park, June 2014!

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    #212
    Cartman78
    Registered Users Posts: 9,664 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Got my tickets online just now :D:D:D

    Have been completely off the gig radar for the last while so looking forward to this big time.

    Haven't been to Marlay Park before so might have a bunch of dumb questions in the coming weeks and months :o


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    #213
    Introbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Introbaby


    Great venue to see them in. Went to see Noel Gallagher there last year and Van in 2012 both great gigs.


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    #214
    Inkyhead
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭Inkyhead


    Introbaby wrote: »
    Great venue to see them in.

    Agreed. Was there for Daft Punk in '06 and it's a fcukin cool spot for a gig!


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    #215
    dilus
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    Hi, might be a stupid question, but is this a seated gig! Presumed it wouldn't be, but then when bought my ticket it gave me a row and seat number??!


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    #216
    aka accounts 2010
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    dilus wrote: »
    Hi, might be a stupid question, but is this a seated gig! Presumed it wouldn't be, but then when bought my ticket it gave me a row and seat number??!

    Fully outdoor, all standing gig.

    The numbers on your ticket are Ticketmaster reference numbers to monitor volume of tickets sold. Standard Practice with all outdoor gigs, and O2 standing area.


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    #217
    dilus
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭dilus


    Ah Thanks,

    yeah, i presumed so, just got a bit worried when I saw the seat number!! Just got tickets tonight, so there are still some left!


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    #218
    OhHiMark
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    dilus wrote: »
    Hi, might be a stupid question, but is this a seated gig! Presumed it wouldn't be, but then when bought my ticket it gave me a row and seat number??!

    No it's not.


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    #219
    A V A
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    Inkyhead wrote: »
    Agreed. Was there for Daft Punk in '06 and it's a fcukin cool spot for a gig!

    would you say it will be in the same place it was ??


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    #220
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    Introbaby wrote: »
    Great venue to see them in. Went to see Noel Gallagher there last year and Van in 2012 both great gigs.
    Inkyhead wrote: »
    Agreed. Was there for Daft Punk in '06 and it's a fcukin cool spot for a gig!

    i was there for metallica, absolutely amazing place for a gig like this... i really want to go but won't know if i can until closer to the date...


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    #221
    Cartman78
    Registered Users Posts: 9,664 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    What's the best hotel option?

    Stay somewhere near the gig or stay in town and head over on the day?


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    #222
    christy_weezer
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭christy_weezer


    Cartman78 wrote: »
    What's the best hotel option?

    Stay somewhere near the gig or stay in town and head over on the day?

    I just stay in the town and get a bus out and back, there are usually dedicated buses, dublin bus or something, bringing people to and fro'...Never actually stayed anywhere near Marlay park so can't comment on how good the accommodation is around the area...


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    #223
    dinneenp
    Registered Users Posts: 8,120 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    from previous gigs, mainly festivals though, getting bus afterwards can be hell. Hell being in a queue for the buses for ages, waiting 1 hour for the bus to move etc.
    I booked the IMI as it's nearby, reasonable price and you can cancel up until a day/week before without any fee I think.


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    #224
    sporina
    Registered Users Posts: 6,846 ✭✭✭sporina


    does anyone know what the ticket sales are like for this gig? how would one find out?


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    #225
    Furious-Red
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    Just found i got a ticket for this for my birthday :)


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    #226
    Chelon
    Registered Users Posts: 663 ✭✭✭Chelon


    Furious-Red wrote: »
    Yea the pit pass will allow you to enter/exit the pit whenever you want

    This talk of a "pit" - are you talking about a cordoned off area and you have to pay extra to get in?

    At Prince in Malahide I thought it was a real rip off, you were forced to stand miles away from the stage unless you paid the extra


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    #227
    aha_sender
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    If the weather is good this is goin to be epic.


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    #228
    bennyl10
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    Chelon wrote: »
    This talk of a "pit" - are you talking about a cordoned off area and you have to pay extra to get in?

    At Prince in Malahide I thought it was a real rip off, you were forced to stand miles away from the stage unless you paid the extra
    Thats a golden circle.. a 'premium money grabbing' version if you will..

    A pit, is first come first served get wristbands and are allowed into that area..


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    #229
    aha_sender
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    bennyl10 wrote: »
    Thats a golden circle.. a 'premium money grabbing' version if you will..

    A pit, is first come first served get wristbands and are allowed into that area..

    Also is easier for health and less of a crush. Any confirmtion on the pit, memories of Phoenix park no pit which sucked


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    #230
    D.Q
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    any time Ive been to Marlay Park for a gig, there has been a pit. Whats the latest anyone's ever arrived and got pit passes?


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    #231
    bennyl10
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    aha_sender wrote: »
    Also is easier for health and less of a crush. Any confirmtion on the pit, memories of Phoenix park no pit which sucked

    Marlay park.will def have a pit, wasnt the crowd.in.phoenix.for there to jutsfiy it i think.


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    #232
    bennyl10
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    D.Q wrote: »
    any time Ive been to Marlay Park for a gig, there has been a pit. Whats the latest anyone's ever arrived and got pit passes?

    about an hour and half to an hour before gates and youll be fine, especially if doesnt sell out.

    Maybe even as they open depending on crowd


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    #233
    D.Q
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    bennyl10 wrote: »
    about an hour and half to an hour before gates and youll be fine, especially if doesnt sell out.

    Maybe even as they open depending on crowd

    haha really? I've always gone up stupidly stupidly early. wouldnt want to risk it.


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    #234
    bennyl10
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    D.Q wrote: »
    haha really? I've always gone up stupidly stupidly early. wouldnt want to risk it.

    Ive always gonw stuoidly early(and will.continue to.go stupidly early haha) but from.oeople.who.seem to.always turn up around then.and get pit passes its the advicr i give peoole who.ask..

    While i continue to always turn-up early .. but maybe i just like queing :p


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    #235
    dinneenp
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    I've been listening to Surfa Rosa up loud (the only way to listen to that album) recently.
    I almost keep forgetting that Arcade Fire will be playing on the day too...


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    #236
    8-10
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    dinneenp wrote: »
    I've been listening to Surfa Rosa up loud (the only way to listen to that album) recently.
    I almost keep forgetting that Arcade Fire will be playing on the day too...

    First time I saw both bands was on the same day in 2005 at a mini-festival. This will be a lot of fun


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    #237
    dirkmeister
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    dinneenp wrote: »
    I've been listening to Surfa Rosa up loud (the only way to listen to that album) recently.
    I almost keep forgetting that Arcade Fire will be playing on the day too...

    Ha, I got a record player for my birthday last weekend and Dolittle was the first LP that went on!

    Nothing like Debaser to test the sound quality!


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    #238
    Cartman78
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    A very passive Pixies fan here but looking forward to seeing them live on the day.

    What kind of set do they play these days? Have their best of album somewhere in my archives but wouldn't be familiar with anything outside of that


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    #239
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Cartman78 wrote: »
    A very passive Pixies fan here but looking forward to seeing them live on the day.

    What kind of set do they play these days? Have their best of album somewhere in my archives but wouldn't be familiar with anything outside of that
    In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
    Andro Queen
    Wave of Mutilation
    (UK Surf)
    Cactus
    Ed Is Dead
    Indie Cindy
    Motorway to Roswell
    Here Comes Your Man
    The Holiday Song
    Vamos
    Where Is My Mind?
    Havalina
    River Euphrates
    Subbacultcha
    Distance Equals Rate Times Time
    Dead
    Ana
    Bagboy
    Brick Is Red
    What Goes Boom
    I've Been Tired
    Blue Eyed Hexe
    Tame
    Head On
    (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
    Debaser
    Hey
    Greens and Blues
    Monkey Gone to Heaven
    Gouge Away
    Caribou

    Encore:
    Wave of Mutilation
    Planet of Sound

    Apparently their setlist last November but I don't remember them playing the big 'Doolittle' songs at all, and there were tons of people on the way out complaining about 'Gouge Away' not being played. I wish they'd played 'Rock Music', it would've fitted in perfectly.

    They ploughed through it and sounded really invigorated, like a new act with something to prove (although their new stuff still isn't a patch on the oldies).
    dirkmeister wrote: »
    Nothing like Debaser to test the sound quality!

    If you've never heard them before you really need to track down the MFSL remasters of the Pixies albums but especially 'Doolittle'. Holy motherfupping god. The amount of detail that was compressed and lost for the original release is incredible. Needs to be heard by every Pixies fan, it's fantastic (the rest are great too, but it's like hearing 'Doolittle' for the first time again).


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    #240
    Chelon
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    "In Heaven" just seems apt for the Pixies somehow - is that their standard opener for all their shows?

    "Head on" is a phenomenal track, haven't heard the Pixies version.


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    #241
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Chelon wrote: »
    "In Heaven" just seems apt for the Pixies somehow - is that their standard opener for all their shows?
    They usually started out with 'Into the White' which has Kim on lead vox, so that had to go.
    Chelon wrote: »
    "Head on" is a phenomenal track, haven't heard the Pixies version.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5TZ7z7tJs

    Started watching footage from their gig last year and started having flashbacks of them playing all the songs I thought they hadn't. Must abstain from drink for at least one of the gigs this year. :rolleyes:


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