What other cultural events in Ireland were a clusterfúck and omnishambles?

IvaBigWun

What other cultural events/things are up there with the recent Garth Brooks shambles?

The last minute cancellation of his Croke Park gig a few years back by Prince came to mind.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0226/128103-prince/

A legal action by promoters MCD against the singer Prince and his agent has been settled at the Commercial Court.

MCD had sued the singer and his agents William Morris Endeavor Entertainment for €1.7m over the cancellation of a concert at Croke Park in 2008.

The details of the settlement have not been disclosed but afterwards Denis Desmond of MCD said he was relieved it was over and that MCD was not out of pocket.


Mr Desmond said he looked forward to doing business with Prince in the future, but said if he was Prince, he would get a good manager.

He said he was still disappointed for the fans over the cancellation, but said systems had not been changed for booking acts as this was a unique situation.

During the case it emerged that Prince had spoken about Mr Desmond and said 'tell the cat to chill, we will work something out.'

Mr Desmond added today that he was 'a very chilled cat'.

What other cultural events in Ireland were a clusterfúck and omnishambles?

No "the 1916 rising" type answers please, this isnt a political thread whatsoever

wazky

The 1798 rebellion.

stefan idiot jones

Wife Swap - Travellers Special.

Frosty McSnowballs

This is going to hit 10,000 posts pretty quick!

Birneybau

Boyzone, The Late Late

catallus

Joe Duffy welcoming back the Irish team whenever that was was an embarrassment and badly organised and just generally bad.

hynesie08

Does that clock in the liffey count?

ankaragucu

Anything featuring Marty Morrissey.

Adamantium

I'll tell you a cultural thing...

Amazing how the mass graves of 800 babies in Galway had vanished from the national conversation, gone.

Last article about it, was about a month ago on the web.

hynesie08

catallus wrote: »

Joe Duffy welcoming back the Irish team whenever that was was an embarrassment and badly organised and just generally bad.

Jaysus!!!! I remember that "they saw 3d..... Damien duff dizziness"

IvaBigWun

Birneybau wrote: »

Boyzone, The Late Late

The guy has the right idea

2006 in Oxegen when it was particularity bad with skangers and tent robbings comes to mind.

From Wiki

Oxegen 2006

The firm are involved in a legal dispute with an Irish company, boards.ie ltd, over claims users on boards.ie had made about the camp site at Oxegen 2006.Users' claims include alleged random violence and widespread tent burning at the event campsite A, claims that MCD deny.

Campsite A was renamed the Red Campsite from Oxegen 2007 onwards.

A sticky notice was placed at the top of every discussion forum on boards.ie warning members not to create posts mentioning MCD or any events hosted by MCD[5] The Boards warning notice was removed 30 May 2009.

major bill

The time they thought it would be a great idea to invite the Orange Order down when O'Connell street was a building site.

gugleguy

The Gathering.

I' m now expecting a slew of angry indignant pms as well as rants against me on this thread.:pac:

c_man

The "Ireland should be the 33rd country in the World Cup" ****e. People were gone mad.

in_ur_Is icy delight

there have been some grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented events all-right.

but then you said this wasn't a political thread

IvaBigWun

hynesie08 wrote: »

Does that clock in the liffey count?

Definitely. It only lasted 6 months as far as I remember.

IvaBigWun

Guns N' Roses, 2010

Wiki

A Guns N' Roses concert in the O2 was controversial, when Axl Rose stormed off stage 22 minutes into the show, due to booing and plastic bottles being thrown. They had arrived on stage at 10:25pm in a venue that has a 11pm curfew. They later returned to stage after a 40 minute delay (with the house lights on), and played until 12:52am. Despite protests, MCD refused to offer refunds to fans

Birneybau

Oh, Swedish House Mafia, the Phoenix Park!

fleet_admiral

The thing in merrion square for the olympians in 2012. It was lashing rain and it was obvious nobody wanted to be there

baaba maal

Bob Dylan Slane riots

Twink's "comedy" interlude at a Fine Gael ard fheis in 1991

ted1

IvaBigWun wrote: »

What other cultural events/things are up there with the recent Garth Brooks shambles?

The last minute cancellation of his Croke Park gig a few years back by Prince came to mind.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0226/128103-prince/




What other cultural events in Ireland were a clusterfúck and omnishambles?

No "the 1916 rising" type answers please, this isnt a political thread whatsoever

The MTV dance competition on dollymount had full scale riots

Harry Palmr

The state deciding that one iodine tablet would save us all from bird flu or was it radiation?

oh wait cultural?

'Fleadh Mor' it was called was a bit of a hash Bob Dylan on one of his shambolic summer tours around Europe ended up on the hill at Tramore Raceground.

IvaBigWun

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The state deciding that one iodine tablet would save us all from bird flu or was it radiation?

Wrong thread.

Balmed Out

all those moving statues in the 80's

Daisies

IvaBigWun wrote: »

What other cultural events/things are up there with the recent Garth Brooks shambles?

The last minute cancellation of his Croke Park gig a few years back by Prince came to mind.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0226/128103-prince/




What other cultural events in Ireland were a clusterfúck and omnishambles?

No "the 1916 rising" type answers please, this isnt a political thread whatsoever

I'd hardly call Gareth Brooks a cultural event!

IvaBigWun

Daisies wrote: »

I'd hardly call Gareth Brooks a cultural event!

"cultural event" does cover concerts etc though.

mr_edge_to_you

The time the FAI brought UEFA officials over when they were mounting a bid for the Euro Championships was a personal favourite.

They visited Croke Park which banned "foreign games", the Bertie Bowel which was wasn't built yet and Landsdowne Road which was being knocked.

ThisRegard

Seating the England soccer supporters above the Irish in Lansdowne Road on that infamous night when trouble was expected.

Harry Palmr

This one is good - The Golden Horde on the range in Longford, cops called, group escorted off the stage

http://thegoldenhorde.org/media/sundayworld-930801-inside.jpg

IvaBigWun

Why did Eminem cancel Slane the first time around?

Shakespeare's Sister

gugleguy wrote: »

The Gathering.

I' m now expecting a slew of angry indignant pms as well as rants against me on this thread.:pac:

This isn't angry or indignant, but just curious: what is so clusterfuk/omnishambles about the Gathering?
I mean, if people aren't into the idea, totally fair enough, but there was this collective disgust and anger in relation to it, and I never actually heard of or read a decent reason - just seemed like a bandwagon.

IvaBigWun

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

The time the FAI brought UEFA officials over when they were mounting a bid for the Euro Championships was a personal favourite.

They visited Croke Park which banned "foreign games", the Bertie Bowel which was wasn't built yet and Landsdowne Road which was being knocked.

:pac:

bobrawn20

Birneybau wrote: »

Oh, Swedish House Mafia, the Phoenix Park!

2 or 3 scumbags doesn't mean it was a disaster. 99.9% had a great time.

Birneybau

bobrawn20 wrote: »

2 or 3 scumbags doesn't mean it was a disaster. 99.9% had a great time.

Right...

Shakespeare's Sister

bobrawn20 wrote: »

2 or 3 scumbags

99.9% had a great time.

Both figures extremely made up.

Frank Lee Midere

Magaggie wrote: »

This isn't angry or indignant, but just curious: what is so clusterfuk/omnishambles about the Gathering?
I mean, if people aren't into the idea, totally fair enough, but there was this collective disgust and anger in relation to it, and I never actually heard of or read a decent reason - just seemed like a bandwagon.

You get a certain Gombeen angry with any vague effort to improve stuff.

And there was no shambles here. Garth didn't get a licence for 5 days, didn't want to play 3.

mrsoundie

Magaggie wrote: »

Both figures extremely made up.

75% of the time

bobrawn20

Magaggie wrote: »

Both figures extremely made up.

If you'd like to state WHY you think it was a disaster then the figures will reveal themselves to be true.

Frank Lee Midere

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

The time the FAI brought UEFA officials over when they were mounting a bid for the Euro Championships was a personal favourite.

They visited Croke Park which banned "foreign games", the Bertie Bowel which was wasn't built yet and Landsdowne Road which was being knocked.

It's fairly common to show sites for unbuilt stadia. For instance - the British Olympics.

efb

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

It's fairly common to show sites for unbuilt stadia. For instance - the British Olympics.

London

Frank Lee Midere

efb wrote: »

London

Yeah. Whatever. The stadium wasn't built until they got the Olympics.

Shakespeare's Sister

bobrawn20 wrote: »

If you'd like to state WHY you think it was a disaster then the figures will reveal themselves to be true.

"Two or three" scumbags? Two or three people can't possibly create as much mayhem as that.
"99.9%" - a figure pulled out of thin air.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18772326

I'm not saying it to annoy you, I just disagree with claiming inaccurate statements are true.

gugleguy

Magaggie wrote: »

This isn't angry or indignant, but just curious: what is so clusterfuk/omnishambles about the Gathering?
I mean, if people aren't into the idea, totally fair enough, but there was this collective disgust and anger in relation to it, and I never actually heard of or read a decent reason - just seemed like a bandwagon.

Well, Michael O'Leary called the the whole thing 'The Grabbing' curiously enough.:)

Shakespeare's Sister

gugleguy wrote: »

Well, Michael O'Leary called the the whole thing 'The Grabbing' curiously enough.:)

But who was forced to part with their money?

Birneybau

Magaggie wrote: »

"Two or three" scumbags? Two or three people can't possibly create as much mayhem as that.
"99.9%" - a figure pulled out of thin air.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18772326

I'm not saying it to annoy you, I just disagree with claiming inaccurate statements are true.

You can prove anything with facts.

Birneybau

gugleguy wrote: »

Well, Michael O'Leary called the the whole thing 'The Grabbing' curiously enough.:)

He'd be one to know about that kind of thing.

bobrawn20

Magaggie wrote: »

"Two or three" scumbags? Two or three people can't possibly create as much mayhem as that.
"99.9%" - a figure pulled out of thin air.


I'm not saying it to annoy you, I just disagree with claiming inaccurate statements are true.

Well considering the guy charged with the stabbing is the one responsible for 7 of them then yeah.. And .1% would be 45 people.

thelad95

This was brilliant. Tubridy would just cut to a break now though

efb

Pantigate

dalta5billion

Adamantium wrote: »

I'll tell you a cultural thing...

Amazing how the mass graves of 800 babies in Galway had vanished from the national conversation, gone.

Last article about it, was about a month ago on the web.

Maybe because we realised that the facts surrounding it hadn't been fully established and also that the media went batshit crazy with speculation on it for like a month.

baaba maal

People, we losing focus here-

Ok, this is definitely stretching it in terms of culture, but Samantha Fox's appearance at a promotional event and then mauling by alcohol-fuelled "fans" and the subsequent Sunday tabloid headline "Sexy Sam Mauled by Cavan Cavemen".

I can't believe I googled this and the only reference to it was a case study in a book on gender politices (my, we've come a long way!!).

I trust I'm not the only person to remember this incident?