Neil Young - Ireland 2016

mrk75

Dates in Belfast (6 June) and Dublin (7 June) announced for 2016 - see Hot Press on-line (sorry, can't post link).

On sale Friday 18 December...

PropJoe10

Awesome! There's no-one greater in music than Neil Young.

The Nal

Superb. Missed him last time. Nothing on TBastard yet.

Hes been playing some rare sh1t lately

https://youtu.be/0N9KJozxsHM

monkey9

Where's he playing?

Dibble

monkey9 wrote: »

Where's he playing?

3 Arena

Flatzie_poo

The Nal wrote: »

Superb. Missed him last time.

You didn't miss much, the RDS was a nasty venue. Poor preparation.

The speakers weren't secured properly and being windy, the sound was distorted with the speakers swaying.

Can't wait for this indoor gig though! Very well suited to him!

poundhound

The last time he played here was Live at the Marquee in Cork 2014.
Fantastic gig.

Flatzie_poo

mrk75 wrote: »

Dates in Belfast (6 June) and Dublin (7 June) announced for 2016

The Nal wrote: »

Superb. Missed him last time.

Maybe - I took this as last time he played Dublin.

The Nal

Flatzie_poo wrote: »

You didn't miss much, the RDS was a nasty venue. Poor preparation.

The speakers weren't secured properly and being windy, the sound was distorted with the speakers swaying.

Can't wait for this indoor gig though! Very well suited to him!

Heard that. Yeah saw him in the Point in 2009. Great gig. Nice warm up for Glastonbury later that week!

PropJoe10

Flatzie_poo wrote: »

You didn't miss much, the RDS was a nasty venue. Poor preparation.

The speakers weren't secured properly and being windy, the sound was distorted with the speakers swaying.

Can't wait for this indoor gig though! Very well suited to him!

Must've got lucky at that gig, sound was perfect where I was. Indoors is definitely a different experience, though. The gig in the O2 in 2009 was absolutely fantastic.

cruhoortwunk

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Must've got lucky at that gig, sound was perfect where I was. Indoors is definitely a different experience, though. The gig in the O2 in 2009 was absolutely fantastic.

Same here, I was central and fairly close to the front and sound was great. Friends were back and to the side and they said sound was awful

Strumms

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Must've got lucky at that gig, sound was perfect where I was. Indoors is definitely a different experience, though. The gig in the O2 in 2009 was absolutely fantastic.

Jeez was that O2 gig really all the way back in 2009 ? :eek: that was one of the best shows I've ever been at full stop... Great stuff.

mrk75

Yeah, RDS was so disappointing. Great set-list if we could have heard it properly.

The Marquee gig made up for it, though. That was superb although the one he played there a few years prior to that was just as good if not better - same week he played Malahide Castle, I think.

Anyway, this tour with Willie Nelson's young fellas is getting great reviews. There's an article in this month's Uncut about the rare tracks he's been rolling out - stuff like Vampire Blues that he's played only once or twice before.

mrk75

Strumms wrote: »

Jeez was that O2 gig really all the way back in 2009 ? :eek: that was one of the best shows I've ever been at full stop... Great stuff.

That was an amazing band he had with him. They could turn their hand to anything from his catalogue - and did. I think "Burned" was played that night for the first time in ages.

A Day in the Life was pretty good too.

adrian522

Saw him in the point in 2001, genuinely one of the best gigs I've seen...

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-crazy-horse/2001/point-theatre-dublin-ireland-6bd052a2.html

Saw him again in Malahide but I left somewhat disappointed. Think he works better indoors so I reckon I'l give this another go.

8-10

The Nal wrote: »

Heard that. Yeah saw him in the Point in 2009. Great gig. Nice warm up for Glastonbury later that week!

That Glastonbury gig was incredible. Best act of the weekend and that included Springsteen and Blur as the other headliners

The Nal

mrk75 wrote: »

There's an article in this month's Uncut about the rare tracks he's been rolling out - stuff like Vampire Blues that he's played only once or twice before.

Yeah hes dropped Vampire Blues, L.A., Alabama. Lets hope for more Ditch Trilogy stuff!

8-10 wrote: »

That Glastonbury gig was incredible. Best act of the weekend and that included Springsteen and Blur as the other headliners

Agree. One of the best gigs I've seen. He was a wild man that night.

monkey9

I actually really enjoyed the RDS gig, i thought it was brilliant.

scruff monkey

monkey9 wrote: »

I actually really enjoyed the RDS gig, i thought it was brilliant.

The bits I could hear sounded fantastic, but it was certainly the worst sounding outdoors one I've ever been to.

PropJoe10

monkey9 wrote: »

I actually really enjoyed the RDS gig, i thought it was brilliant.

It was a fantastic gig. I remember a lot of people around me wondering why he didnt play Old Man or Heart of Gold. Never gonna hear those at a Crazy Horse gig, but the gig was classic Horse. Fantastic day out.

emo72

so which neil young is this? acousticy or rocky? or a bit of both would be grand.

The Bishop Basher

adrian522 wrote: »

Saw him in the point in 2001, genuinely one of the best gigs I've seen...

Agreed. Incredible show..

So happy he's not in the RDS this time. I've had a number of otherwise great gigs ruined by the poor sound there. Last time Neil Played there was among the worst.

PropJoe10

emo72 wrote: »

so which neil young is this? acousticy or rocky? or a bit of both would be grand.

Looks like stuff from across his career, judging by the setlists.

Peter File

Belfast tickets are £65 and £70. Hopefully we get a crowd pleasing set rather than the fare served up in the RDS last time

PropJoe10

Peter File wrote: »

Belfast tickets are £65 and £70. Hopefully we get a crowd pleasing set rather than the fare served up in the RDS last time

Much more likely to get songs from across his career on this tour. Neil Young does not do crowd-pleasing sets, though, and anyone that thinks that he does is kidding themselves. Especially at a Crazy Horse gig.

Peter File

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Much more likely to get songs from across his career on this tour. Neil Young does not do crowd-pleasing sets, though, and anyone that thinks that he does is kidding themselves. Especially at a Crazy Horse gig.

A quick look at setlist.fm for his recent shows indicates that he is playing crowd pleasing sets again.

poundhound

Seen Neil Young live 10 times.

Slane 1993
RDS Indoor 1995
The Point 1996
The Point 2001
Vicar St 2003
Madison Square Garden, NY 2003
Malahide Castle 2008
The O2 2009
RDS outdoor 2013
Live at the Marquee 2014

maybe with the exception of the 2013 show (although I enjoyed it), every show has been fantastic. Roll on 2016.

The Nal

poundhound wrote: »

Seen Neil Young live 10 times.

Slane 1993
RDS Indoor 1995
The Point 1996
The Point 2001
Vicar St 2003
Madison Square Garden, NY 2003
Malahide Castle 2008
The O2 2009
RDS outdoor 2013
Live at the Marquee 2014

maybe with the exception of the 2013 show (although I enjoyed it), every show has been fantastic. Roll on 2016.

Wopw! Great stuff. What was Vicar St like? Some encores both nights!

delbertgrady

Top price for the 3Arena is €96, which I'm guessing will be for standing and the seats in the lower and middle tier. They're not doing it like the last O2 show, with the full floor. It's the optimum standing configuration, so there's no "balcony" as such. It's a relatively small standing area, which is good, 'cos even if you're at the back, you're still not far away from the stage. The seats start more or less from the floor, at Row 5, and continue up, amphitheatre style. It's the same arrangement they did for Rush, Peter Gabriel, The Who (earlier this year) and many others.

delbertgrady

The Nal wrote: »

Wow! Great stuff. What was Vicar St like? Some encores both nights!

I'm going to jump in here and say night three was the best.
Ambulance Blues. That is all.

poundhound

Re: "What was Vicar St like?"

Fantastic, although he played "Greendale" acoustically in its entirety, which wasn't to everybody's taste.

The show in NY the following month was "Greendale" performed with Crazy Horse and included actors and actresses on stage.

During the acoustic numbers at the NY show, he had a pint of Guinness at his feet. He said his father "who lived in Howth, Dublin" recommended it.

The Nal

delbertgrady wrote: »

I'm going to jump in here and say night three was the best.
Ambulance Blues. That is all.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

poundhound wrote: »

Re: "What was Vicar St like?"
During the acoustic numbers at the NY show, he had a pint of Guinness at his feet. He said his father "who lived in Howth, Dublin" recommended it.

Thats right yeah he lived there for a while in the 90s I think.

Shop40

Can anyone tell me if the 3 presale texts gone out yet? Still waiting on mine.
Cheers

mrk75

Yeah, Vicar Street was pretty special. I think I was there on the first night, so no "Ambulance Blues" but he did do a great acoustic version of "Cortez the Killer".

Looking forward to what appears to be his first gig in Belfast.

realdanbreen

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Awesome! There's no-one greater in music than Neil Young.

All depends on what humour he is in.

s8n

I seen him on this tour in late Oct in Berkley, California. Having seen him several times before, it was the most energized he has been in quite a while.
Three hours of hits and deep cuts (including a 27 minute version of Down by the river). Highly recommend.

In terms of the RDS gig, I enjoyed it more than his Cork gig last year (which I thought was a bit soulless)

8-10

I were to go this time around I'd want to be guaranteed the crowd pleasers

Zardoz

Is this likely to sell out before Christmas ?
I'm getting fed up of all these gigs being announced at short notice so close to Christmas ,I'm cleaned out from them.

furiousox

Tickets "from" 86 euro.
Steep for a standing ticket.

8-10

furiousox wrote: »

Tickets "from" 86 euro.
Steep for a standing ticket.

Yeah when you consider U2 was 70euro standing in the same venue and probably able to sell less standing tickets with the second stage

CiaranK

Ticketmaster are saying from €65.45 to €96.00 so I reckon standing would be either the cheapest or else around 75

Wooderson

Not much backchat here about the price of Shakey's tickets.

yogicolly

Has the 3 presale text gone out yet? Does anybody know the keyword to text for presale code? Thanks in advance?

Shop40

For presale text NEIL to 51020.

yogicolly

Cheers

furiousox

CiaranK wrote: »

Ticketmaster are saying from €65.45 to €96.00 so I reckon standing would be either the cheapest or else around 75

Ah, 65 is ok for a standing ticket.
I heard a radio ad earlier today and it said tickets onsale friday priced from 86 euro.
Don't know where they got figure that from.

CiaranK

furiousox wrote: »

Ah, 65 is ok for a standing ticket.
I heard a radio ad earlier today and it said tickets onsale friday priced from 86 euro.
Don't know where they got figure that from.

Ticketmaster site does says prices subject to change though so it could well be.

bloominballix

Where do you buy tickets? I see no option on ticketmaster for the presale?

yogicolly

www.ticketmaster.ie/neil-young-dublin-06-08-2016/event/18004F8F97ED476A?artistid=736511&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1&&did=3dublin

formernyer

€93 for a standing ticket including all the TM charges (€86 before them).

leakyboots

Ouch