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Metallica for Slane 2019
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Metallica are more mainstream than those radio stations mentioned by that posterThey are most definitely not mainstream in this country. As another poster said, they get next to no airplay on Irish radio and if they do it's one of two songs. They also get next to no media attention barring Slane, which they did, well because it was Slane.
Their last couple of dodgy albums were top of the charts here even without much airplay showing exactly what non mainstream acts do so well...oh0 -
You're both judging what's mainstream on dying media formats, then? Those aforementioned stations cater to a particular selection of agreeable genres and time periods from musical history. It's such a narrow bandwidth representation of musical popularity. You may as well say the Premier League isn't mainstream because you don't really get it on RTE One.They are most definitely not mainstream in this country. As another poster said, they get next to no airplay on Irish radio and if they do it's one of two songs. They also get next to no media attention barring Slane, which they did, well because it was Slane.
Worldwide, perhaps.
Aslan get played every five minutes on the radio, and they have about as much mainstream relevance to 18-30 year olds as Burzum.
Maybe you're both referencing a very specific, visibility based, piped-into-suburbia handle on the term 'mainstream', and that's fair enough, but for me it means massively popular and - further - conventional. Not a diss - and admittedly I'm coming from a lot of my recreational time being spent listening to extreme metal and going to gigs with 20 heads at the things - but when every Tom, Dick and Harry are bussing up to Slane to see 'Tallica then you've hit the mainstream.
Using my own moody teenage years as a barometer, I can't imagine many mosher kids anymore adorning themselves with Metallica merch to show off their tribal status. They've proper crossed over, like
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They are mainstream for heavy rock to be fair. 99% if people I know have heard of them and even people not into metal at all know Sandman.
Anyway who cares!
Tomorrow three weeks I’ll be heading to S&M2
Big time I think the people who seem to care most are those who oddly use mainstream as a term that means if it's popular it must be sh1te. The stuff they like such as Metallica they simply must deny they are mainstream to keep the mind at ease. 220+ pages of discussion on boards ffs.
No cinema nearby showing S&M 2 for me I thinks, may have to roadtrip.0 -
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phantom_lord wrote: »Very nice. How'd you get tickets?
I didn't get near a one on either of the pre sales.
Pulled every single string I had in my arsenal 0 -
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Do indeed think they will play Slane in 2020 but wont be announced til a few weeks before xmas m0 -
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Did anyone get their ghost tickets by the way? I never heard back from them after the offered them to me.
I also already have ghost tickets
phantom_lord wrote: »Very nice. How'd you get tickets?
I didn't get near a one on either of the pre sales.Testament1 wrote: »Yeah got mine, did you reply back and confirm your address with them after they offered them?
I got mine.
And got rid of them also.... :cool:
"Bright lights and Thunder .................... "
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