Big Top Live

PTH2009

New festival announced this morning

https://www.bigtoplive.ie/

Very good for the area hopefully. Personally not a fan of any of the acts announced so far but hopefully it does well

Wanderer78

Keith Barry is a bit of a laugh

sitkaspruce

PTH2009 wrote: »

New festival announced this morning

https://www.bigtoplive.ie/

Very good for the area hopefully. Personally not a fan of any of the acts announced so far but hopefully it does well

I think Bingo Loko will be huge - sold out I'm Kilkenny recently. Hopefully the fad hasn't dried up by then!

PTH2009

listings so far

Mon 19th Aug - Finbar Furey
Weds 21st Aug- Keith Barry
Thurs 22nd Aug- Bingo Loco (No general sale tickets, corporate event only)
Fri 23rd Aug- Bingo Loco (general tickets available)
Sat 24th Aug- Happy Mondays/King King Company and Backroad Smokers Club
Sun 25th Aug- 80s/90s Disco (Acts TBC)

Tues 20th Aug is still yet tba. Would love a rock or metal gig as they seem to be messing that demographic.

Wanderer78

PTH2009 wrote:

Tues 20th Aug is still yet tba. Would love a rock or metal gig as they seem to be messing that demographic.

Wont ever happen in Waterford

PTH2009

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Wont ever happen in Waterford

pity but can see why as were all bunch a stinge bags here lol and it takes a lot to gain support here. Ive been to a few tribute nights for rock bands and they be a good crowd at them but prob not justify a big act playing here. The Darkness playing Daytripper in 2015 was class but wasant overally busy if i recall

Stuff Like UB40/Madness and other mod scene type stuff does well here as does the usual smash hits/throw back stuff

Ian Brown of Stone Roses fame or Richard Ashcroft would be nice for the tuesday. Could be something aimed towards teenagers/young aldults and be a newish band

ub40 are free the tuesday ha

greenspurs

Madness ??


They haven't played in a while ......

friendlyfun

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Keith Barry is a bit of a laugh

I bought Keith a pint once. When it was his round he disappeared!

PTH2009

Limerick for there version of daytripper/big top in king John's castle have these lads. Who said metal doesn't have appeal outside of Dublin ha

https://youtu.be/Dhfy9TPga-c

Roanmore

PTH2009 wrote: »

Limerick for there version of daytripper/big top in king John's castle have these lads. Who said metal doesn't have appeal outside of Dublin ha

https://youtu.be/Dhfy9TPga-c

Apparently Irish people don't want this stuff
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/councillor-calls-for-polish-rock-group-to-be-banned-ahead-of-limerick-gig-930715.html


"To me it's disgusting and it's disgraceful and it's not my type of entertainment.

We do not want it here in this country."

I feel the same way about Nathan Carter but you don't see me calling for him to be banned :rolleyes:

Johnboy1951

"To me it's disgusting and it's disgraceful and it's not my type of entertainment.

We do not want it here in this country."

Speak for yourself richard-head.

alta stare

Roanmore wrote: »

Apparently Irish people don't want this stuff
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/councillor-calls-for-polish-rock-group-to-be-banned-ahead-of-limerick-gig-930715.html


"To me it's disgusting and it's disgraceful and it's not my type of entertainment.

We do not want it here in this country."

I feel the same way about Nathan Carter but you don't see me calling for him to be banned :rolleyes:

The purple rinse brigade will be out protesting....after mass of course.

Wanderer78

Roanmore wrote:

Apparently Irish people don't want this stuff

I musnt be Irish then, conservative Ireland is still alive and well, folks it ll be fine, its just a bit of controversial entertainment, no kids will be harmed

Smell the glove

Chuffed with The Happy Monday's. Going to be great, hopefully the week will be well supported.

PTH2009

The throwback event that was to be on the Sunday has been cancelled for some reason and there is no act for the Tuesday night

Christy Browne

PTH2009 wrote: »

The throwback event that was to be on the Sunday has been cancelled for some reason and there is no act for the Tuesday night

Seen as they were emailing out 15% discount codes to everyone a couple of weeks ago and giving away loads of free tickets my guess is they didn’t get the numbers and had to pull the plug

PTH2009

hoping too get to the Happy mondays night

the food court at this sounds interesting with some great options from top class places (Loko, La Boheme, Revs)

Starting next monday 19th with Finbarr Furey

dartboardio

Selling two tickets to Finbar Furey if anyone wants. Bought 4 by accident.

50 euros for the two. Bought for 37.50 each.


Or id happily swap for Keith Barry tickets

PTH2009

Decent reviews about the events the past 2 nights

Bingo loco the next 2 and the big one Saturday with Happy Mondays. Sadly wont make any events this year but hope it goes well and becomes a yearly thing with more big acts headling

Smell the glove

Anyone know what alcohol they are selling down there and how much they are pricing the drinks?

Gardner

the wife was on faceache last night and showed me live videos from bingo loco. i couldn't think of anything worse! few dancers on a stage, a fella on the decks, everyone playing along to organised fun at their benches and a few poppers of confetti every now and then. Kill disco on prozac

gscully

Smell the glove wrote: »

Anyone know what alcohol they are selling down there and how much they are pricing the drinks?

There's a Heineken tent selling pints of Heineken and Cider. Pints are €5.50. They have bottles of Heineken 00 (€4.50), Coors Light, plus the common shorts like vodka, Jim Beam, etc.. Blackwater gin also.

Deiseen

Gardner wrote: »

the wife was on faceache last night and showed me live videos from bingo loco. i couldn't think of anything worse! few dancers on a stage, a fella on the decks, everyone playing along to organised fun at their benches and a few poppers of confetti every now and then. Kill disco on prozac

Man, you are some whinger. Every thread on this board has you on here whinging. Is there anything you enjoy?

DLS_75

Looks like it's been a great success.

PTH2009

From pics/vids I've seen of Bingo Loco it's very like the darts

I wonder will we see a darts event at future Big Top events?

Deiseen

DLS_75 wrote: »

Looks like it's been a great success.

Yep, every night so far has been close to capacity!

DLS_75

PTH2009 wrote: »

From pics/vids I've seen of Bingo Loco it's very like the darts

I wonder will we see a darts event at future Big Top events?

Excellent idea.

Gardner

PTH2009 wrote: »

From pics/vids I've seen of Bingo Loco it's very like the darts

I wonder will we see a darts event at future Big Top events?

my idea of hell!

Stopitwillya

Deiseen wrote: »

Gardner wrote: »

the wife was on faceache last night and showed me live videos from bingo loco. i couldn't think of anything worse! few dancers on a stage, a fella on the decks, everyone playing along to organised fun at their benches and a few poppers of confetti every now and then. Kill disco on prozac

Man, you are some whinger. Every thread on this board has you on here whinging. Is there anything you enjoy?

He enjoys going to supporting the blues and trolling the Waterford gaa page on boards telling us all how the most negative manager we ever had Derek McGrath is so great.

Smell the glove

Thanks for the reply ��

Deiseen

Stopitwillya wrote: »

He enjoys going to supporting the blues and trolling the Waterford gaa page on boards telling us all how the most negative manager we ever had Derek McGrath is so great.

Supporting the blues? I've only ever seen him talk ****e about the team!

Gillman1998

So here’s my take on Big Top (Happy Mondays night):

Positives:
Great space to sit at tables
Toilets good, not as many as for Madness but okay
Tent was a great gig space
Overall vibe was very relaxed and enjoyable

Negatives:
The bar - Heineken seriously? Terrible choice of beer
Food - Flash selling 3 different varieties of chips or a very excellent burger from Bodega. Overall poor food choices.

That’s it really, very unhappy with the bar setup but overall a great venture and hopefully bigger and better next year.

StringerBell

3 different varieties of chips?

Gillman1998

StringerBell wrote: »

3 different varieties of chips?

Yep, cheesy something, chorizo something and some other covering. I’m sure they were lovely but I thought perhaps something a little more from Revolution.

By the way, the Mondays would be lost without Rowetta. Just saying.

Max Powers

One of the best music nights out last nIght, Happy Mondays and kingkong company were brilliant. Great set up with tent, very little queuing at bar, some nice food to be had too.

dzilla

Gillman1998 wrote: »

The bar - Heineken seriously? Terrible choice of beer

Yeah you'd wonder what possessed them to choose the most popular lager in the country.

Max Powers

dzilla wrote: »

Yeah you'd wonder what possessed them to choose the most popular lager in the country.

Funny one, thought the same, its not my first choice but its fine isnt it. They had local gin crowd selling cocktails too, Blackwater gin I think.

savic04

The tent rental company left down the promoters a day before

So the orginal plan was a tent double the size that housed all the bars and there was to be more food options outside.


Was great to get it done year one and hopefully move on with it.

Flow Motion

Better dan naw-thin!;)

What with The Big Top, Daytripper & All Together Now - local music fans have plenty of options going forward. Yes they all cater for different types, ages & music but it's far better than a big fat "zero"!

On top of this throw in Spraoi, Waterford Walls, Harvest Festival, Summer in the City, Imagine Arts, Dunmore Bluegrass, Winterval but to name a few.

Loads of Beaches, Mountains and the Greenway.

And Waterford was recently named Ireland Foodie Destination of the year!

Saying that you still won't be able to please everyone....:D

debok

Flow Motion wrote: »

Better dan naw-thin!;)

What with The Big Top, Daytripper & All Together Now - local music fans have plenty of options going forward. Yes they all cater for different types, ages & music but it's far better than a big fat "zero"!

On top of this throw in Spraoi, Waterford Walls, Harvest Festival, Summer in the City, Imagine Arts, Dunmore Bluegrass, Winterval but to name a few.

Loads of Beaches, Mountains and the Greenway.

And Waterford was recently named Ireland Foodie Destination of the year!

Saying that you still won't be able to please everyone....:D

Yeh there's never anything on!!!!!


Sarcasm