The Rolling Stones - 17th May 2018 - Croke Park - Discussion Only / No Ticket Sales

purcela · 01-02-2018 11:56am #1

I just got a message from the Croke Park Community to say that Aiken Promotions will be applying for a licence to hold a concert in Croke Park on Thursday 17th May. Any big acts touring around that time?

hynesie08 · 01-02-2018 12:05pm

None announced, Pink is supposed to be touring this summer, and she is Aiken, but croker is a stretch for her. Unless they've decided that 50,000 tickets is enough to justify it.

PTH2009 · 01-02-2018 12:11pm

rolling stones are meant to the touring this summer and Dublin was mentioned

andrew1977 · 01-02-2018 12:12pm

purcela wrote: »

I just got a message from the Croke Park Community to say that Aiken Promotions will be applying for a licence to hold a concert in Croke Park on Thursday 17th May. Any big acts touring around that time?

The Pope:D

Hoboo · 01-02-2018 12:14pm

andrew1977 wrote: »

The Pope:D

I hope he does some of his early homilies, latest stuff isn't as good.

delbertgrady · 01-02-2018 12:33pm

The Rolling Stones are definitely the most likely.
P!nk is touring in the US in May, so it won't be her.
Foo Fighters are free, but it'd be one standalone show between the end of their US leg in early May and starting in Europe at the start of June. I can't see that happening.
Eminem's newly-announced European dates are much later: late June (one date in Oslo) and July. The two Twickenham shows are in mid-July. Nowhere near the May date they're applying for here.
I think it's probably going to be The Charlie Watts Band.

PTH2009 · 01-02-2018 12:44pm

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0201/937548-croke-park/

Mr.H · 01-02-2018 2:19pm

Pearl Jam maybe? Will they be in Europe by then?

dragonfly! · 01-02-2018 2:29pm

hynesie08 wrote: »

None announced, Pink is supposed to be touring this summer, and she is Aiken, but croker is a stretch for her. Unless they've decided that 50,000 tickets is enough to justify it.

Its not her she has US dates the night before and night after

dragonfly! · 01-02-2018 2:30pm

Bon Jovi finish their US dates a few days before this - prehaps this would be part of an European leg?

dragonfly! · 01-02-2018 2:30pm

Katy Perry also has a gap between her US dates and her European dates

hynesie08 · 01-02-2018 2:34pm

dragonfly! wrote: »

Bon Jovi finish their US dates a few days before this - prehaps this would be part of an European leg?

Sold less than 40,000 tickets for slane last time they were here, have they released an album since then.

Bonzo Delaney · 01-02-2018 2:44pm

GnR start their European tour June 3rd in Berlin
They could kick off here instead on the 17th May
Sold 80k in Slane last year with no major support act could fill Croker this year with decent support

Jerichoholic · 01-02-2018 2:47pm

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

GnR start their European tour June 3rd in Berlin
They could kick off here instead on the 17th May
Sold 80k in Slane last year with no major support act could fill Croker this year with decent support

I'd love to see them in Croke Park. Slane is a complete farce, a horrible time last year.

piplip87 · 01-02-2018 2:52pm

Jerichoholic wrote: »

I'd love to see them in Croke Park. Slane is a complete farce, a horrible time last year.

I really dont understand the hate for Slane. The majority of it comes from delays getting there, or getting out but it's a faulas site for a gig.

bennyl10 · 01-02-2018 2:58pm

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

GnR start their European tour June 3rd in Berlin
They could kick off here instead on the 17th May
Sold 80k in Slane last year with no major support act could fill Croker this year with decent support

If they were under MCD last year tbey won't be Aiken now..

The stones probably makes most sense..

MoonshineMonty · 01-02-2018 3:08pm

scudzilla · 01-02-2018 3:10pm

Just heard from a reliable source it's Ghost :pac:

PTH2009 · 01-02-2018 3:11pm

scudzilla wrote: »

Just heard from a reliable source it's Ghost :pac:

Supported by Venom

The Nal · 01-02-2018 3:19pm

piplip87 wrote: »

I really dont understand the hate for Slane. The majority of it comes from delays getting there, or getting out but it's a faulas site for a gig.

I don't know what faulas means but its a nightmare venue for a gig. A disaster to get to and get out of, sound issues every year, very few bars and toilets, fúck all food and it attracts the worst crowd on planet earth.

Birneybau · 01-02-2018 3:22pm

scudzilla wrote: »

Just heard from a reliable source it's Ghost :pac:

PTH2009 wrote: »

Supported by Venom

And Sunn O)))

Mike Guide 69 · 01-02-2018 3:47pm

Bring yer cowboy hats......

asteroids over berlin · 01-02-2018 3:52pm

Metallica european tour ends in May, have a friend who works as crew, he has heard nothing of a Dublin date though. Croke park is too big as well i guess

jack presley · 01-02-2018 3:54pm

Mike Guide 69 wrote: »

Bring yer cowboy hats......

Yer man from the GAA on the RTÉ lunchtime news wouldn’t say who it was but he did say it definitely wasn’t Garth Brooks.

Mike Guide 69 · 01-02-2018 3:57pm

jack presley wrote: »

Yer man from the GAA on the RTÉ lunchtime news wouldn’t say who it was but he did say it definitely wasn’t Garth Brooks.

Thank f**k for that !!!!

Tommo3434343 · 01-02-2018 4:04pm

Maybe Fleetwood Mac? They're meant to be touring this summer.

hynesie08 · 01-02-2018 4:23pm

jack presley wrote: »

Yer man from the GAA on the RTÉ lunchtime news wouldn’t say who it was but he did say it definitely wasn’t Garth Brooks.

Chris Gaines??

dragonfly! · 01-02-2018 4:24pm

hynesie08 wrote: »

Sold less than 40,000 tickets for slane last time they were here, have they released an album since then.

Slane is a farce though....

villa2008 · 01-02-2018 4:36pm

Would love it to be Guns N' Roses, but there is a big gap between the current start of their euro tour of 3rd of June in Berlin and May 17th .

I think it's got to be The Rolling Stones. I guess we will know soon enough.

PTH2009 · 01-02-2018 4:44pm

U2 ticket prices are pretty high wait til we see the prices for the rolling stones

Expecting Lower level tickets to be €250 or over

villa2008 · 01-02-2018 4:48pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

U2 ticket prices are pretty high wait til we see the prices for the rolling stones

Expecting Lower level tickets to be €250 or over

Yeah if its the rolling stones its going to be expensive for tickets. If any band rips off their fans ticket price wise its the Stones.

greenspurs · 01-02-2018 5:39pm

dragonfly! wrote: »

Slane is a farce though....

Have you tried camping at Slane??
Obviously not ......

*Croke park gig slides into Slane is sh1te ...... :rolleyes:

Sleeper12 · 01-02-2018 5:46pm

piplip87 wrote:

I really dont understand the hate for Slane. The majority of it comes from delays getting there, or getting out but it's a faulas site for a gig.

Slane is rated as one of the best outdoor venues in the world. Springsteen says its one of the best gigs for him

creativedrinker · 01-02-2018 6:14pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Slane is rated as one of the best outdoor venues in the world. Springsteen says its one of the best gigs for him

Bruce doesn't have to get the bus home tho

Juanner · 01-02-2018 6:20pm

I wouldn't have thought Bruce would say it was one of his best gigs. Memorable, for sure, but that was more to do with it being his first ever large-scale outdoor shows and witnessing a level of drunkenness and pushing that he'd never seen from a crowd anywhere else before. He's been back many times since and never gone near Slane again. There's probably a good reason for that!

The Nal · 01-02-2018 6:23pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Slane is rated as one of the best outdoor venues in the world.

By who?

Mrcaramelchoc · 01-02-2018 6:41pm

piplip87 wrote: »

I really dont understand the hate for Slane. The majority of it comes from delays getting there, or getting out but it's a faulas site for a gig.

yea i love slane.particularly all leaving out of one gate with thousands of wobbly drunks, through mud **** and piss to get on a bus for 7 hours to get home.yea slane is brilliant. :rolleyes:

ps i would go back for pearl jam.

hynesie08 · 01-02-2018 6:53pm

Slanes grand, as long as it doesn't rain, and if it's not too hot, and if you have a ridiculous amount of money to spend on ****e food and drink, and Don't mind the fact that the ground is 85% urine in certain parts, and that half the time getting out involves a mucky version of the travelator from gladiators with the added challenge of drunk lads playing human bowling if it's wet just to spend 2 hours queueing for a bus that takes 2 hours back.......

hynesie08 · 01-02-2018 8:16pm

90% sure it's the stones, but didn't Fleetwood Mac say they would be touring around June? And they sold out 2 nights in the 3 arena fairly easily? They seem more an Aviva band but as everyone says when croke park gigs are mentioned "if the script can sell it out".

Sleeper12 · 01-02-2018 8:42pm

The Nal wrote:

By who?

By musicians.

marcmc77 · 01-02-2018 8:46pm

I thought max 3 gigs a year at this venue?

TheRiverman · 01-02-2018 8:54pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Slane is rated as one of the best outdoor venues in the world. Springsteen says its one of the best gigs for him

That's why he has never played there since June 1 1985.I was there that day.Bruce and the band stopped playing after only three songs,due to the awful level of drunkeness and crushing in front of the stage.He thought people were going to get killed or badly injured.They did not start playing again until things had settled down,then it was into a blasting version of Johnny 99.

Beechwoodspark · 01-02-2018 8:57pm

Hope it’s the stones. Not seen them and want to.

Jerichoholic · 01-02-2018 8:59pm

Juanner wrote: »

I wouldn't have thought Bruce would say it was one of his best gigs. Memorable, for sure, but that was more to do with it being his first ever large-scale outdoor shows and witnessing a level of drunkenness and pushing that he'd never seen from a crowd anywhere else before. He's been back many times since and never gone near Slane again. There's probably a good reason for that!

He wanted to walk off the stage after 10 minutes, he was terrified that the drunken fools were going to get killed.

Yeah, his best gig ever.

Sleeper12 · 01-02-2018 9:09pm

TheRiverman wrote:

That's why he has never played there since June 1 1985.I was there that day.Bruce and the band stopped playing after only three songs,due to the awful level of drunkeness and crushing in front of the stage.He thought people were going to get killed or badly injured.They did not start playing again until things had settled down,then it was into a blasting version of Johnny 99.

I was there myself. Biggest crowd ever in Slane close to 120k. They had to limit the number to 80k or 85k after that.

Sleeper12 · 01-02-2018 9:15pm

Jerichoholic wrote:

He wanted to walk off the stage after 10 minutes, he was terrified that the drunken fools were going to get killed.

Jerichoholic wrote:

Yeah, his best gig ever.

Irish people are drunken fools regardless of the venue. If I remember correctly you couldn't buy beer in Slane for that gig. It was the first gig since the Bob Dylan "drunken riots" two years before.

Bruce is on the record of saying several times that it is one of the best venues in the world.

ghostdancer · 01-02-2018 9:20pm

Juanner wrote: »

I wouldn't have thought Bruce would say it was one of his best gigs. Memorable, for sure, but that was more to do with it being his first ever large-scale outdoor shows and witnessing a level of drunkenness and pushing that he'd never seen from a crowd anywhere else before. He's been back many times since and never gone near Slane again. There's probably a good reason for that!

TheRiverman wrote: »

That's why he has never played there since June 1 1985.I was there that day.Bruce and the band stopped playing after only three songs,due to the awful level of drunkeness and crushing in front of the stage.He thought people were going to get killed or badly injured.They did not start playing again until things had settled down,then it was into a blasting version of Johnny 99.

Springsteen is promoted by Aiken here, Slane is an MCD venue.

if Aiken could have, I've no doubt they'd have put him in Slane, rather than shoving him in the RDS for multiple nights a few times, and then sending him around the country because they couldn't rinse a few more nights out of the RDS and didn't have any other suitable outdoor venues to put him in.

Beechwoodspark · 01-02-2018 9:21pm

Went to Slane once.

Probably looks fantastic for those on stage-Natural amphitheatre yadda yadda but it’s a complete kip for the audience.

TheRiverman · 01-02-2018 11:03pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Went to Slane once.

Probably looks fantastic for those on stage-Natural amphitheatre yadda yadda but it’s a complete kip for the audience.

Agreed.I was there only once myself,as posted previously Springsteen in 1985.

Wrongway1985 · 02-02-2018 3:43am

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

GnR start their European tour June 3rd in Berlin
They could kick off here instead on the 17th May
Sold 80k in Slane last year with no major support act could fill Croker this year with decent support

What kind? suitable and major support act sometimes aren't the same thing. Royal Blood played the 3arena recently who were you gonna suggest? A band that can shift tickets on their own doesn't need value to be added sadly.

Mike Guide 69 · 02-02-2018 8:42am

Hearing on Newstalk that the licence is suppose to be for The Rolling Stones

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