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

scudzilla wrote: »

They were selling GnR mugs at Slane last year, 15quid a pop but they you had to return to merch stand after gig to buy, in case anyone decided to lob them

If i paid 15quid for a mug last thing i'd do is lob it

The mugs were the people that bought them.

magentis wrote: »

Is it over?

Could hear it from my front room.

Brilliant gig,Mick Jagger is some performer for his age, great visuals and was great to hear Keith sing a few songs as well, “You Can’t Always Get...”, was the standout song for me ,loved “Tumbking Dice” as well,overall 10/10

Great gig. Stands looked about 85-90% full excluding the tarped areas.

So many knobs recording entire songs and blocking views as usual.

Rolling Stones were brilliant I thought, really had the crowd going although the blues songs and Keith solos quietened the crowd (despite the quality of the songs).

If setlist is correct 1 less song than their last European date, longest show of the tour ye were led to believe...smell of duped off that now :pac:

Cracking gig. What a way for the Stones to bow out . If it is as I suspect the last time we will see them over here. ðŸ‘

Must say Mick Jagger is some frontman and what a performer he is!!!!

Absolutely brilliant show from start to finish!!!

So happy I got to see the band live as I never got to see other legends like Queen live(the real band not the imposter they have become) and David Bowie.

Icing on the cake was I bought 2 Lucky Dip Tickets when they first went on sale and randomly picked up my envelope from the box at the collection point and BAM!!!!2 Tickets in No Filter Pit A!!!

Such a brilliant night!!!So happy I got to see them!!!!

Really really good. I saw them in Hyde Park in 2013 and thought this was much better. I also thought the stage was fantastic, the best I've seen for a gig, really visible from the pitch.

Great gig excellent sound apart from Ronnie's guitar screached slightly on the solos. The standing was full, the upper tier was probably 50 to 60% with particular block high in the corners with I'd say 20 people in it.
Weekday gig and extremely high cost contributes to this I would imagine. I would guess around the 70000 mark with attendance

Amazing gig. I was in front of the sound stage in the centre. Sound was great.


On a side note, do Dublin Bus ever put on extra buses when shows like that are on? There are several buses which go through my area and 1 which terminates near me, so about half the journey distance of the other routes which means it doesn't get as busy.

Tonight after the gig 2 buses go past absolutely rammed and then my local bus arrives, not too busy. Grand that's me sorted but loads of people at the stop. Getting close to the time of last bus and most of the people would live in Co. Dublin or further. All the Luas were packed too but they seemed to be every couple of minutes which is not normal for that time but obviously someone in there is paying attention. These were not near Croker either. These were back in town.

70-80k people trying to get home. Maybe even half that trying to use public transport. I know it's hard to judge which routes will be busy but with that many people, a few extra buses on each route and you couldn't lose money.

Absolutely super gig. Amazing band considering they're mostly mid 70s. Not often you get to see genuine legends, and Jagger is just an incredible frontman. Gets better as the years go by!

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Also: Got my "too large" small bag stopped at the gate. Had to surrender it to a bag nanny who takes no responsibility for stolen bags. But I've since seen massive backpacks in the stadium on some people. ****ing raging. If they'd asked me to pay for it I would've told them to shove their gig up their hole. Croke Pk are ridiculous. Total overkill.

Are you serious, I ended up buying a smaller bag yesterday but it was still bigger than the required size, opened it for the steward, she hardly looked at it and didn't even get a pat down.....did you get it back afterwards?

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Great gig. Stands looked about 85-90% full excluding the tarped areas.

So many knobs recording entire songs and blocking views as usual.

Rolling Stones were brilliant I thought, really had the crowd going although the blues songs and Keith solos quietened the crowd (despite the quality of the songs).

A guy in front of us had his phone up to record Gimme Shelter. He realised right at the end of the song that he'd never pressed the record button!!!