Kylie - 3Arena 7th October 2018

Mrs Shuttleworth · 06-03-2018 11:55pm #1

Love her or loathe her she's great live, BUT

€65.45 to €116 for seats and €176 for Gold Circle standing!!

She should be so lucky...

kwat · 07-03-2018 2:03pm

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

Love her or loathe her she's great live, BUT

€65.45 to €116 for seats and €176 for Gold Circle standing!!

She should be so lucky...

Seems to be the standard range for tickets nowadays unfortunately

Got a standing ticket - worked out at €83 including fees.

urbangoo · 12-03-2018 7:59pm

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

Love her or loathe her she's great live, BUT

€65.45 to €116 for seats and €176 for Gold Circle standing!!

She should be so lucky...

How could anyway loathe Kylie?!

I know it's annoying but most concerts are priced from €65.00 these days. If artists that have only been around a few years can charge those prices, Kylie has certainly earned the right to. She has been in the business for 30 years and usually puts on an amazing show.

Shybride2016 · 01-10-2018 8:36pm

Really looking forward to this, although gutted to have been totally priced out of the Golden Circle this time around. Do 3 Arena still operate the priority queuing for standing gigs does anyone know?

Birneybau · 07-10-2018 2:25pm

If anybody hasn't heard, tonight's gig has been postponed.

Mrs Shuttleworth · 07-10-2018 2:38pm

Birneybau wrote: »

If anybody hasn't heard, tonight's gig has been postponed.

Just got a text now.

WTF?

Poor ticket sales? Illness?

Birneybau · 07-10-2018 2:52pm

Someone on Twitter was saying they had actually flown in from L.A. for the gig :eek:

Dontfadeaway · 07-10-2018 5:32pm

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

Just got a text now.

WTF?

Poor ticket sales? Illness?

If ticket sales were bad, I think they would've just said it's cancelled, but she and ticketmaster are saying new dates soon.

The new dates will probably be at the end of her Europe tour, so late November.

Shybride2016 · 07-10-2018 5:42pm

Birneybau wrote: »

Someone on Twitter was saying they had actually flown in from L.A. for the gig :eek:

She has tons of South American fans who travel to Dublin each tour to see her too. Lots of very disappointed fans but I'm lucky I'm a Dub so not too far to travel for the new date.

It takes a lot for her to cancel shows so she must be very sick, hope she makes a speedy recovery.

kmurph · 08-10-2018 11:02pm

Trying to make an educated guess as to when a replacement show might take place so I can pre-emptively book a hotel room cheap.

Her next scheduled show isn't until November 6, but looks like 3Arena is pretty much booked solid from now until then. The rest of her shows end on November 24, so maybe end of November?

Looks like 3Arena is free on November 26, 28 & 29.

The SSE arena in Belfast looks to be free on November 26, 27 & 28 so maybe the 27th & 28th or 28th & 29th would work.

Dontfadeaway · 09-10-2018 12:39am

kmurph wrote: »

Trying to make an educated guess as to when a replacement show might take place so I can pre-emptively book a hotel room cheap.

Her next scheduled show isn't until November 6, but looks like 3Arena is pretty much booked solid from now until then. The rest of her shows end on November 24, so maybe end of November?

Looks like 3Arena is free on November 26, 28 & 29.

The SSE arena in Belfast looks to be free on November 26, 27 & 28 so maybe the 27th & 28th or 28th & 29th would work.

I think end of November is more likely.

unichick · 09-10-2018 10:39am

Very short notice that the concert was cancelled. Was travelling from the mid West & we were in Kildare by the time we heard.

Can you get a refund on tickets if the rescheduled date doesn't suit? The New Year would suit me better. If it's at the weekend it would be fine as it's outside of work hours but then you get screwed with Dublin prices for hotels.

Was really looking forward to it. Such a shame. Hope she feels better soon.

Shybride2016 · 09-10-2018 12:31pm

unichick wrote: »

Very short notice that the concert was cancelled. Was travelling from the mid West & we were in Kildare by the time we heard.

Can you get a refund on tickets if the rescheduled date doesn't suit? The New Year would suit me better. If it's at the weekend it would be fine as it's outside of work hours but then you get screwed with Dublin prices for hotels.

Was really looking forward to it. Such a shame. Hope she feels better soon.

As far I'm aware, if the rescheduled date doesn't suit, you can apply for a refund. This happened to me before years ago and people did get refunded.

Ciaran_B · 11-10-2018 8:40am

New dates are Dublin 3rd of December and Belfast 5th of December.

From Kylie on Insta.

Shybride2016 · 11-10-2018 12:10pm

Ciaran_B wrote: »

New dates are Dublin 3rd of December and Belfast 5th of December.

From Kylie on Insta.

Gutted I can't make the new date. Anyone any experience of applying for refunds from TM?

kmurph · 11-10-2018 2:00pm

Shybride2016 wrote: »

Gutted I can't make the new date. Anyone any experience of applying for refunds from TM?

I just sent them a message looking for a refund through this form: https://help.ticketmaster.ie/hc/en-ie/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000117353 and got a reply back about 2 hours later saying that the ticket had been cancelled and I'd see the refund in a few days. The ticket is gone from my purchase history now on the site. Fairly painless really.

Shybride2016 · 12-10-2018 4:59pm

kmurph wrote: »

I just sent them a message looking for a refund through this form: https://help.ticketmaster.ie/hc/en-ie/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000117353 and got a reply back about 2 hours later saying that the ticket had been cancelled and I'd see the refund in a few days. The ticket is gone from my purchase history now on the site. Fairly painless really.

Thanks for this. I processed my refund earlier today *sadface*

Mrs Shuttleworth · 03-12-2018 10:25pm

Absolutely disgraceful concert from Kylie Minogue tonight.

Started at 8.15 (fair enough) intermission kicked in at 8.55 and we're still waiting for her return.

Lipsynched her way through a lead vocal backing track for the first half with occasional shouts to the crowd.

The lavish sets of old are gone just the new screens scam.

Screeching drunk women everywhere

Just awful

The Nal · 04-12-2018 11:21am

How was the 2nd half of the show?

Mrs Shuttleworth · 04-12-2018 11:30am

The Nal wrote: »

How was the 2nd half of the show?

I left at around 10, half way through the second half and I wasn't alone. It was a bit more pop focused and she was clad in biker gear.

Loads of people were giving out and leaving from about 20 minutes in.

Part of problem was the layout downstairs. There was a walkway surrounded by the gold circle which one girl came of out of whingeing "I can't believe I paid €180 for this" and the entrance to the GC was in through the regular standing so there was a tremendous amount of pushing and shoving all round. For some reason (not her size!) it was impossible to see Kylie from no matter where you were standing.

Her voice is shot. Disappointment all round.

The Nal · 04-12-2018 11:36am

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

I left at around 10, half way through the second half and I wasn't alone. It was a bit more pop focused and she was clad in biker gear.

Loads of people were giving out and leaving from about 20 minutes in.

Part of problem was the layout downstairs. There was a walkway surrounded by the gold circle which one girl came of out of whingeing "I can't believe I paid €180 for this" and the entrance to the GC was in through the regular standing so there was a tremendous amount of pushing and shoving all round. For some reason (not her size!) it was impossible to see Kylie from no matter where you were standing.

Her voice is shot. Disappointment all round.

Wow ok. Interesting to note as shes heavily rumoured to be playing the Glastonbury Sunday legend slot and the videos Ive seen of this tour look Sunday night at the Palladium standard at best.

Mrs Shuttleworth · 04-12-2018 1:14pm

The Nal wrote: »

Wow ok. Interesting to note as shes heavily rumoured to be playing the Glastonbury Sunday legend slot and the videos Ive seen of this tour look Sunday night at the Palladium standard at best.

Yeah no way is last night's show good enough to carry Glasto.

It's surprising because the three times I've seen her before (2005, 2011 and 2014) are the best commercial pop gigs I've ever been at.

alastair · 04-12-2018 3:25pm

Okay - haven’t seen Kylie since the 2005 gig, and this one wasn’t a patch on it, but it wasn’t THAT bad. Got a good vantage point beside the sound desk, with decent view of the stage, and not too far from Kylie when she came out the walkway. She never could sing particularly well tbh - so had no expectations on that front. Crowd around me were well up for it and enjoyed the night. 2nd half of the gig was miles better than the first.

Shybride2016 · 04-12-2018 4:17pm

Ended up getting a last-minute ticket for this thankfully as I've never missed a Kylie show here.

I would've been pretty annoyed if I had paid for Golden Circle too. Had a general standing ticket and was right up at the barrier at the end of the catwalk so had a great view.

Bearing in mind she cancelled the gig in October because of her voice troubles and being ill, I wasn't surprised that she seemed to be taking it a little easier with the high notes last night, although I didn't get the impression she was miming at all. She did seem exhausted by the end of the show compared to other times I've seen her.

Thankfully didn't see many drunk people, and certainly none directly around me, just a lot of fans having a great time.

I felt the show had a much more chilled vibe, with the set list and less elaborate costumes lending to this. She has had intervals in every show since her comeback after her cancer treatment so a long interval didn't bother me as I knew it was coming.

Wasn't disappointed in the slightest with the show and looking forward to the next one whenever that may be.

Mrs Shuttleworth · 04-12-2018 5:17pm

Shybride2016 wrote: »

Ended up getting a last-minute ticket for this thankfully as I've never missed a Kylie show here.

I would've been pretty annoyed if I had paid for Golden Circle too. Had a general standing ticket and was right up at the barrier at the end of the catwalk so had a great view.

Bearing in mind she cancelled the gig in October because of her voice troubles and being ill, I wasn't surprised that she seemed to be taking it a little easier with the high notes last night, although I didn't get the impression she was miming at all. She did seem exhausted by the end of the show compared to other times I've seen her.

Thankfully didn't see many drunk people, and certainly none directly around me, just a lot of fans having a great time.

I felt the show had a much more chilled vibe, with the set list and less elaborate costumes lending to this. She has had intervals in every show since her comeback after her cancer treatment so a long interval didn't bother me as I knew it was coming.

Wasn't disappointed in the slightest with the show and looking forward to the next one whenever that may be.

I must have been at a completely different show to you. Her lead vocal was booming out from the backing tracks through all the uptempo tracks with her joining in periodically or shouting over it to the crowd.

zell12 · 04-12-2018 5:19pm

urbangoo · 04-12-2018 10:56pm

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

I left at around 10, half way through the second half and I wasn't alone. It was a bit more pop focused and she was clad in biker gear.

Loads of people were giving out and leaving from about 20 minutes in.

Part of problem was the layout downstairs. There was a walkway surrounded by the gold circle which one girl came of out of whingeing "I can't believe I paid €180 for this" and the entrance to the GC was in through the regular standing so there was a tremendous amount of pushing and shoving all round. For some reason (not her size!) it was impossible to see Kylie from no matter where you were standing.

Her voice is shot. Disappointment all round.

What were people giving out about exactly?

I had a completely different experience and it sounds like I was at a different concert! I have seen Kylie a good few times and this concert was just as good as all the others. I thought there was a great atmosphere and it seemed to me that everybody was loving it.

I was in the gold circle and had a great view. I didn't notice any problems with the set up of the gold circle.

It was a great set list and I really don't think she was miming. I'm usually pretty good at picking up when somebody is miming.

okidoki987 · 05-12-2018 12:45am

Screeching drunk women everywhere

Unfortunately that seems to be the norm at most concerts nowadays.
Middle aged women out for the night with most of them spend more time
drinking and talking then listening to the concert.

Mrs Shuttleworth · 05-12-2018 2:55am

urbangoo wrote: »

What were people giving out about exactly?

I had a completely different experience and it sounds like I was at a different concert! I have seen Kylie a good few times and this concert was just as good as all the others. I thought there was a great atmosphere and it seemed to me that everybody was loving it.

I was in the gold circle and had a great view. I didn't notice any problems with the set up of the gold circle.

It was a great set list and I really don't think she was miming. I'm usually pretty good at picking up when somebody is miming.

You could see because you were in the Gold Circle.

Look at this clip from the first night of the tour, around the 8.08 mark on and then come back to me and tell me she wasn't miming.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAo0TUBIdc

Space Dog · 05-12-2018 11:27am

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

You could see because you were in the Gold Circle.

Look at this clip from the first night of the tour, around the 8.08 mark on and then come back to me and tell me she wasn't miming.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAo0TUBIdc

She's using a prerecorded track and singing over it. In that clip you can hear her shout to the audience over the track and then she resumes her singing. I've been to plenty of concerts where this is the norm. It's usually done when singers incorporate dance routines. Madonna uses it as well. As long as the show is not completely mimed (Britney Spears...) I don't mind. Mariah Carey also relies on it these days as she can't hit the notes she used to hit when she was younger.

I thought the gig was fun. There was a chilled and relaxed vibe, probably helped by the fact that it wasn't sold out. I've only seen the Folies tour before and while it had more spectacle I found it a bit boring. She hasn't had a proper big hit since All The Lovers and her past few albums (except for Golden) didn't sell very well, so she probably can't spend as much anymore on lavish sets.

As has been pointed out here she relies on intervals since her cancer treatment. I'd prefer a long-ish video interlude with songs she doesn't sing at the concert, but what can you do. She is also 50 now and the gigs probably take more out of her, especially after being sick a few weeks ago.

Kylie - 3Arena 7th October 2018

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