Seeing as Elton has now rescheduled his Dublin gigs, might be useful to start a 2023 thread as others might start popping up.
The Commitments - 7th - 19th February (Olympia Theatre)
Elton John - 28th/29th March (3Arena)
Kraftwerk - Saw the 3d show, at the Marquee in 2018. absolutely superb show, and agree Castle Backdrop sounds extra special
Is he still a narky ballax ?
Expect stalls to be double that, he’s charging very steep prices for all of his gigs.
Lads am I right in thinking over 16s are OK unaccompanied for Marlay Park gigs?
Pfft, that's what the big map companies want you to think.
For some reason when my eyes didn't see Toronto or Vancouver I just didn't see the others........
Last time I checked (this morning) Edmonton and Montreal were in Canada.
Tickets starting from €91 for The Weeknd in Marlay Park
possibly it could be a scaled back stage with it not in a stadium setting
Van Morrison at the 3Olympia 27 February
Starting at 76 quid....
(on sale 9am Friday)
No it wouldn't, the minimal touring means easy accessible cities are on the cards. I don't think they'll be here in 2023 anyway '24 who knows?
They know what they are at, you can ONLY buy tickets to BOTH shows before Christmas on the ones going on sale soon, single day tickets late January. They likely won't need to sell many single day tickets when a whole charge of people will be swooping in for both nights that they have assembled different support bands and won't be playing any songs they did in the location they did the first time out.
Chem Bros also playing next June in Cork - busy month
Great line up tbf and as you siad all in a condensed time so choices have to be made who too see along with other factors. Food and drink prices will be gone up at venues along with transport costs
Atm have
Depeche Mode (Malahide)
Blur (Malahide)
Def Leppard/Motley Crue (Marlay Park)
In tempted by 'The Weeknd' and (if it finally happens) Ozzy/Judas Preist in the 3Arena
No doubt more concerts will be added in the next week or 2
still nothing announced for Aviva and Croke Park. Maybe no Croke Park concerts with the amount of shows this year with Ed Sheeran and Garth Brooks
Only a few acts who could sell 65,000 tickets in the aviva hence it’s limited use. If none touring next year means it’s just not used.
all Of those are MCD as well.
add another dozen shows to be added in June for like of trinity, fairview and st Anne’s.
iveagh gardens shows for July being announced in coming weeks as well
Plus Hans Zimmer on the 18th in the 3Arena and (if it does surprisingly go ahead) Judas Priest and Ozzy on the 10th.
Bruce has 3 nights there, not sure if there's any sort of resident's agreement, plus the actual halls are constantly in use, so again logistics.
I wasnt directly referring to Metallica per say , just in general.
I guess the RDS might finally be getting its redevelopment next summer.
First weekend in June there's Lionel Richie & Human League in St Annes Park also!
Ah no you are right it does make sense, I am just being a moaner. There was a lot of gigs on around that time of year in 2022 but next June looks like one of the busiest/best for gigs there has ever been. Hopefully we get some good weather!
It was the same this year, and most of them sold well, and all bar 1 or 2 of those acts haven't played here in a while.
It's pure logistics, the stages come in from Europe so you can't have them being constantly put up/broken down. Lot easier to get staff when you can give them 13 days in a month as well.
June in Dublin
June 9th - Pulp
June 14th - Depeche Mode
June 16th - Paolo Nutini (Malahide) & Becky Hill (Fairview)
June 17th - The Coronas
June 19th - Pet Shop Boys
June 20th - Arctic Monkeys
June 23rd - Dermot Kennedy
June 24th - Blur (Malahide), Dermot Kennedy (Marlay Park) & Iron Maiden (3Arena)
June 25th - Sam Fender
June 27th - Florence & The Machine (Malahide) & The War on Drugs (Trinity)
June 28th - Bastille (Trinity), The Weekend (Marlay Park), Sting & Blondie (Malahide) & The Kooks (Fairview)
June 29th - The Prodigy (Fairview) & Kraftwerk (Trinity)
June 30th - Tom Grennan
July 1st - Madness
July 2nd - Roisin Murphy
Then virtually nothing else for the entire summer! That's a crazy amount of gigs to have on in such a short space of time. A shame really as there are at least 4 or 5 there I'd be interested in but doing so many in such a condensed period (and many of them midweek) means I'll probably only do one or two. Many acts there I would have liked to see at All Together Now or Electric Picnic too so will be interesting to see who is left over for them.
Surely all of these gigs can't sell well - a different demographic for a lot and a big appetite for gigs after covid not withstanding - but surely only so many big outdoor gigs can do well in a short space of time. Not a chance it's me being a bitter teacher who doesn't finish until 30th June 🤥
metallica tour is 2 nights in every city. Aviva is 65,000 capacity, 130k tickets to sell. That would realistically be far above fan base in ireland.
Yes, but those tour dates run to the end of 2024, I'd happily wager more shows will be added.
Aren’t they doing the 2 sets at download festival as an uk exclusive in 2023
Whats happened the RDS as a venue or even the Aviva ?
Marley Park and Malahide have no seats.
I know the RDS is a bit of a dump but its better than the other 2 places.
The no repeats thing could shift a few tickets, but yeah, I can't see it.
It's a 2 year "world tour" with no UK or Canadian dates announced. I doubt that's all the dates announced.
Balls only a few days after Blur and then Crue and Leppard week after
**** June
The weeknd playing marlay park in June
I wouldn't be so confident of them selling out two nights there, but it might be possible.
The two consecutive shows in every city, in the round nature, all kinda rule out Irish shows. 2 nights in marley park only realistic venue for such an endeavour.
Might be a bit too soon after the slane gig. Would have been a good few years between the last time they played here and slane. Was kinda hoping suntroke would try to make another comeback though obviously Metallica would be too big for it.
