Next Slane headliner

kneemos · 13-06-2023 06:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120707834#Comment_120707834

Legends are getting scarce unfortunately. Barely heard of the Styles lad until fairly recently,still wouldn't know him if he bit me,but he's obviously popular.

Seems to be largely a teenage girl market interestingly in the names you mentioned. Often wondered too what kids are listening to,playlists or something,if anything anymore. I'd have trouble naming one current group.

AndrewJRenko · 13-06-2023 06:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120707798#Comment_120707798

Music gig or fight-to-the-death MMA?

rolling boh · 13-06-2023 06:58AM

Commercially putting Harry there was an easy sell no problem selling the tickets .There are not many legends left that would get circa 80 k to slane for a lot of the reasons about the venue etc mentioned in other posts .

Lewis_Benson · 13-06-2023 07:58AM

Foo Fighter's would be a great gig in Slane.

jonnreeks · 13-06-2023 09:01AM

Bruno Mars or Silk Sonic

tesla_newbie · 13-06-2023 09:13AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120707982#Comment_120707982

Worst band ever

NIMAN · 13-06-2023 09:15AM

I find them a bit shouty.

Uncharted2 · 13-06-2023 09:31AM

The eagles.

NIMAN · 13-06-2023 09:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120708235#Comment_120708235

As mentioned earlier, I think their target market is very unlikely to want to go and stand in a (potentially) muddy field for hours and hours, and have the hassle of getting to, from and into Slane.

It's easier to go see them in a stadium in Dublin.

rolling boh · 13-06-2023 09:39AM

Who is likely to be on tour next year that proberly narrows down the choice.

ednwireland · 13-06-2023 09:39AM

don't get the ac/dc love (are they still going) saw them in 84 and one of the least atmosphere gigs I've ever been to wouldn't bother with them again.

the cannons were good though.

I'm one off those 50 somethings and I can't think of anyone that I would want to drag myself to slane for.

last stadium gig was roger waters in gdansk but got a bit fed up with his political points. especially as poland was in the middle of large anti government protests.

silliussoddius · 13-06-2023 09:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120708259#Comment_120708259

Taylor Swift?

pgj2015 · 13-06-2023 09:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120707576#Comment_120707576

All you need is the Saudis to offer them big money and they will reunite in the morning.

kneemos · 13-06-2023 09:59AM

Blondie. Going strong at 75 apparently.

13-06-2023 10:00AM

I think the days of 80k people making their way to Slane to listen to tedious Radio Nova Dad Rock like Roger Waters, AC/DC and Bruce Springsteen are over.

The audience for that auld drivel is gone too old. You might get them to the Aviva, RDS, or Malahide at a push, but not some field in the arse end of Meath.

So if Slane is to continue then it will be with acts like Styles headlining. Which will annoy the double denim crew who think anything released after 1985 is modern rubbish. But nobody cares what they think.

greenspurs · 13-06-2023 10:00AM

Slane 24.

Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age , Frank Turner, Fontaines DC , Pearl Jam.

Make it a 2 dayer ..

Add Slipknot , AC/Dc ...

Simple. :)

murpho999 · 13-06-2023 10:09AM

Surprised Beyonce not mentioned as she's skipped Ireland on current tour.

Hellrazer · 13-06-2023 10:34AM

That you can have Ed Sheeran… an affable bland busker, and about as rock n roll as a cup of hot tea , headlines Wembley…. !? He probably puts on safety goggles changing guitar strings.

@Strumms The snowflake generation!! Those guitar strings can give you a nasty cut - better safe than sorry.

I agree 100% with your post. Music is an after thought these days and maybe it is the way we consume it. Theres no more queuing for the release of the next album you want to buy, no more queuing in the rain to buy tickets etc. Everyone I knew in the 90s ( when I was a teenager) was in a band or tried to be in a band. The dedication to music is gone.

Theres not one "band" of the last 20 years I could say I want to see live. I never even heard of Harry Styles until I saw a headline somewhere that he was headlining Slane.

Maybe Im just too old but walking for hours to get to a gig in Slane isnt the experience it used to be - Cant beat GnR in 1992.

xzanti · 13-06-2023 10:36AM

The Eagles

murpho999 · 13-06-2023 11:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120708508#Comment_120708508

Past it , and some members dead.

Not a hope they'd sell out Slane.

Too middle of the road anyway.

SuperBowserWorld · 13-06-2023 02:28PM

Radiohead would sell out Slane.

EmmetSpiceland · 13-06-2023 02:32PM

Lizzo.

tesla_newbie · 13-06-2023 02:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120709740#Comment_120709740

Don’t be ridiculous, their peak following was more than twenty years ago

Dslatt · 13-06-2023 02:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120709740#Comment_120709740

Not a hope, and I love them

Agent Coulson · 13-06-2023 02:40PM

Springsteen has to do it in 2025 to mark the 40th anniversary of his 1985 gig.

SuperBowserWorld · 13-06-2023 02:41PM

I would have thought they could do it. Maybe an excellent new album would reignite the flame ...

Otherwise I meant to say Radiohead supporting Garth Brooks.

😁😁😁

SuperBowserWorld · 13-06-2023 02:46PM

Here you go ...

Adele ?

Edit ...

I'm not a fan, but she'd do it.

gigantic09 · 13-06-2023 02:47PM

If they ever reformed,REM.

greenspurs · 13-06-2023 02:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120709835#Comment_120709835

Epic gig in 95.

Pearl Jam was 30 Years ago this year !!!!!??!?!!!!! 10 July 1993 ! jaysus..............

SuperBowserWorld · 13-06-2023 03:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120709849#Comment_120709849

That REM concert was my only Slane concert. And the not so good Monster album. Oasis supported them when they were probably at their most popular. I think REM wrote a song later about how bad their experience with Oasis was. Must find the reference.

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