Next Slane headliner

Billie Eilish would sell it out. And be good. (Saw her in 3Arena last June. And writing as someone who saw Dylan in Slane in 84)

With good support maybe Sam Fender.

The sound of each other complaining... about everything! and the livestream of other people playing computer games.

Lol

Is The Weeknd still doing music or just acting, maybe him?

Post Malone with Avril Lavigne

Dermot Kennedy with Tom Grennan, Moncrieff, Cian Ducrot support

Would love to see Muse play Slane.

Don't think they'd sell 80,000 tickets though.

Music has changed. Teens/young adults still listen to music, but their era of music, the Adele's, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Post Malone, Taylor Swift...mostly manufactured music. My era was live music, a good bit of screeching and roaring too tbh.

I've 2 teens and travelled to Harry with them to Slane last Saturday. They've queued for the likes of him, and Taylor, for the new releases of albums, outside Golden Discs on release day. They don't listen on Spotify until the physical vinyl has been listen to. Most of their friends are similar. There are waiting lists in music shops for posters of their idols when the shops are done with advertising. It may be manufactured music/entertainment but it's their era. Not mine.

Most of the suggestions here are for older bands to head Slane. Reunion gigs. Bring back X gigs.

Time to accept that music has changed, probably for the worst, as talent doesn't make much music anymore. There are still acts that will sell out Slane, but not my era music, but the new late teen to mid 20 year olds era, same age I was when the older stuff mentioned was in top form.

There were always big pop bands who were not about the music. Dire Straits were writing about it almost 40 years ago.

As many kids now love music as they did before it's just you are old so don't know what that music is.

As for Slane and the likes they existed in a time when venues were hard to come by and fields like that in the middle of nowhere should be literally put out to pasture.

And before ye ask - YESSS go all out with all the gimmicks - low flying fleet of helicopters for his entrance to Slane, live thoroughbred race horses and wagons bringing him to the stage, flames high into the sky, hugh technicolour screens, fireworks at dusk - the whole thing

Madge.

Dublin has its negatives too, parking and accommodation to begin with.

You've got the venues already doing smaller gigs outside Dublin, in fields, Indie, Picnic, etc. They'll be packed for the festival feel. I'm not sure a metal gig would capture many goers tbh, we're half crocked and it's easier to sit out the back with Spotify on and a few beers than going to the trouble of what you're suggesting!

Slane could've been so much more comfortable this year, and learning as I get older, if money was spent on proper stewards and proper parking, proper transport and signs. These were all cut back (if they were ever there in the first place). Money wasn't spent in Slane this year, and it's only as you get older,you get wiser and look at things with more clarity.