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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,592 ✭✭✭billyhead


    Could ACDC not play Croker or the Aviva?



  • Registered Users Posts: 37,898 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Promoter would have apply for an extra day licence as allocations for both are already taken up for 2024

    1 Croke Park show should be OK esp if its decent support. The Aviva in 2015 (hard to believe it was that long ago) sold very well



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Aviva show sold well? It sold out within hours!

    Wasn't a particularly good gig overall albeit band fine. Crap venue.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,786 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Played 3 arena too so could go back there and not go for a stadium



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Fanirish


    not going to happen. Too much money to be made with outdoor show especially if it’s going to be the last tour



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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Public Service Broadcasting, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Public Service Broadcasting, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,276 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... "



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,522 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    No. Haven't been since 06. I dont go to festivals you cant bring your own booze into.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,786 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Looks like Croke Park have put in for a licence for a date in August likely that's it



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  • Registered Users Posts: 37,898 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Ah somethings are not meant to be

    Possibly 2009 (think it was then) should of been Slane instead of Punchestown



  • Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭colmufc


    Most likely it's the rolling stones by all accounts



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Public Service Broadcasting, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    They’ll hardly play slane

    slane is gonna go younger again, it’s the best way the make money


    the stone at croker would be a big let down



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    If Croke Park is the Stones after all I don’t see why AC/DC wouldn’t be doing Slane



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Depressing state of affairs again. This gig used to be for the biggest and best new rock band to showcase their stuff.

    Now there's literally nothing out there, it's about what old band they can wheel out again. And any modern act they can put is some manufactured nonsense like Harry Styles.

    As I said one of either Damon Albarn project, Blur or Gorillaz, little else out there that could sell it out who havent played already.

    What will the state if affairs be in 30 years, they can't keep wheeling the established bands out forever for live gigs.

    Real original music, where 4 lads pick up instruments and create something new and push the boundaries, really is dead it seems, for the manufactured quick hit



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    Blur/Gorillaz are nowhere near big enough to headline Slane



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Gorillaz would be. They broke America even, and dwarfed even Blurs sales around the world. They're a genuine mega act, even if you don't think Blur are, although they too would comfortably sell it out.

    Have a huge fan base, and thousands will come for any Slane, especially if it's a respectable well known act like Blur, even if not huge fans



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    They are nowhere big enough either.

    If you want a newer band who could do it (with a decent support bill and a few years off touring to get demand back up), Arctic Monkeys are a much better shout.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭Ricosruffneck


    Gorillaz haven't had the demand to play anywhere larger than Malahide in Ireland.

    For reference Malahide is 20,000 capacity. Slane is 80,000



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Most people stream these days. Gorillaz have more Spotify followers than REM for example, a huge American band for decades. You look at most of these major acts who broke America and the world market and many are around the 18 million mark in followers. Blur have 11 million followers despite never breaking a market 9 or 10 times of the size of the one they operated in here and the UK, and being inactive the best part of two decades. That's how big Blur were here or the UK, probably one of the most loved British bands ever.

    People reeling off the names of these mega world wide bands like your AC/DCs, Metallica's or whoever, don't actually realise Blur outsold nearly every single one of them in this part of the world, even if they didn't break America or go global. But in this part of the world, Blur are actually one of the biggest selling bands of the last few decades.

    They got so big Albarn ran away from the limelight to hide behind holograms. There's an argument to be made that because he rejects the limelight and placed Blur on hold for years, young people don't know who they are. But every young person knows 7 or 8 of their songs when they hear them, just don't realise it's Blur. But if they played Slane, the promotion and coverage of the band would make young people put 2 and 2 together very quickly of who they are.

    As for an older generation, they're a household name, even my mother knows who Damon Albarn is despite not knowing anything about music, such was the heights and exposure they reached in the 90s in the UK. Along with Oasis, they hit a height of popularity and exposure probably never repeated before or to this day in the UK market



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    You referencing Blur in Malahide this year? 20,000 is some going for a warm up gig for Wembley, wouldn't ye think?

    As for Gorillaz, Albarn and Mountcharles had a falling out before over who would pay for the holograms, as after the first two albums Albarn was paying for them out of his pocket. They were already touted to play Slane, and he refuses to bring Blur over this falling out too.

    Both should get over it. You may notice Gorillaz reverted to a live band



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭Wooderson


    No bigger Albarn geek than I, but I think he'd struggle to see out Lansdowne never mind Slane. Reformed Oasis could do either, maybe both. Oasis achieved a critical mass with the one gig a century knuckledraggers. Blur didn't.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    Blur took a while to sell out at Malahide (which wasn’t really a warmup), no chance they’re big enough. They couldn’t even sell out 2 nights at Wembley. Streaming numbers don’t mean much with the way they’re calculated. Noel Gallagher has less listeners than Boygenius, but in August Noel sold out Kilmainham and Boygenius didn’t.

    Oasis are miles bigger than Blur today (as Damon himself said earlier on in the year). If they ever do get back together that’s a multiple nights in multiple stadiums type deal. Not 1 night in Malahide.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭Wooderson


    Blur and boygenius shows were triumphs. Noel G's shows are a travesty.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    Noel at Kilmainham was fantastic I thought but that’s really neither here nor there



  • Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭crl84


    LOL at Blur headlining Slane, let alone Gorillaz.

    Gorillaz would be lucky to sell 20k at Slane, nevermind 80k. One of the dumbest proposals I've ever heard on here.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Ye they are miles bigger today, Albarn purposefully withdrew them from the limelight and placed them on hiatus for years. As I said everyone knows their songs, just don't realise it's Blur in most cases.

    If Blur played Slane there would be huge promotion, and young people would quickly realise they're a band they know most of their hits.

    As I said, Blur outsold most global acts in this part of the world, that's no accident. They are a mammoth draw if promoted right



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Fanirish


    End of the day blur simply aren’t popular enough in this day to sell out Slane. If malahide didn’t sell out instantly in minutes/first few hours of being on sale then they would have no chance of selling 4x that for Slane.

    there is honestly only about a dozen in the world who can sell 80,000 tickets for Slane.



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