Feels like the right time to start a new thread for next year's gigs.
John Mayer playing the 3Arena on 29 March 2024.
Couldn't get any standing tickets for Fri or Sat so wasn't able to check but could be that alright perhaps. The Wednesday standing tickets were 82e, 89e with fees.
Those €92 standing don’t seem to be available only €82.
might be used for last % of standing tickets as premium
The Killers will gladly accept all donations at this most festive time of year
Anyone know why standing tickets for the Killers had 2 different prices?
The Bothy Band confirmed for Belfast!
They played 10k Ally Pally in 2021
I'm aware of the incident I did bring it up after all.
You said Georgia was not occupied no need to have a ramble and attempt to piece together from some other direction.
Tblisi isn't occupied yeah but that would be like saying you couldn't be expecting people from all over Ireland attending a gig in Dublin confused as to what you are trying to say.
"Some people booed" I think you should read up on it or rewatch the video majority were disgusted and dozens headed for the exit.
As I said fine to take the lead on his attempt at togetherness but when he admitted to not knowing the history he was ignorant and got carried away in forcing the issue, a fool then.
Don't know why you're seemingly defending something they literally had to put out a statement of apology over after all the backlash.
This isn't the thread for it but that description of the situation in Georgia and South Ossetia is horribly distorted. The population of Ossetia are not 'almost entirely Russian' they are Ossetian, an ethnic Persian sub-group. It is widely accepted that the sequence of events in 2008 was that South Ossetians started shelling ethnic-Georgian villages, directed by Russia to create a pretext for an invasion, Georgia responded by shelling Ossetian villages, and then the Russian army, which was conveniently already sitting in the Roki tunnel, rolled in and took over.
I was living in Russia at the time and have close friends from Tskhinvali so I was following the situation closely then and, because the truth was so hard to discern at the time, I've followed much of the follow up reporting and publications since then.
You also omit to mention Abkhazia, another Georgian territory currently controlled by Russian 'peacekeepers'.
Comparing it to the situation between Ireland and Britain is way off the mark. If you want a more accurate analogy, imagine what the reception would be if Brandon Flowers pulled a Russian on stage next year at a concert in Kiev. Many of the audience at that Killers gig in Tbilisi will have vivid memories of cowering in air-raid shelters only 15 years earlier while the Russian air force bombed the city. Others in the audience were likely among those ethnically cleansed by the Russian army from the South Ossetian region and surrounding areas. The crowd not wanting a Russian on stage was ugly, but it was entirely foreseeable and Brandon Flowers was tone deaf in creating the situation and then digging himself deeper once he found himself in a hole.
He was in Tiblisi, the capital of Georgia which is not an occupied territory. South Ossetia (almost entirely Russian) was annexed after Saakashvili ordered the Georgian army to bomb civilians in Russian villages there (source - Human Rights Watch). Putin may be an asshole but when Russian grannies were being blown to bits he was forced to respond. The conflict started by Georgia.
At the Tiblisi gig the band invited a kid up to drum with them. He turned out to be Russian. Some people booed. Flowers asked them not to and to see this fellow concert-goer as their ‘brother’. He asked the crowd if they would see him as their brother also, an ‘American brother’. I see no wrong in that, no aggression and an attempt by Flowers to prevent discord. I may strongly disapprove of the murderous acts of, for example, the Russian and Israeli regimes but I would not see a citizen of those nations at a gig as my enemy. Likewise, despite occupation on this island I have never seen individual British people as an enemy.
It certainly was! He obviously wants to bring people together but he just couldn't help himself persist being wrong.
Google your friend, Russian occupied territories in Georgia.
They didn't know the story either but ignored audience in favour of creating his own interpretation despite pleas from audience, come on it fell on its arse. Embarrassing!
Their last London gigs were at Hammersmith Apollo and they’ve yet to do a UK arena so may not be quite there yet. However I think you’re right and if they booked the O2 I’d expect them to fill it.
Yours was a standalone sentence without reference to the prior ATN post. And I agree that only two or three of those I mentioned are either affordable or suitable for ATN.
It’ll be very interesting to see what the Fontaines do. Please give us the heads up if you hear anything.
Fontaines are at that level in the UK, they sold out Ally Pally 2 years ago.
Sure Inhaler just sold out 3Arena too.
it was in the context of indie arena acts suitable for ATN next summer as the national wasn’t new or exciting enough for the poster.
pretty much all your list are either on hiatus, already confirmed for Irish shows next summer, already headlined ATN recently, too expensive for ATN or sexual predators.
fointanes will undoubtedly have their own plans for next year, probably a headline summer show.
Plenty I believe. Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Tame Impala, The Killers, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Snow Patrol, Depeche Mode, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, U2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The National, The Strokes, Radiohead, The Cure, etc, etc.
I also think that the Fontaines are at that level in Ireland and getting close to it in the UK.
Clickbait article quoting a 15k festival and expressing surprise that it doesn’t have stadium acts. Also Bicep are a pretty significant headliner these days, pulled 40k at the West Holts stage at Glasto last year while easily selling out the 3Arena in March.
And I agree re ATN, at best that’s an unadventurous start.
He probably was Seath but I think what @Wrongway1985 was saying is that that was the wrong way.
Georgia is not an occupied state. And in context he was trying to spread some brotherly love. As for the religious stuff I agree, no thanks.
I see Limp Bizkit are playing Belsonic in Belfast next year. No gig announced down south, I guess there probably won't be at this stage?
Might be a shot in the dark but lots of speculation tomorrow is the day
Is that Rock or Bust?
Rock in Rio Lisbon is a one stage “festival” with 80,000 capacity. That’s like calling Slane a festival.
About a dozen positive on Fb, seen line up shared in WhatsApp and on social media with positive comments.
it will do the business. The national move tickets and Jorja smith is a good get
How are you gauging a lot?
Yes there's lots of people commenting because they want to win a competition.
All I see on Instagram is one person saying the national! And another talking about recycled acts. The rest are sharing for the competition.
6 postive posts on Facebook
Twitter has 3 postive posts under their announcement
Ratio ain't great
Did Bruce do rock in Lisbon in 2016 ?
Remember there been a live stream of one his gigs a few weeks before the Croke Park shows
Yeah agree, don't think Chris Martin or Bruce say would be turning up at many a festival these days unless Glasto say. I think as well the bigger acts will naturally try sell one off big gigs if they can rather than get the share of a festival ticket. Only works with Glasto because of the sheer numbers that go to it.
'Let there be rock' tomorrow
A lot of people happy with the national, future island and Jorja.
and that article is a bit weird, Taylor Swift and the handful of acts that only play stadiums are simply too big for festivals these days
Fair enough, let the whole thing eat itself as far as I'm concerned. Scale down, put a bit of effort into finding interesting acts further down the ladder, put the 2 million you would have spent on Lana into improving the experience, into 10 brilliant lower profile artists. The festival industry, concert promotion in general is a runaway train at the top end. I've a pain in my hole with a lot of it. Keep it smaller and interesting. Easy to say when you're 53, I know.
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