Feels like the right time to start a new thread for next year's gigs.
John Mayer playing the 3Arena on 29 March 2024.
Is that Rock or Bust?
Might be a shot in the dark but lots of speculation tomorrow is the day
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?
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.
He probably was Seath but I think what @Wrongway1985 was saying is that that was the wrong way.
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.
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.
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.
Fontaines are at that level in the UK, they sold out Ally Pally 2 years ago.
Sure Inhaler just sold out 3Arena too.
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.
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.
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!
It certainly was! He obviously wants to bring people together but he just couldn't help himself persist being wrong.
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.
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.
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.
They played 10k Ally Pally in 2021
The Bothy Band confirmed for Belfast!
Anyone know why standing tickets for the Killers had 2 different prices?
The Killers will gladly accept all donations at this most festive time of year
Those €92 standing don’t seem to be available only €82.
might be used for last % of standing tickets as premium
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.
viking drinking songs you say.....
Oh they're a fun band!
No surprise that the Saw Doctors have added another Big Top date in Galway after the first one sold out in 20 minutes.
We have six Big Top gigs announced for next year so far, but we had eight gigs this year over the two weeks, and there are still a Friday night and Sunday night open for next year, so I imagine we'll get a couple more announcements in due course.
Showaddywaddy are returning to the Ulster Hall in Belfast next September!
Alexandra Palace not an arena. The Fontaines May now, or soon, be a UK arena band but until they book one we won’t know. I believe they’d have no issue filling the 3Arena in Dublin.
I read up on it. How do you assess that the vast majority booed rather than some of the crowd. It also doesn’t seem very dignified to boo a refugee fleeing a war. At least 300,000 Russians have fled to Georgia since the invasion of Ukraine. Putin May have started this war but the citizens who had to flee are not responsible for that.
Read the words he used and tell me what you take issue with. I don’t really like The Killers but Flowers was responding quite graciously to some people booing a refugee. The band’s apology was that “it was never our intention to offend anyone". Not stating they’d said anything wrong, which they didn’t.
10,000 capacity is an arena.
Accurate in stating it’s not the thread but @Wrongway1985 inaccurately portraying a situation and attacking an act without solid grounds. I’m happy to continue the conversation in private and will raise the issue of Abkhazia and South Ossetia being breakaway republics prior to the war with Russia. They were de facto controlled by the Abkhaz (from 1993) and Ossetian (from 1992) forces.
In 2008 the Russians did not bomb central Tiblisi but a munitions factory and the airports that could accommodate military planes. Putin is evil but this war was started by Saakashvili as stated in the European Court of Human Rights report below and Reuter’s reporting of it. HRW and other human rights bodies reflecting the same.
How we got here from Flowers’ gentle attempt at rapprochement……
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58T4MO/
ECHR:
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/HUDOC_38263_08_Annexes_ENG
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