Bruce Springsteen General Discussion Thread

access was a total nightmare for the leinster rugby game too, it took us 45 minutes to get in that day and they didn't scan our tickets, they opened a gate beside the turn stiles and we just walked in

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2024/05/20/bruce-springsteen-promoter-apologises-to-fans-stuck-in-queues-as-croke-park-concert-began/

Glare on ticket scanners is cited as a factor by organisers

If only someone could have known that bright sunshine is at least a possibility in mid May.

Smells like BS anyway, my ticket is checked by NFC so glare was irrelevant.

FFS. Nobody was entering the stadium between 6 and 7 as they were all stuck in Queuemageddon on Clonliffe Road 🙄🙄🙄

We crossed Drumcondra Road onto Clonliffe Road at 5.45 and it still took us over an hour to get into the stadium. And we'd have been even longer only we gave up on the red route and walked around to the Ballybough side.

Also, didn't the doors open at 5, not 4??? A load of absolute nonsense from Aiken and he needs to be pulled up on it.

Also, it was just as much of a shıt-show getting out. Stadium announcer told everyone at the Hill end of the pitch to leave through exits A and B, neither of which were letting anyone out other than people in the pit.

My experience:

1. Gig - excellent. It is still worth every cent. A solid effort by all involved. 8/10 for me. I like that he keeps it fresh enough, no need to play the same 5-6 encore songs every time.
2. Queue - chaos. Was in the "real queue" on Clonliffe Road and a splinter queue formed until a steward arrived and put it all back. But it was absolute chaos and getting worse for the 20-30 minutes before they got a handle of it. Could they not have had an airport style zig-zag (yes it would be a lot of barriers, but FFS tickets were €140) or at very least a few stewards with megaphones advising people which queue it was? Its hardly rocket science to manage it. It was only fixed when a steward arrived and put the whole splinter queue back - not their fault because it was absolute bedlam at 5pm. But I would have made the pit but for the queue skippers. Surely they can scan tickets quicker than they did and if they can't, the technology needs to improve drastically. It was self-policing and people were patient and in good spirits but that can break down so easily.
3. Drink - where was the big sign saying "NO PINTS ALLOWED ON THE PITCH" before you even bought a pint. Had bought 4 of them and only found out when on the way to the pitch. We had to neck them. €7.50 for 330cl cans of "marketed Dutch Gold" which Rockshore is - keep it thank you. The cans created a real slip hazard on the pitch, it was like a skating rink on the way out. I regretted not sneaking a few cans in with me because there would have been no issue getting them to the pitch!
4. Getting out - stand empty and a huge queue coming off the pitch and not letting people up through the Cusack Stand?

Anyone else think phones are making concerts sh*te or am I a grumpy f****r? The person in front of me kept putting their phone up over their head (I'll not disturb my own view, and f**k everyone behind me), and all they had was sh*te coverage of the phones in front of them never to be watched again. Live for the moment, keep the memories.

Hopefully but they’re all old fellas now so you can’t really count on anything

You're right about the cap - normally those kinds of things go straight back to the crowd but he was still wearing it when he waved to the fans as we was getting into the van straight after the show.

Whatever about the delay getting in (and it was bad), there could have been a serious crush if things had gotten out of control and that kind of thing can happen easily.

There was no real break in the que. Just a big swarm of people. Luckily almost everyone I saw seemed to refrain from pushing or barging etc.

Springsteen and his band remind me of Gareth brooks - they take the Irish people for pure fools and of course paddy and bridie keep throwing money at them and get ridden sideways.

And the most idiotic post on the Internet of 2024 goes to....

Slightly less on a per pint basis, €12.04. It was €7 per 330ml can. I'm not sure what the bars on the concourse were charging per pint but not notifying people they couldn't bring them onto the pitch was ridiculous.

A person who knows what he is at would be quicker than having people turning phones up and down at machines. But the GAA's arrangements are not the problem, there wasn't a huge queue at the regular turnstiles, the problem was worse for standing tickets for the pitch, the GAA has no turnstiles for the pitch for obvious reasons.

Had much the same experience as you. I was a little earlier than that but absolutely no issues. Toilets in the Hill 16 end were quiet on the two occasions I went.

I thought the sound was poor for the first two songs but I would expect that and for it to be adapted on the fly.

I found The River quite emotional. I was in an identical spot to where I was for the 2016 gig and it struck me out of nowhere how I was in the exact spot I was in 8 years ago but so much had changed in the intervening period.