Bruce Springsteen General Discussion Thread

I couldn't care less if they charged €50 a pint. People can laugh at people complaining about the price of beer/selection.

However most, if not all, of the other complaints are valid. Just because I got lucky strolling into to Croke Park, it is clear from photos posted a few pages back that many people did have a hassle, that they shouldn't. It is totally unacceptable for simple organisation to fail. Good weather, and a venue well used to huge crowds, should be well able to cope with getting everyone in, in a timely fashion.

I noticed the difficulty with scanning the tickets in those stalls. In low light. They can't blame sun flare for that. Weirdly mine scanned no problem. Mine scanned immediately. I had it save to Google wallet, so curious to know from those who had problems were they showing on the TM app, or Apple?

There were many really annoyed people leaving last night. I did tell them if they'd suffered the hell that some of us endured on Thursday, they'd realise it was actually OK after the gig last night. I do think some previous knowledge did play a part. I made sure I exited back out of Fosters Ave. Getting squashed on Jones Road six not appeal!

Regarding comment further up, some of us are considerate of our neighbours when taking photos or videos.

While I'm glad I got to see the tour in Dublin, and Cork, I am adamant in never going to a concert in Pairc Ui Chaoimh again. Unless they put another bridge over the river, or do a river taxi.

Regarding the scanning of tickets, on iPhone's if you saved the ticket to your Wallet, it worked via NFC so low light wouldn't have been an issue. If you used the Ticketmaster app, it displayed the barcode. I'm not sure if this was the same on Android devices. One thing that does cause issue is people having the display brightness of the devices turned down (to save battery life). I've been at events in the past where people were advised to have the brightness turned up before scanning.

Anyone rushing back to a gig in Pairc Ui Caoimh needs immediate nd intensive counseling. City is not set up for a show of that size.

ah misunderstood the timing. We ended up at the barricade anyway as didn’t stop for drinks etc. Great view great night.

As I said, a person who knows what there are at will scan more quickly than a person approaching an unfamiliar machine.

I'm not sure who owns the land around PUC, but there council or someone has to ensure that you can get in and out safely and the public transport authorities need to provide some services if there are tens of thousands of people there. Concert licences could require a payment to fund such buses.

If he had any decency Bruce should have been on to Aiken about all these problems.

Why didn’t Bruce threaten a no show ?

As the poster above said - Shuttle buses should be laid on.

For god sake for the cost of the tickets there should’ve been buses laid on to cork, limerick, galway, Wexford.

Rockshore is absolute muck but.... Selling cans of beer meant I was able to stock up, buy 6, stick them in jacket pockets, drink whenever during the set and not have to go to the bar & miss any songs... Only silver lining.

Now we just need the organisers to sell an actual enjoyable beer.

Kilkenny is up on Nugs.net

This makes the decision to remove the tops off the bottles of water even more nonsensical. Were cans sold unopened? I understand why lids are taken off water bottles - so they can't be used as missiles, although why anyone would think that would be an issue at a Springsteen gig is beyond me. But a thrown unopened can could cause a nasty injury as well. The women beside us were allowed to keep the tops on their bottles, there just seems to be so much inconsistency with decisions. And if I'd known we wouldn't be searched going in I would just brought a bottle from outside instead of paying €3.15.

Bruce and the band and production etc have a gig to play in front of 80,000 people. Band meetings, vocal warm ups, getting dressed, tuning up, warming up etc. Theyre not sat in the back monitoring the queues or concerned if the bars are selling shite beer.

I think this is where promoters applying for licenses need to be held to account. As said above, Aiken had earned their money and there is no good in Joe Duffy being the moral police on the matter or a paper apology.

The only thing promoters understand is "what is the story with the next license" and unless it hits them in the pocket, they don't give a sh**e. There should be a Garda investigation in to the lack of control of the crowd management and Aiken should not be given another Croke Park license until they come up with plans for how they intend to manage it in future. It was pure people self-policing that avoided any further issue, I think the age demograph may have helped and not everybody at every concert would be as patient. Without sounding over dramatic order can break down so quickly in these scenarios and the upshot can be serious.

The one piece of proper crowd control I saw was on Jones's road on the way out. But it was a terrible idea because there was only a couple of thousand people coming off the pitch and the thousands coming out of the Hogan/Canal end were being corralled on to a tiny narrow badly lit road rather than straight up on to Clonliffe which I needed to get to to get my bike (another sh1t storm from earlier in the evening where I was met by an overly aggressive Beangarda but won't bore anybody with the details, I was just relieved it was still there).

Yes we thought of that afterwards, usually would be drinking something else but drove home after the gig so no alcohol this time.

Those hotdogs are nasty