Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer, Three Arena, 10th June 2024

Frumy · 12-06-2024 01:26PM

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Fools and their money.

Anyone could tell ya VIP packages are a scam. You pay 3 times the price of a standard ticket to gain access to a lounge and maybe be allowed into slightly earlier when nothing is on anyway?

Complete racket but ticketmaster will keep it going as amazingly enough plenty out there will pay 300/400 for a 'VIP' ticket.

Jaffa3000 · 12-06-2024 01:52PM

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She played with Taylor Swift before and has a social media following. No issues with that but I don’t think their new guitar player role was really for someone random.

Jaffa3000 · 12-06-2024 01:53PM

Also did anyone else get caught with merch the other day? All shirts were gone after the show

PTH2009 · 12-06-2024 02:06PM

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Got a few bits easy enough before 7 in the middle section

Pricy enough

delbertgrady · 12-06-2024 02:11PM

I got these two before the show. £40 in the UK, €45 here. Nice of them not to round it up to €50, which is becoming the norm.

PTH2009 · 12-06-2024 02:14PM

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Got the Weezer shirt and SP bucket hat (will need that for Mad Cool)

Up close the SP shirts were a bit meh

Arghus · 12-06-2024 03:19PM

Thought the merch was pretty disappointing tbh. Quite pricey too.

Frumy · 12-06-2024 04:37PM

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Yeah their gotcha wasn't really a gotcha as they were referring to a different person altogether. But many bands have taken on new members or touring members who are attractive women. It's not a knock to them fair play to them I wish these women well in their new endeavors. Of course it's entirely just a big a coincidence these male bands happen to take on a attractive women as new members nothing to do with their looks at all 😉

Frumy · 12-06-2024 04:40PM

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That Weezer shirt is shockingly bad for €45.

I seen a lad wearing one outside the gig I genuinely thought it was one of the knock off ones the hawkers outside do sell for a tenner.

€45 is insane for a very basic, lazily designed t shirt.

spindex · 12-06-2024 05:57PM

Was there a weezer poster ?

SuperBowserWorld · 12-06-2024 06:13PM

Funny coincidence... 🤣🤣🤣

Weezer, in Dublin this week and their excellent Happy Days pastiche, which includes The Fonz ...

https://youtu.be/kemivUKb4f4?feature=shared

And The Fonz, from Happy Days, evacuated from a fire in Dublin this week.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/happy-days-star-henry-winkler-among-guests-evacuated-from-shelbourne-hotel-after-fire/a982039161.html

😁

PTH2009 · 12-06-2024 06:43PM

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Yeah posted that a few days ago

Some coincidence

SuperBowserWorld · 12-06-2024 08:20PM

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👍👍 Oh, thought that happened today as I just saw it in the Irish Independent today. Yep, unreal.

PTH2009 · 12-06-2024 08:36PM

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The fire alarm happened today

Posted on Monday that its a bit of a coincidence hes appearing the Dublin the same week as Weezer

delbertgrady · 13-06-2024 08:48AM

Someone asked Henry Winkler about Weezer and the Buddy Holly video last night. He had a good story about how he was asked to introduce Weezer at some awards show that they were playing. His career was in the doldrums at the time, but he got a fantastic response from the audience, for which he was very grateful, so he has great affection for the video - and the band - as a result.

Del Griffith · 13-06-2024 09:45AM

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There was segration between seated and standing though, you needed to show your standing ticket stub to get into standing and you had no chance from the balcony.

The only way to get into standing from a seat was if you had a seated ticket in Block A which was tiered seating on the ground floor and jumped the barrier (it was only about a metre drop from the bottom of the stairs). I know this because I did it several times in the 90s.

There is absolutely no way that enough people did that to cause the crush that night, and if there was you can be 100% certain the promoter would have pointed the finger to that reason.

muzakfan · 13-06-2024 01:07PM

Belated review from myself but my thoughts on the evening:

Venue: Hadn't been since about 2005 when it was still The Point. It's "improved" a bit in terms of comfort and facilities, still hate the place tbh. Nightmare location for us culchies too. Nearly 90 minutes post gig to reach the N7. lol

Teen Mortgage: Very brief set, lads reminded me of a very young Jay & Silent Bob, would have been class if they included a "Berserker" tribute in there. Spent most of the time thinking Jesus lads hire a bassist and take the pressure off, you won't have to be frantically shouting the lyrics so much.

Weezer: I thought they were excellent tbh, much better setlist than at Hella Mega a couple of years back. They've got some weakish material mixed in but that's been the nature of their career. Didn't leave a hit off the list and sounded very tight. Thought it a few times though: should be finishing with Hash Pipe into Say It Ain't So, rather than Buddy Holly.

Smashing Pumpkins: An odd one, I wouldn't have exactly been a super fan anyway but a strange disjointed set. I get the sense they probably have about 90 minutes of absolutely top class material in their catalogue that if they played it back to back you would leave a show breathless. The new material, the drum solos, the 10 minute guitar solo etc just had me zoning out for a sizeable portion of their performance. Didn't miss a note however, they sound fantastic and Billy's voice has definitely held up, can definitely appreciate that.

Overall, glad I got to see SP, one to tick off the list but don't think I would pay to see them again on this evidence.

Crowd: Found the crowd quite muted tbh, not helped by the strange structure of the Pumpkins set list. A couple of times I felt like the crowd wanted to take off, then were brought to an abrupt stop again.

delbertgrady · 13-06-2024 01:30PM

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I thought finishing with Buddy Holly was absolutely glorious. Destined to be one of my highlights of the concert year.

muzakfan · 13-06-2024 01:41PM

Different strokes I guess. lol

Never a favourite of mine tbh. To me it's a little bit like when one of my favourite bands the Offspring released "Pretty Fly". It's like, omg I still like you, but I wish you hadn't done that. haha

delbertgrady · 13-06-2024 02:24PM

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… but without that, we wouldn't have had Pretty Fly for a Rabbi by "Weird Al" Yankovic, so you know, every cloud…

kd82 · 13-06-2024 02:57PM

Really enjoyed both bands. Had only seen Corgan solo before who didn't touch any SP songs aside from a Today riff. I did really miss the strings for Tonight, Tonight though. Was grand after a few seconds but did feel they were missed as it kicks off. I think they then piped in the strings for disarm which took away from it a bit.
I really enjoyed it though. Mayonaise and Today standouts for me.

Jambonjunior · 15-06-2024 08:06PM

I feel like you can't see anything from the seats. Watching videos from the standing looks like a totally different experience. I'd be reluctant to go to a gig again in seats without a screen.

Technically I saw JC playing drums, but I don't feel like I did at all.

Penfailed · 15-06-2024 08:31PM

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I was right down the front by the end of the set. The drum kit was that big, I didn't see him either!

CantonasCat2 · 16-06-2024 10:42PM

Hi 👋 - what all were the perks that came with the VIP tickets for this? I see that Pantera (pre-sale on sale Tuesday) is gonna have VIP available too. Was there a back stage tour package? Im definitely not a fan of having them. Sorry - one more question - is standing at these 3 Arena gigs GA, or is there a front barrier section / golden circle sh!te? TIA

Arghus · 16-06-2024 10:49PM

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There wasn't one at the SP gig anyway, you could walk right up to the front, with some effort, if you felt like it.

Electric Nitwit · 17-06-2024 09:01AM

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Yeah, don't think I've ever seen a golden circle at the 3arena

The VIP things are a total ripoff, definitely not worth it.

delbertgrady · 17-06-2024 09:43AM

The blink-182 show in the 3Arena (September 2023) was to have a front standing section, but then it was postponed and moved to Kilmainham. Olivia Rodrigo had a pit for most of the UK arena dates, but not here, and that may have happened with other acts as well.

I think the 3Arena's amphitheatre layout doesn't facilitate it. The floor area isn't deep enough to accommodate a pit without eroding too much space. Girls Aloud effectively had a pit - two Gold Circles, divided by a walkway, leading to a semi-circular walkway - but it went out so far that there was very little room on the GA floor directly behind that B-Stage.