Feels like the right time to start a new thread for next year's gigs.
John Mayer playing the 3Arena on 29 March 2024.
Libertines absolutely brilliant last night
Great reports from Dublin and Cork. Best of luck if at the Belfast show tonight and see you at the Big Top tomorrow.
The Libertines were in great form last night. Top set, pretty much greatest hits with the best few from new album thrown in. Crowd were cool too and really into it, very few people watching it through their phone but living in the moment which is a nice change from some gigs this year
Very few people with their phones out at Ride in the Olympia too, I noticed.
Very true. And that was for a gig that was very mixed in age, lots of teens and twenty-somethings in the pit.
I'm again going to be a complete loser....anyone have a spares physical ticket from libertines gig last night?
Linkin Park added couple of new dates. Paris la defense arena, nov 3rd. Sunday. 40k capacity, great arena, LPs 360 stage should play well there. some reasonably priced hotels 30min walk away like melia with a great city view and roof top bar or cheap novotels/ibis. Already have tickets to sum41 there, if i buy LP i might end up single after that. Decisions, decisions...
Sleep Token will be worth the trip over too
Seeing them in the New Arena in Manchester in November
Was anyone caught up in that dublin gaa fan page episode with coldplay tickets?
Hes obviously a genuine fella as he has been sorting out matches for years for people to buy and swap tickets.
But why in gods name would you get involved in trying to help people for coldplay??? Apparently the one guy who claimed to have alot of tickets was a scam and had already taken money off people......the dublin fan page claims to be the middle man in putting people in touch to buy and sell....
But does anyone have an idea of how much we're talking? Like did he think one person genuinely had like 100 tickets? Are we talking about thousands of euros?
Have a level of sympathy for him but don't know why you'd put your self through it. The page just posted saying revolut can't help him
what’s the page? On insta ? Or Fb?
Twitter @Dubfanspage
Brilliant Acoustic set from last week for anyone who was at libertines this week
Bass is fantastic
No Damien Dempsey Vicar Xmas gigs announced this year. Anyone heard of anything?
yeah they are on same days as usual before Christmas.
Really? Any idea when tickets will go on sale?
Anyone seen stage times for Melts on Saturday at TBF?
They will be on around 9pm support on at 8pm like it is for a 1000 other shows in ireland every year
Thanks have got a sense they are getting a bit later these days
Curfew at 10.30 so 9.15 I’d say as they’ve not got 90 mins of good material. Galway gig tonight has been cancelled. Poor ticket sales I’d guess. A pity as I was looking forward to it.
Oh, that's gutting news. How much notice did they give?
Not sure. I found out last night when a pal tried to get a ticket but the listing had disappeared. I’ll see them again so not all that fussed. I’m much more disappointed that a decent Dublin band can’t sell out a small-ish Galway venue.
Big Country (sic) in Opium tomorrow.
Anyone know roughly when they announce the marque gigs in cork?
December and February for this years ones
Shite. I thought they'd been getting a bit of traction.
There could be another reason but the Dublin gig went ahead and there were no notifications sent out re cancellation so I’m pretty sure it’s low sales. No issue for local acts selling out the same value nor Sprints, Pillow Queens, Muireann Bradley, etc.
Cancellation for this venue signals less than 50 tickets sold which is very disappointing. A big concern, as we’ve highlighted before, is the lack of radio play afforded to these young Irish acts. Enormously depressing when Fontaines, NewDad, Murder Capital, Sprints and others are getting far more coverage on BBC radio than on our own stations. This probably requires government intervention as was legislated for in France to ensure 50% of radio play was for local artists.
do kids even listen to 2fm etc these days?
100% agree with you here. The lack of Irish coverage on Irish radio is an absolute disgrace (hat tip to John Barker, the model of what we could have)
Like you say, the fact the BBC seems to back our talent more than rte is a crying shame. Just this week, Sprints debuted their new single on 6 music, and who could blame them?
Absolutely agreed on all of the above, lads. Thought Melts were slightly further on in their trajectory is all. Really looking forward to tomorrow night.
I mean there's still tickets available for the Button Factory.
YES. and very much so. You also have 44 other stations in the country (excluding community radio) including 10 RTE, 2 national and the remainder provincial. The listenership is enormous - 3.43 million per day with 90% of all adults and 86% of 15-35 year-olds listening at least once per week (JNLR/IPSOS report from August 2024).
The audience is there. The variety of music ain't. The Brits and French do this better.
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