Starting a thread for 2025 gigs as they'll likely start rolling in.
I'll arbitrarily throw in Rob Beckett playing the Olympia on the 26th September 2025 which went on sale today.
Oh yes
Blue Oyster Cult played The Academy in 2016 - I missed it 😔, but friends went and said it was fantastic. Would love to see Kansas but can't ever imagine it would be economically viable to play here.
it stretched itself too thin for sure, only so many high profile rap/rnb that can sell tens of thousands of tickets around europe in July.
A 3 day ticket festival is also too much no matter the genre. Not many will go all 3 days, a chunk might do 2 days.
It's not selling out though, as far as I'm aware. And yea it is a kids festival but even when it was a full on rap festival, some of the lineups were pretty stellar. You can't say that about the recent editions. Not surprising when you're booking Calvin Harris for a bunch of kids.
Rap music does not sell like it used to in ~2017 which is undoubtedly part of the reason that Longitude is now a 2 day festival with a much larger emphasis on dance music.
I won't be shedding any tears when Longitude is eventually wound up, I never went even though most of my friends would've done, but its a bit of shame to see how MCD just take the piss with what lineups they give people at the moment.
Jesus. You forget what it used to be, don't you? What a fantastic mix there! You'd kill for an EP line up like that these days.
That's a line up!
Pity a lot of these type of 'over the hill 1 original member' bands don't travel these parts of the world
Guess the money is the US market
The likes of Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, REO Speedwagon (or whatever they go by now) in Vicar Street or Olympia would rule
O2 priority for the O2 and Manchester co-op
A couple of years ago I asked one of the young lads I work with if he was going to Longitude. He said nah, I'm a bit old for that now.. He was 19 at the time.
nah rap is still incredibly popular especially and the mixture of rap/rnb and dance suits it’s target audience of teenagers and early 20’s just fine. Dance events sell incredibly well in ireland and with life festival dead this is capturing some of that audience.
If it's selling out now there's no need to change it I'd say. It's a kids festival now.
I don’t get why they continue to keep it as a dance/hip hop festival. Some of the older lineups were fantastic and the rap phase that we went through is by and large over.
Is that just what allocation the 3 presale always gets?
Manchester coop presale is on
what presale was this morning?
Thanks, I'm just worried will it be the case of first night of the tour and everyone will want to go to both domestic and international fans and you'll just be in an endless queue, I could just be overthinking the demand to see them like,
As long as I get no emergency team calls that day it should be fine 😂😂
and it will only have about 500-700 standing tickets in that allocation.
For what its worth, the 3 'presale' will have 1300 tickets in it. The regular sale will have the rest of the available tickets.
Seen there that nine inch nails had presales this morning and already touts are scalping the tickets for 2-3x the price,
Madness that there's gonna be two parallel sales on Wednesday not even sure which one to even go into as I've access to both? I take it's gonna be an absolute nightmare trying to get them whatever queue you go for.
Edit:
Bit ridiculous calling it a presale when it's literally on the same day and time as general 😂😂
Black grape and starsailor announce late 2025 tours , no Irish dates in either atm
Did Sunday day ticket 2016 for the national. Was a good line up that year
The programming of some of those stages. Lumineers on right before kendrick
Pretty sure there's been day tickets available all the time.
Certainly back in 2016, as I went on Friday and Sunday on day tickets.
Always thought it was a weekend ticket or a Sunday ticket. Went a few times back when it was a decenct festival, with some great Sunday acts (Kraftwerk, Chemical Bros)
I went the year Travis Scott played, I only went that day as I'd be a fan, rocked up nearly an hour late and must have played 30-40 mins and he fxcked off,
From what I've seen over the years from social media, first hand experience it is pretty much always full no matter how bad the lineups gotten, admittedly I wouldnt be the target audience I just went for one headliner and arrived about an hour or two before he was due to come on, but yeah it's probably the most uncomfortable I've ever felt at an event and I've been to hundreds 😂😂
one of the days in 2022 was an absolute disaster sales wise, hence it’s been a 2 day since 2023. 2024 didn’t sell out either. 2023 was last year it was clean sell out.
How? It's always full
lost millions a few years back when it was 3 day. Sonny fodera, blk and belters only all sell out 3 arena with no hassle so they would be pricy enough along with 50 and Guetta who I’m sure want between €500k to a €1m for a festival fee.
Rival Schools in Whelan's in May, €25
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