Slane Castle - Luke Combs

Did camping for Metallica and probably going to do it again forLuke Combs. Drove up for around 5 on the Friday, went into the village for a few pints and in the bed early.

Breakfast and shower next morning and strolled to the field. After the gig was tucked up in bed quickly. Got up after 7 on the Sunday and hit the road, really hard to beat.

Not a fan of the script at all it’s nearly putting me off the gig. Larry fleet or similar would be the job.

Camping is the only way to do Slane, otherwise it's a ballache getting in and out.

You could go to Gothenburg, Amsterdam or Edinburgh and have a nice weekend away in a cool city instead and see him there.

Kipping for 2 nights in a tent beside your car in the middle of nowhere with one chippy van is grim craic. Really grim.

Anything with a put on twang puts me off, it all seems pastiche.

I find it hard to gauge the real popularity of such acts and wonder how much of the Irish sales are actually for twang addicts from around Europe. I believe a lot of the Garth Brooks audience at Dublin gigs were yanks living elsewhere in Europe.

I don't doubt there's an Irish audience for twang, I'm old enough to remember the TR Dallas days, but I've a sneaking suspicion that on this island our planter cousins up north would be the biggest consumers of contemporary mud kicking twang.

This chaps UK gig seems to be much smaller venues so Slane would seem like a mop up gig.

Have been to Slane multiple times and I just don't get the moaning about getting in and out of it. Its a fecking gig in a small village with 80,000 people.

As a venue it's incredible for the few hours the band is on stage. Give me a gig in a big feild in the arsehole of nowhere over a stadium anyday

It is an amazing natural arena, but having done the trek a few times I'd rather a stadium in a city now. But honestly that's just my body parts talking.

Is that not like saying "Why go to Stradbally for Electric Picnic when you could go to California for Coachella ?"

No. It's the same act. Same tour. But instead of staying in a tent beside your car in a field full of cow sh1t for the weekend you can go to a much nicer place and venue instead.

Not a Luke Coombes fan but can understand why people would be into that type of music and why, as a commercial decision, the's been slotted into Slane.

Slane is a great great place to have a gig. Went to a few gigs there in late 90's early 2000's and thoroughly enjoyed them despite not being major fan of some of the acts. Your age makes a big difference in tolerance for getting there and back. We were never in a rush, and enjoyed the craic there and back. If your one of those guys mad to rush out of a place (like some here, I see leaving before the encore is common - daft) it will frustrate you as its not handy to get in and out of - but what not, its' not bad either.

To those of you that go, enjoy the craic.

The bigger issue for me is the ticket price. Its' ridiculous.

There are, no doubt, better options where to see this guy live across Europe on the same tour - no doubt some will be cheaper as well. But unfortuantely where there's a market willing to pay crazy prices, the prices will remain high.

cause it’s a grazing field for cattle

I think you're confusing campsites, there's is or was a glamping site across the Boyne where they hold the Otherside festival, the camp site people are mentioning is across from the navan side entrance to the castle.

As for people going on about getting home from slane after the gig with the traffic, it's a small village, every day of the week it's a disaster for traffic nevermind when there's a concert on, most mornings and evenings especially from the direction of the castle towards the lights in the village there's massive tailbacks going right back to past the castle some mornings, so of course it's going to be a pain leaving it with 80k other people.

American country music has a very wide appeal sometimes its a person or band (Luke Combes, Lady A) sometime its a song (Austin by Dasha)