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Bonjovi….croaking in croker

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    #62
    jacool
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123944120#Comment_123944120

    I think if his voice goes, someone hands you a microphone!



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    #63
    musicmania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭musicmania


    Finally got a ticket I'm happy with. Lower Cusack. €161.



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    #64
    Gaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Gaz


    Tried over and over again and just managed to get two pitch tickets.



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    #65
    Qprmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Qprmeath


    Roughly 20 years ago they did a show in Croker that was half full? Amazed if this sells out now. Wasn’t a big fan but an underwhelming show all round not helped by the fact it was June



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    #66
    musicmania
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123945622#Comment_123945622

    Front or back?



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    #67
    kippy
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    Scandalous pricing yet again for tickets - and no doubt people well willing to pay for them.

    I've seen them twice, late 90's and early 2000's. They were good. I wouldn't pay what I paid back then for them now based on the current band makeup and audio quality.

    I suppose if your hobby in the year is going to gigs, there are more expensive hobbies out there but by the time you pay for accomodation, food, drink and travel you'd have a fine holiday and/or more local gigs paid for.



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    #68
    grimm2005
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    The pricing for this is wild, €90 for nosebleeds up to €400+ for closer to the stage, if you exclude any "VIP" tickets. I saw them back in 2019 in the RDS. Three+ were literally giving tickets away, we got 4 free tickets though the app for GA standing. Great show with Manic Street Preachers supporting, despite the rain. Very hard to imagine they will easily shift these, if they were giving them away for free 6 years ago in a smaller venue. Granted demand for gigs seems to have exploded since the pandemic but even so I'd expect tonnes of cheap tickets going on the week of the show



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    #69
    Hoboo
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123945755#Comment_123945755

    Lower hogan inside the half way is less than 170, they’re online now



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    #70
    FullBack Jam
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123945681#Comment_123945681
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    #71
    mcguindp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭mcguindp


    I tried again this morning for front standing for almost an hour after being placed 3000 in the queue.

    Everytime I had a front standing ticket in my basket, it said it was no longer available. This happened about 30 times.

    Very frustrating but I am sure I wasn’t the only one?

    I’ll try again on Friday but I am not holding out much hope of front standing considering. Perhaps all front standing is gone in presale?



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    #72
    witchgirl26
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123945680#Comment_123945680

    Really? Because I was at their last one in Croke Park & it was jammed. Been at all of them since 2000 (except for 1 where I had an exam the next morning & wasn't allowed go) - they always put on a good show. At least Jon has acknowledged that his voice wasn't great the past few years as opposed to some other older acts that are still going.

    Anyway, got my tickets yesterday & happy to be going to it. Last one in 2019 was 2 weeks after I gave birth so this one should be a little more fun for me!



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    #73
    The Nal
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    Half full?

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    #74
    Qprmeath
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123946439#Comment_123946439

    Maybe not half full but I was in the Upper Hogan and there was loads of empty seats around me.



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    #75
    RurtBeynolds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭RurtBeynolds


    No voice and no Sambora. They need to call it a day.



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    #76
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,857 ✭✭✭✭893bet


    Same as every thread in here, people desperate to fell is why we shouldn’t go.



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    #77
    roadmaster
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123946439#Comment_123946439

    i knew that was you sitting beside me in the brown shoes back in 2006!.

    On a more serious note, The presales went on sale yesterday and General sale is not until Friday. Across the concert industry are promoters doing this to try and gauge if the market would be able to take 2 nights for Artists?



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    #78
    893bet
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947075#Comment_123947075

    more likely looking to maximise sales of expensive tickets with all the different days



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    #79
    musicmania
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947075#Comment_123947075

    Given how short this tour is, it's a given it will sell out. People will travel.

    We won't even go there with the amount of different "VIP" tickets. A couple of times I did manage to pull up Front Standing. For €800.....



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    #80
    Bazsutto
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    .

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    #81
    Bazsutto
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123946380#Comment_123946380

    strange. I was 3011 in the queue and got front standing no problem. 



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    #82
    kippy
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    Stop supporting Ticketmaster and their ways. It's a farce now how much this company and the artists that are tied into it are making.



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    #83
    shamrock55
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    Are all the pitch tickets gone?



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    #84
    mcguindp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭mcguindp


    I must have just been unlucky or had network issues etc. I was unaware of because I had them selected so many times only for them to be ‘no longer available’. :/



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    #85
    mcguindp
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    From what I can see, yes, but I imagine a lot more pitch standing will be available in general sale on Friday.



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    #86
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭piplip87


    I think this is a classic check on the morning of the gig and pick one up for 60 quid...



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    #87
    roadmaster
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947096#Comment_123947096
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947235#Comment_123947235

    i could not belive a concert promoter would try and wrangle every cent they could out of a punter. That would never happen!



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    #88
    BAABAA96
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947597#Comment_123947597

    My own thoughts exactly



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    #89
    Rocket_GD
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947494#Comment_123947494

    Apart from just not going, genuinely what is the alternative?



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    #90
    LastApacheInjun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭LastApacheInjun


    I went to see them in Croker last time. In fairness I got a ticket from a mate and I like BJ music, but wouldn't be a huge fan. I remember not really enjoying the show the last time around.

    €180 a ticket is for bands that you adore. I paid that for Oasis and it was worth every penny - knew every word of every song. For that price you would need to adore Bon Jovi, have all their albums, etc etc. That's not a price to pay if you are just afraid of FOMO the week they are here.

    That said if you are vaguely a fan, and pick up a ticket for €60 when they go on general sale, I'd think that was good value.

    The concert will sell out either way - lots of European fans will travel over for it. But we need to get a bit more discerning about when we fork out that amount for a gig.



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    #91
    kippy
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948156#Comment_123948156

    Alternative to what?

    Don't support Ticketmaster. Ironicilly there is no alternative to ticketmaster - which is part of the issue.

    The hold this company have on global events has led to these crazy ticket prices and more so these nonsense VIP and other practices.

    As I said earlier, they will keep doing is so long as there are people there to buy them.



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