Madonna confirmed to headline Slane

honru · 19-03-2004 07:56PM #1

Confirmed on hotpress.com here, although it needs a subscription to read entire article :dunno:.

Madonna is to be presiding over this year's Slane proceedings, with August 21 the likely date for the festival.

Ooooh... there's not going to be many people happy about this

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eth0_ · 19-03-2004 08:01PM

It's the Sunday Life, I wouldn't believe it.
Wait until mcd announce it...

honru · 19-03-2004 08:10PM

I wouldn't believe speculation from the Sunday Life, it was just the only alternate media source available.

Atomic Pineapple · 19-03-2004 08:41PM

boo

RichyX · 20-03-2004 03:32AM

I just got that email from Hotpress too.
Can't believe they'd bother with that old slag. Didn't her last album completly flop? Had hoped that would cause all those early rumours of her at Slane to be bull.

sikes · 20-03-2004 04:34AM

dam had high hopes for this year

ac/dc , radiohead, G & R etc

and they come out with this slag.

i reckon it will be the lowest turnout ever

mcd = pile of muppets

Sauron · 20-03-2004 02:57PM

Radiohead were never gonna do it.....unfortunatley......
this is plain awful, Im sure the organisers will receive some very threatening letters:dunno: so many people don't want this... they'll have to listen to them.

wiped · 20-03-2004 05:31PM

Slane Castle are contactable ... enquiries@slanecastle.ie ... email them with requests for Madonna NOT to play ......

AC/DC or The Who gets my vote .................

weemcd · 20-03-2004 06:07PM

Madonna confirmed to headline Slane

pardon my ignorance but madonna hasnt been confirmed to play yet, did you even read the article? why did you put a sensationalist name on this thread, when there still is no confirmation that madonna will play? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

honru · 20-03-2004 07:13PM

Originally posted by weemcd
pardon my ignorance but madonna hasnt been confirmed to play yet, did you even read the article? why did you put a sensationalist name on this thread, when there still is no confirmation that madonna will play? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Ho. I'll excuse your ignorance...

I think people are being seriously mislead by the original article, so I removed it (anyone else interested can view it here). The confirmation came from Hotpress (link above), yet since you need a subscribtion to view their content, I had to make do with the Sunday Life article, just as a resource.

Atomic Pineapple · 20-03-2004 07:37PM

think it should be confirmed by mcd, not hotpress

Burago · 20-03-2004 07:54PM

MCD want to make money and Madonna will sell out at Slane. Think of all the thirty something women who will flock to this garbage!

krattapopov · 20-03-2004 08:05PM

mmm thirty something woman in a field, scoring oppurtunity me thinks

:rolleyes:

Silent Grape · 20-03-2004 10:21PM

on another note, did anybody see radiohead last december?
that was pretty great.

sigh

RichyX · 20-03-2004 11:00PM

Since when do 30 something women go to anything musical aside from ****ey Atomic Kitten gigs with their illegitimate flesh bag kids?

Silent Grape · 20-03-2004 11:01PM

^^^charming^^^

Atomic Pineapple · 21-03-2004 01:36PM

lord henry mount charles has an agreement with the people of slane that no concert will ever be held on a sunday, it was drawn up with other agreements after the riots in 1984, so if madonna wont play on saturady and she's not allowed to play on sunday, there may be hope that she just wont bother coming

p.pete · 22-03-2004 10:28AM

Originally posted by krattapopov
mmm thirty something woman in a field, scoring oppurtunity me thinks

:rolleyes:

That might be thirty something people overall in a field:D

Nah seriously, if it is going to be Madona I won't be very impressed and a lot of others won't either but there will be plenty queueing up for tickets.

Ronika · 22-03-2004 11:05AM

apparently her shows called somethin like Babylon of Whores- they were slaggin it off on Spin this morning :dunno: cant believe they're lettin her play she's a hasbeen

Stoodgy · 22-03-2004 11:11AM

It's a disgrace that they got Madonna to Headline, i know nobody who's gonna go and can you blame them, last year their were 110 people in 2 buses from my town but this year there wont even be a mini bus going down.

NeroTheExtreme · 22-03-2004 11:17AM

No more a disgrace than the Boringophonics playing there in 2002, in fact they're the only act that hasn't sold out the venue. Madonna would easily sell the place out thanks to fans of all ages.

Radiohead? You have to be joking me, they'd bomb at Slane!
Nero

TrickyRicky · 22-03-2004 12:19PM

Yeh Jesus come on folks, madonna (yes she only deserves a small m) headlining, and ticket prices €70, 2 years ago it was €50 i dont think inflation is THAT bad, not to mention the €20 it will cost for Dublin Bus and of course the booze money for the day, i could go to Amsterdam for a weekend for the same price, and enjoy getting stoned and drunk to DECENT music not pop sh*te like madonna.

Whose with me in demanding an end to this ****e? and the return of DECENT acts to mountcharles yard?

comet · 22-03-2004 12:21PM

In fairness Slane only tends to have good credible acts every few years, in between they will have anyone who will sell enough tickets.
Roll on Oxegen

artvandelay · 22-03-2004 12:24PM

Did anyone else hear the reason its on the sunday? It's due to the jewish sabeth. Apparantly madonna's new faith. I heard this on the radio this morning and to quote gerry ryan a name like Madonna implies her being a christian.

Sarky · 22-03-2004 12:26PM

What ever happened to Slane being a rock event?

TrickyRicky · 22-03-2004 12:40PM

yeh i agree with your man who said bout only havin decnt acts every 2 years. I was there in 02 and god did it suck-

stereophonics-bland at best
counting crows-i hurled rocks at em
nickleback-where are they now? good riddance
doves-missed em
revs-(shudder)
ocs-only saw the last of em

compared to last year when it was THE BEST CONCERT EVER!

so if the logic flows, 01-u2 brill, 02 ****e, 03, brill =04 ****e

and on a sunday??!! that means some people will have work the next day, thank god im a student and wont have any college. i still amnt goin till they make it a rawk event again im very pissed off.

artvandelay · 22-03-2004 12:42PM

The promoters realised they could sell it out quicker with pop acts with little or no promotion.

TrickyRicky · 22-03-2004 12:48PM

true another fair point, why dont they just get busted and blazing squad to support madonna and make it an over 12s event its going to turn in2 a teenybopper event after 2 decades of noble tradition. this is sacrilege

ThreadKiller · 22-03-2004 12:49PM

Originally posted by Ronika
she's a has-been

Yeah... over 100 million albums up to 1997 (after which time she had one of the top selling albums - Music among others)... she's all washed up alright. :rolleyes:

The Official Madonna Fan Club released Madonna's album sales 
figures from Warner Bros. Records. 
These figures should be fairly accurate.

All numbers are sales through Sept. 1997, in millions.
  Album                          U.S.    Overseas      Total
 Madonna (83)                    4.4        3.3         7.7
 Like A Virgin (84)              9.0        8.3        17.3
 True Blue (86)                  7.0       12.0        19.0
 Who's That Girl (87)            1.3        3.3         4.6
 You Can Dance (87)              1.7        3.4         5.1
 Like A Prayer (89)              4.0        7.4        11.4
 I'm Breathless (90)             2.2        3.2         5.4
 The Immaculate Collection (90)  6.0        8.8        14.8
 Erotica (92)                    2.0        2.3         4.3
 Bedtime Stories (94)            2.6        3.4         6.0
 Something To Remember (95)      2.0        4.7         6.7
 Evita (96)                      2.6        4.4         7.0
                                         Grand Total: 109.3

TrickyRicky · 22-03-2004 12:52PM

i never said she want popular, some of her songs are ok, but she is NOT slane material slane is and alwys has been a ROCK festival i dont consider madonna rock. ergo no to madonna @ slane

Ronika · 22-03-2004 02:23PM

Yeah... over 100 million albums up to 1997 (after which time she had one of the top selling albums - Music among others)... she's all washed up alright.

Yeah I think we know who'll be first in line for tickets- :rolleyes:

I was at Slane last year it was my first time and have to say it rocked!!

Madonna confirmed to headline Slane

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