Slane - Announcement today?

dregin · 01-06-2005 01:06PM

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/video/50cent.mpg
tbh

Blisterman · 01-06-2005 01:36PM

I don't like any of the acts, but throwing bottles at bands at a festival is really low.
There's plenty of other acts. Why ruin it for people who actually want to see it. Imagine someone did that for a band you wanted to see.

BaZmO* · 01-06-2005 01:41PM

I'd doubt very much if that would happen at Slane as the people going know who they are going to see. The Reading incident is an exception, mainly due to the fact that the organisers naively put on a Hip Hop act on what is a predominantly Rock event.

dregin wrote:

Yes.
In fact I don't even like most of the acts that have ever played there, but it's always been the Donington of Ireland associated with some of the greatest rock events ever.

In your opinion mate, in your opinion.

B.

karlh · 01-06-2005 01:54PM

Blisterman wrote:

Why ruin it for people who actually want to see it.

education.

dregin · 01-06-2005 02:04PM

Word. Mean Fiddler will think twice before booking an act like 50 cent again.

01-06-2005 02:23PM

dregin wrote:

Word. Mean Fiddler will think twice before booking an act like 50 cent again.

True. But you know what would have made a much bigger impact? Having him playing to an empty pit. If you go and throw bottles or whatever, you're just proving that you don't really care what acts they put on, you'll still stick around. Especially at a festival with multiple stages, you can go anywhere. The same as if Slane takes a couple of months as opposed to hours to sell out, it'll show that it's not a smart move. Even though they'll still make the same in ticket sales, it will cost them advertising revenue if it's not hyped up by being virtually impossible to get to.

Zoton · 01-06-2005 02:27PM

Okay, i understand the popularity of Eminem, although personally i think he's lost his edge, but the support line up is shockingly bad. Have never heard of most of them, and the ones i have, are an insult to music. Since rap is very popular here it could sell out, tickets are much cheaper than for madonna after all, but i doubt it'll happen tbh.

01-06-2005 02:51PM

It'll sell out no problem, he sold out Punchestown twice. The important thing will be how fast, relative to RHCP, Madonna and U2. Hopefully not for a month or longer

BaZmO* · 01-06-2005 02:59PM

28064212 wrote:

It'll sell out no problem, he sold out Punchestown twice. The important thing will be how fast, relative to RHCP, Madonna and U2. Hopefully not for a month or longer

Did the Madonna gig sell out? AFAIK it didn't, or if it did it wasn't until very close to the gig.

B.

penexpers · 01-06-2005 03:07PM

dregin wrote:

Yes.
In fact I don't even like most of the acts that have ever played there, but it's always been the Donington of Ireland associated with some of the greatest rock events ever.

Eminem isn't fit to breath the same air as bands like lizzy and guns n roses let alone play the same stage as them.

Yup, cos REM and Bryan Adams would fit right in at Donnington. STFU, TBH.

Gone West · 01-06-2005 03:10PM

I just want to point out that the supporters of eminem/rap rubbish playing in slane mostly are all new to boards and have feck all post count. ie-Its just kids who like eminem/rap rubbish.

What happened to the rumours that aerosmith or ac/dc would be playing. Now that would be a gig worth going to...

BaZmO* · 01-06-2005 03:17PM

FuzzyLogic wrote:

I just want to point out that the supporters of eminem/rap rubbish playing in slane mostly are all new to boards and have feck all post count. ie-Its just kids who like eminem/rap rubbish.

Bit of a silly statement considering that you only joined in January.

B.

01-06-2005 03:28PM

BaZmO* wrote:

Did the Madonna gig sell out? AFAIK it didn't, or if it did it wasn't until very close to the gig.

B.

OK fair enough, I don't know if it sold out, but I shouldn't have included her as an example anyway, she's hardly rock either. And her tickets were way expensive.

penexpers wrote:

Yup, cos REM and Bryan Adams would fit right in at Donnington. STFU, TBH.

No but neither would U2. Genres aren't always specifically defined. Slane is more towards the middle of the road, Donnington is far heavier. But while you couldn't see all the Slane headliners at Donnington, you could generally see Donnington headliners at Slane.

Blisterman · 01-06-2005 05:30PM

dregin wrote:

Word. Mean Fiddler will think twice before booking an act like 50 cent again.

Did you ever think people might have bought tickets especially to see 50 cent?
Would you like if NOFX were playing and people did that?

Rabies · 01-06-2005 05:37PM

28064212 wrote:

It'll sell out no problem, he sold out Punchestown twice. The important thing will be how fast, relative to RHCP, Madonna and U2. Hopefully not for a month or longer

It was easy to sell out the Punchestown gig. 10,000-15,000 tickets are easy to shift for any half decent well known pop/rock/rap artist.

penexpers · 01-06-2005 07:37PM

I think it was more than 15,000 Punchestown that time though.

deisedolly · 01-06-2005 09:01PM

There were 60,000 people both nights = 120,000 people who went to see him! One of the dates sold out within hours and the other within days. Eminem and 50 cent will have absolutly no problem selling out 80,000 tickets for Slane!

Bottle_of_Smoke · 02-06-2005 08:52AM

28064212 wrote:

True. But you know what would have made a much bigger impact? Having him playing to an empty pit. If you go and throw bottles or whatever, you're just proving that you don't really care what acts they put on, you'll still stick around

This wouldn't happen regardless of who's playing, people in the crowd were clearly waiting to see the band on after him, I've seen plenty of bands I don't like just to be near the front for the next band.

It's annoying when people take a band offstage but really I don't know what they were thinking getting 50cent at that gig.

On topic, tis a shame, with Black Sabbth playing a few gigs here and there it woulda been nice!

joejoem · 02-06-2005 09:05AM

28064212 wrote:

It'll sell out no problem, he sold out Punchestown twice. The important thing will be how fast, relative to RHCP, Madonna and U2. Hopefully not for a month or longer

I find it odd how Slane has fallen from being the high profile rock gig to what it is now. 50 Cent and Eminem? Im sure the residents of Slane will not be happy with 80,000 knackers decending on them. Even if I got a free ticket I would not go to Slane this year.

While Im sure there are a few 50 cent and eminem fans out there that arent scumbags, I'd say the majority who will go to the gig will be in tracksuits and 45` baseball caps

freddyf · 02-06-2005 09:32AM

I went to see Eminem in the punchardstown last year .
Im not a fan of Eminem, But my friends where going so i just tagged along. I have never seen as many scumbags in one place.

Everywhere i went there was fights. Never again would i go to something like that. Ive been to Homelands and Creamfields and Oxegen. But this Eminem gig was on another level for scumbags.

Slane + 80,000 skangers = chaos

joejoem · 02-06-2005 12:11PM

freddyf wrote:

I went to see Eminem in the punchardstown last year .
Im not a fan of Eminem, But my friends where going so i just tagged along. I have never seen as many scumbags in one place.

Everywhere i went there was fights. Never again would i go to something like that. Ive been to Homelands and Creamfields and Oxegen. But this Eminem gig was on another level for scumbags.

Slane + 80,000 skangers = chaos

Ive just had a great idea.................. Lets build a wall around the gig and keep all the knackers in there. Crime will plumitt!

skywalker_208 · 02-06-2005 12:14PM

then we could fill it with water or pea soup or something!

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV · 02-06-2005 02:04PM

im a fan of hip hop and rap, and we rarely get hip hop and rap concerts over here in ireland so im just gonna go for the atmosphere, and people go dont go saying there wont be any atmosphere lmao

freddyf · 02-06-2005 02:33PM

We can safely say the streets of dublin will be safe on that day.City centre will be like a utopia for one day.People will walk the streets feeling safe and no burbery caps to be seen. This day comes once in a life time people. Make the most of it.

dregin · 02-06-2005 02:34PM

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV wrote:

im a fan of hip hop and rap, and we rarely get hip hop and rap concerts over here in ireland so im just gonna go for the atmosphere, and people go dont go saying there wont be any atmosphere lmao

Yeah, I can imagine what kind of an atmosphere you're gonna get a from an 80,000 strong crowd of drunk skangers.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV · 02-06-2005 06:44PM

rofl u know its not true

deisedolly · 02-06-2005 10:52PM

Would ye ever give ye'r scumbag talk a break. Ye don't have a clue who the rap and Eminem fans of Ireland are and what they're like so don't go shouting your empty opinions to the world please. I know alot of 'rock fans' and alot of them are complete scum and wasters but you don't see me declaring to everyone my thoughts on how ALL rock fans are like that.
Eminem is coming, the rap fans are going to go see him, the rest of ye rockers can sit at home listening to your AC/DC or whatever ye like and will just have to accept that music is moving on to new levels, and Slane is following.

joejoem · 03-06-2005 09:36AM

deisedolly wrote:

Would ye ever give ye'r scumbag talk a break. Ye don't have a clue who the rap and Eminem fans of Ireland are and what they're like so don't go shouting your empty opinions to the world please. I know alot of 'rock fans' and alot of them are complete scum and wasters but you don't see me declaring to everyone my thoughts on how ALL rock fans are like that.
Eminem is coming, the rap fans are going to go see him, the rest of ye rockers can sit at home listening to your AC/DC or whatever ye like and will just have to accept that music is moving on to new levels, and Slane is following.

Scumbag

dregin · 03-06-2005 10:34AM

What he said.
We already have one person who described the scenes at an eminem event.

deisedolly · 03-06-2005 11:44PM

God ye are lovely people aren't ye? Hmmm

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