Eminem Cancelled

Bluetonic · 17-08-2005 10:12AM

meditraitor wrote:

there was even riots in drogheda at the ticket shop

Is that not everyday in Drogheda

JC 2K3 · 17-08-2005 10:14AM

I'm so happy, hurray!

comet · 17-08-2005 10:30AM

p.pete wrote:

HAHAHaHahaha - 50 cent'll be bumped up to headline

wouldn't surpirse me at all, I think they'll try to keep it with a rap artist or something to try to minimise return of tickets. Theres no way they'll bring in a rock band as I think a lot of the people going would return their tickets. They wait until next week to refund so that they'll have the new line-up confirmed before then.
Slane is a load of marketting bull**** anyway, its a hole of a place to get to and get out of, some legendary acts in the 80's but headline-wise it went downhill a long time ago.

Bluetonic · 17-08-2005 10:36AM

comet wrote:

wouldn't surpirse me at all, I think they'll try to keep it with a rap artist or something to try to minimise return of tickets. Theres no way they'll bring in a rock band as I think a lot of the people going would return their tickets. They wait until next week to refund so that they'll have the new line-up confirmed before then.

They'll probably end up moving to a much smaller venue and not having a Slane this year....... perhaps they'll have a "slane" in the RDS or something similar. Wouldn't they problably be looking at making a loss of they only got 20,000 or similar at Slane?

comet wrote:

but headline-wise it went downhill a long time ago.

Aren't all healiners down(the)hill in Slane

comet · 17-08-2005 10:40AM

Bluetonic wrote:

They'll probably end up moving to a much smaller venue and not having a Slane this year....... perhaps they'll have a "slane" in the RDS or something similar. Wouldn't they problably be looking at making a loss of they only got 20,000 or similar at Slane?

Doubt that'll happen MCD will work out who'll keep the crowd at slane, too much money at stake with 80,000 people, no doubt they'll figure something. I have no idea about rap music but do ye think if 50 cent headlined, Eminem fans wouldn't go?

Bluetonic wrote:

Aren't all healiners down(the)hill in Slane

Nice one!

BrianD · 17-08-2005 10:44AM

shano wrote:

the mcd knobs did that with oxegen when bowie pulled out i.e. made those talentless gimps 'the darkness' headliners - bum deal if you ask me. oxegen is a lot different to slane though so I can see a refund in this case. come on people SLANE 2005 with 50 cent - no chance - I hope... then again they had Madonna last year :rolleyes:

Big difference. Oxegen is a festival so the line up can change and that's accepted. Most people go to the festival for the festival rather than the acts - hence the preseales for Oxegen and Glastonbury before the line ups are announced. Eminem is a headline gig so if there is no headline there is no gig no matter who is supporting. According to the MCD website the entire event has been cancelled.

Also 50 Cent is booked into the Point the following night (Sept 18) by a rival promoter!!

okidoki987 · 17-08-2005 10:47AM

Let's say concert's cancelled and refunds are offered.
I assume you get the cost of the ticket plus the ticketmaster charges that you paid when you bought the tickets?

Bluetonic · 17-08-2005 10:48AM

comet wrote:

Doubt that'll happen MCD will work out who'll keep the crowd at slane, too much money at stake with 80,000 people, no doubt they'll figure something.

Why not mix the rapper theme with the Irish theme... From my research I see there an Irish rapper nammed Collie. He could be the man for the headliners job.

Irish rapper Collie, aka 24-year-old Dubliner Alan Collins, who has come to prominence on radio stations recently with his debut single Some Sham which calls in to question once more Ronan Keating's sexuality.

LegacyUser · 17-08-2005 10:52AM

ha ha.

looks like it's canceled, serves mcd right for not booking a rock act.

i'd say the residents are delighted

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2005/0817/eminem.html

spartacus93 · 17-08-2005 10:58AM

From the ticketmaster site -

* For tickets purchased via the Internet and the Ticketmaster Call Centre, refunds will be automatically refunded to your account.

Refunds automatically, doesn't look like they're planning anything else. An isn't 50cent playing in the point or somewhere shortly

Chong · 17-08-2005 11:01AM

Lol so does this mean that slane is actually cancelled then or will they have backup of sorts.

spartacus93 · 17-08-2005 11:03AM

Just on the radio, some lad from MCD was on the news and he said. This years slane event WILL NOT TAKE PLACE! I know most of ye are happy about this, can't say i'm an Eminem fan but I do feel sorry for the people I know that were lookin forward to going. They're not all bad......

Smurfpiss · 17-08-2005 11:03AM

Mangler wrote:

I heard the United Nations public health arm the W.H.O. intervened and cancelled it, there was no way they were going to let 80,000 tracky wearing Wayne and Waynettas congregate in such a small area of land for a whole day, just think what effects it would have on the enviroment, all those cans of dutch gold being thrown into the rivers and streams along with the combined smoke from 80,000 packets of John Player blue, would create a smog cloud the size of the County and increase global warming. there was also fears of an Air Strike by the Irish Government, there was rumours that they were going to throw the USAF a few quid to Nalpalm Slane during the gig.

ah now in fairness. thats more of an EPA kind of gig than the WHO.

Doctor J · 17-08-2005 11:08AM

spartacus93 wrote:

From the ticketmaster site -

* For tickets purchased via the Internet and the Ticketmaster Call Centre, refunds will be automatically refunded to your account.

Refunds automatically, doesn't look like they're planning anything else. An isn't 50cent playing in the point or somewhere shortly

That means any of you who bought tickets "privately" stand to lose your money unless you know the person you bought them off, cos they'll be getting the cash.

You people make me sick, anyway, you selfish scoundrels with hearts of stone. You're entirely missing the point here. Poor Eminem is so worn out from being all that that he has to go back to his mansion and rest for a couple of months and take a break from the couple of hours of work that he might do the odd day. So I hope you mean spirited scrooges remember that as you toil for 8 hours a day in some underpaid, soul-crushing 9 to 5 each of the five or six days a week you work, think of poor oul Eminem

BrianD · 17-08-2005 11:08AM

paperclip wrote:

ha ha.

looks like it's canceled, serves mcd right for not booking a rock act.

i'd say the residents are delighted

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2005/0817/eminem.html

How would that change things? Remember when Ozzy didn't turn up at Ozzfest?

jjmax · 17-08-2005 11:09AM

People! People!
I can't understand this negativity, isn't good music good music?
Even the Rock Superhero Tom Dunne gives Eminem airtime along with some other hiphop.
I don't get the jubilation but each to their own I suppose.
AFAIK MCD will be handsomely compensated by Eminem for pulling out.
It probably won't compare to what they'd have made had the thing gone ahead but I doubt they'll be out of pocket so I wouldn't hold out for any kind os Slane this year.

dregin · 17-08-2005 11:23AM

Damn and I was lookin forward to a scanger free Dublin for one day

grumpytrousers · 17-08-2005 11:24AM

jjmax wrote:

People! People!
I can't understand this negativity, isn't good music good music?
Even the Rock Superhero Tom Dunne gives Eminem airtime along with some other hiphop.
I don't get the jubilation but each to their own I suppose.
AFAIK MCD will be handsomely compensated by Eminem for pulling out.
It probably won't compare to what they'd have made had the thing gone ahead but I doubt they'll be out of pocket so I wouldn't hold out for any kind os Slane this year.

I'd concur; I think Eminem is a complete talent vacuum, but the stench of schadenfreude here is a bit overpowering...

p.pete · 17-08-2005 11:26AM

Bluetonic wrote:

Why not mix the rapper theme with the Irish theme... From my research I see there an Irish rapper nammed Collie. He could be the man for the headliners job.

LOL, Scary Eire to headline Slane - you know it makes sense

Mr E · 17-08-2005 11:28AM

I pity the guys who paid above the asking price for these tickets over the last few months. There are tickets going on eBay for €200 or more for a pair, and those people have no comeback whatsoever.

slumped · 17-08-2005 11:33AM

I don't feel sorry for M&M fans, but I do have a tinge of pity for Henry Mountcharles.

He has spent so much time and money trying to renovate Slane Castle back to its former glory and the concerts were resurrected with the aim of financing his goals.

Spare a thought for him!
S

okidoki987 · 17-08-2005 11:56AM

ONE word

INSURANCE

That will cover all the costs.

Blisterman · 17-08-2005 12:09PM

Why cant they get Motley Crue to Headline, and have a proper rock concert.

The band, not the boards member.

HelterSkelter · 17-08-2005 12:41PM

spartacus93 wrote:

From the ticketmaster site -

* For tickets purchased via the Internet and the Ticketmaster Call Centre, refunds will be automatically refunded to your account.

Haha, that means anyone who bought a ticket and sold it on will get their money back. They made on the double.

LegacyUser · 17-08-2005 01:03PM

BrianD wrote:

How would that change things? Remember when Ozzy didn't turn up at Ozzfest?

mcd's call.

ozzy also gave feck all notice, a day i think. and there were enough big acts to pull it off.

fiddy cent and co are way too small time for slane.

maybe he could play that o2 in the park thing?

Mr E · 17-08-2005 01:39PM

Henry Mountcharles was just on Radio 1. He ain't happy about it, and is very pissed off with Eminem (he said that he can't imagine U2 or the Stones ever pulling out due to exhaustion), and that Eminem has the reputation of being very brittle.... Slane is officially cancelled (its too late to get someone else for top billing). He also said Eminem will never get the chance to play Slane again.

Refunds will be available from 12 noon on Friday.

comet · 17-08-2005 01:45PM

TmB wrote:

He also said Eminem will never get the chance to play Slane again.

Oh I'd say Eminem will be devastated to hear that :rolleyes:

okidoki987 · 17-08-2005 01:53PM

Haha, that means anyone who bought a ticket and sold it on will get their money back. They made on the double.

FFS
That means you don't even need the ticket to get a refund.
So the touting ******* get the profits and then get the cost of the tickets back from Ticketmaster if bought by CC, so the poor punter who bought overpriced tickets on the I/net, B+S etc now have WORTHLESS pieces of paper?
That can't be right? :eek:

Doctor J · 17-08-2005 01:55PM

Listen... can you hear the feet of a thousand Slane folk doing the happy dance?

Mr E · 17-08-2005 02:00PM

I'm in Limerick, and I can hear them from here!

Eminem Cancelled

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