Slane 2006

seanironmaiden · 14-05-2006 07:42PM

yea, I'm startin to think it's gonna be Chillis again. That could also be the reason it's been left so late to announce it. Wait til Oxegen and then let the band announce it then.

it's a theory.........

JC 2K3 · 14-05-2006 11:31PM

sassafrasroots wrote:

I agree,
To be a true green day fan you have to relate emotionally to their songs, and not everyone can do that i think. you dont give a f*** what people think and your not afraid to admit that your a minority.. thats what its all about i think

Since when are/were Green Day a "minority" band? I always thought the point of the song Minority was amusingly ironic. The notion that listening to Green Day makes you "unique" or "different" is a sad reality of todays over commercialised world.

I hope Green Day don't play Slane, after their intense media saturation and over-marketing last year that essentially gave a bad name to the word "punk", I'd kinda like them to keep a low profile for a while before a new album is released and posters, badges, hoodies, tshirts etc. that stink of selling out hit our shops again.

btw, don't get me wrong, I love a bit of 1039 or Dookie every once in a while, they were one of my favourite bands when I was 14.

And back on topic, I hope Slane's not an Indie fest or a modern MTV rock fest. If it is indeed the Chillis then I hope The Mars Volta support like they're doing in America, or even better just have The Mars Volta headline it(yeah right)

dionsiseire · 14-05-2006 11:58PM

JC 2K3 wrote:

Since when are/were Green Day a "minority" band? I always thought the point of the song Minority was amusingly ironic. The notion that listening to Green Day makes you "unique" or "different" is a sad reality of todays over commercialised world.

I hope Green Day don't play Slane, after their intense media saturation and over-marketing last year that essentially gave a bad name to the word "punk", I'd kinda like them to keep a low profile for a while before a new album is released and posters, badges, hoodies, tshirts etc. that stink of selling out hit our shops again.

btw, don't get me wrong, I love a bit of 1039 or Dookie every once in a while, they were one of my favourite bands when I was 14.

And back on topic, I hope Slane's not an Indie fest or a modern MTV rock fest. If it is indeed the Chillis then I hope The Mars Volta support like they're doing in America, or even better just have The Mars Volta headline it(yeah right)

well be clear about it

greenday is pop punk, greenday are not punk.
i like greenday, the first few gigs were amazing, but oxegen last was crap, i practically was saying what he said before he said it, i knew what was next, bar the order of songs.

Mount Charles said he was looking for something big when he was downcasting slane. but something big by charles isnt definitely someone like Ac/Dc even though thats what the fans have been crying out for.

My list of possibilities would probably consist of

Robbie Williams ( Second Date )
Muse ( In England at the Time )
Ac/Dc(Currently rumoured to be in London finishing follow up to Stiff upper lip)
ColdPlay ( Another Strongly Rumoured Possibility )
Thin Lizzy ( The Re-incarnation with john sykes as a back up act )
David Bowie ( another rumour i heard )

These are the most likely i think that might be actual possibilities in the lineup with the exception of robbie non of the rest have dates that would stop them coming here

Alter-Ego · 15-05-2006 12:18AM

dionsiseire wrote:

Robbie Williams ( Second Date )
Muse ( In England at the Time )
Ac/Dc(Currently rumoured to be in London finishing follow up to Stiff upper lip)
ColdPlay ( Another Strongly Rumoured Possibility )
Thin Lizzy ( The Re-incarnation with john sykes as a back up act )
David Bowie ( another rumour i heard )

Thin Lizzy? Its just a glorified tribute band now, the Current "thin lizzy" are knackered!!!

It really would be disappointing to see coldplay announced for slane, altho thats just my opinion, with decent support acts they probably would fill slane

AC/DC Would be cool and its a rumour i seem to hear every hear.

Bowie, Maybe but he'd need some really good support acts.

Foo's
QOTSA
Motorhead

....What more could you want for slane:D

cookie dough 61 · 15-05-2006 04:04AM

^^^ I think a lot of peeps would like that trio, but I never actually thought of Robbie before. Granted, its a huge gap from June 9th, but it has to be considered a possibility. I havent checked any of his future tour dates so God knows where he'll be in august...?!?!

DC!??! Id love, love, LOVE that. But every year since they left the stage on the Kings Hall way back in.... '92 was it...?!?! they've been coming back ever since and Slane is ALWAYS mentioned as a venue. Slane would suit them perfectly.... maybe someday....

dionsiseire · 15-05-2006 05:42PM

Alter-Ego wrote:

Thin Lizzy? Its just a glorified tribute band now, the Current "thin lizzy" are knackered!!!

It really would be disappointing to see coldplay announced for slane, altho thats just my opinion, with decent support acts they probably would fill slane

AC/DC Would be cool and its a rumour i seem to hear every hear.

Bowie, Maybe but he'd need some really good support acts.

Foo's
QOTSA
Motorhead

....What more could you want for slane:D

like i said "as a backup band" it would be great to hear some thin lizzy beating out at slane, be they knackered or not, they sold out 2 dates in the olympia which is a few thousand tickets and could be a good addition to a lineup

Motorhead, not headline material for slane, QOTSA, maybe good with the chillies but could they draw a headline crowd, foo's good point, id prefer not though

Motley Crue · 16-05-2006 11:18AM

My perdiction for Slane would be.....

Simple Minds
Green Day
Guns N Roses (stranger things have happened, Take That are coming back in less than 6 weeks)
Feeder as some sort of backup band
Slayer....it would work if it was marketing right
Audioslave
Def Leppard (they're touring in August/Septemeber in America but its not an outside possibility Slane could be later this year because of the sheer amount of festivals on)
LA Guns/Poison/Warrant/Skid Row/Firehouse...a kind of 80s thing, which I know would never happen, but all those bands are still going, so perhaps as a one in a million thing.....and Def Leppard could headline this bill
Motley Crue

Basically anything except the Hyde Park line up of Foo Fighters/QSTA/Motorhead because thats simply 2003 over again without Feeder and Motorhead in for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (who are headlining Oxegen)

Lorrs33 · 16-05-2006 09:07PM

There was a press release a few months back saying it wasn't official, but Green Day were being approached about it. Just because they're not touring, doesn't mean they can't do a few odd shows here and there. Although their latest message on their website may suggest otherwise. I just hope they will play, Oxegen was fantastic!

NIBBS · 16-05-2006 09:44PM

there was some bull**** in the papers, but I don't remember an official press release from any of the parties involved about Slane...........second half of May and still nothing announced, odd they usually like to have the money in the bank a bit longer than this....Sept would be my bet for a gig there, weather patterns having shifted it's normally decent weather in Sept now....

Shinny-dee · 17-05-2006 02:09AM

im from drogheda near slane so the local papers generally print articles about whos playin slane a few times durin the year the stones and greenday are the ones mentioned for this year. as long as its someone who appeals to a wide audience and has music you can sing along to thats all that matters slanes about havin the craic and meetin randomers!!

dionsiseire · 17-05-2006 02:23AM

Well that is the point i suppose, bit of craic, but your not paying for craic in a field, you could get a weekend away to galway and sit in a field for the €60 you will no doubt be charged, thats if the ticket prices stay at the normal prices this year

Your paying for some good bands too, the craic is just a great part of it.

people can rumour greenday all they like but until i see an announcement to the contrary my belief will lie in the statement made on their official website.

as for the stones. well we should have had the stones this year, but they went to spain instead because mcd and aiken sue'd each other over it. so i have no doubts that the stones will not be present.

Who else is there out there that could fill slane realistically

Lorrs33 · 17-05-2006 12:02PM

It's quite odd though that no one's been announced yet, they'd wanna get a move on. Even if Green Day don't play this year, I'm sure they'll be approached again next year.

corm500 · 17-05-2006 07:18PM

I think the Stones pulled out of Phoenix park because it had become a farce. I have a hunch (totally unfounded) that lord henry offered them Slane as he wants some old fashioned pros after the fiasco with Eminem last year and the Lacklustre Madonna show the year before. When eminem cancelled Lord Henry gave a press briefing saying that you would not have had such a problem from the Stones. Im tellin' ya...watch this space.

Corm500:D

lodgepole · 17-05-2006 07:24PM

David Bowie would play a blinder at Slane. He hasn't played here since the filmed Reality tour and the promised follow up gig had to be cancelled because of his ill health. He plays a stomping show, more than worthy of Slane. Enough hits to keep the average punter happy too.

While I don't think he'd need that impressive a support to sell the tickets, he generally has pretty great bands play with him and Slane should be no different. Presumably it won't happen this year but I think we'll definitely see a second Bowie Slane sometime over the next few years.

Mushy · 17-05-2006 08:23PM

Wouldnt actually surprise me to see Bowie there. Especially after he canceled Oxegen and it bein so long since that

p griffin · 22-05-2006 02:05PM

I'm praying to god that u green day losers don't get your way.I had the misfortune of seeing those boy band rejects play (if u can call it that) among throngs of green day fans wearing ramones t-shirts at oxegen last year, all though most have never heard a ramones album in their lives and i'm still scared by the experience.They don't deserve to set foot on irish soil again never mind play slane lets have a proper band like AC/DC play slane and not green crap.

Lorrs33 · 22-05-2006 08:51PM

Wow what a loser. They have more of a right to be on Irish soil than AC/DC. When did you last see them win a grammy?

Mr Rivers · 22-05-2006 09:12PM

Lorrs33 wrote:

Wow what a loser. They have more of a right to be on Irish soil than AC/DC. When did you last see them win a grammy?

When have you rated a band on their grammy count?

JC 2K3 · 22-05-2006 09:46PM

Lorrs33 wrote:

Wow what a loser. They have more of a right to be on Irish soil than AC/DC. When did you last see them win a grammy?

LMAO, a grammy. Kids these days....

If Guns N' Roses release Chinese Democracy after this tour and gain popularity over the next two months I wouldn't rule them out(although, it's a long shot). I really don't think it'll be Green Day at this stage as the media is no longer saturated by them and they're pretty much a fad band at this stage - although they'd prob fill slane if they had the latest pop-punk/emo fad as support.

lodgepole · 23-05-2006 02:51AM

JC 2K3 wrote:

...Green Day... ...a fad band...

I don't want Green Day headlining Slane but a fad? I seem to remember Dookie being a massive seller over ten years ago and them having a reasonably sold career ever since. Hardly a fad band.

JC 2K3 · 23-05-2006 09:23AM

Lodgepole wrote:

I don't want Green Day headlining Slane but a fad? I seem to remember Dookie being a massive seller over ten years ago and them having a reasonably sold career ever since. Hardly a fad band.

I don't mean they were always, but when American Idiot came out they got a load of publicity and got a massive following, just like the latest band in the charts, and a few months on you don't really hear them mentioned anymore. It seems like a lot of the fans they amassed with American Idiot were just following the latest fad. A bit of a mixture of long term fans and bandwagoners.

So I huess what I meant to say is American Idiot was a fad.

A Primal Nut · 23-05-2006 10:40AM

JC 2K3 wrote:

I don't mean they were always, but when American Idiot came out they got a load of publicity and got a massive following, just like the latest band in the charts, and a few months on you don't really hear them mentioned anymore. It seems like a lot of the fans they amassed with American Idiot were just following the latest fad. A bit of a mixture of long term fans and bandwagoners.

So I huess what I meant to say is American Idiot was a fad.

Isn't that the case with most successful albums? They last a while in the mainstream then fade a away. In fact most great albums don't get any mainstream attention at all. I don't think how often a band or album is "mentioned" is reflective of how good they are. I actually heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the radio a few days back (saying something coz I never listen to the radio) so I guess this "fad" is lasting longer than most albums. But regardless of how long it lasts in the mainstream media, I'll still be listening to it. Jesus Of Suburbia, We Are The Waiting, Letterbomb, they're all brilliant!

Pedro123 · 23-05-2006 11:44AM

Does any one want to purchase two u2 tickets for Sydney in November 2006 when the are planning to return and finish their gigs?

qz · 23-05-2006 12:00PM

Pedro123 wrote:

Does any one want to purchase two u2 tickets for Sydney in November 2006 when the are planning to return and finish their gigs?

No, you're alright.

dream brother · 23-05-2006 01:38PM

qz wrote:

No, you're alright.

thats funny!

JC 2K3 · 23-05-2006 08:47PM

A Primal Nut wrote:

Isn't that the case with most successful albums? They last a while in the mainstream then fade a away. In fact most great albums don't get any mainstream attention at all. I don't think how often a band or album is "mentioned" is reflective of how good they are. I actually heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the radio a few days back (saying something coz I never listen to the radio) so I guess this "fad" is lasting longer than most albums. But regardless of how long it lasts in the mainstream media, I'll still be listening to it. Jesus Of Suburbia, We Are The Waiting, Letterbomb, they're all brilliant!

I equate a fad band to a band who get absolutely saturated in the media and have massive album sales for a short period of time and then fade away, regardless of whether they are any good or not, that's a matter of opinion. And that happened with Green Day with American Idiot. They were the latest fad, it's irrelevant what you thought of the album.

Lorrs33 · 23-05-2006 08:52PM

I don't rate bands on Grammy award counts, but that's what Slane bases their options on. Whoever's winning the most awards at the time will attract the most people to their gigs. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe no one will be playing Slane this year.

Atomic Pineapple · 23-05-2006 10:17PM

Lorrs33 wrote:

I don't rate bands on Grammy award counts, but that's what Slane bases their options on. Whoever's winning the most awards at the time will attract the most people to their gigs. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe no one will be playing Slane this year.

a good point, after last years shambles there might not be a slane this year

Chardee MacDennis · 26-05-2006 06:01PM

i've heard rumours that there will be no slane this year - couldnt get a bigger act. heard from the same source that said Rolling Stones wouldnt go ahead...

anyway could this be the end of Slane>?

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 26-05-2006 07:45PM

yeah i'm pretty sure its off cos i just heard the end of an interview on radio 1 with mountcharles and he was saying stuff like "nothing tickled my fancy"(or words to that effect, and your wan was asking him if he was looking for someone for next year instead. i dont imagine why they would be saying things like that if it was still on

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