SLANE 2009 Oasis - All Discussion - No ticket sales.

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Loved Oasis, Kasabian were great as well and despite the fact I dont really like them I thought The Prodigy were very good too.

Had a real good day but was spoiled by the joke of a situation with the buses coming back. Was back in O'Connell st by 4:15 and most people had to then get a taxi home. Ah well


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PCPhoto wrote: »

says it perfectly ......

I've been to slane 4-5times...each time theres always a queue for beer and theres always a long walk to carpark (I had VIP Carpark pass so didnt have to walk far - but was kinda at the back of the car queue).... made it back into Dublin for 1.30am (ish) ..... and we left after the encore.

as the poster above says its the celtic tiger cubs - who normally have everything nice and easy who are whining..... granted it was bad organisation - but its like that every year,

I do think a number of things could be done to make thing easier (like stop the gardai on point duty - only stops the flow of traffic)
put a number of car parks in sererate areas (leaving in different directions - ensure the pathways to the car parks takes varying amounts of time (ie. if someone leaves grounds for carpark A it will take him 20mins to get to his car, if someone leaves to goto carpark B will take 20mins but in opposite direction - so if they are going same direction - one wont cause a delay for the other, if going different directions they wont interfere with each other paths - hope that makes sense)

Tiger cubs ??????I got Dublin Bus and it was terrible.

You get the vip parking pass

You can not talk mate

Walked for 9 miles (according to some local), for 5 and a half hours, until me and one of the lads found some minibus going back to dublin.

The driver said he lived on the road we were all walking up and he couldnt get home, so he thought he might aswell do a run!! He charged 15 quid a head and dropped us all to our doors. furthest he went was killiney. Sound sound man.

Dublin bus are a pissing disgrace though, i bouth a return ticket during the week, bus up no problem. even though it dropped us miles from the castle.
But there was a ticket bus after the gig, selling single tickets for a fiver. so there was more people heading back then heading up, and probably less buses.

So all the buzz killingtons who got there last and left early got the 1st buses.

P.s our driver on the way home said that the gardai were breathalising every car on the way out, which explains a huge tailback.

There was also people blocking the Dublin buses leaving because they werent letting any more people on, even though the people on the upper deck were visibly sitting across the seats so the upper deck was only half full.

I also remember a woman, ill say late 40s, who was crying because noone would let her on a bus. i saw a guy offer to get off the bus and let her on and the driver refused.


never again

Chris89 wrote: »

P.s our driver on the way home said that the gardai were breathalising every car on the way out, which explains a huge tailback.

I drove myself and had 5/6 pints during the day but stopped when Kasabian came on so 5 o'clock.

Drove home to Balbriggan, i thought the ques where because gards where breath testing, but i was wrong, only seen 3 gards the whole way to the m1, the hold ups where to people delibratly walking in front of cars and refusing to move. Didnt c anybody getting breathalised.

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I drove myself and had 5/6 pints during the day but stopped when Kasabian came on so 5 o'clock.

Drove home to Balbriggan, i thought the ques where because gards where breath testing, but i was wrong, only seen 3 gards the whole way to the m1, the hold ups where to people delibratly walking in front of cars and refusing to move. Didnt c anybody getting breathalised.

Yeah neither did I, just what the driver said.

i did hear one guy on the phone to the gardai and they hung up on them.

He was basically asking if they realised there was thousands of people walking up these roads in the dark with no idea where they were going and no gardai around, they were all back in the town.

I didnt have any problems in the gig except for when i ended up in the first aid tent. I brought drink in so didnt have any queues for pints.

suzieb wrote: »

We were still waiting on a taxi at 2.40 outside dolly mitchells pub and about 4 dublin buses went by with garda motorbike escort. These buses were filled with gardai who had been at the venue and surrounding area of slane.
There was still hundreds of people walking up the dark roads at this stage not knowing where they were going to end up. Surely the gardai should or could have done something at this stage or maybe they were in a hurry home and couldnt have cared less.

yeah we saw one of those buses when we were in the taxi. was really weird. there wasnt even people upstairs. surely they could have shared.

Map of Distance

So then, I have read through so many posts of whinge I thought it was time I should reply. You see that map, thats how much at the very most you walked yesterday, 4.7km or 2.9 miles, not 9 miles, not 10kms not even 6kms. Its hardly a bloody marathon .

Buildup:

Firstly I arrived in Dublin at 11am, parked up met up with some mates for lunch and went to the Jervis St shopping Centre to pick up some bus tickets at the ticketmaster desk, couldnt been easier. Had lunch , checked in to hotel and headed to Parnell st at 2pm.

Lots of people milling around Parnell St, no problem getting a bus, everyone was in good spirits. Bus made good time and was out at Slane for about 3.45 having left at 2.30ish. I wasnt drinking nor were my bro or mate, but so many ppl seemed completed locked at 4pm in the day and off their tits, but hey thats their perrogative not mine. The area was quite messy and I certainly saw no bins whatsoever , so what can you expect.

Anyways made it over to the bridge, and to the main gate, all fairly swift, must been about 4.30 at this stage, tickets checked as well as bags. Forest was a bit hectic, but having been to Slane before I knew it could take some time to get through, anyways, kept moving and pushing forward, took about 30 mins or so to reach the end of the forest. Tickets CHECKED , and into the concert.

The venue was pretty damn busy at 5pm, we just missed Glasvegas but I am not a fan so wasnt bothered I was there to see Kasabian , Prodigy and Oasis. We got some food and soft drinks, ate and drank , then headed down through the crowd, for the bottom left hand corner. Even though most the venue was packed, we got right down beside the barrier of the pit, hardly no one seemed to make their way down there.

Gig Wise:

->I loved Kasabian , great set !
->Prodigy were bloody mental, missed them at Oxegen last year , so glad I saw them yesterday, they were brilliant, was wrecked from jumping about after their set.
->Oasis for me were excellent, I have been a fan all my life and to see them finally live in concert was brilliant for me, sang along the whole way through with me bro, ( who was skeptical b4 the gig as its not necessarily his sort of music but he loved the concert)

Aftermath:

So just before Oasis kicked in to "I am the Walrus" we decided to make the trek from the very bottom to the top of the hill. We made it to the top just before Oasis closed up, so 5 mins through a couple of thousand ppl.

We made are way back to the bus, so that took about 40 mins or so.

It was quite busy so we asked one of the "MANY" dublin bus stewards ( in big yellow jackets with dublin bus on their back) around where to go, they said keep moving along up the road to find a bus with some seats on the right hand side, so we did no problem. Eventually the bus we were on got going and took about 35 mins to get out of the Slane area, because it was so busy , messy, ppl everywhere . Left at 11pm and reached O'Connell st for 12.20 ish , which for us was great timing.

Conclusion

Concerts like this involve huge amounts of ppl, normal ppl, drunk, drugged, scumbags etc, thats life. I dont understand going to these gigs drugged or drunk but as I said before its got nothing to do with me, for me I enjoyed a great event with my bro and mate. The amount of moaning and whinging here is insufferable , what do you want seriously, its huge event, and bussing possibly 60-70k of people is a massive and difficult operation in a small area. When you have people everywhere and buses trying to get out, what do you want them to do, knock people down? For me it was one of the best concerts in my life.

I will go again to concerts like this, cause for me nothing is better than being able to appreciate such great bands in your own country.

Chong