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Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens) Jeered and Heckled at comeback gig

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  • #32
    Mikefitzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Mikefitzs


    irishbird wrote: »
    well, feck you all

    i really enjoyed it

    and i would like to point out, Cat Stevens doesnt exist anymore and it was impossible for him to play the O2

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055685783


    So is he dead? I thought he just changed his name.
    Fvck him, he has got so much hype from this, all the marketing companies around the world will be jumping on the bandwagon now to do the same thing. , this is what all concerts will have going forward because of this shiit:mad:

    Just a passenger



  • #33
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Dancor wrote: »
    Im sure he can take it on the chin.

    Yeah, with that beard there'd be alot of cushion for it


  • #34
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    SV wrote: »
    He converted to Islam?


    Welcome to 1977.


  • #35
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    General Zod wrote: »
    Welcome to 1977.

    I'm sorry, I wasn't born until 10 years later and it wasn't really big news about then.
    plus, no one ever mentioned it!


  • #36
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    SV wrote: »
    plus, no one ever mentioned it!

    I'm pretty sure Yusuf mentioned it once or twice between then and now. :)


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  • #37
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    geeky wrote: »
    Sorry to sound like Didier Drogba, but this is a f**king disgrace

    fixed that for you :cool:


  • #38
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I sincerely hope the same happens to that bastard Paul mcCartney plays here and charges 150 quid a ticket.
    The irish are the biggest rubes in the world when it comes to paying top dollar to see over-the hill merchants.


  • #39
    propjo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭propjo


    seamus wrote: »
    Did they tell anyone this? Did they tell anyone that the show would be interrupted for this?

    Being "flagged in interviews" is not the same as telling people. Most people who go to gigs don't spend time listening to shows about the gig beforehand, they just go to it. So unless the ticket had, "40 minute interlude to promote X" written on it, then people were gibbed out of cash.

    The timing is also important. If the "promo" was at the start or the end of the show, nobody would have batted an eyelid. You'd have the *choice* to watch it.

    Exactly like the cinema - they show trailers, but you have the choice to watch them. Imagine if they stopped the movie halfway through and showed 30 minutes of trailers, effectively giving you no option but to watch the trailers or miss the end of the movie. Cinemas would go bust in very short order.

    This kind of advertising needs to be stamped on and pissed all over and the artists who allow their shows to be interrupted for it should be boycotted.


    Yes Seamus, this was advertised as part of the concert, "a showcase of the upcoming musical Moonshadow". I believe it went on too long and he could have reassured people he would be on afterwards because those who didnt read the advertising seem to think he was off after 40 mins. Either way for people to behave the way they did was inexcusable. A security guard was bitten and headbutted.

    I agree completely with the fact that prices for tickets here are over the odds. I believe this case needs to be looked at on its merits. He still played about 20 songs himself. People travelled from all over for this as it was his first tour concert in over 30 years, I would expect to pay top dollar for the opportunity to see him as we may never have this opportunity to see him again.
    Also for those who had to protest, they ruined the night for everyone else. Anyone I spoke to couldn't enjoy the rest of the night because of them.


  • #40
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Degsy wrote: »
    I sincerely hope the same happens to that bastard Paul mcCartney plays here and charges 150 quid a ticket.
    The irish are the biggest rubes in the world when it comes to paying top dollar to see over-the hill merchants.

    So maybe they shouldn't fking go!!!!!

    Or maybe, if they're going to blow over 60 quid on a ticket, you bother to find out whether the artist is in the habit of playing their recent work or going through their greatest hits (not everyone aspires to be a fking Jukebox). If you don't want to hear anything other than the 'best of' collection, stay at home, listen to the album, and spend your money elsewhere.

    Aside from being flagged in interviews, the interlude was also indicated on posters for the event. What more notice did people want?

    I thought it was a different, fun idea personally, though I can see why it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. What pissed me off about this was the sense of entitlement amongst the crowd ("play peace train you f******..."), and the vitriol directed at a guy who's only returning to performing after a long hiatus.


  • #41
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    propjo wrote: »
    People travelled from all over for this as it was his first tour concert in over 30 years, I would expect to pay top dollar for the opportunity to see him as we'll almost certainly never have this opportunity to see him again.

    fixed it for you prop. Thanks to the actions of the ever-present people-who-paid-good-money-for-this, I'd be really surprised if Stevens is bothered coming back here again.


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  • #42
    orourkeda
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    Degsy wrote: »
    I sincerely hope the same happens to that bastard Paul mcCartney plays here and charges 150 quid a ticket.
    The irish are the biggest rubes in the world when it comes to paying top dollar to see over-the hill merchants.

    We need to get used to it. When we're all OAP's we'll be paying €150 to watch paddy dracula in Whelans.


  • #43
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I'm a go to Paul Mccartney and scream "Play the Froggy Chorus you droopy-faced cuckolded lover of One-legged golddiggers".


  • #44
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    On the IT blogs

    http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2009/11/16/i-cannot-remember-anything-like-this-happening-at-a-gig-before/


  • #45
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Degsy wrote: »
    I'm a go to Paul Mccartney and scream "Play the Froggy Chorus you droopy-faced cuckolded lover of One-legged golddiggers".

    I'm intrigued by the plural, Degsy.... and am willing to join with others in contributing to the price of a front row ticket if you promise to record the incidence.


  • #46
    Borneo Fnctn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    propjo wrote: »
    but people expected him to stand on stage for 2 hours belting out his classics (some of which for his religous reasons he doesnt sing anymore). I think people expected one of those TV3/ITV shows with Neil Diamond or Tom Jones.

    Fuck him. He only sold the tickets for such ridiculous prices on the strength of his classic songs.


  • #47
    bernardo mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 903 ✭✭✭bernardo mac


    Must get a bag of rashers for Moonshadow......


  • #48
    spadder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 985 ✭✭✭spadder


    irishbird wrote: »

    and i would like to point out, Cat Stevens doesnt exist anymore and it was impossible for him to play the O2

    Well, at least the show was still Cat


  • #49
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    spadder wrote: »
    Well, at least the show was still Cat
    ...get your coat! :P


  • #50
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    bernardo mac wrote: »
    Must get a bag of rashers for Moonshadow......


    I'm gonna bring my good friend Salman Rushdie and a packet of sausages.


  • #51
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I know nothing about him and wasn't at the gig but if Gerry Ryan disapproved of the audience actions, I'm 100% behind them.


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  • #52
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    stovelid wrote: »
    I know nothing about him and wasn't at the gig but if Gerry Ryan disapproved of the audience actions, I'm 100% behind them.


    That bulbous cretin was pushing the show like you wouldnt believe yesterday,going on about what a good-looking man Cat Stevens is and all the wonderfull work he does for peace in the name of islam and all that other bollocks...if the show wasnt in the O2 (as owned by the much-ballyhooed Harry Crosbie) we wouldnt have heard a peep from old droopy-jowls.


  • #53
    Wagon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    Cúnt deserved to be booed. You don't go to a concert to hear ads. You go to hear music.


  • #54
    Moojuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭Moojuice


    propjo wrote: »
    I have never posted here before, but I can not get over the ignorance on here and at the show on Sunday.
    A couple of points, the musical was not blatant advertising. This was a musical written by Cat Stevens with his music. This muscial was advertised as part of the show. When you bought a ticket you were buying to see this also. I felt it went on too long and I'm sure that will be changed. How people felt they had the right to boo, jeer and slow clap is unbelieveable.
    When you were going to this gig surely you realised what you were going to see. An artist who hasn't toured in over 30 years, and the first night of his tour, but people expected him to stand on stage for 2 hours belting out his classics (some of which for his religous reasons he doesnt sing anymore). I think people expected one of those TV3/ITV shows with Neil Diamond or Tom Jones.

    No matter what your view on the show, it was inexcusable for the actions of some of the crowd. Ireland has a reputation as having a good live audience, we embarassed ourselves on Sunday

    I know people who were at it and from what I heave heard from them and others, the behaviour of the crowd was absolutely vile. A bunch of ignorant assholes. There was no advertisement in the show, it was music from a musical. If you have any respect for an artist then you should respect their choice of songs and how they put on the show. If you want to hear all the hits then stay at home and listen to a cd. Booing, jeering and heckling the guy through out the whole show is asshole behaviour. If people weren't happy they could have gone and asked for their money back and pursued the matter in a more civil way rather than insult the man and drive him to the brink of tears. If people were too stupid to do a bit of research about his current songs and his current tour, then they are ignorant, yobbish ****ing idiots.


  • #55
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Degsy wrote: »
    I sincerely hope the same happens to that bastard Paul mcCartney plays here and charges 150 quid a ticket.
    The irish are the biggest rubes in the world when it comes to paying top dollar to see over-the hill merchants.


    Funny you should mention that, because the best gig I've ever been to was the U2 360 tour and I got tickets for €35 each - for the biggest and best rock band in the world that was a snip.


  • #56
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    stovelid wrote: »
    I know nothing about him and wasn't at the gig but if Gerry Ryan disapproved of the audience actions, I'm 100% behind them.

    Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.


  • #57
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    Callers to Gerry Ryan said he only got this reaction due to the recession.....so it was OK to take the pi$$ for 40 mins during the middle of a concert before the recession? Something good to come out of the downturn if people are only copping the fcuk on now that this was bollix.


  • #58
    Moojuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭Moojuice


    geeky wrote: »
    So maybe they shouldn't fking go!!!!!

    Or maybe, if they're going to blow over 60 quid on a ticket, you bother to find out whether the artist is in the habit of playing their recent work or going through their greatest hits (not everyone aspires to be a fking Jukebox). If you don't want to hear anything other than the 'best of' collection, stay at home, listen to the album, and spend your money elsewhere.

    Aside from being flagged in interviews, the interlude was also indicated on posters for the event. What more notice did people want?

    I thought it was a different, fun idea personally, though I can see why it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. What pissed me off about this was the sense of entitlement amongst the crowd ("play peace train you f******..."), and the vitriol directed at a guy who's only returning to performing after a long hiatus.

    Only read your post after I posted. I said pretty much the same as you. Bunch of c*nts at the show. Next time, F*ck off and stay at home you ignorant assh*les.


  • #59
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Sizzler wrote: »
    Callers to Gerry Rayn said he only got this reaction due to the recession.....so it was OK to take the pi$$ for 40 mins during the middle of a concert before the recession?

    By taking the piss, you mean... a musical interlude that was advertised?

    I take your point, though. It's stupid to blame this on the recession. The stupidity of some people who don't bother to find out what a show contains, their sense of entitlement, and boorishness existing long before 2008 and will for years to come.


  • #60
    TheZohanS
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    Carter Jolly Jaguar wrote: »
    Funny you should mention that, because the best gig I've ever been to was the U2 360 tour and I got tickets for €35 each - for the biggest and best rock band in the world that was a snip.


    You don't mind paying €35 when they're such a sound bunch of lads, local lads too.


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  • #61
    Moojuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭Moojuice


    See this discussion here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055685783&page=3

    Its about the gig and th audience reaction and how the musical interlude was well advertised.


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