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Who would you like to see play Maynooth? (2011 / 2012 Edition)

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  • #92
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    DB21 wrote: »
    Don't suppose there'd be a chance of getting Elbow to do a gig, would there?

    Maybe they'd play support to Radiohead?


  • #93
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    If Radiohead were to play in the SU I think I'd die.


  • #94
    Sanity_Saviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Sanity_Saviour


    James Morrison maybe?


  • #95
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Sanity_Saviour wrote: »
    James Morrison maybe?

    Not a chance! :P


  • #96
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    Your Text Here wrote: »
    If Radiohead were to play in the SU I think I'd die.

    You're gonna live for a very long time, I've no doubts about that.


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  • #97
    Sanity_Saviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Sanity_Saviour


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Not a chance! :P

    See if The Wanted are in town then


  • #98
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Sanity_Saviour wrote: »
    See if The Wanted are in town then

    They could try get you One Direction either. That'd definitely have you screaming like a girl.

    Actually, Broni, get Blazin Squad back! :P
    Ah Freshers Ball. So Epic! :D


  • #99
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    They could try get you One Direction either. That'd definitely have you screaming like a girl.

    Actually, Broni, get Blazin Squad back! :P
    Ah Freshers Ball. So Epic! :D

    No Wanted or One Directions:eek:.

    Please people, show some appreciation for a real band.

    As much as its never going to happen I think Take That should play the SU.


  • #100
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    karaokeman wrote: »
    No Wanted or One Directions:eek:.

    Please people, show some appreciation for a real band.

    As much as its never going to happen I think Take That should play the SU.
    I would actually go to that. What?! They have some good songs :o

    MY MUSICAL CREDIBILITY RUINED.

    Also, once again, Adebisi Shank plz!!!!! I won't shut up about it until they play :p


  • #101
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Your Text Here wrote: »
    I would actually go to that. What?! They have some good songs :o

    MY MUSICAL CREDIBILITY RUINED.

    Also, once again, Adebisi Shank plz!!!!! I won't shut up about it until they play :p

    Seriously as much as i'd like it to happen NUIM never gives good bands a decent crowd. Jape played to <50 people. I'd be amazed is AS drew more than that.


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  • #102
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    lordgoat wrote: »
    Seriously as much as i'd like it to happen NUIM never gives good bands a decent crowd. Jape played to <50 people. I'd be amazed is AS drew more than that.
    Stupid majority of students with their crappy taste in music.


  • #103
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Your Text Here wrote: »
    I would actually go to that. What?! They have some good songs :o

    MY MUSICAL CREDIBILITY RUINED.

    Also, once again, Adebisi Shank plz!!!!! I won't shut up about it until they play :p

    I wouldn't down your music credibility tbh:P.

    Take That are actually a very talented band. They have definitely suffered because of the "boy band" image but they are the one band to overcome all those stereotypes.

    The likes of The Wanted and One Direction have same-sounding songs and they are just singers not musicians.

    Take That are musicians as they can all play instruments and write their own songs.

    But yeah music taste is an issue with the "majority of students". Stupid Calvin Harris selling out, do people even know the guy is just a DJ now?


  • #104
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Serious amount of ironing being done in this thread.


  • #105
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Here luh, ye didn't heed my advice on MJEX. I've gotten over the disappointment of that but please god listen to my next suggestion. Odd Future are coming over for a short venture to these here isles next year. They're playing in The Olympia on the 2nd of April. YOU HAVE GOT TO BOOK THESE GUYS FOR NEXT SEMESTER!!!!!!!

    I'm finished in Maynooth now but I'd risk driving up there on my provisional licence on the motorway to see these guys playing in the SU, and by playing I mean destroying the place.

    Tell every lie under the sun you need to get them here, offer them copious amounts of weed, hell you could even sacrifice Bertie Ahern :pac:. I mean it when I say it this is a huge opportunity to get guys that are on the verge of hitting the big, big time.

    Here are a few videos of their performances for anyone interested.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhXncqFH2c


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRUX3NGOlkU


  • #106
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Dude, OF would be lost in Maynooth, they'd get maybe 50 students to go to it. And there is no way they could afford the fee.

    I'd hate to see them in that crappy little SU venue too...


  • #107
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    lordgoat wrote: »
    Dude, OF would be lost in Maynooth, they'd get maybe 50 students to go to it. And there is no way they could afford the fee.

    I'd hate to see them in that crappy little SU venue too...

    Upon further reflection I have to agree with you. I just got a bit excited last night after hearing they're coming back again.

    Guess the gig in The Olympia will have to do.

    Oh and my request for Messiah J and The Expert still stands.


  • #108
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Jimmy Iovine wrote: »
    Upon further reflection I have to agree with you. I just got a bit excited last night after hearing they're coming back again.

    Guess the gig in The Olympia will have to do.

    Oh and my request for Messiah J and The Expert still stands.

    I'll skip the Olympia, i'm guessing they'll play Primavera again.Which'll do nicely.

    Pretty sure MJEX aren't gigging at the moment.


  • #109
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    lordgoat wrote: »
    I'll skip the Olympia, i'm guessing they'll play Primavera again.Which'll do nicely.

    Pretty sure MJEX aren't gigging at the moment.

    Well I severely doubt I'll be going to any festival this year with the Euros. Gonna be scrimping and saving to get to Polkraine. €23 to see them in Dublin is more within my budget this year.

    They probably aren't. Sure I can always hope. Thought they were fantastic when I saw them 2 years ago.


  • #110
    JMcG92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭JMcG92


    I'd love to see some Irish indie/mathrock bands like Adebisi Shank, BATS or The Cast Of Cheers play the SU. A bit of a stretch, but Everything Everything would also be amazing.
    EDIT: Also Warpaint, Heathers, sleepmakeswaves, Fang Island...
    SHAMELESS 2ND EDIT: And So I Watch You From Afar, 65daysofstatic, Caravan Palace...


  • #111
    Madworld
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Madworld


    Avicii

    He has played a tonne of American colleges. Might play in Ireland?


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  • #112
    rcaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    lordgoat wrote: »
    I'd hate to see them in that crappy little SU venue too...

    Really? It'd be unreal, they'd tear it apart :pac:

    What if the SU did something with one of the club nights in Dublin like they did with the Propaganda night? Give Junior Spesh or Forward/Slash or something a buzz and see if they'd do something from the SU?


  • #113
    Idjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Idjit


    If Cut Copy played in the venue I'd actually die of happiness (but not before going to see them!). I don't know if it'd be possible to get them but if it was, it would be amazing!


  • #114
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    El Pr0n wrote: »
    Really? It'd be unreal, they'd tear it apart :pac:

    What if the SU did something with one of the club nights in Dublin like they did with the Propaganda night? Give Junior Spesh or Forward/Slash or something a buzz and see if they'd do something from the SU?

    There'd be more of them on stage than in the audience.

    I agree with you though, but the place always poorly run.

    Put it this way David O Doherty played Newbridge for E14, could have easily gotten him for the SU for a tenner and filled the place.

    They put Jape on the same night as one of the most important Irish soccer matches.

    Lots of potential, never realised.


  • #115
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    lordgoat wrote: »
    There'd be more of them on stage than in the audience.

    I agree with you though, but the place always poorly run.

    Put it this way David O Doherty played Newbridge for E14, could have easily gotten him for the SU for a tenner and filled the place.

    They put Jape on the same night as one of the most important Irish soccer matches.

    Lots of potential, never realised.

    Didn't David O'Doherty play last year?


  • #116
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Didn't David O'Doherty play last year?

    He very may well have. This year though he's a much bigger name and definitely could have been gotten for a reasonable price. He toured Ireland and was rehearsing for a recorded gig.

    It's not really a matter of who the person playing is, it's the scheduling and missed opportunities that annoy me most.


  • #117
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    lordgoat wrote: »
    He very may well have. This year though he's a much bigger name and definitely could have been gotten for a reasonable price. He toured Ireland and was rehearsing for a recorded gig.

    It's not really a matter of who the person playing is, it's the scheduling and missed opportunities that annoy me most.

    Really? Haven't seen much of a difference myself.

    But they did get him and have gotten other names so I don't really see what your problem is here?

    Maybe he turned down Maynooth this year or scheduling wouldn't work.


  • #118
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    He actually played here two years ago as well as last year. Three years in a row would probably be slight overkill. Not that I don't see your point lordgoat.


  • #119
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Really? Haven't seen much of a difference myself.

    But they did get him and have gotten other names so I don't really see what your problem is here?

    Maybe he turned down Maynooth this year or scheduling wouldn't work.

    Yes he's a much bigger name, he's on da tele a hell of a lot this year, way more so than ever before, as far as i'm aware he wasn't asked.

    If you can't see what the problem is and think the standard of events is decent, you need to get out and see what's out there more.

    There's never been a better time for Irish music and stand up right now imo, and yet NUIM gets so few decent acts to play.


  • #120
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Any idea when we will be hearing about this year's Gathering festival?

    I really need to get a kickstart for my 2012 gigs.

    Thankfully I'm going to Noel Gallagher in the O2 in Febuary so I won't need to suggest his new band.


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  • #121
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    karaokeman wrote: »
    Any idea when we will be hearing about this year's Gathering festival?

    I really need to get a kickstart for my 2012 gigs.

    Thankfully I'm going to Noel Gallagher in the O2 in Febuary so I won't need to suggest his new band.

    I reckon there's a lot of people around the college that will be hoping the Gathering doesn't make a comeback. For the price that it costs the format should be changed.

    No point in putting on some quare band at 2 or 3 in the afternoon when a lot of the students are honestly still in bed at that hour.


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