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Bon Jovi being generous? Pity there's no recession around here!

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  • #62
    Meritocracy Wins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭Meritocracy Wins


    Multi-millionaire band reduces cost for hard pressed fans. My faith in humanity is restored.


  • #63
    witchgirl26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭witchgirl26


    I honestly don't get the bashing. All the tickets for the Madrid gig were reduced but there were some selected ones for other gigs that were reduced (and were really crappy seats from the look of it). Boo hoo they didn't do it for Ireland - are we such a bunch of whingers that we don't like to see anyone do something nice for another country without moaning that we didn't get it too?

    And why are the people who said that they wouldn't go to the Bon Jovi concerts anyway so annoyed about it? Surely doesn't affect your life at all.

    I am going to the Slane gig & ok I wasn't thrilled about the price but concert ticket prices here are a joke anyway. It's not just them & as someone mentioned, it's not like they set the price.


  • #64
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    Irish people love to exaggerate their misery, we've treated this downturn as if we've regressed to 1930's poverty levels. Our problems are nowhere near as bad as Spain, Greece or most of the world, we're still in the top 15 for most country stats like wealth, standard of living, low crime etc.


  • #65
    godwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭godwin


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    That's about as original as some of Jon Bon's lyrics.

    Originals are always better than remixes.


  • #66
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    banie01 wrote: »
    So Bon Jovi have waived their performance fee and reduced the price of their tickets to their Madrid show to between €18-€40 as a ''thank you'' to their Spanish fans for 30 years of support and in consideration of how bad the recession has hit Spain.....

    Well I hadn't realised that the recession had missed Ireland and things were so good here :-)

    Bon Jovi just figured out what our European masters have known for years. The Irish will always take whatever you give them.


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  • #67
    DebDynamite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,826 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    jellie wrote: »
    Did it in australia too: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/bon-jovi-offer-fans-cut-price-tickets/story-e6frfn09-1226633285801

    I thought "fair play", until I read this ^^. Reducing the price of tickets in Australia to $35 (€25)!! They are booming over there FFS! Fair enough, reduce the price if tickets aren't selling, but don't try to make out they're doing it to say thanks to their fans in a cash-strapped nation.
    rossie1977 wrote: »
    i have seen pretty much every major rock band over the past 30 years in person and never had a bad time at a bon jovi gig even the night it pissed rain, thunder and lightning in rds back in 2001

    That concert was amazing. There was a special atmosphere that night. Everyone was like drowned rats, but no-one cared. Would love to see that moment again where Jon Bon Jovi said something about the Gods, and then a massive bolt of lightening lit up the whole place. It just couldn't have been timed any better. I've read somewhere that they have said that was one of their favourite concerts ever. Shame it wasn't recorded for the live DVD.

    I'm not even a big Bon Jovi either.

    Oh yeah, it was actually 2000 though :D


  • #68
    kerryguy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭kerryguy78


    I was at that concert 2, magic. bon jovi do a concert for free and ppl complain, begrudgery ireland....................


  • #69
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Have to get myself a leather jacket, like Jon Bon with the flag painted on. The stars busting out of my chest and the vertical stripes, like a tight corset :o swoon!


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