Why was Garth Brooks so popular in Ireland?

hotmail.com · 28-01-2014 07:19PM

Can they not get tickets online rather than camping out?

Mrs Garth Brooks · 28-01-2014 07:19PM

lazygal wrote: »

Have you any friends in low places who could sort you out? With some beer and whisky to chase the blues away if you don't get tickets?

Thanks for the humour. Need that right now.

wow sierra · 28-01-2014 07:20PM

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

Here we have it:

from here
Proof that people who like crap music have no musical ability/appreciation. Thus why the masses like drivel like Garth Brooks, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber etc etc.

So there you are, go off and learn an instrument and your taste in music will explode.

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This is from the article you are linking - how ironic can you get

- I couldn't have put it better myself.

The main thing should be whether the performer or artist is bringing pleasure to someone’s life. If that pleasure is not harming anyone, it is bigoted and arrogant to mock that individual for enjoying it. We’re not the deciders of what is “real” or “proper” music, art, film, and so on. Shaming should cease so we can all listen and enjoy whatever we like – while recognising we are all capable of enjoying more and enjoying things in new ways. We just don’t have to.

RiverOfLove · 28-01-2014 07:29PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

I would give my life to see him. And people camping out already makes me feel so sick. Im in tears here

I'm a big bag of nerves too.

RiverOfLove · 28-01-2014 07:30PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

I think my new year's 'lose weight' resolution might be working. Cant eat since all this has been announced. Sick at the thought of not getting any tickets.

You'll be a hard luck woman until you find your tickets and your man.

RiverOfLove · 28-01-2014 07:35PM

wow sierra wrote: »

Brilliant

I cried tears from laughing so much at this.

'No more helicopters to the galway races'

This was one of my favourite bits of that video.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 30-01-2014 01:26PM

And he very much still has it.

After 17 years, 3 sold out gigs in minutes.

lazygal · 30-01-2014 01:30PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

And he very much still has it.

After 17 years, 3 sold out gigs in minutes.

Did you get tickets? No luck here.

Plazaman · 30-01-2014 01:35PM

lazygal wrote: »

Did you get tickets? No luck here.

Nope me neither. And I refuse to bow to those thieving bastárds on Done Deal or similar sites.

Application to become a Steward at the Croke Park gigs being typed up now.

Great to see Garth still has pulling power. I rememeber being wowed at the show in '97 so hope everyone who were lucky to get tickets have a similar experience.

ColeTrain · 30-01-2014 01:57PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

And he very much still has it.

After 17 years, 3 sold out gigs in minutes.

I don't think he has "it" tbh. It's simply a case of lot of people behaving in a 'herd mentality and putting this man on pedestal - he's probably surprised with the reaction himself.

Reekwind · 30-01-2014 01:59PM

ColeTrain wrote: »

It's simply a case of lot of people behaving in a 'herd mentality and putting this man on pedestal

I think the technical term for that is 'popular culture'

ColeTrain · 30-01-2014 02:09PM

Reekwind wrote: »

I think the technical term for that is 'popular culture'

No, this is different.

'Popular culture' is something like One Direction. Now, while I find One Direction deplorable, I can still see why they are popular, their music is never off the radio and they're always on TV - it's understandable.

This Garth Brooks craze is a different animal. My Facebook nearly exploded this morning with people proudly putting up pictures and statuses of their tickets.
Now, a lot of these people would generally have the intelligence of a dishwasher. There is absolutely no chance that they are fans of Mr.Brooks. Seeing as his music is not on the radio, he's not on TV and they would not seek him out. This is simply a bandwagon, nothing more and nothing else.

BTW, I'm not out to insult the genuine fans, you're entitled to get excited about this. I'm just pointing out that there is a huge bandwagon here, as there is with a lot of things in Irish society.

meoklmrk91 · 30-01-2014 02:59PM

By a fan myself but I found it quite funny to see people either delighted at getting or in bits at not getting their "Gareth Brooks" tickets on my Facebook feed this morning. If you are that big a fan then at least learn to spell the mans name!

Jester252 · 30-01-2014 03:23PM

I have to laugh at guys my age queuing up for tickets for a guy I never heard you once say anything about him and he lasted played in Ireland when you where 5.

supermouse · 30-01-2014 09:25PM

The amount of people showing up in my news feed on FB boasting about getting extra tickets and wanting E200-300 per ticket sickens me. How can people be so mean? Fair enough you got extra tickets, fair enough you want to make a few squids but charging nearly 3 times the amount is just greedy.

Steve F · 30-01-2014 09:31PM

I'm curious to know if these people who queued for days have jobs to go to and what excuse they used to get out of work?If they are not in work where did the money for the tickets come from?.Do they not have a home and family to mind?Just asking!

efb · 30-01-2014 09:59PM

Well?

BillyMitchel · 30-01-2014 09:59PM

No but I've tickets here for sale

Chucken · 30-01-2014 10:07PM

Steve F wrote: »

I'm curious to know if these people who queued for days have jobs to go to and what excuse they used to get out of work?If they are not in work where did the money for the tickets come from?.Do they not have a home and family to mind?Just asking!

Are you normally that concerned about people?

Steve F · 30-01-2014 10:15PM

Yeah terrible nosy me

RiverOfLove · 30-01-2014 10:25PM

It was like a lottery this morning. I had no luck

Disappointed severely. I'd say he would be epic live.
Gutted.

Chucken, how did you get on this morning?

fergiesfolly · 30-01-2014 11:28PM

Got my tickets this morning.
Mixture of delight and relief. My entire family are going, so its going to be a great day out.
Can understand that he's not everyones cup of tea, but he was hugely popular here, before he retired in 2001.
He outsold every artist( country or otherwise) in the world and has a devoted fanbase.
The Croke Park concerts achieved legendary status and I'm not in the least bit surprised with the sellouts this time around.

Amirani · 30-01-2014 11:31PM

I'd genuinely never heard of this Brooks lad until all the furore in the news lately.

Agricola · 31-01-2014 12:09AM

Croke Park sold out 3 times in 90 minutes for this guy! Im staggered. What is really baffling about all this is the excitement amongst people who were toddlers when he last played here. I've too cousins who would have been in primary school back in the mid 90's and despite the fact they don't own one record of his, or actually ever talked about him one time in the last 15 years, the fact they got tickets for it wouldnt have generated more excitement if they had won the lottery! Jesus, herd mentality is a potent thing.

B_Rabbit · 31-01-2014 12:11AM

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd genuinely never heard of this Brooks lad until all the furore in the news lately.

Same, but shur I bought 6 tickets anyway! Be some craic

CatFromHue · 31-01-2014 12:41AM

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd genuinely never heard of this Brooks lad until all the furore in the news lately.

He's no Chris Gaines that's for sure

SamAK · 31-01-2014 12:53AM

His music makes me shrivel up and die a little inside.

BUT. I shall respect the opinions of 240,000 people.

And i'd love to go, it'd be an utter culchie fest but i'd buy a ticket just to feed off the energy of 80,000 ecstatic people.

240,000 tickets at 60(?) quid each is 14.4 million yo-yos. Garth has the formula locked down.

Although I think it is rather cheeky of him to announce a third date. Like he was surprised the first two sold out. Ha. Man is a marketing genius.

Hope those that are going have a ball..

Sunglasses Ron · 31-01-2014 09:38AM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

He'd sell out the O2 tonight ffs, still massively popular with idiots all over the country.

That is roughly numerically equivalent to the minister who said we could expect about 10,000 East Europeans to care for our open border 10 or so years back :pac:

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd genuinely never heard of this Brooks lad until all the furore in the news lately.

Agricola wrote: »

Croke Park sold out 3 times in 90 minutes for this guy! Im staggered. What is really baffling about all this is the excitement amongst people who were toddlers when he last played here. I've too cousins who would have been in primary school back in the mid 90's and despite the fact they don't own one record of his, or actually ever talked about him one time in the last 15 years, the fact they got tickets for it wouldnt have generated more excitement if they had won the lottery! Jesus, herd mentality is a potent thing.

Ditto, I can just about remember his name, and the chorus of exactly one of his songs, yet a quick wiki reveals that in terms of post 1991 sales, he is bigger than The Beatles, Oasis, Michael Jackson, U2, Tupac, Eminem, Madonna, Rihanna, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, in fact bigger than any dead or alive artist or prominent new artist of the last 20 years whose names would seem more obvious, back catalogs and all, bar Elvis. People at the start of this thread seemed to think he was some flavour of the month consigned to a narrow belt between Alabama and Killybegs.

But it begs the question- who the hell made him the second biggest after Elvis? For such a successful guy I have never heard him name dropped on US TV or film, he has never been invited in to do a pointless guest spot on an awful new Simpsons, he has never been sent up by South Park. Where the hell is he in US pop culture? Until the other day I would not have recognised a photo of him if you offered me a grand.

veryangryman · 31-01-2014 09:55AM

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd genuinely never heard of this Brooks lad until all the furore in the news lately.

Of course not. With respect, there are better lies you can say to look cool on a message board.

Sunglasses Ron · 31-01-2014 09:59AM

veryangryman wrote: »

Of course not. With respect, there are better lies you can say to look cool on a message board.

Maybe I just wasn't listening hard enough but I would struggle to think of when or where I have heard him mentioned this century! Like I said above, for the 2nd biggest selling artist of the last 20 years his name is virtually absent from US pop culture (i.e. he being referred to on TV shows or films)

Why was Garth Brooks so popular in Ireland?

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