Why was Garth Brooks so popular in Ireland?

bockeys jollocks · 06-02-2014 06:30PM

Dr Robotnik wrote: »

Plenty of time to get in a stock of hats, flags, scarves and headbands.

I would be pissed off if ~500,000 people were loud, píssed and making a racket over the course of 5 nights, passing my house.

padd b1975 · 06-02-2014 06:33PM

I hope the pitch holds up, will it be allowed breath between gigs?

Dr Robotnik · 06-02-2014 06:35PM

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

I would be pissed off if ~500,000 people were loud, píssed and making a racket over the course of 5 nights, passing my house.

And your anger would be softened if you were afforded comps for each of the gigs.

If not, then yeah, it's a rough deal for the residents.

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 06:36PM

How much compensation would a house normally get?

Jamsiek · 06-02-2014 06:37PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

when do we start the retaliatory internet hate campaign?

Good question muahahaha

Jamsiek · 06-02-2014 06:43PM

seamus wrote: »

Everyone will talk about the great Garth Brooks bubble of 2014, people buying 6 tickets for each of the five gigs, thousands of euro on the credit card on the promise that you'll easily flip them for five times their worth. People bidding against eachother for tickets on donedeal, spending upwards of €500 on a ticket worth €60 and telling themselves they got a great deal.

Then a week before the gig, all of those people who stockpiled tickets will try to sell them at the same time and realise that there just isn't enough demand for 400,000 tickets and they'll barely be able to give them away, never mind get their money back.

It'll be a national outrage, people on Joe Duffy blaming ticketmaster and the media for hyping up the gig even though they knew he was never that popular. Sob stories of people who are left paying back money on the credit card months later for a ticket they were never able to use because nobody wanted it. There'll be talk of debt forgiveness and asking NAMA to step in and refund everyone who paid scalpers massive money for their tickets.

It'll be carnage, I tell ye.

Might need another bail out even :-)

Jamsiek · 06-02-2014 06:50PM

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

That's because of the smell of cabbage after the concerts, how would you like 5 days of cabbage "wafting" through your windows?

...and if course the noise pollution too.
That and the smell of farm animals

secman · 06-02-2014 07:00PM

WikiHow wrote: »

How much compensation would a house normally get?

Me personally, I would demand 2 grand a gig so €10 grand and it would still be torture.

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 07:01PM

secman wrote: »

Me personally, I would demand 2 grand a gig so €10 grand and it would still be torture.

Is it because of his voice or the smell of cabbage?

PropJoe10 · 06-02-2014 07:02PM

WikiHow wrote: »

How much compensation would a house normally get?

I think Garth should donate the entire proceeds of the gig to the Drumcondra residents association. It would be only fair, considering they'll probably have abandoned cattle grazing in their front gardens for the week.

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 07:07PM

Is it only farmers that are going to the concerts?

Mrs Garth Brooks · 06-02-2014 07:15PM

WikiHow wrote: »

Is it only farmers that are going to the concerts?

No

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 07:17PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

No

What is the theme behind talking about farm animals and cabbage?

bockeys jollocks · 06-02-2014 07:31PM

WikiHow wrote: »

What is the theme behind talking about farm animals and cabbage?

Nobody in Dublin (I use this generelisation loosely) wants to see him, just Leitrim and other boggers that didn't pass their driving tests.

FHHHHEEEECCCCKKK!!!!!

06-02-2014 08:09PM

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

Nobody in Dublin (I use this generelisation loosely) wants to see him, just Leitrim and other boggers that didn't pass their driving tests.

FHHHHEEEECCCCKKK!!!!!

You should be glad to see people coming up from the country at least the percentage of scumbags, junkies and general scobes per head of population in Dublin will decrease marginally for a few days.

It will be marginally though, as it would take a lot more than 5 fills of croke park to dilute the unwashed population of the capitol in any meaningful way.

major bill · 06-02-2014 08:19PM

Harleigh Happy Heap wrote: »

You should be glad to see people coming up from the country at least the percentage of scumbags, junkies and general scobes per head of population in Dublin will decrease marginally for a few days.

It will be marginally though, as it would take a lot more than 5 fills of croke park to dilute the unwashed population of the capitol in any meaningful way.

Chip on shoulder, you may want to remove it

06-02-2014 08:32PM

major bill wrote: »

Chip on shoulder, you may want to remove it

I was mearly responding at an appropriately low level to match the drivel in the post.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 06-02-2014 08:33PM

lazygal wrote: »

He played Croke Park loads of time, sold shedloads of records and seemed to be here all the time. What was it about him that Irish people like, and would a comeback tour sell out? I think he's playing Vegas now.

Not a hope he'd sell out if he came back to Ireland. You might get 50 old biddies going to see him if he was on in the local pub and it was bingo night. Over the hill if you ask me.

You can mark my words on that one, stamp them, seal them up and cash them out in the bank!!!

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 08:33PM

Who will milk the cows for the 5 days of the concerts?

Duckworth_Luas · 06-02-2014 08:47PM

WikiHow wrote: »

Who will milk the cows for the 5 days of the concerts?

LOL!!! Do you seriously think that human intervention is still required in dairy farming? The entire process has been mechanised and automated for 20 years. This means country folk have time for more pressing matters, such as running the country and policing the junkie population of Dublin.

major bill · 06-02-2014 08:48PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

LOL!!! Do you seriously think that human intervention is still required in dairy farming? The entire process has been mechanised and automated for 20 years. This means country folk have time for more pressing matters, such as ruining the country and policing the junkie population of Dublin.

Much better

:cool:

Rothko · 06-02-2014 08:50PM

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

-The bluesier rock acts: The Oasis and Blur. Here we saw a form of pop music that had respect for blues, older R&B, 1950s rock 'n' roll, and especially 1960s Beatles-style music. What they did was often excellent: fresh and appealed to an audience sick of hearing the same pop sounds over and over.
-but some loved it and others didn't.

I don't see anything bluesy about Oasis or Blur at all.

miss no stars · 06-02-2014 08:52PM

WikiHow wrote: »

How much compensation would a house normally get?

Usually nothing. The residents are given a certain number of tickets for each concert and houses are pulled out of a hat basically. The idea being that every house gets to go to a concert for free every now and then.

seamus · 06-02-2014 09:15PM

Suas11 wrote: »

I don't see anything bluesy about Oasis or Blur at all.

Actually a massive chunk of Oasis's most popular stuff (i.e. the early stuff) relied heavily on the blues scales, and a lot of Noel's solos in those songs are just variations on the same set of notes in those scales (pentatonic primarily). Combined with very simple and clear beat patterns from the drums and bass, gives a nice bluesy feel.

"Cigarettes and Alcohol" is also a based entirely on a very common blues riff which appears in many other older songs.

Blur, not so much, which is probably why they were less popular. People find Bluesy tunes very accessible.

But that's waay off topic.

bockeys jollocks · 06-02-2014 09:20PM

Harleigh Happy Heap wrote: »

You should be glad to see people coming up from the country at least the percentage of scumbags, junkies and general scobes per head of population in Dublin will decrease marginally for a few days.

It will be marginally though, as it would take a lot more than 5 fills of croke park to dilute the unwashed population of the capitol in any meaningful way.

I'm from the country and I'm upset!

kwestfan08 · 06-02-2014 09:38PM

Maybe I'm wrong but are the residents kicking up a fuss about big crowds coming to and from a stadium that was clearly there when they bought their house?

Croke Park has been there for over 100 years, surely residents would have to assume that large amounts of people may be passing close by from time to time and bought their house anyway

bockeys jollocks · 06-02-2014 09:57PM

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong but are the residents kicking up a fuss about big crowds coming to and from a stadium that was clearly there when they bought their house?

Croke Park has been there for over 100 years, surely residents would have to assume that large amounts of people may be passing close by from time to time and bought their house anyway

Most of those residents and hereditary families have been there for that time, let's face it, the Leinster final in the 40's and 50's wouldn't have brought the same crowd. The brushing of cabbage leaves back then will be nothing like the tsunami this summer.

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 09:58PM

If it will be a wet year the growth of cabbage will be slow, people will need to find another vegetable.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 06-02-2014 10:00PM

I hope they announce a sixth and seventh gig. To get all the residents worked up.

Then five wouldn't be too bad compared to seven.

And then cancell them to leave the residents happy and we get our five.

omega666 · 06-02-2014 10:02PM

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

I'm from the country and I'm upset!

Why are you upset if your a bogger as well?

Why was Garth Brooks so popular in Ireland?

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