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Croke Park residents to seek concert injuctions.....your opinions?

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  • #6752
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,664 ✭✭✭secman


    eeepaulo wrote: »
    I thought getting a child picket line going was a brilliant idea.

    Everyone under 5' in that line would rather see shaun the sheep than garth brooks.

    Rather see the under 5's on picket lines by their parents pushing for the free doctor scheme


  • #6753
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,796 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Im at the stage of wishing death at Garth Brooks just to settle this debate once and for all.

    Death of Garth Brooks would be better.


  • #6754
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,282 ✭✭✭SteM


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    Which has the backing of international business, after all, show business is perhaps the best known business of them all.

    Well you could be right. They do say there's on business like it.


  • #6755
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    I heard that they all sat in the Dail today listening to Garth Brooks LPs and drinking beer from stetsons.


  • #6756
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,020 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    I heard that they all sat in the Dail today listening to Garth Brooks LPs and drinking beer from stetsons.


    Sounds like just another day for Mick Wallace


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  • #6757
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,269 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    I heard that they all sat in the Dail today listening to Garth Brooks LPs and drinking beer from stetsons.

    So......... a regular Monday then.


  • #6758
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    therefore implying that my post was some how suggestive of someone who was posting in a cult like fashion. You also implied that I believe everything the guy says

    Have a read again of the post I quoted. Like only his fans know how what makes him tick.


  • #6759
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    jack presley wrote: »
    I was on about his claim that he needs to play the 5 gigs to make the whole thing work as an event.

    I can only replete what I posted earlier from yesterday's interview with Aiken.

    Aiken's story was two concerts with a possibility of three, as the concerts finally sold out to five, Garth came over to Ireland and planned a whole NEW show, bringing an updated and never before seen show spectacle which he had planned for other venues in England and the Continent, he was excited to have to opportunity to do this in Croke Park and has since set his mind on it.

    Because of the massive increase in lighting etc, the five in a row were the only viable option and he was [now] not prepared to redesign downwards again.

    So he said five or nothing. We are now on hold until Thursday unless we get a few leaks.


  • #6760
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    I can only replete what I posted earlier from yesterday's interview with Aiken.

    Aiken's story was two concerts with a possibility of three, as the concerts finally sold out to five, Garth came over to Ireland and planned a whole NEW show, bringing an updated and never before seen show spectacle which he had planned for other venues in England and the Continent, he was excited to have to opportunity to do this in Croke Park and has since set his mind on it.

    Because of the massive increase in lighting etc, the five in a row were the only viable option and he was [now] not prepared to redesign downwards again.

    So he said five or nothing. We are now on hold until Thursday unless we get a few leaks.

    So it is about the cost then? And the cost eating into his big pay day. So all that stuff about picking one child over the other was a red herring?


  • #6761
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,020 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    jack presley wrote: »
    So it is about the cost then? And the cost eating into his big pay day. So all that stuff about picking one child over the other was a red herring?


    Its not picking one child over the other anyway, 2 of the kids have been taken off him. He should be happy with 3 and love them.

    Then again Id fight for my 2 kids if the government took them off me....

    What was the question again?


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  • #6762
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Then again Id fight for my 2 kids if the government took them off me....

    And look for a bit of compo


  • #6763
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,020 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    eeepaulo wrote: »
    And look for a bit of compo


    Tis the American Irish way!


  • #6764
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,269 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Its not picking one child over the other anyway, 2 of the kids have been taken off him. He should be happy with 3 and love them.

    Then again Id fight for my 2 kids if the government took them off me....

    What was the question again?

    No, the kids never existed so he threatened to kill the ones that did or something.


  • #6765
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    jack presley wrote: »
    So it is about the cost then? And the cost eating into his big pay day. So all that stuff about picking one child over the other was a red herring?

    Not my interpretation. Artists are often essentric and do consider their audience to be personal friends rather than paying guests, Elton John had great praise for his audience of just 5 thousand at the Cork Marquee, it's not just about the money for artists.

    Brooks was doing a show that cost a certain amount, then he has an opportunity to do a better show and he wants to, keep in mind he has not increased the ticket prices for the improved shows.


  • #6766
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Anyone that suggests differently, just doesn't know what makes the guy tick.

    I am very, very glad that I haven't a notion of what makes Garth Brooks tick.


  • #6767
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,135 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    I can only replete what I posted earlier from yesterday's interview with Aiken.

    Aiken's story was two concerts with a possibility of three, as the concerts finally sold out to five, Garth came over to Ireland and planned a whole NEW show, bringing an updated and never before seen show spectacle which he had planned for other venues in England and the Continent, he was excited to have to opportunity to do this in Croke Park and has since set his mind on it.

    Because of the massive increase in lighting etc, the five in a row were the only viable option and he was [now] not prepared to redesign downwards again.

    So he said five or nothing. We are now on hold until Thursday unless we get a few leaks.
    Right, so he was only going to do a half arsed job because he was only playing 3 stadium gigs in a row. Only 240,000 people. It wasn't until the 5 shows were sold out that he decided to go the whole hog and give dublin what other venues are already getting.
    But he loves his irish fans, they're special to him.


  • #6768
    SoCal MusicLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭SoCal MusicLover


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Right, so he was only going to do a half arsed job because he was only playing 3 stadium gigs in a row. Only 240,000 people. It wasn't until the 5 shows were sold out that he decided to go the whole hog and give dublin what other venues are already getting.
    But he loves his irish fans, they're special to him.

    Thanks for the lame translation of what actually happened. More hatred towards Garth, but I guess that's all some of you have to keep yourselves happy.


  • #6769
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,269 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Your IF will never happen, no matter how much you'd like it to.. so don't concern yourself with it.

    Not that I believe for one second that you'd care a jot for the fans if that did occur mind.

    Only seeing this now, You're aware i have tickets for the Friday and Sunday right?


  • #6770
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    jack presley wrote: »
    Have a read again of the post I quoted. Like only his fans know how what makes him tick.

    Quote where I said "only his fans" would anything..

    Don't bother trying, as I never said it. Maybe learn to read..

    A user suggested that Brooks only wants to play five gigs for financial reasons and I said anyone that would suggest that just doesn't understand what makes Brooks tick. I said nothing whatsoever about "only his fans" knowing jack shit about him. I am not even a fan of his even, but I am well aware of the business decisions that he has made down the years, that were made on points of principal and were he has lost untold millions because of his stubbornness.

    You don't agree. Fine, but to then suggest that somehow my having that opinion, somehow means I am exhibiting sings of being a cult follower, is about as ludicrous as it gets, not too mention needless and snide. Seriously, if that's the level of argument you need to lower yourself to in order to express your opinions, maybe discussions forums aren't for you.


  • #6771
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Ask the fans who have tickets for the 3 nights if they would prefer to see Garth on an acoustic guitar played through the Croke Park PA system or nothing at all.
    From the fervor of the posts around here I think they would opt for the former. They paid for tickets long before any hyped-up stage-show was mentioned and I doubt anything has changed.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #6772
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    JRant wrote: »
    I'd say the DBA pulled those numbers from the same place the Anglo boys did, namely their ass.

    Don't make me think about the DBA's ass. :(


  • #6773
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,020 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Only seeing this now, You're aware i have tickets for the Friday and Sunday right?


    I think the big question is why would you have tickets to 2 nights of Garth?

    Is 1 night of cowboy crooning not enough to drive a man/woman insane?


  • #6774
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Only seeing this now, You're aware i have tickets for the Friday and Sunday right?

    Well, maybe consider how you would feel if you only had the Sunday ticket.


  • #6775
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,956 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    Garth came over to Ireland and planned a whole NEW show, bringing an updated and never before seen show spectacle which he had planned for other venues in England and the Continent

    So he wasn't even going to bring his 'A' game for the big comeback special was he? He was just going to fire out some standard crappy show and save the good stuff for the other countries?

    Thats very respectfull innit.


  • #6776
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    Paulie1987 wrote: »
    They are entitled to use it for whatever they want..people are complaining they are locked in or out of their homes..when Ireland were playing there the games would finish late

    Interesting choice of word - you seem to be cut from the same cloth as the GAA.


  • #6777
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,269 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    I think the big question is why would you have tickets to 2 nights of Garth?

    Is 1 night of cowboy crooning not enough to drive a man/woman insane?

    A bit of miscommunication between me and a mate when booking tickets, decided to make the most of it.
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Well, maybe consider how you would feel if you only had the Sunday ticket.
    I do have a sunday ticket, I still feel like garths being a massive baby.


  • #6778
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Right, so he was only going to do a half arsed job because he was only playing 3 stadium gigs in a row. Only 240,000 people. It wasn't until the 5 shows were sold out that he decided to go the whole hog and give dublin what other venues are already getting.
    But he loves his irish fans, they're special to him.

    A fair interpretation.

    It depends on who you believe, whether they [either or both] Aiken & Brooks KNEW there could sell 5 concerts or their story that they thought they'd sell two and possibly three but five was awesome.

    Selling concerts is not a refined science, we hear all the time of additional dates added, I'm pretty sure a promoter would be kicking himself if he announced three concerts and only sold one. Many a time we are told they could have filled the stadium many times over, the demand was so great, and we are talking about Garth Brooks, I for one was surprised he sold out one gig, TBH about it. But there ya go like.


  • #6779
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    How many different residents groups are there?


  • #6780
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    A bit of miscommunication between me and a mate when booking tickets, decided to make the most of it.


    I do have a sunday ticket, I still feel like garths being a massive baby.

    Get those extra tickets auctioned, there are 160 000 potential customers,

    Just think how much a tourist who already has flights / hotels willl pay,

    You never know, the residents might even bid on them to stop one more animal pooing in their gardens


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  • #6781
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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