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  • #3722
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    You still have fate in the country ?

    You expect people to genuinely lose faith in their country over a concert that was rightfully cancelled because it didn't obtain the correct licenses?

    Garth Brooks fans are like some weird cult. Where do you people come from, 1990?


  • #3723
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Only The Beatles and Elvis are mentioned in the same breath as Garth Brooks when it comes to Album sales and best selling solo artist...... I had a good idea that was the case, but I wiki'd it anyway to make sure..
    My fingers are still crossed for the 400,000 ticket holders.... You may have thought it was going to be an Amazing show, but after all of this and if they go ahead I feel the shows will be out off this World(dam I wish I had a ticket now:()

    Tell you what, wish into one and and shït into the other and see which one fills up first :)

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • #3724
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Roanmore wrote: »
    America only isn't it. There's a big world outside America.

    Edit: Cienciano got there before me.

    Noooo that can't be right.....they have the world series of baseball that only American teams play in so that must mean they are the world :confused:


  • #3725
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Especially when its actually a biography written by someone called Patsi Bale Cox

    Oops my mistake calling it an autobiography


  • #3726
    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy


    hawkelady wrote: »
    Christ , I'm going to single this post out purely cause of your misguided anger towards your capital city !! No one died , a country & western singer has a hissy fit and tried to put pressure on so he can have his way.. Get over it , you called your capital a "kip" why? What would you think if I told you to go out and pick some mushrooms , you bogger!!!

    I can't wait til next week so it's finally put to bed.

    It's been said many times that Cork should be the real capital.


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  • #3727
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Maire2009 wrote: »
    It was only a few years ago I saw that Garth wasn't his first name. How is it pronounced? "Troy-al"?

    *It's about as exciting as everything else going on

    Same here. It's a truly marvellous name. I think they pronounce it Troyale with cheese in France.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • #3728
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy wrote: »
    It's been said many times that Cork should be the real capital.

    ...... exclusively by people from Cork.


  • #3729
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy wrote: »
    It's been said many times that Cork should be the real capital.

    It's been said many times that garth brooks was playing croke park........

    That's not happening either.


  • #3730
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    You expect people to genuinely lose faith in their country over a concert that was rightfully cancelled because it didn't obtain the correct licenses?

    Garth Brooks fans are like some weird cult. Where do you people come from, 1990?

    Where did I say I expect people to lose faith in their country over a concert?

    The poster mentioned something about still having faith in the country.

    Mmm, let me see, they took medical cards from sick children.

    If people has any hope of saving concerts, its nots going to happen, when they were willing to let sick children pay.


  • #3731
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    GB was always for the fans. There's an autobiography, The Garth Factor, any fan of his or anyone spouting crap saying he's greedy, should read this book. They will understand after reading this book that he was always about his fans.

    DCC didnt grant two licences, why should 160,000 people miss out on a show they had a ticket for the past six months. Yeah, I understand the subject to licence bit. But you dont build peoples hopes up like that. Fix the problem after.

    Its DCC that let the people down, not Garth Brooks.

    Its DDC that let us down and

    You'll have to forgive me if I don't read it but I could think of nothing worse to occupy my time with. Then again alot of the stuff I read would probably bore you to tears as well ;)

    Why didn't Aiken fix the problems before they became a problem? You know, like the sensible thing to do rather than disappoint you and many other fans.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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  • #3732
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Where did I say I expect people to lose faith in their country over a concert?

    The poster mentioned something about still having faith in the country.

    Mmm, let me see, they took medical cards from sick children.

    If people has any hope of saving concerts, its nots going to happen, when they were willing to let sick children pay.

    And the winner is .......

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • #3733
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Maire2009 wrote: »
    It was only a few years ago I saw that Garth wasn't his first name. How is it pronounced? "Troy-al"?

    *It's about as exciting as everything else going on

    As in 'Betrayal'?


  • #3734
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Where did I say I expect people to lose faith in their country over a concert?

    The poster mentioned something about still having faith in the country.

    Mmm, let me see, they took medical cards from sick children.

    If people has any hope of saving concerts, its nots going to happen, when they were willing to let sick children pay.

    Ah, i see the "poor babbies" hysterics are coming out now.


  • #3735
    Maire2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Maire2009


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    As in 'Betrayal'?

    Just thinking as he goes as "GB" so often, "TB" mightn't have worked out so well :pac:


  • #3736
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Maire2009 wrote: »
    Just thinking as he goes as "GB" so often, "TB" mightn't have worked out so well :pac:

    Well TB and hospitals are not a good mix, same as GB and hospitals.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • #3737
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Maire2009 wrote: »
    Just thinking as he goes as "GB" so often, "TB" mightn't have worked out so well :pac:

    Sounds like a disease.


  • #3738
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy wrote: »
    GB did not let his fans down. True fans and those who read his book will understand where he is coming from and will fully support him.

    Of course he let his fans down. Support him if you must but be under no illusion that it's poor form on his behalf not doing the 3 gigs.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • #3739
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    http://www.google.com.au/search?site=&source=hp&ei=q7PBU5DWMI7UkwXe1YCYAQ&q=chris+gaines&oq=chris+gsines&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.0.0i10l5.3555.7921.0.9294.13.13.0.4.4.0.368.3858.2-9j4.13.0....0...1c.1.48.mobile-gws-hp..0.13.2770.3.Q2zSal56uf4

    What about CG? Who is this Chris Gaines fella anyway?


  • #3740
    Maire2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Maire2009


    JRant wrote: »
    Well TB and hospitals are not a good mix, same as GB and hospitals.

    BOOOOOOOOM!


  • #3741
    Maire2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Maire2009


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Sounds like a disease.

    https://warosu.org/data/cgl/img/0076/50/1404334289652.jpg

    That's cos it is one :pac:


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  • #3742
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    Piliger wrote: »
    Most of the whingers and Brooks haters hereabouts are One Direction fans but would never admit it

    No they are both sh1t


  • #3743
    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy


    JRant wrote: »
    Of course he let his fans down. Support him if you must but be under no illusion that it's poor form on his behalf not doing the 3 gigs.

    His 5 or nothing was down to fairness and equality for all who bought for his shows. He didn't let anyone down by treating people equally.


  • #3744
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy wrote: »
    His 5 or nothing was down to fairness and equality for all who bought for his shows. He didn't let anyone down by treating people equally.

    Correct. he showed class and integrity all the way through. Sound bloke.


  • #3745
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Piliger wrote: »
    Correct. he showed class and integrity all the way through. Sound bloke.

    Yeah, mad sound... Unless you're a hospital. Or his first wife.


  • #3746
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy wrote: »
    His 5 or nothing was down to fairness and equality for all who bought for his shows. He didn't let anyone down by treating people equally.

    He's a singer of trite country songs who is refusing to fulfill hiscontract with 240,000 people who bought tickets to legal gigs, Anyone would think he had laid down his life for someone.:rolleyes:


  • #3747
    MonsterCookie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭MonsterCookie


    Piliger wrote: »
    Correct. he showed class and integrity all the way through. Sound bloke.

    I don't understand this. Instead of having 160000 people disappointed he's treated them all equally and decided to disappoint the other 240000?

    It's all a bit of a mess no doubt, and I feel for the fans who booked flights etc. but GB has compounded the problem IMO.


  • #3748
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    Piliger wrote: »
    ........

    None of the foreign coverage seems to come to this upside down way of thinking. Our image is being dragged back to our pigs in the parlour days.

    ......

    I agree our image is being dragged back to our pigs in the parlour days.(this is the first time I've heard this phrase but I'm going to rob it and use it always if you don't mind :pac:)

    I just reckon that the people who caused this catastrophic image failure in the eyes of the world were the promoter and, to a slightly lesser extent, the perfomer.

    I don't reckon the residents where being nimbys because that would imply they come up with an arbitrary rule on their own rather than calling the council to enforce the pre-arranged rules that had been agreed before.


  • #3749
    ringadingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    Once, many many years ago, my
    Sister begged for Garth Brookes tickets, so mum bought them for her as a surprise.
    Sis and her mates went to the theatre or whatever that he was playing in, with cowboy hats etc, went to the ticket office a bit confused.

    Mum had ordered Elkie brooks tickets by mistake :-)

    She never had the heart to tell mum and they had to lie about how great he was ...


  • #3750
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    ringadingding wrote: »
    Once, many many years ago, my
    Sister begged for Garth Brookes tickets, so mum bought them for her as a surprise.
    Sis and her mates went to the theatre or whatever that he was playing in, with cowboy hats etc, went to the ticket office a bit confused.

    Mum had ordered Elkie brooks tickets by mistake :-)

    She never had the heart to tell mum and they had to lie about how great he was ...


    Could have been worse... my sister got Bruno Brookes tickets once


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  • #3751
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Michael Jackson has sold waaay more albums than Garth Brooks .

    And the Beatles were a group not a solo artist ;)


    Garth Brooks
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    This article is about the performer. For his debut album, see Garth Brooks (album).

    Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.[1]

    Brooks broke records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s. As of 2013, his recordings continue to sell well and, according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales up to May 2013 are 68,630,000,[2] which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States World in the SoundScan era (since 1991), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.[3] According to RIAA he is the second best-selling solo albums artist in the United States World of all time behind Elvis Presley (overall third to the Beatles and Elvis Presley) with 128 million units sold.[4] Brooks is also one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 190 million records (albums, singles, and video).[5]

    Brooks has released six albums that achieved diamond status in the United States, those being: Garth Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin' the Wind (14× platinum), The Hits (10× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum) and Double Live (21× platinum).[6] Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include; 10 studio albums, 1 live album, 3 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 3 box sets, along with 77 singles. He won several important awards in his career, including 2 Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards (including the "Artist of the '90s") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States World.


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