Awwww.... born too late?

Doctor J

Just going through a thread on Metalireland about ticket stubs and I remembered I have this little nugget here which is probably the dream gig for a lot of the readers of this forum. £10 at the time in the intimate settings of the Tivoli, how much would a gig like this cost now, eh?

Tool didn't actually play though, twas Whipping Boy who supported ha ha ha

It wasn't me!

Damn, nice one. ****er.

feylya

Now you're just showing off!

Oral Slang

Have that ticket myself somewhere in a folder full of tickets!
Just a pity Tool didn't end up supporting.
That was one late gig - it finished at something like 1.30am & then we had to fork out for a taxi home. Not so great when you live out in the sticks, are still at school & have feck all money.

Doctor J

feylya wrote:

Now you're just showing off!

Nah, tis just the one the sadly gets the biggest reaction.

SirLemonhead

You'd have to pay ME significantly more money to go to a Rage against the machine gig. Eugh

It wasn't me!

Sadly? That's a pretty cool ticket, Doc...

Zapp Brannigan

That was on my 6th birthday!

John

A classic ticket stub thread would be cool. Surely you must have been to some more gems J-Zilla, you've been around long enough

It wasn't me!

Sure he was at Elvis's first gig, don'cha know? Thought he hadn't a hope too!

Giblet

Doctor J wrote:

Tool didn't actually play though, twas Whipping Boy who supported ha ha ha

WB are cool though :>

Doctor J

John wrote:

A classic ticket stub thread would be cool. Surely you must have been to some more gems J-Zilla, you've been around long enough

Yeah but a lot of them feature a certain unmentionable promoter

John

Curse their oily hides!

gizmo

Didn't Pantera and Metallica play here on the Cowboys From Hell and ...And Justice for All tour respectively? That'd be a ticket I'd like to see ;)t

Doctor J

Pantera played with Megadeth after Cowboys From Hell and played the SFX touring Vulgar Display. I was at them both but lost the ticket to the SFX one and my Metallica ticket from 88 in the Top Hat

Ronan|Raven

Ahh whipping boy, one of my favourite irish groups. Was listening to Heartworm earlier in the van.

gizmo

Doctor J wrote:

Pantera played with Megadeth after Cowboys From Hell and played the SFX touring Vulgar Display. I was at them both but lost the ticket to the SFX one and my Metallica ticket from 88 in the Top Hat

Ah Megadeth, that was the one.

Man, that would have been some gig.

Baggio

Doc,
...must check my own missing collection!! nearly sure i have horslips from 1978 with thin lizzy at wembley arena somewhere!!!

i'll have a search......Baggio...

Ph3n0m

Doctor J wrote:

Pantera played with Megadeth after Cowboys From Hell and played the SFX touring Vulgar Display. I was at them both but lost the ticket to the SFX one and my Metallica ticket from 88 in the Top Hat

yeah and Pantera kicked Megadeth's ass that night

I also remember Megadeth and The Almighty in the Point too

Doctor J

Some others here

John

Nice! I never knew Death played here. Amazing?

Doctor J

Life changing. That was on the Human tour with the two lads from Cynic. I had been obsessively listening to that album since it came out and seeing it live and also what the Cynic guys added to the older tunes, especially the Spiritual Healing songs, was just something really special which is a part of me to this day

John

Lucky man. No wonder you get all misty eyed when you mention Death and Cynic.

Doctor J

Yeah, I get the whole wavey thing going on

honru

Nice collection! Tickets looked much nicer back in those days, before they added all those fancy security features.

Does anyone have pictures of the Top Hat in Dun Laoghaire? I'd love to see what it looked like as a Fun Factory regular back in the day.

Dathai

Thought this was going to be a Vitus thread :P

Aye, nice aul collection you have there Doctor J, pity theres none like them in my collection!

peter1892

Great collection Doctor J - I was at a few of them myself, and possibly still have the ticket stubs somewhere.

Those old tickets looked so much better than todays generic computer print-outs. I'd forgotten about the ones where they used to write the band name on them!

£12.50 for Iron Maiden in 1990, jeez...I think it was £6 each time I saw Xentrix & Judas Priest was £10 in 1991. AC/DC were a bit more and by them time I got to my first Metallica gig (1992) the prices had gone up to about £17 for a show in the Point.

John

You could buy a ticket and still have change for the trolley ride home!

What I really like are those hand written tickets, I thought they were invoices for a second.