Nightwish at Vicar Street

honru

Did I or did I not see a listing for Nightwish at Vicar Street next April on Ticketmaster the other day?

I dunno how the new girl is but I wouldn't mind seeing them again.

Dirk Gently

If indeed you did see it can you remember when they said tickets would be available?


edit: just done a search - says "currently no tickets on sale for nightwish".
doesn't mention anything about a possible gig?

edit again: from the nightwish site - 04/03/2008 Vicar Street Dublin Ireland

honru

I'm pretty sure this week.

I see the Dublin date on their site is up so I presume it's still going ahead.

Oral Slang

Yeah, tickets went on sale today 4th Sep @ 9am from www.ticketmaster.ie and all usual outlets (thread about it in Rock/Metal)

No mention of support yet, but it will be tour support apparently..

www.dublinmetalevents.com

rannerap

vicar street seems a very small venue for how big they are:(

honru

Sarannewrap wrote:

vicar street seems a very small venue for how big they are:(

Being the best venue in Dublin imo I don't think it's a bad choice meself.

And if the gig sells out, then we might see more metal there.

rannerap

i thought they'd get the ambassador,is it sold out yet?

tj-music.com

I am definitely going!!!

Tar.Aldarion

Will see if I can go as is mid week. **** sake..

mp3guy

Heading to this this evening, and after reading reviews of the belfast/glasgow gig it sounds like it'll be a killer show.

Here's the setlist from glasgow/belfest in case you want to take a peek at it;

Intro
Bye Bye Beautiful
Dark Chest of Wonders
Whoever Brings the Night
The Siren
Amaranth
The Islander
The Poet and The Pendulum
Dead to the World
Last of the Wilds
Sahara
Nemo

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7 Days to the Wolves
Wishmaster
Wish I Hand an Angel

Wazdakka

ThanQ...
Looking forward to this.

\0/

mp3guy

Just back from this. Fantastic gig. All the members were in top form and put on a truly entertaining show. Sound was great as usual at vicar street. The setlist is as follows, but the order might be off.

Intro
Bye Bye Beautiful
Dark Chest of Wonders
Whoever Brings the Night
The Siren
Amaranth
The Poet and The Pendulum
Sacrament of Wilderness
The Islander
Last of the Wilds
Sahara
Nemo

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7 Days to the Wolves
Wishmaster
Wish I Hand an Angel


During the islander and last of the wilds they had some guest musician on playing flute/bagpipes/tin whistle, who was brilliant. And the oceanborn song was great, I was well happy to hear something old like that.

Fusion158

Was at it too and would have to aggree, was an excelent show. Would definatly see them again. They gave it their all and it showed. Anyone get any good pictures of the gig?

Moonbeam

I found it very disappointing tbh.
The new singer doesn't have nearly the same range as Tarja or her stage presence.
The sound was pretty bad in Vicar St too.
Though as far as gigs so and if I didn't have the high expectations of it being Nightwish then it was fine.

Out Of Order

Wish I could agree with ya mp3guy, but I'm with Moonbeam.

I have been wanting to see them for a few years and I was really excited when I heard they were coming to Dublin.
It was a good gig, but after watching 'From Wishes To Eternity' again the other day, I was expecting more.

Maybe it's because I prefer the Wishmaster/Century Child/Oceanborn era, but as you say the singer isn't a patch on Tarja, vocally, or in stage presence.

And I've never said this before, but the sound was actually better for the support band! WTF?

Edit: The Islander and Last of the Wilds were great!

evil-yoda

i thought they were awesome.... i was well pleased! id love to see them again sometime!

Moonbeam

Had you seen them live before?

mp3guy

Moonbeam wrote: »

Had you seen them live before?

What difference does that make? If people had a good time, then they had a good time.

You might say you saw them before with tarja and they were amazing, but that means nothing to someone who saw them on thursday with anette and thought they were brilliant.

Long story short, sounds like you're trying to stir something up with the people who thought it was a good gig.

Twilightning

Sorry to resurrect an old thread guys, but if anyone remembers it'd be a huge help;

Did this show actually sell out? Me and a friend of mine are pissed off because Nightwish announced 4 tour dates for the UK in November before they jet off to Latin America for the next leg of their tour at the end of November and they didn't announce any Irish dates because the main metal promoter here isn't arsed asking them. They said "Compared to what they can do in the UK the market just isn't big enough for them here." Forgive me if I'm wrong but the queue to see them in Vicar Street was all the way down the bloody street, I remember it, the place was packed.

Really disappointing news.

NIBBS

Twilightning wrote: »

Sorry to resurrect an old thread guys, but if anyone remembers it'd be a huge help;

Did this show actually sell out? Me and a friend of mine are pissed off because Nightwish announced 4 tour dates for the UK in November before they jet off to Latin America for the next leg of their tour at the end of November and they didn't announce any Irish dates because the main metal promoter here isn't arsed asking them. They said "Compared to what they can do in the UK the market just isn't big enough for them here." Forgive me if I'm wrong but the queue to see them in Vicar Street was all the way down the bloody street, I remember it, the place was packed.

Really disappointing news.

Promoters tend to know their markets pretty well, if it would do well it would be put on, would also depend on what they were doing in other markets at the time they last played here - for example if there was only one UK show with it or something like that we'd get a lot of people travelling from there for a gig here.....

honru

As far as I can remember this gig did sell out a week or two before the gig. I think the promoter's comments have more to the relative sizes of venues that Nightwish tend to perform in in the UK compared with their last visit here. For example, the venue Nightwish is playing in London, Brixton Academy, has a capacity of approximately 5,000. This is significantly larger than Vicar Street's capacity of approx. 1,500 people.