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So who saw U2?

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  • 01-04-2009 12:16pm
    #1
    Necronomicon
    Registered Users Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭


    Post your reviews here :)

    Man, I had so many excited people tell me about this. Apparently there was a **** load of people who made their way down to Blackpool.


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    Vinta81
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    People get less creative with April Fools every year!


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    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    I completley forgot today was April Fools and was going to head out. Dawned on me then. Silly RedFM..... They were talkin about U2's secret concerts all week though so they built it up to that.

    If only U2 did a free/cheap one here. Maybe the Pav..... One day......


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    Wallacebiy
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭Wallacebiy


    It really was U2 apparently,

    Sped off in a Bentley afterwards with a Garda escort in Cavalcade


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    BeansMeansHynes
    Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭BeansMeansHynes


    Yeah sure......

    I wouldn't go to see U2 if they were in the back garden :D:D


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    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    BeansMeansHynes wrote: »
    Yeah sure......

    I wouldn't go to see U2 if they were in the back garden :D:D

    +1 !!!


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    Wallacebiy
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭Wallacebiy


    I didn't go , but had it confirmed to me by a screaming 14 yr old girl ..........





















    Mebbe we should stop talking about this , I feel it skirting close to the rules eh ?


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    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    BeansMeansHynes wrote: »
    I wouldn't go to see U2 if they were in the back garden :D:D


    I would.....To tell them to get the **** out of my garden!


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    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Wallacebiy wrote: »
    I feel it skirting close to the rules eh ?

    Rules are made to be broken.


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    Owen
    Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Once you've seen 'The Edge' with his 5 chords, and single guitar delay chorus sound, you've seen it all. Even if U2 knocked on my door, offering me the deeds to their hotel to come watch them, I'd still slap Bono for being a knob.


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    ajsp.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭ajsp.


    It really was U2(optia)

    http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=11185&locID=1.65.68.&pagename=home

    And Lady Gaga was in the airport too:rolleyes:


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    gimmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    ^ That is Eimear varian barry who works for Red FM
    Vinta81 wrote: »
    People get less creative with April Fools every year!

    Less creative? How more creative could this have been? It took a crap load of organizing, had a tribute band playing and had a good few hundred people in attendence fooled along with probably a few thousand who could not make it.


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    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    Its a Beautiful (April Fools) Day


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    bladebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    absolutely brilliant!
    thats good publicity for red fm! its on tv3 news in a minute and apparently is on rte news at six aswell:)


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    gimmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    RTE never mentioned RedFM at all. Says alot that this made the national stations.


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    Vinta81
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    gimmick wrote: »
    ^ That is Eimear varian barry who works for Red FM



    Less creative? How more creative could this have been? It took a crap load of organizing, had a tribute band playing and had a good few hundred people in attendence fooled along with probably a few thousand who could not make it.

    Well I didn't know all about that.


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    Wallacebiy
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭Wallacebiy


    They made a fair effort for it anyway , well done ...


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    CommieBaz
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭CommieBaz


    The guy imitating the Edge should've forked out for a fake goatee rather than drawing one on his face with what seemed to be black biro....
    :/


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    Coffea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Coffea


    April Fools Day jokes need to be reserved for April Fools Day!!!! It's the ONE day of the year that the media can pull a scam.

    I'm sure whatever they said on 1st April about the prank was amusing but I wasn't listening. However, it's a bit pathetic to be so desperate for publicity that the radio station had to hype up the prank for a fortnight (KC's blog claims that the breakfast show had been hinting for the last two weeks that U2 were going to play a special gig in Cork).

    This was done at the same time that legitimate gigs were being announced for Live at the Marquee e.g. Lady Gaga, Kanye West etc... It wasn't exactly outrageous to claim that U2 were playing a special gig in Cork. Last year, REM played some intimate gigs at the Olympia and tickets were limited.. there was some special process for attaining tickets... The U2 announcement (waaaaay before 1st April) sounded quite similar to this.

    Now can RedFM just shut up about their overly-commercial Blackpool Shopping Centre-sponsored wind-up/PR stunt. Enough of the 'we're sooooooo hilarious and we're sooooo funny'. Yeah, it was clever but it's extremely annoying the way they're patting themselves on the back and telling all their listeners that they are like TOTAL legends. Enough, enough!!


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