Music at Croke park.

HeyThereDeliah

I was at the all Ireland in Croke park on Sunday and it was a great day and well done to all involved. The display before the senior match was magnificent.
My only complaint is why were they playing Rhianna at the interval between the minor and senior game and again when the match was over.
I would have thought something irish would be more appropriate considering it is irish teams playing was surprised not to Hear fields of athenry being played.

Would it be nicer to play music traditional to Ireland or music from irish groups during the all Ireland ?

MagicMarker

No

Richard Hillman

I heard it when I was watching on TV

"'Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly
good at it
Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the
smell of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But chains and whips excite me"

Why on earth would you play that at a sporting event not involving cheerleaders

Possibly an attempt by the gaa to be hip or down with "da kids"

super_furry

The Fields of Athenry? Yeah whatever you say West Brit. You want real Irish music, you need lilting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_oaqW_qRM

efb

Let's play the corrs!!!

keano_afc

I would have thought considering the result, that "Money, Money, Money" by Abba would have been appropriate.

(I am aware the ticket prieces for the replay are cheaper. Still a nice cash injection though)

jester77

Rhianna was there :eek: That's impressive from the GAA, but yeah, a more traditional Irish show would fit better to the culture they represent.

Soups123

I agree and none of that American hot dog food either, just Irish Stew and maybe a fish and potatoes option

Instead of cheer leaders there should be leprauchans too

Real Life

the whole thing is a bit of a cringe fest anyway so they may aswell throw on the trad music and rebel songs

Davidth88

I remember a couple of times visiting Croke Park ( I think it was the International Rules ) and Brush Shiels was ' singing ' trying to entertain the crowd

Now that was cringeworthy .

Duckworth_Luas

Should the mods not move this to the GAA forum?

Caveman1

Cant go wrong with a bit of Saw Doctors for the culchies :pac:

Soups123

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Should the mods not move this to the GAA forum?

Bebah bebah heres the correct forum brigade

HeyThereDeliah

Caveman1 wrote: »

Cant go wrong with a bit of Saw Doctors for the culchies :pac:

Forgot about the saw doctors now that would have been good. The Culchies left plenty of money in the big smoke over the weekend.

iDave

Why play any music at all. Most of us want to talk about the match and cheer on the young lads having a kick about at half time. Then theres loads of pointless announcements directly you to programme notes.

Dravokivich

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Should the mods not move this to the GAA forum?

If you think the mods should move it, report the op. They aren't going to see every post with "mods" in it.

skinny90

Do you remember the song for the special Olympics,that was played at all sporting events in Crocker up until a year two years ago.

HeyThereDeliah

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Should the mods not move this to the GAA forum?

This is not about GAA it's a general question about the music played during football and hurling matches at Croke park. I was just curious as to what others thought about it.

kfallon

Real Life wrote: »

the whole thing is a bit of a cringe fest anyway so they may aswell throw on the trad music and rebel songs

How so?

Duckworth_Luas

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

This is not about GAA it's a general question about the music played during football and hurling matches at Croke park. I was just curious as to what others thought about it.

All you'll get here are the predictable references to "boggers" and "culchies". If you really want to know what others think why don't you ask the people with a real interest in GAA, you know, the people on the GAA forum? Any thread about music played at the Aviva during a soccer match would be locked or moved to the soccer forum!

HeyThereDeliah

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

All you'll get here are the predictable references to "boggers" and "culchies". If you really want to know what others think why don't you ask the people with a real interest in GAA, you know, the people on the GAA forum? Any thread about music played at the Aviva during a soccer match would be locked or moved to the soccer forum!

Thanks did not realise it was such a big deal tbh. I'm sure someone will move it or lock it. I wanted to get other opinions not just from GAA fans.

CucaFace

Sure isn't Rihanna as Irish as it gets :

http://www.joe.ie/joe-life/paddies-to-call-our-own-2/rihanna-is-irish-really-003148-1

Badly Drunk Boy

Caveman1 wrote: »

Cant go wrong with a bit of Saw Doctors for the culchies :pac:

Or Aslan for the jackeens. :rolleyes:

HeyThereDeliah

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Or Aslan for the jackeens. :rolleyes:

Aslan would be good, I like Rhianna just not during the all Ireland.

El Weirdo

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=269

Thanks.