3 Day music festival for Bolton Street car park

Aquos76

Looks like an announcement is imminent

http://www.daytripper.ie

mike65

Shall we play "Bolton Street Shows" bingo?

I'll say The Boomtown Rats

longshanks

There are a shit load of Irish bands I'd like to see at this.
I only hope they don't go for some Bressie type shite to attract crowds.

Ilikeyourcow

Kilkenny get The Boss and we get the coronas and emelda may!!!! May aswell of had it in the forum!! Just hoping the sat night will be big!!!

PTH2009

very good for Waterford to have something like this.

The Script for Saturday id guess

MitchKoobski

That Friday line up has me sold anyway. Any hints for the Saturday?

BIG-SLICK-POKER

Great news for Waterford something to look forward to

PTH2009

hoepfully the saturday lineup will be good.

How great will it be to simply just leave our own houses and go to a high class gig locally without having to wory about getting to Dublin or Cork

Ghostbusthat

There's no one on the line up so far that i'd want to see, but it's great that something like this is happening here finally.

KevIRL

Hope this is a success I really do. So far the line up doesnt float my boat too much personally especially at the price point of 42.50 per day

This is the type of thing its up against with regard to the price point http://www.longitude.ie/

Granted the capacity size means the local oragnisers cant hope to do a similar gig to the Dublin one at the same cost, hopefully there is at least one 'wow' name amoungst the Saturday line up

They definitely dont make this aim so far on the front page of the site imo

DAYTRIPPER aims to be the best value music event in the country this year with tickets costing just €40 per day plus service charge of €2.50. This is below the cost of many single act gigs in the country this summer and well below any comparable festival events.

Early days though, and dont want to be entirely negative. Great to see this type of thing happening, the potential of that venue was shown during the Tall Ships and Harvest festivals in the past.

leduke

a positive event for the city and something to look forward to! hopefully the line up for saturday will be worth waiting for.

deisediva

They know what they are up to. Waterford Marathon on that weekend on the Saturday so a lot will stay in hotels and buy tickets for something like this.
Hope someone decent playing on Saturday.

Ilikeyourcow

PTH2009 wrote: »

very good for Waterford to have something like this.

The Script for Saturday id guess

They are in luxemburg that weekend so tryin to think of another big irish act...

Hoffmans

its low budget so expect bressie jedward or jamilia for sat
anyway beat have linep in the morn...

O Riain

Hopefully they can maybe expand on this and have a proper walk-about music festival in the city. Think of the buzz it would create with various acts on at different times in diffferent areas of the city over the day with the headliner down in Bolton Street or possibly some gigantic aviation bunker out by the airport á la Sónar in Barcelona

S28382

Ilikeyourcow wrote: »

Kilkenny get The Boss and we get the coronas and emelda may!!!! May aswell of had it in the forum!! Just hoping the sat night will be big!!!

Jesus some people are never happy this town is not exactly alive and kicking, something like this is a chance to have a positive thing in the city and there is still people like you complaining. I bet if god himself was making a Devine appearance in Bolton st car park you would still moan it's not good enough.

Flyin Irishman

Is it definitely €42.50 per day? Or is that for the 3 days?

I'd like to see O Emporer at it, and Solar Taxi are class!

Ilikeyourcow

S28382 wrote: »

Jesus some people are never happy this town is not exactly alive and kicking, something like this is a chance to have a positive thing in the city and there is still people like you complaining. I bet if god himself was making a Devine appearance in Bolton st car park you would still moan it's not good enough.

No it is a good thing for the town but they seem to be acts who have played the forum put together. All im saying is we are bigger and better than the likes of kk so show it. I do hope it goes well and it will give the town a lift. I would love to see blur or mumford and sons along with irish acts so there is an international flavour to it esp for the price

S28382

Ilikeyourcow wrote: »

No it is a good thing for the town but they seem to be acts who have played the forum put together. All im saying is we are bigger and better than the likes of kk so show it. I do hope it goes well and it will give the town a lift. I would love to see blur or mumford and sons along with irish acts so there is an international flavour to it esp for the price

Well for the most part it's supporting Irish acts plus Saturdays act hasn't been announced yet maybe that will be a big one, I just think your criticism is a bit premature. This city needs more and more things like this to show people that it still is a place that can be good and that its not dead and buried just yet.

old gregg

Good news for Waterford, hoping it does really well. Personally, there's none there I'd pay to see but what does that matter.

Dicky Pride

old gregg wrote: »

Good news for Waterford, hoping it does really well. Personally, there's none there I'd pay to see but what does that matter.

Well it kinda does matter because that seems to be the general consensus on this thread. People are presuming that even if they don't like the acts there will be hundreds of others that will. But will they like them to the tine of 42 euro? Or 130 euro for the whole weekend? If Saturday is a big act then that will sell out and Saturday and Sunday might struggle.

It's a gamble, that's for sure. But I admire them for it and I hope they pull it off.

mecco

Dicky Pride wrote: »

Well it kinda does matter because that seems to be the general consensus on this thread. People are presuming that even if they don't like the acts there will be hundreds of others that will. But will they like them to the tine of 42 euro? Or 130 euro for the whole weekend? If Saturday is a big act then that will sell out and Saturday and Sunday might struggle.

It's a gamble, that's for sure. But I admire them for it and I hope they pull it off.

Imelda May and The Coronas will both surely draw crowds as I'd imagine they are big enough acts, they seem to have no problems everywhere else they go sure.

Although I'd agree with your point about a huge Saturday act having an influence. I presume they'll announce the Saturday act before tickets go on sale, otherwise it might cause people to hold off just in case.

jonnyfingers

This is great for the city. And to those looking for bigger acts, the site only has a capacity of 2,500. No very large act like Springsteen is going to play a show of that size. So I think the organizers have gone for decent acts that fit the venue. I would love to see some good Irish bands being supported though, especially O Emperor. And given the name of the event they have to throw in a Beatles tribute band somewhere!

mozattack

Metallica?

mozattack

40 quid... ha!

CardBordWindow

jonnyfingers wrote: »

This is great for the city. And to those looking for bigger acts, the site only has a capacity of 2,500. No very large act like Springsteen is going to play a show of that size. So I think the organizers have gone for decent acts that fit the venue. I would love to see some good Irish bands being supported though, especially O Emperor. And given the name of the event they have to throw in a Beatles tribute band somewhere!

Odds of that being Lebowski?

Bluezar

Ilikeyourcow wrote: »

No it is a good thing for the town but they seem to be acts who have played the forum put together. All im saying is we are bigger and better than the likes of kk so show it. I do hope it goes well and it will give the town a lift. I would love to see blur or mumford and sons along with irish acts so there is an international flavour to it esp for the price

Best of luck with that:)

Nypd

Didn't that area hold more for the tall ships concerts ?

old gregg

I suppose from a business perspective there must be a hope that people will travel from out of town to this. This raises the question as to how many of the acts listed are not already available to see on a regular basis around the country.

mike65

old gregg wrote: »

I suppose from a business perspective there must be a hope that people will travel from out of town to this. This raises the question as to how many of the acts listed are not already available to see on a regular basis around the country.

2,500 tickets per day doesn't sound like something designed to pull 'em in from near and far. Some will I'm sure but no one in Dublin or Cork is going to be packing a bag for a long weekend in Waterford

old gregg

mike65 wrote: »

2,500 tickets per day doesn't sound like something designed to pull 'em in from near and far. Some will I'm sure but no one in Dublin or Cork is going to be packing a bag for a long weekend in Waterford

That being the case then it means roughly 5% of the local population will need to attend each day which is a pretty high expectancy rate when many of the acts play here regularly anyway.