Garth Brooks Comeback Special *ALL 5 SHOWS CANCELLED* READ FIRST POST

Mr_Red

Aviva should take full advantage of this situation and start drawing up agreements to hold a larger amount of concerts with the locals and pull this business out of the Croke Park completely

Everytime there are concerts in CP the residents moan about and I heard on Joe Duffy that 2500 people work in CP for the gigs and a large amount are the locals themselves

Mrs Garth Brooks

shoppergal wrote: »

Don't know what to do. There are tickets on ticketmaster for the Sunday night. Afraid that if i buy them and something happens to save the Tuesday night that i'll be left with two lots of tickets.

Does anyone know likely is it that something will happen to allow the Monday & Tuesday night to go ahead?

Not a hope for monday and tuesday.

Go for sunday tickets nevermind the comment saying the first three will be cancelled as well....Even if it does, you will get a refund. It wont come to it. The council satisfied the residents. GB wont pull out of the gigs, no way he will do that to his fans.

sydthebeat

peejay1986 wrote: »

Hahaha good luck in life if this is your attitude. Fight the power! :rolleyes:

with this attitude its not me who needs luck going through life....

keep your shoulder to the wheel......;)

hynesie08

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Not a hope for monday and tuesday.

Go for sunday tickets nevermind the comment saying the first three will be cancelled as well....Even if it does, you will get a refund. It wont come to it. The council satisfied the residents. GB wont pull out of the gigs, no way he will do that to his fans.

Trust me, if aiken try to pull out of paying Garth for all 5 gigs, you'll see a Stetson hat shaped hole in the wall he'll bail that fast.

dublin99

GAA and Aiken were well aware of the agreement and the 3 concert rule.

They were greedy.

They thought they could get away with it, possibly by giving a sweetener (tiny percentage of the profits from the extra 2 shows) to the residents association.

Did they think they were above the law?

It should be interesting to see what provisions were in Aiken's contract with Garth Brooks. Maybe Garth Brooks will pursue Aiken for breach of contract?

Although the tickets had the small print "subject to licence" on them, concert goers bought these tickets in good faith and were not aware of the potential dispute. The promoters should act in a decent manner and offer some form of compensation in addition to a full refund as a good will gesture. But will they?

horslips

Is it not a little bit surreal that you can still buy tickets for the Tuesday night show on Ticketmaster?

ruskin

Garth Brooks is an American country music singer.

flasher0030

If Brooks cancelled all 5 gigs, where would people's fury be directed at - Brooks himself or GAA/Aikens.

miju

My guess DCC and / or residents

Peppa Pig

flasher0030 wrote: »

If Brooks cancelled all 5 gigs, where would people's fury be directed at - Brooks himself or GAA/Aikens.

The residents

ManOfMystery

So, what if the residents were given some kind of sweetener?

Shedite27

ManOfMystery wrote: »

So, what if the residents were given some kind of sweetener?

In the past they were always given sweeteners, sounds like this time they asked for too much and DCC called their bluff and told them to go f themselves.

miju

ManOfMystery wrote: »

So, what if the residents were given some kind of sweetener?

like €500,000 wasn't enough of a sweetener?

OldGoat

ManOfMystery wrote: »

So, what if the residents were given some kind of sweetener?

What (or how much) do you suggest would be a suitable sweetener?

hynesie08

ManOfMystery wrote: »

So, what if the residents were given some kind of sweetener?

They don't want and never asked for compo. A fund of €500,000 was recommended and rejected.

schemingbohemia

scruff monkey wrote: »

I would hope that the lesson learnt is actually on the side of the promoters in having all your planning requirements signed off before selling tickets.

(But that's unlikely to happen)

That's why I wrote a lesson, not the lesson. There are many lessons to be learned.

Dubliner28

Had to come here and get away from the "howaya brigade" on facebook who are saying that the people knew where they were buying there houses so tough.

Sad little people

hynesie08

Shedite27 wrote: »

In the past they were always given sweeteners, sounds like this time they asked for too much and DCC called their bluff and told them to go f themselves.

I have no idea what point your trying to male.

schemingbohemia

sydthebeat wrote: »

as i said above... the hotel ALREADY have their windfall with the 3 nights.
They are already making superprofits due to the allowed concerts.

the refusals will revert them back to their normal course of business, normal standard profits, normal costs of wages etc.

business does NOT have to equate to greed.

There was a report the other day that Irish people book their hotels (abroad) 90 days in advance of their trip on average. Why should the hotels not take the payments for these when the chances of a replacement booking are so slim?

ManOfMystery

Shedite27 wrote: »

In the past they were always given sweeteners, sounds like this time they asked for too much and DCC called their bluff and told them to go f themselves.

Didn't know....

miju wrote: »

like €500,000 wasn't enough of a sweetener?

As above

OldGoat wrote: »

What (or how much) do you suggest would be a suitable sweetener?

I don't know. Tickets for the Tuesday show? :pac:

I just though it's a bit of an unique (if not totally unprecedented) situation. We have a global superstar and hundreds (if not thousands) of people behind the scenes committed to making 2 concerts happen on those Mon and Tues nights. You have 160,000 fans wanting to go. You have hundreds of hotels and local businesses who will profit from the extra business. Never mind the logistics of changing everything at this relatively late stage.

Then on the other hand, you have the residents against it - and I can fully understand their concerns too. To me, it would make more sense to work out some kind of compensation if the residents were willing to let it go ahead, rather than face the huge costs and disappointment involved in cancelling - but as I said above, I didn't know this had already been motioned.

hynesie08 wrote: »

They don't want and never asked for compo. A fund of €500,000 was recommended and rejected.

My point is moot then.

stooge

sydthebeat wrote: »

because its middle aged crowd on a monday and tuesday night going to garth brooks....


not a bunch of 15-16 yos going to swedish house mafia pissed and banging to the heavens.

some perspective please.

gaa should organize 3 nights in a row of SHM next year just as a f'k you. Then they'll know what anti social behaviour is! :pac:

sydthebeat

schemingbohemia wrote: »

There was a report the other day that Irish people book their hotels (abroad) 90 days in advance of their trip on average. Why should the hotels not take the payments for these when the chances of a replacement booking are so slim?

the hotels are not abroad???? whats your point?

hynesie08

stooge wrote: »

gaa should organize 3 nights in a row of SHM next year just as a f'k you. Then they'll know what anti social behaviour is! :pac:

Completely agree, croker will never host another gig when they go bankrupt from not selling 210,000 tickets.

Dubliner28

sydthebeat wrote: »

because its middle aged crowd on a monday and tuesday night going to garth brooks....


not a bunch of 15-16 yos going to swedish house mafia pissed and banging to the heavens.

some perspective please.

The same mid aged crowd that go to GAA games fall out of a pub 10mins before throw in and piss and puke in peoples gardens walking up Clonliffe Road ??

dublin99

If airlines are not allowed to sell tickets for new routes till they get permission to fly these routes, and developers arent allowed to sell apartments till planning permission is granted, then how come there are no rules or laws governing the sale of hundreds of thousands of concert tickets ?? What if the money has already been siphoned away to various individuals/companies and the promoters turn around and declare incolvency?? What protection do consumers have?

willowthewisp

hynesie08 wrote: »

They don't want and never asked for compo. A fund of €500,000 was recommended and rejected.

That's what you think.

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hynesie08 wrote: »

Completely agree, croker will never host another gig when they go bankrupt from not selling 210,000 tickets.

Whats your point here? You want Croke Park to never host a gig again?

Corholio

Idiotic GAA and Aiken to chance their arm with the 5 shows, firmly come back to bite them now. Some of the people, here and on other media, showing ire towards the residents really need a sense of perspective. All the talk of 'surely something can be worked out', this fell on the shoulders of the people who planned all this, and they firmly ****ed it all up.

It's also a load of nonsense to say it's 'only middle aged crowd'. 80,000 of anything every night is going to be an inconvenience to the people who actually live there, this is x 5 then again.

asteroids over berlin

Mr_Red wrote: »

Aviva should take full advantage of this situation and start drawing up agreements to hold a larger amount of concerts with the locals and pull this business out of the Croke Park completely

Everytime there are concerts in CP the residents moan about and I heard on Joe Duffy that 2500 people work in CP for the gigs and a large amount are the locals themselves

oh yeah and i can see the residents down there biting - wake up mate, they live with football/irfu and the odd gig, they have the rds up the road too, they would never agree and rightly so!!

Tilikum

€20m loss for the economy.