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

Mrs Garth Brooks

Also people will be in work on thursday morning at 9am. Many people cant queue and many workplaces wont allow phones on you, never mind a laptop. Maybe an office worker might get away with online tickets.

I think we'll be grand.

Bell1990

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Also people will be in work on thursday morning at 9am. Many people cant queue and many workplaces wont allow phones on you, never mind a laptop. Maybe an office worker might get away with online tickets.

I think we'll be grand.

I know up here a lot of people have booked Thursday morning off so they can go buy tickets. My mum works in the hospital and says she had 5 workers in space of 10 minutes of the announcement look for the July dates off work. It's all people have been talking about since Monday this will definitely sell out quickly

sunbabe08

:D:D:D:cool::cool: to pitch side I be. woot!!!

ceegee

Mr.S wrote: »

This will sell out in under 30mins, no doubt about that. The level of press and promotion, of course it will.

Look at One Direction selling what, 3/4 dates in Croker?

This gig has been talked about every day on radio,tv, online - it'l sell out quickly for sure.

Depending on how many extra dates get added (my guess is 3) will depend on how easy it is to get tickets.



I think you're underestimating demand for these gigs! 40,000 buying them at 9am? It'l be about double/tripple that. Croke park is what, 70-80k for concerts depending on setup, not that much when you think about how big he is over here.

Most will be buying minimum 2 tickets.

To clarify, by 40000 people I was talking about the number of successful people (assuming the average person buys 3-4 tickets).

gnashman

PTH2009 wrote: »

there is a huge huge interest in these gigs. Almost everyone wants a ticket.

I cant see there been anymore than 2 shows

if just 2 shows it would make more sense to have them on sat and sun ( my opinion) I do think there will be a 3rd show on the Sunday and it will be announced on the Friday 31st.
pls bare in mind as was said on another thread on here that the Kilkenny gaa are set to announce a big concert again this year early in feb so who is to say that garth wont play Kilkenny. fingers crossed

Mrs Garth Brooks

Is anyone planning on queueing in Galway ?

Would 6 - 6.30am be time enough?

gnashman

plenty of time,,,bring a umbrella

Ragglepuss

Guys, Could anyone advise on whether it is possible to purchase alcohol from both the stands and pitch areas for the concert. For memory, I thought that the stands were the only areas with bars but have never been to a concert with a pitch side ticket so if anyone could help, it would be great before the ticket choices are made for Thursday morning!

Ragglepuss

Guys, Could anyone advise on whether it is possible to purchase alcohol from both the stands and pitch areas for the concert. For memory, I thought that the stands were the only areas with bars but have never been to a concert with a pitch side ticket so if anyone could help, it would be great before the ticket choices are made for Thursday morning!

paddyirish23

hi all from what i've seen from the seating chart it's all seating that includes the pitch which is divided into 8 or 10 sections i'm sure ticketmaster will have this up on there site soon enough was surprised that they wont have any standing

paddyirish23

Ragglepuss wrote: »

Guys, Could anyone advise on whether it is possible to purchase alcohol from both the stands and pitch areas for the concert. For memory, I thought that the stands were the only areas with bars but have never been to a concert with a pitch side ticket so if anyone could help, it would be great before the ticket choices are made for Thursday morning!

I'd imagine that they will set up a few temporary bars for the people who have pitch tickets, this is Ireland after all and i've not been to a concert yet that hasn't

Mrs Garth Brooks

I downloaded the ticketmaster app.

Seems straightforward.

However Garth Brooks isn't showing up at all on the app. The website has it up with find tickets button.

Is it a case that the ticketmaster app only shows whats available at this time?

And the GB gigs come up on thursday morning?

Does this sound normal for anyone else with the app ?

JJ

Some of the questions I'm seeing above have been answered by TM on their Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/TicketmasterIre

JJ

Yes, that is fairly normal. Even if you went searching for Garth Brooks on TM.ie, you'd only see this promo page:

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/ffy3sb?spotlight_ren_od=1&tm_link=tm_homeA_2_f1

They haven't set up an order page for the gig yet. This is probably because they haven't finalised the seating plan yet:

https://twitter.com/TicketmasterIre/status/426673403865878528

JJ

I just noticed TM have added an FAQ page for this event:

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/gsysuz

FAQs

.Tickets go on sale this Thursday, 31 January at 09:00
.Tickets limited to 6 per person
.Under 16s must be accompanied by a person 18+
.Vertigo sufferers should buy tickets in the lower stand (Section 301 - 336) or standing
.Accessible seating and wheelchair users should book on 0818 903001 selecting option 2
.Do not purchase tickets from unofficial outlets
.Beware of bogus ticket sellers & tour operators

Some useful tips when purchasing tickets online

.If you join a virtual queue, do not hit refresh. Instead be patient and follow the onscreen instructions
.For section and location options select `Best Available'
.Do not open multiple browser windows
.If you do not currently have a My Ticketmaster account please set one up in advance of Thursday's sale. All details can be found here: https://www.ticketmaster.ie/member
.On Thursday morning log-in to your MY Ticketmaster account before 9am
.If you have 3D secure set-up for your MasterCard or Verify by Visa for your Visa card then make sure you know your password
.Please ensure that you select the correct Country for your billing e.g. If your billing address is Northern Ireland then you must select your Delivery method as Northern Ireland also. You cannot save your billing address as Great Britain and select delivery to Northern Ireland. You will receive an error message.

paddyirish23

Yes it's 6 max per person i found a seating chart on a website but not sure if your happy for me to put it up as this is not fully confirmed but looks to be the case please let me know if this needs to come down again

Mrs Garth Brooks

The pitch cant be seated. No way. That'll be the dryest concert.

Sure the new FAQs on ticketmaster states that

Vertigo sufferers should buy tickets in the lower stands or standing ???

Standing ?

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/gsysuz

No way it'll be all seated.

Furious-Red

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

The pitch cant be seated. No way. That'll be the dryest concert.

Sure the new FAQs on ticketmaster states that

Vertigo sufferers should buy tickets in the lower stands or standing ???

Standing ?

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/gsysuz

No way it'll be all seated.

Yea when i was working at the Westlife gigs a few years ago we were told if we met anyone who had Vertigo to bring them to the First Aid area and if they were satisified we would bring them to customer service area and get them a lower seating area or if need be let them on pitch

sunbabe08

Furious-Red wrote: »

Yea when i was working at the Westlife gigs a few years ago we were told if we met anyone who had Vertigo to bring them to the First Aid area and if they were satisified we would bring them to customer service area and get them a lower seating area or if need be let them on pitch

as some one who suffers from vertigo I thank you for this information

RiverOfLove

paddyirish23 wrote: »

Yes it's 6 max per person i found a seating chart on a website but not sure if your happy for me to put it up as this is not fully confirmed but looks to be the case please let me know if this needs to come down again

Thanks for linking this.

I see from the image above the pitch is divided into sections.

I hope to go for standing tickets.

On thursday morning we'll probably be allocated sections with our tickets in like A1, A2, A3, etc B1, B2, B3 etc

And on the day of the concerts whatever area we are asigned we go there.

My sister and I will have fits if we don't get an A block.

Would there be any golden circle/pit at this that would be perhaps priced higher than the 65.45 euro ? Like the A2, A3, A4 blocks would be centre front.

I wouldn't mind paying more for a pit ticket.

I might phone ticketmaster tomorrow morning (or would they have an email to require about this).

Furious-Red

sunbabe08 wrote: »

as some one who suffers from vertigo I thank you for this information

No worries , unless things have changed but thats the way we did it . Suppose if the First Aid sign off confirming you have vertigo you will be grand . But if you are able to buy lower seats/standing go for that

sunbabe08

Furious-Red wrote: »

No worries , unless things have changed but thats the way we did it . Suppose if the First Aid sign off confirming you have vertigo you will be grand . But if you are able to buy lower seats/standing go for that

that's what I'm counting on

RiverOfLove

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

The pitch cant be seated. No way. That'll be the dryest concert.

Sure the new FAQs on ticketmaster states that

Vertigo sufferers should buy tickets in the lower stands or standing ???

Standing ?

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/gsysuz

No way it'll be all seated.

I read many pages of the Bruce Springsteen thread and people were allowed seat numbers for the pitch which were standing. I think it's something ticketmaster does. I'd be fairly certain that the pitch would be standing for brooks. And even if it's not and the pitch is seated, Michael Buble had all seated concerts but the two I've been at no way did people remain sitting.

Furious-Red

Just heard there is a 3rd date booked when the other 2 sell out

sunbabe08

Furious-Red wrote: »

Just heard there is a 3rd date booked when the other 2 sell out

woot!!!! shall go to that one too

Mrs Garth Brooks

sunbabe08 wrote: »

woot!!!! shall go to that one too

Me too

Skyebear07

From what I can gather most of the smaller TMs are NOT getting ticket allocations for Garth Brooks. Every one I know that plans on going has organised to queue for tickets as well as queuing online. I know a group of approx ten who are setting up computers at someone's house so they can have a few queuing online, 6 more of them are getting into physical queue, they plan to communicate with each other via mobiles, there aim is to get 58 tickets! And that's not counting the group I will be queuing with which will be another 30+ tickets. It's not only that tickets are going to be in high demand for this that people need to think about. It's the fact that people want them thurs morning! Everyone wants to be guaranteed tickets so most are doing similar to above. Queuing both at TM stores as well as online. I honestly think this is going to turn into something from the 90's with massive queues outside shops. This will be any promoters dream as its totally free publicity. Every paper will have pictures of the queues as they form. There will be the few who I have heard are starting tomorrow and once media gets wind photos will be everywhere starting hysteria. Myself and at least 30 people I know will descend the second we get wind of any queue starting. This I think will be true for most people. On my Facebook the majority of conversations between people is what they need to bring for a couple of nights camping outside shops, ie wet gear, chairs, playing cards etc lol not how best to get tickets. Everyone is intending on getting tickets, no one has even mentioned they will be available on done deal etc we have decided to wait until weds before joining queue but that will be totally dependent on TM Galway. We are ready at a moments notice to abandon ship at home and head into the city. My poor hubby!!! Lol. Best of luck to everyone and fingers crossed we are all jumping for joy next thurs morning :-D

RiverOfLove

Me too.

What is the third date? Would it be the thursday the 24 or sunday the 27th and any idea when that will go on sale? I wonder would it be added shortly after thursday morning's release?

Careful_now!

Furious-Red wrote: »

Just heard there is a 3rd date booked when the other 2 sell out

Where did you hear that?

Furious-Red

Careful_now! wrote: »

Where did you hear that?

Cant really say . But it is a very reliable source

PTH2009

Skyebear07 wrote: »

From what I can gather most of the smaller TMs are NOT getting ticket allocations for Garth Brooks. Every one I know that plans on going has organised to queue for tickets as well as queuing online. I know a group of approx ten who are setting up computers at someone's house so they can have a few queuing online, 6 more of them are getting into physical queue, they plan to communicate with each other via mobiles, there aim is to get 58 tickets! And that's not counting the group I will be queuing with which will be another 30+ tickets. It's not only that tickets are going to be in high demand for this that people need to think about. It's the fact that people want them thurs morning! Everyone wants to be guaranteed tickets so most are doing similar to above. Queuing both at TM stores as well as online. I honestly think this is going to turn into something from the 90's with massive queues outside shops. This will be any promoters dream as its totally free publicity. Every paper will have pictures of the queues as they form. There will be the few who I have heard are starting tomorrow and once media gets wind photos will be everywhere starting hysteria. Myself and at least 30 people I know will descend the second we get wind of any queue starting. This I think will be true for most people. On my Facebook the majority of conversations between people is what they need to bring for a couple of nights camping outside shops, ie wet gear, chairs, playing cards etc lol not how best to get tickets. Everyone is intending on getting tickets, no one has even mentioned they will be available on done deal etc we have decided to wait until weds before joining queue but that will be totally dependent on TM Galway. We are ready at a moments notice to abandon ship at home and head into the city. My poor hubby!!! Lol. Best of luck to everyone and fingers crossed we are all jumping for joy next thurs morning :-D

thats my chance of getting 2 tickets gone then. Im only able to get them online and have a feeling that they will be all gone. I will be online at 9am thursday morning.

I pray to every god i get 2 tickets

Skyebear07

PTH2009 wrote: »

thats my chance of getting 2 tickets gone then. Im only able to get them online and have a feeling that they will be all gone. I will be online at 9am thursday morning.

I pray to every god i get 2 tickets

I will keep my fingers and toes crossed you succeed in getting tickets!!

bennyl10

Skyebear07 wrote: »

From what I can gather most of the smaller TMs are NOT getting ticket allocations for Garth Brooks. Every one I know that plans on going has organised to queue for tickets as well as queuing online. I know a group of approx ten who are setting up computers at someone's house so they can have a few queuing online, 6 more of them are getting into physical queue, they plan to communicate with each other via mobiles, there aim is to get 58 tickets! And that's not counting the group I will be queuing with which will be another 30+ tickets. It's not only that tickets are going to be in high demand for this that people need to think about. It's the fact that people want them thurs morning! Everyone wants to be guaranteed tickets so most are doing similar to above. Queuing both at TM stores as well as online. I honestly think this is going to turn into something from the 90's with massive queues outside shops. This will be any promoters dream as its totally free publicity. Every paper will have pictures of the queues as they form. There will be the few who I have heard are starting tomorrow and once media gets wind photos will be everywhere starting hysteria. Myself and at least 30 people I know will descend the second we get wind of any queue starting. This I think will be true for most people. On my Facebook the majority of conversations between people is what they need to bring for a couple of nights camping outside shops, ie wet gear, chairs, playing cards etc lol not how best to get tickets. Everyone is intending on getting tickets, no one has even mentioned they will be available on done deal etc we have decided to wait until weds before joining queue but that will be totally dependent on TM Galway. We are ready at a moments notice to abandon ship at home and head into the city. My poor hubby!!! Lol. Best of luck to everyone and fingers crossed we are all jumping for joy next thurs morning :-D

Every outlet will have access to the system.. Therefore all will have tickets.

Skyebear07

bennyl10 wrote: »

Every outlet will have access to the system.. Therefore all will have tickets.

The two Smaller ones near us have issued a notice saying they will not be selling tickets on thurs.

Mrs Garth Brooks

For anyone planing on buying online.

Are ye not worried that it mightn't work? Ticketmaster crashes etc.

Just read over one direction thread and someone got tickets over a 3g connection. Which I have.

Trying to decide queueing up overnight in the cold versus queueing at the laptop on thursday morning.

Anything can go wrong really, with any method.

Also im so desperate for tickets that i'd probaby pay extra. And there's always people who will buy to sell on. Has to be better than queueing all night.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Mr.S wrote: »

Ticketmaster holds up good these days, it used to crash all the time with big events, but in the past while it hasn't. It'l be slow, but thats it.

There will always be tickets available, as long as you have the cash

There will be tickets on ebay for double the price 5 mins after they are on sale.

I might chance online. My brother can watch movies on his 3g network. That has to be good. And we're on the same network.

I probably wont be able to sleep all night, then wonder that I should be in the queue.

Its so stressful buying tickets.

Ahhhhh

Gemmamc

Anyone know how to get job a events like this?

B_Rabbit

The whole "ticket allocation" thing people are spouting is pure shite.

Everyone has access to the same pool of ~160k tickets, and it's first come first served. The TM agents buy tickets faster than people at pc's though.

RiverOfLove

Skyebear07 wrote: »

From what I can gather most of the smaller TMs are NOT getting ticket allocations for Garth Brooks. Every one I know that plans on going has organised to queue for tickets as well as queuing online. I know a group of approx ten who are setting up computers at someone's house so they can have a few queuing online, 6 more of them are getting into physical queue, they plan to communicate with each other via mobiles, there aim is to get 58 tickets! And that's not counting the group I will be queuing with which will be another 30+ tickets. It's not only that tickets are going to be in high demand for this that people need to think about. It's the fact that people want them thurs morning! Everyone wants to be guaranteed tickets so most are doing similar to above. Queuing both at TM stores as well as online. I honestly think this is going to turn into something from the 90's with massive queues outside shops. This will be any promoters dream as its totally free publicity. Every paper will have pictures of the queues as they form. There will be the few who I have heard are starting tomorrow and once media gets wind photos will be everywhere starting hysteria. Myself and at least 30 people I know will descend the second we get wind of any queue starting. This I think will be true for most people. On my Facebook the majority of conversations between people is what they need to bring for a couple of nights camping outside shops, ie wet gear, chairs, playing cards etc lol not how best to get tickets. Everyone is intending on getting tickets, no one has even mentioned they will be available on done deal etc we have decided to wait until weds before joining queue but that will be totally dependent on TM Galway. We are ready at a moments notice to abandon ship at home and head into the city. My poor hubby!!! Lol. Best of luck to everyone and fingers crossed we are all jumping for joy next thurs morning :-D

So organisers want big queues for pubilicity. What do you mean by pubilicity? Pubilicity for what? Aikan promotions? Ticketmaster shops?

That's crap. Ticketmasters job is to sell tickets. If they want big queues for pubilicity, there would be no such thing as online sales.

Edited to add: why would smaller outlets decide not to sell to give pubilicity to bigger outlets?

bennyl10

Skyebear07 wrote: »

The two Smaller ones near us have issued a notice saying they will not be selling tickets on thurs.

Also, why in God's name do ye need in excess of 60 tickets?..
Tout rings are awful and stop actual fans getting tickets..

Skyebear07

bennyl10 wrote: »

Also, why in God's name do ye need in excess of 60 tickets?..
Tout rings are awful and stop actual fans getting tickets..

Casting assertions about a person is also awful! FYI I am one hell of an actual fan as are most of my friends! Within five mins of the announcement of when tickets are on sale I was asked to get at least 20 tickets for other people as my FRIENDS all knew without a shadow of a doubt I would be queuing! I will be queuing with 4 of my immediate friends and I will be buying 12 tickets if allowed, 6 for each night. And they will be doing the same. We are buying for friends who are working, family members who are minding our kids whilst we queue etc. there are already 4 coaches booked to go up on the thurs by our gang. We are all going both nights, and will go a third if it is announced.We booked our hotels within two mins of getting our news letter emails. And if 20 of us are willing to stay out on the street for 48 hours if needs be nobody has the right to give out if we buy every ticket we are allowed to if we are actually using them which we are!! RANT OVER!

Skyebear07

RiverOfLove wrote: »

So organisers want big queues for pubilicity. What do you mean by pubilicity? Pubilicity for what? Aikan promotions? Ticketmaster shops?

That's crap. Ticketmasters job is to sell tickets. If they want big queues for pubilicity, there would be no such thing as online sales.

Edited to add: why would smaller outlets decide not to sell to give pubilicity to bigger outlets?[/
I did not say smaller TM were not selling just so bigger TMS would get publicity. What I said were the two smaller TMs near us have said they will NOT be selling tickets for Garth Brooks. (Maybe because they are incorporated with other business I do not know!)
The reference I made to publicity was that it is a publicists dream if people queue. The bigger the queue the bigger the media coverage. I did not say this would be an intentional act by TM, Aiken or anyone else. It is a fact though that they will play on it! Every newspaper will be talking about "Garth Brooks Fever".

Toast

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Also im so desperate for tickets that i'd probaby pay extra. And there's always people who will buy to sell on. Has to be better than queueing all night.

Buying from touts gives incentive to someone to buy tickets to tout which means there are less tickets for actual fans which means the fans have to buy from touts.

If you end up with no tickets save your money and don't support touts and wait until the week before the gig. I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a good few legitimate fans who suddenly can't go who'd be happy to sell to another fan for face value.

ab4248

Mr.S wrote: »

Croke Park staff have been asked/told to work a 3rd gig.

Any idea if it would be the same weekend?

Skyebear07

RiverOfLove wrote: »

So organisers want big queues for pubilicity. What do you mean by pubilicity? Pubilicity for what? Aikan promotions? Ticketmaster shops?

That's crap. Ticketmasters job is to sell tickets. If they want big queues for pubilicity, there would be no such thing as online sales.

Edited to add: why would smaller outlets decide not to sell to give pubilicity to bigger outlets?

I did not say smaller TM were not selling just so bigger TMS would get publicity. What I said were the two smaller TMs near us have said they will NOT be selling tickets for Garth Brooks. (Maybe because they are incorporated with other business I do not know!)
The reference I made to publicity was that it is a publicists dream if people queue. The bigger the queue the bigger the media coverage. I did not say this would be an intentional act by TM, Aiken or anyone else. It is a fact though that they will play on it! Every newspaper will be talking about "Garth Brooks Fever".

Padkir

ab4248 wrote: »

Any idea if it would be the same weekend?

Has to be, all Ireland quarter finals are the following weekend I think so they'd need to start sorting out the pitch by the Monday!

Padkir

ab4248 wrote: »

Any idea if it would be the same weekend?

Has to be, all Ireland quarter finals are the following weekend I think so they'd need to start sorting out the pitch by the Monday!

bennyl10

Skyebear07 wrote: »

Casting assertions about a person is also awful! FYI I am one hell of an actual fan as are most of my friends! Within five mins of the announcement of when tickets are on sale I was asked to get at least 20 tickets for other people as my FRIENDS all knew without a shadow of a doubt I would be queuing! I will be queuing with 4 of my immediate friends and I will be buying 12 tickets if allowed, 6 for each night. And they will be doing the same. We are buying for friends who are working, family members who are minding our kids whilst we queue etc. there are already 4 coaches booked to go up on the thurs by our gang. We are all going both nights, and will go a third if it is announced.We booked our hotels within two mins of getting our news letter emails. And if 20 of us are willing to stay out on the street for 48 hours if needs be nobody has the right to give out if we buy every ticket we are allowed to if we are actually using them which we are!! RANT OVER!

Can I also ask what shops are staying closed? Just to infirm other people here who may be thinking of attending these..
Seems quite weird a certain.shop would be turned Off the server, on probably the biggest profit making day of the year..

Tivketmaster also say outlets selling.. Surely they'd stress if others aren't?

Skyebear07

bennyl10 wrote: »

Can I also ask what shops are staying closed? Just to infirm other people here who may be thinking of attending these..
Seems quite weird a certain.shop would be turned Off the server, on probably the biggest profit making day of the year..

Tivketmaster also say outlets selling.. Surely they'd stress if others aren't?

Try looking it up, east Galway area :-)

bennyl10

Skyebear07 wrote: »

Try looking it up, east Galway area :-)

See I did that..
There's only 2 in all of Galway.. Shop Street certainly won't be closed.. And I doubt Stronges in balinasloe will either..
Where us this supposed third one which is closing?..

Also the use the ticketmaster systemso no reason there.. And outlets sell for all events unless online sales only..

Source for above ticketmaster.ie

Maybe just infiom the people if Galway of this magical unregistered ticketmaster outlet?..