Question that needs to be answered!!!

shaneovan

Hello all,
So I'm trying to remember my very first concert when I was a kid and looked up online to find the exact date but according to (the bastards of) the internet it never happened. So I'm hoping someone could please help me with this one.
It's going back a bit is the only thing.
I remember my very concert being Red Hot Chili Peppers in Lansdowne Road at some point in the summer of 2002 or 2003 with support from (I'm 99% sure it was) Queens of the Stone Age.
RHCP touring off the By the Way album and QOTSA touring off Rated R.

Did this concert actually happen or am I going mental and if so what was the date?
Cheers!

Trilogy

shaneovan wrote: »

Hello all,
So I'm trying to remember my very first concert when I was a kid and looked up online to find the exact date but according to (the bastards of) the internet it never happened. So I'm hoping someone could please help me with this one.
It's going back a bit is the only thing.
I remember my very concert being Red Hot Chili Peppers in Lansdowne Road at some point in the summer of 2002 or 2003 with support from (I'm 99% sure it was) Queens of the Stone Age.
RHCP touring off the By the Way album and QOTSA touring off Rated R.

Did this concert actually happen or am I going mental and if so what was the date?
Cheers!

Yep I was at that gig, now married to the fella I went with

Can't remember the exact time but could find out if ya really wanted to know!

the_barfly1

didn't new order open for them at that gig? july 2002 i think it was

shaneovan

Trilogy wrote: »

Yep I was at that gig, now married to the fella I went with

Can't remember the exact time but could find out if ya really wanted to know!

Hello!!! Yes, that would be pure amazeballs!! Thank you so much, concerts mean the world to me and to not be able to remember if my very first one happened or even the date is horrible :-D

mark13

I think you might be mixing up two gigs, on June 25th 2002 they played Landsdowne with support from New Order and The Walls.

Then they headlined Slane on the 23rd of August 2003, with the Foo Fighters and QOTSA supporting them.

the_barfly1

mark13 wrote: »

I think you might be mixing up two gigs, on June 25th 2002 they played Landsdowne with support from New Order and The Walls.

Then they headlined Slane on the 23rd of August 2003, with the Foo Fighters and QOTSA supporting them.

That's correct. Was at both of those gigs. Lansdowne gig was pretty poor as far as I remember. Slane was great though.
If I remember correctly I think New Order actually played a longer set than RHCP at the Lansdowne gig.

8-10

the_barfly1 wrote: »

That's correct. Was at both of those gigs. Lansdowne gig was pretty poor as far as I remember. Slane was great though.
If I remember correctly I think New Order actually played a longer set than RHCP at the Lansdowne gig.

Yeah I think you might be right. New Order were excellent I thought but crowd seemed to give them a hard time, except when Frusciante came out to play a song with them. RHCP's seemed pissed and played a very short set.

2001 in Slane hasn't been lived up to since.

Toast

The New Order set was front loaded with material of Get Ready which didn't seem to win them new fans or please old ones. Some classics were pulled out towards the end but I think they'd lost the crowd entirely and lost interest themselves leaving the stage with the line "Tell your parents you saw us".

I don't recall RHCP being that bad but the crowd had got fairly restless after New Order being too sedate and RHCP also seemed to go with a setlist that wasn't fast or energetic enough for them.

The thing to remember is the Irish team had returned from the 2002 World Cup the week before to a huge homecoming event in the Phoenix Park which had every teenager in Dublin out to greet them with an inflatable tricolour hammer. This crowd then basically reformed in Landsdowne complete with their hammers and flags looking to recreate that. The atmosphere went out the door when the music didn't give them what they wanted and the highlight people most remember is a chancer climbing some rigging.

scudzilla

shaneovan wrote: »

Hello!!! Yes, that would be pure amazeballs!! Thank you so much, concerts mean the world to me and to not be able to remember if my very first one happened or even the date is horrible :-D

Did you actually just type 'Amazeballs'???

That's a banning if ever i heard one

shaneovan

scudzilla wrote: »

Did you actually just type 'Amazeballs'???

That's a banning if ever i heard one

Hahaha, don't care. I honestly just made this account so I could ask this question and that's it :-D

TimeToShine

shaneovan wrote: »

Hahaha, don't care. I honestly just made this account so I could ask this question and that's it :-D

That's how it starts...

cruhoortwunk

mark13 wrote: »

I think you might be mixing up two gigs, on June 25th 2002 they played Landsdowne with support from New Order and The Walls.

Then they headlined Slane on the 23rd of August 2003, with the Foo Fighters and QOTSA supporting them.

Slane was great that year alright