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Garth Brooks concerts cancelled - **READ FIRST POST FOR MOD NOTES**
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Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »Speak for yourself please, Phil Hogan is not incorrect, just you and those that have repeated the same nonsense in the thread so far (and also those that thanked it).
There was no need to inform us of that, it has been quite obvious from your posts.
Totally and utterly false.
I will show you why in just a second but do you really think the Irish media, Aiken, Brooks and the GAA would have been banging on about how the licence applications were made four weeks prior to the deadline.. if the deadline was actually "16 weeks"? Which would of course mean that they had actually missed it?? That was actually plausible in your head and that not the Irish media, nor even the Worldwide media noticed that glaring fact, just you
Nice to see your post got backslapped by the usual suspects though. Gave me a chuckle. Par for the course around here, but there you go...
In any case, you made need to brush up on your "research" skills:
No shit. Why do you think I've been saying that Keegan could have made a decision from May 22nd all along. Do you think I was just using that date for the fun of it? No, I have been saying May 22nd as that is FIVE weeks from when the applications were made!! It was you that said it the DCC couldn't act for "ten weeks" earlier.. remember:
He applied FOUR weeks BEFORE the application deadline!! :P
Why did they accept the application. It was two weeks late according to you. I don't think I ever seen anyone be so wrong in one post.
LMFAO!! And people thanked this post??
Not only do you think that Aiken Promotions were so inept that they applied for event licences TWO WEEKS LATE and that the DCC accepted them anyway but also.. that as a result of that, Keegan didn't have to make a decesion on whether or not to grant them, until AFTER the concerts took place!!!!
Any chance you can show us where the legislation requires them to take into account 'tickets sold' or 'inconvenience to c/w fans'?
Or could you even begin to tell us how that would be a good idea in a planning process?
Saying as you know so much about how they should do and how long it should take to do their jobs like. :rolleyes:0 -
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Hotfail.com wrote: »I'm starting to think Wishiwasa Littlebitaller is getting more enjoyment out of this thread than he/she would get out of the concerts.... :rolleyes:
Hope he has planning permission for the climax - I'd say they'll feel tremors in Tennessee. :pac:0 -
More guff.
The entire Giro event was subject to license. Why can you not understand that point?
Never said it wasn't. I think you may have missed what preceded that term:
Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »Fact of the matter is: the Garth Brooks concerts were a huge deal for this city (and country) and were without question, the biggest (TICKET HOLDER & SUBJECT TO LICENCE) event of the year (or perhaps many years) which we have seen or are likely to see, anytime soon at least and yet.. Mr.Keegan spent from from MAY 22nd until JULY 3rd sitting around polishing his handlebars rather than thinking it a good idea perhaps, to let 400,000 ticket holders know whether or not he was going to license concerts which they were about and which the media were suggesting might not go ahead. In fact, the only relevance the Giro D'italia has here is that, because he is such a bicycle fanboi, chances are that he went into Walter Mitty mode when it was on and it could very well be the reason why Own Keegan spent the vast majority of the summer with his head firmly up his arse.
Look, if you can't come up with another ticketed event which was, or would be, on the same or similar scale which the Brooks concerts would've been.. don't worry about it.0 -
Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »Never said it wasn't. I think you may have missed what preceded that term:
Look, if you can't come up with another ticketed event which was, or would be, on the same or similar scale that Brooks concerts would've been.. don't worry about it.
seriously sad attempts at trying to win an argument on the internet.
protip for you all: it doesn't matter.0 -
Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »Speak for yourself please, Phil Hogan isn't incorrect here, just you and those that have repeated the same nonsense in the thread so far (and also of course, those that thanked it).
There was no need to inform us of that, it has been quite obvious from your posts.
Totally and utterly false.
I will show you why in just a second but do you really think the Irish media, Aiken, Brooks and the GAA would have been banging on about how the licence applications were made four weeks prior to the deadline.. if the deadline was actually"16 weeks"? Which would of course mean that they had actually missed it?? That was actually plausible in your head and that not the Irish media, nor even the Worldwide media noticed that glaring fact, just you
Nice to see your post got backslapped by the usual suspects though. Gave me a chuckle. Par for the course around here, but there you go...
In any case, you made need to brush up on your "research" skills:
No shit. Why do you think I've been saying that Keegan could have made a decision from May 22nd all along. Do you think I was just using that date for the fun of it? No, I have been saying May 22nd as that is FIVE weeks from when the applications were made!! It was you that said it the DCC couldn't act for "ten weeks" earlier.. remember:
He applied FOUR weeks BEFORE the application deadline!! :P
Why did they accept the application. It was two weeks late according to you. I don't think I ever seen anyone be so wrong in one post.
LMFAO!! And people thanked this post??
Not only do you think that Aiken Promotions were so inept that they applied for event licences TWO WEEKS LATE and that the DCC accepted them anyway but also.. that as a result of that, Keegan didn't have to make a decesion on whether or not to grant them, until AFTER the concerts took place!!!!
BTW, how could Keegan have reached a decision by 22nd May? Are you sure you are in possession of all the facts here?0 -
Happyman42 wrote: »BTW, how could Keegan have reached a decision by 22nd May? Are you sure you are in possession of all the facts here?
No! But I'm going to keep adding delighted emoticons to the end of my statements because it makes me feel superior, as if I'm laughing at your apparent ignorance/lack of knowledge 0 -
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Jim Rockford wrote: »Yet its fine to call me every name under the sun . . . and even join in as an official moderation policy. Cool.
Let the officially approved hatefest continue then . . .
The bummer for you is, that I love this thread exposing the anti GB concert goers for what they are.
Nobody is calling you names here, no need for the paranoia0 -
60% of a 1,000 or so complements is a lot less than 1,000. Besides you do you think brought up the other points, the small group of anti-gaa residents have been singing that hymen sheet for a few years now.
Have things taken an unexpected turn that I haven't heard off yet?
Only this morning I was thinking that all this whole GB drama needs is hymen sheets 0 -
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Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »Never said it wasn't. I think you may have missed what preceded that term:
Look, if you can't come up with another ticketed event which was, or would be, on the same or similar scale which the Brooks concerts would've been.. don't worry about it.
The Electric pinic is a larger ticketed & licensed event (now note, i'm using your exact wording here as the Girth Brooks concerts are in fact multiple events with licenses required for each one). Now if they can manage to pull this off year in year out why couldn't Aiken & Co get their act together for a few concerts?
Not to mention the Giro which was on a scale far bigger than these gigs."Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"
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I don't know whether this has been posted already..
Garth Brooks ‘set to cancel Irish shows’
By Jarlath Regan on April 1, 2014
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/entertainment/garth-brooks-set-cancel-irish-showsThe decision to cancel the Dublin dates appears to hang in the balance. The source confirmed that the consequences of taking such an action were explained to the artist in a heated meeting.
Brooks reportedly suggested the cancellation when it came up in a conversation over his plan to go on a paintballing weekend with friends on dates that overlapped with the Irish shows.
“When we told him he couldn’t go paintballing because he’d committed to doing the Dublin shows he went absolutely ape ****.”
The cost of refunding tickets is only the beginning of the problems the artist could face if he were to cancel the gigs.
Apparently a non-refundable deposit for the paintballing weekend has already been paid and a mini-bus has been booked.
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The show promoters could not be contacted for comment. It is understood that the mini bus has been cancelled.
Those concerned about ticket refunds should check today’s date.
Life imitating art! 0 -
Happyman42 wrote: »Any chance you can show us where the legislation requires them to take into account 'tickets sold' or 'inconvenience to c/w fans'?.
Or could you even begin to tell us how that would be a good idea in a planning process?
Saying as you know so much about how they should do and how long it should take to do their jobs like. :rolleyes:
Any chance you could quote where I said there was legislation for any of that? What a strange request.
Eh, newsflash for you happyman42: it is my opinion that the council should not drag their feet on making a decision which 400,000 people are due to attend, many of whom have booked hotels / flights etc. It is my opinion that the council should not be leaving it until three weeks before concerts are due to take place, to let 160,000 of it's ticket holders know that the particular concerts which their tickets are for, have been refused licences. I mean, you do understand that someone giving their opinion doesn't imply legislation, don't you. Perhaps not.Hotfail.com wrote: »I'm starting to think Wishiwasa Littlebitaller is getting more enjoyment out of this thread than he/she would get out of the concerts.... :rolleyes:
Well, I have to admit, when someone so vehemently says the is a 16 week deadline for concert licence applications and that the world's media never spotted that Aiken Promotions had actually submitted their application for the concert licences two weeks later and then further adds that the council didn't actually need to make a decision on those applications until AFTER they would have taken place because of that.. yes, I do find entertaining :P
But.. have to correct you on one thing which you implied there, as I never had any intention of going to the any of the concerts, as I've never a Garth Brooks fan. However, slowly but surely, I am becoming one.. as the man is a pillar of integrity and I'm glad he has not compromised (so far at least). After all, he had nothing to do with the making of this calamity. This fiasco was caused by an inept council, inadequate / disregarded resident agreements and licencing laws, so idiotic that it has become common practice for promoters to break the law on a daily basis. All feck all to do with Garth Brooks. The gigs should without question have gone ahead. Bban Aiken / Croke Park from holding more concerts for at least two years if you like and put together some kind of compensation plan for the residents / committee, in whatever way is deemed suitable but as the man said: when a system buckles, you don't treat 160,000 who have been effected by it (through no fault of their own) so poorly as to cancel the concerts which they have held tickets to for five months, three weeks before they are due to take place. Expecting that amount of ticket holders to carry the can for other people's ineptitude, is scandalous and screams incompetence. A clearer case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.. I don't think you'd find.0 -
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