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Garth Brooks concerts cancelled - **READ FIRST POST FOR MOD NOTES**

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    #4742
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,276 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Somebody should write a country song about this.

    Somebody with talent.

    No names immediately come to mind.

    Mick Flavin


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    #4743
    Maire2009
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Maire2009


    "IRELAND I AM COMING HOM................"

    Maybe not! :( Arrah Garth, the craic would have been 90.


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    #4744
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    Story still has 36 hours to run I reckon with maybe a twist yet.

    If it does, I'd say the twist will be that there is a problem with the refunds. A lot of money must have been spent already on these concerts by Aikens/Brooks/the GAA. That money will have come out of the ticket money, surely? I doubt Brooks would have refused to do the licensed concerts if he is going to be out of pocket, so I can't see the full pot of ticket money still being there. Hope I'm wrong.


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    #4745
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Delusional to the extreme imo

    We probably won't know until the convey photos appear in the papers.


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    #4746
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Again, You seemed to have missed the point......400,000 tickets does not equate to 400,000 people DUCY? :rolleyes:
    bumper234 wrote: »
    It actually works out at an average of 3.25 tickets each so if we go by the average then it's only 123,000 people with 3.2 tickets each, even if you round up to 200k it's still a HELL of a lot less than the 400,000 people who it is being claimed have tickets.
    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Sure it's really only 40,000, they must all be going ten times, or else the haters heads would explode, it does not compute with their world view. . . .
    There must be a way of getting the figure down to 20,000
    Happyman42 wrote: »
    As has been pointed out (WITH EVIDENCE) it is NOT 400,000 individual sales.

    Try again.
    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Keep up, it's down to 40,000, you need to find a way of making it 20,000 now to feel better about yourself
    Happyman42 wrote: »
    If you can prove that, or that anybody said it here, fire away.

    I think your 'hate' is showing more than anybody else's by the way.

    Keep it up, you willingness to make a fool of yourself is cheering up a damp morning.
    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Back to the abuse again I see, oh dear poor hater . . . .
    Happyman42 wrote: »
    No abuse...you ARE making a fool of yourself. Equating reasoned debate with 'hate' :rolleyes:

    Multiple ticket holders brings the number of individual ticket holders (and therefore the effect on 'de country' you are wittering on about) down considerably.
    If there where 40,000 multiple ticket holders that would severely impact the total figure. Do the math.
    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Now your doing math . . . lol based on what hater ?
    Surely there is an equation you can dream up to get it down to 20,000 so you don't explode. :)
    bumper234 wrote: »
    Oh don't be a hater, just because you are being shown actual facts shouldn't turn you into a hater that hates the facts.
    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    You do know what the word fact means ?, when you look it up, let us know when you post one. :)
    So exactly how many individual ticket holders are there, lets have the . . . facts . . . lol
    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Especially since the haters ran out of facts 296 pages ago. :)
    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Have you any proof you can show that there are 400,000 tickets sold....like ACTUAL proof?



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    #4747
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    awec wrote: »
    Yes, of course?

    People could try and sue them, I guess, but I think they'd get around it with the "subject to licence" malarkey.


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    #4748
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    Is it over? Is...it....really over? Has the fat lady sung?


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    #4749
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Cienciano wrote: »
    I bet they were even laughing as they wrote it..

    If they are, it's only to MAKE MORE MONEY.

    TO THE FERRIES EVERYONE no weight restriction, let's all go on a Summer Holiday ~ ans I know I'm, mixing my music ~ I just missed Woodstock, hit the road, Mary and Jack, Tim and Susan, hit the road, hit the road.


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    #4750
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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    #4751
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Cantremember wrote: »
    Is it over? Is...it....really over? Has the fat lady sung?

    She sure has, its game over ball burst.


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    #4752
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Cantremember wrote: »
    Is it over? Is...it....really over? Has the fat lady sung?

    No, we just move to where he sings, I'm not a lady but I am fat and I am singing.


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    #4753
    LowOdour
    Registered Users Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    Cantremember wrote: »
    Is it over? Is...it....really over? Has the fat lady sung?

    Well the fat cowboy certainly hasnt


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    #4754
    Maire2009
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Maire2009


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    She sure has, its game over ball burst.

    More like the lad who owned the ball is fed up and letting no-one else play.


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    #4755
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Somebody should write a country song about this.

    Somebody with talent.

    No names immediately come to mind.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBso-UG8R_E


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    #4756
    S.O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭S.O


    Garth Brooks saga being discussd on fm 104 live at the moment.


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    #4757
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Joe Duffy will blow his load in the first minute of his show tomo.


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    #4758
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Maire2009 wrote: »
    More like the lad who owned the ball is fed up and letting no-one else play.

    Lookie, the goal posts have just changed, we are used to that in Ireland. He will sing, and we need to be there to hear him.


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    #4759
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Joe Duffy will blow his load in the first minute of his show tomo.

    I'm listening to ambulance control at the moment and one had been dispatched to his house already, we might not have a show tomorrow, "cardiac arrest ... unresponsive .... arrival in five minutes ... "


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    #4760
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    He stood to earn €3,000 from this, blocking off 5 days in the calender for the event.

    So instead of earning €3,000, he's probably, at this short notice going to earn nothing over the 5 days.

    I'm no mathematician or accountant but he's out of pocket by €3,000 whatever way you want to put your moronic slant on it because it should be good to hear.
    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    A self owned and drove bus driver near my home town is out of pocket by around €3,000. Probably would have paid his insurance for the year in the 24 seater bus too.

    In his 40's, has a family. Not that that makes a difference but there are plenty of small guys losing out here that wont be told.

    I had someone due to stay in my apartment for money, where is my bailout joe?
    On the other hand, I won 20euro from an enemy betting on the outcome of the saga.
    S.O wrote: »
    Garth Brooks saga being discussd on fm 104 live at the moment.

    Thanks adrian


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    #4761
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Gene Kerrigan was right the other day. Garth Brooks isn't used to being told no, and really throws his toys out of his pram when he does. I do think a lot of his fans (maybe not on this thread, but in real life) can see through his "all i care about is the fans" bullshíte.

    He also sues hospitals and all he cared about was his mother.

    He'll be back to sue our asses off, don't worry one little bit, but for me, toys out of prams. Please, get original.


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    #4762
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Mainstream media seem to be finished with the story more or less. Got a few min on Vincent Browne, hardly massive breaking news.
    Phone in shows will only be repeating stuff we heard last week.
    Unless problems with refunds arise it will die away until the court cases.


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    #4763
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    So another statement from GB that just shows him up for the w**nker he is.


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    #4764
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Oh well....until the next national calamity....


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    #4765
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Did Aiken give him a booking fee/deposit? Id say they have lost a few hundred thousand from all this sham


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    #4766
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Did Aiken give him a booking fee/deposit? Id say they have lost a few hundred thousand from all this sham

    I'd personally worry about a contract that couldn't compel him to play the licensed gigs.
    There has been a lot of money in the coffers since early days here, god knows how much was paid in advance.
    There's a real chance things could get nasty.


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    #4767
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,276 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Effects wrote: »
    So another statement from GB that just shows him up for the w**nker he is.

    Every statement he makes he comes across as a wánker. That press conference especially.


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    #4768
    SweetChaos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 306 ✭✭SweetChaos


    Thank fúck all this is over!

    Gareth ya big drama queen have a snickers


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    #4769
    A V A
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭A V A


    just seen this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkwMhxCr0c


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    #4770
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    He stood to earn €3,000 from this, blocking off 5 days in the calender for the event.
    So instead of earning €3,000, he's probably, at this short notice going to earn nothing over the 5 days.
    I'm no mathematician or accountant but he's out of pocket by €3,000 whatever way you want to put your moronic slant on it because it should be good to hear.

    Opportunity cost - Intangible - He gets his 5 days back, its up to him to earn from an alternative source
    => he's not out of pocket at all, he has his time back.


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    #4771
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    A V A wrote: »
    just seen this

    It's pretty terrible.


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