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Metallica for Slane 2019
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chalkitdown1 wrote: »You mean these guys to the left of the stage where we were?
I spent a lot of the night just holding them back. I loved it tbh. One guy there next to us looked PISSED at them, though. Fury in his eyes all night long.
Those guys were right in front of me, and to the right of me close to the walkway 2 big bald guys causing absolute mayhem, they were really into it fair play0 -
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God be with the days you could disappear on a bender without a search party been called.
I agree, but I also have to say there were some really daft people on Saturday night creating incredibly dangerous situations; A I left the pink car park and drove towards the M1, I came up multiple groups of people just walking along the dark and narrow N51. Most at least had the sense to walk opposite traffic, but almost all were invariably wearing dark clothes and walking two or three abreast.
Only a couple of them were smart enough to at least walk around holding their phones with the light turned on; In that situation it's not that absurd for somebody to be knocked into the bushes by a passing vehicle. I had to stop at the junction and tell the Gardai, who sent their van to take a look / collect them (they'd have needed a bus, I counted at least 6 groups of 2-5 people each).
The gig - Metallica great, it's not so common for a band to play 2.5 hours, Ghost I didn't know them, but some songs are good. The venue...horrible, it would take...Metallica to get me in Slane again
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All in all, I don't think the logistics could really be much better, nor that the Garda could do more, it's basically a countryside location in the middle of nowhere, with exactly one road serving it. All in all, at least by car, it was relatively easy to get in and out all considered.0 -
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Fvck me there has been a lot of posts since I was last here! Here's my experience of the day:
- Marathon coach was well worth the money. Dropped us at first security checkpoint. No delays on the journey
- Security point worked very efficiently
- No problem with my backpack or the fact that I had food and cans of beer inside although they took the lid off my bottle of Fanta. Also said that they weren't allowed to let in anything with spikes (my pants had metal spikes all over) but she said "I can't take your pants off ya"
- Then it was the walk down the road, over the river to the next checkpoint (entry into the property). Again, very efficient and just a pat-down. Having the toilets there was a good idea.
- Next was the trek through the forest which was actually quite nice.
- Got to the point where the tickets are scanned and bags are checked etc. I had my bag opened ready for checking. The guy didn't even make an attempt to look into it, just but the "bag checked" band around the strap and off I went.
- Small walk to the actual venue and I had to stop and pick my jaw off the ground once I saw the stage!!!
- Fangclub were quite good as were Bokassa. Didn't think much of SLF. Ghost were superb and Metallica, well let's just say they were Metallica and they once again proved they're an absolute force to be reckoned with. Their set was brilliant (I'm glad they didn't make a big deal about playing Whiskey and just played it). We started walking back up the hill during Enter Sandman and stopped to look back every so often.
IMO the whole thing went very smoothly. There were no traffic delays or delays of any sort from my experience. It was all done very professionally and I'd gladly go back again.0 -
MetzgerMeister wrote: »Fvck me there has been a lot of posts since I was last here! Here's my experience of the day:
- Marathon coach was well worth the money. Dropped us at first security checkpoint. No delays on the journey
- Security point worked very efficiently
- No problem with my backpack or the fact that I had food and cans of beer inside although they took the lid off my bottle of Fanta. Also said that they weren't allowed to let in anything with spikes (my pants had metal spikes all over) but she said "I can't take your pants off ya"
- Then it was the walk down the road, over the river to the next checkpoint (entry into the property). Again, very efficient and just a pat-down. Having the toilets there was a good idea.
- Next was the trek through the forest which was actually quite nice.
- Got to the point where the tickets are scanned and bags are checked etc. I had my bag opened ready for checking. The guy didn't even make an attempt to look into it, just but the "bag checked" band around the strap and off I went.
- Small walk to the actual venue and I had to stop and pick my jaw off the ground once I saw the stage!!!
- Fangclub were quite good as were Bokassa. Didn't think much of SLF. Ghost were superb and Metallica, well let's just say they were Metallica and they once again proved they're an absolute force to be reckoned with. Their set was brilliant (I'm glad they didn't make a big deal about playing Whiskey and just played it). We started walking back up the hill during Enter Sandman and stopped to look back every so often.
IMO the whole thing went very smoothly. There were no traffic delays or delays of any sort from my experience. It was all done very professionally and I'd gladly go back again.
+1 on Marathon
They dropped you as far down the road as possible, we drove a good bit past the green car park where people were starting to walk in and was glad we didn't have to make that walk in and especially back out after the gig.0 -
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