Gigs for 2024

Wooderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122676848#Comment_122676848

DM sent.

T.V Eye

Looking forward to Idles tomorrow, first time I've seen them under a roof.

Mucker46

Is anyone having issues with Ticketmaster app everytime I try to get into my events tells me have new app have to download it, link doesn't work. Did work at first but not now. Have downloaded a few times and makes no difference. Thankfully can access tickets going through website.

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122852823#Comment_122852823

Yes. I have deleted it twice now .

Be warned though about the website ..

Spent all last week in a circle jerk with the site itself , putting in a new password on their suggestion and it not being accepted . Unable to access all my tickets

Eventually after 4 days of this the customer service person I was dealing with had the bright idea of asking me to change my email !?

I didn't follow that instruction .

Eventually managed to login and I transferred all my tickets in my account to Google Wallet .

They are the worst to deal with ..they were only replying to my emails once a day and nobody answers the phone.

T.V Eye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122852823#Comment_122852823

New App was crashing for me already and I found issues with it opening presale links.

I've gone back to the website, app has no advantage when you can just add the tickets to your wallet anyway.

Exclamation Marc

The app is simply not fit for purpose. Borks out frequently, cannot be used for presale despite weblinks force opening the app and is now slower when buying tickets than on the website (used to be the other way around). Can't deselect legacy favourites (although that's a long standing TM issue).

Useless.

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122852760#Comment_122852760

Yeah, me too. I've hardly paid any attention to them since Joy but loving the new album now. Should be a great night.

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122853805#Comment_122853805

looking forward to this too, it will be my cherry poppin idles gig

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122853805#Comment_122853805

Enjoy. Saw them twice this year and great both times. The 2nd half of the show is incredible.

Hurrache

Uninstall the original Irish app completely (and the new one if you also have it) and reinstalling the new seems to be the solution, with both of them on your phone the links and content just gets mixed up and it doesn't know what to be using. Has worked fine for me since anyway.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856360#Comment_122856360

Have deleted both and installed the new one a few times. Worked for a while the first time but then stopped.

Penfailed

IDLES were absolutely fantastic in Belfast on Saturday night. Chalk were great in support too.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122857993#Comment_122857993

On my way to Olympia hoping for more of the same

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122858675#Comment_122858675

I see you Mucker. Front and centre. I'm in the Gods.

Tauriel

Delain tonight at The Academy. Very good setlist with some new songs thrown in amongst some classics and fan faves!

But the real surprise was the second support act, Stone Broken, whom I had never heard of before but absolutely loved and will be checking these guys out. Nearly stole the show for me with some bangers.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859122#Comment_122859122

What a gig. Lump on my head as pulling someone up who went down in the mosh. Turned around not realising guitarist was crowd surfing and got guitar full belt into the head. Do I care, no I don't. Sweatiest, smelliest most tiring gig I have been at in a long time and loved it.

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859747#Comment_122859747

Ha! The stuff of middle aged dreams! I was worried about you down there with all those animals. Fecking brilliant gig, wish I was on the floor for it but my young lad loved it.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859850#Comment_122859850

You Have parented very well

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859850#Comment_122859850

Middle Age the stuff of dreams

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859857#Comment_122859857

Oh Jesus. I wouldn't go that far Mucker. You've got to get better dreams.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859860#Comment_122859860

I will have to live a bit past 100 for me to be middle aged. Young at heart, as shown tonight, dream is not to lose that.

Stillill42

Shut up Mucker. 54 is still middle age.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859871#Comment_122859871

woo hoo i am still young then

Count Hairyfoot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859747#Comment_122859747

What time did you have to start queuing to get into the pit?

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122860061#Comment_122860061

I joined the queue at 6:35, was already quite a few there at that stage but reckon a good lot behind me also got in but it built quickly after I joined it

mgkelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859879#Comment_122859879

🙋‍♂️…fellow 54y here, supporting the 'middle aged' hypothesis…!

delbertgrady

Cassandra Jenkins in Whelan's. Superb. Great opening set - and subsequent backing band duties - by Lylo.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122860061#Comment_122860061

Well did you get into the pit?

mosstin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122863954#Comment_122863954

Thought she was great though the cosmic guest list things was a wee bit too wacky for me. 'Hard Drive' a masterpiece. Thought the support was awful though - a budget version of Cry Before Dawn.

Granite Head

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122863954#Comment_122863954

What time did she come on? Was tempted to get a last minute ticket but opted against it in the end because I thought it would be a short set (@hour) and i’d miss half of it.

delbertgrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122864643#Comment_122864643

Just after 9:00.

Count Hairyfoot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122863963#Comment_122863963

I did! I'd even gone into the office so I'd be on time (a devout work from homer!). Plan was to get there for 6.15. Of course there's an issue in work so I end up not leaving til 620 and at that stage had resigned myself to not getting in. Got to the venue at 7.15 and headed in but there was a big queue of people for the merch - and I think a lot of people assuming it was the queue for the venue. So we just walked around it and straight in and got what looked like 2 of the last ones.

Fantastic night!

flasher0030

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122865272#Comment_122865272

I wasn't at the gig last night. But I think it's fairly easy to jump the little rail from the general standing area into the pit. I used to do it anyway. Unless they have changed it.

Count Hairyfoot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122865321#Comment_122865321

It would have been doable alright in my younger days. Enough people surfed over it no bother anyway.

Dreamweapon

Cola gave us a solid 50 minute set in the Workmans tonight. A 3-piece featuring two ex-members of Ought they have that taut NY sound that occasionally gets too noughties for me but mostly they managed to stay on the right side of Pitchfork shitebuckets. The Glasgow ferry was delayed so they were still soundchecking at 8 but proceedings managed to get underway by 8.45 which wasn't too bad. I reckon a few here would enjoy them. I'd go see them again anyway.

Support came from Junk Drawer, a band i had seen before but couldn't remember where, with who or anything about them. This was even more surprising given the quality of their set tonight. I've since checked and it was with Silverbacks in the Grand Social in October 2021, which was the very first night of lockdown restrictions being lifted. First couple of songs were actually in a Silverbacks / Parquet Courts vein then they swerved into psych territory, which is always a good thing in my book. Aside from the mainman the rest of the band swapped instruments throughout. I briefly had goosebumps during one of their songs, a sure sign a band is doing something right!

A good turnout too, especially so given the bitterly cold evening.

ned rierson

Nada Surf were excellent in the Academy. Loads of power pop classics

Gloomtastic!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122868389#Comment_122868389

The first gig I went to after lockdown was Paranoid Visions in Opium. The Nilz were supporting. We all had to sit so it had a front row seat.
(the guy from Nilz with a sparkler up his ass, cracking night) 😎

It’s Friday! 😉

Beasty

First saw this guy in the 1980s. Saw him again last week (in the UK). Normally there is little doubt over his ID, but I would be interested to see how quickly someone works out who it is….

odyssey06

@Beasty will hazard Midge Ure

Gloomtastic!

I would have said Ennio Maraconi but he’s been dead for four years, bless him. Legend!

Beasty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122871393#Comment_122871393

Yep - in Truro on Sunday

Perhaps a better angle, all stood still…

And Vienna, 1985 style…

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122871471#Comment_122871471

Ahhhh..

Very good .

Beasty

Was thinking of starting a thread about people who posters never got to see. The main one for me would have been Bob Marley. I missed him in 1980 and he passed away in 1981

On Wednesday I got to see the son of one of the original Wailers, Aston Barrett Jr, who now leads the Wailers They played everything from the Legend album, plus a couple of their own numbers. An audience of 1,000 or so in Cardiff, but I heve never heard such a high proportion of an audience joining in with all the songs from that 1984 Legend album

rovers_runner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122868435#Comment_122868435

Unreal gig, what a band they are. Was like 18 years since first time I saw them and they were better last night.

Just pure joy playing for their crowd, a different buzz at these size gigs.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122871502#Comment_122871502

Saw them at Kaleidoscope festival (went first year never again) and they were brilliant. Playing night and day festival next year, really looking forward to seeing them again

tommythecat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122871881#Comment_122871881

And they played my favourite song The Plan! Great unplugged acoustic version of blizzard of '77 as well!

Gloomtastic!

They never mentioned the talking on Spotify. Left halfway……… walk home………

https://open.spotify.com/track/7I52zUiDzsxN7ZHKEc3Ope?si=fPgWja-DQ0uLq5TTlN9mwg

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122871502#Comment_122871502

David Bowie 😢

How about Bucket List or one or two top pics ,(ie not a long list !) and the one that got away , like above ?

Irish Aris

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122872403#Comment_122872403

I see your David Bowie and I raise you Prince. My two big bucket list items that will never get to see...

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122872415#Comment_122872415

I saw Prince (or the Artist formerly known as , as he was then ) in Dublin in the Point Depot , 1995 , I think!