Garth Brooks - Croke Pk Sept 2022

The subsequent crush on the floor was partly due to the swell in numbers.

But I have to put my video up on instagram and facebook so my "friends" can see what I'm up to.

I have limited footage from last night on my phone. I was doing my best to stay away from the phone and absorb as much of the gig as possible.

Great gig and good night in Dublin. I'm dying today. Holy f*ck. What a man Garth Brooks is. It was so funny when he talked about city people and culchies:

"I was asked if I fit in more with city people or is there a thing called culchies. I'm not from here but all I know is that you made me feel like I so belong here. I cannot thank you enough"

Brilliant night

"Ain't going down til the sun comes up".

I don't think he played that last night but that sums up last night, into today.

Kinda funny to hear Keidis was close to stopping the show given the events of Woodstock 99!

Point cold definitely get rowdy alright, remember running to the front for show after queuing outside all day and pretty much needing to grab the railings and hold for dear life not to be sucked back into the mob

I don’t see Garth Brooks returning to Ireland to be very honest. He seemed very grateful and enjoying every moment of these concerts. They were his swan song to us, that’s what I truly believe. He’s a big artist in the USA, I’m sure these concerts boosted his retirement pot immensely and I don’t believe we’ll see him back on these shores again.

its not about grudges or anything. 25 years since he was here, he’s 60 years old, you do the math as the Americans say. Time will tell, but I’ll be surprised if he ever comes back to Ireland.

I know it's not the same but some entertainers go on for a long time! I regularly went to Albert Hammond anytime he was playing near me pre Covid and he's 78 now, Cliff Richard played here until very recently, again pre Covid, and he's fairly pushing on but was very fit too! So from that point of view 60 isn't that old, hell look at the Rolling Stones!

No difference. Had people pushing their way through the pit during the Garth Brooks concert. Not leaving to get a drink and coming back but actually try and move people out of the way at the front to take their spot.

Hopefully he comes back does like 3 concerts in croker before doing a tour of Ireland. Imagine the new casement, Kilkenny, Limerick, cork and thurles. It would be something else.

Great gig last night. Garth is a professional showman and he really knows how to please the crowd. I've never seen such a sea of pink cowboy hats in my life.

Did anyone else by any chance happen to have issues with the food kiosk's in the lower Hogan stand? Tried to buy 2 cheeseburgers and 2 bottles of water off a lady with poor english. She firstly overcharged us, then gave me 2 plain burgers. When I mentioned the overcharge she couldn't understand me and had to ask 4 different colleagues before someone could come over and correct the mistake. I then asked her were they definitely cheeseburgers she had given us and she said yes. I said, there's no cheese on these so they're not cheeseburgers. She nodded, went away and brought back 2 new burgers - only realised after we had left the counter that she'd replaced the plain burgers with.........2 new plain burgers. I can't figure out if she didn't know what a cheeseburger was or if she just couldn't understand me or if she was thrown off by the whole overcharging thing? At that stage though I gave up and just ate the cardboard burger. That'll teach me for buying food in a stadium.

I'm definitely going to own smartglasses for the next time he comes to Ireland.

"he said he's coming back"

Must be true so. He probably definitely mostly meant it when he said this is the best place he's ever played too.

Some of the rigs the likes of Ed Sheeran brings around are fairly substantial too, there'd be no problem with that. Few extra trucks

He stopped touring for 15 years after the '97 gig, wanted to spend time with the kids while they were growing up, he only started touring again when the last one was off to college. I'd be surprised if he's not back in the next 5 years.