2024 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

Only slight pain is you can't add a gift card as a default payment method like a debit or credit card

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A̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶E̶m̶b̶a̶s̶s̶y̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶.̶c̶o̶m̶:

https://twitter.com/AusEmbIre/status/1726957672602464331

(sorry if this had been shared already; way too many posts here over the last three days to check all of them)

EDIT: unconfirmed rumor only unfortunately.

Aaargh, vicious! :(

Thanks for clearing this up, @The Nal

Thanks, I just bought one for myself (along with a couple for the kids) and then tried to activate it. I got a message:

Is this the norm to stop me buying the card to effectively get an immediate 10% discount on tickets I was going to buy today anyway?

EDIT: It got cleared after a hour or so and I bought the tickets I wanted. It's a needlessly painful process. I copied the voucher code into the field and got a green tick beside it but it still tried to take money from my credit card when I went to pay. It was only by messing around for quite a while that I understood the green tick meant nothing and you had to delete all the spaces in the voucher number for it to be recognised and couldn't just copy and paste from the pdf.

I'm not going to pay out mad money for just any gig anymore, bar the odd exception. McCartney, Stones and Pearl Jam would probably be on theat list but AC/DC might be another. If any/all of these potentially play next year, we will here before Xmas about it?

Pearl Jam is expected in the next couple weeks I think

Nothing announced for Galway Arts Festival yet and they had a series of announcements in the first week of December last year so hopefully that's going to be repeated.

Any Dublin gig announcements might be pushed back until after Christmas after the riots. Know it's hopefully a once off and events not til next summer but people might not be in a hurry to fork out straight away on tickets and accommodation after it

Only a motion at this point and they already announced 6 and MCD might have already agreed/locked in some or all of the remaining 4 shows they had previously agreed with the council who own the site .

Who are we thinking is looking to play in august its on the dublin city council website 👀

There's lots of differing opinions about that locally. I was talking to one local promoter this evening (county not city) who was adamant it's a different demographic for the airport and that there's enough demand for both. I don't see it that way. I've got tickets for the Waterboys and Pixies and I would have been much happier seeing either of them in the Big Top in town than out at the airport. Having spent money on those tickets I guess I'm less likely to spend money on a Big Top gig for an act I might not be passionate about but which I might have been willing to take a chance on as part of the Arts Festival buzz.

Hopefully the Arts Festival responds by upping its game.

As I understand it that motion is not binding on the Council Executive so they have no obligation to take act on it at all. The news this week about the Executive refusing to even tell Councillors whether the city traffic management system is switched on or not is indicative of the disdain the Executive seems to have for the elected members, so I'd be surprised to see anything coming from that vote.

Nickelback don't have half the back catalogue of Foos. Foos have a fair bit of filler in their back catalogue and a hell of a lot of good stuff. Same can't really be said about Nickelback imo