LCD Soundsystem Malahide Castle Wednesday 26th June 2024

All Castle, No Hassle! June 26th

LCD, IDLES, Young Fathers and Sh1t Robot! Magic :) Did not see this coming either, got Gold Circle too...well worth the extra 10 quid or so (I think).

Wednesday though, pity! I'll be on teacher holiday anyway but...first baby is on the way at the end of March so fingers crossed I can attend!

I've just started this playlist if anyone interested:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QryloFNWvh0jjtSIpSOnY?si=d1996cb1b5ee4cd2

usually it’s over by 10:45 latest

it won’t go past 11, I’d imagine a bit before, 10.45 seems to be a popular time for outdoor gigs lately

Was thinking that myself!

Been looking for stage times breakdown, try and plan out the afternoon.

Are there any decent pubs close by to get some food and a pint before the gig.

Dont know the venue at all or where concert bus drops off, so hoping wont be too much of a walk between areas

Ah,thought it was shorter than that. But will be in the area pretty early so might chance the walk.

Expecting Young Fathers on at 6.30 ish

Going for 40 on TM resale, or even 35 on Toutless.

Probably pick one up for 30 on the day.

even less then 30, talking to a friend over the weekend with links to Fingal County Council who had a wad of tickets on him. Said did I need any (for free). Not around so didn't take any. Apparently the Malahide gigs have sold very poorly apart from TT. Were even at one point looking to merge Nikki Minaj and SZA but schedules didn't work.

Yeah sold my gold ticket some time ago as I anticipated this. Lost a tenner on it. No biggie.

Malahide is just so annoying to get to and back from (Kildare) Think new venues need to be found.

This is fully linked to promotor greed and point I raised on EP thread. Many of these bands would play summer festivals in other countries all on the same bill. We have sub par line-ups on our major festivals as EP sells out without people waiting for the line-up. Hence bland acts are booked for the festival and then promotors try and fill standalone gigs for acts that should be in EP, ATN, Forest Fest etc.

If this creates an upward quality pressure on our festivals to put us more in line with a European average then it can only be a good thing.

7:45 probably IDLES start time

frankly it looks like a pain in the hole from anywhere that’s not malahide.

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looks warm but could rain https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/hourly-table/2-2962725/Ireland/Leinster/Fingal/Malahide?i=1 prefer a few clouds with the lack of shade there

Mh missus drove us last year for Depeche Mode. Bit of a pain getting in but positioned ourselves at the gate for the ladt couple of encores and were out like ninjas, clean as a whistle.

Your point doesn't really hold water. The fact certain acts don't play EP has nothing to do with their summer touring plans or "forcing" a band to play. It's deliberate. This is proven by the genre of acts playing EP.

Also, surely when a band doesn't sell out Malahide it makes them an ideal band to play as part of a festival bill? The fact you use this point to make a case for them NOT playing EP is laughable.

Finally, you previously justified the poor quality of EP headliners with the fact they headlined or would have ability to headline 3arena. Yet the Malahide capacity is larger than 3Arena so obviously there's a belief these artists can draw a crowd.

On "not a fanbase that EP wants to target" what does this even mean? A fanbase that likes some some variety and a higher calibre of taste? I think you're discrediting the youth of today to say all they deserve is the drivel on the current EP line-up. Was at Liam Gallagher last night and there was a big age mix. This is an attempt by promotors to water down the festival quality and add in additional stand alone gigs to the point of saturation in a bid to maximise profits. It seems happy however to have finally backfired.

I'm gonna try bus and DART. Do they do any extra capacity on DARTs? What time is last one back towards Dublin?

Jaysus. There's resale tickets up on TM for 35 euro.

That was always going to happen. Wednesday in Malahide is not an appealing proposition for a lot of people. If it had been Saturday or Sunday myself and some mates would definitely have gone. None of us are bothering with it.

Are marathon strict with bus times out? I'm not sure when I'll be able to get off work

Heading to the gig later and looking forward to it but definitely now as much so as the 2018 gig… I'd imagine the same venue and (mostly) same set list probably won't be helping with ticket sales? They likely won't have garnered many new younger fans with the lack of new music in the interim either

Nah. I think gold circle is mostly sold out anyway.

I can’t go - covid.
I have two gold circle tickets and a parking ticket if anyone wants them. Much discounted obviously

Free flow for the gold circle,no wristband checks. Train and Luas home by 12:30 am to D12 not too bad.

LCD were good but not a patch on their Olympia gig a while back.

Sh!T Robot was good fun and also played through the intervals.

Young Fathers sounded great to me, would like to see them indoors.

Thought the gig was very enjoyable, LCD are a fantastic live act and Idles are good fun.

Thought the crowd was decent, everyone having a boogie at the back where we were standing

wasn’t at this gig but curfews really starting to piss me off - semi understandable at outdoor gigs (but really suck it up residents if it’s a handful of gigs a year) but when it happens at indoor gigs fk off