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The trouble will be at oxygen this year.
Eminem was my guess
I agree with it being Eminen, The Phoenix Park will be a totally different gig this year, I doubt Justin T and the Killers will attract the same crowd as Swedish House Mafia
I don’t foresee any newsworthy problems at these Phoenix Park gigs at all. However, I genuinely am concerned about what’s going to happen at Oxegen. Might as well think positively, I guess…
*Oxegen
My girlfriend told me yesterday that you can get a bra that can carry drink in it. Go in looking like Jordan, come out looking like Mel C.
You would get strange looks with your face buried in your girlfriends chest while getting a drink?!
This year maybe, but not at the Swedish House Mafia last year.
Haha I salute you sir. One of funniest journal comments ive read
It has a really long straw
Stef get your own bra :)
I’m drinking from it as we speak.
Trouble free? A Mumford and Sons concert looks like a gypsy wedding.
Theres going to be little or no trouble at them concerts and s.h.m should of being over 21s only.most people that drank to much or took to many drugs were under 21.
Couldn’t agree more. There was no trouble at The Stone Roses (same weekend) last year. Older age profile
I was a stone roses also. Me and Fran. Bit of a mickey fest but it was good day.
Alright Nidge… Howz Darren?
Dont want to talk about that.
I’ll be smuggling alcohol in no problems. In my stomach.
While at the trouble free Stone Roses gig last year, we found the long walk from the entrance to Phoenix Park to the actual venue, had no amenities, toilets, stalls etc. Which lead to excessive public urination. Also, what ever way they decided to organise the bar ( leaving, what looked like, 8 bars closed) made getting some alcoholic beverages a mission, an hour and a half to get our first drinks!!? We made the tough decision of not returning to the bar for the rest of the night. More forward thinking and increased amenities wouldn’t go amiss at this venue.
Nail on the head. While there will always be a minority of people losing the run of themselves at gigs the problem is surely worsened by the abject lack of decent facilities.
People end up pre-drinking excessively because of the expensive ordeal that getting drinks at an Irish Festival is, and those who do queue end up buying 4 drinks every time they queue.
There are a lot of unique and great aspects about festivals and gig going in Ireland but the provision of basic facilities is not one of them.
Wishie looks like nothing has changed since I saw the Stones FIRST time in Slane, more festivals than those days…but still shit/no facilities, wouldn’t put up with it mow, while being fleeced for the ticket price!!!!!
They need to get these
http://perezsolomon.com/2011/07/07/the-p-tree-urinal-pointless-or-awesome/
Totally agree. Went to Florence and the machine in the park last year and by the time we got into the venue from the gates we were all crippled with the need for a loo! Then there was a half an hour way for the toilets. Still had a great time!
So alcohol advertising of the Gig – OK
Bringing alcohol to the Gig – Not OK
Love it. Alcohol ads plastered all over the damn country, yet don’t bring any with you to the ALCOHOL sponsored events as they will be selling it at a higher cost. How are they supposed to make a profit otherwise?
Trouser Snake and Mumford and Sons. Hardly likely to see trouble there.
But Oxygen is gonna be a mess. Yes there will be thousands who are out to have fun and their “tunes” but the newspaper headlines are practically written already. Hope I’m wrong, but I doubt I am.
158 Garda, up to 200, oh that’ll sort it! Gobshits haven’t a clue!
Got nailed by the GATSO Van this morning, did we Alan!??
Muppet
certain bands attract certain classes of people,fueled with drink this can be a rescipe for disaster if not policed correctly
O your a do gooder muppet I would love it if you got the smacks
your real brave over the net big man
I remember seeing people dressed for a music festival carrying out crates of beer from a tesco on Baggot St to drink on the walk over to phoenix park last year. I remember thinking that there could be a lot of seriously pissed people at those gigs! Hope it goes better this year!
I’d say You wud want 2watch ur back at d Justin Timberlake gig.
I heard he’s bringing sexy back
Yeah don’t bring booze, just be sure to buy the overpriced, watered down pi$$ inside the venue.
Congratulations to BellX1 on going straight to No1 in the new album charts today with Chop Chop…best Irish band ever.
Why all the red thumbs?
There’s a lot of Damien Rice fans on today
????
Damien Rice was in a band with BellX1 called Juniper before they went their seperate ways
@p1 not a die hard fan then eh!
They’re both sh1te ;-)
went to see bell x wan in cork a few yrs ago, for the life of me could not understand all the hype about them!
not my cup of tea
It’s not hype and they are a genuinely top class band and sorry to hear you know so little about music…maybe some day……
Damien Rice, Mundy, bell x1, coronas etc ate all hipster muck! Hipsters hate lively music hence all the negative comments for SHM, by the way SHM are bubblegum pop dance group and there would be a lot more drugs at a prodigy, faithless, stone roses gig! Iv no prob with that but oldies who are outa touch think SHM are the devil which I find hilarious!
I beg to differ. Hipsters adore lively music. Look up Vampire Weekend, Los Campesinos!, Little Comets, even The Strokes.
God but you talk such shite
@ Seamus Kennedy
You have a very bad suss seamus.
Seamus, none of those acts you mentioned are hipster in the slightest and Swedish house mafias music is on a par with the quality of fans they attract.
And you are a muppet and a little mummy’s boy you muppet
I was one of those drunks at Swedish House Mafia last year! Brilliant gig, absolute carnage, never seen a crowd so drunk so early, hood rats getting finger banged as far as the eye could see! The haters are just jealous that they weren’t there ! thanks for the thumbs down!
Fair play seamus
The Gardai don’t exactly have a track record for enforcing the law -especially public order offences – so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
How ironic the Garda HQ is in phoenix park ,yet they couldn’t afford to police the Swedish house mafia gig propeply,I bet if there was a gaa match on they would have more on patrol,blocking the view of the paying punters.
Why are they blaming the venue for all the hassle?
great venue, shame about the organisers!
should take a page out of the Eavis book on how to run an event!
So can you buy drink inside? Just not aloud to bring it in with ya
“Allowed”
Clem
Girls Allowed?
Inject vodka into an orange with a syringe, no copper going to take a healthy snack off a concert goer.
Not only am I going, I’m also bringing the kids after our day out in the Zoo.
NOT
I plan to have the kids as far away from this as possible.
Ha ha! Classic gag from Wayne’s World! Gets me every time.
There are ways of getting alcohol into venues if you’re really desperate. My brother in law snook in naggins of vodka and Jaegermeister in his wellies to SHM last year. We had a brilliant time and didn’t see or were involved in any trouble!
Frank Ocean, if he shows, only act of the 3 gigs I’d be excited to see
Nice post. It was a great experience to read that Article. Than you for giving this information. It helps to build a Working Musician.
That’s the way to deal with the problems of Ireland’s youth ban the music they like the bands they like
This country makes me sick and I am ashamed to be Irish.one day soon all these people that try to put people down because of where they live or what they like to listen to will get what they deserve.
IRELAND IS RUN BY A SHOWER OF tossers
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