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Metal Discussion => Gigs and Festivals => Topic started by: Pagan Saviour on October 22, 2025, 05:57:58 PM

Title: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 22, 2025, 05:57:58 PM
Seen them a few times and it was a good show but €161 to see a voiceless Jon Bon Jovi is a bit far reaching...


https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1022/1540001-bon-jovi-set-to-rock-croke-park-next-summer/

Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Blitzer666 on October 22, 2025, 06:01:05 PM
Bring Ritchie back and do nothing after new jersey, tho still wouldn't pay £160.
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: HeartWorm on October 22, 2025, 06:29:04 PM
Crazy money.
They were in the rds or aviva not long ago and not sure it sold out.I suppose the big venue will have the event junkies running to get tickets.
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Don Gately on October 22, 2025, 08:49:40 PM
God would they sell out the 3 arena?
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 22, 2025, 08:51:42 PM
Easily. You underestimate country folks love for this band. Not quite Garth Brooks now, but it'll do alright.
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Thorn on October 22, 2025, 09:18:11 PM
Exactly, I've already heard three or four normies including the missus going on about getting tickets and asking me if I'd go. I said yeah, absolutely if it was a 7800* Farenheit heavy set...
What? What's that?

Henceforth I'm going to call them the Bed Of Roses Housewives
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: The Heretic on October 22, 2025, 09:29:11 PM
Sure isnt Jon Bons voice fucked?
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Bürggermeister on October 22, 2025, 09:30:26 PM
They were a great live band back in Sambora times. Now that Jon's voice is utterly fucked, it'll be fucking horrendous or it'll be 2 hours of miming, which is horrendous in its own way.
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Thorn on October 22, 2025, 09:56:30 PM
And most of those two hours surrounded by yokels shouting 'Livin' On A Prayer'
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Don Gately on October 23, 2025, 01:13:47 PM
I saw them on the new Jersey tour , wasnt a fan but would jave gone to anything back in the day, Dan Reed supporting,  can't remember alot about it
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 23, 2025, 01:24:37 PM
I was at that show - well one of them, think it was the second night. But it was feckin great.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bon-jovi/1990/point-theatre-dublin-ireland-5bd127bc.html
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: HeartWorm on October 23, 2025, 04:48:56 PM
Would they not have stuck them in Slane altogether instead of that fat "country music superstar"? Going by the media reaction they'd have filled it.Newstalk referred to Jon Bon Jovi as a rock god 🤔
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Halo on October 24, 2025, 11:14:38 AM
I think Croke Park is marginally bigger for concerts and easier to run a second night as I am not sure four concerts at Slane would be allowed (Luke Combs has already got two nights)
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: seangan on October 29, 2025, 12:18:53 PM
As a teenager in the late eighties (87-88), I got into hard rock (Guns n' Roses, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Billy Idol, etc.). The first big concert I went to was Bon Jovi (with Lita Ford as support) in the RDS in October 88. Before going through my rebellious adolescent stage, I'd been a nerdy kid and had just got 10 honours in my Inter Cert so I used that accomplishment to persuade my parents that I deserved a reward. They let me get a bus to Dublin by myself (big deal for a 15-year old culchie who had only ever been to Dublin to visit relatives in hospital). The band put on a fabulous show with some cool pyrotechnics and it was a great night. Soon after this, I got into heavier music (Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, etc.) and – other than hearing Living on a Prayer on the radio — I never listened to them again. If I had a free ticket, I'd probably enjoy it but I've no interest in spending money to wallow in nostalgia.
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: The Heretic on October 29, 2025, 06:22:45 PM
Are they all falling out already?
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: StoutAndAle on October 30, 2025, 08:54:12 AM
Quote from: The Heretic on October 29, 2025, 06:22:45 PMAre they all falling out already?

Jon's hair plugs?
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Uinsion on October 30, 2025, 08:03:14 PM
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1030/1541342-jon-bon-jovi-thin-lizzy-is-the-reason-i-write-songs/
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 31, 2025, 10:34:20 AM
Sold out I believe... or close to it.
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Trev on October 31, 2025, 11:28:19 AM
You could have an auld lad shitting on stage and once it's in Croke Park the event junkies will sell it out
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 31, 2025, 11:35:07 AM
I do wonder about the event junkies where the fuck do they get the cash from??? If you're Coldplaying, Oasising, Metallicaing, Bon Joviing, Taylor Swifting etc you're racking it up
Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 31, 2025, 01:03:06 PM
Still a few tix left lads

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Title: Re: Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026
Post by: Bürggermeister on October 31, 2025, 01:28:28 PM
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on October 31, 2025, 11:35:07 AMI do wonder about the event junkies where the fuck do they get the cash from??? If you're Coldplaying, Oasising, Metallicaing, Bon Joviing, Taylor Swifting etc you're racking it up

You only go to two or three events per year, one wouldn't want to make your insta too predictable