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Seen both shows in Budapest last year and honestly couldn't recommend it more. It's a nostalgia cash trip alright, but they're tight as fuck

Seen Jeff Walker floating about and just didn't piece it together. Just good craic in general

Did Anderson sneak off for a piss in the middle?

Haha was wondering the same. Seen them in Berghain last September and he didn't leave the stage at all.

Enjoyed it myself. Was parched though. Can understand no pints in the room, but not even a can of coke was a bit over the top

Looking forward to this now. Mrs McQuick has booked a hotel for the weekend, so we're catching ASIWYFA the following night too - Quite the contrast 

Well fuck it anyway 

Looking forward to this now. Mrs McQuick has booked a hotel for the weekend, so we're catching ASIWYFA the following night too - Quite the contrast 

 

I didn't grab him.  That would be Mr. Bogwizard. I stand on the raised bit in Whelans due to reasons outlined throughout the thread.
From what I seen, people just either couldn't believe it or were so caught up in being kvlt in this new wave of  Black Metal, that they didn't care. I do remember it being mentioned on the MI thread and Facebook event too

With regards to the lad choking people at Deafheaven in Whelans. After a while I ended up fucking him across the room because he was going to end up getting a dig if he didn't stop. Seconds later the lads FUCKING DAD has me by the throat telling him to leave his young lad alone. Explained the situation to him and the da's response was "DON'T STAND UP THE FRONT THEN."

Yeah, mostly pricks. Bringing your da to back you up when you want to act the knob. Really metal.

That is fucking hilarious really.
I definitely remember someone grabbing him and warning him, presumably yourself. Didn't see anything else unfold afterwards though and really hope you fucked the oul lad across the room too.

Hang on, am I missing the terminology here. When you say choke do you mean he was literally going round trying to strangle people or is it slang for something else?

Yes, he was fat little fucker up the front that was grabbing any moshers that seemed to knock into him by the throat and either holding them in a choke or dragging them to the ground.

Well I actually reckon that it could be over 99% if we're being pedantic about it, perhaps 99.5%+.



And probably dwarfed by the percentage of wankers would you get in Tallaght Stadium for a Rovers vs Rovers II game... 

New thread. Are 99% of League of Ireland fans wankers? 

Take Metallica at Slane for example.

No. I will not take the Metallica at Slane crowd as an example of Irish metalheads.

Look, I get your point and all, but you're talking through your hoop.
Never have I been to a metal gig in Ireland and have thought "hmmm, 99% of this crowd are wankers". Or any gig ever for that matter. So yeah, to answer your original question: you're a cranky old bastard!

Have you ever worked the Bar at a gig? I'd say it'd be less stressful driving a steamroller through a minefield.

What would your example demograph be? You cannot compare the likes of Napalm Death gigs with Nightwish or that. So I decided to take the biggest possible audience. Cranky bastard point well and truly taken on board at this stage, I just don't understand the defence

ludicrous!

I love metal, but hate 99% of metalheads in Ireland.

So you have met/observed/conversed with every single metalhead in Ireland have you? And you actually genuinely hate 99% of them?

Well I actually reckon that it could be over 99% if we're being pedantic about it, perhaps 99.5%+.

Take Metallica at Slane for example. 80,000 capacity if I'm not mistaken, so 1% = 800. Definite wankers left in that single percentile.
So if we take 80,000 as our count and now look at the Voodoo Lounge size gigs (~400 or so), I still find these to have a sizeable, yet admittedly much smaller wank count.

Nixer - Shall we form an Irish metalhead <1% wanker alliance? I'll get us Zakk Wylde style vests done up 

Choking Deafheaven fans is something every real man should do. In fact I don't think you can be a real man unless you've choked at least four Deafheaven fans to death.

It was you, wasn't it? 

Jesus, this thread really grew legs. Don't get on here that much, so I'm only checking back in now.
In hindsight it looks like a rant, but I'll have to study the responses for a few weeks 

I love metal, but hate 99% of metalheads in Ireland. Apart from a pretty tight circle of friends in the scene, I would usually socialise with childhood mates as I just can't be fucking arsed putting up with these saps. I have also recently taken to going to most of the bigger touring gigs abroad as between pint prices, taxi prices and these fucking arseholes, I'm just not enjoying myself.

It appears to me that your average metal fan is nothing short of a braindead luddite and I see this at most every gig in Ireland. Not only by the carry-on of them, but also the absolute backwards shite that they come out with.

Off the top of my head, some examples:

• "Fuck off you queer. Little faggot". Directed at my gay friend.
• "That fuckin' n*gger is the jacks". Directed at the guy cleaning your grease filled piss.
• The absolute head the ball that brought the dead bird to Mayhem last year.
• Telling a man in a suit that he shouldn't be at a Slayer gig and wasn't welcome.
• Some middle aged, fat baldy ape grabbed my girlfriend's tits at the YOB gig in Whelans a few years back. When confronted by my bawling girlfriend and furious self, his reply? "It was only a joke for fuck sake, calm down", to which his friends seemed to agree and looked bewildered that I was ready to burst the cunt.
• A chap trying to choke people at the Deafheaven gig in Whelans

So what do you think? Am I cranky old bastard or do you lot have any similar experiences to share?

Any idea what time this will be over, Moose? Have an early start Saturday, so I'm hoping to make the last Luas.