Oasis reunion

[Eoin McLove]

Ah yeah, no doubt there are thousands of fans as well. That goes without saying. But you know the glittery wellies brigade who JOST HAWV TO GEW BECAWS IT'S LOIK, A PROPER EVENT YAW?? will think nothing of spending way over the odds because they haven't a fucking breeze.

[StoutAndAle]

Ah yeah, no doubt there are thousands of fans as well. That goes without saying. But you know the glittery wellies brigade who JOST HAWV TO GEW BECAWS IT'S LOIK, A PROPER EVENT YAW?? will think nothing of spending way over the odds because they haven't a fucking breeze.

Or worse - the corporate ticket set.

Totes! Moiself, Sneachta, Timpiste and Gluisteain are all going. Fuinneoige's old man got us sorted because he drinks with Jonty Heffernan in Gibney's out in, like, Mollowhoide? Do you you even know Jonty? Anyway - we all have like lawnyords and stuff to wear. I'm basically going for the free booze? Got myself a Cloth And Cut porka jacket for, like, €900 to wear to the gig - probably leave it in Fade Street after, lolzers! 

[Ducky]

It comes back to the bogroll argument. Paying over the odds is all part of the experience of being a part of something for numbskulls who were never a part of anything. They never bought into a subculture when they were young and now they are middle aged, have money, missed the boat first time around and are atoning for their squareness. If they show that they, OMG, queued for loik three days and spent seventy grand on a ticket, it'll be like they really were actually fans of the band, or part of the movement. Getting in on other people's nostalgia... it's absurd whatever way you look at it.

I experienced a version of this when I was younger. Went to Electric Picnic 2008 with a bunch of friends who would have barely anything more than a cursory interest in music. Had a great time and all that, but they spent a lot of it scratching their heads wondering why I was off doing my own thing watching specific acts perform and not just hanging out doing the festival thing. It was mind-blowing to them that if I'm spending €240 on a ticket for a music festival then I am, in fact, gonna spend some of that weekend watching specific music acts.

So if we sat down today, most of the heads I went with would say "I went to Electric Picnic 2008, couldn't tell you who I saw live, and I mostly went for the craic", and I'd say "when I went to Eletric Picnic 2008 and I went to see Sigur Ros, Kila, Goldfrapp, Grace Jones, Grinderman, The Breeders, Sinead O'Connor, Elbow. George Clinton and My Bloody Valentine specifically sold me on the idea of going".

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

More music events should have a zone specifically for having the craic. Like the one fart curated at every Day of Darkness.

[Pagan Saviour]

Like the one fart curated at every Day of Darkness.

Jesus. Can think of nothing worse.

[Skott Furys jizz rag]

More music events should have a zone specifically for having the craic. Like the one fart curated at every Day of Darkness.

Day of darkness was mighty craic to be fair and Fart is an absolute gas man

[Don Gately]

I went to see Bruce Springsteen last year in the RDS, always liked a bit of Bruce, we were a little late getting in so the place is fullish, down the back with all the event junkies waiting for Dancing in the dark etc. Could hardly hear the music with all the gabbing. We moved well up as things do inevitably loosen up, really enjoyed the gig. Met a mate after who stayed at the back chatting,  he didn't rate it apart from the last hour.

[Ducky]

Reminds me of seeing AC/DC at Punchestown in 2009 - was hollering along to Dog Eat Dog and some event junkie gombeen beside me asks how do I know the words to such an obscure song...

[Kunt 4 Life]

Reminds me of seeing AC/DC at Punchestown in 2009 - was hollering along to Dog Eat Dog and some event junkie gombeen beside me asks how do I know the words to such an obscure song...

Fuck there was a bad atmosphere with that gig. Nothing to do with the band who were great but not a patch on the gig two months earlier at the Arena.

[Ducky]

Reminds me of seeing AC/DC at Punchestown in 2009 - was hollering along to Dog Eat Dog and some event junkie gombeen beside me asks how do I know the words to such an obscure song...

Fuck there was a bad atmosphere with that gig. Nothing to do with the band who were great but not a patch on the gig two months earlier at the Arena.

Ah that's a shitter to hear but there was a bit of an odd buzz about the gig alright. I had a ticket for the Arena gig, but let it go to someone (for face value), as I got a free ticket for the Punchestown gig as I was tasked by my sister to keep my brother-in-law company

I'd imagine that a lot of the "true" fans would've got tickets for the Arena gig and Punchestown had far more of the event junkies. I know a lad who went to it who couldn't tell you who Aengus Young was if he did a striptease and sat on his lap, but of course he went for the pints and "bants".

[Trev]

Yeah the band were really good that day, but the whole organisation was such a shitshow, and a weird vibe to the crowd for sure

Remember trying to get on one of the scarce buses back, people getting fucked off waiting and started throwing the barricades about. Absolutely mental crushes then to get on a bus when one eventually arrived. There was a poor woman beside me with her kid who was absolutely terrified

Never bothered going to any of the big gigs since that one

[Mooncat]

Reminds me of seeing AC/DC at Punchestown in 2009 - was hollering along to Dog Eat Dog and some event junkie gombeen beside me asks how do I know the words to such an obscure song...

You know, when I was complaining earlier about the kind of weekend warrior arseholes that would be going to Oasis, The AC/DC Punchestown gig was the exact gig I had in mind. Reminded me almost of an Oxegen crowd. Dangerous and stabby. Lots of bad-tempered drunks there just to be the centre of drama, who maybe knew like 2 songs from the whole set. People for whom the band is a footnote, it's just an excuse to go to a major event and make a spectacle of yourself.

That Arena gig sold out almost right away. I was gutted to miss it. I had to work, but had a mate who said he'd get tix for us both. I told him he'd for sure need to be at Ticketmaster at 9 or they'd sell out. He's like yeah no problem. I call him at a break in work at like 10:30 and ask if he got them and he's like, ahh I'm just getting up now, gonna have some breakfast and then head in. Useless bastard lol, they were long gone by then.

[Anvil]

Remember having to walk for ages due to the traffic and then not finding our bus for ages after the gig... we were missing quite a few on the way home.   

[Kunt 4 Life]

Yeah, our bus had a lot less on the way back than it did going down. I do remember leading a small group of strangers who had recognised me from the bus searching the car park like a band of survivors in a zombie apocalypse. I was fairly certain of the rough area the bus said it was going to be, but a few of them left the group to find their own way back.

2 minutes later we found our bus. The others who left the group...we never seen again.

[son of the Morrigan]

Yeah the band were really good that day, but the whole organisation was such a shitshow, and a weird vibe to the crowd for sure

Remember trying to get on one of the scarce buses back, people getting fucked off waiting and started throwing the barricades about. Absolutely mental crushes then to get on a bus when one eventually arrived. There was a poor woman beside me with her kid who was absolutely terrified

Never bothered going to any of the big gigs since that one

Think I was on about this here somewhere before.
Myself and a few other lads had no choice but to throw over the barricades and let the crowd onto the road there man.
We all went to the gate where Dublin bus was supposed to be picking us up and the busses were all going past full. I don't know who was on them or where they were loading them.
people kept coming and coming in from the back, nobody was leaving from the front and there was a serious crush going on, women getting taken off their feet and everything. there was a serious panic developing.
There was only one poor bastard of a foreign crowd control engineer there who was on the radio trying to get help but was being ignored.
It was a total clusterfuck and all Dublin busses fault.