What would you like to see more of at shows?

[Blitzer666]

Rock chicks (and I don't mean fat lesbian hefers ) getting their norks out

[Thorn]

Oh yeah, we need a time machine back to the eighties 

[Necro Red]

I don't have much interest in local shows but for gigs in general the decline in physical tickets for shows is very annoying. Tickets.ie stopped doing them a few weeks ago using caring for the environment as the excuse. In Canada at least and possibly the US you can't get physicals from ticketmaster at all so only a matter of time before that shite starts here. The current shitty paper tickets they give you for a physical in Ireland are bad enough but better than nothing at all. Sound Cellar still have the old style proper cardboard tickets but they only do MCD events so no Aiken or non TM shows.

Also agree with set times in advance as most of the time I am only interested in one band but in some cases isn't not giving times in advance to get people into the venue early so they spend more money. For non DME related shows MCD rarely give stage times.

I agree about having ab actual ticket. I hate having to rely on my phone and would rather just have the ticket, plus I collect tickets like a nerd ha ha

[Carnage]

It's a pain when the code won't scan from your phone too. At The Cure there was no way it would scan, whether I changed the brightness, theme, zoomed in, two different scanners, nothing. Yer man stood there and put in the numerical code bit by bit before he'd let me in, big back up behind me an' all. Same thing happened at Godflesh, she just said go on, you're grand.

[mickO)))]

I agree about having ab actual ticket. I hate having to rely on my phone and would rather just have the ticket, plus I collect tickets like a nerd ha ha

Nobody seems to be recording the history of shows / venues / dates anywhere either so with no physical tickets to look back on after you have went to a certain number of shows in some cases it can be hard even remembering if you've even seen certain bands or how many times you've seen others.

The old DME site use to be great as it had all the old gig posters and even photos from every show. I think all of that was lost when he upgraded to the current site which is a real shame. Even the past gigs list on the old site was great and I can't imagine it would take too much effort to make and maintain another one of those.



I got stung with a massive phone bill last time I was in Canada on holidays because every TM related thing I went to had to be an eticket scanned through the TM app you couldn't even add tickets to the phones wallet. Got a bill of €55 from data use because of it. luckily I used my work phone, they paid it and nobody ever came after me looking for the money. Not a good thing for people coming to shows from overseas.

[Trev]

I'm the same with collecting tickets, but unless I'm in town and able to get to Sound Cellar I end up just getting the digital one

Went to the Obscura show last year though and gave yer man on the door my ticket and he seemed bemused by the whole thing

What's this yoke?
- Eh, my ticket for the gig?
Where'd you get it?
- Sound Cellar, earlier on today
Yeah...yeah...alright...grand head in so
- Well can I have the ticket back now?
Nah, we need to hold on to these...I think...

Must've only been in his early 20s, was turning the thing over looking at it like some alien relic

[StrangersWithGuns]

actually love when local bands engage in banter and there is back and forth with people they know

Christ can think of nothing worse.

Also can't stand when a local band gets a support to a touring act and goes on and on about what a privilege it is to support such legends when they clearly hadn't heard of said band until they got the call to do the show.

Case in point the art students supporting Jesus Lizard the other month

Will never understand how they landed that, industry wankers

[Trev]

Ah sometimes that can work out, that Sepultura gig with Pagan Riot would have been long forgotten if their bassist didn't have a fit about someone calling their band shite

[jobrok1]

Allow a band play an extra song if the crowd give a rapturous response/roar

Defeats the purpose of giving set times.

 

Feckin' eejit, John.

[Snare]

You know what he means, 4mins will hardly throw off indicative stage times.

[Eoin McLove]

Ah sometimes that can work out, that Sepultura gig with Pagan Riot would have been long forgotten if their bassist didn't have a fit about someone calling their band shite

  sounds like a classic from the MI days. Refresh my memory.

[Jward]

Quote from: Jward on April 02, 2025, 07:13:52 PM
  Allow a band play an extra song if the crowd give a rapturous response/roar

Quote from: open face surgery on April 02, 2025, 07:50:08 PM
  Defeats the purpose of giving set times.


How does playing 1 song as a 'proper' encore defeat the purpose of stage times?
- Band has started as planned
- Band play a stormer
- Crowd love it
- "We want more! We want more!"
---- let them play another f*cking tune ffs!

Go home if you want, as governed by the pre-ordained stage times
All you'll miss is the crowd/band soaking up the final remnants of a great gig

[Jward]

Quote from: Jward on April 02, 2025, 07:13:52 PM
  Allow a band play an extra song if the crowd give a rapturous response/roar

Quote from: open face surgery on April 02, 2025, 07:50:08 PM
  Defeats the purpose of giving set times.


How does playing 1 song as a 'proper' encore defeat the purpose of stage times? (for the headline act is what I am on about)
- Band has started as planned
- Band play a stormer
- Crowd love it
- "We want more! We want more!"
---- let them play another f*cking tune ffs!

Go home if you want, as governed by the pre-ordained stage times
All you'll miss is the crowd/band soaking up the final remnants of a great gig

[Caladan]

DME on Twitter are good for posting stage times, I think The Academy (MCD) post them somewhere too. Other venues / promoters are hit & miss though.

[Trev]

Ah sometimes that can work out, that Sepultura gig with Pagan Riot would have been long forgotten if their bassist didn't have a fit about someone calling their band shite

  sounds like a classic from the MI days. Refresh my memory.

If I remember right, the bassist had a big rant about how the scene needed to stick together, and no one cared what a few people on MI thought about them. Then one of other members came on and told him he was kicked out of the band