Bon Jovi - Croke Park Aug 30 2026

[Pagan Saviour]

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/

[Blitzer666]

Bring Ritchie back and do nothing after new jersey, tho still wouldn't pay £160.

[HeartWorm]

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.

[Don Gately]

God would they sell out the 3 arena?

[Pagan Saviour]

Easily. You underestimate country folks love for this band. Not quite Garth Brooks now, but it'll do alright.

[Thorn]

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

[The Heretic]

Sure isnt Jon Bons voice fucked?

[Bürggermeister]

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.

[Thorn]

And most of those two hours surrounded by yokels shouting 'Livin' On A Prayer'

[Don Gately]

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

[Pagan Saviour]

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

[HeartWorm]

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 🤔

[Halo]

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)

[seangan]

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.

[The Heretic]

Are they all falling out already?