U2 - Point Depot - Dec 2015
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Topic: U2 - Point Depot - Dec 2015
Posted By: ABFC
Subject: U2 - Point Depot - Dec 2015
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 2:45pm
| It seems the Republic of Ireland's biggest band U2 will be playing the Point Depot this December. I can imagine tickets will be absolute goldust. Any of the Ybig brothers going to try and go? |
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Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 2:50pm
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No. ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 2:51pm
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Yes ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: DUBLIN DOC
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 3:02pm
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Surely this will get bumped up to a much bigger venue ------------- When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do |
Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 3:09pm
bono's anus? ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |
DUBLIN DOC wrote:Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 3:09pm
They're not playing stadiums for this tour I think. Imagine they'll put on more nights. ------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: ABFC
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 3:10pm
No. They'll do about 8 nights in the Point |
Posted By: DUBLIN DOC
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 3:36pm
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Ah sound lads did not know they were keeping it to smaller venues ------------- When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do |
Posted By: Richmond Ultra
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 3:49pm
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It will be a "beautiful day" when they're in the 3 Arena. ------------- Omnia Causa Fiunt |
Posted By: SuperDave84
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 4:51pm
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There will be plenty without tickets for this, even up to the date of the gig. They'll be all "I still haven't found what I'm looking for". Probably be some couples of whom only one will have a ticket and they'll be like, well, I'm going in "with or without you". Then the other one will ask for a hug and lie, saying "All I want is you", while they rob the ticket from the back pocket. Then the "One" robbed will be like, whatever, I'll listen to the album, it'll be "Even better than the real thing". ------------- 
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Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 5:00pm
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Ah Dave, you're so cruel. ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 8:34pm
Surely the one without a ticket will say to the other one "go on in now, and when I get a ticket, I will follow". ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: ABFC
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 8:37pm
It took you a week to come up with that?
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Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 8:50pm
No, I was litening to some old 1980s U2 B-sides on YouTube over the last hour and searched to see if there was a thread about them here. It took me roughly 10 seconds to come up with pun. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 9:02pm
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But it only takes a second to say goodbye :). ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 9:26pm
------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 10:06pm
True us flies move in mysterious ways. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 11:16pm
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U2 - i) musical greats or ii) charlatans*? Opinions? I'm in camp i). *Not the Manchester band. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 11:22pm
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Sid you are the only I know that thinks that. Although its not impossible that a north country boy like Antrim man totally disagrees with you. Although he is a weirdo. :) ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 11:29pm
The charlatans  U2  ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 11:30pm
Please clarify your gramatically incorrect post. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 11:42pm
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Ha ha ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 11 May 2015 at 11:54pm
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Hadn't heard this for about 25 years before today when I stumbled across it on YouTube. What a tune, the sound of a hundred mid to late 80s European football and cycling review segments on Sports Stadium*. I can just hear Jimmy Magee commentating on Sean Kelly racing furiously past his two minute man on the Clonmel-Carrick-on-Suir time trial in the Nissan Classic over it. Also brings back great memories of Sky Channel's Dutch football coverage in 1987, one of my formative football experiences and when I was introduced to Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten. U2 - Boomerang *Along with A-Ha's "The Sun Always Shines On TV".
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Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 12 May 2015 at 12:22am
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A-ha👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 12:37am
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Like Ulysees for literature nerds, I find myself continually coming back to U2's back catalogue lately. Glastonbury started tonight and I had a listen back to U2's set from the world's premier music festival from 2011. Despite making a series a series of sarky comments on rival forums and Twitter at the time about how poor it was, in a Ruth Dudley Edwards revisionist manner I now think it was a truly superb set, filled with the sort of energy and aggression more typical of men 30 years younger. Achtung Baby is quite possibly the greatest album of all time. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 12:47am
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Opened up with a series of songs from achtung baby. Cracking opening to the set. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 12:50am
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Achtung Baby is indeed an absolute classic
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Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 12:52am
The opening with "Even Better Than The Real Thing" was particularly good. I may even have a listen to their more recent sh*t albums as a result of all this. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 1:02am
Yes the drum intro to it was good, worked far better live than the actual intro itself 
------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 1:06am
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September 1, 2001. I attended the following: i) Eire v Holland at Lansdowne Road. iii) U2 live at Slane. Beat that. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: eire77
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 1:39am
Where did you go in between? ------------- Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me... |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 1:56am
Yes, I realised soon after posting that somebody would pull me up on that mistake. I got a lift from my very obliging father after the match. Forum member Trap Junior was also in the car. I stopped to buy six cans of Druids cider at an off-licence in Swords (we went via Drogheda) and somehow drank four of them in the car between Swords and two miles outside Slane, where I was dropped off. Trap Junior attended neither event. That night I slept in the car of somebody I never met. The whole day was very enjoyable, really. I bought my ticket from an acquaintance for £100 that morning. About six of us then went to the Isaac Butt opposite Busaras to drink while watching Australia play New Zealand in a rugby union football match. While watching this match one of my acquaintances realised he had lost his ticket for U2. He eventually dialled the operator and got through to the Dublin Bus lost property office. Incredibly his ticket had been handed in by a driver who was on his last run before heading to Lansdowne. After this I engaged in Kerry-style cute hoor banter with Dutch fans who were drinking in the pub and convinced them they'd win 3-1 and that Richard Dunne was literally unable to kick the ball properly. I maintain to this day that this contributed to a false sense of security amongst the Dutch and contributed to the Eirish win. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 2:29am
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Incredibly, that post makes more sense than many others on here tonight ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |
Posted By: boywonder
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2015 at 10:51am
| When are tickets going on sale for these gigs |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 2:07pm
Tickets for the concert in Belfast secured  they don't go on sale till Monday but have learnt over last few months they can sell the disabled tickets before hand ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 5:56pm
grand job, although I panicked for a second when you said you got them secured before i finished reading the post!  ------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 6:12pm
Good luck to anyone trying to get them on Monday morning. Can only be purchased online or at the venue box office and limited to 2 per person. Happy to not have to worry about that, also tickets for Belfast worked out a lot cheaper even paying on the money ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 6:18pm
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Tickets got yesterday morning for the Tuesday night ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 8:34pm
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whats the story lads with tickets, brother asked me if I could get him tickets as he is currently in Austrialia but I will be in transit at Monday morning and wont get to a computer ? How are you getting tickets ? ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: brianie
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 8:36pm
How? ------------- ITS KEANE YES YBIG You Can Please some of the People Some of the Time But Not All of The People All of The Time |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 9:41pm
Assume he got a code for the presale that was held yesterday. We got ours today by ringing ticketmaster. After missing out on disabled tickets for the script concert earlier this year we learnt that ticketmaster are able to issue disabled tickets before the official on sale date. Thats now ac/dc and u2 we have managed to get tickets for before the official on sale time ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 9:43pm
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Just looking at the stage layout for both the Belfast and dublin concerts it seems they have had to do some serious changes to the stage layout in order to fit it into the 3 arena. Belfast will have the same stage as has been used throughout the tour ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 9:47pm
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I take it the tickets are for somebody disabled ? ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 9:48pm
Yeah me and the brother going ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Tippbiffo
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 10:28pm
| Serious demand for these tickets...Monday meltdown here we com |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 11:38pm
Was always going to happen especially with the gigs being in indoor arenas with low capacity. Can almost guarantee ticketmaster system to crash Monday morning especially since tickets can only be bought online If I was to guess I'd say they be back here next year for a couple of shows in croke park ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 2:17am
I joined the supporters club many moons ago and as a result I get access to to tickets ahead of others. Got code on Wed night for sale on Thursday morning. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: Saint Tom
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 11:57am
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Don't think its a fair system that those in supporters clubs get priority, what about us independent loyal u2 fans? ------------- My destination inchicore my next stop being kilmainham Where patriots and super saints are the topics of conversation |
Posted By: rossieman
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 12:06pm
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Got sorted for 2.There will be f**king uproar all day Monday about these gigs. |
Posted By: SuperDave84
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 1:27pm
The supporters' club fans pay money on top of the ticket cost, whereas it's not like the independent fans ever give U2 anything above buying the odd ticket. Exactly the same as the FAI, where a supporters' club can have 30 members and 12 season tickets, and get as many away tickets as they want, and independent fans who don't have seaso.... oh wait. -------------
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Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 3:43pm
Should I spent the next 2 weeks devising a scheme ? ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: brianie
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 8:19pm
------------- ITS KEANE YES YBIG You Can Please some of the People Some of the Time But Not All of The People All of The Time |
Posted By: Saint Tom
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 10:10pm
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Must be War on their websites? ------------- My destination inchicore my next stop being kilmainham Where patriots and super saints are the topics of conversation |
Posted By: brianie
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2015 at 10:26pm
Na its all Bad Tom, think they realise that sometimes you cant make it on your own. ------------- ITS KEANE YES YBIG You Can Please some of the People Some of the Time But Not All of The People All of The Time |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:44am
No joy  ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:54am
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Got Sorted for the Belfast show on the phone line! The app is still searching for Dublin |
Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:57am
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Got two for the last show in Dublin
------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:58am
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I still haven't found what I'm looking for, because, like U2 themselves, the tickets sold out long ago. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: brianie
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:12am
2 for the Monday Night ------------- ITS KEANE YES YBIG You Can Please some of the People Some of the Time But Not All of The People All of The Time |
Posted By: ontheball
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:19am
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I have just given up, no luck, sh*te. I wonder is there anyone that we all know that has a personal allocation of a few hundreds tickets!!!! |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:22am
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The missus got 2 tickets. Delighted. ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: liam_in_germany
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:26am
| Just got two for belfast a second ago. Still going up there |
Posted By: liam_in_germany
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:27am
Keep at it. Still there |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:38am
Forgot all about this  ------------- "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942. |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:44am
| Still tickets showing up for Belfast |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:46am
Who is she bringing :) ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: liam_in_germany
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:50am
| Just got one more for belfast no hassle |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:52am
| Loads still available for Belfast it appears |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:52am
Went on ticketmaster to see whats available in Belfast. 2 x £170 plus fee tickets came up. Thanks but no thanks  ------------- "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942. |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:10am
We going to the Thursday gig in Belfast  still seems to be standing tickets still available for Belfast as friend just after saying he got them for the Wednesday night ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:17am
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Must have been huge demand for the last one on Saturday in Dublin considering the weekend, not that surprised there's a few around for other shows
------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:18am
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I love "news" stories like this. Media have their headlines ready, waiting for the inevitable SOLD OUT signs to appear, within, oh, one minute. And even if it doesn't sell out, they'll still say SOLD OUT, as fact checking isn't very important in a brainless piece of sh*t of a story like this. Pre-written tabloid headlines are put out. "Thousands of U2 fans Still Haven't Found What They're Looking For" "Gone - U2 tickets sell out in Seconds" "With or Without U(2 tickets)" "Monday Bloody Monday for ticketless U2 fans" "Waiting in Ticketmaster queue felt like Running To Stand Still, says U2 fan" "Beautiful Day for U2 fans" "Fans brave Bad weather to camp out overnight for tickets" "Ticketmaster website moves in Mysterious Ways as fans miss out" Photographers are down at the Point Depot to photograph those brave and dedicated fans (ie. oddballs and attention seekers) who have queued out, as they get their tickets. Utter t**sers are all over the INTERNET to announce that they've got tickets, preferably by taking a screenshot, or even better (than the real thing), maybe they've already printed out their tickets and have photographed them and uploaded them to multiple social media platforms. Other utter t**sers like me try to ridicule the whole thing, making obviously sarcastic, try hard comments on the INTERNET. Even bigger t**sers then respond to these comments, oblivious that they are being made ironically. And this from fans of a group who pride themselves on "irony". People moan on the INTERNET that they couldn't get tickets, calling it "a disgrace", although nobody is quite sure exactly who or what the "disgrace" is. The same people ring up Liveline to complain. Joe has a chat with Harry Crosbie on Liveline. Joe is great friends with Harry, and sure it's all great publicity.
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Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:20am
| Wednesday night still popping up. 160quid tickets is shocking |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:02pm
If there were not 160 tickets there would not be 30 Euro tickets. They could price them all at 90 Euro for example but they decided to have four different pricing levels. The thing is the market could probably sustain them charging 300 Euro per ticket. And some have said they should have done so and given more than 2m per show charity! So you can't win really. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:05pm
There £160 though which is about €220 which is mad money for a ticket to a concert but people are obviously willing to pay it. ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:13pm
The point is the same the expensive tickets compensate for the cheaper tickets. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: DUBLIN DOC
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:20pm
------------- When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:40pm
It's not the End Of The World. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: DUBLIN DOC
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:45pm
------------- When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:46pm
I'm sure they'll survive A Day Without Me. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: DUBLIN DOC
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 12:55pm
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If you don't go i will follow your lead ------------- When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do |
Posted By: roverstillidie
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 1:10pm
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Have some Pride lads. ------------- He is Karl Pilkington in the LOI section and Karl Marx outwith it |
Posted By: DUBLIN DOC
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 1:14pm
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I am just going to get a slab of cans and bang on a U2 dvd that's even better than the real thing ------------- When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do |
Posted By: Shedite
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 7:20pm
| 2 for the Tuesday sorted earlier |
Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:11pm
| I'm after a ticket for any one of the 4 nights on the off chance someone has one spare. |
Posted By: Tippbiffo
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:29pm
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Posted By: kimbap
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:46pm
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Just went on ticketmaster there,there are tickets available for Belfast 175.50 (pounds) total
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Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 9:55pm
| Thanks lads but that's too much to pay. I'd pay 80 or 90 euros but that's it. |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 10:56pm
fukin hell where are the seats ? on stage ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: kimbap
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:06pm
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Yeah,it's crazy money,I'm a massive U2 fan and have seen them a few times in Ireland and abroad but no way would i pay that. |
Posted By: Colum
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:09pm
Whatever you do, don't look at the VIP Travel Package tickets. Includes a night in hotel and shuttle to and from gig and pregig drinks but the best bit is the separate VIP entrance...£777.50 and can only be bought in pairs.
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Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:22pm
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first set of tickets I found were €70 limited view in the upper tier thank god I had the sense to reject them and wait for something better, ended up with €100 tickets in the end but a decent view (i hope) ------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:42pm
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Loads showing up for the Wednesday night show in Belfast. Few popping up for monday in Dublin also. |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2015 at 11:49pm
Seemed to be alot of confusion over ticket limits and the paperless system for GA tickets so would say could see more tickets online due to them being cancelled ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2015 at 10:05am
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Do these prices include tax? ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2015 at 11:41pm
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They were superb tonight in London. Noel Gallagher came on stage at the end to play a few tunes with the lads ye are in for a treat next month. ------------- "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942. |
Posted By: An Tiobraideach
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2015 at 1:39am
My opinion of that is that fans are going to a concert to see their favourite band perform,and nothing else. I like a lot of U2 songs,but Bono really sickens me sometimes. Even the AIDS charities didn't want him involved with their organisations anymore,because he was actually putting people off donating because of his constant preaching and acting like a world leader. ------------- His last fond wish had been fulfilled to lie in his native land,and the wild waves roll in peace again on the lonely Banna Strand. |
Posted By: Bo Jackson
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2015 at 10:13am
That's nothing new. They've been doing that for 20 years. During the very successful Zoo TV tour, they went as far removed from the concept of that tour as possible by showing a live feed of footage from Bosnia during the War in the early 90's. Some appreciated the meaning behind it, others didn't. It eventually culminated in U2 performing a concert in their next tour in Sarajevo, something lauded by many Bosnians. I'm not sure about the AID's charities point you make, he has own advocacy group that he focuses on.  I'm not saying I'd appreciate a change of momentum from the concert next month. I want to hear the music too! But its will only be a few minutes, I think the band have earned the right to do whatever they like during the concert. If no one was listening then they wouldn't be doing it. ------------- You don't know Bo? 2018 YBIG Fantasy Football Champ! |
Posted By: kimbap
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2015 at 10:51am
| Source for that AIDS charity claim? |
Posted By: seaniemac
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2015 at 11:15am
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Was at it last night in London, excellent show. Saw them in Slane back in 2001 (the day of McAteer's goal against Holland) and also saw them in Croker in 2005 but last night was the best of the the three shows. Patti Smith joined them on stage for the final song too. Agree with Bo Jackson, Bono talking about human rights and suffering has always been part of their show so if you're giving out about something you know is going to happen, you probably shouldn't go in the first place. |