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Good to see you back, Gazza
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Good to see you back, Gazza
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It Looks Like The Rolling Stones Are Set To Announce A Dublin Stadium Gig: [lovindublin.com]
Poorly written article full of presumptions.
They cant play Croke Park in 2018 - the venue is allowed to stage 3 shows a year and theyre fully allocated already.
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Big Al
Great for the southern Irish. Bare in mind, however, that 2018 will mark fifty-three years since the Stones last performed in Northern Ireland. This being a supposed U.K. jaunt and all. The Irish Republic got visited in '82 and '06. Northern Ireland was 1965!
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corriecas
Would love a gig in beautiful Cork.
Jeroen
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corriecas
Would love a gig in beautiful Cork.
Jeroen
The Ballymaloe hotel about 10 miles out of the city centre is wonderful.
Nate
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Healy52003
hey guys first post here and very excited at the prospect of an Irish show. Been lucky enough too see a lot of bands live but never the stones
remember there have been reports in the past that the stones would play Dublin but they never materialised
Croke Park is ruled out as it's allocation is used for the summer, Normally Concerts for Slane are announced before Xmas. I'd prefer a stadium show so the Aviva or RDS would be fine. There's also a new stadium in Cork that fits 50000 and Ed Sheeran is playing there in May
we just have to pray an Irish show will happen this summer
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hey guys first post here and very excited at the prospect of an Irish show. Been lucky enough too see a lot of bands live but never the stones
remember there have been reports in the past that the stones would play Dublin but they never materialised
Croke Park is ruled out as it's allocation is used for the summer, Normally Concerts for Slane are announced before Xmas. I'd prefer a stadium show so the Aviva or RDS would be fine. There's also a new stadium in Cork that fits 50000 and Ed Sheeran is playing there in May
we just have to pray an Irish show will happen this summer
Welcome aboard!
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Monsoon Ragoon
Please be realistic. Cork incl. suburbs has 200.000 inhabitants.
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Monsoon Ragoon
Please be realistic. Cork incl. suburbs has 200.000 inhabitants.
Lucca has 90,000.
Moncton 69,900.
Landgraaf 39,500.
Spielberg 5,000.
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erikjjf
They will play anywhere.
As long as a local promotor (someone they like working with) proposes a show (in a cool venue they want to play in) that will guarantee them a ridiculous amount of money. Population alone is not the deciding factor. Otherwise they would only play in Mexico City, Seoul, Lagos, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Delhi, etc.
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crawdaddy
I was at The Point shows way back in about 2003.
The nearest I ever got to a 'club' show ,and also the smallest audience and the nearest I ever got to the stage.
Hospitality before the show from a guy we met at the MSG gigs in January 2003.
Thank you Tony.
The fans there were great and I easily got to front of stage with the help of taller Irish fans who just pushed me up there. Such great Irish fans I met that night.
Ireland deserve a couple of gigs in 2018 on the U.K. Tour......................which may be the last time tour,but hopefully not.
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Paddy
Please just announce this tour quick. Anywhere in Ireland or England. I cant book flights home until this is announced
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Paddy
Please just announce this tour quick. Anywhere in Ireland or England. I cant book flights home until this is announced
Will probably be announced in March.
Jeroen
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They will play anywhere.
As long as a local promotor (someone they like working with) proposes a show (in a cool venue they want to play in) that will guarantee them a ridiculous amount of money. Population alone is not the deciding factor. Otherwise they would only play in Mexico City, Seoul, Lagos, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Delhi, etc.
If the local promotors pay, they will play in Cork, Bielefeld or Jena. Could happen, but such strange things do not happen very often. It's not very likely that Cork promotors offer them more money than the Dublin promotors I think... Things like this also went wrong sometimes like in Brno where only 30.000 people showed up. Our promotors in Dresden are not very adventurous unfortunately, that's why the Stones as well as U2, Clapton, Jackson, Turner and most other big acts never came (but they were all in Leipzig several times because there are better promotors).
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They will play anywhere.
As long as a local promotor (someone they like working with) proposes a show (in a cool venue they want to play in) that will guarantee them a ridiculous amount of money. Population alone is not the deciding factor. Otherwise they would only play in Mexico City, Seoul, Lagos, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Delhi, etc.
If the local promotors pay, they will play in Cork, Bielefeld or Jena. Could happen, but such strange things do not happen very often. It's not very likely that Cork promotors offer them more money than the Dublin promotors I think... Things like this also went wrong sometimes like in Brno where only 30.000 people showed up. Our promotors in Dresden are not very adventurous unfortunately, that's why the Stones as well as U2, Clapton, Jackson, Turner and most other big acts never came (but they were all in Leipzig several times because there are better promotors).
I wouldn't see Brno as a disaster. 30k was not the smallest crowd, happened several times that year - see [iorr.org] - but I would dare to say the promoter hoped for more given Brno's location between Vienna, Bratislava and Prague. AFAIK, the capacity is around 40k.
As you say, they will play anywhere if they get paid what they ask and logistics works. My understanding is that countries/locations are bidding against each other to secure the gig nowadays.
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Paddy
Please just announce this tour quick. Anywhere in Ireland or England. I cant book flights home until this is announced
Will probably be announced in March.
Jeroen
It will be announced earlier, even late January, most probably early February.
14 shows again, 10 in England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales and 4 "bonus shows" in Europe. Tour start in late May.