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oxegen - the bad news just wont go away (2 Viewers)
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classic seanc
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Well, we'd only need 20% till we'd be obliged to launch a hostile takeover.
Alan Latchley
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I just had a read of the Hi-Fi licence, as granted by Westmeath County Council on Thursday last, and get this - on Sunday there will be NO performances of any nature until 5pm!
It was a planning condition added in at the last minute by the County Manager to ease a dispute between MCD and the neighbouring golf club whose showpiece Scratch Cup tournament is on the same weekend (and has been for 40-odd years).
All the advertised campsite entertainment has been pulled as well. There'll be a fucking riot! Imagine 10,000 people coralled into one campsite all day... There'll be fuck-all "iPod generation" bonding...
Looks like MCD's big bubble is bursting doesn't it?
It was a planning condition added in at the last minute by the County Manager to ease a dispute between MCD and the neighbouring golf club whose showpiece Scratch Cup tournament is on the same weekend (and has been for 40-odd years).
All the advertised campsite entertainment has been pulled as well. There'll be a fucking riot! Imagine 10,000 people coralled into one campsite all day... There'll be fuck-all "iPod generation" bonding...
Looks like MCD's big bubble is bursting doesn't it?
the departed
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ha, it gets worse..
"Discussion of MCD and their concerts = completely banned this week"
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054965633
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i mean. what the fuck?
"Discussion of MCD and their concerts = completely banned this week"
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054965633
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i mean. what the fuck?
RSJ
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That's amazing.g-stereotypical said:
oh shit
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i posted on boards.ie appealing for witnesses for a radio item. the post was deleted and i emailed asking politely for it to be allowed, only locked from replies to avoid anything potentially litigious. no reply.
classic seanc
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g-stereotypical said:
wow.
astounding. For so many different reasons.......incredible.
*bookmarks page
seems fair enoughg-stereotypical said:
roxy
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No one can mention any of the following events on boards.ie:
The Answer
The Automatic
The Beautiful South
BellX1
Billy Talent
The Black Keys
Blood on the Wall
Brigade
Buck 65
Calexico
“Came So Far for Beauty”: An Evening of Leonard Cohen songs
Cursive
Daft Punk
Dirty Pretty Things
Dragonforce
Dropkick Murphys
Faithless
The Feeling
Tommy Fleming
The Grates
The Greencards
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Iron Maiden
Islands
Billy Joel
Lacuna Coil
Lyle Lovett
Maximo Park
McFly
Morrissey
Motörhead
MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour
Muse
New Orleans All-Stars
Declan O’ Rourke
Pearl Jam
The Pipettes
The Raconteurs
Radiohead
Red Hurley
The Roots
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Bic Runga
Simple Kid
Simple Minds
Snow Patrol
State Radio
Status Quo
“Stairway to Zeppelin”
Sufjan Stevens
The Stunning
Taste of Chaos ‘06
Sandi Thom
Tool
Tunng
UB40
The Unholy Alliance ’06
Victory Records Tour ’06
We Are Scientists
James Yorkston and the Athletes
Shayne Ward
Paul Weller
Will Young
Or any of these venues:
The Ambassador
The Olympia Theatre
Bud Rising
Galway Big Top
Hi:Fi
Oxegen
???
What in the name of jaysus. I'm genuinely confused.
RSJ
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How's the radio item shaping up by the way? Or is it done?oh shit said:
roxy said:
MCD threatened to sue boards.ie ltd. for defamation, so boards.ie are banning any mention of MCD promoted events, just in case someone defames MCD.
Perfectly reasonable if you ask me.
Alan Latchley
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Criticise us and your dead. Has Justin Green been watching too many Westerns?
I think the vast accumulation of gig power that (insert concert promoters name here) has garnered in the past couple of years has gone to their heads, and it's reached a point where they imagine they can 'do' festivals in their sleep. I've been a VIP at Witnness/Oxegen since day 1 so I don't get as deep down and dirty as everyone else, but this year was the pits. It has grown so big it's just lost all semblance of control, and one has to wonder if the big concert promters relatively young minions and footsoldiers can handle the added responsibility.
Even for the lordy VIP's and hangers on it was the pits, and also for the bands. I did a couple of interviews - formal and informal - over the weekend and a couple of the bigger acts were united in saying that Oxegen was the worst festival on the circuit for many reasons too detailed (and libelous no doubt) to get into here. One rather big Scottish group couldn't even get a shower. The dressing rooms resembled a line of stalls at the Spring Show, or, as one band member put it, a hospital ward for midgets.
For me it was, without question, the single-most worst festival I have ever attended. Even though they really worked hard on the layout and improved the standard of food, services etc, everything about it seemed to be about cutting corners, from unregulated knackers in security vests to the hell that was the campsite (had a walk-through on Saturday). Since they moved from Fairyhouse, the punters Oxegen attracts is the rites of passage brigade; it has replaced the Debs as the number one way to get slaughtered and it is, to all intents and purposes, a absolute teenage wasteland.
It's still worth going to of course, as Aiken and POD don't have the buying power for many of the acts Oxegenn (and T in The Park) always gets, but once the Point closes for refurbishment they might have...
All in all, an interesting year lies ahead doesn't it?
I think the vast accumulation of gig power that (insert concert promoters name here) has garnered in the past couple of years has gone to their heads, and it's reached a point where they imagine they can 'do' festivals in their sleep. I've been a VIP at Witnness/Oxegen since day 1 so I don't get as deep down and dirty as everyone else, but this year was the pits. It has grown so big it's just lost all semblance of control, and one has to wonder if the big concert promters relatively young minions and footsoldiers can handle the added responsibility.
Even for the lordy VIP's and hangers on it was the pits, and also for the bands. I did a couple of interviews - formal and informal - over the weekend and a couple of the bigger acts were united in saying that Oxegen was the worst festival on the circuit for many reasons too detailed (and libelous no doubt) to get into here. One rather big Scottish group couldn't even get a shower. The dressing rooms resembled a line of stalls at the Spring Show, or, as one band member put it, a hospital ward for midgets.
For me it was, without question, the single-most worst festival I have ever attended. Even though they really worked hard on the layout and improved the standard of food, services etc, everything about it seemed to be about cutting corners, from unregulated knackers in security vests to the hell that was the campsite (had a walk-through on Saturday). Since they moved from Fairyhouse, the punters Oxegen attracts is the rites of passage brigade; it has replaced the Debs as the number one way to get slaughtered and it is, to all intents and purposes, a absolute teenage wasteland.
It's still worth going to of course, as Aiken and POD don't have the buying power for many of the acts Oxegenn (and T in The Park) always gets, but once the Point closes for refurbishment they might have...
All in all, an interesting year lies ahead doesn't it?
the departed
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ah yeah pete its not really boards.ie's action (for once) thats crazy...pete said:
its more the fact that this has been enforced in the first place by mcd.
Alan Latchley
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g-stereotypical said:
Or rather their solicitors Arthur Cox and Co...
roxy
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pete said:
But I love Tommy Fleming. I'd never say anything bad about him.
Not criticising boards.ie (for once). I think it's pure mental that it's come to this though, on MCD's part. It is farcical, you have to agree.
Holy shit!
I went shopping last weekend and bougt albums by The Answer
The Automatic, The Beautiful South, BellX1, Billy Talent, The Black Keys Blood on the WallBrigadeBuck 65Calexico “Came So Far for Beauty”: An Evening of Leonard Cohen songs Cursive Daft Punk Dirty Pretty Things Dragonforce Dropkick Murphys Faithless The Feeling Tommy Fleming The Grates The Greencards I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness Iron Maiden Islands Billy Joel Lacuna Coil Lyle Lovett Maximo Par McFly Morrissey Motörhead MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour Muse New Orleans All-Stars Declan O’ RourkePearl Jam The Pipettes The Raconteurs Radiohead Red Hurley The Roots Rodrigo y Gabriela Bic Runga Simple Kid Simple Minds Snow Patrol State Radio Status Quo “Stairway to Zeppelin” Sufjan Stevens The Stunning Taste of Chaos ‘06 Sandi Thom Tool Tunng UB40 The Unholy Alliance ’06 Victory Records Tour ’06 We Are Scientists James Yorkston and the Athletes Shayne Ward Paul Weller Will Young. Th Red Hulrey one was better than I excpected.
I went shopping last weekend and bougt albums by The Answer
The Automatic, The Beautiful South, BellX1, Billy Talent, The Black Keys Blood on the WallBrigadeBuck 65Calexico “Came So Far for Beauty”: An Evening of Leonard Cohen songs Cursive Daft Punk Dirty Pretty Things Dragonforce Dropkick Murphys Faithless The Feeling Tommy Fleming The Grates The Greencards I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness Iron Maiden Islands Billy Joel Lacuna Coil Lyle Lovett Maximo Par McFly Morrissey Motörhead MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour Muse New Orleans All-Stars Declan O’ RourkePearl Jam The Pipettes The Raconteurs Radiohead Red Hurley The Roots Rodrigo y Gabriela Bic Runga Simple Kid Simple Minds Snow Patrol State Radio Status Quo “Stairway to Zeppelin” Sufjan Stevens The Stunning Taste of Chaos ‘06 Sandi Thom Tool Tunng UB40 The Unholy Alliance ’06 Victory Records Tour ’06 We Are Scientists James Yorkston and the Athletes Shayne Ward Paul Weller Will Young. Th Red Hulrey one was better than I excpected.
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Pilchard
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roxy said:
its red hurley and the stunning i feel sorry for, y'know
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Pilchard
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roxy said:
its red hurley and tommy fleming i feel sorry for, y'know. i hear theyre big with boards.ie users
Alan Latchley
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Did anyone see Declan O'Rourke on telly over the weekend?
He's turned into this weird curly hybrid of Red Hurley, Chris De Burgh and, er, Tommy Fleming..
He's turned into this weird curly hybrid of Red Hurley, Chris De Burgh and, er, Tommy Fleming..
Are MCD people-trafficking again?
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