The Gareth Brooks thread (1 Viewer)

[Kermit McDermott]

Crapping all over the place, attacking the guards..... Its worst than a UB40 gig,

Garth Brooks fan denies he attacked garda who suffered broken nose at Croke Park gig

A CONCERTGOER has been charged with assaulting a garda who suffered a broken nose when he was allegedly attacked at one of Garth Brooks’ Croke Park gigs.

www.independent.ie

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Crapping all over the place, attacking the guards..... Its worst than a UB40 gig,

Garth Brooks fan denies he attacked garda who suffered broken nose at Croke Park gig

A CONCERTGOER has been charged with assaulting a garda who suffered a broken nose when he was allegedly attacked at one of Garth Brooks’ Croke Park gigs.

www.independent.ie

being a designated driver at a Garth gig would probably lead to a lot of internalised rage

 

[taubstumm]

Crapping all over the place, attacking the guards..... Its worst than a UB40 gig,

in fairness there haven’t been any reports of attempted assassinations... yet

Loyalist on parole shot at concert

Even by Northern Ireland's standards, it was a bizarre murder attempt: a loyalist terrorist is shot in the head while watching an ageing rock band in leafy south Belfast; police know little about it until he leaves hospital; yesterday the target returns to jail.

www.theguardian.com

 

[ernesto]

being a designated driver at a Garth gig would probably lead to a lot of internalised rage

i had to drive to east wall on both saturday and sunday.
fucking nightmare shit traffic with drunk thick fans falling in front of the car on the road

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

in fairness there haven’t been any reports of attempted assassinations... yet

Loyalist on parole shot at concert

Even by Northern Ireland's standards, it was a bizarre murder attempt: a loyalist terrorist is shot in the head while watching an ageing rock band in leafy south Belfast; police know little about it until he leaves hospital; yesterday the target returns to jail.

www.theguardian.com

Honestly, how much worse could being shot in the head be compared to listening to UB40?

 

[Deadmanposting]

I had a friend when I was growing up whose big idea when we were teens was to organise a 'fake' UB40 concert and then kill everyone that showed up

This was at a time when people could say "I hate scumbags" and you'd know what they were talking about and no one would challenge it

The plan included him walking around among the bodies and shooting any survivors in the head

This man is now quite a senior Gard

 

[ann post]

Were they a teen or was this like two weeks before graduating police academy?

 

[Deadmanposting]

Were they a teen or was this like two weeks before graduating police academy?

Teen


He's a great guy

Or he was when I knew him

Just very caught up in respectability bullshit

 

[Cormcolash]

The brother had to clear up human shit outside the house today
Someone had squatted down between two cars it seems

In decades of concerts and matches, that is a first for us

Some performer in fairness - he really gets people going

I'll wait until Gareth has left before I do my next one so

 

[Cormcolash]

I had to walk home through the sea of human scum on Friday night, along a North Strand Road that has had the pavement on my side greatly reduced in size due to the roadworks. There were a fair few fucking morons that got shouldered the fuck out of the way.

 

[nuke terrorist]

I had to walk home through the sea of human scum on Friday night, along a North Strand Road that has had the pavement on my side greatly reduced in size due to the roadworks. There were a fair few fucking morons that got shouldered the fuck out of the way.

That reminds me of the time I had to walk past people queueing outside Trinity Ball.

 

[therealjohnny]

Cormac the other night

 

[Cormcolash]

Legend

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Just seen a convoy of events logistics trucks heading for croke park this morning. Thought of you @seanc

And it’s all over for another 10-15 years until the fucker needs another kidney or a bunker in New Zealand

I caught ‘friends in low places’ drifting up on the breeze last night

 

[Lili Marlene]

I missed him doing his pub set down here by about an hour, kinda disappointed

 

[seanc]

Just seen a convoy of events logistics trucks heading for croke park this morning. Thought of you @seanc

And it’s all over for another 10-15 years until the fucker needs another kidney or a bunker in New Zealand

I caught ‘friends in low places’ drifting up on the breeze last night

Have to clarify here:

I don't usually do that rock 'n' roll roadie-but-a-local type stuff. Usually, in that particular venue, I'm sub-hired by the company that the venue has contracted when that contractor is busy. And we turn the last show into the next show. It's Production, thank you very much.

The guys and gals who do the actual box-pushing/truck-loading on the big gigs tend to come from an agency which hires people who've just come out of prison/rehab/mental health facilities/long term unemployment. And fairplay to them, but they are a strange bunch. I am not usually amongst them, only once actually on that massive show I mentioned before actually. It was logistically and anthropologically interesting.

That sounds snobby or something, but honestly I think I am on a slightly higher tier. The big touring Actual roadie technicians/tour managers are good at dealing with this mob. They don't like it when someone who's usually required to think at work comes along (i.e. me).

afaik, the Irish/Dublin equivalent of this industry is that it's a bit of a closed shop. Probably better.

 

[rettucs]

Just seen a convoy of events logistics trucks heading for croke park this morning. Thought of you @seanc

And it’s all over for another 10-15 years until the fucker needs another kidney or a bunker in New Zealand

I caught ‘friends in low places’ drifting up on the breeze last night

5 euro says he'll be back within 5 years

he's the David Gray/Charlie Landsbory of our times.

 

[Space]

@Cormcolash is the lad who'd be working those events.

 

[Cormcolash]

afaik, the Irish/Dublin equivalent of this industry is that it's a bit of a closed shop.

Na, it's full of fuckin morons too haha