U2 Gig Confirmed

[Peadar]

U2 have confirmed that they'll play Croke Park on June 24th 2005
Tickets go on sale February 4th.
Can't wait!

EUROPEAN DATES AND TICKETING INFORMATION

June 10th Brussels - King Baudouin Stadium
June 12th Gelsenkirchen - Schalke Stadium
June 14th Manchester - City of Manchester Stadium
June 18th London - Twickenham Stadium
June 21st Glasgow - Hampden Park
June 24th Dublin - Croke Park
June 29th Cardiff - Millenium Stadium

2nd July Vienna - Ernst Happel Stadium
5th July Katowice - Slaski Stadium
7th July Berlin - Olympic Stadium
9th July Paris - Stade de France
11th July Zurich – Letzigrund Stadium
13th July Amsterdam – Arena
19th July Milan - San Siro
23rd July Rome - Olympic Stadium
27th July Oslo - Vallehovin Stadium;
29th July Gothenburg - Ullevi Stadium
31st July Copenhagen - Parken

3rd August Munich - Olympic Stadium
5th August Nice - Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann
7th August Barcelona – Camp Nou
9th August San Sebastian - Anoeta Stadium
11th August Madrid - Estadio Vicente Calderon
14th August Lisbon - Alvalade


Tickets for the UK shows go on sale at 9am Friday, January 28th

[fosterdollar]

Tickets will be priced at EUR 59.50, EUR 70 and EUR 80. Assuming the 60 quid ones are up in the stands then it's a fairly heavily priced gig...

[Peadar]

Tickets will be priced at EUR 59.50, EUR 70 and EUR 80. Assuming the 60 quid ones are up in the stands then it's a fairly heavily priced gig...

Cheaper than Madonna and far better entertainment.

[Macy]

Tickets go on sale February 4th.

Or tomorrow for some of us...

[Peadar]

Or tomorrow for some of us...

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[fosterdollar]

Cheaper than Madonna and far better entertainment.

Not if you're a Madonna fan. Anyway, I never understood why one act concerts in general cost so much when you compare them to festivals, especially the way pricesa are going in places like the Point and even the Olympia

[razor]

Is there no Cork gig ?

[aidz1]

is it possible to buy a ticket for a uk leg at a ticketmaster outlet in the republic??

[Peadar]

Anyway, I never understood why one act concerts in general cost so much when you compare them to festivals, especially the way pricesa are going in places like the Point and even the Olympia

For a festival it's the organisers that pay all the logistical costs.
The bands turn up, do a reduced set, get the cheque and leave.
When a band does a tour they often have more than one tour kit i.e. stage, lights etc. so the logistical costs are far greater than a single location festival. The promoters get a nice cut too, of course.

is it possible to buy a ticket for a uk leg at a ticketmaster outlet in the republic??

ticketmaster.co.uk deliver to "Eire" addresses.

[liam88]

I'm not missing out on this like I did on Wave Aid!
What's the number to phone on Friday?

[fosterdollar]

For a festival it's the organisers that pay all the logistical costs.
The bands turn up, do a reduced set, get the cheque and leave.
When a band does a tour they often have more than one tour kit i.e. stage, lights etc. so the logistical costs are far greater than a single location festival.

Yeah i get all that but i don't see how tickets for gigs in the Point/RDS end up costing 30/40 quid. I appreciate the expense involved in organising an event such as U2 in Croker. Perhaps not enough effort is put into ridding unneccessary middlemen in the industry which add a lot of weight to costs. Wouldn't be surprised if there is a lack of competition in the area and/or unwritten rules specifying certain companies or people who must be used when making such arrangements.

The promoters get a nice cut too, of course.

This is a real problem. And Ticketmaster are a joke. Did Matt Cooper ever get round to covering them on the Last Word? I remember him promising to do so recently. I bought a ticket for a concert in the Point recently. EUR 30 face value. Another EUR 4.50 surcharges for credit card/i-net booking. 15 poxy percent. Rip-Off Ireland at it's best.

BTW, is it possible to buy tickets without going through ticketmaster at all??

[patsh]

This is a real problem. And Ticketmaster are a joke. Did Matt Cooper ever get round to covering them on the Last Word? I remember him promising to do so recently. I bought a ticket for a concert in the Point recently. EUR 30 face value. Another EUR 4.50 surcharges for credit card/i-net booking. 15 poxy percent. Rip-Off Ireland at it's best.

BTW, is it possible to buy tickets without going through ticketmaster at all??

Cooper did do something....he moaned for a few minutes!
He said he went to the website to buy 4 tickets for some event, and would have had to pay a booking fee of €5.99 per ticket, even though it was one transaction. The same thing has happened to all of us.
I'd reckon theres a good few votes for anyone who could sort this out, but as we live in the age of competition in this country (HA HA HA... ), I don't suppose anything can be done, except boycott the f*cking theives and get tickets elsewhere if possible.

[Peadar]

I don't suppose anything can be done, except boycott the f*cking theives and get tickets elsewhere if possible.

It's almost impossible to do that if they're the only ticket agent for a particular gig. I've heard loads of stories from people telling me that their mate down in ticketmaster had loads of tickets put aside for them for various gigs like Madonna. People queued up all night (foolishly some might say) and within 40 minutes the signs go up to say that they're sold out.
It's one of the real areas in Ireland where corruption is rampant but seemingly unchecked!

[Macy]

It's almost impossible to do that if they're the only ticket agent for a particular gig. I've heard loads of stories from people telling me that their mate down in ticketmaster had loads of tickets put aside for them for various gigs like Madonna. People queued up all night (foolishly some might say) and within 40 minutes the signs go up to say that they're sold out.
It's one of the real areas in Ireland where corruption is rampant but seemingly unchecked!

Ticket master agents do it all the time, despite ticket master themselves denying it. U2 at Slane the last time, Longford had sold out several days before they even went on sale, thank god for the propaganda tickets. Someone in work knows someone who works in Ticketmaster in Dublin, and she can basically get a pick of seats for any gig before they're officially on sale.

[aidz1]

Tickets will be priced at EUR 59.50, EUR 70 and EUR 80. Assuming the 60 quid ones are up in the stands then it's a fairly heavily priced gig...

any1 know for sure the layout and price equivilent of each?
assuming the stage to be about hill 16 and the cheaper tickets are for standing on the pitch?

[Troy.McClure]

Or tomorrow for some of us...

I think you mean the 31st

[Peadar]

I think you mean the 31st

I've already corrected him on this via PM.

[drinkfeckarse]

Shocking that they've only got 1 Irish gig

FFS Spain have 3 and Italy got 2

[Peadar]

Shocking that they've only got 1 Irish gig

And it's on a Friday FFS!
You'd nearly be better off going to Cardiff, Manchester or Twickenham.

[Babysis]

According to a festivals site that is usually pretty close tothe mark, U2 are said to have kept the weekend of Glastonbury free, so that they can extend their dates in Dublin as soon as the one date they have announced sells out.