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     Babs Keatings neighbour |
The Go-Betweens return for Irish show Australian band The Go-Betweens will return to Ireland for a concert at Dublin's Vicar Street on Saturday 26 June. Formed in Brisbane in 1978 by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, The Go-Betweens have been cited as influential by a generation of musicians from Belle and Sebastian to Coldplay. They recorded early singles for the legendary Postcard label, moving to Rough Trade for the six albums they released in the Eighties. McLennan and Forster, often described as the Australian Lennon and McCartney, disbanded The Go-Betweens in 1989. They each recorded a series of solo albums before reforming in 2000 for 'The Friends Of Rachel Worth', following this with 2003's 'Bright Yellow Bright Orange'. Tickets are priced EUR32 and will be available from Ticketmaster or Vicar Street. | ||
| Thomas |
32 Euros..??pffff..hope thats a joke | ||
| Babs Keatings neighbour |
No joke. If you were to book 2 tickets via the Ticketmaster website it would cost you EUR72. I bought mine at a Ticketmaster kiosk (simply because I was having trouble booking seated tickets on the website) and there was no Service Charge. This is a rather contentious issue among Irish concert-goers i.e. the fact that we are being systematically ripped-off by promoters/ticket-agents etc. Anyone who saw The Blue Nile at the Olympia in 1997 may recall Paul Buchanan's disgust when he discovered what people had to pay for the privilege of attending the show; "Forty Quid? Even I wouldn't pay that to see us!" That said, there is no way I would let the price of the tickets come between me and a Go-Betweens show and I'm sure that most other fans would - ultimately - concur. A proper chicken-and-egg conundrum ...... | ||
| Cassiel |
Coldplay??!! Aaaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!! | ||
| Michael |
The price is a bit off-putting, but certainly not THAT off-putting. I hope that Mr Forster is busy arranging the Belfast show he promised me last time he played Dublin... The Blue Nile and The Go-Betweens; BK's neighbour, you have exquisite taste! | ||
| Joe Deegan |
Reading the press release I note that the London concert will be in two halves with no support ,will have a string section and special guests, but the Dublin concert just mentions the venue. Will Dublin get the same show as London ? | ||
| eddie |
The promoter said it will be a long show but didn't know about instrumentation yet. | ||
| jerry |
it's not as if they're playing 2 venues at the same time, on the same night like kraftwerk have been known to. | ||
| psycho |
Was debating whether to go to London or Dublin...Dublin won out 'cos of the great atmosphere I experienced at the Ambassador gig in April..no doubt will be reproduced in VS Just my opinion...there seems to be a 'special relationship' between the GBs and Ireland/Irish audiences from what I have heard and experienced. Given that reality, and assuming that Vicar Street can accomodate, why wouldn't there be strings/orchestration...anyone got an update on the format of the show?? | ||
| peter ward |
I missed the last gbs show in Dublin so chomping at the bit for the vicar street show, recently aquired the trashy right here tribute album and les inrockuptibles french demos cd, any irish fans able to trade me the botany sessions and/or the RF/GMcL double rare tracks doing the rounds? | ||
| psycho |
Any gig-goers watering hole recommendations prior to Dublin opus?? | ||
| Bertie |
There's a very nice pub across the road and down a little bit from Vicar Street Venue. It's called after a Grant McLennan song .....it's called 'The Clock'. | ||
| Walshie |
'The Clock' is a grand pub for Vicar St. alright...then again, you can always head 5 minutes down Francis St. where there is a pub called, yes, 'The Liberty Belle'... | ||
| Cassiel |
Sounds like the best place for a Go-Betweens themed pub crawl. Is 'The Ghost and the Black hat' still open on Connell Street? |