Gig at Vicar Street???

[deniseyorkshire]

Today FM have announced 2 nights at Vicar Street, 22nd and 23rd May....nothing on Ticketmaster or Vicar Street site as yet.......fingers crossed it's more than a rumour! :)

[Guinness]

Vicar street is a great venue and would suit the Duke well!

Been there a couple of times for all sorts of different genre-d gigs!

[mickoc]

Well he was rumoured to say he'd be back in Glasgow in May as well, wonder if he's up for another lap, got to admire the man's gigging power?

:D

[theriverside]

It's my birthday on the 21st May. Mrs old git says that 2 tickets and a few days in dublin will be my prezzie!!. To quote Geordie, GERRRIN!!!

[Sergei A 3]

Nooo i'll have exams :( And Vicar St is such a great venue - it'd suit Duke so well.

[PD]

Really, really hope your right chezbrunaud, because if this is true, I might be able to make it. :) My exams are the end of March which unfortunately means I'll miss the Olympia gig. Those tickets sold out so quickly too.

[helloiamgary]

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/artist/943271/?search_redirect=Duke%20Special&tm_link=tm_header_search

Bx

[theriverside]

so its a date with ticketmaster at 9.00am on monday :smt045

[janners1904]

Well he was rumoured to say he'd be back in Glasgow in May as well, wonder if he's up for another lap, got to admire the man's gigging power?

:D
Well this very interesting!

[PD]

so its a date with ticketmaster at 9.00am on monday :smt045

Ditto. :)

[theriverside]

don't you just love monday mornings? Just secured 2 tickets for vicar st 22/5/07

[deniseyorkshire]

Happy days!!! See y'all there! :)

[thesneakybandit]

ticketmaster is being a dick...
now there's a surprise...

therefore i cannot buy tickets!

:evil:

[rusty66]

But I can!

Therefore you have a ticket! :)

[thesneakybandit]

awwh sian got me a present on her birthday!! bless!

:roll:

[theriverside]

I would have prefered the wednesday night, but have opted for the seating gig instead on account of the fact that mrs O.G. couldn't see most of the ulster hall gig.

[rusty66]

EDIT: THIS IS FOR SNEAKY NOT OLD GIT!!!


Let's think of a word...

Let's think of the crooner who sang "You're Beautiful".

Let's think of his surname.

Let's remove the "bl"

Let's place a "c" in lieu of the afore deleted prefix.

There's a wee piece of niceness. From me. To you.

[theriverside]

so who's going to which gig. 22/5/07 seated, 23/5/07 standing?

[thesneakybandit]

i *think* i'm going to stand on the wednesday!

[PD]

Tickets were purchased for this gig bright and early this morning.
(the dedicated person I am....nah I was getting up already really)

Standing, 23rd of May on the Wednesday because it's a better night for heading out for merry celebrations afterwards..... :)

[Flackmeister]

I might well go to the tuesday one, which bit did you buy tkts for OG? Iis it right that one is seated and the other is standing? I could go to both I suppose!! Anyone know who support is?

[rosemary]

Went to the gig last week at the Tripod was awsome, just bought tickets for ground floor standing for this one on the Wednesday. Fermanagh to Dublin, then back in time for work in the morning.

[PD]

^That's dedication Paynie, fareplay.

i *think* i'm going to stand on the wednesday!

Shall you and Sian be present at this for definate then? Ticead? purchased? :)

[rusty66]

We shall my deary! Well I shall! And if I decide to give him his ticket he shall too ;);) heehee

Can't wait hon. I'll bring the pear cider, you bring the frolicks :D

[thesneakybandit]

We shall my deary! Well I shall! And if I decide to give him his ticket he shall too ;);) heehee

Can't wait hon. I'll bring the pear cider, you bring the frolicks :D

what am i bringing then???

[rusty66]

You bring the funk!

[justjump]

im travelling down for wed nights gig and will hopefully spend a couple of days there.i know i can google but can any dubliners recommend a reasonably priced hotel ?

[thesneakybandit]

haha there might be more northerners there than dubliners... :D

[rusty66]

That's good, cos I'll be there to see Duke not The Dubliners.


*Groaning at my own innane joke*

:arrow:

[Gerendolia]

There are not many moderately priced hotels in dublin, but there is a cracking wee youth hostel in the middle of temple bar-Barnacles is the name-good spot.

[rusty66]

The Temple Bar hostel I stayed in for the Bellies was woeful!! Actually awful! We woke up and the floor was flooded! So bad. There are buses that run until 3am though

[justjump]

Hmmm..thanks for that suggestion but im one of dukes ... more mature fans, so a hostel isnt maybe my first port of call
any other suggestions welcome :)

[arginite]

which nights are ppl going?

kk claire, you alive?? you going :)

[janners1904]

im travelling down for wed nights gig and will hopefully spend a couple of days there.i know i can google but can any dubliners recommend a reasonably priced hotel ?

DONT go to the Ripley Hotel! Its extremly expensive! We ended up at the Avalon Hostel instead.... :|

[theriverside]

I might well go to the tuesday one, which bit did you buy tkts for OG? Iis it right that one is seated and the other is standing? I could go to both I suppose!! Anyone know who support is?
went onto ticketmaster and clicked on best available and got row 5 tables!!!!!

[Dirk]

Got 3 tickets for the Tuesday night (Weds night is the Champions League Final - can't miss LFC picking up Number 6 :P )

Driving up from Waterford and back down the same night

[Flackmeister]

i was a bit slow then, my tickets are for row A52, perhaps i'll see you in the bar OG?

Hotels - Parliament Hotel is 10 min walk down the road from Vicar Street, Isaacs is by the bus station 30 min walk, Harcourt hotel is off top end of Grafton St 20 min walk to gig. All reasonably priced, then theres the Clarence of course :D

[arginite]

Harcourt hotel is off top end of Grafton St 20 min walk to gig

I stayed there for Crawdaddys, was noisy for about half an hour after the club closed but other than that I was very happy, grand little place, no luxury just nice clean hotel.

[theriverside]

perhaps i'll see you in the bar OG
Mines also a guinness!!

[Eoin]

which nights are ppl going?

kk claire, you alive?? you going :)

Ah sorry! The broadband is supposed to arrive before the end of the week so....you've been warned!! But I am sorry, I've seriously neglected this board...

Yep so Maur and I went down to Waterford, 4 hours on the bus (whilst Mr driver took every single dirtroad he could just to prolong the journey!) , went straight to the Travel Lodge, checked in, changed within 2seconds and legged itt o Garter Lane...got in literally seconds before Thomas came on..front row centre-nice! (Helen were you sitting behind me per chance??)
The crowd were all very well behaved and listened to everything in perfect silence before showing their appreciation at the end. I think the crowd suited Thomas T's set nicely as he didnt have to battle with the usual talkers and noisemakers...I think he enjoyed it himself :)
Duke S and Co came on and played an absolute blinder! Unreal. I preferred his waterford gig to the followong night myself. Because it was such a chilled out listening type crowd you could really just relax and listen to the music. Dukes voice is amazing...I've always known that but he somehow it just hit me like a brick wall on wed night.... Chip had loads of room onstage to get upto his usual antics but I loved when he ran so quickly towards the drums it didnt actually look like he could stop in time and seriosly had to put on the breaks at the last second!
As was already mentioned on here, they all unplugged and stood in front of us to play Quiet Revolutionary and I Saw the Light which was such a treat-unbelievable! Got him to sign a big poster for my lil sister at the end and shes made up with it :)
From there we headed for a few drinkies, met up with Johnny from Phil Grimes and ended up very drunk and fairly toasted too....woke up the next morning with a pretty heavy head! Then off to the bus place again....
Got to Dublin, headed out home, realised we didnt have enough time for food and/or showers so got a taxi back into town to the venue....wasnt allowed to bring my bottle of water in grrr. The gig was great, so completely different to Waterford. the crowd participation was fantastic to see though the 'clapping horribly out of time and for no reason' got a bit annoying after a while! It had such an 'end of tour' atmosphere about it and it was amazing to see exactly how much Dukes star has arisen since his last Irish tour......Having spoke briefly to Chip afterwards he reckons he meant to fall off-stage teehee :)

This is all very rushed and I know I'll regret not taking more time over it but its 20.25 and I finished work 25mins ago. My beau has just text wondering where Iam cos dinner is ready so...!
I know I'll rem a million more things once I've disconnected so finally hello to all you guys I havent spoken to in ages, Im sorry and I promise I'll make more of an effort to keep in touch...

Claire xxx :)

[justjump]

thaks for all the suggestions for hotels ..took the safe option..i hope...and booked into one of the jurys group ,got a good deal as long as its clean and reasonably comfy thats all we are looking for

[lisa35]

Well done Claire, what a great report. :)

Seeing the distance others are travelling and the effort they are putting in, I feel I must attend the Wednesday gig. :)

[Eoin]

Haha thanks, it was all very rushed :) Im sorry I kinda just came in and started ranting there ignoring the current topic of conversation! If anyone is still looking for accomadation, you should check out some of the places along talbot st....they mightnt look great from the outside but are nice enough inside and are not too expensive....You mightnt want to be walking back there on your own late at night though...

[Eoin]

Right so Ive just woken up and realised that Katie didnt ask about the past gigs at all *not with it at all anymore* :roll:

So just to compLete my last post...the last time we stayed in Dublin it was in the Celtic Lodge or so Ive just been informed...Theres a pub downstairs of the same name which plays scary diddly-i music 24/7 but we stayed there for the last Dylan gig and it was perfect for our one night stop...

As for the upcoming Vicar St gigs (duh!) I have a serious dilemma...you see DMB is playing the 23rd of May and Maur bought tix for that months ago....and Mark Geary is playing the 22nd and although you all know I love Duke....I have never seen DMB before and I'm not likely to get another chance for a long long time. Also Marky hasnt played in a good while and he's only doing a short 4 date tour.....It tough cos we wouldnt just be missing the gigs but theres always a huge boardy meet-up for the Marky gigs and theres also a huge crowd going to DMB....But that said, the same is true for these Duke S gigs coming up by all accounts and because Duke Special is getting so big its impossible to predict when we'll see him live again..... HELP?? :? :?

[rusty66]

Awh no Claire! I was hoping to finally get to meet you and hoped you'd bring Sandra! :(

[helen]

...got in literally seconds before Thomas came on..front row centre-nice! (Helen were you sitting behind me per chance??)

No - was about 2/3rds of the way up but excellent view all the same. But I was right at the front in the Tripod (left hand side). Good to hear your reports of Waterford and Dublin, Claire!

It's early and I'm probably being a bit dense, but what is DMB??

[clywedo]

FAO Claire.

i see in your last post that mark geary is playin somewhere on the 22nd of may! WHERE?????????? i would love to see him live.

[thesneakybandit]

FAO Claire.

i see in your last post that mark geary is playin somewhere on the 22nd of may! WHERE?????????? i would love to see him live.

google is your friend! use it wisely :wink: :roll: :D :D

http://www.markgeary.com/news.shtml

[melf]

So I've never been to Vicar Street venue before, whats it like?
We might go down for the tuesday night gig, depending on what available seats are left. Like i said i have no idea on what its like inside. Help would be appreciated :)

[clywedo]

google and wikipedia are masters of our gereation. if anyone ever has a question and you arent sure of an answer...dont fret, wiki it!! :)

i went the ticketmaster route and found all i needed that way!

[rusty66]

"wiki" was added to the dictionary in it's newest edition!

[Eoin]

Aww Siano, what date are you going to? Sandra will def at Marky.....in Whelans! My tix for the 23rd just arrived this morning :( I still havent made my mind up whether to go to Duke S or Marky...To make things harder a friend from Bratislava is coming over for DMB and now Mark G. AND Peter Doran (who you will be hearing more of!!) might be opening for Mark!

Helen, I was almost postive it was you as the lady behind me had an english accent and knew all about Duke....although I do realise there are quite a few english ladies 'in the know' ;) I wish I came on here before the gigs so I would have known who was going where! But to answer your question-DMB stands for Dave Matthews Band. They are a huuuuge american group and aside from Daves recent solo show, they do not play in ireland v. often...at all.

Wyntir-Vicar st is a great venue, the sound, the lightning, the capacity-its got it all in one package. Quite a lot of performers would declare it their favourite venue in Ireland or at the very least, Dublin to play. I've never been to a seated show but I know they had it in tables format at a Frames show before, as opposed to seating in rows. Im not sure how they are doing it for this gig though...I think there are pictures of the venue on their website if you google it?

[Sergei A 3]

I've been to quite a few seated gig in Vicar st and worked there a few times and stuff, and they always have the table format. So i presume it'll be that way again :)
I just bought my tickets for the Wednesday night :)

Now I am biased here again, because I am merch girl for Marky sometimes but I would say go see him :D Only because he isn't doing very many gigs of late - I'm surprised hes even doing these! Last time I saw him he said he was taking quite a long break from gigging.
Also Whelans! So teeny, its a great venue to see Mark in. I'd be there for definite if it wasn't for my exams. I may possibly still go though, ha ;)

[PD]

Can't wait hon. I'll bring the pear cider, you bring the frolicks :D

Right so, the frolicks will be present. You will be proud to hear I had the old pear cider in the Foggy Dew the other night, very tasty stuff my dear. So plenty of that will be needed. hehe :wink:

Also, ticead? arrived in the post today! :)

[Eoin]

Yeah Bl?th, Im getting a bit of flack from the Marky-boarders and since Ivi( you know her?) is coming over....Im thinking maybe I could go to Mark and then catch Duke S in Galway and/or London.....I hate having to choose though :(

[melf]

Bought my tickets yesterday, you were correct they are using the tables. We are seated at table 11 :) was suprised to get front row :)
Can't wait now.