37 thoughts on “Out Of Time”

  3. Bill Berry's Stick

    It was my first proper concert. Irish support acts included: Luka Bloom and Sharon Shannon. Some crowd called Oasis were second support, as I recall. Also where I discovered the wonderful Michael Franti and Spearhead. What a day.

    1. Skerries

      I so wanted to go to that gig but my mates wouldn’t go, knew I should have gone on my own

      I did watch my copy of Tourfilm to death though

  5. MintyFresh

    Oh wow, I remember selling these in Golden Discs Bray! Early Ticketmaster- a bundle of pre-printed tickets in a locked drawer! Love it.

  6. ivan

    i know heaps of people who all claim to either know, or have been, the bloke to flung a bottle at Liam Gallagher, causing him to lose the rag…

    meanwhile, yeah, I miss nice art-worky tickets.

  7. Jonsmoke

    Wow! That’s a bit weird. I was just rediscovering/listening to REM Green today (I haven’t listened to any REM in years) and reminiscing about the Slane gig and the RDS gig (which was my first big gig attendance). I had no idea it was the Slane anniversary. Great band, great times.

  8. wearnicehats

    That’s the equivalent of just over €49 in today’s money. I think Slane this year was around €80?

    1. Vote Rep #1

      Indeed, if you completely discount all inflation. Around the same time as this gig, I was getting paid £1.25 an hour to work in Super Crazy Prices.

      1. Tucker Done

        I was getting 2.50 for washing dishes in a scummy hotel which wouldn’t give me time off for this. Backstards.

      2. Harchibald

        He has indeed allowed for inflation. £25.5 *1.27 * 1.558 (CPI factor since 1995) = €50.40.
        Bravo wearnicehats. Maybe show your workings in future to avoid the smart arses.

        1. Vote Rep #1

          Maybe he should also factor in things like minimum wage and the like that which have driven prices in general. My wages from 1995 work out €2.47, Tucker Dones would be €4.94, both of which are well below the minimum wage. Its almost as if we get paid too much these days really.

          1. Tucker Done

            But my wages didn’t account for the free milk and the chicken nuggets and chips I got for dinner. Every. Single. Day.

  9. Custo

    I was only thinking about this gig last week.

    I got a ticket for christmas iirc.

    Was a big 4AD head at the time, and was mad to see Belly.

    Got home using Dublin Bus at about 5am. Twenty years later it’s still as bad.

    1. B Bop

      Yes, yes indeed this-that long walk to the buses ridiculousness & back into town 4am.
      A great gig…I topped a pyramid…in the post Oasis pre R.E.M moments…thousands cheered…good times…youth.

  10. Richie

    Ah the memories.

    Tanya Donnelly and Belly,I thought I was in heaven. largely forgettable oasis set. Spearhead were fab.
    REM, awesome. the human pyramids for the encore, and standing at the bottom of a collapsed one.
    Real good feel from the crowd on a glorious day. Were there hot air balloons or was that another slane.

    great days.

  12. Ringos Dove

    As a knacker drinking teenager I was lucky enough to have friends living in Slane who managed to blag us by the security checkpoints. Then a backhander of a fiver to a security guard got us in the gates just as Oasis were kicking off. Slane was the best in the days when real bands played

  13. Peter81

    Not only a big hike in ticket prices since the 90’s, but a big decline in quality aswell. We’ve reached the point where a band like Foo Fighters are the acceptable stadium headliner. Safe and bland. Is it poor investment in music in the past 20 years? We should have moved on a lot more than this.

    1. Spaghetti Hoop

      True. The promoters took over and lined their pockets.
      Paying nearly a ton for a ticket was nuts.
      Hence the happy switch to small club and pub gigs.
      I wouldn’t be seen dead at a stadium.
      (Not unless they bring back public hangings ‘course.)

  14. Mick

    Remember this well , all those paper cups being thrown in the air during ‘let me in’

    Still have my ticket stub for this too, one of the few shows here thats ever had an nice non-ticketmaster generic ticket.

  15. ArtVandelay

    Its easy to forget how great some of those early songs were. South Central Rain, choon!

  16. Co40

    I’m fairly certain that originally a post-The Bends Radiohead were announced as being third on the bill, Spearhead ended up replacing them.

    Queued overnight outside HMV for tickets. Which were then freely available for weeks afterwards.

    1. Skerries

      yeah I was working in a night club at the time so knocked off at about 4 and headed into town with a few cans and camped outside HMV Grafton St, good times

      2. fmong

        was lined up outside HMV at 6am waiting for tickets when some rockers came up and quietly mentioned to folks that Sound Cellar had opened early to flog tickets, cue crazed dash down Grafton St. to buy tickets there, an hour or two before they were offically on sale

        I’d say Sound Cellar cleaned up with that trick…

        course as pointed out there was tickets on sale for WEEKS after that, but still… good times…

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