Two bits from today’s Garth Brooks press conference in Nashville.
“Open it for five nights and let us go to work – don’t sell a show and let people get their hopes up. If the prime minister wants to talk to me I will crawl, swim or fly over to him…”
Garth Brooks.
Orla writes:
“Garth Brooks has just held up a mirror to Ireland and all its shiteousness…”
UPDATE: Aiken Promotions and Dublin City Council agree matinee deal for Brooks concerts (RTE)
UPDATE: Garth Brooks rejects matinee proposal for Croke Park concerts (RTE)
Meanwhile...Ireland’s Garth Brooks Crisis (Washington Post)
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Wait until he finds out he has only been given 3 chairs.
lol
haha
I guffawed very loudly in work at that comment. Thanks Chucky!
Hehe :)
This must be the low place everyone keeps talking about.
Is this going to stream live? I cannot wait.
And if five o’clock never comes?
Big turn out for the press conference.
GO AWAY!
Tis worse than dog sh*t on your shoe isn’t it? This just won’t go the flupp away..
Is it all back on? What a tool.
+ infinity
5, 4, 3, 2, 1….. Oh the excitement!
He needs to shut the f^ck up.
How stupid is he? Does he really think a country would, or should, change it’s planning laws so that he can play 5 nights?
Looks like the gombeen man will actually see that happen. Were you being sarcastic?
If we can effectively, cancel any corporation tax due, on the large American companies, that are “head quartered” on the auld sod.
Then he probably doesn’t see it as a big ask.
If American multi nationals tell the government, how to behave, then what’s the problem with American musicians expecting the same brown nosed treatment?
What corporation tax due on profits originated in Ireland isn’t being paid?
He said system. Not laws. And I agree. A system where you can sell tickets for a gig before planning is granted knowing that there is likely to be objections to the gig, needs to be changed.
This was to be his saving grace moment… but nah, he’s just another fupping muppet.
Twat !
I wish one of the Irish reporters would confront him with the actual issues that are surrounding the concerts. He’s playing this naive, good ol’ boy who is clueless.
You mean people living near a stadium that’s been there for a hundred years who are surprised the stadium is being used?
Shocker.
It’s a football stadium that’s used every fortnight for games. This is 5 consecutive nights of cod country. You do see the difference?
Plus it’s had far fewer than one concert a year in those 100 years.
Why in fupp would he know or want to know anything about that?
http://i.imgur.com/Ury9pR4.jpg
This is painful stuff. I feel sick. Yer wan in from “Independent Media” is mental.
Watch proceedings live here
GarthBrooks.com
Ah flupp.. No thanks. I’d prefer to listen to the Angelus..
The Angelus live? There’s an idea.
He must be in line to make a shi*load of money out of these concerts. What a wa*ker.
Agreed. This is the same guy who in 1993 refused to have his cds shipped to music stores that were selling used cds, because his royalty payments were at risk. Used cds!
Who exactly is he blaming for selling the tickets? The government?
That’s exactly it. This is nothing to do with the Irish state; Crawl to meet Enda will ya?(streaming that could make you a few bob) You’re a chancer Garth, you’d do well in politics here. Why not crawl to Aiken? His was the company selling the tickets.
You can throw in the greed of the gaa also.
Take off the cap Garth you’re not 15 and we all know you’re bald.
Brooks clearly tried to come across as earnest (picture him on his “knees begging” Enda Kenny….but rules are rules. Why did the ticket vendor contract with some huge place like Slane Castle etc?
Ireland may not be a ‘banana republic’…but I see the MexicamAmbassador has offered to help ( fair play!)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0710/629717-garth-brooks/
He speaks from the heart of his bottom with such sincerity. Everybody equal except those who have to move out for a couple of weeks while paying for security while they are gone.
News just in: Garth Brooks pulls out of concerts due to illness after eating an entire tub of Sudocrem
i vote that he crawls.
That’s funny and scary at the same time.
I especially like the part where, arm stretched out, he says “At no point did anyone come to me and say woah woah woah”.
He reminds me of a fat Eamon Coughlan.
What ever anybody thinks of GB, the fact is the proposal from DCC, about the “matinee” solution, just proves how f*&king stupid they are. Two full on shows in Croke Park per day and the logistics involved. Jeez.
Come on guys, my dead cat could come up with better than that. In fact, I could smoke an ounce of weed and still understand what a stupid proposal it is.
retroboy
Broadsheet challenge:
You smoke an ounce of weed right now – and then come back and post what you think the best solution might be.
Extraordinary rendition.
Send him to Diego Garcia.
A spacecake and a wander around the effected area, knocking on doors and having the chats might do him wonders.
I hope they go ahead with the 5 and in doing so put an agreement in place with residents that would make any situation like this impossible in the future. I would also hope the residents are compensated to the extent that Aiken takes a serious hit on this. Plus a fine.
All this hate towards him i find embarrassing. Not a fan but he is a business man as most musical artists of today are. It’s a cluster fupp no doubt but but playing a blame game as our “Prime minister” gets involved misses the point.
A lesson to be learned is that people power can have an impact on the powers that be. Not a rock thrown…few bullets in the post but sure who is counting.
He’s a businessman. Fine. And he’s all about the money. So maybe he could spare us his sanctimonious crocodile good ol’ boy tears about his “children” and just admit it: “I don’t want to do fewer than 5 gigs because I want all that money and believe I can force the hand of ‘the powers that be’ to give it to me.”
Apologies. I meant a successful businessman.
Best solution so far; split the gigs. i.e. one or two days off in the middle.
Logistically, much easier. Also, face-saving on all sides:
“Fans” have their day. Dublin makes a load of cash. Ireland doesn’t look like a f%&k up.
All good.
If I come up with anything better after the next 3/4 ounce, I’ll let you know.
retroboy
You can’t honestly blame DCC for this fcukup. They’re the only party here who are willing to play by the rules. The “laws”, if you will. Good man, Owen Keegan, keep on trucking (cycling, with a helmet and lights).
Yes, good man Owen. Integrity and backbone, nice to come across once in a while.
won’t stop everyone from trying to hang keegan out to dry tho. that’s gonna be fun, cos he’s one slippery mo-fo.
Well there goes that journalists impartiality right out the window.
How can anyone side with Brooks or Aiken in this. This is perfectly fair and normal planning processes standing up for the little person against immense bullying and pressure
Ireland 0 Greed 0 A.E.T
(Greed wins 5-0 on penalties)
After the 9 O’clock news I suppose if this proves anything, it is that Divas come in all shapes and sizes.
Well what I am getting from all this, Is he has a big screen specially designed for hill 16 that will fit nowhere else… except on a ship.. Not in any of the 370 sq miles of the bog of Allen, just can’t be done, impossible,
The Washington Post summarises the situation fairly well.
Brooks has challenged the “powers that be” here to a game of chicken, where they have to essentially ride roughshod over our laws to win.
Brooks, meanwhile, has nothing to lose really and is coming across more coherently than Enda, Christy, the GAA, and Peter Aiken put together.
Funny how you have to read the foreign press to get the unvarnished truth on this silliness.
Excellent synopsis (kudos for giving credit to the WP)
I’m not sure if anyone has made this suggestion, but I thought of something. Why doesn’t he do three of the shows as Garth Brooks and the other two as Chris Gaines?
Who is this “Orla” you’re quoting, Broadsheet? I think we should know, because that’s an award-winningly dumb remark.
That bothered me too. Very misguided.
Orla should be pelted with shite 5 nights running in Croker
10/10 would save up shite for this
Does anyone actually give a poo about what this Fat Bastard and his obese fans think?
Broadsheet self haters will self hate. More proof for them that we are shite. If it was Sweden ye would be praising their authorities. Why don’t ye all crawl into a fictional septic tank to prove your own self loathing?
Can anyone now sue Dublin city planners for loss of earnings. and if so will the planners pay out of their own if any wins compo?. after all it should not be down to the taxpayer to bail out the government again!!!!