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Chaos metallers Slipknot play the 3Arena in Dublin last night.

It got gnarly.

How gnarly?

Yikes.

*horn sign*.

Pic via Philip Breen

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60 thoughts on “We Slip You Knot

  1. Drogg

    Don’t be a little b***h if you go to a metal gig that’s what happens. Maybe you got confused on your way to see Mumford and sons.

      1. Boba Fettucine

        I’m pretty sure its meant to look like that. Which is what I meant by ‘perfect’, rather than an abstract assessment of its aesthetic qualities.

    1. Always Wright

      I got rightly trampled at that. The was a huge crowd, much bigger than they have now, and no real crowd control. In my memory there were no barriers at the stage or anything, no mosh pit. Could that be correct? This was before a girl was crushed and killed at the Smashing Pumpkins concert in the Point, so maybe things weren’t as organised as they are now. When Liam Gallagher told everybody to take a step back because things were getting a little bit crazy a stranger felt sorry for me and picked me up, not letting go until he had lugged me out of the thrashing mob.
      Best concert ever. And I was really only there for REM, I was under the impression that I was a bit too cool for Oasis.

      1. K

        I think a couple of lads died trying to swim across the Boyne to get to the concert that year as well. It was certainly the last Slane concert for at least 3-4 years.

        1. Del McG

          I seem to recall it was the REM gig at Slane in 95, where the young fellas drowned. Oasis were the support act.

      2. Custo

        yeah it was just a stage and a field. We got in early and leaning on the front barriers for Spearhead & Belly. When Oasis came on we moved the back, it was bananas. I think Liam chucked a coin into the crowd that had been chucked at him, kickstarting the mayhem.

        Gig ended at 10/11pm, I got home to Dublin at 5am iirc, the bus situation was asd bad then as it apparently is now.

        Good times.

      3. Dave

        It was Noel who (as I recall) told people to calm down. Liam was too busy hurling bottles back into the crowd and telling us to eff off. I was with my GF and we were picked up by the tidal wave of people and swept about 50 metres back & forth. Bit scary. Then REM came on – without a word – and everyone started throwing flattened paper cups into the air like a blizzard.

    1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly

      Jayz, I’m old. I used to go there when it started, ten years before that. ‘Twas never too mad then, though. Maybe ye were a more boisterous lot.

      1. Sidewinder

        Sure it’s all over now Ted. The young ones don’t want to listen to the Smiths and mosh to Smashing Pumpkins in a nightclub anymore…dark days my friend.

  2. Mick Flavin

    Is that what a chest is meant to look like?

    Oh…

    *fetches scissors and 12 pack of disposable Bic razors, goes on diet*

        1. Mani

          The Sagging Paps….the new Irish media supergroup with Paul Williams on guitar and Barry Egan on vibes. And coke.

  3. joe

    Call him a hipster if you like but I’m sure that’s how fans of The Cure looked back in the day. Sounds like he had a good time.

  4. Bobby

    A ripped t-shirt and tussled hair.

    Is it sad that it’s gotten to the point where kids are having tamer lives than their parents?

  5. der

    The awkward moment when you check out cute guys twitter feed and see that he’s in still in school…

        1. Mick Flavin

          *At Leyhill Prison*

          “Clifford! There’s someone on the phone for you…Der, from the Broadsheet comment section…Yes, I know you’re in the middle of a tennis match, but he says it’s urgent…”

  6. Clampers Outside!

    Gang Green in Voodoo Lounge March 17th 2006 ( or was it 07 or 08? ) was a deadly night for full on mosh pit mayhem, stage dives, getting up with the band, going mental for ‘Alcohol’ with the couple of hundred at most that were there…. deadly night.
    ‘Alcohol ! I’d rather drink than f**k, no doubt about it, I can’t live without it alcohol! ” ….I broke my glasses… :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3GmHferlQ

      1. scottser

        so is alan white, come to think of it. and a gentleman to boot. he can do things with a paradiddle that’d make your hair stand on end.

  7. scottser

    the pogues, sfx 1987. fists, feet and elbows flying for 90 minutes. twas like a gaa match on steroids, great craic.

    1. Lorcan Nagle

      Best mosh pit I was in in recent years had to be Atari Teenage Riot in 2010. Great interaction between the band and the crowd. Well, until someone threw a bottle at Alec Empire and he dived into the crowd to confront him.

    2. Clampers Outside!

      The Pogues at The Point, again a St Patrick’s night, sometime in the early naughties….. as one of the lads said on the way in…. “why are you taking off your watch Franny”… “hey Liam, where’s your glasses”… later that night we all understood why :)
      Cracking night !

      1. Spaghetti Hoop

        The Pogues, National Stadium (apt gig for a boxing stadium), early 90s with the late great Joe Strummer – very Clashy.

  8. Advertising On Police Cars

    Pffft, kids today, it’s not a real mosh pit unless an ambulance has to be called.

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