Prince cancels show in HQ

[westmayo]

You'd think that 55,000 would be enough heads to get through the gate at over €70 a pop for the cheapest tickets. As was mentioned above probably would have been better for him to do a few shows in the RDS like Springsteen did. Still annoyed at this, being canceled so soon before the show. Wouldn't be the biggest prince fan at, but I was looking forward to the show. I'm sure ticketmaster will be holding on to my booking fee and credit card transaction fee for buying the tickets, don't have the figure at hand at the minute but I'm sure it was close to €10. Not a work for them though 55,000 booking fees tucked away in their bank account.

[Hardy]

Anyone know how much Croke Park gets for events like this?

[theskull1]

Then there'll be no Manic Monday

That was the Bangles you muppet 

[Minder]

£70 stg......for a standing ticket!

Fcuk me. Are you boys nuts?

Well it is £60  to see Kylie in the Odyssey this month and i would not go to the back door to see her.

[Hound]

Anyone know how much Croke Park gets for events like this?

About two years ago I heard the fee for concerts was a flat €1 million plus costs. But that was hearsay...

[Dinny Breen]

That was the Bangles you muppet  Roll Eyes

Ya eejit, Prince wrote that song 

[GalwayBayBoy]

How many were they expecting to sell anyway?

55,000 seems like a fairly healthy amount. By next week it would probably have been up around 60,000+.

[theskull1]

That was the Bangles you muppet  Roll Eyes

Ya eejit, Prince wrote that song 

Writing it is one thing...performing it's another ya langer

[Minder]

My sources tell me they tried to move it to the RDS but the wee man didnt want that.

[the Deel Rover]

Anyone know how much Croke Park gets for events like this?

it said in the paper that croke park got  a million euro as a deposit which is non refundable to the promotions company

[Hardy]

Thanks Hound, Deel. That's great stuff. We get a million and we don't even get the grass tramped. Top marks to the lads in HQ who negotiated that. Coming next - horse racing. Non runners only.

[heineken_on_tap]

I'm sure ticketmaster will be holding on to my booking fee and credit card transaction fee for buying the tickets, don't have the figure at hand at the minute but I'm sure it was close to €10.

Think you will get the booking fee back as well from what I heard yesterday.

[Chrisowc]

Obviously the thick Micks didn't get the press release to say Prince is cool again after his series of sellout gigs at the O2 arena in London last year and that is clearly evidenced by fact that you got a free Sunday newspaper with his latest album all for £1.50.

I can't wait until we have events like this at the Maze

[Maguire01]

Just to put the 55,000 figure in context, the capacity for this gig (due to stage/stadium configurations, i assume), was 62,000.

[Hound]

Heard an MCD guy on the radio yesterday saying the capacity was over 80,000.

It says 62,000 in the Times today alright, but I think thats the seated capacity. They'd get a few thousand on the pitch too (though hardly 18,000!).