Kids nowadays won’t know of the craic and banter that was had while queuing for concert tickets. All part of the concert experience. (Showing my age)

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  4. I was listening to some U2 today, and Vertigo came on.

    I was transported back to queuing for tickets for Croker on the vertigo tour.

    Anyway, it was outside a shopping centre where Tesco is the anchor tennant.

    A lad started a sing-song of “Hello Hello – I’m standing outside Tesco”

    I guess you had to be there………..

    Remeber queuing overnight for GnR at Slane, that was actually great craic, sleeping bags, cans and deck chairs.

  5. Queuing for tickets kinda ended before Zhivagos changed to OMG Zhivagos. When U2 played Slane in 2001, tickets sold out via online and phone sales before most people in queues got a change to be served. After that Ticketmaster advised people not to queue for tickets anymore.

  6. I remember the queue for U2 tickets for Slane…..queuing for The Sound Shop in Drogheda….I was closer to bridge than to The Sound Shop.

    The queue barely moved in all the time I was in it. It sold out very very quickly.

  7. My ma told me she got into a U2 gig years before they were famous cause they were cueing but there weren’t enough people in the bar to fill it so they just opened the door. Maybe true maybe not but funny all the same

  10. That’s okay..they’ll soon have the experience of queuing to view a shoebox sized apartment…

  12. Huh. “OMG Zhivago”… eh?

    Surprised people were still queuing after that rebrand – that was late 2000s or in the 2010s, wasn’t it?

    What gig was this for?

  13. My local shop in rural galway was a Ticketmaster agent for some reason.

    Could stroll in the morning of eminem etc ticket sale and get tickets everytime no problem

  14. I remember queuing for tickets to see Michael Jackson in Cork in 1988. Back then if you were in the first 50 or so you knew you had a ticket.

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