AsylumUtopia said:

udo said:

After around 21:30 it will be getting dark.

See this.

So glowsticks do make sense.

Or do you think it will be a matinee kind of performance for reasons that I not yet know?

No, Rory is right, if it's a good day it will still be too bright. We get quite a long stretch of 'sunset' before it gets properly dark.

Yes, officially sunset is at 21:30, but if it's a nice day (i.e. not cloudy) then it will still be relatively bright at 10:30, and it won't be properly dark for at least another hour after that.

Assuming it ends around 10:30ish, then it might be just about dark enough for them near the end.

Or if it rains.

Or if Prince decides to play later than the curfew and pay the resulting fine (doubtful).

So if you want glo-sticks, pray for rain.

Yup!

It's sunset around 9.30, if its a good day add another hour on there.

So glowsticks won't work.

I'm really excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Wolfie is dead! - I feel free to post things and read the posts of others!)

jimmyv said:

I'm really excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Wolfie is dead! - I feel free to post things and read the posts of others!)

POD to announce support acts tomorrow...

I will be flying out from Edinburgh on late flight into Dublin, not got hotel yet..gettin thats orted on friday

i seen many possible options worth rockin with in the way of hotels..can any of the Irish orgers tell me how much roughly in a taxi it costs from malahide 2 city centre?? and how much it costs from city centre to airport in taxi?? thanks in advance and if i aint kickin the ass out of it 2 much does anyone know if the daddy green bus' that run 2 and from o'connel street and airport are a 24hour service??? or if they terminate at a certain time?? thanks very much if u can help me out...peace n love:D Newpowersoul

weejimmy said:

I will be flying out from Edinburgh on late flight into Dublin, not got hotel yet..gettin thats orted on friday

i seen many possible options worth rockin with in the way of hotels..can any of the Irish orgers tell me how much roughly in a taxi it costs from malahide 2 city centre?? and how much it costs from city centre to airport in taxi?? thanks in advance and if i aint kickin the ass out of it 2 much does anyone know if the daddy green bus' that run 2 and from o'connel street and airport are a 24hour service??? or if they terminate at a certain time?? thanks very much if u can help me out...peace n love:D Newpowersoul

According to this Taxi Fare Calculator I just found, from O'Connell Street to Malahide will cost as follows:

Estimated Fare using meter at 16:00

Distance: 16.73 km. | Duration: 31 min.

I'd can't say how accurate the calculations are though, perhaps someone else can verify what it costs?

About the bus, are you talking about the paddywagon? Their last bus is at 22:00.

The last Aircoach is at 00:30.

The last Airlink (Dublin Bus) is at 23:30.

If there are other bus services, I don't know about them, but I think it's unlikely that there's any 24 hour bus service serving the airport.

A taxi will not be difficult to find though.

check this out...

http://www.fingal-independent.ie/news/mcd-objected-to-castle-concert-2825967.html

MCD had objected to the prince gig in malahide...

jimmyv said:

I'm really excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Wolfie is dead! - I feel free to post things and read the posts of others!)

I agree with everything you say, wholeheartedly!

getting to see prince is so expensive travelling from glasgow. . . .was at hopfarm. . . .amazing. . . .wanted to go to dublin but could not afford it. . . guess wot ?. . . . .got tax rebate. . . .dublin here i come.

i want to thank you for letting me be myself again.

AsylumUtopia said:

So if you want glo-sticks, pray for rain.

In today's Irishtimes:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0721/1224301052864.html

Prince arrives in Dublin next week to play his first gig here in almost nine years. After the commotion surrounding his cancelled gig in 2008, what can fans expect this time around? He tells BRIAN BOYD it’s going to get ‘real funky’ and gives us a peek at his tour riders

AS FESTIVAL SEASON goes into overdrive and we’re inundated with the “I love this festival, this has been the highlight of my career” declarations – each as bland and predictable as the next – from pop and rocks stars, it is strangely thrilling to happen upon the curmudgeonly, madly eccentric and total self-absorption of Prince.

The 53-year-old singer and musician has been picking up the best reviews of his decades-long career for his performances on his current European tour, while upsetting the festival love-in going on around him.

Michael Eavis, the founder of the Glastonbury festival, would have given anything to have had Prince there this year (and he’s still the festival’s Most Wanted) but the singer isn’t exactly meeting him half-way, saying: “They use my name to sell Glastonbury. It’s illegal. I’ve never spoken to anyone about doing that concert – ever.”

When he does Nothing Compares 2 U on this tour, he prefaces it by saying: “Thank you Sinead O’Connor – I bought a house with [your version of] that song.” But just recently he seemed to be calling for all cover versions to be banned and expressed his displeasure at other artists covering his songs.

“My problem is when the industry covers the music. There’s this thing called a compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. And that doesn’t exist in any other art form, be it books or movies. There’s only one version of Law and Order . There are several versions of Kiss and Purple Rain.

Prince is one of the last great idiosyncratic musical geniuses left in a “I want to thank my lawyer and I want to thank Jesus” rock star world. Although efforts were made to push him into that Madonna/Michael Jackson huge pan-generarational cross-over market during the 1980s, he always demurred – preferring to be a free-floating presence who kept his edges sharp.

At the opening night of this tour in Paris’s Stade de France two weeks ago, what immediately strikes me is how much the live show is like all the best bits from the classic TV show, Soul Train .

“This is real music,” he bellows at us at frequent intervals during the two-and-a-half-hour funkathon as he gives a good kicking to some soul, funk, rock, gospel, rap and blues music.

Ignoring his recent material, he goes for a Glory Years set, interspersed with the odd Sly and The Family Stone cover. Halfway through, he changes into turbo-charged mode as U Got The Look is followed by P urple Rain, Let’s Go Crazy, 1999, When Doves Cry, Sign o’ the Times, I Would Die 4 U, Little Red Corvette and Kiss .

“Do you know how many hits we’ve got?” he asks. “We’ll be here ’til this time next year.”

Dance routines, singalongs, virtuoso solos and performing on top of his grand piano brings a bit of theatricality to the occasion.

Surprisingly, he has added Darling Nikki back into his set. The song became famous in the 1980s when Tipper Gore – wife of then US vice-president Al Gore – heard her daughter listening to the song’s salacious lyrics, prompting her to set up the Parents Music Resource Centre ( or “Parents Against Sexy Rock Music Lyrics” to the rest of us).

It was the group behind the introduction of “parental advisory” warnings on CDs about explicit lyrics. And it was all because of the lyrics to Darling Nikki. Now that Prince is a Jehovah’s Witness, however, he plays only the instrumental version.

And he keeps veering off-message: “We’ve made history tonight Paris,” he tells us at the end, leaving some 80,000 of us looking at each other and going “if you say so”.

Prince doesn’t do interviews. Or at least on those rare times he consents to a one-on-one conversation, you are not allowed to use a pen and paper or a recording device. And you cannot ask anything about the past.

He did take my e-mail, though, and true to his word, responds with this: “Hey Brian, I’m going to play as long as they let me at Malahide Castle when I come over. Tell Dublin to bring their dancing shoes. It’s going to get real funky.”

Apparently he has been brushing up on his cúpla focal after seeing President Obama get a big cheer for his efforts, but I’m not sure how that is going, as his last message on the subject is: “I speak the universal language of music. I’ll leave that [the Irish language] to the experts.”

In response to a direct question about a possible “surprise” on the night, he writes: “Brian, I need to talk to you to explain something about this confidentially.”

It seems the “surprise” has not been finalised but, if it comes off, it will be the big picture for the next day’s papers.

Like any star, Prince’s performance contract includes riders that list such requirements as what food and drinks he wants to have. Because I have a troubling obsession with rock star riders, he gladly provided his, in some detail – see below.

There is also a strong eco-message for all working on the event and he insists that all left-over food from band, crew and audience be delivered that same night to a local food centre “for the homeless or less fortunate”.

Prince plays Malahide Castle on July 30th.

See pod.ie

Fit for a king . . . or a prince

Prince sent Brian Boyd the riders for his visit to Ireland. Here's what he asked for

Backstage rider

6 personal-size Fiji water (warm)

6 personal-size Fiji water (cold)

12 sodas (ginger ale, Coke, Pepsi, Diet Coke)

1 bottle Cristal champagne

1 bottle Limoncello

2 bottles Merlot wine

1 bottle white wine

Hotel suite rider

Must be at 80ºF

Please close black-out curtains in master suite

A thick, extra blanket should be folded at the foot of the bed

A large, rolling wardrobe rack with hangers placed not in the bedroom, but in one of the living areas

Please provide a laptop computer (Windows Operating System) with large screen in the suite.

Please have the computer powered on with the web browser displaying the Google home page.

High-quality flower arrangements in suite

Large bowl of fresh, uncut fruit, including fresh berries.

AsylumUtopia said:

weejimmy said:

I will be flying out from Edinburgh on late flight into Dublin, not got hotel yet..gettin thats orted on friday

i seen many possible options worth rockin with in the way of hotels..can any of the Irish orgers tell me how much roughly in a taxi it costs from malahide 2 city centre?? and how much it costs from city centre to airport in taxi?? thanks in advance and if i aint kickin the ass out of it 2 much does anyone know if the daddy green bus' that run 2 and from o'connel street and airport are a 24hour service??? or if they terminate at a certain time?? thanks very much if u can help me out...peace n love:D Newpowersoul

According to this Taxi Fare Calculator I just found, from O'Connell Street to Malahide will cost as follows:

Estimated Fare using meter at 16:00

Distance: 16.73 km. | Duration: 31 min.

first kilometer	4.10 €
14.0 km. x 1.03 € per km (tariff A)	14.42 €
2.73 km. x 1.35 € per km (tariff B)	3.69 €
waiting in traffic (~12 min.)	4.93 €
Total	27.14 €
on a Sunday it would be	34.02 €

I'd can't say how accurate the calculations are though, perhaps someone else can verify what it costs?

About the bus, are you talking about the paddywagon? Their last bus is at 22:00.

The last Aircoach is at 00:30.

The last Airlink (Dublin Bus) is at 23:30.

If there are other bus services, I don't know about them, but I think it's unlikely that there's any 24 hour bus service serving the airport.

A taxi will not be difficult to find though.

cheers 4 that..thanks!!

AsylumUtopia said:

weejimmy said:

I will be flying out from Edinburgh on late flight into Dublin, not got hotel yet..gettin thats orted on friday

i seen many possible options worth rockin with in the way of hotels..can any of the Irish orgers tell me how much roughly in a taxi it costs from malahide 2 city centre?? and how much it costs from city centre to airport in taxi?? thanks in advance and if i aint kickin the ass out of it 2 much does anyone know if the daddy green bus' that run 2 and from o'connel street and airport are a 24hour service??? or if they terminate at a certain time?? thanks very much if u can help me out...peace n love:D Newpowersoul

According to this Taxi Fare Calculator I just found, from O'Connell Street to Malahide will cost as follows:

Estimated Fare using meter at 16:00

Distance: 16.73 km. | Duration: 31 min.

first kilometer	4.10 €
14.0 km. x 1.03 € per km (tariff A)	14.42 €
2.73 km. x 1.35 € per km (tariff B)	3.69 €
waiting in traffic (~12 min.)	4.93 €
Total	27.14 €
on a Sunday it would be	34.02 €

I'd can't say how accurate the calculations are though, perhaps someone else can verify what it costs?

About the bus, are you talking about the paddywagon? Their last bus is at 22:00.

The last Aircoach is at 00:30.

The last Airlink (Dublin Bus) is at 23:30.

If there are other bus services, I don't know about them, but I think it's unlikely that there's any 24 hour bus service serving the airport.

A taxi will not be difficult to find though.

Taxi will be at least €25.00 from city centre. That estimated fare of €6.00is not taking into account being stopped in traffic etc...

Manhattan11 said:

In today's Irishtimes:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0721/1224301052864.html

Prince arrives in Dublin next week to play his first gig here in almost nine years. After the commotion surrounding his cancelled gig in 2008, what can fans expect this time around? He tells BRIAN BOYD it’s going to get ‘real funky’ and gives us a peek at his tour riders

AS FESTIVAL SEASON goes into overdrive and we’re inundated with the “I love this festival, this has been the highlight of my career” declarations – each as bland and predictable as the next – from pop and rocks stars, it is strangely thrilling to happen upon the curmudgeonly, madly eccentric and total self-absorption of Prince.

The 53-year-old singer and musician has been picking up the best reviews of his decades-long career for his performances on his current European tour, while upsetting the festival love-in going on around him.

Michael Eavis, the founder of the Glastonbury festival, would have given anything to have had Prince there this year (and he’s still the festival’s Most Wanted) but the singer isn’t exactly meeting him half-way, saying: “They use my name to sell Glastonbury. It’s illegal. I’ve never spoken to anyone about doing that concert – ever.”

When he does Nothing Compares 2 U on this tour, he prefaces it by saying: “Thank you Sinead O’Connor – I bought a house with [your version of] that song.” But just recently he seemed to be calling for all cover versions to be banned and expressed his displeasure at other artists covering his songs.

“My problem is when the industry covers the music. There’s this thing called a compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. And that doesn’t exist in any other art form, be it books or movies. There’s only one version of Law and Order . There are several versions of Kiss and Purple Rain.

Prince is one of the last great idiosyncratic musical geniuses left in a “I want to thank my lawyer and I want to thank Jesus” rock star world. Although efforts were made to push him into that Madonna/Michael Jackson huge pan-generarational cross-over market during the 1980s, he always demurred – preferring to be a free-floating presence who kept his edges sharp.

At the opening night of this tour in Paris’s Stade de France two weeks ago, what immediately strikes me is how much the live show is like all the best bits from the classic TV show, Soul Train .

“This is real music,” he bellows at us at frequent intervals during the two-and-a-half-hour funkathon as he gives a good kicking to some soul, funk, rock, gospel, rap and blues music.

Ignoring his recent material, he goes for a Glory Years set, interspersed with the odd Sly and The Family Stone cover. Halfway through, he changes into turbo-charged mode as U Got The Look is followed by P urple Rain, Let’s Go Crazy, 1999, When Doves Cry, Sign o’ the Times, I Would Die 4 U, Little Red Corvette and Kiss .

“Do you know how many hits we’ve got?” he asks. “We’ll be here ’til this time next year.”

Dance routines, singalongs, virtuoso solos and performing on top of his grand piano brings a bit of theatricality to the occasion.

Surprisingly, he has added Darling Nikki back into his set. The song became famous in the 1980s when Tipper Gore – wife of then US vice-president Al Gore – heard her daughter listening to the song’s salacious lyrics, prompting her to set up the Parents Music Resource Centre ( or “Parents Against Sexy Rock Music Lyrics” to the rest of us).

It was the group behind the introduction of “parental advisory” warnings on CDs about explicit lyrics. And it was all because of the lyrics to Darling Nikki. Now that Prince is a Jehovah’s Witness, however, he plays only the instrumental version.

And he keeps veering off-message: “We’ve made history tonight Paris,” he tells us at the end, leaving some 80,000 of us looking at each other and going “if you say so”.

Prince doesn’t do interviews. Or at least on those rare times he consents to a one-on-one conversation, you are not allowed to use a pen and paper or a recording device. And you cannot ask anything about the past.

He did take my e-mail, though, and true to his word, responds with this: “Hey Brian, I’m going to play as long as they let me at Malahide Castle when I come over. Tell Dublin to bring their dancing shoes. It’s going to get real funky.”

Apparently he has been brushing up on his cúpla focal after seeing President Obama get a big cheer for his efforts, but I’m not sure how that is going, as his last message on the subject is: “I speak the universal language of music. I’ll leave that [the Irish language] to the experts.”

In response to a direct question about a possible “surprise” on the night, he writes: “Brian, I need to talk to you to explain something about this confidentially.”

It seems the “surprise” has not been finalised but, if it comes off, it will be the big picture for the next day’s papers.

Like any star, Prince’s performance contract includes riders that list such requirements as what food and drinks he wants to have. Because I have a troubling obsession with rock star riders, he gladly provided his, in some detail – see below.

There is also a strong eco-message for all working on the event and he insists that all left-over food from band, crew and audience be delivered that same night to a local food centre “for the homeless or less fortunate”.

---

Prince plays Malahide Castle on July 30th.

See pod.ie

Fit for a king . . . or a prince

Prince sent Brian Boyd the riders for his visit to Ireland. Here's what he asked for

Backstage rider

6 personal-size Fiji water (warm)

6 personal-size Fiji water (cold)

12 sodas (ginger ale, Coke, Pepsi, Diet Coke)

1 bottle Cristal champagne

1 bottle Limoncello

2 bottles Merlot wine

1 bottle white wine

Hotel suite rider

Must be at 80ºF

Please close black-out curtains in master suite

A thick, extra blanket should be folded at the foot of the bed

A large, rolling wardrobe rack with hangers placed not in the bedroom, but in one of the living areas

Please provide a laptop computer (Windows Operating System) with large screen in the suite.

Please have the computer powered on with the web browser displaying the Google home page.

High-quality flower arrangements in suite

Large bowl of fresh, uncut fruit, including fresh berries.

Coool.

Oh no, not Bono again...

i'm getting so excited about this now.

re glow sticks, i think that new look sell them in multi colour packs if that helps anyone.

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angelcat said:

i'm getting so excited about this now.

re glow sticks, i think that new look sell them in multi colour packs if that helps anyone.

It won't be dark enough angelcat.

Rorywan said:

angelcat said:

i'm getting so excited about this now.

re glow sticks, i think that new look sell them in multi colour packs if that helps anyone.

It won't be dark enough angelcat.

prob not, although with the weather we've been having who knows?

cool picture btw

udo said:

AsylumUtopia said:

So if you want glo-sticks, pray for rain.

So when do we expect the show to start?
When do we expect the show to end?
When do we expect the sun to go under?
And when do we expect the darkness to be effective enough for lighting and perhaps also glow sticks?

I guess he'll start around 21:15-21:30 or so and play until midnight.
By 22:00 it should be dark enough for the lighting to be effective.

Or what can we expect from the sea that was mentioned? I.e. to the east?

There is no way he'll be playing until midnight. There's a curfew - I'm not sure what time that is (it's usually 23:00), but I would expect the concert to be over by 22:30, or 23:00 at the very latest. Even if Prince decided to break the curfew and pay the fines, they would still pull the plug before midnight. Definitely. Without a shadow of a doubt.

I would expect Prince to be on stage by 20:00 at the very latest, otherwise the gates wouldn't be opening at 16:00, gates usually open at 18:00 or 19:00 for concerts that end before 23:00, so expect this one to be an even earlier finish than that.

And by 22:00 it won't be dark enough for glo-sticks. Yesterday evening it was cloudy, I was out at 23:30 and it was just about getting dark enough for glo-sticks then.

Stage lighting is a different matter, they use them even when it's bright, and they're big fuck-off powerful lights - much more powerful than a feeble glo-stick, so they'll be effective before it gets properly dark.

As for the sea, it reflects light, making it brighter for longer.

colm said:

Taxi will be at least €25.00 from city centre. That estimated fare of €6.00is not taking into account being stopped in traffic etc...

Eh, what? It didn't estimate €6, that would be ridiculous. It estimated €27 when travelling at 16:00 (4pm).

(and it does take waiting in traffic into account - that's in the 'waiting in traffic' section, €4.93's worth of waiting in traffic)

udo said:

A curfew? It's out of town!

It's not in a field in the middle of nowhere you know. Malahide is a busy, very populous suburb in the Dublin commuter belt. Besides, curfews apply. Everywhere.

[spelling edit]

[Edited 7/21/11 2:39am]

udo said:

I would appreciate an interacting crowd. Not chatting about whatver non-related subject but intensely watching, maybe moving, clapping (not out of rhythm, please), dancing, etc.

I.e.: focussed on the performance and what it produces within you.

That was what I hated about the final Rotterdam show: too many idiots around me that were 'not so very interested' (euphemism...!) unless Purple Rain or Kiss came along.

you're going to get that because it is being billed as a greatest hits concert and they are the songs that the casual fans will want to hear.

i think that prince needs to be careful about the setlist for dublin, all the promotion has been for a greatest hits show. i'm going with a couple of casual fans who wouldn't know a third of the recent set lists.

udo said:

angelcat said:

Rorywan said:

It won't be dark enough angelcat.

prob not, although with the weather we've been having who knows?

cool picture btw

Thanks! I'm gonna start running out of things to add in a day or two!.

The weather is looking good right now for the gig, so lets all keep our fingers crossed!

AsylumUtopia said:

colm said:

Taxi will be at least €25.00 from city centre. That estimated fare of €6.00is not taking into account being stopped in traffic etc...

Eh, what? It didn't estimate €6, that would be ridiculous. It estimated €27 when travelling at 16:00 (4pm).

(and it does take waiting in traffic into account - that's in the 'waiting in traffic' section, €4.93's worth of waiting in traffic)

Should have read €16.00, not €6.00. I live near Malahide, closer to town. I have not paid less than €20.00 for a cab in over 10 years. And thats a cab with only 1 passenger. Anyway, you are better off getting the DART, early.

Rorywan said:

angelcat said:

prob not, although with the weather we've been having who knows?

cool picture btw

Thanks! I'm gonna start running out of things to add in a day or two!.

The weather is looking good right now for the gig, so lets all keep our fingers crossed!

next weeks forecast is pretty good, heres hoping

colm said:

AsylumUtopia said:

Eh, what? It didn't estimate €6, that would be ridiculous. It estimated €27 when travelling at 16:00 (4pm).

(and it does take waiting in traffic into account - that's in the 'waiting in traffic' section, €4.93's worth of waiting in traffic)

Should have read €16.00, not €6.00. I live near Malahide, closer to town. I have not paid less than €20.00 for a cab in over 10 years. And thats a cab with only 1 passenger. Anyway, you are better off getting the DART, early.

Agreed. This is really important for anyone who doesn't know the area - the roads are relatively small, and even on a normal sunny Saturday, Malahide is a popular destination. With the inevitable huge extra volume of traffic, taking over an hour to cover the last 5km of the journey by road is probably a conservative estimate.

Sitting in a taxi that isn't going anywhere fast, watching the meter rapidly eating it's way through your cash, is not going to be fun. You'll just end up walking part of the journey.

So the DART is defintely by far the best option.