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| Norath |
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Hello there 
Next year im travelling to ireland and i want to get some information which festivals are in ireland.
most of the time i listen to black and pagan metal but im also a fan of heavy and power metal.
so please tell me which locations and festivals i can visit when im in ireland. i'll stay near dublin.
thank you very much
p.s.: excuse me. my english is not as good as it should be because my mother tongue is german |
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| Ancikrist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:38 pm |
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As far as I know, none  (if you mean open air festivals such as Wacken) |
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| Norath |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:22 pm |
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| no festivals in entire ireland?? thats unbelievable!!! why you dont have any festivals in ireland? |
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| Eoin McLove |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:39 pm |
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| No outdoor fests because it always rains but there are smaller indoor fests like Dublin Doom Day, Burning Oak (first one was on a week or two ago in Cork) and the Siege of Limerick in, eh, Limerick... |
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| Norath |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:54 pm |
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mhhh it rains too in germany...i think it rains a lot...not in the south but in the north...thats no reason for dont have a good time on a festival... someone schould change that...
whats going on with metal bars or pubs in dublin? |
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| Skanmar |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:23 pm |
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| The George on south great georges street should do you well. Loads of Gorgoroth get's played there all the time. |
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| Ancikrist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:37 pm |
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Norath wrote: no festivals in entire ireland?? thats unbelievable!!! why you dont have any festivals in ireland?
Too strong influence of the Christianity so the society is too mainstream, there simply wouldn't be enough Irish people for a big festival.
Also people from any other country would have to fly here which means it would only attract very few people from abroad.
On the other hand, Ireland is a wealthy country and because of Ryanair, flights to Great Britain or Germany are quite cheap, so for the few Irish metalheads it's no problem to attend a festival somewhere else, so nobody wants to take the risk and organize something bigger here in Ireland.
If there were enough people interested in an Irish open air festival, rain wouldn't be a problem, metalheads are no sissies.
On Brutal Assault back in 2008 many people even enjoyed it 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VSZKWP2iN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1PsHY6wsS4 |
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| Ancikrist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:46 pm |
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Skanmar wrote: The George on south great georges street should do you well. Loads of Gorgoroth get's played there all the time.
That's a faggot club, I hate you!  I seriously searched for it, all happy that there's some black metal club I didn't know about |
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| Chaosangel |
| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:59 pm |
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Ancikrist wrote: Skanmar wrote: The George on south great georges street should do you well. Loads of Gorgoroth get's played there all the time.
That's a faggot club, I hate you! I seriously searched for it, all happy that there's some black metal club I didn't know about
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| mickO))) |
| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:42 am |
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Norath wrote: no festivals in entire ireland?? thats unbelievable!!! why you dont have any festivals in ireland?
Metal is not very popular in Ireland. |
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| Norath |
| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:01 am |
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| oh i hope it is as popular as it is in germany! i hope i find a bar where im able to party most of the night. drink some pints and meet some people. would b very boring if not... |
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| Ancikrist |
| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:25 am |
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Norath wrote: oh i hope it is as popular as it is in germany! i hope i find a bar where im able to party most of the night. drink some pints and meet some people. would b very boring if not...
HAHAHAHAHA if you want to party all night, just bring some weissbier to our garden, I'd see it as your best chance for an all night long party
1. Metal isn't popular in Ireland at all. I see a metalhead (dressed as a metalhead) maybe once in a month or two, unless I visit some of the metal pubs. For comparison, back in Czech Republic I could see metalheads on random places every day in a city that was about one third of the size of Dublin.
Actually, even if I met someone who liked metal, in most cases they were not Irish but immigrants (German, English, Polish, etc.)
Once in the Pavilions shopping centre in Swords I spotted a man in a Carpathian Forest t-shirt and it made me so happy I showed him the sign of the horns just to let him know he wasn't alone (I didn't have a clue who he was and I've never seen him again)
2. Forget about bars being open all night long, most of them will close between 2 and 3 (when there's no public transport for most of the week so be prepared to spend about €20 for a taxi to get home).
3. With the prices of drinks here in Dublin, even if a bar was open till morning, you would be broke before you would even get drunk (and remember you need to keep some money for the taxi) |
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| Norath |
| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:47 am |
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haha thats a great description maybe one time in a land far far away a german dude make it happen that some people would drink with him the whole night. never made party at someones living place? okay maybe it will be a "non metallic" visit in ireland. the prices of the pints are expensive i know. in my hometown we pay 2 euro for a pint of beer... 0,5 l. a whole barrel bought at the brewery is 12 euro für 15l. im born in upper franconia where we have the most brewerys in the whole world and you pay lower taxes for beer because its something to eat and not a luxury article. because of that beer is very cheap at my hometown. maybe i should get some infos how much beer im allowed to take to ireland  |
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| MULLAN Extraordinaire |
| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:01 pm |
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| It also costs considerably more money to bring bands to Ireland. So a festival with any sort of international dimension would cost so much that it would be cheaper for punters to fly to Europe and go to a festival with a bigger pool of international acts. |
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| Skanmar |
| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:04 pm |
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Norath wrote: haha thats a great description maybe one time in a land far far away a german dude make it happen that some people would drink with him the whole night. never made party at someones living place? okay maybe it will be a "non metallic" visit in ireland. the prices of the pints are expensive i know. in my hometown we pay 2 euro for a pint of beer... 0,5 l. a whole barrel bought at the brewery is 12 euro für 15l. im born in upper franconia where we have the most brewerys in the whole world and you pay lower taxes for beer because its something to eat and not a luxury article. because of that beer is very cheap at my hometown. maybe i should get some infos how much beer im allowed to take to ireland
Bring me a bottle of Barenjager will you ? |
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