Pearl Jam & Europe
Timans
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Take two. 
Finished my Leaving Cert next year and am looking to go to some European festivals. Any ideas where Pearl Jam will play in Europe, or will they play at all?
Cheers.
Finished my Leaving Cert next year and am looking to go to some European festivals. Any ideas where Pearl Jam will play in Europe, or will they play at all?
Cheers.
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check the festival lineups for PJ?
festivals are easy money, good publicity and little organisational hustle... I just hope it's not Glastonbury because as much as I wan tto go next year, even if I did get tickets, most PJ fans wouldn't.
we have been spoiled fans after a 6 year hiatus
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there is no proper occasion for the to return again next year
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festivals change their lineups every year (except for fuckin' Faithless and btw Franz Ferdinand - they are everywhere year by year :mad: )...
so let's focus on 2009 or 2010... :(
Eddie: Dublin & London
yeh
well come on 6 year hiatus..havent been spoilt imo
there wasnt any proper occasion this summer for the shows either, and if they didnt play the same festivals they could play other ones...
...its not impossible....although i think its HUGELY UNLIKELY they will play Europe again...
so to answer the original post, (whereever & whenever gigs are announced for), research the places/cities/transport, how the festivals are run, talk to people who've been to them....you can plan nearly anything you'd need to do from your own computer.
Werchter, Sziget, Electric Picnic, Pukkelpop, Rock Am Ring, HoveFestivalen, Pinkpop, etc are generally regarded as most well known / best run / best experience. keep your eye on them cos even if PJ dont play theyre worth the trip.
After a terrible 6 year hiatus they did 2 tour in Europe so in the last 14 months us, European fans were...hm...KINDA... spoilt I guess:-) That's my Pearl Jam:)
Last year Eddie promised in Antwerpen Pearl Jam would return next year...Later he did it elsewhere, too. His words and their wish to come back were the best occasions to roam again on the old continent.;)
Eddie: Dublin & London
best known?
i completely disagree with your post but each to their own i suppose
Brilliant
as in you dont like it or havnt heard of it?
Its a week long on an island in Budapest....maybe not an popular line-up but its meant to be more of a cultural festival than rock festival...worth a look.
naw, its just that you gave a list of the best known festivals and i just felt that list was not the best known... it'd be like saying the best known footie teams in England are Walsall, Mansfield and QPR... sure we've heard of them, but they're not widely known.
i was just surprised by some glaring omissions.. i.e. Glasto (love it or hate it.. its the worlds biggest festival) T in the Park.. i'd think they were better known than sjzietitieizi or whatever it was
your posts are off-topic but...
LOL, SZIGET must be amongst the best known festivals in Europe EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA in Britain what it is - however this year half of the foreigners in Sziget Festival were actually British:D! Believe me - majority of young people have not heard about T In The Park in Middle-Europe but it does not mean that one is a less-known festival:)
I don't really understand why you make fun of something you don't know at all. But instead of pretending you could have scrolled down the page to see how you should spell it:)
Eddie: Dublin & London
no disrespect but the day Hungary has a better musical festival than the UK is the day i stop listening to music...
who played at the last Sziget festival?
Main artists: Manu Chao (F), The Good, the Bad and the Queen (UK),The Chemical Brothers (UK), Gogol Bordello (USA), Laurent Garnier (F), Pink (USA), Madness (UK), The Rakes (UK), The Hives (S), Nine Inch Nails (USA), Razorlight (UK), Sinéad O'Connor (IRL), Faithless (UK), Tool (USA), Eagles Of Death Metal (USA), The Killers (USA), Quimby (H), Tankcsapda (H), Kispál és a Borz (H) and Ennio Marchetto (IT)
there's a shitload of shit in that list... i'd rather i was at this one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_in_the_park#2007_festival
but that line-up is rather good, though not in the same league as the above.
Electric Picnic?! wtf?! No Irish festival is worth going to, none! Overpriced, overcrowded, shitty weather, no transport, horrible people etc...
Nova Rock hands down - by far the best festival I've been to - Gimme cheap cocktails in sunshine over drinkin piss in the rain any day!
and I'm sure lots of people went out of their way to watch Sineád O'Connor at the Sziget festival - which I have heard of, Sorry Dunk!
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i've also heard of sauerkraut.. doesnt means i'd eat the crap
Quimby (H), Tankcsapda (H), Kispál és a Borz (H) and Ennio Marchetto (IT)
thats 4 of the Sziget festival headliners... and Pink and Sinead O Connor... if i want shaven haired lesbians i'll go to Amsterdam.
and there was a 2 HOURS queue to withdraw cash from the only 2 cash machines.. I actually went back to the village, had a long exchange with both the train station manager (who was actually helpful) and the Police about my lost I.D., got some cash out at the ATM there, and came all the way back and my friends had still not got their cash out yet!
and It was the only show where it rained DURING PJ set, so much for the weather!
1. Get to see PJ again
2. Get to see mates again
3. Americans will be UBER pissed...again!
Fingers crossed!
2007 ░▒▓ London, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
2009 ░▒▓ Manchester, London
2010 ░▒▓ Hyde Park
*§* Music is all the juice i'll need *§*
Jennytree, shame you didnt like the picnic, i love it. could spend a week at it and not get bored (without seeing even a single band)...its a yearly part of my things to do now. '06 werchter was 30degrees everyday, so yeah i can see why you'd like the sun at a fest!
Sziget has that International act stage which isnt amazing lets be honest...but then again it attracts 100,000 approx...so like i said its more of an atmosphere thing! similar to Glasto - which i did mistakenly omit!!
anyway its no biggie because if you're going to see PJ the best place to see them is a PJ show with the faithfull fans
that was the best PJ festival show!
Crowd was great, and the organisation was much better and the people much friendlier there than at the sister festival Southside (admittedly, I was there only on the Sunday and it had stopped raining..but we got rain and FREEZING cold at Southside (I had 7 layers on all day in the pit..only shed 3 for PJ set!! :eek: )
actually Hurricane (and the Poruguese one) are the only one I'll consider going back to next year (werchter is such a rip-off, pay for parking, camping, showers, toilets... and talk about drunken idiots!)
I know you weren't on the van then. It was a bit funny with all these cars behind us, prolly thinking we know our way out, though perhaps not so funny for poor Marit on the wheel
You miss the point again. Believe me I could analyse your last two posts where and why you twist the story but I won't waste my time on somebody who is not able to answer or debate without unnecessary irony and distorting the meaning of my sentences. Grow up instead and visit festivals outside UK and DON'T JUDGE IF you have no clue/idea/arguments about something (otherwise you just make fun of yourself and your narrow-minded posts:))! NO OFFENSE, of course
Eddie: Dublin & London
the parking attendant agreed with me (in French): organisers are more interested in money than providing a good experience.
Well, organisation wise, the festival has by far been the best I've ever gone to (not that I've been to many). Austrians aren't the friendliest people I've ever met, they tended to laugh in my face when I told them I was Irish and I also had a huge row with an Austrian couple over the placement of a tent. But all the other nationalities that I met there were great
Weather overall for this PJ tour wasn't the may west - never forget that rain in Copenhagen the day after!
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as for werchter i used the (free) public transport so i didnt realise those other problems...ah well! as long as you liked some of the festivals thats important!
venice was great too...no music but a great place to hang out! 5 days of 35c + ...and 10 minutes of rain killed the festival!
the reaction i got from most people i told i was irish was to get a long winded story about a stag-doo they were at ten years ago, and an American in Copenhagen asking me to tell the whole "What's the point" joke in the pissing rain in the street
as for werchter i used the (free) public transport so i didnt realise those other problems...ah well! as long as you liked some of the festivals thats important!
venice was great too...no music but a great place to hang out! 5 days of 35c + ...and 10 minutes of rain killed the festival!
the reaction i got from most people i told i was irish was to get a long winded story about a stag-doo they were at ten years ago, and an American in Copenhagen asking me to tell the whole "What's the point" joke in the pissing rain in the street
we've jhad one show in wembley, and one at the reading Festival and leeds fest (hardly PJ shows per say), oh and the astoria thing that tickets were a joke for....
So basically one proper PJ show in 7 years, hardly spoilt, at least you guys in the states can visit a few shows by driving around.....bloody planes for us!!!