Anthony McG

It’s a departure for the Friday photo, in that it’s obviously not a photo of mine, but with the day that’s in it, I’ll go with it. Michael Jackson was an amazing performer and I’m sorry I never got to see him live. RIP.

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I followed @BBCEntsTeam on Twitter this morning. Turns out I was their 5000th follower so they decided to pimp me out.

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Now this, looks damn interesting. Paul Giamatti as Paul Giamatti who gets his soul extracted cos it’s weighing him down. Bear with me and watch this:

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Wow, what a gig. Oasis rocked Slane Castle last night in a set that you really couldn’t fault. The band were amazing and had a crowd of 80,000 singing along to song after song.

But…..the day was marred by a number of problems. Firstly, the queues for the bars were mad. When you’re queuing the guts of an hour to get a beer at an event then there’s a problem. Pints of Heineken were priced at €6.00 meaning that staff had to faff about with change in most cases. We missed most of Kasabian’s set as a result. The serious issue was the lack of Dublin Buses on the way back. I’ve no clue what went wrong but we saw people walking 5 and 6 kilometres from the event trying to get a bus they paid €20 return for. Thankfully we had hopped on one of the only available buses closer to Slane village. Gav and Ciara having got a Bus Eireann bus arrived home 6 hours after the gig and they live in the city centre. The traffic management was a joke and I saw less than 5 gardaí on the N2. Insane. It’d seriously make me think about seeing anyone at Slane again.

UPDATE: Gav his take on the night here and boards.ie has ongoing discussion here.

Here are some tweets from last night:

is super glad at leaving Slane a little bit early…Dublin Bus incompetency strikes again! – @katymilligan

Slowly recovering from Slane, my god…what a walk, we might aswell have just walked back to Dublin! Didn’t get home till 5.30! – @emilyx0

traffic chaos in slane after oasis gig.badly organised apparently.hubby got home at 5am.heard sound quality was crap? – @minipaws

Longest walk of my life to get bus after Slane last night! – @nadiaelf

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Fancy a great night out at the end of Horse Week? What do ya mean “what’s horse week?!” You still canter along to the Horse Show Hustle that Brainwave are putting on Friday 7th August. Krystle Nightclub is the venue where bands, DJs and a kick ass headline band will rock until the early hours. It’s on the 7th August and tickets are on sale now. All proceeds from the night are going to Brainwave who are a very worthy charity. There’s a Facebooks event here or more info on Brainwave’s site here. Rockin.

If ya can re-blog this all the better.

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