Top Gear Live in RDS

[Kace]

So who's going !! ?

Tickets will be available soon - should be a good show.

I going to miss it myself but had been tracking the expected ticket release timeframe (should be in next couple of weeks).

[Mustang]

Any details? I heard rumours, that ticket prices would be vastly inflated compared to UK prices. Any truth in that?

[mcgon1979]

get the details going here lads. Sticky the post if possible. would like to know when the tickets are for sale and through what website.... cheers

[Muad_dib77]

http://www.rdstickets.com/event_gearinfo.aspx?S=62

[elaine]

I know John would love to go to this, will have to try to get tickets

[optical illusion]

I'm maaaaaad for it...

I used to work in the RDS... now to do some networking... doopdedoo...

[Kace]

Here you go guys :
_________________

Hi,

Tickets will go on sale on September 10th, I have added you to our
mailing list so you will receive an alert before they go on sale.

Kind Regards,
Grainne O' Connor
Corporate Sales
Top Gear Live
Tel: (01) 2109290
Fax: (01) 2880379

Brand Events Management Ireland, 118 Rock Road, Booterstown, Co. Dublin

Reg No: 448866

[optical illusion]

Legend - make this sticky and keep us updated Kace! Pwease!

[Kace]

Legend - make this sticky and keep us updated Kace! Pwease!

I wish I knew how to do that

[CJ]

Stikied.

Will be away when the tix are released but would be interested to go nonetheless. Sounds like a meet in progress...

CJ

[Sebastian]

i'd like 2 go as well

[optical illusion]

I wish I knew how to do that

Sorry, wasn't directed at you, just at the mods in general. But you will keep us updated right? *excited to the power of 2*

[Muad_dib77]

The corp price is 250e per ticket, but the includes access to the "inner circle" and fizzy wine..

[mcgon1979]

The corp price is 250e per ticket, but the includes access to the "inner circle" and fizzy wine..

jaysis.. not cheap eh... must be good fizzy wine.

[TopCat]

Seems to be a bit of interest here. What day are people interested in going, if we were all the same day do you think could we get a group rate?

[Mustang]

The corp price is 250e per ticket, but the includes access to the "inner circle" and fizzy wine..

Are there any peasant tickets at say €30 a pop? Does any body have prices, seems to be a secret. I mean when Bruce Springsteen/ Kylie [insert A list artist who can charge what they like] come to town they let you know at least 6 months in advance how much the (over inflated) ticket price will be.

At first I thought this was going to be like the MPH show that they do in the UK, then it was looking like they were actually going to record a TV show, now it seems to me that it is effectively a live car show like MPH. In which case €250 a head is on the extortionate side of extremely expensive. Obviously someone advised the Beeb that those dumb Paddies have more money than sence. Must have been planned before the recession -different story now seeing as we're all poor

[Muad_dib77]

prices aren't public yet - closer to the date they will be.

[Mustang]

prices aren't public yet - closer to the date they will be.

See how many smucks you can get to fork out €250 then, based on remaining supply and perceived demand set the price. It's begining to stink already. Just tell the price and be done with it. I don't like cloak & dagger.

[Muad_dib77]

lol - I see your point.. but I don't think this'll be cheap..

I was actually considering attempting to be "corporate" .. I really want to go - I suppose 500e for the 3 days is a bit mental. (I'd be buying 2 tickets like, missus is a fan too)

[Bernard]

Shop around and ye could get a nice sun holiday for that!

[Kace]

I am expecting the peasant joe public tickets to be going for about 65-70 lids - €30 is wishful thinking methinks

[TopCat]

I was actually considering attempting to be "corporate" .. I really want to go - I suppose 500e for the 3 days is a bit mental. (I'd be buying 2 tickets like, missus is a fan too)

Is the show not just repeated very day? My understanding was the ticket included a 90min show by the TG presenters, and then roaming of the venue for the remained of the day.

[Muad_dib77]

Quite possibly - but seeing as it's live it wont be exactly the same Ticket apparently gives you access to one show pr. day and then there's the milling about..

[Mustang]

I am expecting the peasant joe public tickets to be going for about 65-70 lids - €30 is wishful thinking methinks

Maybe so in rip off Ireland. The tickets for the British Motor show, which I'm sure is on a much larger scale cost ~€25.

[colm_mcm]

This from Yesterdays Indo (A terrible piece of journalism by Jason O'Brien )




If the balance of nature is really as delicate as they claim, then all those people with new bicycles are probably causing summers to be cold and wet

THEY drew the line at shelling it, but authorities yesterday granted permission to three middle-aged men with bad hair to close one of the most iconic bridges in the world to traffic so they could travel across it, perched on an army tank.

The reason? Partly because the three men thought that it would be cool. Partly because they could. And partly because they wanted to drum up a bit of publicity for the new live theatre version of their television show.

'Top Gear' is coming to Dublin. Permission to drive a British army tank across O'Connell Bridge and towards the GPO, however, has not been sought. Nor is it likely to be.

"It's basically three middle-aged men cocking about," the biggest of them, host Jeremy Clarkson, said of the new show, which will take place in the RDS in November. "But it will be with millions and millions of pounds worth of toys."

They can afford it. The BBC show -- ostentatiously about cars -- is screened in over 110 countries and claims to attract a global audience of up to 500 million viewers.

And when it comes to Dublin -- the first stop outside Britain -- the cheapest tickets will be €75 for what will be a 75-minute show. Organisers are putting on 10 Dublin shows, and expect to sell about 30,000 tickets.

Even Brown Thomas is getting its hands dirty by sponsoring the event.

At a press conference beside Tower Bridge in London yesterday, Clarkson -- along with fellow hosts Richard Hammond and James May -- gave a rough outline of a show incorporating many favourites from the television version, including the Cool Wall and the fastest lap, adapted for audience participation, appearances by the Stig and the trio's attempts to build their own hovercrafts.

And explosions. And 300 fast cars. And 30 stuntmen. And a fire-spewing monster.

"It's some kind of enormous spectacle," Clarkson summed up, rather unconvincingly.

So what can audiences at the RDS expect?

"Just what we just said," he replied sharply, perhaps a little cold from his jaunt across the bridge. "Everything we haven't broken in London will be there."

Does that include the breakdancing Big Ben? "Yes, but we're looking forward to it," he replied, thawing slightly. "Where should we stay?"

Somebody muttered something about the Morrison Hotel, but surely a place like, say, Ranelagh would provide easier access to the RDS? And, with any luck, Clarkson would run into Environment Minister John Gormley, while embarking on another entertaining rant about climate change.

"It's been a dreadful August, and I think it has to do with the amount of people driving electric cars," Clarkson informed us yesterday, warming to this particular subject. "If the balance of nature is really as delicate as they claim, then all those people with [new] bicycles are probably causing summers to be cold and wet."

More proof that the Government can indeed be blamed for everything.

We were more interested, however, in any concerns the three stars might have in bringing a quintessentially British programme before a solely Irish audience. "It's only British because it's got Big Ben in it," Clarkson said. "If you had a pint of Guinness in it, it would be Irish." We may not be too enthusiastic about the army tank either, we pointed out. "Oh, that was specifically for Germany -- I'm sorry if you got hurt by that," he said, again unconvincingly.

The show, which is also confirmed for London, Johannesburg, Sydney and Hong Kong on its first run, hits Dublin on 27 November for four days.

Thick skins recommended.