Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
Updated 22.54pm
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
The remains of Fr Alec Reid pictured outside Clonard Monastery in West Belfast after his funeral mass today. (Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Silvio Berlusconi is cheered by his supporters during a rally in Rome. (Alessandra Tarantino/PA Images)
#WALES: The lead singer of the band Lostprohets pleaded guilty to baby rape.
#BRAZIL: Two people have died in a stadium accident in Sao Paulo.
#ITALY: Silvio Berlusconi has been expelled from the Italian Parliament.
Staff at Brasserie 7 in Dublin are reaching out to the public to help them find a happy couple who left a note for the staff after they got engaged in the restaurant.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Not my bag musically but fair play for shaking a leg and making a big effort on this front.
No doubt we’ll have the usual eejits along calling it woke zzzzzzzz.
They’d prefer to be downing pints of petrol as the fire approaches just to stick it to anyone who shows the vaguest amount of concern about wrecking our one and only gaff.
@SerotoninWars: the kinetic dancefloor is probably better for publicity than it is for electricity generation. In 3 hours one of the dance floors is only able to generate enough to power a kettle for 1 hour. I doubt the bikes are much use either, good for raising awareness but not much else. I’d imagine the extra c02 of moving these from venue to venue is probably more than is saved by them.
@SerotoninWars: I’d be kineticing the opposite direction personally, but they’re big into being environmentally aware so let em have at it.
@John K: Way to go picking one aspect and ignoring the rest. Also, read the article. I get why people love to attack and dismiss anyone making an effort. It means they can make lazy excuses for doing nothing themselves. Back to the inertia and status quo which requires zero effort. It’s comforting and easy but ignores the facts. Same as usual.
@ecrowley ecrowley: Same. Not a fan of their music at all but they’re huge, play to millions and get the press and column inches, so it’s good to see them making an effort. The music touring industry needs as many acts as possible shaking a leg to find ways of making their shows less of a disaster resource-wise and environmentally.
@SerotoninWars: wasn’t meant as an attack. Instead of saying publicity I should have said raising awareness. Their other efforts are laudable. I myself have recently spent a significant amount between air to water heating, mechanical heat recovery and a solar pv system with battery so dont appreciatethe ad hominum attack. My point was that the dance floors and bikes are probably a net negative to the environment and counter productive to their aim.
@SerotoninWars:
People if they want can give the middle finger to anything. If they didn’t the only art we would have would have would be this mediocre pish!
@John K: Apologies. I was a bit OTT in my reply! You get so used to people replying with the sole aim of undermining any efforts on this front. There’s so much misinformation and commentary with the aim of spurring people to inaction and apathy. It wears you out after a while! But you gotta remember everyone isn’t coming at it from a Trumpian/MAGA/Brit Gutter Press angle! So my bad!
That’s fair enough if you are suspect about that one aspect. I was taking it as one part of a larger effort, and powering one of the smaller stages seemed a decent return, when added to all of the other efforts. Of course more can be done and I’m sure if there’s a will the technology and systems can be streamlined to be even more effective :)
@Clash: They can indeed! It just feels like good righteous anger, punching up, has been replaced with a lot of silly self-defeating contrarianism! No facts. Just hunches and tantrums based on people’s aversion to change or making even a tiny bit of an effort! I’d much rather see The Clash than Coldplay. Although that might open up another jaded debate about whether they were really punk and we’ve enough cobwebbed arguments already this week with Oasis back!
@SerotoninWars: make a lot of money/worry about it later
Codswallop.
So,is everyone going to walk to the concerts?
@IMHO: You’re thinking of The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
@IMHO: if you read the full article towards the end they said attendees travel is not included.
What a load of xxxx!!
@Ooooooooooo: xxxx? I’m guessing either Castlemaine or Hamster.
Give me strength.
Gimmicks and Tomfoolery.
Apart from the planting of trees, the rest of that is pure spoofery.
If the really wanted to make a direct impact in reducing their carbon footprint, rather than just paying lipservice to it, then they wouldn’t hold the concerts.
But then they wouldn’t get paid, and playing concerts and selling merchandise at those concerts is a major revenue source for bands and artists.
@Dvsespaña: I think you have nailed it and may I add that if the cut their costs by 50% will their ticket prices also get cut by 50%, I doubt it but they have made enough money to live on for a few lifetimes maybe a lot less concerts is the answer. Maybe multiple hit and run concerts in small venues like Prince did in 2013 is a better solution?
Well its nice to see some millionaires doing something positive, normally there getting rescued from yachts/powerboats or crashing planes/helicopters. Fair play.
They say that music can move people;
This is certainly true when it comes to Coldplay.
I always leave the room when I hear them.
They got the toilets on the upper stands connected to a mini hydro electric power station, so the flow is generating power on the way to the sewer, so drink up and pee
@P. V. Aglue: pity he broke up with Gwyneth Paltrow, apparently she produces enough BS that the methane harvested from it can power a medium sized town.
And not a word about the poor neighbors and what we have to put up with crowds piling into the area our car parks nicked and people pissing in our gardans all coz of crokers concerts we re locked in our homes 4 the duration of theses concerts croker is now too big for the area and needs to be housed elsewhere preferably where they wanted to build that new super prison laying idol @ taxpayers expence
@liam ward: Funny .. It’s always the residents over by Croker moaning.. Don’t hear the residents around the Aviva or RDS moaning on like this.. you knew the stadium was there when you bought your house I assume.. or else the estate agent was David Copperfield… ?
@Brian: A lot of old family homes around Croke Park. Perhaps the poster was born and grew up there.
Ever think of that before posting what you probably consider a “ witty “ comment ? .
@Danny Reilly: then he should be used to it?
@Fergus O’Donnell: Speak for yourself but im not sure how long it takes to “ get used to “ watching people pissin in your front garden. Perhaps it’s something you could get used to.
Delusional fools
Hey hey my my
@Dave c: Rock and roll is here to sty?
What a load of nonsense
They should check out an Irish company called Neg8 while they’re here. If they’re serious.
Imagine Oasis having a kinetic stage . That kettle for the back stage brew would be leave it decidedly tepid
have your say