I believe "shitepipes tuned to the lowest octave" wouldn't be going too far.

It does. There's an agreed-upon limit on the number of evening concerts in the venue per year, agreed between the venue and the local residents, and Brooks' first date would have been the final one for 2014 already.

I imagine a lot of those problems stemmed from her having sex with a man that looks like John Travolta playing a role written for modern-day Eddie Murphy. I mean, she's no Emmylou Harris, but she can do better.

Would be news to me, there's a lot of women's sports in Ireland and it generally gets better coverage than the UK or US seem to give their ladies; I can't imagine a ground which holds the camogie finals each year would turn down ladies' hockey when it's a pretty similar sport.

But it wasn't an initial five show outlay—it was two, which was upped after the initial demand proved high (in fact, if I'm not mistaken, it was increased twice, with five being the final figure they wanted). If Aiken really wanted to go for five, then they should have laid five on the table from the outset.

…the world?

I dunno, it gets used here a lot and this is definitely not England. I think you new-worlders would "throw baby out with the bathwater" though.

Yeah, I can see that

Shinty is scottish, but yeah there's a lot of opposition to using it for association football. But they've had rugby in there, at least. It's a pretty traditional ground, and the perception has always been that anything taking any focus away from the GAA is going to weaken and undermine it.

The mother-in-law was trying to get tickets last I heard, and she's suburban posh. But Irish country fans do on average tend to be, for lack of a better word, culchies.

Yeah, the money would be nice, but the decision was based on residents' complaints in the area, not on raw economics. When you realise Croke Park has an 82,000 capacity which is routinely filled for amateur sports, filling it for concerts which actually have associated costs doesn't seem so appealing in comparison.

"To throw teddy from the pram" just means to throw out something good as a knee-jerk reaction to something bad. It's basically the same as "to cut off your nose to spite your face", which I believe is more of an English expression.

I'm pretty sure Aiken Promotions didn't hold him at gunpoint for that "all or nothing" line, though. They're all thick as thieves in it.

Here's the thing—nothing was cancelled by the city council. Brooks and his tour management sold tickets for five dates when they had only ever been granted a licence for one, they made the assumption that they would get the remaining four just because. Croke Park is permitted four night-time concerts per year, and has…

Depends what his 200 hours were. Between sex scenes and concert footage, you're going to have to compile a lot of coverage to make interesting cuts—especially with such a boring set of bands to try enlivening. I imagine the ratio of that material that's unused scenes compared to additional coverage is pretty stark.

I remember watching this purely because I thought Stilley was pretty good-looking, but ultimately, I couldn't find it arousing. It was more intriguing than anything, especially since this was when I was still coming into my own in terms of slinging the wab around—there was a lot of second guessing to it. "Is this…

I can totally hoof down like eighty of the McD's burgers but mostly because their sauces are dessert-sweet. Meatier—and going by Mr Pants, breadier—would make me want to go somewhere better where I can get some onion rings in on that shit too instead.

I first heard of White Castle and the whole American slider thing from a (I believe Canadian?) stoner at a party in my first week of uni. It sounded awesome, because over here, a "slider" is a block of ice cream sandwiched between two wafers, and a place where you could just eat a tonne of those was my El Dorado. But…

need hopsital

You know, that does help.