The UCD Ball out in Belfield actually looks half decent to me. Firstly, the Saw Doctors aren’t playing it. Secondly, a lot of good bands are.
A friend in UCD (Hi Rory) pointed me towards the Facebook event page for the Ball, where the hate can hardly be contained. In fact, it appears to be loike, a total disaster.
“I’ve seen Charlie Sheen put a better line up his nose.”
“I’d prefer to see a lineup of the ‘ents crew’ in front of a firing squad”
(my personal favourite comment is this one below)
“FUCK THE UCD BALL! BACBAR HAS IT ALL!!!!!!!
SINCE THE UCD BALL IS SO SHIT, COME TO THURSBRAY BACBAR ON THURSDAY APRIL 21ST!!! WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOPPER RAVE AND HUNDREDS OF FREE BEER BONGS AND GLOWSTICKS FOR ALL!!!”
“It would be class if your deaf I suppose…”
“Is there an office where the ents crew hang out? If so we should go and kick the shit outta em!”
There are literally dozens of comments from students giving out about the line-up. It goes on and on and on and on like this. What kind of bands do students want to see at these things? You can please some of the people some of the time…..
Have a look over here.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Jaysus. What the fuck is wrong with people?
Personal favourite is “few nagins, be grand”. That kid’s gonna go far.
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My input into the Boards.ie thread:
“The **** line up doesn’t surprise me at all. UCD Ents have been (pretty much) rubbish since I started here three years ago.
UCD was once the bastion of promoters who went out of their way to book innovative acts. UCD Ents was once forward thinking. Now the Student Bar is home to washed up, crap 90s pop bands, tedious rock tribute acts and the odd commercial, ‘safe’ rap or indie act.
The UCD Ball sums that all up. Most of the line up so far are unadventurous rock bands or cover acts.
Republic of Lose – ‘Safe’ Irish rock band that have played the student bar a bunch of times.
Royseven – More ‘alternative rock’
O Emporer – More ‘alternative rock’. At least they’re up and coming though.
Bluemoose – Cover band
Lost in Flight – More ‘rock’
Daft Funk – Cover band.
As far as I can see, Brandon Block (for being a bit different) and O Emporer (for being up and coming) are the only decent bookings. Not that I’d travel far to either of them.
In the late 1970s, the bar held host to the likes of The Radiators From Space, Eddie and The Hot Rods, Tom Robinson, The Boomtown Rats and a host of new, exciting punk bands. In the 1980s, it became infamous for hosting some of the best acid house and early rave acts. The Shamen played the Rag Ball in 1991 ffs!
Christy Moore used to play Theatre L in the late 60s. You had Motorhead in the bar in 1980 and The Police a couple of years later.
Now what to you have? S Club 2 and a half? Bluemoose? And if your lucky, some commercial electro act like Boys Noize for the true ‘Raverz!!11’
I don’t know what happened but everything changed by the early 2000s. It all became about cheap drink, commercial crap and booking, run of the mill, unadventurous performers. “
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