The Official June 15 RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland Thread
 

Setlists, Predictions, Videos, Disappointments, Complaints...

The last time Bon Jovi played in Dublin was on June 30, 2011, during The Circle Tour. The setlist was as follows:

01. Bounce
02. You Give Love a Bad Name
03. We Weren't Born to Follow
04. Lost Highway
05. Happy Now
06. In These Arms
07. It's My Life
08. Blaze of Glory
09. Damned
10. Raise Your Hands
11. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead [w/ Snippet of Start Me Up]
12. Bad Medicine [w/ Snippets of Roadhouse Blues and Vertigo]
13. (You Want to) Make a Memory
14. I'll Be There For You
15. Never Say Goodbye [Acoustic]
16. Squeeze Box [The Who cover, Acoustic]
17. Love For Sale [Acoustic]
18. Who Says You Can't Go Home
19. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
20. Blood on Blood
21. Have a Nice Day
22. Keep the Faith
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23. Hey God
24. Wanted Dead or Alive
25. I Love This Town
26. Livin' on a Prayer
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27. Always
28. Love's the Only Rule


I'm definitely not expecting anything like this for either of the 2019 shows.


2019 Setlist:

01. This House is Not For Sale
02. Raise Your Hands
03. You Give Love a Bad Name
04. Born to Be My Baby
05. Whole Lot of Leavin'
06. Lost Highway
07. Runaway
08. We Weren't Born to Follow
09. Have a Nice Day
10. Keep the Faith
11. Amen
12. I'll Be There For You
13. In These Arms
14. It's My Life
15. Blood on Blood
16. Wanted Dead or Alive
17. Lay Your Hands on Me
18. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars
19. Who Says You Can't Go Home
20. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
21. Bad Medicine
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22. These Days
23. Livin' on a Prayer

Now this was a f*cking proper setlist. And it was only 8 years ago!

That's just made me sad seeing that set list.
Will never get anything like that ever again.

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I won't be there on the first night I'll be there on Sunday and I'm hoping everyday that he's in a good mood like he's been the past few shows. I'm really bummed we won't be getting the nice stage I think the screens look really great and add alot but we'll see I guess :)

That was my last Bon Jovi show. I went both nights. Night one was good but night two was something special. Jon wasn't taking any prisoners that night.

I remember walking out of the venue into the mild summer night and saying to my friend that I'd be happy if this was the end. As a These Days fanatic seeing Damned and Hey God live in the same show was totally unexpected and both performances were great.

Little did I know what was to come.

Sums up my feeling of the 2011 shows, both nights were brilliant. The show in Slane in 2013 didn't come close.

Looking ahead to this weekend I don't think my expectations for a Jovi show have ever been as low but I am prepared to be surprised!

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Damn, you forget how good the European, Australian and South American shows were on The Circle tour.

Id love them to open with Hey God, Good Guys or even Rockin In The Free World.

THINFS just does not work as an opener for me. Its such a dull lifeless song and its a real mood killer after all the screens have built up the band coming on.

PS - Safe to say we are never getting anything like that above set list again. Ever.

About the stage, I would be disappointed not to get the full package as technically, we are paying ticket prices for the venue, band, singing, screens, stage etc, the same as other countries so I can see why some would be pissed off if this is true.
However, the screens appear to be what makes the stage really cool this time (Last time at RDS was the half moon and the movement which highlighted certain songs, obviously we had the amazing car stage but lost the sets as Richie vanished so I just hope the screens are there for those great affects).

so tomorrrow I am heading with low expectations which is a shame. I can imagine a good crowd and Jon being the showman but the voice issue will likely appear....only two nights to recover for this one. I hope for more songs but in truth there are other rare songs he could add in without wrecking the voice. Something off Bounce would be good! Last time at RDS the snippets were great fun but they seem to have been dropped now. Critics are going to be out, yes, but to be honest, there is very little Jon can do other than mime to solve the voice issue. I will sing loud as always, maybe drown Jon out lol, but in the end I will applaud the guys for the efforts on the night no doubt. They are longer in their 20s/30s, expectations have to change and I can accept that.

do we have any timings for the show?

"Supporting band Manic Preachers will be playing at 6.15 pm and Bon Jovi will start playing at 8.10 pm"

I'd advise anyone going to wear a coat as the weather isn't looking too summery for the weekend.

What the f*ck is happening with all the rain in Europe this summer?!

A very good question! Last year we had a hose pipe ban at home, this year too much water!!

When is everybody going to the concert especially the gold standing to get a half decent spot?

I will be in a pub from 1pm

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I like it.


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We're flying over from Liverpool in the morning for the gig. A question about accessibility as I'm looking for some advice on what to do. My girlfriend is now 6 months pregnant, which we didn't know would be the case when we bought standing tickets. She is suffering quite badly with her back over the past 2 days so we're not sure what to do.

I'm assuming I would have had to have had bought accessibility tickets to use that area, even if it was just to have a seat for her between bands while waiting around?

Yes Jon's voice is not the same, yes he may move less, play the guitar less, yes Richie has moved on and perhaps my excitement has been tamed by reading all the negative comments here but I will turn up, I will sing as loud as I can and I hope to be able to get the front man going. The RDS can be special but it takes two to tango. If us fans go in and sing along it can be a very good night. The set list should have a few changes over the 2 nights.

The big thing pissing me off is no early access

Another day at the office so let's get it over with.

Dry County will appear here. Bye.

Leave her at home
She’ll just ruin the day with her nagging.
:-)


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HA! That made me laugh. (Probably because I was expecting something like "she won't enjoy it anyway." But you stopped me mid-eyeroll with what I assume is the voice of experience.) :D

Hey God, Damned, Blaze Of Glory, Keep The Faith...dream set that for me.

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Look at Shanks walking around Dublin with his guitar on his back like a true artiste [emoji1787]

OMG! That setlist reads like a bestseller. 28 songs? Barely any fillers all killers! Out - of - this - world !

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"Everyone look at me, I'm in a band, please talk to me, I want to tell you I'm in Bon Jovi..."

:rolleyes:

I’d say almost everyone would think busker!

People may rather think he is Phil X's guitar roadie, walking around with him like that :mrgreen:

Wondering why the jovis are not playing Croke park? It would have meant one show instead of two.


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That last night in Dublin really was something special. What a set list. Probably the best Jovi concert I ever saw.. Heading to Dublin (gold circle) today with lower expectations for sure. Not the same band I've been following for years but still excited that I get to go and listen to the music I love and sing and dance along like I have done for years. Always a great atmosphere in Dublin, who knows - may we be pleasantly surprised..?!

The last time the band played in Dublin was actually June 29, 2011. The OP posted the date and setlist for night 2. This was the setlist for night 1:

1. Raise Your Hands
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Born to Be My Baby
4. We Weren't Born to Follow
5. Just Older
6. It's My Life
7. Blaze of Glory
8. We Got It Goin On
9. Captain Crash
10. Bad Medicine / Gloria / Not Fade Away / Pretty Woman
11. Love's the Only Rule
12. When We Were Beautiful
13. Bed of Roses
14. I'll Be There For You (Jon & Richie)
15. Who Says You Cant Go Home
16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
17. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
18. Have a Nice Day
19. Keep the Faith

20. Dry County
21. Wanted Dead or Alive
22. These Days
23. Always
24. Livin' on a Prayer

ETA: Nevermind. They played at Slane Castle in 2013. The OP can look up the setlist and edit his post if he wants to have the actual prior setlist in post #1.

Hahahaha really surprised the fanboy doesn't walk around wearing Bon Jovi merch.

This was the Slane Castle setlist in 2013:

1. That's What The Water Made Me
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Born To Be My Baby
4. Raise Your Hands
5. Runaway
6. Lost Highway
7. It's My Life
8. Because We Can
9. What About Now
10. We Got It Going On
11. Keep The Faith
12. When We Were Beautiful
13. I'll Be There For You
14. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
15. We Weren't Born To Follow
16. Who Says You Can't Go Home
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead/Rockin' All Over The World
18. Bad Medicine

Encore:

19. Dry County
20. Wanted Dead Or Alive
21. In These Arms
22. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
23. Have A Nice Day
24. These Days
25. Blood On Blood
26. Livin' On A Prayer
27. I Love This Town
28. Always

The 2011 shows obviously were on another level, but isn't this quite a set, too? :D

This picture was taken outside Bruxelles just off grafton st. They were in a music store on Aungier st so he might have bought the guitar there and walked back that way or he might have brought it with him to the store for some reason.

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I can't see Jon being able to last for a setlist that long anymore, could still remove the crap from the main set and put some of the encore songs in there.

It’s just long. That’s all.

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Jon would be dead after 28 songs in a row nowadays, no matter what their level of difficulty would be :D

what time Kev?

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Likewise! Gold circle hoping that he doesn’t back out of a great show knowing he has to do it again tomorrow night. Hell its Saturday night in Dublin!

They've got the proper stage set up I think which I wasn't expecting.