Bon Jovi

[Pontipine]

Croke Park

Aug 30th

2026

 

[theporge]

One of my favourite bands ever , soundtrack of me teenage years . However, 3 things making me hesitant : 1 No Richie, 2 Jon's voice 3 The bands PA is awful at outdoor gigs. Caught them at the RDS a few years back and we could hardly here anything besides drums and bass for the first hour.

 

[Pontipine]

One of my favourite bands ever , soundtrack of me teenage years . However, 3 things making me hesitant : 1 No Richie, 2 Jon's voice 3 The bands PA is awful at outdoor gigs. Caught them at the RDS a few years back and we could hardly here anything besides drums and bass for the first hour.

Lot of concerns by fans online about all those things you’ve named above.

I’m not a big fan but my wife is so I’ll be racing for tickets too. A good chance a 2nd date will be added.

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

Bon Jovi have worked on a silent stage for over ten years - i.e. the band are all wearing in-ear monitors and there's no sound being projected from any amp that might be visible.

It's all run though the desks and the only thing you hear from any instrument is the drums. You get this odd effect when you see any band that uses this set-up live that you're listening to a recording of the band playing somewhere else but the drums are coming at you front and centre. And, because, every PA/venue is different - it can be a challenge for sound engineers.

It makes for a weird live experience, it can be slightly bothersome - I experienced it first at a Death Cab For Cutie show. It was great but I spent the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what was off - then I realised - no amps (bar a bass cab) were on the stage. You don't get the full whack.

I'm not a Bon Jovi fan - bar the few bangers that they have - but I read about this when the Manic Street Preachers supported them a few years back. The Manics play incredibly loudly and Bon Jovi's techs were taken aback but the noise on-stage.

 

[Jim Comic]

Manic Street Preachers supported them

blimey, weird combo

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

blimey, weird combo

Not really - the MSP supported Bon Jovi back in 1993 too - at the Milton Keynes Bowl - when the Manics had just released "Gold Against The Soul", their second record. I have an original "Gold Against The Soul" album promo poster which included the gig date framed on a wall to this day.

I mean... they probably wouldn't have gotten the gig based on the next record "The Holy Bible" but the first two albums feature songs that the band themselves have described as "hairy arsed rock monsters"

Manic Street Preachers have supported a fair few giant stadium acts around Europe in the past 10 years - Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Foo Fighters and - definitely a weird combo - Paul McCartney.