Lets be honest, If you go and watch a SHM gig your bound to run into a bunch of tasteless twats and probably a bunch of thugs too. Especially in the UK or Ireland. However, you should never expect to see someone killed.
Too much shit music!
One of my friends was at the gig, said there was lots of lads just looking for trouble with no reason.
If you knew the mentality of some of my people its very typical (no offense) The kind like “that fella just looked at me, Im going to kick the head off of him for looking at me” literally 
I’m from monaghan, A lot of lads around Ireland in general who are very like this. It’s rather annoying.
Anyone else get irritated about the sheer level of vaginitude on the youredm blog? Idk, the whole “violence in any form is bad” bit just really stuck out to me as the author sounding like a total pussy. OT I hope we don’t have to see any more of this kind of thing at shows, it really does nothing to help the already rather negative image a lot of society has for this genre.
Well, violence in any form is bad, nothing to discuss there!
What a terrible thread is this turning into ?
If anybody wants to see more cute animal pics in this, hit me up.
Not trying to derail, just bring happiness to where it’s needed.
wow thats sad
Kitties and vinyl!
lotta negativity in here. sad times.
I saw SHM when they played in Sheffield just after the release of ‘One’, when Axwell/Ingrosso/Angelo had only just officially collaborated under the SHM title. The gig was amazing, way up there with some of the best nights I’ve had. Crowd was great, laid back fans just dancing away, no trouble. good times. I had liked the stuff by each individual DJ anyway so was looking forward to it, and they played a lot of older stuff.
I also went and saw them last year at Alexandra palace in London. Set was average, lots of tracks picked just because of a more commercialised crowd, it was more of a playlist than a ‘set’ as such. Crowd was rubbish, far too many pretentious dickheads unable to just relax and enjoy it. shame. In the space of a year 3 of my favourite DJ’s went completely downhill as they just changed their attitude to suit a growing audience.
makes me want to reconsider going to see Knife Party play!!
Bad for that over here in England too, jus a bunch of roid bashing nobs all over the town centres here looking for an excuse to kick off with someone, to show off to each other. Its just becoming Jeremy Kyle nation
Fuck me. I was hoping that was just here in the states.. Steroids are like the new herpes..
The fuck, again?
Saw the three before they were officially known as Swedish House Mafia, on boxing night 2008 in Cream. Saw them in Pacha last year. The difference was astounding. Plus 70 Euros for a ticket is an absolute farce - we went to Space a few days later to see Guy Gerber and Radioslave and they were much better, for only a fraction of the price
Just seen that and txt a friend who went on saturday (she’s young and naive, her taste will mature I hope
) and she said there was loads of trouble ppl fighting all over the place!
that really is sad to hear
Sadly the media totally wanted to drag the event through the mud!
I know there were 9 people out of 45000 injured but it really wasn’t the war zone the media made out. Since that gig I have listened to so many people rant about that gig, worst of all most that I’ve heard weren’t even there.
On the other hand there have been a few well written pieces about the day in question.
Here they are if anyone’s interested
http://djjohngibbons.blogspot.ie/2012/07/100712-phoenix-park-fallout.html
Here is another piece by the Godfather of the Irish electronic scene - Mark Kavanagh
Saturday’s concert at Phoenix Park was not, despite reports elsewhere, a rave. It was a concert featuring four chart-topping pop artists and an emerging Irish rock band.
The concert was bound to be a sell out appealing to a wide variety of people.
Among the 45,000 revellers in attendance were TV stars such as Glenda Gilson, radio hosts such as Ray Shah and gorgeous models such as Nadia Forde and Emma Quinlan.
Also attending the concert, unfortunately, were a couple of dozen young thugs intent on causing trouble, picking pockets, starting fights, using knives.
This has as much to do with teenage male hormones as it has to do with the combination of good weather, alcohol consumption and the drugs reportedly being taken.
But 60 years after rock ’n’ roll was blamed for corrupting America’s youth and not much has changed.
Yesterday, Ireland’s Government leader, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, suggested a form of pop music might be to blame for this nation’s ills.
Kenny asked if the type of music played any part in the violence at the Irish Swedish House Mafia concert. See http://bit.ly/OvR7pi
Enda Kenny should read the excellent column by John Meagher in yesterday’s Irish Independent: http://bit.ly/RYbQFZ
Meagher writes about the great shame of the nation, and it’s not a form of music or a promoter.
The crucial factor behind Saturday’s unacceptable violence is Ireland’s tolerance, and love, of excessive alcohol consumption.
There was no trouble at the Swedish House Mafia concerts in Scotland or Spain at the weekend.
From my experience DJing across the country for the past 24 years, what happened in the Phoenix Park on Saturday happens every weekend in towns and cities across Ireland, North and South.
Young people go out to have a good time, to get drunk and get laid. And some of them go out to have a fight. It’s what they do and it’s what they have always done.
Jim Carroll of the Irish Times expressed a similar view in this sensible article: http://bit.ly/RLss3r
I have worked for MCD Concerts many times over the years, and from backstage always saw I that people’s safety was a paramount concern within the company. On the rare occasion I saw trouble at a concert it was dealt with efficiently and speedily.
We can’t shut every music event, pub and club in the country — instead attitudes need to change.
With regards to the unacceptable violence last Saturday, society should address the wider issues of providing better education and opportunities for its young people, particularly for those living in disadvantaged areas.
Those who took drugs at the concert last Saturday would have taken drugs last weekend anyway, no matter where they went — that’s a fact of life that Ireland needs to come to terms with and debate on a sensible level.
Prohibition doesn’t work and sticking small-time cannabis dealers in jail for 10 years hasn’t worked either. Education is a key factor in preventing tragic and unnecessary drug deaths.
Another issue needing sensible debate is the nation’s unacceptable hypocrisy towards alcohol.
One week we are celebrating 20,000 Irish football fans enjoying a week-long drunken party in Poland; a couple of weeks later we are criticising 40,000 teenagers for going on the piss for a day.
It’s unlikely that Ireland will learn anything from the weekend’s tragedies. Dance music unfortunately will be made a scapegoat despite the fact that last Saturday’s gig was nothing more than a pop concert.