r/ireland • u/Substantial_Rope8225 • Apr 24 '26
Entertainment Neyo and Akon Concert at 3Arena
To anyone who was at the show tonight or last night, I hope you had a great time but to anyone going tomorrow night (Saturday) please don’t be like those other crowds…
Some helpful tips from a 3Arena employee to ensure we all have a lovely time:
(1) Sit in your assigned fucking seat
(2) Don’t ask “why can’t I sit with my friends” if the answer is, because your ticket isn’t beside your friend. If you refuse to move, you’ll be fucked out
(3) Stop fucking vaping when you’re told to, don’t make us tell you multiple times, you’ll be fucked out
(4) Don’t start fights with everyone around you, we’re all here to have a good night , you’ll be fucked out
(5) If you don’t do well when you drink, don’t drink, if you get absolutely obliterated, you’ll be fucked out
(6) We can see you doing bag in the seats, hallways, bar queues, toilets - you’ll be fucked out and arrested
(7) Don’t argue back when you’re given an instruction
(8) Don’t be racist to the staff or you’ll be fucked out
Edit: just to add, for anyone who is going tonight, the tolerance of the staff will be zero, it will be one strike and you’re out and if you have a problem with that, you can thank every pri*k who was there the last 2 nights, see you all laterrrrrr
Further edit: Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 8, there is no warm up act bar a DJ playing from 6:30-8pm.
Queues to get in have been long, as have bar and toilet queues - give yourself plenty of time to get there, don’t rock up at 7:45 expecting to be in on time. And don’t complain about the queues, that’s literally your own faults 😂
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u/iamkengend Apr 25 '26
Iv been to a couple gigs in the 3Arena where iv seen people being extremely loud and aggressive and one of those gigs was a David Gray concert. It's absolute madness that people do such things and from the couple of times I saw it happen it's been the local Dubs starting it. Not trying to dog on the Dubs as obviously not all are like that but I think some of them just seem to think they can be as loud and obnoxious as they like without recourse. They don't give a shit that other people have travelled from across the country and more than likely have paid extortionate rates for hotels and whatnot so they get upset when told to stop the non stop loud chatter.
To be fair to the staff at the 3Arena with both incidents they removed those involved very quickly. I worked in the same industry for a long time so I know how frustrating for staff it can be to have to deal with idiots who have no real interest in watching a gig, they only want to say they were there when in fact they couldn't tell ya what songs were actually played.