Sadhbh Warren

In May 2024, Bruce Springsteen played Cork - and I had a front row view.  Because I infiltrated the Spring-nuts. Seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band has been on my wish list for decades. When a friend told me about the fan-administered queueing system developed by the Spring-nuts I knew I had to see it in action. The venue, Pairc Ui Chaoimh, is five minutes walk from my house so this information turned what should have been a 4 hour gig, with 3 hours of music, into a multiday epic with 10 hours standing on the day. I regret nothing. This was my week running with the Spring-Nuts. ** Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are playing in Cork I am on the rail, front and centre at the Cork's Burce Springsteen show, and everyone around me is completely losing their minds. There is a woman behind me hysterically screaming "Bruce, Bruce Bruce" like she's having the best time of her life with three guys called Bruce. Nearby a woman waves a life-size cardboard cut-...

This piece is from 2011. My partner is over it (mostly) How I won tickets to Foo Fighters' Goat Island show in 2011 Last night I was on Goat Island watching the Foo Fighters play their new album. And all I had to do was betray my fiancé two days before our engagement party. I won by entering a competition on V Music. They wanted vids from fans on why they should go. I figured they'd get a billion, "OMG I luv the FOos!!1!" type entries, so I took a different tack.  Send me for science. The exact science was that, with our engagement party in two days, I needed to check my bloke, P, was in fact hotter than Dave Grohl (who I believed to be the hottest man alive before meeting P).  Need to check. Before the wedding, donchaknow. For science. P has forgiven me. Probably. I discovered something useful for our relationship at the gig - curling my hand into the RAWK horns symbol stops my engagement/wedding rings from flying off while moshing. This is a useful thing to know. An...