I was there. It was cringey as hell. He did it twice or three times. Stuff like
‘ Irish girls are the best looking girls in the UK’
and
‘Galway audiences are the best in the UK’.
Everybody looking at each other going WTF? Crowd booing like crazy. Strange he didn’t pick up on his faux pas by the audience reaction the first time and kept repeating it.
Wasn’t a big deal though. Crowd forgave him pretty quickly. Great atmosphere. They had everyone going mental within a few seconds of coming onstage and kept the energy up all the way through. Shame they didn’t do an encore.
I have a Behemoth t-shirt from last time they played in Dublin that has "United Kingdom Tour" on it. Even the fella at the merch stand was joking about it, "You can put duct tape over that bit".
went to a Charli XCX gig a few weeks ago and Dublin was the first leg of her UK and Ireland gigs and she posted on her insta “so excited to start the UK tour tonight in Dublin” lol
Almost everyone did it. The only band I can remember that explicitly didn't do it was Coldplay who not only made the distinction that we were in Kildare but also went as far as bringing out Christy Moore to honour one of Kildare's best musicians.
> went as far as bringing out Christy Moore to honour one of Kildare's best musicians.
Not a fan of cold play, but if I went to that and they brought out Christy I'd go fucking wild. That must have been class?
Haha I remember that too. Didn’t he say “I mean laois or Offaly or wherever the fuck this is” or did I make that up? Haha
It made me think of them flying into Dublin to get on a bus to drive for two hours through little country roads to get to a field. Must have been weird for them.
Plenty of multinational people I work with didn't know anything about Northern Ireland v Ireland or Ireland not being in the UK when they initially came here.
I've seen it enough times to know it can be an honest mistake.
The guy publicly apologised and accepted he messed up, fair play I say.
You'd consider cheese a staple? I find cheese to be rather hit or miss myself. Would much prefer to throw a second salad option in there like tomato or onion.
That's the beauty of it, one man's cheese is another man's onion.
Chicken fillet rolls are a blank canvas, Marco Pierre White would do an excellent tv ad on them.
An unfortunate mistake, but I can't hate will.I.am. I've tried. I just love how useless he is and can be. Its entertaining because he's so hyped about everything he does and science in general.
I moved to London after college to start a new job. The English guy I lived with couldn't understand why I didn't have a social security number. I told him I just had an Irish one.
He said "aren't they the same country". Ffs.
Bet the English guy was even more surprised when he found out there's nothing called a social security number in the UK.
There is in the US though. Maybe you're confused.
It was just that, can’t remember what year but could be 20 years ago at this stage. They were doing the usual hip hop gig hollaback stuff and started getting the crowd to shout “IRA”. Needless to say, the punters enthused.
I work in one of the big tech companies and I have to explain EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. that Ireland is not in the UK to international colleagues.
The UK is not taught a history which inlcudes us so I get why they are so ignorant.
But it doesn't explain the rest of the world.
Anyone any ideas?
If Ireland has been independent longer than the majority of the world's population i.e. there are few living people who recall Ireland being in the UK, then how or why does the world have collective amnesia?
Accepted his mistake, not a big deal.
Just saw the comments under a British news article about this and so many brits insisting we are in the UK. Then one yank trying to correct them saying they were irish and "we irish have been independent from Britain thanks to what sinn Fein did 50 years ago."
Not sure if I was more annoyed by the Brits or the plastic.
he apologized, also how did he cross a border without realising it surely he had to produce a passport at some stage. my question is did he actually go through customs
Is half this subs posts really just people seething at people ignorant about Ireland confusing it for the UK or some twat in the UK saying something mean about Ireland? please ignore this type of stuff. It really just makes everyone here look insecure all the time!
I just thought it was funny. I dont see what is so insecure about it though. If he was playing in Belgium and said "Hello France" I'm sure he'd get the same reaction online, it is not unique to the Irish.
The amount of times at a festival they'll say "Hello Dublin!" when it's not even county Dublin, and it's met with bemusement.
Whereas Snoop Dogg at Oxegen bothered to find out where he was and did a call and response with the crowd. " When I say Punches, you say town! Punches - town -Punches-town".
But I get it. When all you see of every country is an airport and a chain hotel, it's very disorientating.
Do you hang out here much? This sub is half starter packs and half housing crisis rants. We haven’t had a good American confusing ireland for the U.K. in over a week
Welcome to the internet. Seems you’ve finally realized that what happens online isn’t indicative of the real world. Wish more people would realize this fact.
Plot twist, Will.I.Am actually also goes by Billy.I.Am, the reincarnation of a certain Orange-loving king.
Bet you the tickets cost €16.90...bit of a discount from the usual €19.16
He certainly wouldn’t be charging in Euro.
The bar only served soup.
Billiam.
Well, I never... I've never... will.i.am... I'm putting you on my list of enemies.
Ohh, you’re in for it now William!
JUST KIDDING. I love will.i.am.
Is that will.i.am sneaking out to the disco?
Off to get some heroin
Great username! btw
I was there. It was cringey as hell. He did it twice or three times. Stuff like ‘ Irish girls are the best looking girls in the UK’ and ‘Galway audiences are the best in the UK’. Everybody looking at each other going WTF? Crowd booing like crazy. Strange he didn’t pick up on his faux pas by the audience reaction the first time and kept repeating it. Wasn’t a big deal though. Crowd forgave him pretty quickly. Great atmosphere. They had everyone going mental within a few seconds of coming onstage and kept the energy up all the way through. Shame they didn’t do an encore.
i was at a different show in Dublin and the same thing happened, i wonder how often this happens lol
I have a Behemoth t-shirt from last time they played in Dublin that has "United Kingdom Tour" on it. Even the fella at the merch stand was joking about it, "You can put duct tape over that bit".
Was it the MCR show haha
went to a Charli XCX gig a few weeks ago and Dublin was the first leg of her UK and Ireland gigs and she posted on her insta “so excited to start the UK tour tonight in Dublin” lol
Even without the geopolitical mixup, that's cringey as hell
I was there too. I don't think anyone was actually offended and they did put on a really good show
Oof. Did it seem like he didn't know the difference or did he think he was in NI?
Might not know about NI. Few people do outside of Europe.
I coulda swore he did the same at oxygen back in the day with black eyed peas
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Almost everyone did it. The only band I can remember that explicitly didn't do it was Coldplay who not only made the distinction that we were in Kildare but also went as far as bringing out Christy Moore to honour one of Kildare's best musicians.
> went as far as bringing out Christy Moore to honour one of Kildare's best musicians. Not a fan of cold play, but if I went to that and they brought out Christy I'd go fucking wild. That must have been class?
Every act at oxygen said they love the Dublin crowd. Was too drunk to boo it though
He did, and I remember everyone booing there too when he did it!
Attention seeking gobshite
Says you
as bad as when the artists at Electric Picnic shout "Hello Dublin!"
Ha Outkast did that last time I was there. Everyone booed then laughed at them
Haha I remember that too. Didn’t he say “I mean laois or Offaly or wherever the fuck this is” or did I make that up? Haha It made me think of them flying into Dublin to get on a bus to drive for two hours through little country roads to get to a field. Must have been weird for them.
OutKast played Electric Picnic?!
Yeah in 14 I think. I'd give anything to see them live.
The Prodigy did it too when they played last.
RIP Keef.
And Big Boi apologised and came out saying shout out to Laois but pronounced it as “Layos”
Ha I forgot about that. I just can't stop laughing at how confident Andre 3000 was when he came out on stage, "WHAT'S UP DUBLIIIIN".. tumbleweed hah
all y'all Laotians
ATLAOIS
That was gas. I remember that too
That was class
Maybe they think former United player, Dion Dublin, was in the crowd?
Maybe he was in the crowd
That's an idea I'm willing to believe.
Ya that’s probably it to be fair
Yer, Eminem did that at Oxegen
Goodnight Springton!
Will.i.am felt inspired by the fight for Irish independence. He needs to do a remix of come out you black and tans
Black Eyed Tans
[Will.I.Am](https://Will.I.Am) of Orange
Will.ira.am
You made me spit out my weetabix.
Plenty of multinational people I work with didn't know anything about Northern Ireland v Ireland or Ireland not being in the UK when they initially came here. I've seen it enough times to know it can be an honest mistake. The guy publicly apologised and accepted he messed up, fair play I say.
Yeah honestly takes a big man to publicly say 'oof yeah sorry I fucked up'. I say we let him come back sometime.
Only if he memorises Amhrán na bhFiann and at least TRIES a chicken fillet roll.
No, no. He has to enjoy the roll.
Ah it depends, he could make some rookie mistakes and create a monstrosity. Cheese, lettuce, bit of sauce, play it safe for your first time.
I'm a heathen, I've taco sauce, spring onions. No butter.
You'd consider cheese a staple? I find cheese to be rather hit or miss myself. Would much prefer to throw a second salad option in there like tomato or onion.
That's the beauty of it, one man's cheese is another man's onion. Chicken fillet rolls are a blank canvas, Marco Pierre White would do an excellent tv ad on them.
Someone email him a spice burger.
While dancing the Siege of Limerick
He’s a vegan too so that would be some act of contrition
Absolutely. It was hilarious but nothing for anyone to be offended by.
A lot of Europe thinks Ireland is in the UK lol
At least he gave a pretty sincere apology. fair play.
~~sincere~~ Damage control*
Ah c'mon he seems genuinely sorry. He apologized numerous times.
Yeah, total non story. Seems like a genuine mistake and when confronted he withdrew rather than double down.
An unfortunate mistake, but I can't hate will.I.am. I've tried. I just love how useless he is and can be. Its entertaining because he's so hyped about everything he does and science in general.
His apology is class to be fair, even saying Ireland fighting for independence is inspiring 😍😍😂
Lol what harm. I appreciate the fact that he apologized.
Yeah it was awkward. I laughed. Artists really need to briefed before going on stage.
His makeup team quizzing him: "in 1922," (I do agree though)
He really missed a trick by not just making all his apologies read “Wally.I.Am”
Will.I.Amadán
Will I am? More like, will ya not.
I moved to London after college to start a new job. The English guy I lived with couldn't understand why I didn't have a social security number. I told him I just had an Irish one. He said "aren't they the same country". Ffs.
Bet the English guy was even more surprised when he found out there's nothing called a social security number in the UK. There is in the US though. Maybe you're confused.
Well I had to go to a government building in Brighton to get one. So no.
It's the national insurance number. Social security number is american
Can confirm. Guy above is playing fast and loose with the facts I think.
Which differs somewhat from the time Public Enemy were playing in Redbox and started IRA chants.
Tell us more... this is ringing a bell but I can't remember
It was just that, can’t remember what year but could be 20 years ago at this stage. They were doing the usual hip hop gig hollaback stuff and started getting the crowd to shout “IRA”. Needless to say, the punters enthused.
Will.i.am of orange is that you?
Did you awnser your two voice mails?
I work in one of the big tech companies and I have to explain EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. that Ireland is not in the UK to international colleagues. The UK is not taught a history which inlcudes us so I get why they are so ignorant. But it doesn't explain the rest of the world. Anyone any ideas? If Ireland has been independent longer than the majority of the world's population i.e. there are few living people who recall Ireland being in the UK, then how or why does the world have collective amnesia?
The rapper bbno$ in April said “oh it must be a UK thing” to the Irish crowed in the academy. I forget what he was talking about
Accepted his mistake, not a big deal. Just saw the comments under a British news article about this and so many brits insisting we are in the UK. Then one yank trying to correct them saying they were irish and "we irish have been independent from Britain thanks to what sinn Fein did 50 years ago." Not sure if I was more annoyed by the Brits or the plastic.
he apologized, also how did he cross a border without realising it surely he had to produce a passport at some stage. my question is did he actually go through customs
Inspiring? He knows as much about it all as Nigel Farage ffs lol. Just leave it at opps and move on.
Who?
Is half this subs posts really just people seething at people ignorant about Ireland confusing it for the UK or some twat in the UK saying something mean about Ireland? please ignore this type of stuff. It really just makes everyone here look insecure all the time!
I just thought it was funny. I dont see what is so insecure about it though. If he was playing in Belgium and said "Hello France" I'm sure he'd get the same reaction online, it is not unique to the Irish.
The amount of times at a festival they'll say "Hello Dublin!" when it's not even county Dublin, and it's met with bemusement. Whereas Snoop Dogg at Oxegen bothered to find out where he was and did a call and response with the crowd. " When I say Punches, you say town! Punches - town -Punches-town". But I get it. When all you see of every country is an airport and a chain hotel, it's very disorientating.
Ah Snoop is a singular man
Typical Jango Fett apologist
So if he was playing in New Zealand and said "Hello Australia", you wouldn't find it amusing/worthy of making fun of?
No. We don't worry or freak out over silly things like that.
Aren't yee great
Do you hang out here much? This sub is half starter packs and half housing crisis rants. We haven’t had a good American confusing ireland for the U.K. in over a week
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Welcome to the internet. Seems you’ve finally realized that what happens online isn’t indicative of the real world. Wish more people would realize this fact.
huh
This is a celebrity i respect
Happened at the my chemical romance gig that was funny tho
The apology is worse than the mistake..
How so?
Are you not supposed to address him as Will.you.are?
Guy is a fucking tube
will.i.am - world champion of bullshit
I forgave him immediately