Sorry but he is having a giggle right?

Granted, Joe McBlueberry/Donald would sell out wembley a few times.

I think Mr Walsh has underestimated the demand for Rage to play the UK.

Rage would sell out in seconds if they announced a Series of 7-10 Arena shows!

Despite the no.1, I doubt Rage are that popular.

He's also said:


If he sees 'Killing In The Name' as a "novelty" song, he really is deluded and completely out of touch when you think of what he has inflicted on the charts over the year.

Plus, of course, going on the strllar success of the other X-Factor winners, people will still have heard of RATM, but Joe McBlueberry is likely to be.... "Joe Who??"...... "You know, the one that RATM beat to Number 1!"

You'd be suprised. Faith No More managed to sell out every gig they played this year.

And for the same reasons, Rage fans who never got to see them in the begining would jump at the chance to see them again.

I am not sure if tickets were on sale @ the festivals Rage played at in the UK before or after their announcment on the line up, but, I would put money on if it was after, that would have sold the festival!

Of course just my opinion and comparison with other recent reunions

I would disagree, infact I would say they are that popular before this campaign.
Remember they only just reformed about 2007 and headlined Coachella and Reading.
Louis not for the first time and not for the last is talking out of his arse...Joes gonna sell more albums than RATM..well they have at least 20m head start and known internationally. I would love to see Joe breaking America lmao

The thought of an X-Factor act filling Wembley made me chuckle... Me thinks Louis is full of a little bit too much festive cheer...

To be fair, T in the Park had sold most of it's tickets before any act was announced in 2008 when RATM played.

Oh they'd sell for sure, but maybe not in seconds. They're not Peter Kay (thankfully).

Walsh: "Joe will go on to sell a lot more albums than Rage ever have done."

Hmmm, just a quick look at Rage's discography shows 10 x platinum in the USA alone, so at least 10 million albums there. Worldwide we must be talking at least 15 million, maybe a lot more.

Good luck with that.

He is deluded, Rage were around in the 90s, I loved them then and love them now. They represent something that the Xfactor can only dream of representing.

Funny how Louis Walsh has forgotten to mention that Rage were not only big in the States, but also in most of Europe. I thought he was supposed to know about music.

How funny!
First Simon, then Cheryl now Louis. I thought these people were surposed to be smart?!! If they just laughed off this whole thing and just took it as a bit of healthy competition they would have come out of this relativly unscathed but they just keep coming out with one arogant snipe after the other. I'm beginning to think this could be the end of X Factor altogether....Unless they wise up soon.

Walsh's a*se speaks again.

What would that muppet that won X Factor sing to entertain an audience for 90 minutes if he played Wembley tomorrow?

I could fill Wembley stadium, judging by how rotund I'm getting

if that is Louis throwing down the gauntlet to Rage over ticket sales, that will be an even more impressive battle than that Xmas nO 1. Does he realise who Rage's promoters are??? Live Nation are one of the most powerful companies in the entertainment world. There is no guarantee that an X Factor campaign could beat a Live Nation campaign, but I'd love to see them try!

Live Nation have already got well behind this campaign and are the ones planning the free Rage gig. If they wanted to make sure X Factor couldn't book any venues for their tour, I am sure Live Nation could make that happen.... and that's probably just the least of what they could do.

Louis could do well to remember that these promoters are the same ones that put on loads of the X Factor judges acts so maybe not the best plan to challenge them.

Louis Walsh is a fool! Goes to show how much this idiot knows about music! I saw RATM play to a sold out Wembley Arena in January 2000, long before this campaign. Also in order for Joe to out sell RATM he will have to sell 20 million albums, so that's quite a brave statement from Louis, but again...he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about. This is the man who gave us Westlife and Bewitched and he's trying to call RATM a novelty? RATM have had 2 #1 albums in America, have won 2 grammy awards, already hada top 10 hit in 1996 with Bulls on Parade, been on the soundtrack to films like The Matrix and have headlined festivals like Woodstock and Reading. The RATM spin off band Audioslave also achieved similair success. When Joe achieves this THEN we'll talk, so go crawl back under your rock Louis your words are meaningless.

never take the words seriously of a man who tells 4 people "you deserve to be in the final" when there's only 3 places...

He really is deluded. His comments make it sound like this past week is the first time he's heard of RATM...

Cowell should have replaced him on The X Factor when he had the chance, as he clearly knows bugger all about music.

It probably was

I dunno, I'd say there are as many Rage Fans as Muse fans who'd buy a ticket, and I nearly didnt get a Muse ticket earlier this year!!


I didnt know, was a bit of a guess, efestivals might have had them down as a rumour though! Which, for some people, seems to be enough to buy a ticket!

This is the same man that said Rage "took the fun out of the Christmas race". Is Louis living some kind of opposite week? Because the stuff he's been saying has just cracked me up.

That reminded me of...

More recently, Homer Simpson referred to a similar place - a place where everything is the opposite of the way things work in Springfield, USA. The Simpsons went to Brazil, and Homer was surprised to learn that the seasons were reversed in this seemingly magical place:

Homer: Wait wait wait, so in August it's cold?
Lisa: That's right.
Homer: And in February, it's hot?
Lisa: Mmhmm.
Homer: So it's Opposite Land! Crooks chase cops, cats have puppies!
Lisa: No, dad, it's just the weather.
Homer: So hot snow falls up?
Lisa (sighing): Yees.

Joe filling Wembley stadium?????????

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!

Like f**k he would lol.

The arena maybe... but not a stadium.

Besides, aren't the promoters behind RATM Live Nation? Like the single biggest concert promotors in the world? Not even Cowell could defeat that company.

I believe LN ate up a load of other companies yeah!

One of my favourite Homer moments EVER!

Hilarious. It's comments like this one and Simon's remark that Don't Stop Believing was a canny song choice by Joe because "it's not a particularly well-known song" (the most downloaded track in iTunes history, and that was before The X Factor) proves that they actually know or care very little about music.