King, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, The Pogues, Elvis Costello…. Too many to list here but my faves include Chuck Berry, Horslips, Dr. Most big gigs happened in the National Stadium on the SCR. College, I saw The Boomtown Rats & The Vipers. THere were gigs in the Stardust Club in Artane including The Greedy Bastards (Thin Lizzy, Boomtown Rats & Sex Pistols mix), The Darts, The Specials(?)… The TV Club is now the site of the Garda HQ. (It became a ladancing club for a while!). The Clash pleayed ina lovely hall to the right after you walk through the arch enterance, The Adverts played in the Junior Commons Room over the arch and loads of gigs in The Buttery & the atrium of the new wing. Bands I remember there include Desmond Dekker, The Radiators From Space, The Atrix etc. ![]() The Sportsman’s Inn in Mount Merrion also put on loads of gigs. He broke 3 strings in the encore but just kept thrashing away!! I also saw The Boomtown Rats there. I saw Elvis Costello there on his first Irish gig. Yes, The Stella in Rathmines was used a couple of times. Still have Blades ones from SFX benefit and RTE in Concert. You could order bootlegs of all the Blades/ska stuff from some lad in some rundown building on Liffey St. Think that’s where Roddy Doyle got Commitments name, that type of music. Remember The Commotion, used to play somewhere on Gt Denmark St. Blades used to play the Crofton on the airport road. Think that was the year of the riot in Blackrock whe n Aslan were supporting Hothouse Flowers. It was the second version of The Blades, they blew everyone away, unbelievably powerful that day, fucking hammered it.Ĭleary was back there in ’86 with The Partisans, doing Elvis Costello covers and I think Marvin Gaye. Huge crowd, think it was first ever Lark. ![]() The Blades headlined Lark in the Park, St Annes’ 1983, over where the bandstand used to be. i remember loads used to go to the disco in St Brigids and then gave out hammerings to the Raheny/Clontarf hippies getting off the bus after drinking in The Plough, Flowing Tide. Played for St Martin’s in Maypark with a load of those skas/skins. That Stardust gig gets a mention in a recent book by one of the Specials. Do they fit the bill? Or did they come a bit later? Other places that I’ve heard about include The Youth Expression Centre (Temple Bar), The New Inn (New Street), The Loft, Slattery’s (Capel Street) and Bruxelles (Harry Street). Demolished (?) and developed into Garda HQ) Developed into Roller Disco, Fun Factory and now apartments)
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