Did AC/DC really play Leisureland in the 1980s?

Unrealistic

A quote from Wikipedia's Salthill page (but it also appears elsewhere)

Leisureland, having a fair ground, swimming pool and concert hall, became a huge attraction and brought in top bands such as U2, AC/DC and ZZ Top during the 1980's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salthill
I wasn't at the gig myself but I remember U2's last time playing Leisureland during the War tour in 1983. Not only do I not remember ZZ Top or AC/DC playing there I'm pretty certain neither of them ever did.

dilallio

I don't remember either of them playing either.

I remember seeing other bands like The Pogues, Status Quo, Simply Red, Van Morrisson, Paul Brady, Hothouse Flowers there.

LoopyL

The Beatles were ment to play in Salthill Park years ago just before they got famous:

http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/35745

LadyMayBelle

Tom Waits did a gig there in 1981.

eagle10

Neither of them played in leisureland acdc played in Dublin in 82 I think it was in rds.

FatherTed

Saw U2 and Thin Lizzy there back in the day....

galwayrush

Yes AC/DC played Leisureland, i was one of the sold out 25000 crowd there.:pac::pac:

aw

A neighbour of mine swears she was at MeatLoaf there in the 80's when he was touring everywhere to build himself back up.

Can anyone verify the story??

Head The Wall

Duran Duran played there at some stage as well

loser2old4board

Unrealistic wrote: »

A quote from Wikipedia's Salthill page (but it also appears elsewhere)

I wasn't at the gig myself but I remember U2's last time playing Leisureland during the War tour in 1983. Not only do I not remember ZZ Top or AC/DC playing there I'm pretty certain neither of them ever did.

I don't remember hearing that ZZ Top or AC/DC ever played Leisureland.


I saw Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, Status Quo, Mark Knopfler (Solo),
Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Steve Earle, U2, Waterboys and Boomtown Rats
all play there at various times.

I still have most of the concert tickets........sad I know.

loser2old4board

aw wrote: »

A neighbour of mine swears she was at MeatLoaf there in the 80's when he was touring everywhere to build himself back up.

Can anyone verify the story??

Yes I saw Meatloaf play there and I still have the concert ticket.

It says Wed Feb 13th at 8pm but it doesn't say what year.
It cost £8.50.

Das Kitty

loser2old4board wrote: »

I don't remember hearing that ZZ Top or AC/DC ever played Leisureland.


I saw Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, Status Quo, Mark Knopfler (Solo),
Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Steve Earle, U2, Waterboys and Boomtown Rats
all play there at various times.

I still have most of the concert tickets........sad I know.

Status Quo actually played? I remember the early 90s they were supposed to play Leisureland but they went for dinner in Shama (Spanish Arch) the night before and got a dose of food poisoning and ended up cancelling.

loser2old4board

Das Kitty wrote: »

Status Quo actually played? I remember the early 90s they were supposed to play Leisureland but they went for dinner in Shama (Spanish Arch) the night before and got a dose of food poisoning and ended up cancelling.

The ticket I have says:

"End Of the Road Tour '84"

Wed April 18th Adm: £7.50

So they were doing farewell tours back in 84...

galwayrush

aw wrote: »

A neighbour of mine swears she was at MeatLoaf there in the 80's when he was touring everywhere to build himself back up.

Can anyone verify the story??

Yes, i was dragged to the concert by an ex. I remember some city counciler being appalled at some of his language on stage, same woman wanted to ban Bad Manners from ever playing Galway again because Buster Bloodvellel stuck his tongue out on stage....:pac::pac:

galwayrush

loser2old4board wrote: »

The ticket I have says:

"End Of the Road Tour '84"

Wed April 18th Adm: £7.50

So they were doing farewell tours back in 84...

Indeed, i was at that one, that was their first farwell tour and best...
Their follow up farwell tour with some new members wasn't as good.

galwayrush

loser2old4board wrote: »

I don't remember hearing that ZZ Top or AC/DC ever played Leisureland.


I saw Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, Status Quo, Mark Knopfler (Solo),
Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Steve Earle, U2, Waterboys and Boomtown Rats
all play there at various times.

I still have most of the concert tickets........sad I know.

Bloody hell, i was at all of them as well. Gallagher twice.

Unrealistic

aw wrote: »

A neighbour of mine swears she was at MeatLoaf there in the 80's when he was touring everywhere to build himself back up.

Can anyone verify the story??

loser2old4board wrote: »

Yes I saw Meatloaf play there and I still have the concert ticket.

It says Wed Feb 13th at 8pm but it doesn't say what year.
It cost £8.50.

It was 1984. My first ever gig. I've still got the ticket too. Black print on purple paper with UCG embossed into it. (It was promoted by Ollie Jennings I think when he was Ents officer at UCG.)

galwayrush wrote: »

Yes, i was dragged to the concert by an ex. I remember some city counciler being appalled at some of his language on stage, same woman wanted to ban Bad Manners from ever playing Galway again because Buster Bloodvellel stuck his tongue out on stage....:pac::pac:

That was Bridie O'Flaherty. It wasn't the language at the concert she complained about but what she described as a striptease, which was really just a backing singer losing her tearaway skirt as part of the performance but still wearing more clothes than you'd see on Salthill beach on a slightly sunny day. And I think the Buster Bloodvessel incident was him mooning the crowd.

Das Kitty wrote: »

Status Quo actually played? I remember the early 90s they were supposed to play Leisureland but they went for dinner in Shama (Spanish Arch) the night before and got a dose of food poisoning and ended up cancelling.

They played three times in the 80's. Once in 1984 as already mentioned and again in 1986 and 1988.

galwayrush

Unrealistic wrote: »

That was Bridie O'Flaherty. It wasn't the language at the concert she complained about but what she described as a striptease, which was really just a backing singer losing her tearaway skirt as part of the performance but still clothed wearing more clothes than you'd see on Salthill beach on a slightly sunny day. And I think the Buster Bloodvessel incident was him mooning the crowd.


.

Yes, it was Bridie, and i seem to remember she was also annoyed at Buster Bloodvessel throwing some water at ther audience as well.:pac:

ErnieBert

The Smiths played in Leisureland in 1985.

Lumi

loser2old4board wrote: »

I don't remember hearing that ZZ Top or AC/DC ever played Leisureland.


I saw Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, Status Quo, Mark Knopfler (Solo),
Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Steve Earle, U2, Waterboys and Boomtown Rats
all play there at various times.

I still have most of the concert tickets........sad I know.

You can add Depeche Mode, Level 42 and Def Leppard, Eric Clapton, Simple Minds, Chris Rea , Van Morrison & Chris De Burgh to the list
& have tickets and programs from all of them ..... So equally sad

Meatloaf definitely played and local band Azriel played support

Das Kitty

Thanks guys for making me feel young for once!

Great to hear about these gigs, I have all my old stubs too, maybe some day they'll interest someone!

the realpigiron

U2 played in Salthill years back before they hit the big time.

the realpigiron

ErnieBert wrote: »

The Smiths played in Leisureland in 1985.

Didn't Morrissey - without The Smiths - play there a couple of years back?

tribesman78

Add House of Pain too 93-94:)

Unrealistic

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions sometime around 1986 and Therapy?/Kerbdog/Joyrider in January 1994 are two others that spring to mind. (Was at the latter but not the former.)

Then there was New Order in the Warwick and Primal Scream in some Salthill basement club (forgotten which).

eagle10

April 83 lizzy played there on farewell/thunder and lightning tour a recording of "got to give it up" from leisure land made it on to the life album.

Jaysis, you're all so old!

xtradel

Dont forget the legends that are East 17 played there too!

Arnold Layne

And Def Leppard

Aiel

The Prodigy played there in the early 90s just when they were getting relatively big then.They were then seen about an hour after the gig in Salthill Park smoking weed:).
I use to work in the old Esso station near the Omniplex Cinema on the Headford Rd.The Manager of it was telling me that when U2 played in Leisureland that time that they stopped at the garage to use the toilet on their way out of town.

kabakuyu

I saw Thin lizzy and "the Jam"in the eighties,not many at the Jam.Does anybody remember Sting living in Connemara and Ivors motorbikes in Nuns island used to fix his bike?

thesandeman

The Specials and The Beat did a joint gig there about '82. Turned into a mini riot.

chasmcb

thesandeman wrote: »

The Specials and The Beat did a joint gig there about '82. Turned into a mini riot.

I remember that gig!

I also saw U2 play in the Claddagh Hall of all places, it was around the time the EP with 'Stories for Boys' on it came out.

holly8

thesandeman wrote: »

The Specials and The Beat did a joint gig there about '82. Turned into a mini riot.

I was at that one. But don't remember a riot. What happened?

Sponge Bob

thesandeman wrote: »

The Specials and The Beat did a joint gig there about '82. Turned into a mini riot.

Riot me hole, I remember their epic sound system though. The Beat sure knew how to rattle a crowd.

Dave Joyce

Wow, talk about nostalgia. Remember seeing Lizzy and Rory a couple of times, Quo, U2, The Jam, Dr Feelgood, Horslips and Mama'a Boys. Although they didn't play Leisureland, (gig was in Seapoint), Wild Horses with Brian Robertson and Jimmy Bain showed up with 2 great opening tracks, realised the small crowd was it and decided to get locked from there on in.

barone

brendan o carroll played there aswell

Sponge Bob

My favourite Leisureland gig was the Bunny Carr 'Quciksilver' quiz show episode where nobody answered a single question correctly in the entire program, not even a 1p question.

KittyeeTrix

Unrealistic wrote: »

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions sometime around 1986 and Therapy?/Kerbdog/Joyrider in January 1994 are two others that spring to mind. (Was at the latter but not the former.)

Then there was New Order in the Warwick and Primal Scream in some Salthill basement club (forgotten which).

Haha, I met the lead singer of Commotions in town back in the 80's. It was outside where McDonalds is now on Shop St.....
I asked for his autograph and was completely starstruck:o:D

galwayrush

Joan Armatrading, Kevin Johnson , Depeche Mode are 3 more i can remember hearing played there.

Unrealistic

galwayrush wrote: »

Joan Armatrading, Kevin Johnson , Depeche Mode are 3 more i can remember hearing played there.

Clannad headlined there at least once. As did Bucks Fizz :eek:

eagle10

Bay city rollers and mungo gerry.also played there

32yg

the prodigy played there in the 90's i think

Unrealistic

Just remembered Big Country around 1983 too I think.

ErnieBert

KD Lang

Four of Us

Level 42 - they played football before the gig with locals in Salthill Park

The Pretenders

The Jam - photos from that gig appeared in a book about the Jam

Status Quo

The Smiths were supported by James who are still gigging

Billy Connolly played there at least twice

Depeche Mode were spat at by a bunch of local yobos got in for free

Echo & Bunnymen cancelled when lead singer Ian McCulloch broke his leg after falling off a stage at another gig in Berlin

holly8

Unrealistic wrote: »

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions sometime around 1986 and Therapy?/Kerbdog/Joyrider in January 1994 are two others that spring to mind. (Was at the latter but not the former.)

Then there was New Order in the Warwick and Primal Scream in some Salthill basement club (forgotten which).

New Order in the Aula Max ... think All Cats Are Grey played support??

ErnieBert

I went to see Nik Kershaw but it was only to se the support act. I swear.

The support was The Fountainhead.

finbarrk

All I remember is that Holsten Beer was on draught in Salthill for Quo in the mid 80's. It wasn't the 'End of the Road tour', it was the next one whatever it was called. Drove home too, and no problem.

celty

Holly8, Primal Scream played in the basement club opposite the Castle (Trends bar is still on the ground floor) in 1989. They were still a grunge / Curehead act at that stage and hadn't caught up with the likes of the Happy Mondays and Stone Roses, who influenced their Screamadelica album. Still a good gig though.

EB, I remember Fountainhead. Had a brilliant dance track called Rhythm Method if i'm not mistaken. That's a real blast from the past.

I was also at the New Order gig in the Warwick, 1986 I think. Brilliant gig.