Great documentary on RTE now about concerts in the 80s in Ireland
The lineups for Slane were mouth watering with some of those acts in there Prime
Came into the World this day 33 years ago, same night U2 played the Point Theatre on the lovetown Tour
When is this repeated? I missed it. It sounds good. I did see it advertised but never seen what day it was on and no I do not want to watch it on the atrocious RTE Player app.
Good documentary.
Self-Aid has to be the most bizarre and ridiculous concert ever held. Eamonn McCann was dead right.
Big Jim Aiken was a fcking miracle worker, Plus the likes of thin lizzy, Rory gallagher would put in a word when they were on the other side of the pond.
A *very* rough online calculation would suggest about €60.
What would that price be in todays money
Almost entirely Irish audiences at them. A lot of the RTE/2fm sponsored ones were free - Lark in the Park, etc. And even for the massive stadium gigs, ticket prices were nowhere near what they are now, even adjusting for inflation. My parents took me and my sister to Michael Jackson in Lansdowne Road in 1992 and the tickets were £25 each.
Why if Ireland was so down in the dumps in the 80s with nothing else happening then why did all the concerts happen here? Was it just cheap to host a concert here then? Who attended them? I am guessing not many Irish as most were too poor.
So was it all people from abroad attending them?
Yeah it was a great watch alright
I was at one of those u2 love comes to town gigs not sure if it was the night u were born though PTH
Was also at u2 in croker in 85, great footage of that in the doco too, brought back lots of good memories
As they alluded to in the docs if it wasn't for the music there was nothing positive going on in Ireland at the time
The 80s were a sh1t show for Ireland
