04/06/1978 Blackrock Park, Dublin “Peace” Festival. U2 & The Hype Concert Ireland 1978.
04/06/1978 Blackrock Park, Dublin “Peace” Festival.
Attendance; unknown
Support for; Boy Scoutz, School Kids, The Vipers
Admission; unknown
Set; unknown
Although listed to play U2 did not play this gig due to the crowd trouble. The concert was organised by the women of the Northern Ireland “Peace Movement”. U2 did attend this gig, Adam can be seen in the photo (left) of the Boy Scoutz, he is behind the bass stack. This concert took place on the “Bandstand” in Blackrock Park, some concerts also took place on the island in the lake.
“Peace” Concert Peoples Park Blackrock. Strange Movements did not play at this concert, they did invade the stage. Irish Press report “A punk rock group which gate-crashed a Dublin open air peace concert yesterday was asked to leave the stage at the People’s Park in Blackrock after shouting slogans at the audience, threatening to burn down Leinster House, throwing holy water in a lake and burning Vatican flags”.
Hot Press “Frontlines”
June must be a wicked month for punks. Certainly the Blackrock Festival held last Sunday was a depressing sequence of cock ups.
Then fights broke out which led to one unfortunate blood spewing individual, being carted off to hospital. Then amidst the shambles, The Vipers and U2 decided not to play. Just another gig in Blackrock Park, huh?………………
George Purdy
George Purdy They used Papal Flags at the gig in Blackrock during an anti-papacy song. The Papal visit was in Sept ’79 which would have been a year after the pictured gig so I don’t know if there would be any connection. I remember on the day in Blackrock Park I wasn’t even aware of the existence of papal flags as I had to ask someone what the yellow flags were.
