14/05/1978 St Bridget’s, Finglas West, Dublin. U2 & The Hype concerts Ireland 1978.
This is a complete list of known U2 concerts that took place in Ireland in 1978. I have spent many hours trawling the Irish Newspaper Archive, The Dublin Library and talking to those that were there, too make this the most complete document of U2’s early career. This site would not be possible without them, the Dublin Library & the Irish Newspaper Archive.
14/05/1978 St Bridget’s, Finglas West, Dublin.
Attendance; 300
Support; The School Kids, Virgin Prunes, Bach Street Kids
Admission; unknown
Photo supplied by Justin McCarthy
Set: A Boomtown Rats cover.
Caroline McCall, remembers this concert, she was working on the Lemonade stall.
Justin McCarthy It was somewhere in Finglas…a community center as far as I remember…I remember it ’cause I’d never heard of U2 and all these bored teenagers kept on waving their U2 badges at us while we were playing….when we finished Bono walked on and said …’anyone here like the Boomtown Rats and did a Rats cover…I can’t remember the song though..
Tom Mathews We probably only played 10 gigs, a max of 15, and were used to playing in front of about 8 people. This promoter rang Justin & I, wanting 4 bands to play a charity concert for 300 people. The line up was to be the Virgin Prunes, (their first gig), the School Kids, a band that wore school uniforms on stage, and to my amazement U2.
