00/06/1978 Mountemple School, Malahide, Dublin, Ireland. U2 & The Hype Concerts 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.

00/06/1978 Mountemple School, Malahide, Dublin

Attendance, unknown
Support, Frankie Corpse & The Undertakers
Admission, unknown

Picture supplied by Frank Kearns
Set; Unknown

By this time Paul McGuinness is the U2 manager. This concert takes place on a school open day near the end of the school year, June or July. The stage for this open air concert is the low flat concrete roof of the boileroom, overlooking the school car park. Only a small crowd attend this concert & a lot of those fade away while Frankie Corpse & The Undertakers are on, they only get to play a 3 song set.

Frankie Corpse & The Undertakers are; Frank Kearns AKA Frankie Corpse (guitar & vocals), Ivan McCormick AKA Ivan Axe (guitar & vocals), Neil McCormick AKA Neil Down (bass & vocals), Keith Edgley AKA Keith Karkus (drums).

All bands members had been classmates at Mountemple. Ivan had been a member of Feedback, in their very early days, attending the very first practice session in Larry’s kitchen. Larry Mullen introduced Ivan to Frank. This was the second & last gig for Frankie Corpse & the Undertakers, their first gig was also playing support to U2 at Mountemple School.

Frank is currently working on a Cactus World News project, pulling together rare tracks and demos for commercial release & his Irish School Of Rock company.

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