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What would be your dying words?
I had a laugh.
NOEL HOGAN
Noel Hogan came to Irish and international fame as
guitarist and co-songwriter w ith The Cranberries: songs
like 'Dreams' and 'Linger' established the group as one of
the biggest in the world in the '90s. AfterThe Cranberries
split in 2003, he went on to perform and record under the
moniker Mono Band, releasing one album, and w ith Oxford
singer Richard Waters as Arkitekt, releasing tw o EPs. Hogan
has also been heavily involved w ith encouraging young
bands on the Limerick scene. After almost a decade of
silence,The Cranberries returned w ith sixth studio album
Roses in 2012.This issue, he talks about one of their iconic,
early Limerick shows back ini993.
MICKEYBRADLEY
Bassist for legendary Northern Irish punks The Undertones,
Mickey Bradley has made a successful segue from musician
to broadcaster in more recent times. Aside from his
legendary career on the four-string w ith The Undertones
(still going strong 40 years in!), Bradley went from
producing and co-presenting on BBC Radio Ulster/Foyle
to hosting his own Mickey Bradley Record Show, tw o hours in
the evening each week. Elsewhere in these pages, you'll find
Mickey talking aboutThe Undertones' revered residency in
The Casbah.
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There's been shouting, there's been hair-pulling, there's even been some low-grade
eye-gouging, but Team Hot Press has finally come up with a list of the shows that
have blown us away most since our first issue in 1977From The Boss, the Clash and U2 to Grace Jones, Lady Gaga and Moving Hearts,
every gig is a cast-iron classic.
Doubtless we've left some of your own favourites out, so log on now to hotpress.com
to tell us what should have been, and share your memories of those epic nights.
EXPERTS:
Greatest Irish Gigs of All Time
Graham Keogh
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Colm Henry
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Ruth Medjber
Brian Mulligan
Liam Sweeney
Barry Plumber
Dara Munnis
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W M DEPECHE
QUEEN
The
RDS,
Aug ‘84
Hr MODE
Du
The
Point
Dublin Dec '93
It was the summer before they made history with
their triumphal, iconic slot at Live Aid, but in 1984,
Queen were already safely considered to be one of
the most electrifying live acts on the planet. In the
late, great Freddie Mercury, they had possibly the
most commanding frontman of all-time and he had
Dublin in the palm of his hand. Improvising when
he forgot the correct words to 'HammerTo Fall’ and
ending up with a bra on his head, you could always
rely on him to inject a little cheek into stadium rock.
When you've delivered 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and
'Radio Ca Ga' and still have ‘I WantTo Break Free’,
‘We Will Rock You’ and 'We Are The Champions'
for the encore, you can do what you like! Tactfully
replacing typical closer ‘Cod Save The Queen' with
‘A Day At The Races', this was a royal visit everybody
could get behind.
• Craig Fitzpatrick
By its end seven months later, Depeche Mode's
Devotional tour was branded by one scribe as "the
most debauched rock tour ever." Dublin got very,
very lucky, however, in catching the band at the
top of their game. Louder and hairier than their SFX
days - and tighter than a mallard's posterior after
50 dates across the Atlantic - the North Wall was
battered by the new wave giants. Anton Corbijn
visuals and a crunching sound played their part.
Ultimately, this was the Dave Gahan show: a spinetingling spiritual performance to demonstrate just
why he'd made such a cult of himself.
• Colm O’Regan
Tivoli Theatre,
R.E.M
SFX,
Dec '94
AC/DC
The 02,
April ‘09
There'll be plenty queueing up to argue the merits
of their Punchestown show, or even the recent Aviva
date, but for me a more intimate night with AC/DC
was their stand-out Irish show.True, 14,000 isn't
a small crowd, but for a band of this stature it felt
pretty damn tiny, and with nowhere for the sound to
escape, good Cod was it loud. Rosie looked as buxom
as ever as the band gave us everything we could have
wanted and more: we rocked, we rolled, and we saw
Angus Young's arse. It was the essence of simplistic
rock 'n1roll nirvana.
• Cohn O’Regan
R.A.T.M
BOB MARLEY
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Park,July ‘80
Dalymount
This one wasn't just about the music. As glorious as Marley’s universal reggae was, the Jamaican superstar
arrived in Dublin less than a year before his death and succeeded in shaking the foundations of a still very
conservative Ireland. During the support acts, keyboard wizard Tyrone Downie wandered around the home
of Bohemians FC in a Hot Press t-shirt. Taking to the stage, Bob was utterly rfiagnetic - rolling out the hits,
dancing and dedicating 'Redemption Song' to "the Irish struggle.” His appearance was way more important
than Pope John Paul II in the Phoenix Park - and with far better tunes. At a time when superstars rarely
landed in Ireland, Marley was a magnificent exception...
• Craig Fitzpatrick
§ 1 |§ TAYLOR
t § ^ SWIFT
Green
3Arena,
Glens
visiting the Blarney Stone, but the trade of bootleg
recordings of an all-time classic gig. Pearl Jam's No
Code tour had been embroiled in a ticketing dispute
back in the States, so it was little surprise that
the grunge heroes were eager to unleash some
pent-up energy at the start of their European jaunt.
Confiding that the Rebel County reminded them of
home - rain, green pastures, great beer and good
people - and then blasting through a greatest
hits parade, this was Eddie Vetter and co. at their
ear-splitting, cacophonous best.
• Colm O’Regan
Dub
June ‘15
As the last stop of a wildly successful tour, there
shouldn’t have been much pressure onTay-Tay. Her
battle with Apple Music one week earlier, though, had
seen her elevated from pop princess to something
more akin to goddess-like deity. How to respond? Well,
elevate yourself on a massive platform rotating above
the crowd for a start. Then roll the stage theatrics
and production values of Broadway and Cirque du
Soleil into one mesmerising, magnificent show and
flawlessly perform one of the decade's strongest pop
records. How good was she? I was inspired to turn
to my companion and blurt out four words I never
thought I could say: "She's better than Beyonce!"
• Colm O’Regan
D
ED SHEERAN
Whelan's,
Already the hottest college rock band in the US,
Michael Stipe and crew arrived in Dublin for their
first Irish show on a chilly winter evening. Still very
much an underground outfit in Europe, only about
700 lucky souls (yours truly included) were on hand
to witness one of the most memorable gigs to have
hit Dublin in a long while. The set-list, drawn largely
from Murmur and Reckoning, included ‘Radio Free
Europe', 'So. Central Rain’ and 'Wendell Gee', along
with covers of the Velvets' 'Femme Fatale' and
Television’s ‘See No Evil’. Steve Wickham, then with
InTua Nua, appeared on stage with his violin for a
few numbers including 'Don't Go BackTo Rockville'.
For many the highlight was Stipe's pin-drop version
of Henry Mancini’s ‘Moon River'. Mesmerising...
• Colm O’Hare
| DAVID
BOWIE
The
Point
Nov ‘03
Bowie's Reality tour was the hottest ticket in town
when he arrived for two sell-out performances
at the old Point Depot. With an impressive stage
and stunning visuals to match, the show opened
to huge cheers with an exhilarating 'Rebel Rebel’.
Bowie barely paused for breath during the marathon
30-song performance. He looked and sounded in
great shape and his band, which included Dubliner
Gerry Leonard on guitar, were terrific. Highlights
included his reclaiming of'All The Young Dudes',
an emotionally-charged 'Life On Mars' and a singalong 'Changes’. One of his earlier tunes 'The Man
Who Sold The World’ was ironically better known
from Nirvana's recent Unplugged version. But Bowie
reclaimed it brilliantly on the night.The encores
included a trio ofZiggy-era classics - 'Five Years’,
‘Hang On To Yourself and, of course, ‘Ziggy Stardust’
itself. The Dublin shows were filmed and later
released on DVD. Apart from the occasional one-off
appearance, Bowie hasn’t toured since.
• Colm O’Hare
Jan '15
DuJune ‘94
Myself and Hot Press snapper Cathal Dawson met the Beasties in the 900-capacity venue at three o'clock
after they'd completed their very loud soundcheck. They were going through a cricket phase at the time, and
when they clocked I was English decided to do the interview in "tally-ho, old boy!" accents.
Being a camera buff, Mike D was able to tell Cathal exactly what lens and shutter speed were required to
get good photos of them in the dimly-lit dressing-room.
The gig itself was smoking, with the trio seamlessly switching between funky call-and-response hip hop,
speed-freak punk and their brazen ‘up yours!' frat boy rock, which had so enraged the UK red tops a few
years earlier.
• Stuart Clark
A magical night watching Damien Rice in 2002 inspired Ed Sheeran’s career in music, so it was coming
full circle when the flame-haired chart-topper - arriving with VHi Storytellers cameras in tow - supplied
perhaps the most incredible night in the venue's decorated history. Heading to the show with HP snapper
Kathrin Baumbach, rabid fans were ready to rip us limb from limb for one of the precious wristbands, as
an estimated 70,000 applications had been received for a mere 400 golden tickets. By the time cameras
rolled at midnight, excitement was at fever pitch; by the time the greatest one-man-band in pop finished
90 minutes later, we were utterly floored. Watching it back, it looks fantastic on telly - but trust me, it was
something else entirely to be there.
* Colm O’Regan
THE CRANBERRIES
Theatre
Dublin
M M PEARL
I H jam
Tivoli
Theatre, Millstreet O ct ‘96
Following this show, the main economic activity in
Aug ‘93_____________ Cork
wasn't the export of Murphy's, nor tourists
While Rage Against The Machine might have to
answer for the waves of cretinous rap-metal outfits
that came in their wake, they were the real deal,
offering articulate polemics over heavy Zeppelinesque
grooves. With Zack De la Rocha attacking the mic,
Tom Morello giving us a modern take on guitar
heroics and a tight rhythm section, the LA quartet
delivered an incendiary set, bookended by ‘TakeThe
Power Back’ and ‘Bullet InThe Head' and described
at the time as "MC5 colliding with lceT."This was
Ireland's first taste of a genuinely new sound.
• Craig Fitzpatrick
BEASTIE BOYS
Royal,
Dec ‘93
It was either the second or third year we’d done a Christmas gig at the Theatre Royal. The previous ones had
been a bit quieter though, put it that way!
We’d been away for nearly a year, starting with a few weeks around Europe supporting Hot House
Flowers in February. Our album had come out, but done nothing - charted in the late hundreds - and we
thought we were going to get dropped. Then, we got a call saying linger’ had taken off on US college radio,
and off we went to the States; it was nine months later when we got home.
We had no idea what was coming. Shannon was stuffed with photographers and press. I'd heard from my
parents that they’d read things were going well, but we didn't know that it had been picked up back here to
that extent. My dad was waiting at the airport, and he was as surprised as we were! I’ll always remember
how rammed the Royal was that night. At the back door, there were old schoolmates you hadn’t seen in
years banging on the door looking to get in; all of a sudden, you had a lot more cousins than ever!
To play a home gig is always a buzz, but to have everyone know every song, and to get the reaction we
did made it totally special. You felt like you’d arrived; if it ended the following day, we’d done what most
bands hope to do.
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N oel H ogan
LEONARD COHEN
Lissadell
House,July '10
While there are those who will steadfastly maintain that the Kilmainham 'comeback' shows were the most
notable of Laughing Lennie's visits to our shores, the memory of hearing Cohen pay tribute to WB Yeats in
the heart of Sligo is that little bit special. Reciting lines from the stage, we could all see he was visibly moved
- no more, it might be added, than I was, seeing Cohen's genius up close once again. 75 years young he may
have been, but in a glorious setting, the titfered troubadour was simply incredible. It was a magical evening
with a musical master.
• Colm O’Regan
RADIOHEAD
Rock
Garden,
DuMay ‘93
A subterranean flea-pit with the stickiest floor ever, The Rock Garden was for four or five years the venue
where most emerging acts made their Dublin bow. Radiohead were among the initiates. Estimates vary
enormously, but I reckon there were around 100 people there to see a bleach blond Thom Yorke and the
chaps plug their debut Pablo Honey album, which was doing far brisker business at the time in the States than
on this side of the Atlantic. With their prog rock leanings yet to surface, it was a loud, punky performance,
with Yorke subjecting his mic to Iggy Pop levels of abuse and Ed O'Brien throwing serious guitar shapes.
Afterwards we all headed to Fatima Mansions' almost equally legendary late night gig inTheTivoli, where
there wasn't room to swing even a vertically-challenged cat.
• Stuart Clark
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