Older Dublin Venues (3 Viewers)

[Scientician 0.8]

Mate told me he saw Whipping Boy play in some basement venue on Dame St. Anyone remember it?

 

[rettucs]

the hub?

was at a groom gig there once

 

[rettucs]

Do you mean The Temple on Temple street. I'm pretty sure I went to either a gig or a club night there which was class. But getting home was the worst thing I've ever had to endure. Got totally lost ended up god knows where. It was like a Roddy Doyle version of After Hours.

The Temple of Sound. Where all the E-heads went after the asylum closed down. Noted for shining 2 massive strobe lights into the sky outside the front door, which could pretty much be seen all over Dublin.

Wasn't there some place around Camden St called the Olympic Ballroom?

 

[rettucs]

Mate told me he saw Whipping Boy play in some basement venue on Dame St. Anyone remember it?

there was a venue below Thomas Reads pub for a while (can't remember the name).

the one you're thinking of is probably the underground though.

 

[pete]

Wasn't there some place around Camden St called the Olympic Ballroom?

yep - saw Megadeth there

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Wasn't there some place around Camden St called the Olympic Ballroom?

My parents met at a dance there

 

[Jerry Twig]

Mate told me he saw Whipping Boy play in some basement venue on Dame St. Anyone remember it?

Has to be the Underground.

 

[MacDara]

The music room was another good one. Above the Firestone on Marlborough st. Smiley Bolger had a hand in that as well.

Female Hercules played there. I could hear the gig loud and clear from my bus stop outside the Lotto building across the way 'cause they kept their windows open. And I knew it was them 'cause I'd seen them supporting the New Bomb Turks at Whelan's a while before. I wasn't complaining.

Mates of mine in our college society put on a gig at the Isaac Butt with 46 Long and some others; that was neat. Crap venue though, basically a wine cellar so long and narrow. No worse than the Thomas House, though.

Another 46 Long memory: they did the launch gig for their 10" on Catchy Go-Go at that church on Merchant's Quay. The place was set up for a kids' panto; the curtain raised and they launched right into it. What showmanship!

 

[rettucs]

didn't they have gigs in McGraths on O'Connell St or am I imagining that? Seem to recall being at gigs there in my schooldays.

 

[Cormcolash]

November 26

Drop Dead, John Holmes

Clodaghs

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good times

John Holmes are classsssss

 

[Cormcolash]

The Underground, Dame street... ( where the left door into Club Lapello now is... )... Small place, weird stage... saw Jam Jar Jail in there several times and a few mates bands...

The Anna Livia in Temple Bar ( when temple bar was dirty and cultural )... now Oliver St John Gogarty's... an interesting spot... Toilets always seemed to be kicked in... Best night I had in there was probably Pet Lamb and Sultans Of Ping ( just before their first EP )...

The Roxy, Little Green Street... ( bridged the gap between Barnstormers and Mulligans on Hill Street for punk gigs ( 1992?? ) ...Female Mud wrestling friday, Punk gigs Saturday... Classy!!!... Now Noor Madina ( asian food warehouse/wholesalers )...

Earl Grattan... Became Nealon's on Capel street... fine spot for small bands... Organised a gig celebrating the death of Ian Stuart Donaldson in there in 1993 - Dr Shitface, Pincher Martin, Onionbreath, Stigmatamartyr... that was a soap opera!!

The Furnace, Round the side of the Virgin Megastore ... Big place... Memorable gigs by Nomeansno ('94) and ( in particular ) Chumbawamba ('95) who were at their peak as a live band...

...also once upon a time it was possible to see regular quality gigs in the JCR & The Buttery in Trinity and occasionally in some of the other colleges ( usually round freshers/rag week etc ) depending on how clued in the Ents officer was... Dance music kind of killed all of this off...
At one point it seemed like The Buttery had stuff on every Friday round 1990... Cowboy Killers, Senseless Things, 7 Kevins, Whipping Boy, Therapy etc...

Winner for the Ian Stuart gig, haha!

Yeah this piano tuner lad was telling me about some of those Trinity gigs before, used to be into punk gigs and all himself, John Redmond I think his name is, knows Niallmc and everything

 

[pete]

John Holmes are classsssss

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[washingcattle]

The Temple of Sound. Where all the E-heads went after the asylum closed down. Noted for shining 2 massive strobe lights into the sky outside the front door, which could pretty much be seen all over Dublin.

Wasn't there some place around Camden St called the Olympic Ballroom?

No across the road in the basement of The Temple/Kavanaghs.

 

[hugh]

Female Hercules played there. I could hear the gig loud and clear from my bus stop outside the Lotto building across the way 'cause they kept their windows open. And I knew it was them 'cause I'd seen them supporting the New Bomb Turks at Whelan's a while before. I wasn't complaining.

That Music Room gig with the Hercs was a Large Mound show ...... if memory serves me rightly.

The Olympic Ballroom was a grand spot. Had an epic night at The Pogues there at a UCD Freshers ball thing. I was "seeing" this girl who believed she was possessed by evil spirits. After walking in the door she proceeded to get off with one of my mates and then vomited everywhere. Pogues were brilliant though. Good times.

 

[hugh]

Has to be the Underground.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw Whipping Boy in the Underground more than once ....

 

[egg_]

Nobody's mentioned Doyle's there across from Trinity, have they? There was a spate of gigs on there for a bit

... after googling - fuck, look at that! The Ruby Sessions is still running there after all these years

 

[egg_]

The Village, there beside Whelan's, is that what it's called these days? That used to be called Mono, before that it was The Mean Fiddler I think. It was nicest as The Mean Fiddler I thought, saw some local act where the singer kept rubbing his baldy head supporting The Fall there, thought they were class. Sub Assembly maybe?

 

[rettucs]

The Mean Fiddler I think.

I was there on opening night. It was a first come-first served Christy Moore gig and the queue was a mile long. We got there mad early and got in but it was so packed you couldn't enjoy it.

And wasn't Whelans the Wexford Inn at one point?

 

[Unknown Convict]

The Shelter on Thomas street used to have loadsa gigs on.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their first Irish gig there

the caspar brotzmann / fm einheit / bruce gilbert / panasonic show there was en eye opener... which was a pity as i was in the front row and einheit started smashing up breeze blocks

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

the caspar brotzmann / fm einheit / bruce gilbert / panasonic show there was en eye opener... which was a pity as i was in the front row and einheit started smashing up breeze blocks

Fuck, when was that and why wasn't I there?