admin Basic Member Posts:399  
| 5/17/2006 9:16 AM |
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Self Aid was twenty years ago today. I never would have noticed it was not for Mick Lynch who submitted an article marking the anniversary. Check it out here:
http://www.cluas.com/music/features/self-aid-20-years-on.htm
Was anybody here at the gig? I have to admit I was there. Up the front of course like any very young teen worth their salt in the mid-eighties would have been. I did of course thoroughly enjoy the day and was convinced I was witnessing, er, history.
Needless to say it's no coincdence that (cough, splutter) the economy started to pick up 3 or so years after this milestone event in the evolution of our country...
eoghan
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Pilchard Advanced Member Posts:699
| 5/17/2006 10:55 AM |
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there was something on ryan tubridy about that this morning
wow, 20 years ago. i remember watching self aid. god, i'm getting old.
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MullyAdvanced Member Posts:849
| 5/17/2006 11:19 AM |
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Originally posted by Pilchard
there was something on ryan tubridy ... this morning.
Hopefully an ACME Anvil, dropped from a great height  |
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Protein biscuitBasic Member Posts:364
| 5/17/2006 11:38 AM |
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"Leeeeeeets maaaaake it work.....
I can dig a hole!
I can climb a pole!"
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off the postBasic Member Posts:284
| 5/17/2006 12:05 PM |
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The Fountain Head and Cactus World News!! I remember spending the whole day just sitting through it waiting for U2. Yes, I'm getting old too.
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dummyrun New Member Posts:37
| 5/17/2006 1:47 PM |
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Originally posted by off the post
The Fountain Head and Cactus World News!! I remember spending the whole day just sitting through it waiting for U2. Yes, I'm getting old too.
Haha Cactus World News' guitarist Frank Kearns thought me and friends guitar and every seasonal holiday still holds his infamous 'rock schools' in his studios 'Salt' in Dublin 3. Also C.W.N's drummer Wayne Sheehy went on to drum for Hot House Flowers and last I saw Im pretty sure he plays with Damien Dempsey. Just an update!
http://www.cactusworldnews.com
http://www.saltrecordingstudio.com/
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Vent My SpleenAdvanced Member Posts:500
| 5/17/2006 1:49 PM |
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Was it Those Nervous Animals who had that song 'Ninety Miles Away"?
Has it ever been released on DVD? There were some pretty good performances. At the time, I really thought The Fountainhead were going to be huge. Jeez, even Chris De Burgh was pre-Lady in Red cheesefest.
The line up was...
U2, Van Morrison, Chris de Burgh, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Christy Moore, Rory Gallagher, Moving Hearts, Auto da Fe, The Boomtown Rats, Paul Brady, The Fountainhead, De Dannan, Scullion, Cactus World News, The Pogues, Those Nervous Animals, Freddie White, Chris Rea, The Chieftains, Les Enfants, Big Self, Clannad, In Tua Nua, Stockton's Wing, Blue In Heaven, Bagatelle, Brush Shields.
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dummyrunNew Member Posts:37
| 5/17/2006 2:03 PM |
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That is a good line up!
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Goat BoyNew Member Posts:72
| 5/17/2006 3:24 PM |
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Originally posted by Vent My Spleen
Was it Those Nervous Animals who had that song 'Ninety Miles Away"?
Wasn't that Les Enfants? Or maybe it was TNA, dunno.... |
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AntistarAdvanced Member Posts:544
| 5/17/2006 3:52 PM |
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Ray D'arcy played U2's 'Maggie's Farm' form Self Aid the other morning. Amazing version. Very gritty and threatening and raw, full of feedback and distortion,interspersed with some Maggie Thatcher vocal samples, The Edge on top form...I remember seeing this live on TV as a very young kid and been blown away by U2's performance. Bono was really out of it,continuously wrapping the mic cable around his arm. This felt like the point U2 switched from hugely promising Irish band riding on the growing success of The Unforgettable Fire to something else entirely. There was a palpaple sense that U2 were on the verge of becoming the most important band in the world.
Less than a year later: The Joshua Tree.
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John DoeBasic Member Posts:338
| 5/17/2006 4:08 PM |
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Ahh yes. I was there. First of all: it WAS Les Enfants who did "Ninety Miles Away", their attempt to solve the Troubles by writing songs about it. ( U2 had nothing to worry about - it was rubbish ). Those Nervous Animals big hit was "My Friend John", a song I hated then and still hate now.
There is I suspect one inaccuracy in Mick's piece: I think it was Eamon McCann, not John Waters, who really put the boot into U2 with In Dublin's infamous "Rock Against the People" issue. In retrospect, they were right - the idea of "drawing attention" to unemployment via a rock concert was a nonsense.
U2 were the undisputed musical highlight of the day, and in fact part of the reason for that was Bono's rage at being slagged off by In Dublin - he ad libbed a bit in "Bad" about writers "crawling out of the woodwork....on the pages of cheap Dublin magazines.
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PilchardAdvanced Member Posts:699
| 5/17/2006 4:20 PM |
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Originally posted by John Doe
Ahh yes. I was there. First of all: it WAS Les Enfants who did "Ninety Miles Away", their attempt to solve the Troubles by writing songs about it. ( U2 had nothing to worry about - it was rubbish ). Those Nervous Animals big hit was "My Friend John", a song I hated then and still hate now.
There is I suspect one inaccuracy in Mick's piece: I think it was Eamon McCann, not John Waters, who really put the boot into U2 with In Dublin's infamous "Rock Against the People" issue. In retrospect, they were right - the idea of "drawing attention" to unemployment via a rock concert was a nonsense.
U2 were the undisputed musical highlight of the day, and in fact part of the reason for that was Bono's rage at being slagged off by In Dublin - he ad libbed a bit in "Bad" about writers "crawling out of the woodwork....on the pages of cheap Dublin magazines.
john waters was editing In Dublin at the time and it was his decision to go with the cover and eamonn mccann's piece. a few years later, waters was writing his u2 book. see, self aid was great for everyone! |
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Vent My SpleenAdvanced Member Posts:500
| 5/17/2006 5:20 PM |
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Funnily enough, I thought The Boomtown Rats were the highlight of the day. Very few people in Ireland has seen them live since there were banned as punk troublemakers. Everyone knew the songs as they and Lizzy were the only Irish acts who were successful in the UK.
I do remember spending long days after the gig idling around with friends who insisted on playing U2's set over and over on a ghettoblaster to the point where I absolutely hated their version of Maggie's Farm. Ah yes, 1986. Whatever happened to UB40? Everytime I see a flagon of cider, I think of em....
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| 5/19/2006 8:21 AM |
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WOW, that long ago.
That was a great day, U2 & The Boomtown Rats were the highlights for me & Bono's jacket with the fringes on it, god how i loved that. Thanks JohnDoe for mentioning 'that' song, i too hated it then and still do, but now its playing in my head and wont stop!!! Gotta love the 80's!
You tube to the rescue again...
Sunday Bloody Sunday @ Self Aid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqF6ocS4I4A
Help @ Self Aid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeR0-ksEj6w
C'mon Everybody @ Self Aid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3lLxXwV0n8
Maggie's Farm @ Self Aid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSF-JBdsKRs
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| 5/20/2006 7:54 AM |
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I see that SELF AID gig is for sale on dvd in buy and sell. i saw it on ebay some time back also. cheers, fran
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