Top Hat?

gerocks

Hi lads.
Just browsing through Metallicas website and it says Metallica played the Top Hat in Dublin on the Justice tour.
Just wondering where the Top Hat was and if any of you fellas where there.
Cheers
Ger

yknaa

Wasn't at it but the Top Hat was in Dun Laoghaire.
Anthrax and Slayer also payed the venue, fado fado.

lord lucan

it's apartments now:(

nowuckenfurries

I was at the 2nd night of that Metallica Justice tour... still have an old bootleg recording gatering dust some where!!

The Top saw some good bands in the late 80's / Early 90's

Metallica
Anthrax
Slayer
Nuclear Assault
Ozzy
Sonic Youth (Supported by a small seattle outfit called Nirvana)
WASP
Faith No More

.... to name a few I attended there..

Yeah it's now appartments!!

Doctor J

As above. Saw many a great gig there.

ToolFool

Ah, The Top Hat!! What a great venue it was. Plenty of area's around for a young man to drink outside, try snogging a few girls before being told "i don't fancy ya!", get beaten up by a group of idiots for no other reason than everyone's bored waiting for Faith No More to finish recording Top Of The Pops. It was awesome though.
Memories!!

dasdog

I think it held about 1,500 or so. Remember getting autographs of quite a few bands outside it. The day usually started in the mid-afternoon if you could get your hands on a few beers and some stuff pinched from your da's drinks cabinet. It was close to the sea which made it different from the other venues in town at the time. Of the gigs I can remember from there:

-Metallica on the Justice for all tour (went both nights)
-Suicidal Tendencies & M.O.D
-Anthrax who left the stage after a few songs (bastids were not liked after that)
-Sepultura & Kreator
-Faith no more

steveone

yeah it was a good venue...
the metallica gig there was great. didn't glen danzig support them??
i can still see them on stage now and remember the roars of the crowd when the ecstacy of gold started over the PA just before they went on..I remember thinking it was like cliff em all............
whatever happened to that band ...

dasdog

steveone wrote: »

yeah it was a good venue...
the metallica gig there was great. didn't glen danzig support them??
i can still see them on stage now and remember the roars of the crowd when the ecstacy of gold started over the PA just before they went on..I remember thinking it was like cliff em all............
whatever happened to that band ...

Yep, Danzig were an added bonus. Actually I found a bad recording of the first nights gig yesterday on the web after seeing this thread and another of the Puppets tour from the SFX. I remember Megadeth played a few months earlier in the Olympic Ballroom which totally blew me away though. My first gig as a 13 year old kid Can still remember the Top Hat pretty clearly myself but feck was I jealous of the people that went to the SFX to see them with Cliff Burton.

Dunno what really happened to Metallica. Enjoyed that RDS gig as few years back though. I just headed to the bar when they played stuff I didn't know/like. If you'd asked me 20 years ago if they would still be going strong, let alone be playing in Marley Park which is pretty near to where I'm from, I'd have said your off yer box.

gerocks

steveone wrote: »

yeah it was a good venue...
whatever happened to that band ...

Impossible to stay 26 forever...we all know what that feels like.

zoemax

Ahh The Top Hat, a bingo hall if I remember correctly. I seen Slayer, WASP and Anthrax there in the late 1980's (jaysus i feel old). Anthrax walked off after been spit on continiously for about 4 or 5 songs. I think the last straw was when Scott Ian (I think) slipped on a big lump of gob and fell over. I seem to remember we got our money back but could be wrong. I had the bootleg, bought from a dodgey looking guy selling tapes out of a suitcase on O'Connell Bridge (now I feel really old).

adox

I was there for Metallica and Faith No More gigs.

Metallica were ****ing brilliant. Faith No More were ok.