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  • #52
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,467 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    how come the top hat attracted so many big metal acts such as Metallica,Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake etc.

    how big was the place


  • #53
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    how come the top hat attracted so many big metal acts such as Metallica,Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake etc.

    how big was the place

    I guess you could call it the Ambassador of its day. I was too young to have caught a gig there but what it turned in to in the mid-90s (The Fun Factory) was big enough.

    I think Nirvana played one of two Dublin gigs there as well.


  • #54
    argentum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭argentum


    Since we have now moved onto our favorite or different venues how about the Star in Crumlin opposite the Hospital
    Early seventies saw the mighty Bay City Rollers playing there.They came out onto the balcony to wave at all the girls in their tartan trousers and the local lads went mad trowing stones and bottles at them.
    I dont think it was ever used as a concert venue again


  • #55
    mr_delaney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭mr_delaney


    "I think Nirvana played one of two Dublin gigs there as well"

    Yep, they supported Sonic Youth there. 1st gig I was ever at. 21st Aug 91.

    Ticket was £8.

    They were pencilled in for playing McGonagles later that year but postponed due to the success of nevermind. Played the point in June 92 instead.


  • #56
    DUBACC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭DUBACC


    mr_delaney wrote: »
    "I think Nirvana played one of two Dublin gigs there as well"

    Yep, they supported Sonic Youth there. 1st gig I was ever at. 21st Aug 91.

    Ticket was £8.

    They were pencilled in for playing McGonagles later that year but postponed due to the success of nevermind. Played the point in June 92 instead.


    Ha! I was at that gig - at the grand old age of 16! My introduction to live music and what an introduction. Caught the bug that has been growing ever since,

    Speaking of the Ambassador - i remember it when it was a cinema. I went to see Return of The Jedi there with my folks!! Then returned years later in it's concert venue incarnation. Saw Velvet Revolver there - place literally shook to it;s core that night. Even Slash commented on how 'old-school' the place was!! :cool::cool:


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