Setlist: Brown Sugar / Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Remarks: This show takes place on an indeterminate date in late December 1977, back when the band still included Dick Evans, The Edge’s brother. The band gets drunk before the show, leading to a rough performance. At one point, Bono calls out for a cover of the Rolling […]

Setlist: N/A

Setlist: 2-4-6-8 Motorway, Anarchy In The UK, Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment, Suffragette City, What’s Going On (The Hype). Remarks: Opening up for a band named Albatross, The Hype perform a number of cover songs, including Suffragette City with Gavin Friday on backup vocals. They also perform an original song called What’s Going On (not the […]

Setlist: N/A Remarks: The Hype play a club called Slack Alice’s on O’Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland. The precise date is unknown, but is listed here as April 13, 1977, ONLY to show that it happened after the April 11 gig at St. Fintan’s School.

Setlist: N/A; includes a cover of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Don’t Believe a Word’. Remarks: Having changed their name to “The Hype”, the band plays a church hall in Raheny. It’s one of their occasional gigs this year in the Dublin area. This show is dated here as April 12, 1977, ONLY to show that it happened […]

Setlist: Show Me The Way, Johnny B. Goode, Nights In White Satin, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Suffragette City. (incomplete setlist) Remarks: This is Feedback’s first paid performance and it was said to have lasted 40 minutes (solely composed of cover songs). Appearing later in the show are Rat Salad and the Arthur Phybbes Band. Feedback performs […]

Setlist: Show Me The Way, Bye Bye Baby, Beach Boys medley. Encore(s): Bye Bye Baby. Remarks: Before the band was known as U2, they were known to have many band names, including “The Larry Mullen Band”, “Feedback” and “The Hype”. At the very first known appearance of who we know as U2 today, the band […]