by enda

I was one of the 30 or so people who turned up to see this U2 gig at the Junior Common Room in Trinity College one lunchtime in February.

Admission, if I remember rightly, was 30p (around 75c).

I'd heard about this band but never seen them before so I was thrilled to get to attend this gig in person and see what all the fuss was about.

I was a bogman up from the country and now i was joining the sophisticated scions of Dublin pop culture. The Hot Press honchos and other arbiters of taste for us poor gobshites.

The JCR, as it was affectionately known, was a haunt of pool players, pinball machine afficionados and table football gurus. Anything to keep u out of a lecture. But all this leisure equipment was moved to the side for the appearance of the fab four.

The gig is shrouded in the mist of time. Bono was leppin around like a madman. Adam Clayton had a perm on his peroxide bonce. More than that is hard to recall. I do remember it was worth the 30p. Just.

And for the years since and in many countries of the world I've told my U2 story.

I saw U2 for 30p in the JCR at lunchtime. And they were shite!

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