Not sure if there is any interest in this but saw this video and wanted to post it mainly because the SFX was a place I have only been to once in my life ( seeing Slayer, in 2000). What are your memories of the SFX`?.
Here is Dave Mustaine talking to COC, presumably backstage there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsfDMm4AZmM
First shows ever there for me when I was eighteen or so, Seps on the Arise and Chaos A.D. tours. Place felt electric.., dangerous even, well to a young buck from Monaghan. Technically then I suppose first 'major ' band I saw live were Fudgetunnel. Paradise Lost and Pantera in the SFX too back then...Ah jeez it's all a blur but I still remember the heat, the sweat, the feeling of...this is it, I've arrived.
Major part of my gig going youth. First ever gig (Pantera) plus many other early gigs. Therapy?, Slayer/Machine head, Rollins band, Sepultura/Paradise lost, Megadeth/ Coc, Korn, ect..
Nearly all the first gigs I was at were in the SFX, starting with Sepultura and Paradise Lost in 93, also saw Slayer with Machine Head, Fear Factory a few times, Type O, if I remember correctly it was in a fairly rough spot, well it was for the few of us coming up from the west to gigs.
I doubt the sound was great but I didn't really know any better.
Still have the Megadeth and Sepultura bootleg tapes from O Connell Bridge, all part of the ritual back then
I was at that Megadeth/ C.O.C. show on the second night. It was my first ever proper gig and I was a full on mulleted metal rookie. I met the bassist from C.O.C. outside after and gave him an awkward bro handshake and chirped out "Yeah man Corrosion Of Conformity!" or something equally naff. It was an absolutely savage night.
Quote from: Thorn on August 09, 2021, 09:43:49 PM
Still have the Megadeth and Sepultura bootleg tapes from O Connell Bridge, all part of the ritual back then
I remember these also, though I used to get them out of a place called 'record collector' (was that was it called?) near or on Wicklow St. They were all day-glo yellow if memory serves correctly, sounded like they were recorded with a tiny microphone stuck inside someones armpit way back at the bar :laugh:. Wish I still had them though :laugh:
My second ever gig and the first one I saw in there was Therapy? in '93 with Kerbdog supporting.
There are a handful of gigs from the 90s that I kick myself for not going to but I was so young and afraid to ask my parents to let me go. Dunno why as any time I asked them if I could go to a gig they let me. The folly of youth. Still managed to see a heap of good gods there regardless. I'm sure I'll forget a few but...
Fear Factory/ Pet Hates
Machine Head/ Meshuggah/ Mary Beats Jane
Deftones/ One Minute Silence (or did they support Korn?)
Korn/ ???
Type O Negative/ Stuck Mojo
Tool/ ???
Slayer/ Fu Manchu
Quote from: leatherface on August 09, 2021, 10:18:49 PM
Quote from: Thorn on August 09, 2021, 09:43:49 PM
Still have the Megadeth and Sepultura bootleg tapes from O Connell Bridge, all part of the ritual back then
I remember these also, though I used to get them out of a place called 'record collector' (was that was it called?) near or on Wicklow St. They were all day-glo yellow if memory serves correctly, sounded like they were recorded with a tiny microphone stuck inside someones armpit way back at the bar :laugh:. Wish I still had them though :laugh:
You needed to abseil into that place the stairs were so fuckin steep! I don't think I ever bought anything in there. I was never much into live albums and the couple of live bootlegs I picked up a a kid were of such armpit quality I seldom bothered with them at all.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 09, 2021, 10:24:05 PM
My second ever gig and the first one I saw in there was Therapy? in '93 with Kerbdog supporting.
There are a handful of gigs from the 90s that I kick myself for not going to but I was so young and afraid to ask my parents to let me go. Dunno why as any time I asked them if I could go to a gig they let me. The folly of youth. Still managed to see a heap of good gods there regardless. I'm sure I'll forget a few but...
Fear Factory/ Pet Hates
Machine Head/ Meshuggah/ Mary Beats Jane
Deftones/ One Minute Silence (or did they support Korn?)
Korn/ ???
Type O Negative/ Stuck Mojo
Tool/ ???
Slayer/ Fu Manchu
Bullyrag opened for Korn
I would never have got that. I remember the name from Metal Hammer but can't remember their music. Did they have a black singer?
Edit. It's a poor endictment of a band's music when One Minute Silence are more memorable :laugh:
Yer man in O'Connell St. and for a while there was an upstairs place between Merchant's Arch and Borderline that had great bootlegs, always worth a look the day after a big gig.
I was only in the SFX on 4 occasions:
Korn between the first and second albums
Fear Factory for the Demanufacture and Obsolete tours
Paradise Lost on the Draconian Times tour
Missed a lot of the better gigs there as I'd given up on gigs altogether. That said I enjoyed those ones, despite the jacks being flooded for Korn. Runners were a bad choice.
I don't ever remember a bar in the SFX, was there one? Always just tried to get to the front back then .
This thread has made me remember Pantera , damn, they were on fire. Caught one of Rex's picks, straight out of the air. Fuck knows where that ended up.
Going to the Megadeth gig, walking past some chip shop and some ginger maned future Irish Metal icon give us the horns out the window. Welcome to Dublin culchies. In fairness I thought it a very Manowar moment and went home that night resolving to buy more Primordial shit.
No bar that I remember. It was a church hall sure, but it was easy enough to smuggle drink in, I was never searched anyway.
Church hall? Wow.Hail Jesus.
Saint Francis Xavier. It probably wasn't actually a church hall but with that name, they must have had a hand in it.
Nice one, never knew what it stood for.Weren't too many saints about it that's for sure.
Type O with Stuck Mojo as support and Slayer with Fu Manchu. Two excellent gigs. I'm sure Slayer played 2 nights.
I remember a place in Temple Bar that sold bootlegs of gigs. It was upstairs and I bought a GNR bootleg of the Slane gig . The sound quality was terrible. I still have it.
I remember my father being with me and thinking it was great because it was so cheap.
Them he heard a clip and was suitably peeved at the money wasted. I tried to explain it was more about the feel but he was having none of it.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 09, 2021, 10:36:15 PM
I would never have got that. I remember the name from Metal Hammer but can't remember their music. Did they have a black singer?
Edit. It's a poor endictment of a band's music when One Minute Silence are more memorable :laugh:
I couldn't recall a note either. An entirely forgettable band. It was funny reading about Fieldy calling them bullyfag in an interview
Haha, I don't remember that. They didn't hit it off then :laugh:
Quote from: Makeshiftatomsmasher on August 10, 2021, 02:19:53 AM
I couldn't recall a note either. An entirely forgettable band. It was funny reading about Fieldy calling them bullyfag in an interview
That's gas, it's strange the random stuff you remember from magazines over twenty years ago!! I remember the same interview from Metal Hammer, who of course gave Bullyrag a glowing review at the time. To my shame, I admit that I bought the album on the back of that review. Nothing could have prepared me for the horror that unfolded soon after I put that piece of shit cd into my stereo and pressed play.
https://youtu.be/LIGoKIP5oYM
That was the opening track. What an utter load of tripe. Shockingly enough, they kept their strongest track for the opener as, unbelievably, the rest of the album was even worse. I'm sure that cd is somewhere in an attic in Cork gathering dust. Any chance you want to buy it off me Blackout? It truly is a special album.
I saw only a handful of shows in the SFX. The one that I remember most is Slayer in 2000 - I was never a huge fan but I liked the first few records.
My buddy says to me "Do you want to see Slayer in Dublin?"
"Not really" says I.
"Fugazi are supporting them" says he.
"Fugazi are? Really?"
"Yep. You'll go so?"
"Definitely".
What a fucking langer. :laugh:
At the time there was no idea who was supporting them. I remember hearing both Primordial and then Brinskill Bomb Beat touted. Fu Mancuntingchu! Bring back Bullyrag :laugh:
To this day I don't know if he pulled it out of the air or what. I remember he had the tickets but no lift or place to stay - I had access to a car and my old man used to live in Dublin. If he'd told me it was Manic Street Preachers or fucking Weezer or something, I might have been more skeptical.
Same lad went to Dalek down here in Cork telling a bunch of us that there was a "very good chance that Mike Patton would get on stage with them".
Mike Patton did not get on stage with Dalek that night.
We all fucking went though.
Therapy with pet lamb
Pantera
Alice in chains
Nine inch nails
Megadeth
Slayer
Loads more i cant remember
I think the hall was used for bingo other than rockers leaping around the place. For me it was the best venue in Dublin, pure carnage
ya i remember seeing megadeth touring Youthanasia there, with COC. Saw Slayer in there on some unbelievably sweaty night, dunno when that was. Saw Anthrax there on the Stomp 442 tour as well. Paradise Lost on the Draconian tour too (97 i guess?)
My first gig at it was Priest and Annihilator, Easter Sunday 91.
Also saw Megadeth, Pantera, Sepultura (couple of times) Paradise Lost, Anthrax, Type O, Body Count (with the pile of dogshit that was Swampshack) and The Almighty. I think The Almighty might have had 50 people at most at it - there was about a dozen people there when Warrior Soul started. IIRC there were some guys playing football towards the back at the venue during The Almighty's set.
Wasn't there for many gigs,Fear Factory in 95 my first gig there,was at that Slayer/Fu Manchu too.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on August 10, 2021, 09:34:09 AM
I saw only a handful of shows in the SFX. The one that I remember most is Slayer in 2000 - I was never a huge fan but I liked the first few records.
My buddy says to me "Do you want to see Slayer in Dublin?"
"Not really" says I.
"Fugazi are supporting them" says he.
"Fugazi are? Really?"
"Yep. You'll go so?"
"Definitely".
What a fucking langer. :laugh:
Fugazi did play there. It passed off one of the big promoters at the time, as it was put on by The hope collective. a diy/ indy promotions group.
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on August 10, 2021, 04:22:06 PM
My first gig at it was Priest and Annihilator, Easter Sunday 91.
Also saw Megadeth, Pantera, Sepultura (couple of times) Paradise Lost, Anthrax, Type O, Body Count (with the pile of dogshit that was Swampshack) and The Almighty. I think The Almighty might have had 50 people at most at it - there was about a dozen people there when Warrior Soul started. IIRC there were some guys playing football towards the back at the venue during The Almighty's set.
Also saw sepultura, anthrax, paradise lost, body count, i forget so many of the gigs now 😂 age and alcohol taking its toll
Quote from: Makeshiftatomsmasher on August 10, 2021, 06:08:45 PM
Fugazi did play there. It passed off one of the big promoters at the time, as it was put on by The hope collective. a diy/ indy promotions group.
Yeah, they played with Chumbawamba. I have that Hope Collective book/cook book - "Document". Fugazi are on the front cover of it.
I was never there
I was more The Top Hat :)
This is a handy list: https://www.setlist.fm/venue/sfx-hall-dublin-ireland-53d20fa5.html
Saw anthrax at the top hat and had a ticket for napalm death there in 89 and i stood outside waiting and they never turned up, i was devastated it was cancelled