Shows you saw in the SFX

[leatherface]

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

[Thorn]

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.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

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..

[Western Viking]

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.

[Thorn]

Still have the Megadeth and Sepultura bootleg tapes from O Connell Bridge, all part of the ritual back then

[Anton Arcane]

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.

[leatherface]

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 . Wish I still had them though

[Eoin McLove]

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

[Eoin McLove]

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 . Wish I still had them though

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.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

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

[Eoin McLove]

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 

[Carnage]

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.

[Thorn]

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.

[Thorn]

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.

[Carnage]

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.