Shows you saw in the SFX

[Thorn]

Church hall? Wow.Hail Jesus.

[Carnage]

Saint Francis Xavier. It probably wasn't actually a church hall but with that name, they must have had a hand in it.

[Thorn]

Nice one, never knew what it stood for.Weren't too many saints about it that's for sure.

[Circlepit]

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.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

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 

I couldn't recall a note either.  An entirely forgettable band. It was funny reading about Fieldy calling them bullyfag in an interview

[Eoin McLove]

Haha, I don't remember that. They didn't hit it off then 

[John Kimble]

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.

[StoutAndAle]

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. 

[Eoin McLove]

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 

[StoutAndAle]

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. 

[Doctor Crippen]

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

[Floss]

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?)

[Mower Liberation Front]

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.

[Paul keohane]

Wasn't there for many gigs,Fear Factory in 95 my first gig there,was at that Slayer/Fu Manchu too.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

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. 

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.