Same Song, Different Words

Slane Castle

Dublin, Ireland.

16 - August - 1981.

Slane Castle Festival

Disc 1 (54:59)

01. With a Shout

02. Twilight

03. I Will Follow

04. I Threw A Brick Through A Window

05. An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart

06. Gloria

07. Rejoice

08. October

09. Stories for Boys

10. Boy/Girl

11. Out of Control

12. Happy Birthday to Aisling (Edge's girlfriend)

13. Fire

14. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

15. The Ocean

Recording Equipment - History

3rd gen cassette > Extigy external soundcard > Cool Edit > WAV > mkwAct > SHN

Additional notes (by John Telleria): U2's only Irish date during 1981, supporting Thin Lizzy at Slane Castle in County Meath just outside of Dublin. U2 debut 6 tracks from the forthcoming album October. Bono and the crowd sing "Happy Birthday" for Edge's girlfriend Aislinn.

A bit of cleanup was needed with this 3rd gen audio cassette recording. Cool Edit Pro was used to normalize the audio to 98% and remove some of the tape hiss without affecting the music. There is a slight edit 2:21 into Out of Control and another 1:37 into Fire.

Comments

Decent recording of one of the closing gigs of the Boy era. Music comes through pretty well, in a very powerful way. Recording lacks some more cleaness and clarity, but is still very nice sounding. Ticks between most of the tracks can be heard all along. It's quite difficult to work out if Into the Heart was finished early by the band (just a couple of seconds after An Cat Dubh), or a massive skip has cut it out. Note that a couple of October songs were premièred that night, some of them with different lyrics.