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U2: A rare demo tape and collection of tour passes,
1970s-1980s,
comprising a BASF 60 cassette tape in case, with typewritten card insert and hand-coloured in red and yellow paint, listing six tracks, Another Time Another Place, Alone In The Light, False Prophet, No Mans Land, Twilight and Out Of Control and with recording details, Recorded At Eamonn Andrews Studios Dublin, March/79 Engineer Dave Produced by U2, the spine rubber-stamped The U2 demo, also inscribed in blue ballpoint U2 10 Cedarwood Rd Dublin 11,, also listing band members and Paul Maguinness as Manager, the reverse of the insert with typewritten details about the band, The band was formed in late 76 around a drum kit. we played the usual school band circuit youth clubs etc...we left school in the summer of 77 with school behind us it gave us the chance to get down to wrighting a couple of hours of totaly original material. with this we were able to support the stranglers xtc and advertising in Dublin we have ex perianced difficulty in compeating with ageing and established rock acts There seems to be a lot of predjuges towards our age though in the last year weve learned enough to be able to match any band even to the extent of Bono hasseling JJ burnell backstage. this demo will hopefully stand up to the most un enlightened scrutiny as well as totaly illustrating what we are about. It is in fact pre punk rock; together with approximately 60 various passes, most crack-back but some laminate, many for 1981, several tickets and an information sheet for Croke Park, 1985/87
comprising a BASF 60 cassette tape in case, with typewritten card insert and hand-coloured in red and yellow paint, listing six tracks, Another Time Another Place, Alone In The Light, False Prophet, No Mans Land, Twilight and Out Of Control and with recording details, Recorded At Eamonn Andrews Studios Dublin, March/79 Engineer Dave Produced by U2, the spine rubber-stamped The U2 demo, also inscribed in blue ballpoint U2 10 Cedarwood Rd Dublin 11,, also listing band members and Paul Maguinness as Manager, the reverse of the insert with typewritten details about the band, The band was formed in late 76 around a drum kit. we played the usual school band circuit youth clubs etc...we left school in the summer of 77 with school behind us it gave us the chance to get down to wrighting a couple of hours of totaly original material. with this we were able to support the stranglers xtc and advertising in Dublin we have ex perianced difficulty in compeating with ageing and established rock acts There seems to be a lot of predjuges towards our age though in the last year weve learned enough to be able to match any band even to the extent of Bono hasseling JJ burnell backstage. this demo will hopefully stand up to the most un enlightened scrutiny as well as totaly illustrating what we are about. It is in fact pre punk rock; together with approximately 60 various passes, most crack-back but some laminate, many for 1981, several tickets and an information sheet for Croke Park, 1985/87
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This cassette was given to the vendor's brother by Bono, when Bono was still living at his parental home in Cedarwood Road, north Dublin.
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