From 30 years ago, this is Depeche Mode in Dublin at the time of the Eight Amendment to the Irish Constitution Referendum. Read more about this in the interview by X Moore scanned below from NME, September, 1983. Photos by Adrian Boot.
Anyone recognise the pub?
Link to Adrian Boot website here
Link to page 3 of this article
Jack Charlton said that when walking around Dublin in 1986 he deliberately sought out a pub off the beaten track. He found the Hill 16 pub on Gardiner St & it became his regular – unaware that Depeche Mode had a pint there too in 1983. (pic Adrian Boot) pic.twitter.com/46NbiRt29q
— Brand New Retro (@brandnewretro) July 11, 2020
A relative of the woman in the photo with Andy Fletcher got in touch after the Brand New Retro book issued in late 2015 and told me the pub was the Hill 16. Jack Charlton was a regular visitor to the pub so I tweeted the above on the day he died.
marycigarettes
14 May 2013amazing what they went on to become…they started out so twee,and became so brilliant, heavy and robust…still creative 30 years on…just goes to show..you can never second guess the future.
Winston
7 May 2015What hotel did Depeche mode stay in Dublin at the time
marycigarettes
8 May 2015why do you ask? have you a vague idea that you maybe got your leg over one of em on that faraway night,so long ago.
Winston
11 May 2015Depeche mode played in Galway at one stage as well
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Dubliner
23 Jan 2015Welcome Inn, Parnell street
BrandNewRetro
23 Jan 2015Thanks, that’s great. This has been bugging me. Any reason why you know so?
Lynda
18 Apr 2016That’s not right. They walked into the lobby of the Gresham hotel after the gig where I was at a debs ball and asked me up to their room.
Howzabout them apples!
Bob
15 May 2016You’re right lynda. They stayed at the gresham. I was at that debs. Did the reskins support them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Redskins Or was I drunk ?
william sowerby
1 Aug 2017actually that was the opening night of the 1984 gig, i distinctly remember the debs being on the thursday night as the friday we went to jewels nightclub on baggot street after the gig.