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| Main Door to Ulster Hall: Our time running short before the gig in Rush, we stop here. Every American I show this picture to says something like "DAMN, woman! Look at the size of that door!" It IS kinda big, isn't it? Even taking into account that I'm on a lower step. Unfortunately for me and my party of three, (And Noel too!) the Wizard wasn't seeing anyone that day. |
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| Queen's University: Taken earlier in the day on the bus tour, I had no idea that this was a site important to the story of Horslips. And yet... |
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| From Horslips, The Shamrock Chronicles: Knowing the split was inevitable, the band staged three last gigs at Belfast’s Whitla Hall on April 29 and 30, and May 1 1980, and had the Manor Mobile record the performances for their final album, The Belfast Gigs. “As a live album, I thought it did a great job of preserving a moment in time,” says Lockhart. “And it was definitely a huge improvement over the roughness of the previous Horslips Live.” |
| Continued: Devlin says: “We didn’t publicise the Whitla Hall gigs as our last, for the very reason that we didn’t want any fuss. At the end of the very last gig, Charles threw his fiddle into the crowd which I thought was very symbolic. We kind of said to the audience, ‘Goodbye - we probably won’t see you again.’ I’m sure the crowd realised it would be our last gig. The band congregated backstage afterwards, shook hands and said, ‘See you in the next life.’” |
| From the Johnny Fean Website "About the Band:" The final Horslips album was the live 'Belfast Gigs' recorded in the Whitla Hall, Belfast in April/May 1980. A few months later the band returned to Belfast to play their farewell gig in the Ulster Hall. There was no break up announcement, and the only public clue that people were witnessing the final performance was that they encored with the Rolling Stones' 'The Last Time'. So, it was the Rolling Stones studio for 'Happy To Meet' and a Rolling Stones song as they sadly parted. |
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| Till thousendsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the |
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| After visiting these sites of the last two Horslips concerts, we got in the van and started off for Rush and Dublin, where my vacation had begun. |