"U2: 1978-81" at Dublin Little Museum

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U2 manager Paul McGuinness will open U2: 1978-81 at the Little Museum this Thursday, May 10th(the exhibit will remain open until September 2nd.) The exhibition, which is sponsored by Jagermeister, features 32 rare early photographs of U2. It’s the first time that the collection has ever been exhibited, and the show is the subject of massive international interest.

U2: 1978-1981 reveals the early U2 as a tight but restless unit – future icons but also teenagers mucking around. The photographs were taken by Dubliner Patrick Brocklebank, who worked as a graphic artist and photographer in the 1970s. “Because I was always in town,” recalls Brocklebank, “and because we were the same age, I’d often see U2 around the place. The show records the energy and ambition of a local band that would later conquer the world.”



Mucking around in Trinity College or gigging in the Project, these images reveal the relentless surge of a band on the rise. Pots, guns and paintings are used as props, and Bono proves himself a serial scene-stealer. “Paul [Bono] couldn’t play guitar,” recalls Brocklebank, “and he wasn’t much of a singer, but he had that certain something: the swagger and stage presence that would later make U2 a household name.”
The Irish times shows a slideshow of some of the pics in the exhibition, here:
U2 1978 - 1981
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