July 27, 1980
Leixlip Castle
Dublin, Ireland

Attendance: 15,000

'Dublin Festival 1980'; lineup: John Olwan, Moondogs, Skafish, Q-Tips, Squeeze, U2, The Police

1. Another Day
2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
3. Shadows and Tall Trees
4. A Day Without Me
5. Twilight

September 7, 1980
Lyceum Ballroom
London, England

Attendance: 1,500

Line-up: The Books, The Au Pairs, Delta 5, U2, Echo & The Bunnymen

1. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
2. I Will Follow
3. An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
4. Stories for Boys
5. A Day Without Me
6. Twilight
7. The Electric Co.
8. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

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Limited comments from Pimm on the Dublin set:

"U2 play their first show at an open-air festival before a large crowd."

And as for the London concert:

"U2 perform before Echo & The Bunnymen in one of the main London rock venues. Knowing how cynical a London audience can be, Bono is insecure about facing a large crowd who haven't come primarily for them. 'I don't know how you feel about people like ourselves. We're sort of giving out a lot of our flesh and passion. I was told that you didn't like that sort of thing, so I tried hard to think, well, I better keep it steady, or...' The crowd offer practically no response throughout the show, leaving a frustrated Bono to make sarcastic remarks. When he points out The Edge during his solo in Electric Co., Bono confronts the crowd's lack of reaction by twitching his fingers and demanding, 'Check! Attention!" A powerful version of 11 O'Clock Tick Tock ends the show as it had started, but gets hardly any applause. Bono drops the microphone on the floor as the band leave the stage."
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This was sent to me with these two concerts on one disc, so I have torrented it the same way. U2Depot.com shows this as a bootleg entitled "I Will Follow" and there is appropriate cover art for it on that site. Achtungbootlegs.com rates the Dublin set as "good" and the London set as "poor", though U2Depot states, regarding the London show, "The clarity of this recording is absolutely good for an audience recording from this era. Crispness suffers somewhat and a slight hiss is audible in the background. Anyway, it is an interesting recording since Bono gets virtually no response from the audience and becomes more and more frustrated as the concert goes on."





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