Story Lines is the home of audio storytelling from The Irish Times, including GUBU, Web 1.0 and Atlantic. ***Coming soon: Drummer Seeks Musicians: The Making of U2*** A note on a school noticeboard. Four teenagers. One extraordinary story. In this three-part podcast series, Róisín Ingle traces the making of U2 through interviews with their classmates, teachers, friends and band members. From Mount Temple Comprehensive on Dublin's northside to the world stage, this is the story of how U2 began. Episode one will be available on this podcast feed on Monday September 21st. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
What this show covers
U2Irish politicsscandalmusic historyMount Templecrimemusic originsDublinfriendship and faithband dynamicsIrish music1970s IrelandBand formationU2 originsarrest
What listeners will find here
How U2 stayed together for 50 years: success, faith, friendship and loss
U2’s rise accelerates with a TV appearance, a talent contest win and manager Paul McGuinness entering the picture. This final episode also turns to the deeper forces behind the band’s longevity, with Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr reflecting on friendship, faith and loss.
How school friends in 1970s Dublin became the band that would soon be U2
This episode follows Bono, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton, The Edge and Dick Evans as Feedback evolves into The Hype in a changing 1970s Ireland. Through voices from their school world, it explores the friendships, experiments and final name change that shaped their future.
As the net closes, the Macarthur scandal reaches its arrest
Malcolm Macarthur hides out with his friend Patrick Connolly and is even driven in a State car before gardaí connect him to the Attorney General. This episode follows the moment that extraordinary protection gives way to an arrest.
An arrest in the Attorney General’s home triggers a political storm
Macarthur’s arrest in the home of the Attorney General sets off an international political crisis in this sixth part of GUBU. The episode turns from the shock of the arrest to the fallout, tracing how one extraordinary detail reverberates through politics and public life.
How a school noticeboard in Dublin set U2 in motion
U2’s origin story begins with a note pinned up by 14-year-old Larry Mullen at Mount Temple Comprehensive in 1976. This first episode explores the school, the people around the future band, and the early lives of Larry Mullen Jr. and Paul 'Bono' Hewson.
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