10/00/1976 Mount Temple Comprehensive School - Dublin, Ireland
Show Me The Way, Bye Bye Baby, Beach Boys medley
encores: Bye Bye Baby
comment: Appearing under the name 'Feedback', U2 perform their first concert at the encouragement of a teacher. The messy ten minute set consists solely of covers, but the students apparently enjoyed the performance enough to call the band back for more. As the band know very little material, they repeat Bye Bye Baby as an encore. This show took place in October (or possibly November) 1976 but the exact date is unknown.

04/11/1977 St. Fintan's School - Dublin, Ireland
Show Me The Way, Johnny B. Goode, Nights In White Satin, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Suffragette City
comment: U2 appear under the name Feedback. Their performance includes two female backing singers, one of whom also plays the flute. The setlist above is incomplete; the complete performance lasted about 40 minutes and was a shambolic affair consisting solely of covers of songs popular at the time.

10/07/1977 Marine Hotel - Dublin, Ireland
2-4-6-8 Motorway, Anarchy In The UK, Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment, Suffragette City, What’s Going On (The Hype)
comment: U2 appear under the name The Hype and play a number of covers, including Suffragette City with Gavin Friday. They also perform an original song called What's Going On (not the famous song of the same title by Marvin Gaye that U2 covered at all shows on the third leg of the Elevation Tour).

10/15/1977 Suttonians RFC - Sutton, Ireland
not available

12/00/1977 Nucleus - Raheny, Ireland
Brown Sugar (snippet) / Jumpin' Jack Flash
comment: This show takes place on an indeterminate date in late December 1977, back when the band still included Dik Evans, The Edge's brother. The band gets drunk before the show, leading to a rough performance. At one point, Bono calls out for a cover of the Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash; Dick Evans mixes up Stones songs and begins playing Brown Sugar instead. No other setlist details are known.

12/17/1977 Howth Presbyterian Church - Howth, Ireland
not available

01/00/1978 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: Appearing under the name The Hype, the band support Revolver at a show on an indeterminate date in early 1978. The setlist includes several Stranglers and Sex Pistols covers.

02/10/1978 Mount Temple Comprehensive School - Dublin, Ireland
Street Mission, The Fool
comment: Appearing under the name The Hype. Setlist is incomplete: only two songs are known.

03/01/1978 Howth Community Centre - Howth, Ireland
not available
comment: Appearing under the name 'The Hype' and 'U2'

03/16/1978 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: Billed under the name 'The Hype'

03/17/1978 Harp Lager Contest - Limerick, Ireland
Street Mission, Life On A Distant Planet, The TV Song
comment: U2 wins the Harp Lager Talent Contest. The prize includes a chance to audition for CBS Records. This is one of the earliest appearances of the band as U2 (or "U2 Malahide") rather than Feedback or The Hype. Setlist is believed to be complete but the order is unconfirmed. "The TV Song" is an early U2 original named because the band felt it resembled the sound of the band Television.

03/20/1978 Church Hall - Dublin, Ireland
Dancing In The Moonlight, Glad To See You Go, Shadows And Tall Trees
comment: This show is believed to be the last appearance of The Hype - the band that involved Edge's brother as well. At the end of The Hype's set, Bono announces the end of The Hype and states that the four-piece U2 will return for a later set. Between the two sets, Adam and Edge are guests during The Virgin Prunes' set, and Adam is also a guest during The Modern Heirs' set. The setlist above is incomplete: The Hype's set is known to have been solely covers, of which two were Dancing In The Moonlight and Glad To See You Go, and U2's set is known to have been solely original songs, including Shadows And Tall Trees.

04/11/1978 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available

05/25/1978 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
Mannequin
comment: Paul McGuinness sees U2 live for the first time and becomes their manager. The setlist is unknown but believed to have included a cover of Wire's Mannequin.

07/31/1978 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 are last on a bill that includes Modern Heirs and headliner Revolver.

08/00/1978 Liberty Hall - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 appear at a benefit show for the Contraception Action Campaign, which was protesting laws in Ireland that prohibited the sale of condoms and other contraceptives. The band's set is interrupted by speeches by women from the campaign. The show took place on an unknown date in the summer months of 1978.

09/00/1978 Magnet Bar - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 play at a gig called Rock Against Sexism. The date is unknown; all we know is it took place in late 1978, after the Liberty Hall gig for the Contraception Action Campaign.

09/09/1978 Top Hat Ballroom - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: Before the concert, Bono gets in a fight with the main act, The Stranglers, over their treatment of U2 as a support act. During the show, U2 break into The Stranglers' room and steal their wine.

09/18/1978 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
not available

10/01/1978 Arcadia Ballroom - Cork, Ireland
not available

11/00/1978 Crofton Airport Hotel - Crofton, Ireland
not available
comment: This show takes place on an unknown date in late 1978. It is categorised as November as we believe it occurred after the Arcadia Ballroom gig in October but before the Stardust gig in December.

12/11/1978 The Stardust - Dublin, Ireland
not available

01/03/1979 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 perform to a sell-out audience.

02/03/1979 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: First of two shows that day, this one in the afternoon to cater for the underage market. The setlist is wholly unknown.

02/03/1979 Trinity College - Dublin, Ireland
Concentration Cramp, Street Mission
comment: Second of two shows that day, this one in the evening. Setlist is incomplete: only Concentration Cramp and Street Mission are known. Street Mission is believed to be the closer.

02/17/1979 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
Another Time, Another Place, Cartoon World, Shadows And Tall Trees, Street Mission
encores: Glad To See You Go
comment: U2 perform at 3:30am at the Dark Space Festival. Setlist is incomplete: only some songs from the main set are known. The encore is known to have been a cover of the Ramones' Glad To See You Go. This show features the earliest known performances of Another Time Another Place and Cartoon World and the last known performance of Street Mission, but as so few early setlists are known, this show is probably not the date of their first/last performances.

05/00/1979 Trinity College - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 play a free lunchtime concert at Trinity College on an unknown date in May 1979.

05/12/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 play for the first time at the Dandelion Market. They go on to make seven further appearances here, all on weekends in 1979. The market was held in a carpark and the concerts themselves took place in a shed with a stage made out of leftover beer crates, breeze-blocks, and a few sheets of chipboard.

06/07/1979 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: As a publicity stunt, U2 play four Thursday night concerts called "The Jingle Balls", based around a theme of Christmas in June. Christmas decorations are set up in McGonagle's for the concerts.

06/14/1979 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available

06/21/1979 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
not available

06/28/1979 McGonagle's - Dublin, Ireland
Trevor, Cartoon World, The Speed Of Life, Shadows And Tall Trees, Stories For Boys, Life On A Distant Planet, Boy-Girl
comment: Setlist incomplete.

07/01/1979 Youth Club - Dublin, Ireland
not available

07/28/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 play at the Dandelion Market a second time.

08/00/1979 Youth Club - Dublin, Ireland
Cartoon World, Life On A Distant Planet, Stories For Boys, Silver Lining
comment: The setlist for this show is incomplete, though it is believed to be the debut of Silver Lining. The concert's precise date is not known but it may have taken place in the days around the Dandelion Car Park gig on 11 August 1979.

08/01/1979 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
not available

08/11/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
Concentration Cramp, In Your Hand, Out Of Control, Shadows And Tall Trees, Life On A Distant Planet, The Fool
comment: The above setlist is incomplete.

08/21/1979 The Baggot Inn - Dublin, Ireland
Concentration Cramp, In Your Hand, Stories For Boys, Shadows And Tall Trees, Out Of Control
comment: Setlist is incomplete. There is some confusion between this show and another that happened at the Baggot Inn in October 1979. Evidence indicates both shows happened; in the case of this concert, there is a photo of a poster promoting U2 and The Blades "this Tuesday 21st" at the Baggot Inn. The only month in 1979 to have the 21st fall on a Tuesday was August.

09/00/1979 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2's first of two support slots for Patrick Fitzgerald. The shows took place in September 1979 but the precise dates are unknown. At the first show, the band are threatened with violence by a group of punks who are ultimately evicted from the venue.

09/00/1979 Project Arts Centre - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2's second of two support slots for Patrick Fitzgerald. The shows took place in September 1979 but the precise dates are unknown.

09/09/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2's first of three appearances on consecutive weekends at the Dandelion Market.

09/15/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2's second of three appearances on consecutive weekends at the Dandelion Market.

09/22/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2's third of three appearances on consecutive weekends at the Dandelion Market.

10/00/1979 The Baggot Inn - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 play a gig at the Baggot Inn attended by a number of record executives. They hope to be offered a recording contract but don't receive one - as it happened, the representative from EMI left early. There is some confusion between this show and another that happened at the Baggot Inn on 21 August 1979. Evidence indicates both shows happened; in the case of this concert, the EMI representative left to watch The Specials play on the Old Grey Whistle Test, which happened in October 1979. Unfortunately, the precise date of The Specials' appearance is unknown, hence so is this concert's date.

10/05/1979 Cork Opera House - Cork, Ireland
Stories For Boys, The Speed Of Life, Cartoon World, The King's New Clothes, Inside Out, Another Time, Another Place, Boy-Girl, Out Of Control
encores: Glad To See You Go

11/14/1979 Claddach Hall - Cork, Ireland
not available
comment: A poster for the concert calls the band "U-2".

11/17/1979 Dandelion Market - Dublin, Ireland
not available
comment: U2 play a farewell gig at the Dandelion Market before going to perform in England for the first time. This is the biggest gig held at the Market and admission is £1 rather than the usual 50p. Almost 600 people attend the concert.

More detailed listings from this tour can be found here.