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The Slane Festival (often referred to as Slane) is a recurring concert held most years since 1981 on the grounds of Slane Castle on the outskirts of Slane in County Meath, Ireland. The castle is owned by The 8th Marquess Conyngham , who was known by the courtesy title the Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009.
Since 1981, the grounds of Slane Castle have been used to host rock concerts. The natural amphitheatre has an 80,000 person capacity. [9] The concerts were launched by the then Earl of Mount Charles (popularly known for several decades as Henry Mount Charles or Henry Mountcharles; since March 2009, he has been known as The 8th Marquess Conyngham), the owner of the castle.
In 2009 "Slane Castle Whiskey", began to be bottled and labelled, a blended whiskey, it was created by Noel Sweeney and made at the Cooley mountain distillery outside Dundalk. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Following a change in ownership, the Cooley distillery ceased further collaboration. [ 22 ]
Although Slane Concerts at the castle are traditionally held once a year, U2 played two concerts; the second one was filmed for the video, and was the band's final show on the European leg of the tour. U2 Go Home was the second of two concert videos from the tour, preceded by 2001's Elevation 2001: Live from Boston.
Conyngham coat of arms. Henry Vivien Pierpont Conyngham, 8th Marquess Conyngham (born 25 May 1951), styled Viscount Slane until 1974 then Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009 and predominantly known as Lord Mount Charles, is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who is best known for the rock concerts that he organises at his stately home Slane Castle, and for his column in the Irish Daily Mirror ...
Dylan and Carlos Santana played some of the biggest and best known European music venues including the Stade de Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden, [3] [4] St James' Park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, [5] [6] Wembley Stadium in London, England, [7] [8] Slane Castle in Slane, Ireland. [9] [10]
Live at Slane Castle, Ireland is a concert film by Canadian rocker Bryan Adams. It was filmed on 26 August 2000 at Slane Castle in County Meath , Ireland . The video recorded during the Slane Festival in which Bryan Adams is the headliner.
The Elevation Tour was a worldwide concert tour by Irish rock band U2. ... The band's two concerts at Slane Castle sold 157,418 tickets and grossed $6.7 million. [17]