Talk on the Liam Payne post comparing One Direction’s fame to that of The Beatles got me thinking of a recent incident which I’d like the Afterword hive mind to consider. It was our anniversary and my wife and I were off to see a show at the Lyceum in the centre of Sheffield.
We stopped at a pub/restaurant en route for a meal and got talking to the waitress – a young lass of 18 or 19 – who wanted to know how long we’d been married, what we were doing for our anniversary etc. When she heard we were going to the Lyceum, she said that she’d been there once to see Peter Pan or some such. I replied, “Well, I’m so old, the last time I was at the Lyceum was to see U2 in 1980. Can you imagine U2 playing the Lyceum?”
For those unfamiliar with the venue, the Lyceum is a typical provincial theatre in terms of its size, seating around a couple of thousand I suppose, so whilst it was suitable for U2 at the time of the release of their second album, they quickly outgrew such venues and migrated to the enormodome circuit » Continue Reading.