Echo: answer Larry’s note on the Mount Temple noticeboard to fill the Artane kitchen, press record on Windmill Lane until the wall is thick with paint, stamp a delay pedal and send one note repeating out across eight real places from the docklands to Seventh and Main, turn the sleeve from Zabriskie Point to the fallen tree, then go back to the same yard fifty years to the day.
musicEcho: answer Larry’s note on the Mount Temple noticeboard to fill the Artane kitchen, press record on Windmill Lane until the wall is thick with paint, stamp a delay pedal and send one note repeating out across eight real places from the docklands to Seventh and Main, turn the sleeve from Zabriskie Point to the fallen tree, then go back to the same yard fifty years to the day.
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Larry Mullen Jr pinned a musicians-wanted notice to the noticeboard at his school, Mount Temple: a drummer looking for people to form a band.
A working secondary school: see it from the road. The yard is for its students.
Windmill Lane studios opened in 1978 on Windmill Lane itself.
A public street in the rebuilt docklands. The old studio has gone.
Windmill Lane now works from an Art Deco building at 20 Ringsend Road; some call it the closest thing in Dublin to a U2 museum.
Guided tours by booking: adults €26, students and over-65s €20, under-16s €18, a family of four €68.
On the evening of 25 September 2026 the band played from the balcony of Bewley’s, and thousands of people filled Grafton Street below.
A working café, open from early morning: go in for a coffee and find the Harry Clarke windows.
Echo: answer Larry’s note on the Mount Temple noticeboard to fill the Artane kitchen, press record on Windmill Lane until the wall is thick with paint, stamp a delay pedal and send one note repeating out across eight real places from the docklands to Seventh and Main, turn the sleeve from Zabriskie Point to the fallen tree, then go back to the same yard fifty years to the day.
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