The birth of the Ulster Hall
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coming to Belfast had greatly improved but the adequacy of the halls that
were available at the time, the maximum we could get in was about 900 people.
So the Ulster Hall company was formed in 1859, to develop a new hall and
that was the Ulster Hall which was built in 1862. The halls previously were
demanding very large (...2...) for their artists, to give you some
sort of idea the average price of a ticket was upward of 5 shillings which
was an average week's wages at that time. So the general public were unable
to gain admittance to a lot of these concerts.
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How the Ulster Hall has been used (...3...) Russian cigarettes, which I suppose in this
day and age would be very much frowned upon and it'd be a great wonder
how such a tenor could have such a great voice, smoking, so the story
goes.
So in between that we've had a great variety of acts and because the
hall, of it's (...4...) nature, it has removable seats, we're able
to hold everything here from wrestling, to boxing, to rock concerts, pop
concerts. Going back even to1888 Randolph Churchill was here and the anti
home-rule movement was very much to the fore at that time and the famous
line 'Ulster will fight, Ulster will be right' was the call of the day.
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Rock history at the Ulster
Hall (...5...)
is 1971 on the 5th March Led Zeppelin were here and it was the first ever
recording of Stairway to Heaven was on the stage at the Ulster Hall and
of course has become really a rock anthem throughout the world. And even
up until recently we've had people coming in to actually wanting just to
stand on the stage where the first chords of that song were sung. We've
had the Rolling Stones, U2 were here. And I suppose now they're talking
about an audience of 100,000 for U2, so at approximately 2000 here that
means we could probably (...6...) U2 for 50 nights, which would be
quite good, wouldn't it!
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Home for the Ulster Orchestra (...7...) to it. This is very much appreciated by visiting
orchestras. Sir Thomas Beecham once said it was one of the most acoustic
perfect halls in Britain. So the orchestra have developed this as their
home and even though they have been attracted to other modern facilities
within the city they're now making their home here on a more (...8...)
basis.
Links for more information Ulster Hall
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