Hillary Minchin – aged 16 attends Presentation De La Salle Bagenalstown Secondary School.
Last Friday she played with U2 when they celebrated 50 years since Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a handwritten note – ‘Drummer Seeks Musicians To Form Band’ – to the noticeboard of Mount Temple Comprehensive School on the Northside of Dublin in September 1976. The band made a return to Mount Temple to deliver a school yard concert for 1000 students and staff, on the exact same spot where they first performed over 50 years ago (see image below).
The set list included their first ever single ‘Out of Control’, plus music from newly announced album. The band were joined onstage for ‘One’ by 32 string musicians (one representing each county on the island of Ireland) from Music Generation. Hillary had known for weeks beforehand although the name of the band wasn’t confirmed. All she was told was that it was going to be ‘international artists’
