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Dublin — U2, Van Morrison, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Chris de Burgh, Clannad, Rory Gallagher, and Elvis Costello & the Attractions are among those taking part Saturday (17) in Self-Aid, the biggest rock assembly ever planned in Ireland.
The event is an attempt to bring relief to Ireland's tragic unemployment problem, which has 250,000 people out of work. As with Live-Aid, there will be a telethon, but pledges will take the form of job offers and/or money to finance a number of employment projects.
Jim Aiken is managing the event. Aiken is the Irish promoter of the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan. The Self-Aid project was devised by Tony Boland and Niall Matthews of RTE Television & Radio 2. They were the coordinators of the Irish Live Aid telethon.
According to Roland and Matthews, "Self-Aid is about tapping into something we know already exists, an enormous reserve of goodwill which made the Irish people the world's highest donors per capita to Live-Aid."
The largest rock lineup in Irish history also includes Paul Brady, Christy Moore, the Chieftains, Big Self, Those Nervous Animals, Stockton's Wing, Paul Cleary, the Slades, Les Enfants, In the Nus, Scullion, Bagatelle, Blue In Heaven, Cactus World News, Brush Shiels and Chris Rea.
RTE will broadcast about 12 hours of live music from the show.
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