TIL in 1989 Meat Loaf, his career floundering, was booked on a ram­shackle tour of some of Ireland’s worst com­mu­nity cen­tres, ball­rooms, hotel func­tion rooms, sheds and fields. He walked off-stage at a gig in Moate after he was pelted with beer cans, glasses, bot­tles, shoes, and a wheelchair