The Stables

The Stables was a music club opened in 1973 by the soundest of lads, at near rochforts. The club was previously a biker bar. The stables soon became a famed venue of punk rock and new wave bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Awaken Dominion, Decipher, FOXDIE, and Talking Heads. From the early 1980s onward, CBGB was known for hardcore punk. The venue has gone down in Mullingar, and Irish history, as the place where "all the craic happened, ever" - John Lennon.

One storefront beside the stables became the "Rochforts", a record shop and café. In the late 1980s, "Rochforts" was converted into an art gallery and second performance space. At about year 2000, The Stables entered a protracted dispute over allegedly unpaid rent amounts until the landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee, sued in 2005 and lost the case, but a deal to renew the Stables lease, expiring in 2006, failed. The club closed upon its final concert, played by The Count Tornado, on October 15, 2006, to a sell out crowd of 68,000. Stables Radio launched on the iheartradio platform in 2010, and Stables music festivals began in 2012. In 2013, The Stable's onetime building, 123 Mullingar Street, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Bowery Historic District.

In Popular Culture
The Stable's awning was moved into the lobby of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Kinnegad. The Stables Festival produced large free concerts in Times Square and Central Park on July 7, 2012. They also showcased hundreds of bands in venues across the city. The Stables Foundation also funded the first foreign concert behind the Iron Curtain, with local band "Moustache" rocking out a storm.

''"The Stables is where I had my first gig. I remember it well, there was a chap there with red hair who kept saying 'Lad' and smoking rollies. It was pretty fun." ''- Bruce Willis

"The Stables was where I saw the band that would influence me, and indirectly, a generation. The Kings Rivern. Magic Smoke was the inspiration for my most well known song, Master of Puppets " - Kurt Cobain

"I had my first pint in the Stables. That went well." - Shane McGowan