83-88 anyone?
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Topic: 83-88 anyone?
Posted By: fairy queen
Subject: 83-88 anyone?
Date Posted: 14-July-2006 at 14:11
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Seems to be a severe lack of mid to late 80's people posting. Anyone remember when he used to start the night with Bowie's "Modern Love"? Or am I alone here............ ------------- I wanted to be loved but just got laughed at instead |
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Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 14-July-2006 at 15:14
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Fairy there's quite a few of us that went during that time frame - perhaps we should have been long gone but a few of us held on till the death. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 14-July-2006 at 21:08
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Hiya Miss Queen. 79 - 85 so maybe........... Rolo. |
Posted By: russell
Date Posted: 15-July-2006 at 01:36
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Hiya FQ yeah remember "Mordern love " all right
------------- Russ |
Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 15-July-2006 at 21:25
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I used to go down around that time. From memory he used to start off with the headbanger set (yaay)  ------------- 
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Posted By: fairy queen
Date Posted: 17-July-2006 at 12:32
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Indeedey he did. All the combat jacket clad greasy haired metalers on in the middle of the floor till around 10.05pm and then he'd start off with something "jazzy" to get everyone in and the metalers out. Slow set memories (apart from the obvious) Ssssssssssssnowy White - Bird of Paradise, and sometimes Hotel California where once the guitar solo started you would be dumped by your other half so he could headbang whilst still looking cool under that one-red light. Sure weren't we all cool back then.... PLO Scarves, Donkey Jackets - the height of non-fashion. ------------- I wanted to be loved but just got laughed at instead |
kbannon wrote:Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-July-2006 at 15:10
Hey ya Fairy Queen There isn't that many mid to late 80's users here on a regular basis. There are a good few oldies here and especially at the Grove reunions night you get good mix of the different era's I loved my PLO and the headbanger set but I didn't have Greasey hair then Jeez!!!!! I don't have much of it left now though l  |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 22-July-2006 at 00:34
Hi Fairy queen....loved my PLO scarf (and still have it !!!) and my donkey jacket ...but don't know where that is now  Used to go to the grove from '81 to 84.
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: jason
Date Posted: 19-September-2006 at 20:44
| yeah,85-88,mozz was a hero+still is. |
Posted By: Tonto
Date Posted: 19-September-2006 at 23:59
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How's it goin fairy queen. Keep on rockin |
Posted By: fairy queen
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 10:48
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Hi Tonto - glad to hear that I am not the only one from that era. Felt that the documentary last night dealt with the early 70's and the early 90's only. Only thing relating back to the 80's was the opening bars of "She Sells Sanctuary". Must admit that I was slightly teary-eyed watching Cecil's return to the hall in St. Pauls. Actually it was the first time I had seen it since about 1988 so I felt pretty overwhelmed too (looking at it in daylight was weird!). ------------- I wanted to be loved but just got laughed at instead |
Posted By: SBrenn
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 21:45
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Hi Fairy Queen, I'm with you on that, watched the documentry and really wanted to see people who were there the same time as myself (83 - 88) but it was great seeing the hall albeit in daylight (made the hubbie watch it with me (ignorant southsider) You never forget the memories from the grove or the people you met there!
------------- C'est le vie, you only live once |
Posted By: Hugo Chavez
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 19:22
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Hi Fairy Queen, yeah remember it well I also remember
sitting out the head bangers on the plastic chairs around the floor waiting for
some Not many 80’s grovers around …though good
point .oh weren't the bouncers all cops or was that just a rumour
and who made all the cash out of the grove ? I mean I remember nights
when the drawer wouldn't close for all the fivers in it. |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 20:04
Hi Hugo  I think a lot of us here were 80's Grovers actually..I know I started going in the late 70's...but we were still going up to the mid 80's anyway.... Sure there was bugger all else to do back then anyway...  ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 20:06
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Oh and btw.. speaking of the plastic chairs...there's a pic just posted in the Grove Pictures thread in Memory Lane that shows just what we used to do on them...hehehe!! well...if ever we got a chance... tho do remember throwing up on a bouncers feet one night on probably the same seat...  ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: BakerBabe
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 19:46
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Hi Fairy Queen and Dixie and everyone else !!!!!!! I went to the grove in your era - well 84 til 88 - the best years of my life - Does anyone remember Reggy - he was always down in the alcove - he seemed to be older than us but was going there for years - I was a cure head back then - but would be the first to get in the middle of a mosh - I WAS tiny then and the lads used to pick me up and throw me up in the air - jesus the memories of it all - if my kids seen what I got up to back then ! I remember alot of the lads from Pauls - Tom, Smev, Watson, Cheryl and Julie Elliott - a cure head Fred (dont remember his last name) Elaine McRory (Coolock) Valerie Judge, Rachel Monaghan and Sarah Reilly (Artane) Does anyone remember them ??? I remember the Grove so well its hard to think that it was 18 years ago that I went there ! Sad or what, ------------- A womans place is on the Phone...... |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 20:10
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Hi Delia, Welcome to the site - hope you'll stay and share your memories with us.
I went to the Grove between 1980 and 1986 (as you can see from my sig. below) and I spent a fair amount of my time down in the alcove. IMHO, it was the best place in the hall but I suppose everyone has their own favourite/regular spot. Mel.
------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: BakerBabe
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 20:47
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Well Mel you were there my era - you were a bit of a late starter in life - ah - only joking - I was a very early starter - I used my sisters membership to get in - then once I got to know all the bouncers I used to bring them in cakes (I worked in a cake shop back then) and got in for nothing - it was great - all my mates got me to bring in their drink for them as I was never searched (a real lick or what) - My younger sisters went there and whenever we meet up we always re-live the grove and especially the music - Stairway to Heaven has to be the most memorable song for me ! ------------- A womans place is on the Phone...... |
Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 16:47
| Hi Fairy Queen...yeah I was very teary too watching Cecil revisit the school in the documentary...still get teary when i watch it over and over...it was SO much a part of who we became eh? We grew up in the Grove and what a priveledge to have had that.. I was earlier than you though...77-81ish |
Posted By: Evangeline
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 22:02
Hi Delia Hard to believe it's been that long isn't it? Was nice meeting you at the Halloween Reunion. Sorry if I scared you but I WAS in retro-curehead guise and it must have been a bit disconcerting to see me looking the way I did back then, lol! Have you seen any of the girls lately? Let me know if you're coming to the July reunion and I'll keep an eye out for you. Jen ;->
------------- "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 00:22
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Hey Delia-haven't seen you on lately. Wow-I probably should know those names from Artane and Coolock but I don't think I do. Was Valerie from Donnycarney? I guess because most people wore their hearts on their sleeves,and particularly they overtly stamped their taste in music on the clothes they wore,I probably didn't move from the alcove,insisting I was a staunch hippie or rocker,so therefore didn't get to meet some of the 'surfheads' or cureheads or goths. Silly teenage hierarchies. Think most people knew Tara Gavin (Gavan?)-real gothic queen,amazing long hair down past her bum,all black,boots,long coat,the works. Many a time I walked her home after the Grove and really thought there was something there,really wanted to kiss her goodnight but was afraid of mistaking her friendship for attraction and messing it up. Jen-you mentioned Siobhan (Brookwood Avenue) and a couple of others-how is she now? Did I ask you did you know Liz Kelch? Isn't nostalgia great? We get to wallow in really good times past and remember what it was like to be a teenager-all because of the grove and this site. Wouldn't have changed any of it... (except maybe getting to kiss Tara Gavin...) ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 01:39
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I was a wee bit disappointed with the docco because it seemed to skip over the glorious years I had spent there (early-mid 80's). Like you Floydman I spent nearly all of it in the alcove too not mixing with the 'others' ie. cureheads and goths. I would only ever listen to hard rock or metal music but as Ive gotten older my music tastes have matured shall we say. As for this site and remembering the teenage years spent there, I love it but my wife thinks I'm going through some sort of mid-life crisis thingy, wishing I had my long hair again and digging out old photos and spending so much time here, also trying to re-live it all again through my 8 year old son by playing Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc. and letting him learn the drums. He also could do with a hair cut Ive been told. But as you said Floydman 'wouldn't have changed any of it' ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings! 
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 18:57
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I'm with you Donal about the Documentary. I was just waiting for the early-mid eighties bit but it didnt happen. From the switch to St. Pauls to "by the early 1990s", dont know what happened - maybe they couldnt get anyone for the doc. from our era? Loved the documentary but a few on the site have mentioned the 'gap' in the programme. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 23:42
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Agree with you guys, our era was skipped over.........but it was still the best documentary ever
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: IanL
Date Posted: 23-June-2007 at 22:24
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Hi Mel (Bruns) ! God - been ages since I logged in here. what can I say. I became employed ,.... after a 6mth hiatus of sitting on my ass. Interesting work. More to be revealed at some stage. Ambition is to make the technology work with Grove fans... I was at Grove between 85-88 I think... Was at St Pauls 84-88. Wasn't in Sing out. Played the guitar. Ian Little. Live in Mayo now.. enjoying country life and occasionally turning the amplifier to volume level 11 :) --Ian ------------- Ian - Grover '81-'84 Exiled to Mayo since 2005 |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 24-June-2007 at 19:49
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Yowdy,Ian? Where you been? (silly me-you just answered that in your post) Working eh? Sucks doesn't it? It's only for fools and horses... Good to see you back-coming back to the pale for the re-union? ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 09:07
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Hi Ian.....great to see you posting again, hope you make the next reunion
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 20:07
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Yo Ian!! Great to see ya back on the site again. Hope ya become a regular around here again dude, you've been missed! As Floydman and Bluebell have said, it would be great to see ya at the next reunion on 21st July (know its a bit of trek for ya though!!).
Mel. PS. Ian, you'll be glad to hear the 'singles' collection is going well. Just over 30 to go now!! ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 00:02
| Jaysis Mel I still have a few for ya.Keep meaning to hook up wth Roundy to give them to him. One of these days, swear. |
Posted By: Evangeline
Date Posted: 10-July-2007 at 22:52
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Hey Floydman, I've never heard of Liz Kelch, I'm afraid. She didn't run with our gang. I saw Siobhan a couple of years back but not since then. She was in great form the last time I saw her however. Valerie lived on the same road as Rachel and Delia, not Donneycarney. And yes, I remember Tara Gavin. Never actually socialized in her circle but a bunch of us were dead jealous of her hair and uber-cool gothness, lol. No hard feelings, Tara, we were just bitchy teenagers back then. It is a shame really that people in their various groups didn't mix more. Birds of a feather and all that. Could have been interesting, eh?
------------- "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 15-July-2007 at 13:50
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Well now we can - at the re-unions...(older and wiser I suppose) Must have been mixing Valerie up with another Grover I knew who my cousin used to hang with. Liz kelch moved to Artane around '84ish and went to school with Siobhan and co (I think) and hung around with them in Brookwood Park. Maybe they'll show up in here at some stage... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Evangeline
Date Posted: 15-July-2007 at 20:39
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Be nice if they did. I've seen a distinct lack of people from that time in evidence. Can't all have emigrated can they? Anyways, I'll be there on saturday. Looking forward to it already! ------------- "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" |
Posted By: Haviland Tuf
Date Posted: 23-January-2008 at 23:08
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Liz Kelch is a makeup artist in Australia, doing very well, vogue etc. Was Australias make up artist of the year in fact. ------------- Coincidence, if traced back far enough, becomes inevitable 
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 09:09
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Hey Colum, I think all the good people from the grove moved here to Australia ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Haviland Tuf
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 09:27
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Hi Lesley,
Yeah I know a few too who don't partake on here. Was There for a year myself in '91 so can understand. Great to see how the memories are all still there!
Colum ------------- Coincidence, if traced back far enough, becomes inevitable
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Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 10:21
Convicts the lot of yeh !!!!!! ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 11:46
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They haven't caught me yet Gary ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 11:49
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My eldist Aoife is going out in the Autumn for a year with the boyfriend so I'd better be careful what I say huh !! ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 13:00
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Fergs nephews are doing the same Gary...we will have the entire next generation of our families over here...and that means Ferg and I are the only "grown ups" who can bail them out if they get in trouble! AHHHHH... I'll feel like I have 15 kids!~ Speeding fines and parking fines already building up on my desk for one of them!! |
Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 13:03
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Carol
I may be asking for a few favours yet. Aoife's a solicitor so I hope I won't have those troubles--but you never know !!!!! ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: Grovegirl
Date Posted: 24-January-2008 at 21:57
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Gary.....My eldest is also called Aoife but she's only sixteen. You must be very proud of your Aoife....sounds like she must have brains to burn and she'll have no trouble at all in Australia. Hope my girl follows with the same sense!
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Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 25-January-2008 at 05:39
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My youngest sister leaves Dublin on Sunday heading down-under via South America. Coming over for a couple of years anyway. Looking forward to seeing her. Then that will be 2 sisters in Perth and 1 in Newbridge. The folks will be torn as to where to go. ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: DAYO
Date Posted: 26-January-2008 at 14:26
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My son Gary is in New Zealand and my daughter Nicola is in Newbridge. Lorraine got very upset when Nicola said she was buying her house in Newbridge because it was so far. You cant realy win can ya. Most of my family are away, 3 sisters in Canada, 1 in North Carolina and The bro in New Zealand so Uncle Dayo seems to get all the travelling neices and nephews over wanting to stay a while. Why did they breed so many. Jazzzzzzzzz
------------- Dayo Grov'in 70 - 76 |