Bands at the grove

Does anyone remember when they had bands at the grove? They played for an hour or so on stage.

First band had narnia as drummer (who ive seen a few times) and a guy called maurice on bass. Cant remember any more of then.

Nor mine,Lenny

My brother who's probably of your era would know.I'll ask him when I see him.

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Does anyone remember when they had bands at the grove? They played for an hour or so on stage.

Which Grove you talking about?

Apparently Ditch Cassidy was supposed to have played in the "old" Grove in Mount Prospect.

Can anyone confirm this?

 

Biker Pat

I went to the grove in the 80's and there were never any BANDS

They must have started that after I stopped going coz it wasn't happening early 90's.  I too heard it was called Club G for a while towards the end Lenny.

hi lenny, maurice here who played bass back in the day w. narnia. i played there twice, we did an iron maiden tribute thingie may '93 feat. a mix-match of us from local area bands, ragorder, chronicle, hush, etc. then i played there w. chronicle shortly before or after that. guy called collie was on guitar {mark collopy, of griffith ave., marino til recent years,} & beanie on vocals {john smith, formerly of camoren/edenmore, in mullingar last i heard. i see he's registered here on the forum but hasn't posted before...} i know the lackey's too. they both still in ardlea

will do!

Hello Groovy Grovies!

This is my first post...and as oldest member of the forum I expect
everyone to be nice to me. My Grove membership extended from 1968
thru 71. the old Belgrove Club, back when people still referred to it as
Eason's. I am married to the same girl I met at the grove( 33 years of
sheer heaven---not). After much
persuasion I got Cecil to play a Dylan tune- "Desolation Row" and while it
was playing I asked her up, proposed marriage, made her pregnat and
delivered the baby myself right there on the dancefloor before the song
finished...A grove record!
There were a few bands played back then. One in particular had a lovely
organ player named Maria Dowdall. I was in love with her but unlucky for
me she never touched my organ. We even had Phil Lynnott play a couple
of times. His group at the time was Skid Row and they were absolutely
brutal... the days of 15 minute drum solos Arrrrrgh! We even had what
today might be called "Open Mike Night". A few of the local lads doing
folkie stuff on their acoustics. Hopefully a guy named Brian Flynn became
a pro...great guitarist. Cecil Pioneered a lot of Stuff that he is not given
credit for...Every second slow set was a ladies choice so it was easy for us
fellas to know where we stood...in my case it was not that good.

I'll save all my Cecil scandals for a different topic.

Finally the forum let me sign in...tanks to eejit91



Edited by Pogue Mahoney

Hey Pogue,

Let me be the first to welcome ya to the forum...............

With a bit of luck you'll get as addicted as the rest of the regulars and we'll end up talking s**te all day.

Rolo.

Welcome Pogue,

If you talk sh*te you'll fit in well over here!

I was out in Malahide today and who did I see walking along but Cecil himself, if you come back for a Reunion you might be able to get the money out of him for those paintings you and your mates did....