Post Grove venues.

Bruxelles/Mc Gonagles was my usual friday night. Followed by a wobbly cycle home (Poor student that I was).

Later I moved on to Fibbers, where I took up residency in the shadows of the stage and people watched. We used to give all the regulars nicknames based on their look or how they danced. But it's all lost now in the haze.

I think one of my most memorable Fibbers stories happened around Patricks weekend/Easter 1994. This was a fairly alcohol fueled year in that place though. I went through a major image change as i'd gotten my mane of hair chopped off and ended up looking like Stephen Morris from New Order! I also started toning down the shirts to try and look semi-respectable (a move i regretted and have since retracted).

I believe the inside layout has changed a lot now, but as you entered the main door (that left you upstairs), inside the door to the left was a seated area with a big round table. I used to sit there a lot in the afternoons/early evenings before hitting the stage. And this guy, looked like he was in his mid to late 20's was refused in for whatever reason, and started a major verbal fight with one of the bouncers there. So obviously it got loud and rowdy and we're sitting beside the door, taking interest.

They proceed to calm the punter down, and off he goes. Or so everyone thought. What we didn't know is he has his bike parked outside! He proceeded to rev that sucker up, plow his way down Parnell St, and turn back to the newsagent beside the 40a bus stop and plow his way through the doors of Fibbers. The bouncers moved out of the way but the guy got the angle wrong and only one of the doors got busted open (to the point where it came off the hinge!). The bike got caught in the other door, and the biker was sent unceremoniously flying over the handlebars and through the door he'd busted open and across the floor of Fibbers.

Bouncers came in, took him by the arms and flung him back out again.
Fun times! :)

me.


Edited by Shaun N.

Thurs-Sunday! Hardcore!
When it was Fibbers time it was Thursday-Saturday for me
Thursday being student night, enough said
Friday being true metal night
Saturday catering for everyone.

The spend Sunday recovering! Coming into work hungover (or in some cases still drunk) was easy to get away with on Friday, but it was easily copped on Monday. So we didn't risk it :D

me.

forgot about the cathedral club, spent some time there as well! Used to drink in the william tell, when it used to be called the pygmallion, another good spot.

on sunday nights we would often finish our drinking in pink elephant and then get a taxi to work!

before fibbers was it not the ivy rooms?

I remember the were a Beat Club that played more classic/progressive stuff around 93 alright, it was held on the top floor of McGraths (where Fraizers is now) We used to be able to bunk in the back way by sneaking out the back of Fibbers into it before they went and turned it from a car park to a beer garden. It may have been a resurrected version of what Mel was talking about.

As for the place on Parnell St. From what i remember of it (my bus used to be across the street from it), It used to be the Ivy Rooms, then it was Top Catz (while La Mirage was downstairs), then it was The Podium, and then it was Fibbers. It went through a brief name change around 99 where it was changed to Bacchus. It didn't last long and got renamed back to Fibbers.

me.

Had our first ever gig in the Ivy Rooms...was quite a kip then (1986).

Webt to Fibbers a few times in the 90's-they had different 'nights' didn't they? Rock night,punk night,dance night etc.

Met a girl in there one night I used to know. We were chatting at the bar waiting for a drink and she saw I had a nearly empty Heineken. 'I'm getting one of those-you want one?' she asked.

Barman comes over and she calls 'Two Heineken and a Guinness'. He hands over the two Heineken while the Guinness is settling and she says 'I'll be back for the Guinness' and says to me 'Quick-run!' and drags me away without paying!

Terribly dishonest-wouldn't DREAM of doing that now...

tupelopenny wrote: so you got a 40 bus home? i used to sometimes when i was feeling lazy, i lived off whitworth road. I remember the ivy rooms, used to go to gigs there, winters reign, stryder, merlin etc, probably seen roobie 63 there when he was in zero zero

Used to live in Finglas South so any of the 40's used to take me there. That Withworth Road used to drive me nuts going in. Those horrible traffic lights at the end where Binns Bridge is. 2 minutes red, 22 seconds green. Yes i did time the sequence once when i was bored. I don't think it has changed since

me.

Graduated to Bruxelles and McGonagles and then the Beat Club for a while. Left the country soon after (not because of that mind you).

 

 

I am unable to divulge where I moved on from the Grove.