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Topic: Long forgotten Music Festivals.......
rebelrebel30
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 15:33
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Here in Cork we had ...

the Siamsa Cois Laoi in the mid 80s..John Denver and other stars came to play in the Pairc
Then we had the Lark by the lee in the early 90s out the straight road remember being at a few of thoses..
Also remember a few Beat on the streets in Cork around 88/89 with Electric Eddie - remember him?? on the site of the Garda Station..

ah innocent happy days ...anyone else any memories of local festivals no longer around when money was scarce and a flaggin was your only man for the night!
THESUNNYSOUTH
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 15:41
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remember the Feile down the Pairc in 1995? 3 days of it , great stuff. Moby, Weller, Chemical Bros, Blur, Ash, Nick Cave, even Kylie! But my fav were  (and still are )  The Stone Roses
OneLeggedDancer
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 15:46
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The Kilkenny Beer Festival, must have been late `60s. Big beer tent, oompah music by a Bavarian band, lederhosen etc. - good beery fun.
dubliner 2
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 15:48
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Originally posted by THESUNNYSOUTH:
remember the Feile down the Pairc in 1995? 3 days of it , great stuff. Moby, Weller, Chemical Bros, Blur, Ash, Nick Cave, even Kylie! But my fav were   (and still are  )   The Stone Roses

Sorry Sunny South but the Feile will forever belong to Thurles. Was at them all, including Cork in 95 and while I agree that the line up was exceptional the distance from the camp site to the city and the stadium ruined it. Thurles was perfection for five years.
THESUNNYSOUTH
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 15:53
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Originally posted by dubliner 2:


Sorry Sunny South but the Feile will forever belong to Thurles. Was at them all, including Cork in 95 and while I agree that the line up was exceptional the distance from the camp site to the city and the stadium ruined it. Thurles was perfection for five years.

Ah id agree with you there, was only at 1 Feile in Thurles, all i remember of it was Transvision Vamp!  (i wonder why )  . But the line up in Cork was superb. Then again i was able travel up and down every day .
About a Bicycle
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 15:58
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Originally posted by rebelrebel30:
Long forgotten Music Festivals.......

Macroom Mountain Dew Festival in the late 70`s, early 80`s - must have had 3-5 good years. Rory used to headline it..

Anyone remember year the Cimarons played there - Reggae in West Cork - memories..........

Another year Joe O`Donnell, the electric fiddle player was playing. There was a bird in the crowd from Mullingar, completely out of her head on some foreign substance. She started crying when he came on cos she was expecting Joe Dolan!
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Yojimbo
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:08
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Lisdoonvarna, 1980: "The mud, and the blood, and the beer!"

Happy days, indeed!
OD28
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:22
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Originally posted by rebelrebel30:

Also remember a few Beat on the streets in Cork around 88/89 with Electric Eddie - remember him?? on the site of the Garda Station..

Beat on the Street was not a festival! Still, a bit of craic when you were 9...

Electric Eddie is still on the radio, does a show on Q102 in Dublin  (awful station ) 
Yojimbo
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:22
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Originally posted by About a Bicycle:


Macroom Mountain Dew Festival in the late 70`s, early 80`s - must have had 3-5 good years. Rory used to headline it..

Anyone remember year the Cimarons played there - Reggae in West Cork - memories..........

Another year Joe O`Donnell, the electric fiddle player was playing. There was a bird in the crowd from Mullingar, completely out of her head on some foreign substance. She started crying when he came on cos she was expecting Joe Dolan!

If memory serves me well Seamus Ennis was at Lisdoonvarna 1980!
Punter72007
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:29
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The Fleadh Mor in Tramore ... 93, I think.
the stoker
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:32
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Lark in the park
backintheday
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:37
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Originally posted by OneLeggedDancer:
The Kilkenny Beer Festival, must have been late `60s. Big beer tent, oompah music by a Bavarian band, lederhosen etc. - good beery fun.

Yeah was just coming of age when it was cancelled! Was devastated...Munich was not as accessible back in the day. Auf Wiedersehen Pet was still a few years in the dim and distant future.
Still it was a good move in hindsight except for the rest of the proud hurling counties and great servants denied their Golden Septembers.
I Ron Butterfly
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:47
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Speaking of Cork music festivals, i was at indiependence this year in Mitchelstown, good laugh i must say. It`s a festival on the grow, has mushroomed in the last few years.
backintheday
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 16:48
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Originally posted by About a Bicycle:
There was a bird in the crowd from Mullingar, completely out of her head on some foreign substance. She started crying when he came on cos she was expecting Joe Dolan!

To paraphrase the great Mullingar batchelor himself ...dumb -de- dumb, dumb-de- dumb-de-dumb, dumb-de dumb-dumb-dumb...
Yojimbo
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 17:13
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Originally posted by backintheday:


To paraphrase the great Mullingar batchelor himself ...dumb -de- dumb, dumb-de- dumb-de-dumb, dumb-de dumb-dumb-dumb...

if memory serves me well that went dumb-de-dumb dum,......yadda, yadda, bi
 (from `The House With The White-washed Gables` ) 
plain vanilla
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 17:49
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There was a music festival on the Newport road out of Castlebar in Mayo back in the late 80`s/ early 90`s, but for the life of me I can`t remember the name...anyone able to put me out of my misery??
backintheday
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 18:00
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Originally posted by Yojimbo:

if memory serves me well that went dumb-de-dumb dum,......

Yo, more and more and more...!!!!!
jack daw
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 18:40
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the colleen bawn festival in croom!
Yojimbo
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 18:44
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Originally posted by backintheday:


Yo, more and more and more...!!!!!

Its you, its you, its you!
Avondhu abu
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 19:28
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NADDSTOCK
Larkin
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 19:36
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Originally posted by jack daw:
the colleen bawn festival in croom!

Now that is going back some years. Jaysus, you`d want a separate insurance policy to go there. It was great crack though back in the day when there were no Gardai on the roads.

Remember all the great festivals in Cork. Was anyone else there on the day U2 played at the Lark by the Lee?
Larkin
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 19:37
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Just looked it up there and according to the website it was 1985.
Yojimbo
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 19:48
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Originally posted by Larkin:


Now that is going back some years. Jaysus, you`d want a separate insurance policy to go there. It was great crack though back in the day when there were no Gardai on the roads.

Remember all the great festivals in Cork. Was anyone else there on the day U2 played at the Lark by the Lee?

What about Michael Jackson at Pairc Ui Caoimh?
THESUNNYSOUTH
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 19:56
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Originally posted by Yojimbo:

What about Michael Jackson at Pairc Ui Caoimh?

Was there, and even though not into his music it was a fantastic show. Also saw U2 , Prince and Oasis in Cork .
Larkin
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Posted: 08-Sep-2010 20:05
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Originally posted by THESUNNYSOUTH:


Was there, and even though not into his music it was a fantastic show. Also saw U2 , Prince and Oasis in Cork .

Saw them all as well. Happy days indeed. I remember there being something on both Saturday and Sunday one year. I think it was U2 on Saturday and Siamsa on Sunday.

Don McLean played once and when he came out for an encore some lad had climbed on the outside of the stage and proceeded to moon the crowd. The punters went wild and the bould Don thought it was him until he looked up and saw the lad. He went off in a huff the bollix.
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