Teenager discos!

brown*eyed*girl

So what age did you go to your first proper teenage disco and what clothes did you wear and did you have a slow dance and which song was it?

My first proper disco was when I just turned 14. I wore (cringe) black slip on pointy shoes, cream ribbed tights, black mini skirt and cream polo neck. I had permed hair which was scrunced with lots of mouse from the pound shop and thought I was gorgeous. My aim was to have hair like Susanna Hoffs form the Bangles. I had a slow dance to Eternal Flame to a fella called Chris.

Other songs that stick out that they played regularly were Jive Bunny, Love Cats by the Cure, Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

Vegeta

class idea for a thread.

i was about 13 it was a school disco and their were definitely slow dances. Such a funny time. There was a school disco once a month. Cannot remember for the life of me what i wore

It was so funny looking back now

brown*eyed*girl

Vegeta wrote:

class idea for a thread.

i was about 13 it was a school disco and their were definitely slow dances. Such a funny time. There was a school disco once a month. Cannot remember for the life of me what i wore

It was so funny looking back now

I'm just glad we didn't have picture phones back then or Bebo for that matter. Least we only have those images in our minds to cringe too. Can you imagine the teens of today checking out their Bebos and pictures in 10+ years time.

Smellyirishman

Haha, yeah there used to be discos held in the sports hall of our primary school. I have no idea what age I was, I guess the usual <13. Probably wore some nike runners, tracksuit bottoms and a nike top :cool:. There was definitly some slow dancing and even a bit of bum touching :eek:.

Song was probably "Near, far, whereEEEEAAAAVVVER you are" you know, that one, about the boat.

Not exactly a teenage disco, but I don't have such fond memories of those. I would have gone to the "No Name" (shweeeer) in the SPA Hotel, can't remember it being anything other than crap though. Actually, I do remember one thing, they played "Smells like teen spirit" which was pretty much the highlight of my night, then I might have "meh" some "young-one".

boneless

About 13... first and last disco ever!!! Stayed for 25 minutes and left... formed a punk band next day!!!

Ruu_Old

Ah I wasn't much for those, like boneless I went to one and one only when I was 14, that was the end of that.

bennyx_o

I went to the cricket club once. Have to admit, I had a decent enough time, but never went again.

petes

Think I was thirteen. Haven't a clue what I wore. At the ones I went to it was already predetermined who you were going to shift. At that one it was Deidre. Only went to a few after that. They were crap.

Mrs. MacGyver

Went to Kilnamatra (dosco in gaeltacht near where i lived) danced with Kevin McCarthy (thought he was greatest thing since sliced pan!) wore black pearljam jeremy tshirt and black xworks jeans (it was the early 90's!)I was 14.

justfortherecor

Surely people from Galway remember the 'Bish Disco'?!

Hilarious looking back on it now! The 'Bouncer' asking questions such as 'are you sure you're in first year now?' and 'you certainly dont look 13 to me!'.

Good memories: girls getting stomachs pumped from too much drink, bouncers splitting up people who were kissing, the odd fight (Oi,Oi,Oi,Oi), knackers waiting outside for more fights after closing and of course all the gossip the next day during school.

The socialising scene has been downhill after that anyways.

Ruu_Old

petes wrote:

Think I was thirteen. Haven't a clue what I wore. At the ones I went to it was already predetermined who you were going to shift. At that one it was Deidre. Only went to a few after that. They were crap.

Ah yes shifting, you'd be the talk of the class for that week then.

tj-music.com

I went there from the age of 12 and wore all the ugly, pointless things you´d wear in the early 1980s.

The new wave of German songs with NENA and KRAFTWERK and all them was huge back then so I danced to that a lot. I danced a lot to a song called "Illusion" performed by three black guys but I can´t remember their name.

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The Grove ftw

petes

Ruu wrote:

Ah yes shifting, you'd be the talk of the class for that week then.

Week before and after.

Mrs. MacGyver

and if you 'went out with someone' as a result of the shifting (holding hands) you were hallowed amongst people!

Blisterman

When I was 13, and I never went to one again.

Femelade

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Went to Kilnamatra (dosco in gaeltacht near where i lived) danced with Kevin McCarthy (thought he was greatest thing since sliced pan!) wore black pearljam jeremy tshirt and black xworks jeans (it was the early 90's!)I was 14.

Ha, beens to a few of them myself...coachford too. i think i recall wearing one of those long hippie black skirts with little white flowers on it. and black doc martins, and a white top of some sort. one time my friend put my hair in a french plait...

Can you imagine the teenages of today being so innocent...!!? doubt it.

county

think i was about 14-15 when i went to my first disco,at the time i was big into the grunge and punk Scene so slow sets were not the done thing

the Shades

ooh I was about 14, it was in the local parish community hall. Absolutely crap night stood in a dark corner, was probably reading too many vampire books at the time.

Anyway Nothing Compares 2 U was the big end of disco slow dance. Left afterwards never went back lol

Stark

Never went to a teenage disco and thank christ for that. Nightclubs are bad enough when you're pissed.

petes

Stark wrote:

Never went to a teenage disco and thank christ for that. Nightclubs are bad enough when you're pissed.

Glad I can never remember nightclubs. Although I have a habit of leaving jackets in the cloakroom. Have to collect one today from Friday night.

xzanti

My first teenage disco was just after I made my confirmation, I was 12 and I wore a pink skirt and matching top with a stripy pastel colloured string vest made onto it, with cream canvas laced up ankle boots... The slow song of the moment was Love is All Around by Wet Wet Wet and The End of The Road by Boys to Men... Don't remember being asked to dance by anyone though oh well.. Think it was my zits :rolleyes:

Good times..

FatherTed

justfortherecor wrote:

Surely people from Galway remember the 'Bish Disco'?!

Hilarious looking back on it now! The 'Bouncer' asking questions such as 'are you sure you're in first year now?' and 'you certainly dont look 13 to me!'.

Good memories: girls getting stomachs pumped from too much drink, bouncers splitting up people who were kissing, the odd fight (Oi,Oi,Oi,Oi), knackers waiting outside for more fights after closing and of course all the gossip the next day during school.

The socialising scene has been downhill after that anyways.

I went to the Bish in the 80's, back then only 5th and 6th years(i.e. post Inter Cert) from the Bish were allowed in. The girls from the Pres, Mercy and Salerno schools. Sometimes we used to get jarred up before hand if we were lucky enough to get served at The Hole In the Wall, or if we were able to ge some cider. One year a few of us ran the snack shop, if we fancied a girl we'd say, "here have a Tayto on the house, as long as ya give us a dance later". The big shift song back then was that Bobby Goldsboro song, I forget the name of it (was it "Honey"?).

Prior to that I first taste of a disco was at our local community centerI was still in national school. For some reason I remember dancing to Bucks Fizz and Shaky Stevens :eek:

MW

God I remember it well, I was 11, I plastered on my mother's make-up, wore a kind of short black pinafore dress, with a tight black and white striped top underneath, I wore that outfit to death. I teamed it with those summer shoes that were like canvas shoes, cream coloured with the thick soles, I thought I was the sh*t. Had my first shift at it too, but while we were slow dancing, (can't remember the song), he kept looking at me and I kept looking away he obviously wanted to go in for the kill, but alas I was innocent. So I shifted him at the end of the night before I went home, I was in love for about a month after that. Can't beat it. Summer of '95!! I was the talk of school when I went back in September though. God they really were innocent days.

Preset No.3

bennyx_o wrote:

I went to the cricket club once. Have to admit, I had a decent enough time, but never went again.

Would that be the same cricket club where mark mc cabe recorded Maniac 2000? It was over the kilester direction

Preset No.3

I never did the teenage disco thing. But 18 years later Im still a successful working DJ!!!

Faith

I was just turned 13 and it was in the hockey club. I wore jeans, big chunky denim style shoes (sex-ay!) and a purple string top with little flowers on the straps. I looked hawt! I panicked before hand, but got over it by my friends assuring me that "kissing just comes naturally!" And it did...

Stark

I wonder if snowballing also comes naturally.

Lady_Macbeth

The local GAA club put on teenage discos about every month or 6 weeks or so. I was 14 and a bit, my hair was in a braid (oooh yeah, wasn't I hot), I wore light blue jeans, a sleeveless navy top, some tinted moisturiser and purple eyeshadow (because that's all I had) and both me and my best mate ended up 'shifting' the same guy that night! Can't remember any slow songs, it was mostly dancey-type music, I can remember the Bloodhound Gang's song The Bad Touch though, because all the lads got up on the chairs that lined the walls around the place and started doing actions to it. Class night in the end though - wasn't home til 12.30am!!!!!!!!

Muzzy

Was 14. hated them all, went until the end of second year.....Crap crap crap. Just went knacker drinking after that instead.

But at least is was easy to score at them, walking up to a girl you maybe said hi to that week or something and just sayin, "Will ya shift me" If you said that in a club today, she'd give you a slap, run away, run back to you and start laughing.

Into school the next day, all the lads asking, "Who were ya shiftin?" God I miss that word!!

Aidan78

I was a late bloomer. My first disco was when I was 17 (mid-90s). Never was interested in going before that. It was in the Bloomfield House Hotel in Mullingar. Wore blue Wrangler jeans and a blue Ben Sherman short-sleeved shirt, saturated (almost) in Lynx and thought I was the business! How innocent, how young, how naive. Danced with a girl named Michelle. Still see her around from time to time. She's married now and has a daughter.

Ah, thems were the days!!

FranknFurter

hehe.....gawd I remember those......

My only "school disco" experiences were getting a lift to them pretending I was going in, and then pissing off into town to fibbers (I know, but I was a kid), to sit for the night in a booth full of (older) also drunken friends in full "curehead" style, big docs, hugely overstretched black jumpers, jeans so tight that one wrong move would render you impotent, badly applied eyeliner & 2 foot high backcombed hair -with the contents of 4 cans of hairspray in it! lolol
That or McGonagles (sth annes st I think?) where you could buy a huge bottle of manky red table wine and get pissed out of your mind in the bar and pass out on the couch!!

*Major cringe*...... god I was an awful kid, no wonder my parents went slightly insane! LOL

B

GAA widow

anyone go to "Roco" in Cork?!

Dun laoire

Stradbrook when i was about 14. Jaysus the state of me on the dance floor givin it loads to the prodigy with my petro-motion jeans. haha. Good times though.

b0bbie

I can't believe someone hasn't mention Wesley discos till now... I know all the slagging about there now but when you are 14 it rocked! I remember eclispe jeans and Xworks jeans, short skirts with stripey knee high socks, and tunes like set me free by N Trance, I remember slow sets like UB40 and lemonade at 50p a plastic cup!!!!

kelle

I was 14 when i went to my first junior disco. I wore (wait for it) a pink flowery jumpsuit my mother ran up on the sewing machine that evening. Thought I was the bees knees, and my friends actually admired it plus my new poodle perm! Anyway, we danced to "I feel for You" by Chaka Khan, "Shout to the top" by style Council, and slow danced to "Purple Rain" by Prince! I remember being disgusted by the wee couples snogging in corners :eek: - never knew that type of thing went on in discos, thought people only went there to dance. Nevertheless, I told my mother everything I saw and she had great fun telling her sisters the shocking stories about these "naughty" young couples esp as they knew the parents of all of them!
Mum had no problem with me going to discos after that as she enjoyed the forthcoming gossip, but after a while I stopped telling her EVERYTHING!:D

shane86

Cant say that I remember there ever being slow dances, probably too much of a fight risk (tbh where i went whenever the rap/dance would be turned off for a minute to play a bit of Boyzone/Westlife, that was when the bored brawling would break out. Lack of quality tunes would be a security risk!)


Scooters Logical Song, Next Episode/Still DRE, the Faithless remix of Eminems Without Me, and that Nickleback one from years ago were the tunes back in 2000/2001/02. What made me laugh that, when i was 13 the guys who had been were the loudest with the "so there i am, shes pullin the mickey offa me". You go to your first disco and the same lads are sat in the corner 90% of the night, and you realise people you held in awe are talking out of their holes.

Stopped going and started hittin the clubs when I was 16 or 17, after two pieces of advice from my cousin

1- Fake ID

2- Reebok hoodies may cut it as the door of the local kids spot, but a real bouncer will tell you to **** off, so dress up

Ironically, Ive been to clubs in town that play cheesier music than the old kids discos.

kittex

seansouth wrote:

The Grove ftw

The Grove was brilliant and not really much like the typical teen discos.

Cecil rocks.

fifib

oh man.. the Bish discos... :eek: the flashbacks hehe i was a mercy girl and we used to literally spend the whole week planning and organising what we were gona wear and how we'd get our drink (was usually me who got served..i was tallest!!) it was ridiculous!!
And after that it was FFrench's in Monivea..god had some very good and very bad nights out there!!

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kittex wrote:

The Grove was brilliant and not really much like the typical teen discos.

Cecil rocks.

Did you watch the documentary about it last night on RTÉ?

It was brilliant, one of my mates was on it, dressed like he used to dress (Curehead). We were at the re-union thing last year, and he was interviewed at it. We all sat in with beers watching it, and were shocked to see him. Good laugh though.

Yes, Cecil does indeed rock. For the documentary they brought him back to St Paul's for the first time since he stopped doing The Grove, and he went onto the stage and started crying. Ledge!

bennyx_o

Preset No.3 wrote:

Would that be the same cricket club where mark mc cabe recorded Maniac 2000? It was over the kilester direction

Twas indeed.

kittex

seansouth wrote:

Did you watch the documentary about it last night on RTÉ?

It was brilliant, one of my mates was on it, dressed like he used to dress (Curehead). We were at the re-union thing last year, and he was interviewed at it. We all sat in with beers watching it, and were shocked to see him. Good laugh though.

Yes, Cecil does indeed rock. For the documentary they brought him back to St Paul's for the first time since he stopped doing The Grove, and he went onto the stage and started crying. Ledge!

I haven't seen it but am dying to.
There was a girl I know interviewed on it about it too, red hair.
I thought someone might youtube it but there's nothing showing up.

Endasaurus

It was in a local town hall in Connemara and I plucked up the courage to ask a girl called mary to dance

Songs included were all the rubbish from about 2000, 2001!! Cheesy stuff!

DublinWriter

When I was 15 back in 198*cough* we ran a pirate radio station from a local community hall in North Dublin and used to run teen discos ourselves.

How we were let away with it is anybody’s guess, but we used to rake in a couple of hundred punts in funds to support the radio station every weekend.

I remember at the time, alcohol wasn’t even on the menu. Nobody our age drank. Anywhere. It was unthinkable. We’d have about 200 teens in, and I can safely say none would have been drinking and there was never a moment of trouble.

My first pint was in the Summit in Howth a year later and it was all downhill from there!

I can also shamefully say that back then I had a mini-mullet and a ‘Miami-Device’ suit, and yes, the sleeves were pushed back to the elbow, but I drew a line at sockless white slip-ons and usually wore black buckled 50’s ‘Brothel Creepers’ which added at least two inches to my already gangly teenage height.

At our discos about ¼ of the teens were usually Spaniards over for the summer. The Spanish girls were on a different league when it came to flirting. They’d just fix you with a deep stare when they wanted to flirt.

I actually thought writing out this trip down memory lane would cheer me up, but if anything it’s made me even more depressed because these days I get the whole concept of ‘slippers’, my car insurance costs about as much as my weekly shopping bill and the prospect of a night-in gets me all tingly.

Cork

Teenage Dicsos in my village favourites were:

"Jump" by Van Halen
"Jump" by the pointer sisters.

People used just jump.

There was alsdo the air guitar craze.

Aisling(",)

my first one was in first year in 2002 out in suttonians rugby club.i wore a denim skirt ugg boots and a white sparkly top.i played beat the slapper and danced to rave and r 'n' b especially dj rankin stuff.saw loads of drunk ppl and people getting **** etc.used to go every 2 weeks.went during the summer compleatly locked and got in shows how lenient the bouncers are.have to say that disco is compleatly un suitable.now i go to barcode each month for the under 18's.trying to be allowed get out to bondi and the wezz.

Bob the Builder

I was 13 years old, heading out to a disco after lying to my parents to some extent. Thought it was great, no slow-dances at all, and yes, they are a major security risk. Thats when fights get out of hand...

I was wearing a pair of Sonneti jeans and a white t-shirt, both reflected under UV light and looked pretty cool... I was totally sober that day, and clueless as to what do in a disco.

One of my friernds that I went with that night is in hospital now, getting chemotherapy for leukemia, and so i remembered that night well...

Disco's are better when your drunk, especially for me, beacuse I loosen up completely...

Darragh29

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

I had a slow dance to Eternal Flame to a fella called Chris.

I had my first slow set to the exact same song! I Was in first year in secondary school and I think the girls name was Susan! Not too long after that, I had my first "proper" kiss with a girl on the back of the train from Ennis to Knock that we were all on for the Killalloe diasosis annual pilgrimage to Knock! It was weird wearing the face of a girl to the sound of a train full of old people chanting the rosary!

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My first dance was to Eternal Flame too.

Not at a disco though, it was a 'Hop' for my 13th birthday, in my kitchen :eek:

I fancied the pants off this young wan, but she wouldn't give me a kiss

Darragh29

seansouth wrote:

My first dance was to Eternal Flame too.

Not at a disco though, it was a 'Hop' for my 13th birthday, in my kitchen :eek:

I fancied the pants off this young wan, but she wouldn't give me a kiss

When I had my first slow set to Eternal Flame, I remember another song was in the charts at the same time, or maybe it wasn't but it was played straight after Eternal Flame at the time, it was "Stop" by Jamelia:

All that i have is all that you've given me
Did you never worry
That i've come to depend on you
I gave you all the love i had in me
Now i find you lied
And i cant believe it's true

Ooooh You better stop (Stop)
Before you tear me all apart
You better stop (Stop)
Before you go and brake my heart

Oooooooh You better stop

The tax man

Anyone go to Marys(rugby club) Templeouge.
I was a member of the "darkside" of the hall.:D
God the good aul goth days. Always had a laugh a two blokes that always got the dj to play The sisters of mercy or The mission at the start of the night and then you wouldn't see them again for the rest of the night. Always thought they brought there own records,got them played and then fecked off home or something.