Crappy Festivals you thought were cool

mickrourke

Well I know from around my locality, there were 2 major crappy festivals that i thought was cool (at the time)
Moynalty Steam Threshing & Kieran Well
The Steam Threshing for anyone not lucky enough to go was mainly about old tractors and steam powered hay bailing contraptions
Keiran Well, not sure, think it was something about the wart healing power of a holy well

The only good things about these festivals was the cap guns you would always buy with a picture of cowboys and indians on the packaging from the hawkers - Them ring caps were way too expensive, the paper ones were much better, always broke it by home time though
Good times though

Ruu_Old

Oldcastle Agricultural Show, they had all sorts of stalls there. There were some that sold these cork guns which were cool at the time (until I took the cork off the string it was attached to and it end up lost). Don't forget the Mr.Whippy ice cream vans as well.

One year they let NO STALLS in at all and just had the ag stuff and it backfired very badly on them. There was the one in Virginia as well that people used to talk a half day on Wednesday to go and see.

mickrourke

Oh yeah, one year at the kells heritage festival, they had fireworks at the Spire, but it was too windy and loads went into the crowds below. No one was seriously injured but i lost my sense of humour that night.
Damn you Airbombs, Damn you to hell.

Spud guns were great too, until your ma caught you with it and confiscated it. Don't know how she knew i had it? Maybe it was all them little holes in the potatoes she saw when she was making the din

It BeeMee

Spud guns were grea. Used to have something like this in black. It could be used as a water pistol too!

Had another one that worked like a revolver. Basically, you had 4 "bullets" that you could spud up. Put them in the chamber, and use the paper caps to propel them. The thing packed a bit of punch, but was too difficult to try keep the caps in place. Plus it took a bit of setting up each time.

The air based one above was much better for fast, close-up combat....

Wishbone Ash

mickrourke wrote:

The Steam Threshing for anyone not lucky enough to go was mainly about old tractors and steam powered hay bailing contraptions

What's crappy about that?

(Steam powered threshing machines - not for hay nor for baling! )

Wishbone Ash

.....of course, when it's wet, it's a different ball game!

mickrourke

Sorry, I was young and never really got the threshing thing
That pic brings back some memories for me. They always seem to hold it in the same fields.

WindSock

I know it's not a festival but...The spring show in the RDS. I went one year when I was 5/6 and thought it was great. Even if it was full o culchie fearmers.
And Paddies day in the 80's when it was just crappy marching bands. I never went but always really wanted to.

Corruptedmorals

The local Leixlip Festival. Ughh. It just gets worse every year. Though it did used to have Abbaesque and Dickie Rock..

Wishbone Ash

Corruptedmorals wrote:

The local Leixlip Festival. Ughh. It just gets worse every year. Though it did used to have Abbaesque and Dickie Rock..

Didn't you have the Rolling stones back in the mid 1970s? :cool: