1985

Rockee

So....what were ya doin???

I started primary school that September. Though managed to squeeze in some snowy screened TV viewing on RTE also! We only got ITV on sunny days for some reason.

KStaford

Dont you forget about me - Simple Minds
The breakfast Club (linked to above)
Decent Summer although I was unemployed
I remember being in love that year (but it didn't last)

Xavi6

I was being born

eVeNtInE

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Most likely lying in a pram or a cot.

kelle

KStaford wrote: »

Dont you forget about me - Simple Minds
The breakfast Club (linked to above)
Decent Summer although I was unemployed
I remember being in love that year (but it didn't last)

Decent Summer????? It was as bad as the last two Summers. I was 15 and so miserable having to stay in day after day (no internet or Playstion to alleviate the boredom!). The moving statues were big in the news (remember Ballinaspittle), and apparitions of Our Lady were reported frequently on our windy deserted beaches. I think the people of Ireland had gone a bit mad because of the bad weather. However, these visions came to an abrupt end in September when the sun finally came out - and we went back to school!
The music was great, though. There was Baltimora "Tarzan Boy", Madonna's "Into the groove" and "Holiday".

Lizzykins

Eek. I was 23 in 1985 and working in the bank. No money worries thank God, unlike half the rest of the country who had to emigrate.
1985 was the year of Live Aid wasn't it? I remember sitting through hours of my favourite bands.

KStaford

God you're right Kelle, the weather was bad now that I recall. But I remember fine weather in May and again in September. And I did end up getting a job in the Meat Factory in Roscrea seperating the inner organs of cattle on a moving table (real nice).
I remember the day of Live Aid. It was something special, I spent the day and night in an arm chair along with an awful lot of others round the world. I was blown away by the sheer size and scale of the concerts - we had never known anyhting like that i our lives. I remember the U2 performance making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I was waiting and wainting for Simple Minds (Philadelphia) and was sickened when their performance was cut short.

1985 ?? Don't get me started

lord lucan

jesus,i was 11 and tbh the only things i can remember from that year were playing in a soccer mini league and live aid.

nlgbbbblth

1985 was the year of my first gig - U2, The Alarm, REM and Squeeze in Croke Park at the end of June.

The first Jesus and Mary Chain album was released. Psychocandy. Blew me away.

The Smiths released Meat Is Murder in February. Saved up the pocket money for that one.

First started listening to The Fall in 1985.

Live Aid was good.

In school the first half of 1985 was pretty easy - first year in secondary school. In September I started second year and preparation for the Inter Cert course commenced in earnest.

The summer weather was mediocre. The moving statues were depressing.
1983 and 1984 had been two very sunny summers.

1985 family holiday was spent in Donegal. Stayed in a different B&B every night. Went into Strabane shopping one day. Bought Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected short story collection. Watched Return To Eden in a Donegal B&B when it lashed rain.

Played a lot of tennis in the summer. Had a fantastic mixed doubles win where I hit the ball straight at the opposite female every time.

Jemmy

I was only born!

KStaford

have you noticed that we don't talk about the moving statues at all now; they're never featured on nostalgia TV shows etc. Bit of a sore (embarrassing) point perhaps:D

nlgbbbblth

KStaford wrote: »

have you noticed that we don't talk about the moving statues at all now; they're never featured on nostalgia TV shows etc. Bit of a sore (embarrassing) point perhaps:D

they were on the 1985 Reeling In The Years. Morto.

Sam Kade

KStaford wrote: »

Dont you forget about me - Simple Minds
The breakfast Club (linked to above)
Decent Summer although I was unemployed
I remember being in love that year (but it didn't last)

1985 was a cold wet miserable summer however we did get an indian summer in september and october. The summer you are thinking of was 1984 it didn't rain from april to september.

KStaford

I wish it was 1985 again

arybvtcw0eolkf

1985.

I was unemployed and hadn't a 'pot to piss in, nor an arse in my pants.

I got engaged.

Applied for the Garda & the Army.

Friday, December 13th I was finally sworn in at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines. That was 23 years ago, and still serving!.

My first wage as a recruit was £36- punts.

projectmayhem

I was being born, 5 days into the year.

Shelllz

Twas the year I entered this wonderful world of ours! What a year!

orestes

I was about a year old, so probably pissing and crapping myself a lot but that's about it

Tzetze

Turned 13 while spending my first bit of time away from home in the Rannafast Gaeltacht. Great memories. We were allowed to watch Live Aid as Bearla seeing as it was such a momentous occasion.

Bearhunter

I'd left school and was on the dole getting 32 quid a week, living in Dun Laoghaire and busking to supplement my income. The summer was sh*te, apart from the day of Slane when Springsteen played a dynamite gig. It was the year that summer fell on a Saturday.

humberklog

Made a thuderous balls of the Inter but redeemed myself by earning a FORTUNE working for Guinness as my 1st proper summer job and spent all the money in The Ivy rooms(now fibber's), The Suffolk Lounge, Bartley Dunne's and two weeks in Holland on 1st proper hols without parents. Hookers! Aupairs!,Big fat Joints!Utrecht Gaypride! Deviancey seldom repeated! Deadly!

Pigman II

Watching the A-team, enjoying a short-lived facination with Transformers (they really were crap toys truth be told) and routinely dreading the sound of opening bars of Glenroe which officially heralded the end of the weekend. Ended the year with a new thing called a "computer" (commodore 64 to be precise).

Brian Capture

I GuanYin wrote: »

I was being born

eVeNtInE wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

Karsini wrote: »

Most likely lying in a pram or a cot.

projectmayhem wrote: »

I was being born, 5 days into the year.

Shelllz wrote: »

Twas the year I entered this wonderful world of ours! What a year!

orestes wrote: »

I was about a year old, so probably pissing and crapping myself a lot but that's about it

Jemmy wrote: »

I was only born!

I find these responses unacceptable. 1985 deserves better to be cherished dearly not disregarded like this.

Ann22

I did my Inter Cert that year. Don't remember much about the weather being crappy, Live Aid was great:). I remember watching it in my Granny's in Cavan with my cousin, staying up half the night eating toasted Galtee cheese sandwiches, the dawn sky was pink, sigh! Nice memory. A group of us went to see 'Desperately Seeking Susan' in the cinema. I spent many a long hour in my room playing Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' album on my sister's record player.

orestes

Brian Capture wrote: »

I find these responses unacceptable. 1985 deserves better to be cherished dearly not disregarded like this.

I apologise profusely for my lack of control of my bodily functions when I was an infant

silverharp

ah the memories , intercert year , making the transition from Wesley disco to Blinkers , we were so cool:rolleyes:


to try jog some memories, here is the list of no1's from 85

Jan FOREIGNER I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS 3 1
Feb ELAINE PAGE & BARBARA DICKSON I KNOW HIM SO WELL 4 Na
Mar DEAD OR ALIVE YOU SPIN ME ROUND 2 11
Mar PHILLIP BAILEY & PLIL COLLINS EASY LOVER 4 2
Apr USA FOR AFRICA WE ARE THE WORLD 2 1
May PHILLIS NELSON MOVE CLOSER 1 Na
May PAUL HARDCASTLE 19 5 15
Jun CROWD YOU`LL NEVER WALK ALONE 2 Na
Jun SISTER SLEDGE FRANKIE 4 75
Jul EURYTHMICS THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL 1 22
Aug MADONNA INTO THE GROOVE 4 Na
Aug UB40 & CHRISIE HYNDE I GOT YOU BABE 1 28
Sep DAVID BOWIE & MICK JAGGER DANCING IN THE STREET 4 7
Oct MIDGE URE IF I WAS 1 Na
Oct JENNIFER RUSH THE POWER OF LOVE 5 57
Nov FEARGAL SHARKEY A GOOD HEART 2 67
Nov WHAM! I`M YOUR MAN 2 3
Dec WHITNEY HOUSTON SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU 2 1
Dec SHAKIN STEVENS MERRY XMAS EVERYONE 2 10

dSTAR

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

1985 was the year of my first gig - U2 in Croke Park at the end of June.

I was almost 16 when I went to see U2 at Croker. If I remember rightly they opened with Sunday Bloody Sunday and the crowd went insane. I had started my drinking career and lost my virginity two years earlier so thought I was a bit of a hit with the laydees. I was dating a girl called Vicky whose brother went onto to play with the Big Geraniums (remember them?) in the 1990's. Used to hang around McGonagles, Bruxelles and Freebird Records. Good times indeed ...

*Getting all misty eyed now

dSTAR

silverharp wrote: »

...making the transition from Wesley disco to Blinkers , we were so cool:rolleyes:

Thats so funny. I used to frequent Wesley and Bective Discos and also graduated to Blinkers in Leopardstown. I remember going there on Sunday night and picking up the free passes they used to hand out in Jonahs bar and getting trollyed on Harvey Wall Bangers. Then having a little bit of nooky with a girl in the stands before walking home to my ol' dears crib. Seems so long ago now ...

lt_cmdr_worf

It was the year of the big thunderstorm...
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=296970

themadchef

I was 11, and boys were no longer smelly and ewwwww

dSTAR

themadchef wrote: »

I was 11, and boys were no longer smelly and ewwwww

Hey that is not fair!

I am quite sure that I had bath or shower at least every few days before I was 11!

leahyl

I GuanYin wrote: »

I was being born

Me too LOL - you stole my line! ha

komodosp

D'OH! I slept through that thunderstorm! I remember being annoyed at my parents for not waking me up and going on about how exciting it was the next day... I do remember Hurricane Charlie the following year though...

gipi

I got married in March 1985 (St Patrick's weekend), and it snowed!

I remember "We Close our Eyes" was all over the radio at the time Linky

Won 2 flights from Dublin to London Luton from a new airline called Ryanair

Was also at the Croke Park gig in June - there was a festival in Dublin city the same weekend, remember the attempts at a laser show near O Connell Bridge (didn't work!).

Remember Live Aid day too (13th July) as my friend's son was christened that day - we had a collection at the house party and sent it to St Bob!

stovelid

Memories:

Being in second year, the year before the inter cert.

Spending some of the summer in Manchester staying with my aunty, being jealous of the clothes my cousins had, and pestering them to give me their cast-offs: Sergio Tacchini, Fila, and those old Adidas t-shirts, and trainers.

Everyone over there being into Electro/Hip-Hop music and still trying to breakdance and all having their own graffiti tags that naturally went on every wall in sight.

Live-Aid.

Nearly being in tears when Kevin Moran got sent off in the F.A cup final, but cheering up when Big Norman scored with minutes to go.

Dudess

Ooh... love this!

It's the first year of my life I remember really clearly. I turned seven in the May - the very day of that FA Cup, stovelid. I don't remember the game but my dad tells me it was not a pleasant day for him - he had to contend with the lack of scoring, then the sending-off (in fairness, Moran sent Peter Reid somersaulting and would surely get sent off for less today) and learning that the ref was a former traffic warden ("Wouldn't you know it? A ****ing Brit cop sending off the paddy!") And on top of this, there was a bunch of six and seven-year-old girls running in and out of the living room and blocking the TV on him every so often.

I remember being OBSESSED with Madonna - she was everywhere that year. I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner was utterly massive too. Loved Nik Kershaw (he played in Cork City Hall ) and A-Ha (Take On Me was out that year). My cousin fancied Morten Harket something rotten. I, being weird, fancied Baltimora (the guy who sang Tarzan Boy - he was gay). Sister Sledge - Frankie. Now That's What I Call Music! 5 and 6 - we got both of them. The arrival of Simply Red (boo-urns!)
Loved Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill and Siouxsie and the Banshees' Cities In Dust. Already my inner goth was developing!
The year of monster albums - Like A Virgin, Springsteen's Born In The USA, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms. We collected those albums on cassette via the Texaco tiger tokens.

I remember news stories from then (my first time becoming aware of stuff going on in the world) - Band Aid (Christmas '84 but obviously spilled over into January '85), Live Aid (remember that day so well but the bands were too grandadish for me), the Kerry Babies - didn't understand what it was about but it was on the news for weeks and weeks. I was constantly hearing the names Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Moving Statue of Ballinspittle: we went down to see it - it didn't move.
Cork 800 celebrations - mugs, car stickers, t-shirts, moneyboxes, biros. I'm sure plenty of people still have some of the above.

Movies: Back to the Future and Desperately Seeking Susan - not that I went to either of them, but I remember the hype.

Toys: Barbie, My Little Pony, Care Bears - loved them all. For boys it was Transformers, Masters of the Universe, Subbuteo and Action Force.

TV: Can't remember anything specific other than the usual 80s stuff like The Smurfs and The A-Team.

Sinclair Spectrum, walkmans...

Oh yeah, ANOTHER caravan holiday in Kerry - and the weather was utter shyte...


Heh, crap caravan holidays, moving statues - how Father Ted WERE our lives...?!

stovelid

Your poor dad, Dudess . I remember we went so nuts celebrating the goal that my friend's dog tried to bite us. Remember thinking that Nik Kershaw video was well cool. The energy suit and he legs it back to his space device at the end.

I forgot about Kate Bush, I adored that album, especially Cloudbusting. Always fancied her too.

Agent Smith

being born!

Lirange

Remember that summer in Skerries, going to see The Goonies with my older sister and her hot friend Rach. Hi Rachel if you're out there.

Turned 10 that year, still remember the rocket ship cake. Best one ever.

mental07

Dudess wrote: »

The arrival of Simply Red

For that reason alone, 1985 should be banished from the history books. BANISHED!!

stovelid

mental07 wrote: »

For that reason alone, 1985 should be banished from the history books. BANISHED!!

Money's Too Tight To Mention wasn't the worst, in fairness. Certainly no warning of the horrors to come.

furtzy

Ah I was 12. Remember Live Aid like it was yesterday. The weather was glorious that day and I was torn between going out and popping some bunny hops on my BMX or watching the show.....I choose Live Aid and am glad I did

jane86

I was being conceived! :eek:

FatherTed

1985 was the in-between year for me, I did the Inter in 84 and the Leaving in 86.
In sports it was an eventful year, Man Utd won the FA Cup that year, Kevin Moran sent off but Whiteside scored a peach of a goal later to win it. Also remember watching the European Cup Final with Liverpool and Juventus, the start was delayed forever because of the trouble with the fans and a good number were killed. Crowd going on the pitch and some players came out to check. The game went ahead eventually but it was a let down. Also, Denis Taylor won the world snooker championship against Steve Davis, I remember him when he won, with his big Mr Magoo glasses and holding the cue over his head celebrating. Also Ireland won the Triple crown with that drop goal near the end by Michael Kiernan against England.

Also Des O'Malley left FF and create his own brand new party and we were all shocked in Galway when Bobby Molloy joined him. I went camping in Cork with my brother and then the Air India plane crashed off the Cork coast. Went to see Springsteen in Slane who was all the rage in 1985. Have to agree with Dudess about Madonna, she was setting the fashion trends for girls back then, I remember the girls dressing up like her with the black lace, chains etc.

nlgbbbblth

FatherTed wrote: »

1985 was the in-between year for me, I did the Inter in 84 and the Leaving in 86.

I remember my next door neighbour cursing the Inter Cert Hons Maths paper in 1984. (I did mine in '87). Think it was paper 2. Bitch of a question on the cylinder. Area and volume. Do you remember it?

Max_Damage

I wasn't even born!

However, this is what O'Connell street, among others, looked like in '85:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOlJItjeZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDWVp3A5b2g

petals

I was being born... :P

jupiterjack

that was a good year 85, had a great summer goin to see all the moving statues

kelle

And did she make the earth move for you, jup?

Gav.80

love the 80's