First time you saw Riverdance

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Do you remember the first time you saw Riverdance and your reaction to it? I was working in the bush in Africa, no TV, telephone, Internet etc got back to the city about 6 weeks after the Eurovision and some of the Irish lads were talking about an interval act during the Eurovision, they had a video of it. Wasn't over excited at the thoughts of watching an interval act so didn't get around to it for a few days, hair stood on the back of my neck. How about you?

El Weirdo

Saw the broadcast and thought it was pretty damn good.

But boy, did it get old quick.

Timberrrrrrrr

El Weirdo wrote: »

Saw the broadcast and thought it was pretty damn good.

But boy, did it get old quick.

Especially when they started playing it in night clubs and a bunch of drunken idiots all thought they could do the dance

*cringe*

Archeron

Seen it on Eurovision as a nipper. I love horror films so the creepy people in the black robes at the start caught my attention. Thought it was brilliant.

Gatling

Saw it on the original broadcast and decided pretty quick wtf come on rte it's irish dancing could you not be original. ....

10 minutes later thought it was bloody fantastic.

El Weirdo

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Especially when they started playing it in night clubs and a bunch of drunken idiots all thought they could do the dance

*cringe*

Yeah... erm... *cringe*

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The Backwards Man

I'll always remember where I was when I first saw it.


In the house. Watching telly.

Magico Gonzalez

I've never watched it. I'll have to youtube it now.

Toto Wolfcastle

I remember leaving the room because I thought it was boring.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Watched a couple of minutes of it on the night: got bored and made coffee. Never saw it since.

Talib Fiasco

My reaction was that I wanted to bang each and every one of the female dancers

Harry Palmr

Saw it on the eurovision and was struck by how it unwittingly echoed the great Nazi gatherings before WW2.

The Backwards Man

Alison Obedient Semicircle wrote: »

Watched a couple of minutes of it on the night: got bored and made coffee. Never saw it since.

Probably stale by now.

Ruu

'Hup ya boy ya', probably from Marty Whelan after watching it on telly.

Hank Scorpio

His legs flail about as if independent from his body!

Depraved

I actually showed it to about a dozen homeless kids in our shelter here in The Philippines about 4 months ago. Most had never even heard of Ireland, so I was showing them a bit of our culture, geography and history via Youtube. Riverdance came up as a suggested video so I played it. They thought it was brilliant & were quick to try copy some of the dance moves....badly. When I showed them some more traditional Irish dancing, they though it was 'bakla pagsasayaw' (gay dancing). Hehe.

Crumpets

I was only a baby that year but I YouTube it every now and again, it's bloody impressive in fairness!

petrolcan

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Especially when they started playing it in night clubs and a bunch of drunken idiots all thought they could do the dance

*cringe*

You mean you *can't*?

Sucks to be you.

Banjo String

Crumpets wrote: »

I was only a baby that year but I YouTube it every now and again, it's bloody impressive in fairness!

Me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzJfZ0BfAs

biko

Saw it a while after and loved it.