fibbers,dublin

mick121

What's the story with fibber magees these days.I used to go there a lot about 25years ago and feckin loved it.moved to the west,no more fibbers

Atoms for Peace

When the last one leaves,
And the last note fades,
And the last dream's been put away,
Shut the light off, shut the light off,

buried

Do you rmemba fibbers, oohhh I bet you do, before you'd go to fibbers you'd drink a bottle of buckfast at home, dya rememba buckfast? the wine the glasgow celtic monks used to make?? You'd drink that then go in to town and up to fibbers door then the fookin 400 tonne bouncer at the door wouldn't let you in because of your brass hand?? Oooh I rmember that I truly do

NewbridgeIR

I was in Fibbers (Parnell St) after the Depeche Mode gig in November 2013. Used to go there a lot from 1991 - 1995.

Still there. Still the same old fibbers it always has been.

NewbridgeIR

Never a great place to go for a dump.

bodice ripper

Some absolute loon decided that it needed better lighting. They were wrong.

Donald Trump

Fibbers, dublin?

Lying shower of bastards the lot of them there

Donald Trump

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Never a great place to go for a dump.

You should write guides for the Lonely Planet books

Either that or restaurant reviews

NewbridgeIR

One of my most memorable nights in Fibbers was hearing Body Count for the first time.

The DJ (long haired guy, used work in Borderline) played this

"Tell us what to do
F**k you"

I recall it was around March 1992 or so.

Achasanai

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Never a great place to go for a dump.

Blocked up sinks and blood everywhere last time I was there. This was in the late 90s though.

Grayditch

Fibbers is grand. Usually full of cover bands and after-show parties for rock gigs. Decent spot.

Esel

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Never a great place to go for a dump.

So, *not* a shithole then?

Donald Trump

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I was in Fibbers (Parnell St) after the Depeche Mode gig in November 2013. Used to go there a lot from 1991 - 1995.

Fibbers hispter

:P

eviltwin

I was a regular in Fibbers from about 1994, brilliant spot. It was never the same for me after the smoking ban though. I loved everything about the place, the bar staff, tiny dance floor, the endless graffiti in the loos, the gate and staircase downstairs. Great times.

JupiterKid

eviltwin wrote: »

I was a regular in Fibbers from about 1994, brilliant spot. It was never the same for me after the smoking ban though. I loved everything about the place, the bar staff, tiny dance floor, the endless graffiti in the loos, the gate and staircase downstairs. Great times.

I was a regular at Fibbers from the summer of '93 to about '97. Basically my years in college. Looking back it was a bit of a dump - but it was OUR dump.:o The stuff you could get away with in the beer garden was great!:cool:

They always, without fail, played Temple Of Love from the Sisters Of Mercy every night. Also Iggy Pop's Passenger was a regular tune too.

Anyone remember milling off to Supermacs for a late feed to soak up the booze after Fibbers?:D

NewbridgeIR

JupiterKid wrote: »

I was a regular at Fibbers from the summer of '93 to about '97. Basically my years in college. Looking back it was a bit of a dump - but it was OUR dump.:o The stuff you could get away with in the beer garden was great!:cool:

They always, without fail, played Temple Of Love from the Sisters Of Mercy every night. Also Iggy Pop's Passenger was a regular tune too.

Anyone remember milling off to Supermacs for a late feed to soak up the booze after Fibbers?:D

That's right Temple Of Love! It was re-released in 1992 so got played for years afterwards.

Other tunes played a lot
loads of grunge - Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Megadeth

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Achasanai wrote: »

Blocked up sinks and blood everywhere last time I was there. This was in the late 90s though.

If I blocked up the sink and there was blood everywhere after taking a dump, I'd be visiting the doctor :eek:

eviltwin

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

That's right Temple Of Love! It was re-released in 1992 so got played for years afterwards.

Other tunes played a lot
loads of grunge - Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Megadeth

Fibbers always played great music. I can still remember that being my introduction to Rammstein, System of a Down and Disturbed.

Are Am Eye

Early 90s Zoo club, Sides ?

mick121

NewbridgeIR wrote:

One of my most memorable nights in Fibbers was hearing Body Count for the first time.

NewbridgeIR wrote:

The DJ (long haired guy, used work in Borderline) played this

NewbridgeIR wrote:

One of my most memorable nights in Fibbers was hearing Body Count for the first time.

Yup and I miss the moshing when rage against the machine came on.ah happy days

mick121

JupiterKid wrote:

I was a regular at Fibbers from the summer of '93 to about '97. Basically my years in college. Looking back it was a bit of a dump - but it was OUR dump. The stuff you could get away with in the beer garden was great!

JupiterKid wrote:

They always, without fail, played Temple Of Love from the Sisters Of Mercy every night. Also Iggy Pop's Passenger was a regular tune too.

JupiterKid wrote:

Anyone remember milling off to Supermacs for a late feed to soak up the booze after Fibbers?

Ah yes the simple things in life

Arghus

First pub in Dublin I saw people drinking Buckfast in. "What is this magic?", I thought.

mick121

Are Am Eye wrote:

Early 90s Zoo club, Sides ?

Was zoo club the ground floor and the pink elephant upstairs?

Grayditch

Don't forget My Girlfriend's Girlfriend and Ich Bin Ein Auslander.

Seve OB

Fibbers, where the DJ had to stay in a cage all night long

Good times in there alright

Day Lewin

Dreadful loos.

NewbridgeIR

I had the runs there once.
Had to get a taxi home halfway through the night.

harry Bailey esq

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Still there. Still the same old fibbers it always has been.

Your dead right,it will never change.Its always gonna be a magnet for moshers and biker's. I'm neither,it's Fred Perry,puma Suedes,Ikon shoes and a skinhead cut all the way for me,not the first thing that would come to mind if somebody asked you to do a photofit of a fibbers punter,but I've been getting locked,smoking spliffs and playing pool in there since I was 15 years old.Wouldn't change it for the world. To the poster who said they were refused entry by a 400lb bouncer,it was definitely for good reason,most of the drinkers in there are metalers with a sprinkling of goths.Neither subset are notable for adhering to basic personal hygiene standards to be fair.

Outlaw Pete

Before Fibbers became Fibbers it was called Top Cats and that was the first night club I was ever served in.... God I'm old :P The place was full of 13 to 21 year olds and was raided within a few weeks of being open as a result. It then became La Mirage but I was transitioning to being a rocker and so didn't go back there as I'd had enough of drinking with my mates (who all had step haircuts and were into The Housemartins and stay press trousers) and so started drinking downstairs in Brogan's (was called The City Hall Inn back then) and Bartley Dunnes etc..... but downstairs in Bruxelles was were I settled for many a year in the end with the odd night drinking cocktails in the Zoo Bar of course.

Good times.

Riddle101

Used to go there with my mates every Thursday night a few years back, during my college days. €2 pints on Thursday. Good times. They remodeled the place I think, and that's why it's lost interest over years. At least that's why my friends don't go anyway. We go to Gypsy Rose now.

Grayditch

They've re-done downstairs a year or so ago. Way nicer than the catastrophic bar placement when they re-did it about 6/7 years ago.

blinkwink

Is the statue of Teddy Roosevelt still there?

the_syco

Deleted User wrote: »

Still there. Still the same old fibbers it always has been.

Disagree. The back is way more awesome now than a few years back. Especially with the mini-van bar. Allows you to chill in the back without having to go into the pub to get a drink. Also, less/no smell of dead rats.

JupiterKid

Day Lewin wrote: »

Dreadful loos.

Myself and two mates went tripping in a closed but lit loo in Fibbers once around Christmas. It was a pretty good trip actually.:pac:

Badly Drunk Boy

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I was in Fibbers (Parnell St) after the Depeche Mode gig in November 2013. Used to go there a lot from 1991 - 1995.

I used to go there between 1991 - 1995 too, when I was in college. One particular night of over-indulgence, I fell asleep (possibly briefly) to wake to discover that I'd puked on the sleeve of my extremely oversized jumper (the jumper almost reached my knees, and I'm 6'5"). My friend had disappeared but on O'Connell, I met a few girls a sort of knew from my hometown so we hung out for a while playing the newly invented game of 'Mister Puke-Sleeve'. Good times!

I'm staying in Dublin this weekend in a hotel very near Fibbers so I might be tempted to drop in...

JupiterKid

How about an AH Fibbers reunion/meet up? Anyone on for that?

mick121

Badly Drunk Boy wrote:

I'm staying in Dublin this weekend in a hotel very near Fibbers so I might be tempted to drop in...

Definitely do,and report back.

nozzferrahhtoo

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Before Fibbers became Fibbers it was called Top Cats and that was the first night club I was ever served in.... God I'm old

It seems you are because Fibbers was also the first place I was served in ever, underage as I was, and I always remember it as being called fibbers. So you must have a few years on me.

What was the weird drink I used to have there..... and I do not now even recall what was in it. In between every beer I used to have it. "Fuel" or something?

It was also where I spent my 18th Birthday. Someone slipped something into a drink I had that day I think because one of the toilets spoke to me. Not spoke as in the lid or anything, but the ENTIRE toilet bowl became a mouth and started talking to me.

Still no complete idea what the toilet actually said. I remember, quite proudly, admonishing it not to talk with it's mouth full....... before making a run for it and then sitting with my friends all paranoid eyes, pretending nothing had happened.

Hellrazer

[QUOTE=the_syco;103810219Also, less/no smell of dead rats.[/QUOTE]

Ah good times.Rather than get the rat removed we'll throw bleach and air freshers into the wall.It took about a year for that smell to go!

somesoldiers

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

One of my most memorable nights in Fibbers was hearing Body Count for the first time.

The DJ (long haired guy, used work in Borderline) played this

"Tell us what to do
F**k you"

I recall it was around March 1992 or so.

Body Count's "KKK Bitch" is still one of my favourite songs. I was horrified to see ICe T on Mr & Mrs with his wife Coco a few years back, what a sell out. I remember sitting in my digs and turning in UCD radio for freshers week 1993.me 17 and fresh up from the country couldn't believe there was cursing on the radio.they were playing the opener to Home Invasion "if you are offended by words like.....,take the tape out now.this is not a pop album".i went out next day and bought all Ice Ts CDs.home Invasion - what an album at the time. The original 99 Bitches before Jay Z got his hands on it.

Anyhow enjoyed that trip down memory lane back to fibbers

I frequented Fibbers 93-96, happy times. Remember there were a lot of pint thieves,one time I pissed into a pint glass and lay in wait.sure enough some lad snuck off with it.we had a great laugh when he took a mouthful then sprayed it all over the place.

Badly Drunk Boy

mick121 wrote: »

Definitely do,and report back.

I think I will. I see Crotch Lice are playing tomorrow night. (Actually, I just checked them out on YouTube. I've seen worse.)

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

One of my most memorable nights in Fibbers was hearing Body Count for the first time.


"Tell us what to do
F**k you"

I recall it was around March 1992 or so.

I still have my original Bodycount CD from when it came out, complete with the now removed 'Cop Killer'. (Well, the song was taken off the album by Ice-T a few months after it came out.)

Vinculus

Loved the place!

The mad drunken dash to get there before eight on a Saturday evening so you wouldn't have to pay three punts at the door.
Some how managing to smuggle in two liters of cider in a small canvas bag that was covered in band names bag.
Buckfast
Acid
Fugazi
Been caught stealing once when when I was five

One of my highlights was seeing Therapy? play on that tiny stage just before they became huge and the music turned to crap.

Vinculus

Double post :-/

somesoldiers

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I still have my original Bodycount CD from when it came out, complete with the now removed 'Cop Killer'. (Well, the song was taken off the album by Ice-T a few months after it came out.)

OMG- swap Garth Brooks 10 album compilation? Sad I know how my musical tastes have (d)evolved but I like to listening when working

Grahamer666

I still have the original on vinyl with Cop Killer on it. It's worth a fortune. I used drink in Fibbers and spent most my twenties in there taking Acid and playing Pool.

mick121

I love these stories,ah reminissing.I loved the fact it was kinda run down,a kip so to speak.the fact you could mosh away without any bother.

Witchie

Deleted User wrote: »

Still there. Still the same old fibbers it always has been.

Different layout but still epic.

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Early 90s Zoo club, Sides ?

Oh god I hated sides. ugh.

mick121 wrote: »

Yup and I miss the moshing when rage against the machine came on.ah happy days

I used to spend pretty much every night in there moshing as I lived on Parnell Street (the other side just behind the Ilac) and while most of my mates preferred McGraths and the Parnell Mooney, I would head off to Fibbers on my own. From 92 to 94 I would oft be seen sitting on a speaker near the stage. That was my spot.

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I used to go there between 1991 - 1995 too, when I was in college. One particular night of over-indulgence, I fell asleep (possibly briefly) to wake to discover that I'd puked on the sleeve of my extremely oversized jumper (the jumper almost reached my knees, and I'm 6'5"). My friend had disappeared but on O'Connell, I met a few girls a sort of knew from my hometown so we hung out for a while playing the newly invented game of 'Mister Puke-Sleeve'. Good times!

I'm staying in Dublin this weekend in a hotel very near Fibbers so I might be tempted to drop in...

Do it! I stayed upstairs in the Gate Hotel just before Christmas coz my son's band were playing in Fibbers. It was such a blast from the past going in there with my 22 yr old and 19 yr old sons! They love it too and it is one of their hangouts since they left the sticks and moved to Dublin....the next generation of Fibberites.

somesoldiers wrote: »

Body Count's "KKK Bitch" is still one of my favourite songs. I was horrified to see ICe T on Mr & Mrs with his wife Coco a few years back, what a sell out. I remember sitting in my digs and turning in UCD radio for freshers week 1993.me 17 and fresh up from the country couldn't believe there was cursing on the radio.they were playing the opener to Home Invasion "if you are offended by words like.....,take the tape out now.this is not a pop album".i went out next day and bought all Ice Ts CDs.home Invasion - what an album at the time. The original 99 Bitches before Jay Z got his hands on it.

Anyhow enjoyed that trip down memory lane back to fibbers

I frequented Fibbers 93-96, happy times. Remember there were a lot of pint thieves,one time I pissed into a pint glass and lay in wait.sure enough some lad snuck off with it.we had a great laugh when he took a mouthful then sprayed it all over the place.

I loved Bodycount. I remember a guy I was seeing lending me his tape of it and just being besotted....with the music.

I used to giggle when my pint got robbed. I didn't drink back then and would buy a can of 7up and get some blackcurrant put in it in a pint glass with loads of ice. It looked kinda like a pint of Bass when the lights were low and often got robbed while I was out moshing. I bet they were gutted when they realised it wasn't beer.

mick121 wrote: »

I love these stories,ah reminissing.I loved the fact it was kinda run down,a kip so to speak.the fact you could mosh away without any bother.

Quite often I would be the only girl in the mosh with the lads in my black and white tie-dyed harem pants, long sleeved rage against the machine t-shirt and my doc martens with purple laces. Dammit I was cool.

leggo

In my youth, we used to go when it was jammed on Thursdays, pool our change together then load up the jukebox with Westlife songs. People would go mad, like their entire being was under attack. Good memories also of being too cheap to get a taxi so hitting McDonalds after until we were essentially just being hobos looking for a roof over our heads and having to hang out on O'Connell St until first bus.

AidanadiA

It's been easily 10 years since I was there. Though my new work gang all ex-fibbers heads tend to hit the place every couple of months. Will have to head down sometime and check it out!

NewbridgeIR

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I still have my original Bodycount CD from when it came out, complete with the now removed 'Cop Killer'. (Well, the song was taken off the album by Ice-T a few months after it came out.)

I think it was gone from all copies by the summer of 1992.
Me and four other friends still have our vinyl copies with Cop Killer. I bought mine in Borderline, the others got theirs in KG Discs, Waterford.
Sound quality not great - too much music crammed onto a single LP - but that was the norm for many albums back then.