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80s Ireland (pop culture)
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16-04-2003 2:43pm#1When thinking back about 80's pop culture, it is almost exclusively stuff from England and the USA.
What Irish stuff do you remember from waaaaay back then? Or did we not have much in that department?
I can recall:
* Zig and Zag / Dempsey's Den
* Bosco
* Wanderley Wagon
* Jo Maxi :rolleyes:
* Brendan Grace's "Safe Cross Code" with Patch the dog
* Johnny Logan's terrible Eurovision 80s outfits
* Pat Ingoldsby's psychedelic TV shows for kids
Any more? Do tell!0
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Anyone remember "Number 1"? It was a music quiz show, sort of like "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" and it used to be on at 7 o' clock of a Wednesday evening on Network 2 (or RTE 2, as it was still called back then, I think!).
Dave Fanning and Ian Dempsey were the team captains (I think - bit hazy on this). They had regular team members in the shape of Joe Elliot from Def Leppard and Brush Shiels (once again, I'm a bit hazy on whether Brush Shiels was a regular team member but I think he was. I definitely remember Joe Elliot being one. Let's face it, who could forget an 80's rocker poodle-perm like that one!
) and then there would be a third 'guest' team member on each team. There used to be a big, neon board behind the presenter which would chart each team's rise up the 'chart' from 40 to No. 1. I can't remember the presenter exactly but something in the back of my mind makes me think it was Andy Ruane (remember him! :rolleyes:).
Anyway, I've described this programme as best I can. Please tell me someone else remembers it and that I'm not going mad! 0 -
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Originally posted by TmB
Speaking of Ian Dempsey, anyone remember Talkabout? Now THATS a blast from the past. Watchable, but in a car-crash kind of way !
As the Comic Book Guy from "The Simpsons" might say, "Worst quizshow ever!"
I remember Ian Dempsey did maybe two series of it, then it was scrapped, then brought back a couple of years later with that gay fella that does the weather on Ireland AM presenting it (what's his name - Andy Hughes? Something like that!) and then scrapped for good after that series. Thank God! :rolleyes:
Here's another blast from the past. Does anybody remember "Murphy's Micro Quiz"? Mike Murphy presented it and some former Miss Ireland was the eye-candy for the lads on the show. It was based around families having to play various computer games. Needless to say, the kids were great at them but the parents where $hite beyond belief!
And one more. "The Beatbox." Music show that used to be on of a Sunday morning on Network 2 (the precursor to the '90's "2TV"). It used to be broadcast simultaneously on the telly and on 2FM. This was so you could, as they used to say themselves, "Watch the music videos and listen to them in stereo sound on 2FM." These TV/radio simulcasts were a pretty big deal at the time because stereo TV's weren't around at that time (or were only beginning to appear on the market) and it was the only way you could watch a music video and listen to it in stereo at the same time.0 -
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Originally posted by fcddunne
then there was pajo dont know what kind of creature he was though
Pajo's Junkbox was the name of the first 'series', after that they went into some desert island or something...He was a rat, i think !
I can vaguely remember it had these two puppets called Peg and Peadar
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Originally posted by Andor
Pajo's Junkbox was the name of the first 'series', after that they went into some desert island or something...He was a rat, i think !
I can vaguely remember it had these two puppets called Peg and Peadar
And two human stooges called 'Fetchit' and 'Grabit' ?0 -
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Yes,I remember that show well.The third guests would be secondary school kids,one of whoem was my cousin.aidan_dunne wrote: »Anyone remember "Number 1"? It was a music quiz show, sort of like "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" and it used to be on at 7 o' clock of a Wednesday evening on Network 2 (or RTE 2, as it was still called back then, I think!).
Dave Fanning and Ian Dempsey were the team captains (I think - bit hazy on this). They had regular team members in the shape of Joe Elliot from Def Leppard and Brush Shiels (once again, I'm a bit hazy on whether Brush Shiels was a regular team member but I think he was. I definitely remember Joe Elliot being one. Let's face it, who could forget an 80's rocker poodle-perm like that one!) and then there would be a third 'guest' team member on each team. There used to be a big, neon board behind the presenter which would chart each team's rise up the 'chart' from 40 to No. 1. I can't remember the presenter exactly but something in the back of my mind makes me think it was Andy Ruane (remember him! :rolleyes:).
Anyway, I've described this programme as best I can. Please tell me someone else remembers it and that I'm not going mad!0 -
Holy zombie reincarnation Batman, a nine year old thread.
Here's a rare Irish techno band video from the 80's:
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I remember seeing that on the telly just once off.1983,I feel old now.Holy zombie reincarnation Batman, a nine year old thread.
Here's a rare Irish techno band video from the 80's:0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvGi1x1gapg
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