Were you hitting the floorboards in Ireland in 1990?

01-08-2016 10:06PM #1

Particularly in rural Ireland? Well then, you might enjoy this. The hair, the clothes, the eclectic mix of the Stunning, Technotronik and the Cure, the sweat, the enthusiasm...great days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBpfUUPqP3g

Barry Badrinath · 01-08-2016 10:12PM

1990? I was 9....so yes!

Is tonight goin' to be the night when you and The Backwards Man have a "music video-off"?

01-08-2016 10:16PM

That couldn't be 1990, even in Leitrim the women went out in better clothes than wooly jumpers!

01-08-2016 10:21PM

It's def that era, it was the start of my drinking career and remember the hair and the clothes. The only thing they missed was the slow set...

makingmecrazy · 01-08-2016 10:25PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's def that era, it was the start of my drinking career and remember the hair and the clothes. The only thing they missed was the slow set...

I think you mean the "walk around slowly "dance

El Weirdo · 01-08-2016 10:30PM

There was another one of these from around '93 floating around earlier this year.

I spent the longest 10 minutes of my life worrying that I'd spot myself in it.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 01-08-2016 10:30PM

You can hear people talking in the video, music isn't loud enough.

01-08-2016 10:32PM

El Weirdo wrote: »

There was another one of these from around '93 floating around earlier this year.

I spent the longest 10 minutes of my life worrying that I'd spot myself in it.

Sent a link to a friend from Ballina, who said he spent 8 minutes sweating about what was caught on camera. Thankfully for him, only a glimpse while he danced around to the Stunning's "Got to Get Away"...

Surreptitious · 01-08-2016 10:35PM

Some great mix of music it has to be said.

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 10:36PM

It was the Pink Elephant in Dublin for me and this was the tune we did our LSD to.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfOqPhV3jY

I had hit the boards well before that in the burbs, but the Pinky was fun.

SEPT 23 1989 · 01-08-2016 10:37PM

Gather around children and watch Granny and Grandad dancing away to Technotronic

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 10:39PM

Did the Warwick in Salthill, Galway in 1989. Fook me, it was a culture shock.

Shint0 · 01-08-2016 10:39PM

Cringe-fest.

The guy with the mohawk at the start looked the most timeless.

makingmecrazy · 01-08-2016 10:43PM

Sides anyone?

01-08-2016 10:46PM

It's the mix that clinches it. I'd have sat down grumbling for the Cure, then sweated for the acid house of Maurice, sat down again for the Sawdoctors, sweated again during Adamski's "Killer", done the rounds during the slow set (the Golden Horde's "Friends in Time") sat down for "Living On a Prayer", then everyone would go out for the Stunning and stay out for "Oh Mary".

And the night would end with "Put Em Under Pressure".

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 10:46PM

14 posts in 37 mins about an age related topic. Just shows the age group here now. ****!

Go on Conor!

Annasopra · 01-08-2016 10:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's def that era, it was the start of my drinking career and remember the hair and the clothes. The only thing they missed was the slow set...

And the national anthem at the end

01-08-2016 10:51PM

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

And the national anthem at the end

Knew all the words too...

We inflict our game on the people, we put em under pressure...

andekwarhola · 01-08-2016 10:51PM

makingmecrazy wrote: »

Sides anyone?

Guilty as charged.

Plus McGonagles (Soul On Ice, Voodoo, Sandino), Fox and Pheasant, Olympic Ballroom, Bartley Dunnes etc.

01-08-2016 10:53PM

Looks like fun. I was 1 unfortunately. I'm sure my Mother would appreciate it though!

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 10:55PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Guilty as charged.

Plus McGonagles (Soul On Ice, Voodoo, Sandino), Fox and Pheasant, Olympic Ballroom, Bartley Dunnes etc.

Bartley Dunnes! Played pool there with some real dodgey cnuts in late 1990. Ended up on Butt bridge buying gange after some solid advice.:D

gifted · 01-08-2016 10:57PM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Did the Warwick in Salthill, Galway in 1989. Fook me, it was a culture shock.

Smoked my first joint in that place in 1990....buddy had to climb over toilet cubicle door hours later to pull me up off the seat...never again lol lol.....moved up to Galway 8 years ago and still smile when I drive past it.

Was also the first and only time I saw a bloke dancing with a pair of wellies on.....jesus it was some weed.lol

andekwarhola · 01-08-2016 10:58PM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Bartley Dunnes! Played pool there with some real dodgey cnuts in late 1990. Ended up on Butt bridge buying gange after some solid advice.:D

Every time you pass Break for the Border you offer up a silent prayer for the desecration of a scared Dublin site.

pablo128 · 01-08-2016 10:59PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Guilty as charged.

Plus McGonagles (Soul On Ice, Voodoo, Sandino), Fox and Pheasant, Olympic Ballroom, Bartley Dunnes etc.

93 was my era. I got fully immersed in the capitals rave scene, and remained there for many years. Sides was the first though, and the best of them all IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTTdxj5Q5eE

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 10:59PM

gifted wrote: »

Smoked my first joint in that place in 1990....buddy had to climb over toilet cubicle door hours later to pull me up off the seat...never again lol lol.....moved up to Galway 8 years ago and still smile when I drive past it.

Everytime I drive past it, I smile too!

I won't mention Central Park in Galway City.:eek:

I'm not even from Galway!

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 11:00PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Every time you pas Break for the Border you offer up a silent prayer for the desecration of a scared Dublin site.

Abso****inglutely!

juneg · 01-08-2016 11:01PM

yup, definitely my era but not my neck of the woods.

What strikes me now about how us girls were turned out, no flesh on view jumpers and long sleeves,
nobody dyed their hair but loads of perms though, no fake tans, hair extensions, nails, eyelashes.
Very different times

drunkmonkey · 01-08-2016 11:01PM

I sure was but not in Ballina...

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

Henrys FTW!!!

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 11:06PM

juneg wrote: »

yup, definitely my era but not my neck of the woods.

What strikes me now about how us girls were turned out, no flesh on view jumpers and long sleeves,
nobody dyed their hair but loads of perms though, no fake tans, hair extensions, nails, eyelashes.
Very different times

Sums it up perfectly. But surely you worse a skirt up around your arse??

01-08-2016 11:09PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I sure was but not in Ballina...

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

Henrys FTW!!!

Oh Sir Henrys was where the innocence all broke down.

It was brilliant...but it was a world away from the rural disco scene. It was a revelation back in 92, I never really looked at the rural "niteclub" the same way again except to meet friends from school at weekends and tell them I had found this proper club in Cork. But for 2 years before Sir Henrys, it was all we knew...

Grandeeod · 01-08-2016 11:12PM

I forgot Ted's in O'Connell St. Limerick.

Savage spot! I travelled a lot in my student days.:D

Were you hitting the floorboards in Ireland in 1990?

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