fibbers,dublin

Grayditch · 15-06-2017 01:52AM

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 · 15-06-2017 02:24AM

Is the statue of Teddy Roosevelt still there?

the_syco · 15-06-2017 02:30AM

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 · 15-06-2017 03:31AM

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 · 15-06-2017 05:54AM

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 · 15-06-2017 06:15AM

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

mick121 · 15-06-2017 07:28AM

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 · 15-06-2017 07:49AM

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 · 15-06-2017 08:05AM

[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 · 15-06-2017 08:14AM

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 · 15-06-2017 08:18AM

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 · 15-06-2017 08:20AM

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 · 15-06-2017 08:20AM

Double post :-/

somesoldiers · 15-06-2017 08:23AM

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 · 15-06-2017 08:28AM

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 · 15-06-2017 08:44AM

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 · 15-06-2017 09:06AM

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 · 15-06-2017 09:16AM

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 · 15-06-2017 10:00AM

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!

15-06-2017 01:45PM

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.

Badly Drunk Boy · 23-06-2017 06:58AM

mick121 wrote: »

Definitely do,and report back.

Witchie wrote: »

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.

I stayed in the Gate Hotel but didn't realise it was connected to Fibbers. I was staying in Dublin last Friday (and Saturday) to go to a gig but while in my hotel room, found out that the Friday gig was postponed so I had a free night.

I went down to the pub and was a bit disappointed by the music they were playing. All very mainstream. I had a few pints, a bit of food, and went back to my room. After a while , I went back down and a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band were playing. Not quite my thing but bearable.

I asked one of the punters if there was another area for live music and got a definite "No" even though I knew there were other bands due to play. I eventually found the downstairs area so spent the rest of the night there, listening to punk bands like Doppelskanger and Crotch Lice. There were a few bottles of Buckfast on show as well (some people obviously keeping it real).

I'm glad I went and enjoyed myself.

charlietheminxx · 23-06-2017 07:46AM

I spent a long period of my early twenties in there. It was great, despite being smelly and having paint peeling off the walls. The dance floor downstairs became an ice rink by the end of the night with all the drink spilled on it from head banging. I have some fantastic memories there....

Unfortunately it lost its charm after the revamp in 2010-ish. I gave it a go when the refurb was done but the whole atmosphere had changed and the dance floor was gone. I stopped going bar for the odd time when I wanted to see a band there. My friends and I popped in just before Christmas but it was weird, just all cocktails and hipsters, we were likely older than most of the crowd and we are all between 26 and 29. I'm sad that the place we loved is gone but such is life I guess!

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