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It's 1993

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    They changed venues didn't they to Cork, then in 2000 they relaunched it as Witnness festival I think.

    Yes, that's right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,324 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    This is like Reeling in the Years in text. :D

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Remember the siege at Waco that ended in tragedy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    I was just about to turn 21 and was delighted that I had got into a postgrad course and could put off emigrating for another year or two. Still had absolutely no inkling that the boom was about to happen. I'm still convinced I somehow flipped over into some strange parallel universe in 1995...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭mohawk


    1993 well I obviously don't have a job because I am in Primary School and I think even then child labour wasn't allowed. No TV allowed during the day the back door was opened in the morning and we were sent on our way. Me and my cousins are most likely at our Grannies house because our parents pretty much offloaded us to her for the summer. I am most likely somewhere I am not allowed like in the Orchard climbing the apple trees or else gone somewhere without telling anyone. Luckily won't get caught and in trouble because there is enough of us that they don't notice if one disappears!! Good times.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,066 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    I was 11 at the time. I most likely reading


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Miaireland wrote: »
    I was 11 at the time. I most likely reading

    Roald Dahl?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Got my first job and proper pay cheque this year, 150 quid and I felt like I won the lotto.

    First car as well, Toyota Starlet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭thomasj


    The days of cablelink ! Anyone remember them ? The usual cable channel such as rte bbc and a few channels such as sky one and sky news etc. But the "pipe" was always going down and all you'd get would be a fuzzy screen.

    And I also remember the Dublin bus strike this year. Went on for ages over the shiny new cityswift buses.

    When they were came out they were great , but it got to the stage they were always passing by full!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Subacio


    I was on a Fas course and was offered a job with a firm of accountants paying 50 quid a week. My rent was 35 quid so I had to decline.

    Alan McLaughlin putting us through to Wurlcup 94 and silencing Windsor Park.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    I made my communion.

    got £600, i was loaded :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Got my first job and proper pay cheque this year, 150 quid and I felt like I won the lotto.

    First car as well, Toyota Starlet.

    Boxy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,324 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    One year later 852 people went down with the MS Estonia in the murky cold depths of the Baltic in late September.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭A Battered Mars Bar


    Lot of......old people here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I was 11 and spent my summer being amazed by my friend's Amiga. Mainly Street Fighter 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭thomasj


    https://youtu.be/sPVXbjMgBe4

    Six one with Anne and Eamon back in the day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,519 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    TheDriver wrote: »
    It was a very warm summer. We had eurovision in Ireland.

    In an Equestrian Indoor Arena in Millstreet,Co.Cork.


  • Posts: 745 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I made my communion.

    got £600, i was loaded :cool:

    I'd say that was a princely sum for a 7 year old back then :D Would have bought a Gameboy, Walkman, a pair of Air max and a bike!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    At Feile in Thurles 1993 - publicans happy to serve 15 year olds who don't even have fake ID and the campsite at the race course that was so disorganised it made jungle in Calais look like the glamping area at the Electric Picnic.

    Good times!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I would have just been finishing 3rd year of secondary school for the summer, and probably getting ready to head over here from London for 4 to 5 weeks. Aged 14 so no work, other than helping my Dad at the weekends, or helping tidy the house to earn my pocket money.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    Heading back to school in September, into second year and about to turn 14. Didn't know it then but I was about to fall in love for the first time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,960 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I'll just pop this fantastic Bjork dance song up here...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    Just before indie and dance went really mainstream in 94-95.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    branie2 wrote: »
    It would be nice to see pictures from the section here ;-)

    I was kind of dropping a hint


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    I've got some money in my pocket thanks to a summer job. So I buy myself a Nintendo Gameboy with Tetris. I bought it in the Virgin Megastore which was something of an Aladdin's Cave to a non-Dub like myself. All those albums and singles downstairs. The VHS tapes upstairs along with the t-shirts, the books, the computer games and the merchandise. And of course the notorious condoms counter. I'd no need for such things at the time, alas, but shur you'd have to have a peep and see what a box of this contraband looked like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,844 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    She was like nothing that came before or since...

    Bj%C3%B6rk-Debut-1993.png


    except for the sugarcubes obviously


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    As I mentioned in my first post here, I was in Lourdes at Easter. I had a wonderful week there, and I went with the IHCPT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    The film A Far off Place was released in this year.

    A children's film that was denounced even at the time for being too violent.
    Disney seems to have swept it under the rug completely as a result


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I saw the 1962 version of Cape Fear on video in 93.


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