It's 1993

Surreptitious · 27-07-2017 05:25PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

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

Yes, that's right.

bodhrandude · 27-07-2017 05:42PM

This is like Reeling in the Years in text.

branie2 · 27-07-2017 06:00PM

Remember the siege at Waco that ended in tragedy?

sunbeam · 27-07-2017 06:11PM

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...

mohawk · 27-07-2017 06:14PM

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.

Miaireland · 27-07-2017 06:37PM

I was 11 at the time. I most likely reading

branie2 · 27-07-2017 07:01PM

Miaireland wrote: »

I was 11 at the time. I most likely reading

Roald Dahl?

Galwayguy35 · 27-07-2017 07:38PM

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.

thomasj · 27-07-2017 08:42PM

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!

Subacio · 27-07-2017 08:57PM

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.

boardsuser1 · 27-07-2017 08:59PM

I made my communion.

got £600, i was loaded :cool:

boardsuser1 · 27-07-2017 09:00PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

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?

bodhrandude · 27-07-2017 09:16PM

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

A Battered Mars Bar · 27-07-2017 09:34PM

Lot of......old people here

Agricola · 27-07-2017 09:56PM

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

thomasj · 27-07-2017 10:07PM

https://youtu.be/sPVXbjMgBe4

Six one with Anne and Eamon back in the day.

TheRiverman · 27-07-2017 10:17PM

TheDriver wrote: »

It was a very warm summer. We had eurovision in Ireland.

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

27-07-2017 10:27PM

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

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

Would have bought a Gameboy, Walkman, a pair of Air max and a bike!

Arsemageddon · 27-07-2017 10:40PM

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!

Mint Sauce · 27-07-2017 11:03PM

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.

RhubarbCrumble · 27-07-2017 11:30PM

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.

JupiterKid · 28-07-2017 03:03AM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHuXpWSNa-8

InTheTrees · 28-07-2017 04:24AM

Times flies doesnt it...quarter of a century

I was living in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m0bI82Rz_k

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbBlmK-maQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s

chakotha · 29-07-2017 07:07PM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhGkRahU6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hCKLNJ7DQ

branie2 · 29-07-2017 10:09PM

branie2 wrote: »

It would be nice to see pictures from the section here ;-)

I was kind of dropping a hint

Ursus Horribilis · 30-07-2017 12:53AM

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.

maccored · 30-07-2017 01:52AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

She was like nothing that came before or since...

except for the sugarcubes obviously

branie2 · 30-07-2017 01:41PM

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

Ubbquittious · 01-08-2017 02:51PM

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

branie2 · 27-08-2017 01:46PM

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

It's 1993

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