What The Feile... Classical?

Franz Von Peppercorn · 25-04-2018 07:43PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

There you go.

When I first saw this I assumed it was the 1990 flyer and was wondering who was playing this year and when they would announce it.

ablelocks · 25-04-2018 08:46PM

apparently there are 10,000 tickets for this "Feile"

when i heard the news first i got all excited but the whole classical / prosecco / culinary vibe is putting me right off.....

and while they are good bands I've seen them all over the years (apart from the Frank and Walters, but I'm not sure I saw them at the original Feiles either)

For Forks Sake · 25-04-2018 09:25PM

ablelocks wrote: »

apparently there are 10,000 tickets for this "Feile"

when i heard the news first i got all excited but the whole classical / prosecco / culinary vibe is putting me right off.....

and while they are good bands I've seen them all over the years (apart from the Frank and Walters, but I'm not sure I saw them at the original Feiles either)

Nostalgia sells.

Target market for this are early-mid 40's now (probably female) who will be only delighted to get away from the kids for one night (again no accident that the organisers didn't go for the full weekend) for a night of prosecco swilling and reliving their youth. I can think of half a dozen people I know or work with that will be all over this like a rash.

machiavellianme · 25-04-2018 10:02PM

Sleepy wrote: »

It all seems a bit too Donnybrook PR agency to really be able to lay claim to the Feile name.

I was at the last "Feile" - Alannis Morissete, Mazzy Star, Frank Black and a very young Mundy playing in the Point Depot and even at 16 we knew it wasn't really the "Feile" which was something of a legendary event our older brothers and sisters had gotten to go to!

That wasn't the last feile. There was one in 97 back in Semple.

For Forks Sake · 25-04-2018 10:14PM

machiavellianme wrote: »

That wasn't the last feile. There was one in 97 back in Semple.

Indeed there was, but it was only the one day (was at it), ****ing pissed down rain for a good part of the evening, the place was like an open sewer by the end of it.

Great day out (apart from that abomination that was Kula Shaker plonked in the middle of the lineup).

25-04-2018 10:20PM

Bring back Siamsa Cois Laoi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoPYFOxmC-k

Grayson · 25-04-2018 10:27PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

orchestra and sitting down clapping along ffs

I would pay a lot more to see this happening

I'd love to see one of those for each feile. I remember a thread ages back where people were trying to remember who was at which feile.

Grayson · 25-04-2018 10:28PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Nostalgia sells.

Target market for this are early-mid 40's now (probably female) who will be only delighted to get away from the kids for one night (again no accident that the organisers didn't go for the full weekend) for a night of prosecco swilling and reliving their youth. I can think of half a dozen people I know or work with that will be all over this like a rash.

If it wasn't for all the fancy crap I might be interested. Those bands were the soundtrack to my teen tears.

For Forks Sake · 25-04-2018 10:32PM

Grayson wrote: »

I'd love to see one of those for each feile. I remember a thread ages back where people were trying to remember who was at which feile.

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995 (Cork)

1997 (tipp -1 day)

For Forks Sake · 25-04-2018 11:07PM

Christ above, went to have a browse of youtube for some clips, after giving myself a mega flashback...full Prodigy set from 97.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2t0T2XOBE

Ronan|Raven · 25-04-2018 11:15PM

holy ****.. that lineup in 1994!

Franz Von Peppercorn · 25-04-2018 11:23PM

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

holy ****.. that lineup in 1994!

94 & 95. The grove stage in 95 looked amazing too.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 25-04-2018 11:25PM

Odd. It seems like an almost Glastonbury level lineup in its last few years - some duds but great bands too. And then nothing.

For Forks Sake · 25-04-2018 11:45PM

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Odd. It seems like an almost Glastonbury level lineup in its last few years - some duds but great bands too. And then nothing.

They were never going to get it back into Thurles after 94 - residents had enough at that stage. It was the precursor to Witnness/Oxegen.

If you want to go digging for nostalgia, check out this FB page, it's like a Feile museum
: https://www.facebook.com/feiletriptotipp/

While I'm on a nostalgia trip, if anyone can find and reunite these headbangers, I would pay good money to see them live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kahfnrs-E

26-04-2018 12:22AM

No love for '96 when it moved to the point? Saw Foo Fighters at their best that weekend and Beck.

In fairness it wasn;t the same as being in thurles and the streets smelling of wee.

Sleepy · 26-04-2018 02:45PM

The funniest thing about the line-ups for me is that for so many of the years, the best acts were at the bottom half of the line up!

facehugger99 · 26-04-2018 03:08PM

Was at ’91, ’92 and ’93.

’91 was amazing – some great bands, particularly on the Friday.

Myself and my friends were all in secondary school at the time – we were very young and innocent in retrospect. We were talking about it recently, how did we ever manage to meet up with people, no mobile phones or anything like that.

I found some B&W photos on the interweb that are hilarious. It doesn’t even look like a festival, more like there’s been some devastating natural disaster or a zombie apocalypse. I’m so glad there was no social media back then or my employment prospects would have suffered for years afterwards.

Grayson · 26-04-2018 03:08PM

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

holy ****.. that lineup in 1994!

That was the year I went. Every festival lineup since then has compared unfavorably.

Grayson · 26-04-2018 03:11PM

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Odd. It seems like an almost Glastonbury level lineup in its last few years - some duds but great bands too. And then nothing.

Was Sunscreen the one after that? then witness. None of them were the same though.
I believe Feile was at the time the largest open air festival in Europe.

eviltimeban · 26-04-2018 04:11PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

Was at ’91, ’92 and ’93.

’91 was amazing – some great bands, particularly on the Friday.

Myself and my friends were all in secondary school at the time – we were very young and innocent in retrospect. We were talking about it recently, how did we ever manage to meet up with people, no mobile phones or anything like that.

I found some B&W photos on the interweb that are hilarious. It doesn’t even look like a festival, more like there’s been some devastating natural disaster or a zombie apocalypse. I’m so glad there was no social media back then or my employment prospects would have suffered for years afterwards.

Taken out of context, those photos are amazing! It's like field reports from a warzone.

endacl · 26-04-2018 04:13PM

Free entry to the rebooted Féile if you wear a Fido Dido tshirt!

facehugger99 · 26-04-2018 04:15PM

eviltimeban wrote: »

Taken out of context, those photos are amazing! It's like field reports from a warzone.

There's something hauntingly beautiful about them - everyone passed out looks so peaceful.

Sleepy · 26-04-2018 04:16PM

You can see why the locals got pissed off with the whole thing though!

BattleCorp · 26-04-2018 04:20PM

Sleepy wrote: »

You can see why the locals got pissed off with the whole thing though!

It was mad seeing the council use a JCB to scrape the Square clean of cans and other rubbish every morning.

Jerichoholic · 26-04-2018 04:23PM

I thought Deacon Blue were playing?

jprboy · 26-04-2018 05:48PM

I'd love if the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow made a return visit !!

Anyone remember that at one of the Feiles in Thurles?

Audience members passing out due to what they were seeing on stage (in a tent out the back, not the main stage

)

Here's an example of one of the performers:

Matt "The Tube" Crowley, whose moniker came from the seven feet of tubing that he would swallow. The other end of the tube was attached to a crude hand pump. Rose himself would fill the pump with a variety of fluids and proceed to pump it into Crowley's stomach, then back out again. Audience members were invited onstage to drink the vile concoction after it had been extricated from Crowley. He would also provide a demonstration of sheer lung power by blowing up a hot water bottle with his mouth until it burst. Other gags included sucking a black condom in through his mouth and out his nose (and reversing the procedure) and working a long piece of plastic fluorescent cord through his nasal passages in order to "floss" his nose.

:pac::pac::pac:

From here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rose_Circus

Franz Von Peppercorn · 26-04-2018 06:01PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

There's something hauntingly beautiful about them - everyone passed out looks so peaceful.

I was thinking that. it didn’t look dangerous. people were passed out but it didn’t have a huge feeling of violence or threat. Maybe naive.

Witchie · 26-04-2018 06:02PM

endacl wrote: »

Free entry to the rebooted Féile if you wear a Fido Dido tshirt!

Am planning on wearing my Screamadelica t-shirt that I bought at Feile 91 with black t-dye hareem pants like the ones I used to wear and docs.

Pure nostalgia hai.

eviltimeban · 27-04-2018 09:29AM

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

I was thinking that. it didn’t look dangerous. people were passed out but it didn’t have a huge feeling of violence or threat. Maybe naive.

My memory of '92 was of not seeing any violence, whatsoever.

DavidLyons_ · 27-04-2018 10:27AM

jprboy wrote: »

I'd love if the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow made a return visit !!

Anyone remember that at one of the Feiles in Thurles?

Audience members passing out due to what they were seeing on stage (in a tent out the back, not the main stage )

Here's an example of one of the performers:

Matt "The Tube" Crowley, whose moniker came from the seven feet of tubing that he would swallow. The other end of the tube was attached to a crude hand pump. Rose himself would fill the pump with a variety of fluids and proceed to pump it into Crowley's stomach, then back out again. Audience members were invited onstage to drink the vile concoction after it had been extricated from Crowley. He would also provide a demonstration of sheer lung power by blowing up a hot water bottle with his mouth until it burst. Other gags included sucking a black condom in through his mouth and out his nose (and reversing the procedure) and working a long piece of plastic fluorescent cord through his nasal passages in order to "floss" his nose.

:pac::pac::pac:

From here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rose_Circus

I was one of the passer-outers. I blamed the drink and the heat in the tent.

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