The Oldskool Appreciation Party - O.A.P's thread

es-cee wrote: »

who are the original banana boys?

I always thought the Banana Boys were Mark Kavanagh & Tim Hanagan (pre Sound Crowd or as a side venture) .......is that not the case?

stomprockin wrote: »

Yeah i was reading that a good while ago! not bad at all and a pretty accurate picture from back in the day.

Yeah, it's a good write up alright, I never really experienced The Mansion House (only ever there once - Altern8 gig - deadly night it was too), back then it was Olympic all the way lol (shurrup Sean !! ) and Safari Nights !!! (long story but legendary round these parts)..... any of yis ever dare venture out here for the Safari Nights 'raves'? we had Altern8 , K-Klass , Xpansions do PA's there over the course of it's rave days before it died off ...... was deadly, fookin Tallaght nightclub doing rave nights and getting big names (at the time) over for PA's & DJ Sets.

SEANYBOY1 wrote: »

Which Tallaght night club and who did they get, missed that one, Tallaght Basketball Arena was only one I heard of Earl.

Ah I love that tune, typical of the time, such as.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GLfEFW8Xao

Seany m8 ya have to read slower man, the answers were all in my post lol ..... The Venue - Safari Nights - The Embankment,Tallaght (just up past Jobstown heading towards Brittas) , it wasn't just the one night, they had a few of them over the course of about 8-9 months, the first of which they had Altern8 do a 3 song PA half way through the night (at the time Active8 was in the charts) the next one had K-Klass & Xpansions.

A friend of mine back then, a guy called Sean Nolan (dont know whatever happened to him - he was sound as and a proper rave nut), well anyway, Sean, Meself,'Chinesse' Deco, and a couple of others used to go up to Safari Nights on the odd nights (Thursdays - cheap adm - £1 a drink lark) and we got to know the owner (little prick by the name of 'Fran'), we used to badger him about 'raves'.....I guess he did a little research and realised the earner he could be onto with it, so he says to us if he did it would we be willing to do some leg work.....he goes n gets posters/flyers made up and we spent spare hours handing them out in Tallaght, Clondalkin,Ballyer and anywhere and everywhere in between - I even paid to leave a poster in the window of the narbers at the back of the central bank (was it the regent?? - old guy )

Anyway, cut a long story short, I'll never forget the look on the Fran fella's face (and the look of horror on the bouncers faces) when he saw the crowd that arrived for the first one......bus loads where arriving from early, the place was fookin jammers! , The Embankment (Lounge), Route 66 (sports bar) and then the nightclub were all heaving....great night bleedin great night! - I remember talking to a guy called Ray from 'The Cherry Brogues' (band from Clondalkin that used to gig in Route 66) and he was mad to get off stage and into the club to see what it was going to be like......and the best part of the night lol all (well most of) the local pervs n aul ones gave the nightclub a miss or did a quick U-turn that night.

The usual buzz was, go up to the Embankment round 6-7pm and head into Route 66,few games of pool and a few gargles,check out whatever band was on and catch up with everyone,then head over across the carpark to Q for the nightclub at around 10.30 -11pm and then youd be there till prob 3am at a push ......on the above night.....they were Q'ing outside from 7pm , they opened the place early and it rocked till after 4am!

Probably one of the best buzzes I ever got on a night out purely coz it was our 'local' and noone really knew what to expect,we walked the long walk home that morning and sat out in the estate talking about it for hours - ya know that 'not wanting the night to end' feeling.

Now I'm going back to 90 or 91, I dont think the Basketball Arena gigs were going on back then?