Feile. And all things Feile.

padd b1975 · 15-10-2012 05:23PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I remember watching the news after the bombings in Omagh. It pictured the main street, with bodies everywhere, people holding each other up, the place a complete wreck.

During the broadcast, a friend walked into the room, took a quick glance at the TV and said - in total innocence - "Is Feile back on this year?"

Your friend is a prick.

Dolbert · 15-10-2012 05:35PM

I was too young to go at the time but could hear it from my house a few miles away

Legend has it that in the '91 Féile, Frank Black dressed like a tramp and started busking in the square. Only stopped when someone recognised him :cool:

username123 · 15-10-2012 05:36PM

Sarn wrote: »

I only made it to the one in 1994 (Blur, Crash Test Dummies, House of Pain, The Prodigy, Bjork, The Cranberries).

The few memories are as follows:

Arriving in Thurles to see the shops boarded up and lads sitting on the top of the sign to Dublin in the centre of the town.
Making my way to Semple stadium, every step accompanied by the crunching sound of empty beer cans littered along the way. Walking face first into the turnstile on the way in, my friend cracking up laughing at me...and then doing the same thing.:D

Some bands playing.

On the way back some poor, pissed bastard lying on the ground pissing all over himself saying "would somebody help me" repeatedly.

Yes, I went the same year and have much the same memories.

We stayed in a b&b - not a real b&b, someone who cleared a downstairs room and threw in a few mattresses. I remember only knowing that there was a pat the baker van parked on the same road as our b&b and that was how to find it when hammered.

Other friends of ours stayed with a priest and when they arrived he produced a bottle of poteen to welcome them - they were all underage too.

I also remember Hayes Hotel and one of the most frightening experiences of my young life when some drunken thug actually pulled off a part of the window frame and started bashing it through the rest of the window because he wasnt allowed in. The hotel was completely wrecked. As was the town, I cant imagine how expensive the clean up was.

Supermacs made a bomb, queues out the door all day and night.

I remember making my way towards the back of Semple Stadium for The Cranberries because I was tired (drunk) and wanted a lie down on the grass and some kind souls coming along and giving me Coke (Coca Cola!!).

Met a fella too, had some romance with him.

Happy times, although very blurry memories. Rage Against The Machine - I can still hear them now.

Dead Man Walking · 15-10-2012 06:10PM

Was only at the last one in thurles in 94, prodigy, bjork, cypress hill.
Some real good strawberries around.
Probably the first glimpse of what was to come down the line with the likes of oxygen at the football stand beside the campsite where an after hours rave was goin on, friend getting robbed at knife point.
The poor ol Hare Krishnas spent the weekend handing out free food and had their tent burned down (or was that Witness??

or the strawberries

)

Grayson · 15-10-2012 09:26PM

Sarn wrote: »

I only made it to the one in 1994 (Blur, Crash Test Dummies, House of Pain, The Prodigy, Bjork, The Cranberries).
.

Don't forget cypress hill, Rage against the Machine, The Stunning (again) Elvis Costello (someone on drugs decided it was a good idea to put him on after Rage and before the prodigy) massive attack and crowded house.

I have no memory of blur being there. I thought that was the one in the phonex park.

Grayson · 15-10-2012 09:28PM

Dead Man Walking wrote: »

The poor ol Hare Krishnas spent the weekend handing out free food and had their tent burned down (or was that Witness?? or the strawberries )

That must have been witness or maybe sunstroke?. I remember being locked there on the last night and trying to get free noodles from them.

super_furry · 15-10-2012 09:29PM

Was too young to go before the last one. Had to settle for Sunstroke in Dalymount Park - some amazing gigs there.

refusetolose · 15-10-2012 09:29PM

it was on in the point one year

saw pulp, cast plus more

Raiser · 15-10-2012 09:40PM

Was there in 93, good memories, ok, ok, very hazy memories! Was great though - people kept telling me they saw me crowd surfing on some clip that kept getting played on MTV at the time!?

- Good memories, pity the kids these days can't go out and enjoy similar without scumbags jumping on tents, firing glass bottles 50ft across a campsite and stabbing folk etc. etc.

BattleCorp · 15-10-2012 10:11PM

One of the lads fell asleep, totally in the horrors in the square in Thurles.

Naturally we did what any sensible drunk young adults would do. A gang of us lifted him (while he was asleep) up on top of the phone boxes that were in the square. Then we fcuked off and left him there.

Never found out what happened him after.

Happy days.

Frank Black · 15-10-2012 10:28PM

Feile 91
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

In fairness though a couple of more lights in the campsite area wouldn't have gone astray. 2 hours trying to find my tent in pitch blackness.

xtradel · 19-10-2013 07:43PM

Sorry to bump this but here's some news for anybody interested

http://www.thurles.info/2013/10/09/tipperary-gaa-want-feile-back-at-semple-stadium-thurles/

FearDark · 19-10-2013 08:02PM

veryangryman wrote: »

Thinly veiled "Anyone who posts on this is over 30" thread.

I wish I was over 30 inches mate.

I'm 31, was too young to go but remember my older brother and sister going at the time.

gazzer · 19-10-2013 08:11PM

Was at Feile 91, 92 and 93. Great weekends. Such a great mix of bands

dirtyden · 19-10-2013 08:26PM

I live not too far away from thurles. The tide had turned against it by the last year. I believe the Friday night that year had a metal line-up and it was very messy around the town after, lots of fights and vandalism. I think at that stage a lot of people felt the benefits did not outweigh the downsides of having 40000 people taking over a small town and wrecking the place for 3 days.

I had some work delivering bread, we were bringing a van full of bread rolls to a house across from the race course who where selling sandwiches rolls etc, making a small fortune. I dropped a roll on the ground on the way into tescos with a delivery and pegged it into a bin in the van. I was accosted by someone lying in filth in the square about how unhygienic that was. I think they were just disappointed they did not profit from my spillage.

paulbok · 19-10-2013 11:26PM

After Thurles there was Cork in '95, 3 days in the point in Dublin in '96 and am I right in saying there was a one day trip to Tipp in '97?

topper75 · 19-10-2013 11:45PM

the groutch wrote: »

An opportunity for boggers to try make themselves feel important

A strange take on Féile. I remember it being full of Dubs in fact - train loads of them literally pouring into the place, being brought to the front in a phoney war against the culchies - like something out of Hitler's invasion of Russia.

How many of those bands would people bother with nowadays? Rose-tinted glasses and many of my friends are quite guilty. It was value for money though in an age when most hadn't a bean and it was I think at one point the second biggest festival in Europe after Roskilde. A thing of its time. Let go.

spyderski · 19-10-2013 11:57PM

What year was EMF, Carter USM, Paul Brady? Think it was '92. Christy Moore playing in the pissing rain, the crowd somehow managed to lift up the mesh that was covering the pitch & held it over our heads to keep off the rain. My first ever concert, was 17 I think - great craic.......

telecinesk · 05-02-2016 11:41AM

Hi,

thread bump, but this is worth it.
https://vimeo.com/48330644 and https://vimeo.com/48330645 , unedited raw camera footage shot at Feile in 94 that never made the cut, theres more but this is enough .)
More crack , no mobile phones and just fun..

anyone recognise themselves?

strelok · 05-02-2016 11:45AM

it's mad to think that all those young happy people are old and dead inside now

endacl · 05-02-2016 11:49AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

It was a 3 day music festival held in Thurles in the early/mid 90s. A bit like Oxygen, but with fewer scummers.

And better bands.

buck65 · 05-02-2016 01:18PM

Was there in 91 and 94. Have to say 91 was a life defining weekend for me, me and a bunch of lads and gals headed up after finishing the leaving that summer. What a weekend, great music, great times and a barrel of porter.
94 was memorable for other reasons but 91 for me was fantastic.

Mesrine65 · 05-02-2016 01:55PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

It was a 3 day music festival held in Thurles in the early/mid 90s. A bit like Oxygen, but with fewer scummers.

I beg to differ, having worked security at it in both 1990-1991

It was a little more relaxed in fairness, but there were plenty of scummers (sic) to be had at the Trip to Tipp

topper75 · 05-02-2016 03:52PM

Ghost Buster wrote: »

That is a pathetic post. Really it is.

It is also an ignorant post.

I stood on a train station platform in Thurles one Monday lunchtime after one such weekend. I was bound for Limerick junction. Across the tracks on the opposing platform, the Dublin folk awaited their train home. About 600,000,000 of them. Only their pale skin informed me that I was not in Calcutta.
Every shade, breed, and brand of Irish person was there and enjoyed it.

Lights On · 05-02-2016 03:56PM

The only memories I have of it are being out in the back garden when I was around 4 and hearing Rage blasting out very loudly! Lucky for me it only took 16 years to see them properly

endacl · 05-02-2016 03:59PM

topper75 wrote: »

About 600,000,000 of them.

How many were wearing Fido Dido t shirts?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 05-02-2016 04:47PM

Michael Lowry came up with the idea to clear off the debt on Semple Stadium. I think the ground underwent redevelopment which ran over budget during the late 80s????

Bonzo Delaney · 05-02-2016 04:50PM

Went down the year of Iggy pop
Was up the front waiting fo madness to come on while Chris de burgh was playing god he got some terrible abuse from all the madness heads that was until he brought out the topless Irish dancer... they thought he was sound after that !!

s8n · 05-02-2016 04:54PM

telecinesk wrote: »

Hi,

thread bump, but this is worth it.
https://vimeo.com/48330644 and https://vimeo.com/48330645 , unedited raw camera footage shot at Feile in 94 that never made the cut, theres more but this is enough .)
More crack , no mobile phones and just fun..

anyone recognise themselves?

Thanks for posting that, brought back a lot of memories. One thing struck me when watching, how innocent and unbridled it all was.

telecinesk · 05-02-2016 09:01PM

Your welcome. this has sat in a box since 94 and only surfaced during a "dig" and i realised this is old enough to transfer.
I also notice a lack of crowd control or blokes in yellow vests with radios doing the health and safety plot there. The rain is something else. No festival is as good as when it rains and your beer in a plastic cup gets hammered out of it from above.. Innocent days.. . )

Feile 94 , Soundcrowd and Prodigy ... Quick, someone invent a time machine.

Feile. And all things Feile.

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