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Self Aid 1986

  • 15-02-2015 08:31PM
    #1
    Grandeeod
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    Was it just a big wankfest for Irish and nearly Irish musicians and RTE? I was at the gig. Paid £14.50 for the ticket. Some good stuff, but in hindsight what did it prove or achieve?
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  • #2
    Venus In Furs
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    Even I don't remember that and I'm one of the oldies here. Auld Ones/Auld Fellas forum I'd say.


  • #3
    taytobreath
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    wankfest
    lol


  • #4
    Jawgap
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    It didn't achieve a whole lot - but it was a great gig!


  • #5
    Grandeeod
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    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    Even I don't remember that and I'm one of the oldies here. Auld Ones/Auld Fellas forum I'd say.

    Well I'm obviously a bigger oldie.:D Lets wait and see!


  • #6
    Red Kev
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    As a 15 year old at the time any excuse to see Leslie Dowdall in action was a good day in my perverted little book.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V99B5Hdp-5o


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  • #7
    Grandeeod
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    It didn't achieve a whole lot - but it was a great gig!

    Yeah. A decent enough concert, but **** me it achieved nothing really, did it?


  • #8
    Grandeeod
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    Red Kev wrote: »
    As a 15 year old at the tome any excuse to see Leslie Dowdall in action was a good day in my perverted little book.

    Jaysus she was a ride!


  • #9
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I remember it well and it was just one big ego trip by Irish artists. Achieved nothing and I don't think any of them cared neither.


  • #10
    Jawgap
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Yeah. A decent enough concert, but **** me it achieved nothing really, did it?

    No it didn't - but as Red Kev said - Leslie Dowdall........Nom, Nom, Nom.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V99B5Hdp-5o


  • #11
    kneemos
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Was it just a big wankfest for Irish and nearly Irish musicians and RTE? I was at the gig. Paid £14.50 for the ticket. Some good stuff, but in hindsight what did it prove or achieve?

    Wankfest apparently.


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  • #12
    Grandeeod
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    Well as a 14 year old still in school, I contributed my ticket fee and then bought the double album on vinyl when I was 15!

    Paid for from a part time job! The irony!


  • #13
    Annasopra
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    Red Kev wrote: »
    As a 15 year old at the time any excuse to see Leslie Dowdall in action was a good day in my perverted little book.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V99B5Hdp-5o

    How completely random. I met Lesley Dowdall yesterday and I had no idea who she was!!!

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #14
    C.K Dexter Haven
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    bit embarrassing looking back but was a great concert at the time.

    "Let's make it work" etc :D


  • #15
    BenEadir
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    Serious line up all right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Aid


  • #16
    Nodin
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Was it just a big wankfest for Irish and nearly Irish musicians and RTE? I was at the gig. Paid £14.50 for the ticket. Some good stuff, but in hindsight what did it prove or achieve?


    Nothing, as was evident at the time.


  • #17
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    I remember it, being 13 at the time, but wasn't overly interested in it. It felt like an excuse for Irish bands to have a big gig after the whole Live Aid thing. I probably wasn't wrong.


  • #18
    Grandeeod
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    I remember it, being 13 at the time, but wasn't overly interested in it. It felt like an excuse for Irish bands to have a big gig after the whole Live Aid thing. I probably wasn't wrong.

    A lot of that happening alright.


  • #19
    Grandeeod
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    Just found this video which is a behind the scenes look.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ohnZtVAS0


    Fookin Hell! Really shows it up for what it was. Of course Bono managed to "touch" the people with his carefully managed "speech". I've had my doubts over the years, but Im moving towards wankfest.


  • #20
    Skid X
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    Decent concert which raised a lot of money for a decent cause at a very bleak time in Ireland, nothing wrong with it.


  • #21
    Menas
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    I have the album they released of that gig and remember it well. Bono sounded a bit embarrased to be there in my opinion.
    Unlike him!


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  • #22
    Yamanoto
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Just found this video which is a behind the scenes look.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ohnZtVAS0

    The cider swillin' boyo's meeting Bono @ 38:30 are hilarious. :D


  • #23
    The Peanut
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    I was doing my Leaving Cert. It was huge news back in the day. Christ, they were innocent times.


  • #24
    Grandeeod
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    The Peanut wrote: »
    I was doing my Leaving Cert. It was huge news back in the day. Christ, they were innocent times.

    Well you get the vote for being the oldest! But yeah innocent times even if it now looks a little like a bunch of dicks having a party on behalf of a depressed nation. That said and with most of them washed up to some degree, I enjoyed it.


  • #25
    The Peanut
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Well you get the vote for being the oldest! But yeah innocent times even if it now looks a little like a bunch of dicks having a party on behalf of a depressed nation. That said and with most of them washed up to some degree, I enjoyed it.

    I was a child genius; did my leaving cert aged 11.:D

    I was actually 16 but I can distinctly remember being underwhelmed at the time. I was listening to Bruce Springsteen a lot; the small town Americana he served up in Born in the USA seemed worlds away to the depressing sh*te the Irish lads were selling.


  • #26
    For Forks Sake
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    BenEadir wrote: »

    Serious line up all right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Aid

    Was it illegal in the 80's to organise an event without having Brush Shiels turn up?


  • #27
    padd b1975
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    My only memory is Joe Lynch introducing a band in "Dinny from Glenroe " mode.

    I suppose it would be like having Bela from Fair City acting as MC at Oxygen.

    Innocent times indeed.


  • #28
    BBJBIG
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    A massive circle jerk if yis ask me ... ;)


  • #29
    anncoates
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    Did it actually happen?

    I also assumed it was a pastiche of charity gigs by The Onion.


  • #30
    Desolation Of Smug
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    It was almost as successful and productive as The Gathering.


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  • #31
    fryup
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    It didn't achieve a whole lot - but it was a great gig!

    no it wasn't it was crap the sound was all over the place typical of the RDS at the time

    ....they even threw apples at in tua nua "get off the stage" the gurriers were shouting

    it was one big cringefest


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