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Self Aid 1986

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  • #32
    Grandeeod
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    Very mixed feelings in here about this.


  • #33
    Jawgap
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    fryup wrote: »
    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

    Well, I certainly have fond memories of it. About 20 to 30 of us went in a big mixed group. Even the walk all the way home was great craic.


  • #34
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

    rose tinted glasses??

    one of my induring memories was of mike murphy in the RTE studio and he says to the watching public..."we have people in from the bbc watching the proceedings so its important you should donate"

    facepalm


  • #35
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

    rose tinted glasses??

    one of my induring memories was of mike murphy in the RTE studio and he says to the watching public..."we have people in from the bbc watching the proceedings so its important you should donate"

    facepalm

    Not really. I didn't see the TV coverage, so perhaps I missed the more cringey elements.

    I remember it as a great day out. And people always misbehaved at gigs. I remember Freddie at Slane stopping mid song to have a go at security for being too 'physical' with the punters in front of the stage; people being flung off the stage at the Phoenix Park Racecourse gigs and the Edge dodging bottles bring flung on stage at a Lark in the Park - they were all still pretty good gigs :D


  • #36
    Choodefat
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    I remember thinking Van the man and Rory Gallagher were good at Self-Aid...

    The Croke park gigs back then, anyone?
    Simple Minds, the same year, had mad lightning, especially during 'The American' ('...here comes the flack..!'), 1985 had Michael Stipe sing with his back to the crowd, after being bottled and tamatoed ( U2 were due on), and 1987 U2 again, with The Dubliners/ Pogues and Lou Reed...
    Wow is it that long ago? I'd grab my coat if I could find my glasses hah


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  • #37
    Jawgap
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    Choodefat wrote: »
    I remember thinking Van the man and Rory Gallagher were good at Self-Aid...

    The Croke park gigs back then, anyone?
    Simple Minds, the same year, had mad lightning, especially during 'The American' ('...here comes the flack..!'), 1985 had Michael Stipe sing with his back to the crowd, after being bottled and tamatoed ( U2 were due on), and 1987 U2 again, with The Dubliners/ Pogues and Lou Reed...
    Wow is it that long ago? I'd grab my coat if I could find my glasses hah

    Bob Dylan at Slane in 1984(?) - the riots.......we arrived down to go camping and didn't even have the chance to get off the bus - the Guards got on and told the driver to turnaround and go back to Dublin!

    Any gig where the Army (allegedly) is put on standby to rescue the situation surely qualifies as 'epic'!


  • #38
    Choodefat
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    Jazus that was a bummer hah. Me best friend at the time, told me the day after the Slane Dylan gig, that his sister was sick and didn't go, and noone wanted the ticket.
    Cue me staring at him until he finally said "ah feck, I forgot you liked Dylan..."

    Dunno where he is now, and frankly...


  • #39
    Jawgap
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    Choodefat wrote: »
    Jazus that was a bummer hah. Me best friend at the time, told me the day after the Slane Dylan gig, that his sister was sick and didn't go, and noone wanted the ticket.
    Cue me staring at him until he finally said "ah feck, I forgot you liked Dylan..."

    Dunno where he is now, and frankly...

    We still got to see the gig - the next day, my mother drove us down - and then came back an collected us that night at 1-00am!


  • #40
    Choodefat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭Choodefat


    Ah good stuff...
    The mother asked dad "...will we go into dublin, and sure we might 'find him around somewhere'...' when I didn't come back that night after Croke '85...early bold days heh.


  • #41
    circadian
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    I'm seeing wankfest in the first post and subsequent posts about how tasty Leslie Dowdall was.

    Did a bunch of teenage lads pay to go have a fap at some woman singing?


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  • #42
    fryup
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    Bob Dylan at Slane in 1984(?) - the riots.......

    only in ireland would have a riot at a bob dylan concert:D classic


  • #43
    Egginacup
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    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    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!

    Bono was uncomfortable being there and he knew he was damned if he did, damned if he didn't. If he refused to take part he was a wanker. If he took part he still looked like a wanker because it wasn't a big enough for his ego nor could he hijack the whole thing for himself. Whatever about being able to blow your own trumpet in England and America, Bono knows he can't blag the Irish acts and Irish fans that were there so he just had to meekly take a back seat.


  • #44
    Egginacup
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    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Was it illegal in the 80's to organise an event without having Brush Shiels turn up?

    Agreed. That wanker showed up everywhere and he sucked.

    "Battle of the Bands" special guest Brush Shiels
    "Paddy's Day gig" with Brush Shiels

    You always knew the concert organisers were desperate to fill air-time when that tool was scheduled in.
    And that retarded beret.


  • #45
    fryup
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

    remember when he used to do the guitar lessons on anything goes on a saturday morning, he used to spend half the time laughing at his own jokes


  • #46
    Jawgap
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    Egginacup wrote: »
    Agreed. That wanker showed up everywhere and he sucked.

    "Battle of the Bands" special guest Brush Shiels
    "Paddy's Day gig" with Brush Shiels

    You always knew the concert organisers were desperate to fill air-time when that tool was scheduled in.
    And that retarded beret.

    I worked in the Baggot (when McGettigan owned it) for a while and Brush turned up there at plenty of gigs - yes, he seemed to be on everything but I found him to be a really good bloke - not like some of the wannabes we got who felt they'd made it because they'd got a four week Thursday night residency on the back of a cancellation.

    I'd say the reason he was on everything was because he was a decent skin - he just couldn't say no if someone asked him to do something!


  • #47
    philstar
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    did the Bangles play self aid? i seem to recall they did


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
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    Wasn't born. Never heard of it.


  • #49
    AndonHandon
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    Bob Dylan at Slane in 1984(?) - the riots.......we arrived down to go camping and didn't even have the chance to get off the bus - the Guards got on and told the driver to turnaround and go back to Dublin!

    Any gig where the Army (allegedly) is put on standby to rescue the situation surely qualifies as 'epic'!

    http://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/10/arts/town-clears-wreckage-of-bob-dylan-rioters.html


  • #50
    Jawgap
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    philstar wrote: »
    did the Bangles play self aid? i seem to recall they did

    Don't think so - but they did play Slane in support of Queen, iirc


  • #51
    FloatingVoter
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    I remember it. Bono came back from being President of America and made all the unemployed people happy again. And Bob Geldof did some swearing on the telly and made my mammy laugh and my daddy got drunk and went to the pub. And he said some swearing things too.


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