The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Hotblack Desiato · 04-01-2019 11:06am

tringle wrote: »

And she wasnt even in the nip to us she was behind a paper screen or sheet.

"Those women weren't even in the nip!"

The Crowman · 04-01-2019 11:31am

Count Down wrote: »

There was one scene where she was posing for the art class and she was in the full nip, although the camera angles only showed her top half. :eek:
It was done in the best possible taste, but to no avail....

In the retrospective clip I remember them showing you could clearly see her rear end, she was nude and shown in full from behind.

Count Down · 04-01-2019 11:51am

The Crowman wrote: »

In the retrospective clip I remember them showing you could clearly see her rear end, she was nude and shown in full from behind.

Odd that I don't remember that bit. I would have been around 16 at the time. Probably averted my gaze so as not to be assailed with impure thoughts for the rest of my life - assuming I was to live that long. :eek:

branie2 · 04-01-2019 12:15pm

I think I might have seen the retrospective clip

Grayson · 04-01-2019 1:16pm

The Crowman wrote: »

In the retrospective clip I remember them showing you could clearly see her rear end, she was nude and shown in full from behind.

The wikipedia page for thsi is nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spike_(TV_series)

n episode five, "the briefest glimpse of naked flesh" caused outrage and angry phonecalls to newspapers. The show's producer defended the nude streak as an intent "to examine the attitude of pupils and staff to nudity". The ensuing fuss led to one of the actors requiring medical treatment after he was, as the Evening Press elegantly phrased it, "thumped by a fat elderly lady".[5] The episode sparked debate in Dáil Éireann and was condemned by the Taoiseach Jack Lynch, despite him having never seen the programme.[6] On the day that the sixth episode was due to air with a story of a schoolboy bomber, it was axed. The remaining episodes remain locked away and have neither never been broadcast on RTÉ nor viewed by members of the general public. The Spike was later featured on RTÉ's scandal series, Scannal,[7][8] with the Irish Independent naming it as one of their "Top 10 Worst Irish TV Programmes".[

Apparently it was useless too. The acting was terrible and the script sucked. they tried to tackle serious issues but were just terrible at it.

Count Down · 04-01-2019 3:32pm

Grayson wrote: »

The wikipedia page for thsi is nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spike_(TV_series)

Apparently it was useless too. The acting was terrible and the script sucked. they tried to tackle serious issues but were just terrible at it.

Yes, the acting was generally shyte, not helped by a rubbishy script, but this gave it an unintentional comedy aspect.
In one storyline, some young one gets crap results in her Inter cert. Her father tells her in no uncertain terms that she'll have to leave her posh fee-paying school and go to the dreaded kip of a school 'The Spike' for the new term. Aghast, she wails "No, no, not The Spike!"
At school the next day, virtually everyone in the class were imitating her wailing "No, no, not The Spike!" We thought we were hilarious.

NewbridgeIR · 04-01-2019 8:06pm

In 2002, RTE had a good documentary on their drama - celebrating 40 years. Have it on VIDEO HOME SYSTEM. Might try to upload to YouTube. There's clips from The Spike and others on it.

Mongfinder General · 04-01-2019 11:41pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

In 2002, RTE had a good documentary on their drama - celebrating 40 years. Have it on VIDEO HOME SYSTEM. Might try to upload to YouTube. There's clips from The Spike and others on it.

Do it!

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 10:43pm

Remember when it was a big deal when an Irish movie came out in the cinema? Eat The Peach, Reefer And The Model, The Courier. They'd usually be shown on RTE not long after coming out.

Dyr · 06-01-2019 2:00am

The Crowman wrote: »

Remember when it was a big deal when an Irish movie came out in the cinema? Eat The Peach, Reefer And The Model, The Courier. They'd usually be shown on RTE not long after coming out.

I remember Eat the Peach getting a shed load of publicity when it came outm then a few years back some newspaper gave it away free on DVD

JupiterKid · 06-01-2019 2:02am

One film from the 1980s that moved me was Lamb. Featuring a young Liam Neeson, it was hugely depressing.:(

So much was truly depressing in the 1980s, thank God I was only a child and had my mates, my BMX and my LEGO town to play with (when it was raining, we played outdoors a lot...)

NewbridgeIR · 06-01-2019 2:10am

Lamb was excellent. Bleak stuff.
Hugh O’Conor with one n - always thought that looked wrong

AndrewJRenko · 06-01-2019 6:45am

Count Down wrote: »

As I recall there was a storyline concerning a teacher having an illicit liaison with one of the younger students - way ahead of its time in 1970s Ireland.
The teacher's name was Curtin, and when a fellow teacher found out he hit Mr Curtin a wallop, causing a black eye. At school the next day, some student wittily shouted out "Is it hurtin' Curtin?"

Interesting - it was filmed in Synge St, which had a Mr Curtin on staff at the time.

branie2 · 06-01-2019 11:40am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Lamb was excellent. Bleak stuff.
Hugh O’Conor with one n - always thought that looked wrong

Early Liam Neeson film as well

The Crowman · 06-01-2019 1:57pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

One film from the 1980s that moved me was Lamb. Featuring a young Liam Neeson, it was hugely depressing.:(

So much was truly depressing in the 1980s, thank God I was only a child and had my mates, my BMX and my LEGO town to play with (when it was raining, we played outdoors a lot...)

RTE screened it soon after it was released and true to form they pretty much gave away the ending in the clip publicising the screening. That was an odd aspect of 80's TV that whenever there was a heavily publicised film or TV show coming up they'd have these promos with portentous voiceover explaining the storyline. It wasn't just RTE either as the below clip shows (spoiler alert).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0dvyK9YO-k

its_steve116 · 06-01-2019 5:44pm

branie2 wrote: »

Early Liam Neeson film as well

...before he told that dude that he'd look for him, find him... and kill him.

Hotblack Desiato · 07-01-2019 2:14am

The Crowman wrote: »

Remember when it was a big deal when an Irish movie came out in the cinema? Eat The Peach, Reefer And The Model, The Courier. They'd usually be shown on RTE not long after coming out.

And they were all sh!te too, but we were patriotically expected to watch them on RTE with our nostrils pinched to not smell the smell of sh!te and proclaim that they were "grand".

Eat The Peach is one of the worst fcuking movies ever made, but RTE made out it was Oscar material...

The Crowman · 07-01-2019 4:48pm

Another odd memory that just popped into my head of the movie Lamb is that soon after RTE showed it there was a story in the papers about an unfortunate man who took his own life after watching it. His neighbour reported that the man was talking about the film the following day and saying how depressing he found it and the ending in particular, I think he was found dead just shortly later.

its_steve116 · 07-01-2019 5:00pm

The Crowman wrote: »

Another odd memory that just popped into my head of the movie Lamb is that soon after RTE showed it there was a story in the papers about an unfortunate man who took his own life after watching it. His neighbour reported that the man was talking about the film the following day and saying how depressing he found it and the ending in particular, I think he was found dead just shortly later.

That's sad.

Heroditas · 07-01-2019 5:01pm

Lamb was awfully grim. I still remember it well and have absolutely no desire to watch it again, particularly now that I'm a parent.

The Crowman · 16-01-2019 5:08pm

Who can forget the safety ads that used to be on tv in the 70's and 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hc1JbuR9Ek

Say Your Number · 16-01-2019 7:36pm

Never heard of that film Lamb before, Jesus Christ, from reading the plot description, it makes Angela's Ashes seem like a laugh a minute comedy.

sitkaspruce · 16-01-2019 7:52pm

I remember being on summer holidays in Newtownmountkennedy as a youngster and going to Wicklow town where Pierce Brosnan was filming Taffin. The highlight of summer 87 (I think it was?)

The Crowman · 16-01-2019 10:02pm

Clash Of The Ash was great.

Heroditas · 16-01-2019 10:57pm

sitkaspruce wrote: »

I remember being on summer holidays in Newtownmountkennedy as a youngster and going to Wicklow town where Pierce Brosnan was filming Taffin. The highlight of summer 87 (I think it was?)

Well maybe you shouldn't be living heeeerrrrrrreeee?

NewbridgeIR · 16-01-2019 11:17pm

The Crowman wrote: »

Clash Of The Ash was great.

I wrote this article on Clash Of The Ash for Where's Grandad.

The YouTube upload of it is from my VHS tape.

Kermit.de.frog · 03-02-2019 5:30am

"Saw Boss!" lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0SzFIf4A

imme · 03-02-2019 10:00am

sitkaspruce wrote: »

I remember being on summer holidays in Newtownmountkennedy as a youngster and going to Wicklow town where Pierce Brosnan was filming Taffin. The highlight of summer 87 (I think it was?)

Taffin is a classic, an Irish film noir made in the 1980's, it is great to see the locations/scenes in it, evocative.

lmimmfn · 03-02-2019 1:06pm

its_steve116 wrote: »

...before he told that dude that he'd look for him, find him... and kill him.

Before he had a certain set of skills

branie2 · 05-02-2019 5:52pm

Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid

fryup · 05-02-2019 6:03pm

duffle coats & parker jackets

branie2 · 05-02-2019 6:11pm

When I was in primary school in the 80s, I can remember taking off my shoes and putting on slippers, as it was a rule in the school.

Count Down · 06-02-2019 10:47am

fryup wrote: »

duffle coats & parker jackets

Back in the 70s I had a Parka jacket which I wore everywhere, especially when fishing. After a few years my mother refused to wash it anymore (no washing machine in those days) and told me to take it to the laundrette.
I went in and plonked it on the counter. "Could ye wash this, please?" The nice man picked up the sleeve between finger and thumb, sniffed it, looked me in the eye and said "No."
I picked up the jacket and left.

Looking back, it probably smelled like a gorilla's armpit. But I was so used to it that I never noticed. I only got rid of it when I outgrew it.

Mena Mitty · 06-02-2019 11:40am

The Aer Lingus ad 'Look up it's Aer Lingus'

My friends and I would stand on the path and all point at the sky while singing the jingle. You'd see oul lads getting off their bicycles to see what we were pointing at...O the craic we had.

Come the summer holidays we'd all sit for hours writing down car number plates in copybooks trying to outdo each other who'd get the most. A similar game was to guess the make of car. Another was to close our eyes and guess the make of car by the sound of engine as it drove past. It took little to amuse us.

Some summer nights were spent in someones shed sitting on upturned buckets as seats, all huddled around a little transister radio listening to radio Luxemburg, chawing sweets and eating Taytos...and if thirst got the better of us we all wrapped our mouths around the tap in the yard to quench our thirst.

We'd do some experimentation with the crisps, we'd mix cheese and onion and salt and vinegar in the one bag to befuddle our taste buds and maybe for a bit of divilment divide up a bag of Pete's peanuts into the crisp bags.

Ah those were the days my friends and we thought they'd never end....in the words of the song sotospeak.

11-02-2019 12:45pm

Mena Mitty wrote: »

The Aer Lingus ad 'Look up it's Aer Lingus'

My friends and I would stand on the path and all point at the sky while singing the jingle. You'd see oul lads getting off their bicycles to see what we were pointing at...O the craic we had.

Come the summer holidays we'd all sit for hours writing down car number plates in copybooks trying to outdo each other who'd get the most. A similar game was to guess the make of car. Another was to close our eyes and guess the make of car by the sound of engine as it drove past. It took little to amuse us.

Some summer nights were spent in someones shed sitting on upturned buckets as seats, all huddled around a little transister radio listening to radio Luxemburg, chawing sweets and eating Taytos...and if thirst got the better of us we all wrapped our mouths around the tap in the yard to quench our thirst.

We'd do some experimentation with the crisps, we'd mix cheese and onion and salt and vinegar in the one bag to befuddle our taste buds and maybe for a bit of divilment divide up a bag of Pete's peanuts into the crisp bags.

Ah those were the days my friends and we thought they'd never end....in the words of the song sotospeak.

As a kid I could tell the make if virtually any car by the sound of it, same with airplanes, eg a Viscount had 4 Dart engines, a HS78 had 2 Darts, so I could tell the difference by volume of sound in such case. My mother’s friend had a slightly older child and she used to be able to tell the makes of aircraft from her pram. Funnily enough both of us turned up at the same flying school together, and we met after her plane’s engine stopped running as she throttled back to land (it had a note stuck on dashboard not to cut to idle as fuel flow was being fine-tuned for economy) and came to a stop on the runway after having announced intention to touch and go. I had to fly around her and make a second approach to land. She had managed to restart and taxi back and park. We both reacquainted getting out of our respective aircraft and walking back to club house! The flying school/club had at least one third female pilots, including one of its two full-time employed instructors. Absolutely adored those days of early eighties, full of colour for me.

Muckka · 11-02-2019 1:28pm

I remember catching bee's in jamjars, sticklebacks, caterpillars, crab's, frog's, shrew's, crow's lol

I'd leave them go again after a few days in a big fishtank in the she'd. The bee's would go straight back. I remember having around 15 bees in a coffee jar, the coffee jars were bigger.
Putting my ear up to the jar hearing the loud buzz.

I remember the airplanes too, the Concorde training in Shannon was a big moment.
If you heard the power and the noise over head would make you feel like getting sick...

TV programs, Kidnapped, Huckleberry Finn, Fifi and fofo, Treasure Island, Island of the great yellow Ox....

No longer on the Box

The Crowman · 12-02-2019 8:15pm

Remember when you had ads that were actually funny? This one always cracked me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqAtH-aQs_4

dd973 · 12-02-2019 8:19pm

Dublin Docks being derelict down to the Pigeon House and the Ringsend gasometer in the distance, shame The Dockers and Vallance & McGrath pubs no longer exist though.

Mongfinder General · 12-02-2019 9:21pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

As a kid I could tell the make if virtually any car by the sound of it, same with airplanes, eg a Viscount had 4 Dart engines, a HS78 had 2 Darts, so I could tell the difference by volume of sound in such case. My mother’s friend had a slightly older child and she used to be able to tell the makes of aircraft from her pram. Funnily enough both of us turned up at the same flying school together, and we met after her plane’s engine stopped running as she throttled back to land (it had a note stuck on dashboard not to cut to idle as fuel flow was being fine-tuned for economy) and came to a stop on the runway after having announced intention to touch and go. I had to fly around her and make a second approach to land. She had managed to restart and taxi back and park. We both reacquainted getting out of our respective aircraft and walking back to club house! The flying school/club had at least one third female pilots, including one of its two full-time employed instructors. Absolutely adored those days of early eighties, full of colour for me.

Did you get the back wheels in?

The Crowman · 07-03-2019 9:17am

Kat1170 wrote: »

Telecom Eireann ad with Bob Geldof. 'Phone wreckers are idiots'

Remember another one out at around the same time about drink/drugs with the tag line 'That's a sick way to live'. Can't remember if it was Bob in that one or not.

RTE news report about the launch of that Telecom Eireann anti vandalism ad. This is hilarious, Bob getting indignant about a trashed phonebox. "Don't give me that crap about social anger".

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21216597-telephone-anti-vandalism-campaign/

wicklowdub · 27-05-2019 12:43pm

Anyone going to this

https://foreveryoungfestival.ie/

Are The Christians an 80's band?

THE HUMAN LEAGUE | HOLLY JOHNSON
LEVEL 42 | KIM WILDE
JIMMY SOMERVILLE | MARC ALMOND
BONNIE TYLER | MIDGE URE | THOMPSON TWINS’ TOM BAILEY
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS | HEAVEN 17 | T’PAU | BIG COUNTRY | FROM THE JAM
CRY BEFORE DAWN | THE FIZZ (BUCKS FIZZ) | CHINA CRISIS
LEEE JOHN (IMAGINATION) | TOYAH | HAZEL O’CONNOR | KATRINA (& THE WAVES)
DR & THE MEDICS | THE SOUTH (BEAUTIFUL SOUTH)
THE CHRISTIANS | ANDREW STRONG (THE COMMITMENTS) | BAGATELLE

Grayson · 27-05-2019 12:51pm

branie2 wrote: »

Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid

Reminded me of this.

Once upon a time, there was a chef named Chervase who worked in a restaurant. They mainly served fish, especially squid.

Of all the squid there, one stood out from the rest. He was green, vile, and had a hairy lip. Of course, anyone seeing this squid would not want him and would choose another, more attractive and appetizing fish.

So, over the years, Chervase grew to like the squid, despite being green and vile and having a hairy lip. He would come in every morning and feed it and clean out its tank every evening. During the summer, a student was taken on to wash up, and his name was Hans. He was a good worker and helped Chervase around the kitchen. He also grew to like the squid, and fed it daily when Chervase was too busy.

One day a gentleman arrived, claiming to have tasted every squid known to man. When he saw the green hairy-lipped vile squid, he had to have it. So, Chervase pulled the squid out by the tentacles and threw him on the chopping block. He grabbed his cleaver and in one movement, raised it up and couldn't kill his old friend, the vile, green, hairy-lip squid.

He broke down crying and ordered Hans to kill the squid, but Hans couldn't do it either!

All of which just goes to show that Hans that does dishes is as soft as Chervase, with the vile green hairy-lip squid

Joe_ Public · 27-05-2019 12:56pm

wicklowdub wrote: »

Anyone going to this

https://foreveryoungfestival.ie/

Are The Christians an 80's band?

Too much dreck on that for me to be interested, but i could be tempted to go see Big Country or From the Jam if they played some small venue on their own. Most of those bands i wouldn't have watched if they set up in my back garden in the 80s so no interest in paying steeply to watch them croak out their old hits in their dotage.

ohnonotgmail · 27-05-2019 1:29pm

wicklowdub wrote: »

Anyone going to this

https://foreveryoungfestival.ie/

Are The Christians an 80's band?

I presume Dr and the Medics will just play Spirit in the Sky on repeat until they have filled their slot?

Sardonicat · 27-05-2019 1:31pm

Yes, The Christians were an 80s band.

For me, it really would depend on the band line-up. How many of the original members are in it now, for example. The Christians' vocalist had a phenomenal and unique voice. If he's not in the current line up I wouldn't want to know.

You couldn't pay me to sit through a set by T'Pau, Bucks Fizz or Toyah. A couple of those acts I wouldn't mind seeing now (such as The Christians, maybe Level 42 - they always seemed to have a listenable tune out in the 80s, ) but most of them, no.

branie2 · 27-05-2019 1:32pm

Their best song is Harvest for the World

Sardonicat · 27-05-2019 1:34pm

branie2 wrote: »

Their best song is Harvest for the World

'Forgotten Town' is hair-raisingly brilliant.

ohnonotgmail · 27-05-2019 1:37pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Yes, The Christians were an 80s band.

For me, it really would depend on the band line-up. How many of the original members are in it now, for example. The Christians' vocalist had a phenomenal and unique voice. If he's not in the current line up I wouldn't want to know.

You couldn't pay me to sit through a set by T'Pau, Bucks Fizz or Toyah. A couple of those acts I wouldn't mind seeing now (such as The Christians, maybe Level 42 - they always seemed to have a listenable tune out in the 80s, ) but most of them, no.

He is the only one left.

newspower · 27-05-2019 4:42pm

wicklowdub wrote: »

Anyone going to this

https://foreveryoungfestival.ie/

Are The Christians an 80's band?

Yes they are end 80's early 90's

topper75 · 27-05-2019 4:52pm

branie2 wrote: »

Their best song is Harvest for the World

A cover though - I think it was Isley Bros. number.

The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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