LAST NIGHT AT THE GROVE
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Topic: LAST NIGHT AT THE GROVE
Posted By: DONDON
Subject: LAST NIGHT AT THE GROVE
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 13:57
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Can you remember your very last night at the grove and how you spent it. For me I was an aging 19 year old, working,and with a few bob in my pocket.I hadn't been there for a while.. I was into Saints Disco at the time. So on a Sunday night I decided to check it out and see what was happening.I recognised only a few people and was getting the same looks as the ones I gave when somebody old would arrive. I stayed in the corridoor supping a coke and while listening to the music and young Girl came over to me and in her flat Dublin accent asked" Hey MISTER wher's da cloakroom pleass well that was my farwell to the Grove or was it a farewell from the Grove ------------- Grover from 73(old Grove) In the year of the bankers and developers When recession raged across the land there were many driven by the hopelessness to set sail for the Americas and Australia |
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Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 14:44
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I think mine was when a girl I fancied big time started going to the "Wicket " or Clontarf cricket / Rugby club. There was a live band "The four keys" who did all the Bread stuff etc. So that was it I'm afraid. Got off with her, started going to the wicket and suddenly The Grove was left behind. Went back a few times later I think but me head was in The Wicket. I was also playing in bands then Dr Fox, Harvest Research etc and was palying at the weekends so didn't go anywhere ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: DONDON
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 14:48
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I was never at the wicket, was it as good as the Grove ?? DONDON ------------- Grover from 73(old Grove) In the year of the bankers and developers When recession raged across the land there were many driven by the hopelessness to set sail for the Americas and Australia |
Posted By: Sharon
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 15:05
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I recall my last night we had done our leaving and said we would all meet up during august in town we went to the high tide or was it the flowing tide....laughs We got talking about the Grove and had anyone been down since we left school none of us had...so for the laugh we decided we'ld hop on the bus and go to the Grove Shakes my head, we walked in looked around at all the young ppl...We were old we had left school...giggles it just didnt feel the same..music same headbanging same but the *kiddies* we couldnt handle..lol Anyway we danced all night had a laugh but sadly that was my last night in the Grove but it was spent with old school pals so that was a bonus Now we have our *Reunions* to look forward to.... WHENS THE NEXT ONE..????? Shar ------------- All I wanted was chips!! |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 15:10
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This should be easy for Mel. Think his last night at the Grove was about three weeks ago |
Posted By: DONDON
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 15:17
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Vey good Rolo and that's brill I am chuckling here and have to go to a serious meeting with VIPs control control ------------- Grover from 73(old Grove) In the year of the bankers and developers When recession raged across the land there were many driven by the hopelessness to set sail for the Americas and Australia |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 15:36
i think Mels first one was 1967 and his last one was 1997  ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Rolo wrote:Posted By: joey the lips
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 15:38
Ahh ,last night at the Grove ,,had stopped about the time when i stated to get into Pubs in town ,,years later my youngest brother (Paddy) was starting to go and my Mother asked me would i drive up and collect him when it was over ,myself and Mrs lips went up a wee bit early and the told the doormen what we were there for and he told us to go in and have a look for him ,in we go and Cecil is playing A whole lot of Rosie,we both ended up on the dance floor headbanging till the grove was over  ,nearly forgot that i had to pick up the brother ,your never to old for the music  ------------- You can checkout anytime u like but u can never leave |
Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 15:55
A more sedate crowd, older you know..by about a year. ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: DONDON
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 16:07
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sedate!!!!! .glad I missed that I feel sedate now and I am only in my 50s ------------- Grover from 73(old Grove) In the year of the bankers and developers When recession raged across the land there were many driven by the hopelessness to set sail for the Americas and Australia |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 16:14
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Nice story Joey. Laughing here thinking about what would happen if Cecil was still going strong in St.Paul's. We'd all be pitching up to collect the kids every night...............................except it would be at about 10 Bells and we'd end up doing exactly the same as yourself and the missus. |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 17:01
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Like Gary I moved onto the Cricket! Loved it there. Only went to the grove a few times during that time but full of a younger crew so moved on and up to the clubs and pubs. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 19:59
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If I had of known my last time at the Grove was going to be my last time,I would have made a lot more of an effort to take more of it in. As far as I remember I was supposed to meet Tony in the Nep and after he didn't show I headed down. He wasn't there either (turns out he 'met' someone somewhere else so I left him to her) and so due to lack of others I knew I stayed for a while then headed off in search of a party-AND NEVER WENT BACK! Wish to God I had of known... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 20:31
I think the kids would be picking us up for a change....LOL They could help us with our walkers... ------------- BrendanFella IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip. |
Posted By: whippersnapper
Date Posted: 02-March-2010 at 23:42
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After our leaving, a few of us decided to go back for one last night out. Me and two mates, one of whom would be well known to various people on here and was a year behind us in school. Turns out he continued going for about another five years, but it was supposed to be a big last hurrah. I had only ever gone drinking once before the Grove before, but now that I was 18 I felt that I should have a drink or two so the few cans were purchased, a football pitch was found and we sat down and imbibed. Hit the Grove, had a great night and went home. It felt like a rite of passage. Later tried the Cricket a few times - never liked it. Only other discos I've ever liked apart from Grove were country discos and Tamangos (and that purely because the football team would gather and have beers and chat) June 1989 I heard from time to time of the tribute nights in Isaac Butt but just never felt the tug to go back. Then there was this gap until 2005 when I saw this notice in a chipper near the Bull Wall and a further gap until I hit a reunion in 2006 Last Grove - there ain't no such thing baby  ------------- I'm searching for that cash I should have saved for the crash |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 11:33
Yiz are both very funny. To be honest, I cant remember my last night at the Grove. I think I mentioned this on another thread at some stage but I couldnt drag myself away from the Grove at all - I had friends (and then younger brothers or sisters of friends, some of whom played Dungeons and Dragons with me) who went down and since I enjoyed the 'craic' and especially the music, why not I thought? It became more and more obvious though that an age gap was developing between me and the 'average' Grover and I became somewhat self-conscious about it (I think I would spend most of the evening just sitting on the table beside Cecil and his record boxes, flicking through them, and chatting with Cecil). Eventually though, even I had to admit that I was too old for the place and just went off to the pub on a Saturday night instead. Missed the place all these years though (hence the continuing 'Grove singles' collection) and was thrilled to discover the existence of the reunions and this website!! Edit: Wouldnt change a day of it though. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 12:00
It was sh*te  Sorry I ever went. Used to get completely pissed in the Beachcomber, before ridin my hog to that kip to hear The Four Keys playin muck.My mates decided they had enough of the Grove on Sat nights, partly because we had exhausted the female stock and needed to see new faces But never missed a Sunday at the Grove. Best night ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: joey the lips
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 13:27
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Fairplay to ya Mel What is Dungeons and Dragons ------------- You can checkout anytime u like but u can never leave |
Have to say when i think of the grove i think of you as being part of it 
Posted By: DAYO
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 13:30
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I only went to St Pauls once. We were to meet some mates there and that was the last time at the Grove. I could never take to St Pauls, ( me kids did though ) We had moved on into town to Tiffaneys and to Zero's and now and again Sloopy's, Oh and Lord Johns. I can't remember what year that was but it was'nt today or yesterday. ------------- Dayo Grov'in 70 - 76 |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 13:41
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Ah when I went to the cricket it was all the grove crowd that went and honest it just felt like something that you continued onto. I loved all the dances like Joeys, the blind, any of the dances in the rugby clubs around. Sure then it was midnight at the olympia and the waterfront and such. Never really liked Tamangoes and Saints although we went... Loved the waterfront though! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Kay Fagan
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 13:44
Jackie and mine last nite of the Grove is when we where going away and our plane wasn't till the early hours and our kid sister told us to pick her up from the Grove on the way to the Airport. So we decide to go early and my Mam and Dad was with us. So we all went in had such a laugh. Ceil even played Dreamer for Jackie  My sister was going mad her parents at the Grove! My god it must be at least 20 years ago can still remember like it was yesterday ------------- Kay Fagan |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 14:02
...and why would ya Mel it was the best years of our teenage lives there went for long enough myself too... ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 14:12
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[/QUOTE] It was mainly that the Saturday crowd was inter-cert age and we were leaving cert age and first year at work ------------- Life is for living |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 14:44
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Joey - D&D is a "roleplaying game" in which the players play the 'roles' of fantasy heroes (like, for example, Gandalf or Conan or Merlin etc.,) battling against evil foes and monsters. There's a bit more to it than that, but that's a (very) brief summary. Anyway, don't want to hijack the thread too much so I'll leave it at that. You'd never shut me up if I get going but I'll explain more - if ya want - at our next drinkies!. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 16:18
My mates decided they had enough of the Grove on Sat nights, partly because we had exhausted the female stock and needed to see new faces - Boasting again, Pat?But never missed a Sunday at the Grove. Best night [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] I think what Pat means is that he was exhausted from the refusals. ------------- BrendanFella IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip. |
Posted By: Grovegirl
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 16:47
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Last night?......it was in 1981, a Sunday of course. I can remember being at the back of the hall near the door out to the corridor. I wasn't long working but I could now afford a Laura Ashley dress which I wore that night....all flowers and flounces! Started socialising in town then with the 'work' crowd.....Bruxelles, The Baggot, The Stags Head, O'Neills etc. GG |
Posted By: Taylor
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 16:58
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I honestly cannot remember my very last night at the Grove ...it was a slow process, graduating towards town, gaps between Groves, old cliques breaking up, new mates, moving on ... more's the pity, in hindsight ... ------------- The Universe is a void full of infinite possibilities |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 19:08
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My last night was when they bouncers kicked me out and told me never to
come back. |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 03-March-2010 at 19:16
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It would have been great to finish with the fire...all standing on the football
pitch whistling "Nearer My God to Thee". A brilliant ending to the TV documentary-''Pheeet...pheeet...Cecil-come back!... pheeet! Cecil...come baaahaack!" |
Posted By: joey the lips
Date Posted: 04-March-2010 at 10:18
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Excellent Pogue ,, ------------- You can checkout anytime u like but u can never leave |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 05-March-2010 at 03:31
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My real last night was with my wife when she was eight months pregnant...a
very sad thing to do. I remember it well; we were only two months married at the time.
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Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 05-March-2010 at 09:26
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A morteler Pogue..A morteler ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 05-March-2010 at 13:21
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HEE HEE.......I bet Pogue made her dance too. ------------- BrendanFella IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip. |
Posted By: DONDON
Date Posted: 05-March-2010 at 15:25
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Hope it was slow set ------------- Grover from 73(old Grove) In the year of the bankers and developers When recession raged across the land there were many driven by the hopelessness to set sail for the Americas and Australia |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 05-March-2010 at 21:29
bit late for the dancin' ------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 06-March-2010 at 02:09
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Maternity dresses were in style then. Nobody noticed
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Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 07-March-2010 at 01:48
| My last night at the grove was 1982, I was 20 and engaged to Ferg. I went with my little sister and my sister in law "for old times sake!". I remember being asked to dance by a young guy. He asked me what school I went to and I said I had left school and was getting married soon...without another word he turned on his heels and walked away on the dance floor. I remember being very amused rather than devestated as I would have been three years earlier!! How grown up is that? *LOL*. Mind you, three years earlier I wouldn't have been engaged! |
Posted By: rahenyman
Date Posted: 07-March-2010 at 11:50
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I cannot remember my last night at the Grove really. I went to the Grove
and liked it a lot but I was more there for the Girls and I was not honestly a great fan of the music except when it was more my style. There was really no where else to go in those heady school days. I went to Club 74 which was also held in St Paul's. It was much less well run and it attracted a bad crowd. There was never a Friday without a fight and I mean a serious fight. Gangs from Donnycarney, Eedemore and all other places. I te eventually closed down but I liked the music it played, it was more pop and there were more slow sets. I much preferred the quality of the crowd at the Grove and the bouncers were much stricter and there was seldom any fights and if there were they were a few punches. I guess I got old enough to go to Saints, Sardis, Tomangos and thus my days at the Grove ended. I missed the crowd as I often met people from all over the city who would come to the Grove. By the way does anybody know of a guy I have been trying to track down. Some people tell me he died. Anthony Parker, a guy I went to school with from Ballybough. If anybody knows I would appreciate any info. ------------- El Gringo |
Posted By: Sister1
Date Posted: 07-March-2010 at 19:26
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Last night was Easter 1991. It had been about 6 months since I was there and one of the bouncers asked me why I was back. The reason was a few mates were going for a laugh, so I tagged along. I lasted about an hour and although the music was still great, knew my time was up. I went to the Cricket, but didn't like it. Too posh for my tastes. On to Fibbers in Town for a few years - not a bad way to easy myself into the city centre. ------------- Keep it Local, Keep it Near! |
Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 08-March-2010 at 14:41
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Ya forgot to mention us guys from Harmo...LOL In all fairness though...It was hard enough for us to get in to St. Pauls (Late 60's) but the way I remember it was... Most of those fights started because of the prejudice of where you were from. We were not considered good enough and were picked on by the Posh feckers, especially the rugby club guys who found out real fast that playing rugby was not the same toughness as growing up in a neighborhood where street-fighting was a way of life. We did not pick where we were raised but that's what faith dealt us. It was a matter of survival. I will admit that there were plenty of people that did go to start trouble but I stick to my belief that most fights were started for the reason stated above. Anyway, this is how I remember it. We did not go there for the fights. We we there for the girls...if only the snobs had of left us alone there would have been NO fights. We had enough fighting to deal with at places like Whelans, The Flamingo etc. All we wanted was a peaceful place. The GROVE gave us that. This is proven by us same people going to the GROVE at the same time and there was NEVER a fight. It has been stated in many posts already that the Grove played a far more important role in our lives than just the music. It was one of the very few well-run and fun places one could go to just to avoid the fights at other clubs. 'nough said. ------------- BrendanFella IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip. |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 09-March-2010 at 15:54
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And don't forget you could also get a bar of choccie and a Fanta
------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 09-March-2010 at 16:18
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and if you were really lucky someones phone number... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: DONDON
Date Posted: 10-March-2010 at 12:58
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Or even luckier She lived only around the block.Not Marino where once I walked a Girl home and had to knock on a door to find my way back towards Raheny ------------- Grover from 73(old Grove) In the year of the bankers and developers When recession raged across the land there were many driven by the hopelessness to set sail for the Americas and Australia |
Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 10-March-2010 at 14:58
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That was a great epistle, Brendan. I never encountered any problems at the Grove in the 3-4 year I went (the old Grove, that is). It's true that if you want trouble, it will find you. We all had common objectives: great music, great girls and a great vibe. We had all three and more at the Grove, especially when the guy who spins the dicscs (van't think of his name) would ssslow it down - Yes, only love can break your heart I lived in Ennafort and we were scared sh--less of the Harmos. They could could come at us from both lanes across the tracks. We dreaded a visit from the Englishes or Cumiskys. Never met any of them but the names were enough to fear of God into us. ------------- Life is for living |