Songs from the Grove

Everytime I hear Santana or The Zombies "She's Not
There", it brings me right back. I remember that
single red light in the hall. I remember walking the
corridor with all the goths lining the walls with their
silly hair styles and pale faces!
But the one that really does it for me is Cyndi
Lauper's "True Colours", every single time I hear that
song, be it in a shop or in the car or at home, I'm
transported back to St. Pauls gymnasium, into the
arms of the boy who was the first person to ask me
for a dance at the Grove. I remember it so well. The
smell of his Suede coat, his hair, it was infactuation
at first sight! Just waiting for him to kiss me. The
small talk. More small talk. And eventually he kissed
me- just as the last chorus of True Colours kicked in.
Then "Lola" came along and ruined everything for us.
And that was it. We never danced again... Maybe
he'll be at the Grove Christmas special?!

I always remember, Come on Eileen by dexys mightnite runners. I cant the song, but always remember Cesil playin it at the end of the night.

I used to strip at that song! how embarrising now, but great fun looking back.

STPAULS 91-96

I think that was rock lobster or maybe it was Blue
Monday. I know that they definitely did a stupid dance
to Rock Lobster! How annoying. And as for those
goth/ cure-head dances - circling round with one arm
half in the air and your head stuck to the opposite
shoulder as if you had an earring caught in the top
of your geansai!
Those were the days...

Was Brian Kennedy ever played at The Grove????

I believe Brian Kennedy got the slaps from the Harmo crew outside the grove if that helps any!!

cheap track - the flame. that was the ultimate slow-set tune i think. didn't know till recent years it was by cheap trick though. robin zander has an incredible voice. plus tom peterson co-invented the 12 string bass. a mind of useless information.... or something.

First post here, didnt know there was a site dedicated to the Grove! So many memories from there! Some that spring to mind would be any of the Smiths or Morrissey tracks that we annoyed Cecil with until he played. Also REM - Stand, I think that one had a special dance to it! Also a Faith no More track? Rock Lobster and others mentioned already. Slow set wise, Stairway to Heaven stands out.

 

Other fav. songs Rainbow - Since you've been gone - The Jam - Going Underground & A Town called Malice - 10cc -I'm not in Love - Lynerd Skynerd (I never could spell his name!!) - Freebird, The Doors - Riders on the Storm - the list goes on and on!!

A strange mix of songs stick in the mind: Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama', Talking Head's 'Psycho Killer', even the (all to brief) resurrection of the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" in the late '80s. I think though that Cecil must've been paid off by Joe the St Paul's cleaner to play the B-52's "Rock Lobster" as it really cleaned all those cigarette buts from the floor for him. I'm sure people will say X or Y wasn't a Grove song but 30 years probably means that there'll be one huge musical anthropology to unfold on this thread.

After all it's an oral history -  no cameraphones then and no-one sober enough to have used anything either. And I know some girls used to frown about the rare-blue-vinyl-gatefold-edition tendencies of some of the lads, but at the time MTV Europe was relatively new and 120 Minutes (for the indie, goth, alternative scene) and Headbanger's Ball (for the mainstream metal) were still only blips on the musical radar screen: much musical interest and activity was a shared one at the Grove.

I suppose that fragmentation of music and commodification into ring-tones and so on will probably prevent anything similar to the Grove ever evolving again but as a historical part of Dublin's socio-cultural history I think it's something worth commemorating. List those favourite songs here ... 

I reckon "Since You been gone" by Rainbow will always be the song I remember when I think of the Grove, probably because I dont think I've ever heard it anywhere else. Love that song!