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SaintPauls78 ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 22-December-2004 Status: Offline Points: 28 |
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My apologies to all pre-74's, and everyone in the 80s, but when I think back to those dark piles o f sweaters, jackets, and gloves, piled high on each side of the gym, I have this inescapable memory of the 'make-out slow sets'. The slow sets were not the highlight for me, but it was indeed a lasting memory. Gabriel & Co's delivery of that timeless classic pretty much sums it up; and I'm sure that when Cecil popped that 45 on the turntable, he probably smirked to himself "Here's to fostering young love". Winter; frost-bite, condensation streaming down the frozen windows, and in between the lip-locks, enough time to mumble 'you gotta get in to get out....'. The Grove wasn't just a club; it was a foundation of so many people's lives, including mine.
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Stevie ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() 1976-81ish Joined: 22-July-2005 Location: Raheny Dublin Status: Offline Points: 295 |
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O I remember it so well! music to snog to....how about "Ripples"/"Fearless"/"Us and Them"-if you were there in 78 so was I, brilliant time, have great memories of it all (those that I was capable of taking in at the time....)!
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ExArtanehead ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() 76-80 Joined: 01-November-2005 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 48 |
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Have to agree with The Carpet Crawlers ('77 - 79), also 10CC's I'm Not In Love made for very memorable slow sets! Big boys don't cry...
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Remember when you were young?
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tmarie ![]() Active Member ![]() ![]() 82-86 Joined: 20-September-2006 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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Carpet Crawlers and Us & Them were still played in mid 80's (much to my delight) and what about Mr Young - the Needle and the Damage done was one of my favourites - I was always trying to play the opening bit on my guitar, Heart of Gold was another regular - can't actually thing of any 80's slow songs that were played, but maybe I've just blocked them out of my memory...Save a prayer or don't say a prayer or whatever that Duran song is may have been played?
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Cheers
Marie |
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IanL ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() 81-84 Joined: 20-September-2006 Location: Mayo previously D3 Status: Offline Points: 344 |
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Hi TM,
I can't actually remember Carpet Crawlers being played in the '81-'84 timeframe. I only heard that track for the first time recently much to my shame!! It's a super piece of music. I remember around early 80s I was in Portugal on hols and who walked into a restaurant with wife & child other than Mike Rutherford of Genesis. I was dumbstruck. I didn't have the courage and probably never would to approach someone famous like that when they are on hols in a private setting. Speaking of Grove song memories.. is it something hallucinatory or did I once here "Hippy Hippy Shake" (the Beatles version not the Swinging Blue Jeans original) played at the Grove ? If it wasn't there it was at a St Pauls social dance night. |
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Ian - Grover '81-'84
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tmarie ![]() Active Member ![]() ![]() 82-86 Joined: 20-September-2006 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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Hi Ian - Hippy hippy shake doesn't ring a bell with me Grove wise - it's gas the way you can picture a song being played at the Grove. I am 99.9% sure that the last song I heard played at the Grove (I don't think I went again after early '86) was Michael Jackson!! The song was "Beat It" which was ironic - it probably got in cos of the Eddie van Halen contribution. I remember it clearly - we were outside unlocking our bikes (in those days we could cycle home drunk on autopilot!) and we heard it being played. We shook our heads sadly and cycled off...into the next stage of our lives - whew that's quite heavy! btw First song I heard was the Stones "Start me Up" - we walked into the corridor in total awe and thus began "the Grove years" |
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ShayG ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Groving 86-91ish Joined: 21-November-2005 Location: Bandon originally Belton Park Status: Offline Points: 315 |
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i remember time after time a couple of times ..??cyndi lauper wasn't that an 80's song and a grove slowset although rarely played ?
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never forget your roots..northside forever
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Vinyl Junkie ![]() Moderator Group ![]() ![]() 79-86 (roughly) Joined: 18-August-2006 Location: Skerries, Dublin Status: Offline Points: 14121 |
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Michael Jackson at the Grove!!?? - thats me off to barf
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TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick).
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IanL ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() 81-84 Joined: 20-September-2006 Location: Mayo previously D3 Status: Offline Points: 344 |
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![]() ![]() I heard recently that Wacko appeared at a specially arranged private after-hours visit to the Hughes & Hughes bookshop somewhere on the South-Soide. It appears he is staking out Ireland as a possible place to live. Perhaps he and CdeB (the other Grove bete noir) are in cahoots. I wonder how that strange juxtaposition of Wacko and Eddie VanH ever came about in the first place. |
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Ian - Grover '81-'84
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ShayG ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Groving 86-91ish Joined: 21-November-2005 Location: Bandon originally Belton Park Status: Offline Points: 315 |
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excellent the rumours down here in cork was he was buying down here ..more suited to vico rd. though id say
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never forget your roots..northside forever
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Vinyl Junkie ![]() Moderator Group ![]() ![]() 79-86 (roughly) Joined: 18-August-2006 Location: Skerries, Dublin Status: Offline Points: 14121 |
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Yeah, I think it was played Shay. Everyone seems to remember him playing "True Colours" but I'm fairly sure he played that too..good call! |
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Ger Mc ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() 81-85 Joined: 09-September-2006 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 18 |
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Yep you would be right..Cyndi Laupers..Time After Time was played...though does anybody remember Hazel O'Connor and Will You? |
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Still Rock'in after all these years......
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Vinyl Junkie ![]() Moderator Group ![]() ![]() 79-86 (roughly) Joined: 18-August-2006 Location: Skerries, Dublin Status: Offline Points: 14121 |
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another great slow song -always made me sad, dont know why..
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Bluebell ![]() I have no life! ![]() ![]() 1981 to 1984 Joined: 07-February-2006 Location: In my kitchen Status: Offline Points: 5054 |
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Mel....we will have to make sure that Hazel O'Connor "will you" is not
played on Sun 29th Oct.....cos we don't want you sad, we want you happy
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You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter
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Vinyl Junkie ![]() Moderator Group ![]() ![]() 79-86 (roughly) Joined: 18-August-2006 Location: Skerries, Dublin Status: Offline Points: 14121 |
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Heh Heh Bluebell, thanks for that. I'm sure I wont be sad on the night - nostalgic maybe though
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Bluebell ![]() I have no life! ![]() ![]() 1981 to 1984 Joined: 07-February-2006 Location: In my kitchen Status: Offline Points: 5054 |
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nostalgic just like the rest of us Mel.....really can't wait now, it's
always a great night cos you know every song that Cecil and Crusty
plays...even if it's a song ya don't like
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You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter
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finno ![]() Die Hard Grover! ![]() ![]() �77 to 82ish Joined: 21-September-2006 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 3885 |
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Since I saw this heading can't get carpetcrawlers out of my head.Also listen a lot to trick of a tail
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A man must have a code
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RoundaboutToo! ![]() Die Hard Grover! ![]() ![]() ’75-’79 and ’06 - present Joined: 17-August-2006 Location: Artane Status: Offline Points: 2034 |
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I've heard a version of the Carpet Crawlers by a John Ford, who I think was with the Strawbs. Interesting, but not a patch on Genesis though!
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finno ![]() Die Hard Grover! ![]() ![]() �77 to 82ish Joined: 21-September-2006 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 3885 |
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Can't imagine anyone else singing it
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A man must have a code
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Bluebell ![]() I have no life! ![]() ![]() 1981 to 1984 Joined: 07-February-2006 Location: In my kitchen Status: Offline Points: 5054 |
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Wow Tmarie....I never knew anyone cycled to the grove....after all that headbanging your head must of been all over the place on those bikes ![]() |
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You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter
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