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Hi there,

Well as most of you know we've been working hard trying to put together this documentary for RTE.

And this is where we really need your help...

If anyone has any sort of Grove archives/ memorabilia - footage from your Grove days/ photos/ newspaper articles/ homework journals/ diaries or anything else relevant.. could you please get in touch asap!

Cheers.

 

Grove card would be super.  Vandalised wallet sounds good too.  Anything from the time - homemade t-shirts, letters from your mates telling them about a great Grove night they missed when they were on their summer holidays, letters from French students who were here for the summer, talking about the Grove... or even concert tickets from the time...

Anything Grove related really.

Thanks!

so when is the documentry on? heard several rumours and its all over the camp

thats debateable not sure if i want myself and the whole nation (i hope not) to see me fallin around the place stocious drunk and seriously dont get me started on our drunkin dancing.  but then again its gonna be SO FUNNY to see it all

I wish I had joined earlier. I have this thing that I stole from the Grove 33 years
ago.It's called a wife...can I give her back?

I have two posters that were on the walls of the old Grove before it went up in
flames. One is a batik of ABBA"s first album cover and the other is of
Leonard Cohen ...The quality of the art might very well be the reason it was
sent up in flames now that I look at them. Myself and the brothers painted
posters for
Cecil and he still owes us for half of them. I think the deal was 3 pounds per
poster( old money-pre decimal- back when it was half a crown admission) but
there was always some wheeling dealing as to whether he really wanted to
buy them after they were painted, so he put them on the wall for a trial period
of about ten years before paying us. Half of the things were of obscure artists
like Marsh Hunt or Mike Bloomfield or anyone that had a nice hairstyle, but of
course Jimi H & Beatles, Dylan, Clapton and even Gilbert O Sullivan were
included. Cecil would never let us paint the backwall and I still can't forgive him
for that...It was far too expensive for his budget. (quoted at 15 pounds!!!!)
Many hours sitting on the stage was wasted trying to clinch that deal. Precious
time that i could have put to good use picking up babes.

Put that in your documentary and smoke it why donntcha..Silas Cecil...heheh

Edited by Pogue Mahoney

No Bluebell but Crusty said he would keep us posted.  I expect when it's a plan they will post something out on the main page.  He told us not to worry that we would get plenty of notice.

T

 

 

Hi guys..

No panic - there is no definite date yet.

Believe me - you'll be told!!

Well on the night the documentary was been filmed and after alot of bacardi and cokes guess we thought we looked "cool" and felt we were 16yrs old again....but in the cold light of day....we are in our 40's and I can just hear my kids laughing at the tv and then dying of embarressment watching their mum and dad making a fool of themselves for the whole country to watch......Ah well it was a bloody brill night and I would do it all over again.....I think !!!

Hey Bluebell,

Glad to know the regulars on here ( with apologies to xgrovehead and Lenny3 Fingers ) are not the only forty somethings making fools of themselves at the various reunions.

Good on ya , and welcome aboard.

Rolo.

Yeah Bluebell,

Absolutely magic.Listen,pity you won't make the next one but be sure there'll be plenty of reports as some of our best members,Eejit91,Ann Whelan etc. live abroad and can't make the reunions but are mad keen to hear all about them.

Did ya see the photos ?

Rolo.