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    Posted: 02-April-2008 at 14:32
Got this idea from the last post i made in the Memory Lane forum.

I've read some people moved on from The Grove after a time, others felt the new Grove wasn't the same as the old Grove, etc etc.

So where exactly did you go to when you weren't at the Grove?

Being a city centre dweller, it was McGonagles for a short period before it closed, then it was Fibbers or Bruxelles.

So where did everyone else go? And any good stories? :D
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Bruxelles/Mc Gonagles was my usual friday night. Followed by a wobbly cycle home (Poor student that I was).

Later I moved on to Fibbers, where I took up residency in the shadows of the stage and people watched. We used to give all the regulars nicknames based on their look or how they danced. But it's all lost now in the haze.

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We moved onto the Crofton amongst other places to watch Lookalikes and Stepaside Fridays and saturdays.

And yes lots of stories I could tell including when we broke into a bus in the carpark as we no loger had the compound to go too

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I think one of my most memorable Fibbers stories happened around Patricks weekend/Easter 1994. This was a fairly alcohol fueled year in that place though. I went through a major image change as i'd gotten my mane of hair chopped off and ended up looking like Stephen Morris from New Order! I also started toning down the shirts to try and look semi-respectable (a move i regretted and have since retracted).

I believe the inside layout has changed a lot now, but as you entered the main door (that left you upstairs), inside the door to the left was a seated area with a big round table. I used to sit there a lot in the afternoons/early evenings before hitting the stage. And this guy, looked like he was in his mid to late 20's was refused in for whatever reason, and started a major verbal fight with one of the bouncers there. So obviously it got loud and rowdy and we're sitting beside the door, taking interest.

They proceed to calm the punter down, and off he goes. Or so everyone thought. What we didn't know is he has his bike parked outside! He proceeded to rev that sucker up, plow his way down Parnell St, and turn back to the newsagent beside the 40a bus stop and plow his way through the doors of Fibbers. The bouncers moved out of the way but the guy got the angle wrong and only one of the doors got busted open (to the point where it came off the hinge!). The bike got caught in the other door, and the biker was sent unceremoniously flying over the handlebars and through the door he'd busted open and across the floor of Fibbers.

Bouncers came in, took him by the arms and flung him back out again.
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like esthalon, i went through a phase going to bruxelles and mcgonagles. but i used to start on thursday night and finish on sunday. brfore that i used to go to bartleys and the source then later the olympic ballroom. then came the foggy dew and fibbers.
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When it was Fibbers time it was Thursday-Saturday for me
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Friday being true metal night
Saturday catering for everyone.

The spend Sunday recovering! Coming into work hungover (or in some cases still drunk) was easy to get away with on Friday, but it was easily copped on Monday. So we didn't risk it :D

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The Bailey was a popular hang-out for myself and Brian after the Grove days. It got so the barman knew our order and was pouring the drinks while we were still finding a table. Memories include a marathon beer-mat fight among about eight of us and my close encounter with a transvestite in the ladies!

McGonagles and the Cathedral Club (where Dublinia is now) were our post-pub venues of choice with occasional forays into Bruxelles. Then there was Bartley Dunnes and the William Tell when the Bailey was refurbished and filled up with nobs.

New Years Eve 1989 at the Cathedral Club, Brian and I sneaked up onto the roof and watched the New Year dawn in Dublin. Christchurch bells nearly deafened us but it was a magical moment and totally worth it. Bouncers were less than pleased though when they caught us sneaking back down, lol!

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forgot about the cathedral club, spent some time there as well! Used to drink in the william tell, when it used to be called the pygmallion, another good spot.

on sunday nights we would often finish our drinking in pink elephant and then get a taxi to work!

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McGonagles for sure and Fibbers a few times (wasnt mad keen on Fibbers though).  Does anyone remember before Fibbers existed, there was a place in that venue called "the Beat Club"??  Was like a Grove away from the Grove even if not quite as good....A couple of times I remember the DJ (cant remember who it was) having "headbanging competitions"!
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before fibbers was it not the ivy rooms?
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I'm pretty sure that the "Beat Club" was held in that venue.  Would have been in the mid to late 80s maybe?
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I remember the were a Beat Club that played more classic/progressive stuff around 93 alright, it was held on the top floor of McGraths (where Fraizers is now) We used to be able to bunk in the back way by sneaking out the back of Fibbers into it before they went and turned it from a car park to a beer garden. It may have been a resurrected version of what Mel was talking about.

As for the place on Parnell St. From what i remember of it (my bus used to be across the street from it), It used to be the Ivy Rooms, then it was Top Catz (while La Mirage was downstairs), then it was The Podium, and then it was Fibbers. It went through a brief name change around 99 where it was changed to Bacchus. It didn't last long and got renamed back to Fibbers.

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so you got a 40 bus home? i used to sometimes when i was feeling lazy, i lived off whitworth road.

I remember the ivy rooms, used to go to gigs there, winters reign, stryder, merlin etc, probably seen roobie 63 there when he was in zero zero

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Had our first ever gig in the Ivy Rooms...was quite a kip then (1986).

Webt to Fibbers a few times in the 90's-they had different 'nights' didn't they? Rock night,punk night,dance night etc.

Met a girl in there one night I used to know. We were chatting at the bar waiting for a drink and she saw I had a nearly empty Heineken. 'I'm getting one of those-you want one?' she asked.

Barman comes over and she calls 'Two Heineken and a Guinness'. He hands over the two Heineken while the Guinness is settling and she says 'I'll be back for the Guinness' and says to me 'Quick-run!' and drags me away without paying!

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Originally posted by tupelopenny tupelopenny wrote:

so you got a 40 bus home? i used to sometimes when i was feeling lazy, i lived off whitworth road.

I remember the ivy rooms, used to go to gigs there, winters reign, stryder, merlin etc, probably seen roobie 63 there when he was in zero zero



Used to live in Finglas South so any of the 40's used to take me there. That Withworth Road used to drive me nuts going in. Those horrible traffic lights at the end where Binns Bridge is. 2 minutes red, 22 seconds green. Yes i did time the sequence once when i was bored. I don't think it has changed since

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Originally posted by Blondie Blondie wrote:

We moved onto the Crofton amongst other places to watch Lookalikes and Stepaside Fridays and saturdays.

I never went into town much. Used to go and watch bands playing but had to go southside a lot for that.

I used to watch Stepaside too, think it may have been in Stillorgan or Marley Park.

 

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Graduated to Bruxelles and McGonagles and then the Beat Club for a while. Left the country soon after (not because of that mind you).

 

 

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Went on to the Beat Club too.  Usually the Neptune first.  Then in the Beat club the question would be 'One more pint and walk home, or keep it to share a taxi?'  Walked home alot!
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I am unable to divulge where I moved on from the Grove.
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