The Grove 50th Anniversary Reunion

Couldn't agree more Mel - a lot of pious hypocritical bullsh*t on FB - one of the reasons I really don't like it, or any social medium (although I do check into the Grove FB site, but I'm very careful what I say - most of the time!). Anyway, hopefully Chris pitches up here, he will be an asset to our little gang I have no doubt ... C'mon Chris

I hope Chris returns here. Great guy. Loves his heavy metal and has a great sense of humour.

Yep, Gerry, it is the Chris Rooney who puts up the vinyl pics on FB alright but he has stopped of late.  He says that he will reset his password and come back on here. 

Lads - is that not the Chris R who regularly post pics of his new album purchases on FB - and the occasional "joke"? No?

I always tried to avoid dance rejections by:

a) asking girls who were standing up, ergo verifiably smaller in height that me; and
b) girls who were (as well as above) less good-looking than me!

I still got a few rejections mind you

Whatever happened to Chris Rooney VJ? I miss his jokes. At least I think they were supposed to be jokes."Did you hear about the bike with no wheels ?---it was broke"

HAY! that was not me who was rejected, it was the V Junkie. I have enough rejection of my own to take credit for. My best rejection ever was asking a girl up to dance and she looked out the window and said " eh...has hell frozen over again?"  Not really --I was never rejected...ever...cross my heart.

Yep, in St. Pauls - we hung out down the back and/or in the alcove.  Rarely, if ever, ventured up towards the stage - would head to the stage via the corridor (less crowded for starters).  Once I ventured up near the stage and asked a girl to dance, and we stayed together for the slow-set and I thought I was in, even though she was into disco apparently.  She said she was heading to the jacks at the end of the slow set and fecked off with some other bloke.  I reckon I wasn't, erm, "experienced" enough for the girl.  Lucky escape I suspect - I can't remember the girls name but my mates, for some reason, called her Daisy - I have no idea why to this day. 

I think that it carried on a bit the same in Pauls (not bikers hanging around womens toilets  ) but everybody had there little spot and you knew where to look for people

Us bikers hung out at the womens jacks

Everyone in the Old Grove had a spot and rarely ventured far from it. The guys up at Cecil's end probably never laid eyes on the girls at the other end. If you ever ventured out of your area people looked at you funny and thought you were up to something. Kids at the back of the Grove were allowed come up to our end at the stage if they wanted to ask Cecil for a special request or something but it wasn't encouraged  At the end of the night we let them get their coats from the cloakroom but that was about it.