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I see the Vault Video Music channel is playing that Gina G hit "Ooh, aah, just a little bit" a great deal lately. Y'know the one where she wears that lovely crochet mini skirt.
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Bird from Queensland - last I heard of her she was compering some obscure TV show a few years ago.
I don't agree, but back to mainstream:confused: :D. Oh, and don't be sacred,er,I mean scared!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Is that nun having................an......er..............org. ....organ....org....organic experience.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
Maybe this is the kind of mainstream that Peadar likes:D
http://www.maxwellphotography.ie/pop...%20and%20Twink
Janey, I remember that trio singing at an ol' showband carnival type thing in the 70s and getting drenched in beer on stage. Kinda had a wet t-shirt feel to it and they HAD great legs then.
Anyway.OSO. you'd be too young to remember those days. LOL
Nah, she's praying for Peader;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
I do remember me Da, or was it me Granda?,:D going on about them. Nice looking birds in their day. Now I do remember going to a Miami Showband concert in Salthill many moons ago and groping some young wan in the corner.Mind you, she started it!:DQuote:
Janey, I remember that trio singing at an ol' showband carnival type thing in the 70s and getting drenched in beer on stage. Kinda had a wet t-shirt feel to it and they HAD great legs then.
Anyway.OSO. you'd be too young to remember those days. LOL
M,D and T. Nice legs indeed!!!!
Actually the Maxi. Dick and Twink thing sent me in search of old showband photos and there are rakes of sites devoted to "de gud ol' days like". The music might have been sh!te but there was the odd good looker and some band names were fcuking priceless - see below. Think I might start a retro-thread about showbands..
When I was a kid I used to collect showband pics - used to get 'em off the bands before their gigs in the Emerald Ballroom here in Beeslow.:o
I was only 8 or 9 and I used to sneak down to the Emerald (about 2 miles away) to get the photos.:D Innocent days indeed.
Photo doesn't do her justice - she really was a looker.
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...kxmaryduff.htm
Sandy Kelly from Mayo - the Patsy Cline copyist.
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...ndykelly90.htm
All together now - "Crazeeeeeeee, cray for being so looooooooonely..."LOL:D
Muriel Day - married to band leaser Dave Glover - sang in the Eurovision and wore the shortish mini skirt that night - mighty thighs.
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...daveglover.htm
Tina - another Eurovision singer - wonder what happened to her? - think she had health problems but she was very sexy - great legs - photo doesn't do her justice
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...dxmexicans.htm
Dem agin
http://www.irish-showbands.com/images/dodd/jdxmdt.htm
I know it was back in the 60s but what an unfortunate name for a band in heterosexual ol' Oireland LOL
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...sxgaystars.htm
Oh my dear God
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...sxgaylords.htm
I remember Kelley and the Nevada playing in Gullanes downtown. Mid song, a bloke was walking past the bandstand with a tray full of pints. Kelley reached out, grabbed a pint of Guinness and levelled it in a few seconds. One wild woman she was. She wore a spray on white pair of slacks that night with her fine ass bursting out of it.
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...sxnevada71.htm
Sandie Jones - I remember this record shop in Society which got hundreds of a single she releases. "A fan" entered the shop and bought the lot in one go (which he probably did in loads of other shops too) - song enters the charts a week later. The fact that the "fan" was her husband and manager and involved in such scurrilous behaviour is totally outrageous and untrue. LOL. She needed a lot of paint 'cos she was dog rough lookin' .
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...rxsandie74.htm
Actually Reform (from Limerick) were a nifty rockin' band and very popular in student ....er....gigs when you couldn't get a real rock band.
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...rxreform73.htm
I used to have a soft spot for Gina - great in tight jeans.
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...ginadale74.htm
Murphy of the Swallows - can't remember this one RFLMAO
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image.../lrxmurphy.htm
Greatest band name EVER
http://www.irish-showbands.com/image...murphy-lrx.htm
Paul Brady joined them at some stage early in his career
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Tina again -showing a bit of cleavage
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Loaded that M, D and T in above post too. The Derry bird was my favourite with that unfortunate name - Dick.Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
When I think back on it and read about the outrageous behaviour of today's rock and pop stars:rolleyes: - to tell the truth, they're in the mickey mouse department compared to those old showband stars - male and female. The amount of bonking that went on after gigs was legendary. One showband bloke told me there was a special "showband doctor" who....er...."specialised"....heh heh....in certain diseases when the lads started scratchin'. Another member of that band told me he was just about to give this Cork:p bird a good seeing to when he noticed her...er....foldurum covered in ugly red spots and he did a quick runner.:D
Another bloke who sang with a Galway city band and a good friend of mine - whenever he sang in Beeslow - was a pest for asking me for johnnys after gigs in the Emerald. I mean, his band played regularly in the North - why didn'e he stock up there???? The band had a post-gig rota system for the aptly named band wagon - band member + groupie and sh@g, next band member + groupie and sh@g and so on. If there weren't enough groupies, then the band were very fair - they just shared what ever was going in turns.
The showband blokes were the greatest shower of rams that ever walked the planet.
Hope this didn't happen to ya at that Salthill dance OSO LOL
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More than likely this I'd say
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Remember that old joke. How do ya know a girl is a virgin? She eats a banana from the side.
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LOL...it was more like this 'hamish:D
Whenever I see women discussing make-up n TV and mentioning a good "facial" I can never keep a straight face - good for the skin I believe.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
Did you see the names of those showbands - still chuckling at them - Murphy and the Swallows - surely they must have had some idea of the connotations of that kinda name??? Surely??:D
I wonder is it an urban legend but there's a story that when Big Tom and his first band were booked to play in the San Francisco area way back yonder their gig was packed with stoned hippies. Not surprising when you consider that that the band's name was The Mainliners. RFLMAO:D
To think all that totty started back in Eden with just two people
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A Wicklow girl, Tina Reynolds married one of band members of the Mexicans. Her real name was Philomena Quinn.Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
After The Mexicans she sang with The Tophatters and The Real McCoy. I think she was badly injured in an accident before she sang in Eurovision.
After Eurovision Tina joined the Nevada when Eileen Kelly left. (Kelly left to replace Twink in Brendan Bowyer and the Big 8). While with the Nevada she had her biggest record success with "I'll do it all again" but then was involved in another accident and I think was badly injured again. I don't know what happened her after that although someone told me they heard her singing in the Castle Hotel in Clontarf in the eighties.
Great oul days the showband days, although I only remember the later stages.
[QUOTE=Superhoops]A Wicklow girl, Tina Reynolds married one of band members of the Mexicans. Her real name was Philomena Quinn.
After The Mexicans she sang with The Tophatters and The Real McCoy. I think she was badly injured in an accident before she sang in Eurovision.
After Eurovision Tina joined the Nevada when Eileen Kelly left. (Kelly left to replace Twink in Brendan Bowyer and the Big 8). While with the Nevada she had her biggest record success with "I'll do it all again" but then was involved in another accident and I think was badly injured again. I don't know what happened her after that although someone told me they heard her singing in the Castle Hotel in Clontarf in the eighties. [QUOTE]
To tell the truth Superhoops - when I was going through a website with hundreds of band photos, I have to confess I remembered 99% of them:o - in those days it was nothing but showband stuff on radio and telly.
I remember Dermot Hegarty having number one hit - "21 Years" - and think he was nearly a year in the top spot or something like that. Even poor old Larry Gogan was getting p!ssed off:D - the sound of his voice each week as he announced Hegarty's inevitable song was hilarious to behold - you could almost hear his teeth grating . LOL
Some of the bands TBF were quite good and professional but the bad ones - oh Dear God.
Yeah, you bring it all back now about Tina and the crashes - poor girl suffered terribly.
BTW - how do you know so much about the showband thing??? Tell the truth now:p
At least auld fcukers like me have an excuse. LOL
HMV Showband,The Gaylords, The Gaystars and Murphy of the Swallows. Can you imagine if they were all on the same ticket? Some poster that would have been back in the day!!!!:D Throw in Maxi,Dick and Twink and you would have had every parish priest and his cousin up in arms(i.e. pitchforks):D
plus Big Tom and The Mainliners for the drug element. LMAO.Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
Out of curiousity I went to see Big Tom and his band in Gullanes, here, around 1997 or 98. Fcuk all at it. Thing is, his hands were shaking (think the poor bloke has Parkinsons) like crazy yet he never missed a chord on the guitar and sang most of the songs too. His songs were awful TBF/TBH but you had the admire the bloke - a true pro and a decent fella too.
The wild and horny Eileen Reid of the Cadets
then
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http://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/Cadetsf.htm
now
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I think one of her hits was "I gave my wedding dress away" - very apt according to her confessions.:D
Regarding that "21 years" song I mentioned this is the fcuker that made so many of us miserable for months on end back in the early 70s.
This man must be rounded up and sentenced to hard labour for aural crimes against the youth of Ireland.
http://www.jivenaires.com/bands/plainsmenpage1.html
The "song"
Twenty One Years
The judge said 'Stand up, lad,
And dry up your tears.
You're sentenced to Dartmoor
For twenty-one years.
So dry up your tears, love,
And kiss me goodbye,
The best friends must part,
So must you and I.
I hear the train coming,
Twill be here at nine. To take me to Dartmoor
To serve up my time. I look down the railway
And plainly I see,
You standing there waving
Your goodbyes to me.
Six months have gone by, love,
I wish I were dead.
This dark dreary dungeon
And stone for my bed.
It's hailing, it's raining,
The moon gives no light.
Now won't you tell me, love,
Why you never write?
I've counted the days, love,
I've counted the nights,
I've counted the footsteps,
I've counted the lights,
I've counted the raindrops,
I've counted the stars,
I've counted a million
Of these prison bars.
I've waited, I've trusted,
I've longed for the day,
A lifetime, so lonely,
Now my hair's turning grey.
My thoughts are for you, love,
Till I'm out of my mind,
For twenty-one years
Is a mighty long time.
I'd rather have all my teeth taken out with a chisel and no anaesthetic than hear that again.
Some totty to cheer me up after that awful memory.
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Aaaaaaaaaaah, feel much better now.:D ;)
Maybe he's scared of his own music:D (sorry)Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
Jaysus, Peader will have a ruction.:eek: :D
Anyway, some mainstream 'private' totty.......For auld times sake!
Think I saw the lass on the right before but, hey, no complains but the girl in the first two pics is real cute - great thighs. I love thighs I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
BTW strangeirish, just thinking - back in the 70s and 80s, nude ladies were...er...never shaved, if you follow.
Much prefer the natural look - must be all that bikini waxing or whatever.
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Jeez, Linfield have gone ape against Glentoran, 6-0 and Derry have equalised in injury time against Shels 1-1.
Semi-finals
Linfield v Drogheda Utd
Corky Boys v Shels.
If you were Gary Glitter, you wouldn't really care!!!:D Straight to hell with me!Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
That is one sick puppy though.:mad:
I meant adult ladies yeh divileen.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
For the ladies LMAO
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For the men
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I'll never.....EVER........even think of tonsil hockey again...ever
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Wouldn't say I knew so much about it but remember some of it from very early teens because an uncle was one of the managers in the old Arcadia Ballroom in Bray, which was a real popular spot, particularly for the Dublin/Wicklow based bands. The Mexicans/The Nevada/The Miami/Smokey Mountain Ramblers all had Bray/Greystones/Wicklow musicians involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
Got to know the comings and goings between some of the bands and listened to many of the old records. I even play the CD's in the car these days when I get nostalgic.
Dont know if you got to see Dance Hall Q's and Hucklebuck Shoes, a musical about the showband era (I think it was on in Athlone). Great show with great music and video footage of the some of the showband greats. It also included Dickie Rock's son, Sean Dunphy's son and Eileen Reid's daughter all of whom sang tributes to their parents. BTW, Eileen Reid (The Cadets/"I gave my wedding dress away") and her daughter Claudine Day appeared in the recent musical 'The Halpenny Bridge'. Eileen is well over 60, probably nearer 70, and is still beltin them out.
There was also a Showband get together ‘Do you come here often’ in Dublin and Belfast over Christmas/New Year which featured Brendan Bowyer, Larry Cunningham, Philomena Begley, Sadie Kelly and Ray Lynam.
Like that daycent girl - big thighs and legs - hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
Time for Sylvia Saint again
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http://freeweb.siol.net/plavac50/SYLVIA%20SAINT2.jpg :D