I don't but I was at feile 91 and recall the headliners were
Happy Mondays (dreadful),
The Farm (appalling),
Transvision Vamp (brutal),
Van Morrison (didn't even try),
The Pogues (Tragically bad -final live performance with Shane McGowan ...they fired him after it. Memorable mostly for Kirsty McColls cameo)
Elvis Costelloe (my patience was straining by the time EC got to play) and
The Wonderstuff (fantastic ...again punctuated by a cameo from Kirsty on Welcome to the Cheap Seats).
Notable performances also by
Billy Bragg (man of the match in my opinion ...AGAIN punctuated by the wonderful Kirsty.),
Steve Earle
and
The Golden Horde all of whom were on far too early to facilitate some of the muck I'm about to list...
Those I'd have liked to bottle off included (as well as most of the headliners listed)
Nanci Griffith -what oh what were the organisers thinking?!?! audience had zero interest and instead took to cheering gangs of youths building human pyramids ...at one point a chant of "Fcuk Off Nanci!!! Fcuk Off Nanci!!!" took hold and, until The Wonderstuff played, was my entertainment highlight of the festival.
The Mock Turtles who featured a clown on guitar who was so obsessed with trying to be Hendrix re-incarnated he went and got himself over the considerable aesthetic difficulties presented by being white, floppy blonde, 5ft6" and (crucially) unable to play the guitar by buying a left handed stratocaster which he played upside down ...like Hendrix ...see?!?!? That dopey fcuk needs stabbing.
I have to stop now -remembering hurts too much. I only went coz I thought my girlfriend would get caught up in some magic of the moment type vibe and let me bury the baldy man.
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