If you can remember the name of the chipper you weren’t really there
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There was a chipper in the oasis. Never an independent one nearby though.
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Ruby Tuesday. The lad that ran that was president of the su iirc. Made a pile of money doing it, but rattled through it. John something or other.
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That must be the one.
The oasis jumped the shark when they started selling membership.
Salthill was absolutely hopping all through the 90’s but I’d say most of the spots were done by the late 90’s. The Warwick was still going gangbusters though up to the mid 2000’s. You actually couldn’t get into it many Saturday nights unless you got there early enough.
Found this bit on it in an old Irish Times article.
Cian O’Ciobháin recalls how in 1993, the main club night scene was located out in Salthill before moving slowly back towards the city’s centre.
“Kevin Healy opened the GPO in the middle of town and swiped a lot of the guys from Salthill,” he says. “The main guys (in Galway) back then were Aaron McMahon who did Jazz Juice, Keith (O’Hanlon) and Padraic (O’Connor) of the Disconauts. I was running indie nights in the mid-90s. I remember the house nights had become very prog and housey, and I found the whole thing a bit boring.”
In 1998, O’Ciobhain, along with Cyril Briscoe, started 110th Street, an iconic club night that offered funk, soul and “rarely anything after 1980”. The night grew exponentially from its very first 98-strong crowd to a fanbase of thousands.
“It was like a house party,” O’Ciobhain says. “A lot of the arty crowd would come along, a lot of the TG4 crew, or someone like Cillian Murphy or Glen Hansard would wander in.”
Eoghan McNamara (aka Gugai), now booker/co-owner of the Roisin Dubh in Galway came to the city in the mid-90s.
The licensing sergeant at the time was a maniac and made the clubs turn off the music and turn up the lights and serve meals for half an hour
“Galway was like Berlin in those days, the way people talk about it now,” he says. “When I came to the GPO, it felt like one of the most groundbreaking clubs at the time. They were all about putting on proper club nights and building up audiences and creating an experience beyond the standard chart clubs.
“I don’t know what the story was with the nightclub license laws, but there was always a meal included in the ticket,” he adds. “The licensing sergeant at the time was a maniac and made the clubs turn off the music and turn up the lights and serve meals for half an hour. It happened in the middle of Fatboy Slim’s first ever Irish gig in the GPO.”
Salt n pepper is famous for the coleslaw chips
Some very Limerick like conversation here from the Galwegians
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Was Oasis also Liquid for a while?
This tremendous comment seems to have by and large gone under the radar.
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Their papier mache heads nodding in agreement.
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Stuffing chips seems very normal when you hear of fellas eating curry coleslaw chips
Imagine what this lady could do if she got her hands on Gerry Mc’s boots.
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Ah Jasus, times are changing. I had one of my first shifts in the Oasis and spent part of my honeymoon in the Great Southern.
On the subject of food. Salthill was the first place I saw a battered burger.
I never even wet my toes in Salthill.
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What did you have to swap for it?
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Any of ye remember an Irish music pub called Clogs? Somewhere between the city and Salthill. Had a great night there one summer. Went back the following year and it was gone.
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It’s a wonder you didn’t pull me up on my spelling of ‘shifts’ above.
Our only hope for the hurling is that Limerick beat themselves so obviously I’m quietly confident on Galway’s chances this year.
I’ll be shouting for Mayo on Sunday. Another loss to the Dubs in the final is what every GAA supporter wants to see.
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