This August Bank Holiday Weekend the Town of Thurles will remember the greatest music festival that Ireland has ever seen, the one that kick started the 90s and the careers of many great Irish bands - Féile '90 'The Trip to Tipp'!
It been 25 Years since MCD, the GAA and Michael Lowry brought Féile '90 to Tipperary, a few townies could not let the chance to reminisce pass them by so they've organised 'Féile Beag', 22 bands over 2 days in 2 Thurles Pubs. Musicians have offered up their talents for Free and money will be raised for a local charity, Cameo Care
Féile - Through the Years Photography by Eamon Brennan :
Check out the Féile page for more great photos, videos and hazy memories
We caught up with Joe Wall of Irish band The Stunning who played at every Féile to see how he remembers the event that started Ireland's love affair with festivals.
"We did every Feile so it's all a bit of a blur really. It's kind of hard to remember back to specific gigs. I remember one in particular where we were the last band on after Bryan Adams."
"I think in the very first Feile we were kind of in at the deep end a bit because we didn't have a huge amount of live experience at that stage. We'd had some singles. I think Brewing Up A Storm was out at that point, but that was a flop, as a single so that didn't help."
"It didn't get any airplay. It died a death as a single. The radio stations said they weren't playing it. It was too guitary. It wasn't what they wanted at that time. Funnily enough, they are playing it now."
"I'd never seen the Hothouse Flowers before. They did an amazing show. Maria Doyle Kennedy did a few numbers with them. It was one of those perfect nights, which can be quite rare for Irish festivals where there was a big moon in the sky and it was warm. I remember they had this mind-blowing set, it was really captivating."
"That Petrol Emotion played earlier in the day. They'd had that single the kind of single that wouldn't get played on the radio these days."
"I do remember human pyramids were all the rage back then. You'd see these little formations of humans forming in front of you. There’d be a competition to see how high they could go, and they could go pretty high! Then they'd collapse and there would be a big cheer"
"As the Feile's went on we started to go up the bill and eventually we closed the show after Bryan Adams."
"It was a great thing to be involved with It was probably an easier thing to do back then there was probably less risk involved whereas now there are so many festivals that the whole thing has become quite a risky thing for a promoter to put on."
Fastforward to 2015 and The Stunning are working on a new album and you can catch them live this summer ahead of its release.