Back In The Day Gigs
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bad company

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20,636 posts

282 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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We had some great bands play at smallish venues in London back in the day. Shame this one couldn’t attract any decent bands. laugh


bigandclever

14,052 posts

254 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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First public outing of Purple Haze wasn't it?

Ronstein

1,532 posts

53 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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Our local was The Gin Mill Club at The Angel in Godalming, Surrey.







Can also remember Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Free, Savoy Brown, Skid Row (the Power trio with Gary Moore after Phil Lynott was kicked out) and the legend that was Duster Bennett!!

Edited by Ronstein on Wednesday 30th March 10:00

vixen1700

26,260 posts

286 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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I'm a bit younger, so was into Punk stuff, and this gig with A Flux of Pink Indians, The Subhumans and Rudimentary Peni was just up the road at the Red Lion in Leytonstone a few days after my 15th birthday in 1981.

What a mad gig! I remember being 'on stage' screaming down the mic to one of the songs and falling into the drum kit along with a few others.

It made a full page review in Sounds.

Probably my favourite gig ever! hehe

Still go to Red Lion a lot, just a bit calmer these days

P5BNij

15,875 posts

122 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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bad company said:
We had some great bands play at smallish venues in London back in the day. Shame this one couldn’t attract any decent bands. laugh

Great line up - I take it it's 1966?



witteringon

1,873 posts

57 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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P5BNij said:
bad company said:
We had some great bands play at smallish venues in London back in the day. Shame this one couldn’t attract any decent bands. laugh

Great line up - I take it it's 1966?
The Uppercut Club (formerly a skating rink) was very short-lived - not much more than a year IIRC. Also,literally across the road, above Courts furniture store was the Lotus Club, which was in existence under various guises for many years, and also attracted some big names - The Kinks, The Moody Blues, Mary Wells are a few I remember.

It was a favourite gathering place for the Mods on their Vespas and Lambrettas in the sixties (along with Eddie Grimsteads scooter emporium on the Barking Road.)

bad company

Original Poster:

20,636 posts

282 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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witteringon said:
P5BNij said:
bad company said:
We had some great bands play at smallish venues in London back in the day. Shame this one couldn’t attract any decent bands. laugh

Great line up - I take it it's 1966?
The Uppercut Club (formerly a skating rink) was very short-lived - not much more than a year IIRC. Also,literally across the road, above Courts furniture store was the Lotus Club, which was in existence under various guises for many years, and also attracted some big names - The Kinks, The Moody Blues, Mary Wells are a few I remember.

It was a favourite gathering place for the Mods on their Vespas and Lambrettas in the sixties (along with Eddie Grimsteads scooter emporium on the Barking Road.)
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anonymous-user

70 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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I saw Deep Purple at the Lewisham Odeon in the early 70's, 70 or 71, can't remember, I was deaf for about 3 days afterwards. I do recall some punter had his head in a bass bin at one point.

Roofless Toothless

6,627 posts

148 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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bigandclever said:
First public outing of Purple Haze wasn't it?
No. But he reputedly wrote the song in the band room while waiting to go on stage.

Lesser known fact about that gig - I was there !

music

gazza285

10,526 posts

224 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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vixen1700 said:


I'm a bit younger, so was into Punk stuff, and this gig with A Flux of Pink Indians, The Subhumans and Rudimentary Peni was just up the road at the Red Lion in Leytonstone a few days after my 15th birthday in 1981.

What a mad gig! I remember being 'on stage' screaming down the mic to one of the songs and falling into the drum kit along with a few others.

It made a full page review in Sounds.

Probably my favourite gig ever! hehe

Still go to Red Lion a lot, just a bit calmer these days
Subhumans are still touring, and are indeed on tour right now...

Pieman68

4,266 posts

250 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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Can't beat a club in the middle of nowhere

Batley Variety Club - latterly the Frontier nightclub where I worked for years


Wacky Racer

39,837 posts

263 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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Saw some great bands in the early/mid 70's

Wishbone Ash
Deep Purple
Rory Gallagher
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Barclay James Harvest
Humble Pie

etc.

slopes

40,592 posts

203 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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Back in the day i lived in Leicestershire so De Montfort hall was THE place for us
Iron Maiden
Waysted
Blackfoot
Meatloaf

Then moved to Hertfordshire and either London or Milton keynes for the Woughton Centre
Wolfsbane
Kings X
Tyger Tailz
The Almighty

The Bowl
Bon Jovi
Staus Quo
Gary Glitter - it was a long time ago
Guns' Roses

Not forgetting what is now the Download Festival

In my town at the time was The Plinston Hall
Fields of the Nephilim
Victoms of The Pestilence
Wratchild
The list is so long it's silly

bigandclever

14,052 posts

254 months

Monday 4th April 2022
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Roofless Toothless said:
bigandclever said:
First public outing of Purple Haze wasn't it?
No. But he reputedly wrote the song in the band room while waiting to go on stage.
Good fact thumbup

Roofless Toothless said:
Lesser known fact about that gig - I was there !

music
Better fact smile

Roofless Toothless

6,627 posts

148 months

Tuesday 5th April 2022
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A not very large room upstairs at the Manor House pub in the Seven Sisters Road used to house a music venue. I went there regularly to see John Mayall during the Peter Green era, and later Mick Taylor.



I saw Cream there, and if you got there early enough you could get right down the front. No stage as such, just a few wooden daises pushed together and a row of chairs to stop people spilling over onto the platform. Two things I remember from that gig were standing so close to Ginger Baker that I could have leaned forward and touched the kit, and Clapton bringing a Danelectro longhorn guitar on stage that he didn’t do anything with until the last minute, when he put it on the floor and jumped on it.

Whats on Second

732 posts

49 months

Thursday 7th April 2022
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clapton smashing a guitar ?

just reading the chris welch book on cream, very interesting dynamics between the 3 musicians.

popeyewhite

23,007 posts

136 months

Thursday 7th April 2022
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Reading '80. Pretty much every decent current rock band, what a lineup!

£12.50 laugh


Roofless Toothless

6,627 posts

148 months

Friday 8th April 2022
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Whats on Second said:
clapton smashing a guitar ?

just reading the chris welch book on cream, very interesting dynamics between the 3 musicians.
Yes. We couldn’t believe it either. The ugly bloody thing was just leaning up against something for the entire set. Not plugged in. As they went off he knocked it onto the floor and jumped on it.

Now, if Ginger had kicked all the drum kit over, that would have been another thing.

andySC

1,278 posts

174 months

Monday 11th April 2022
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Being a Doncaster lad, The Jug was a pretty good venue to see up & coming bands for the cost of a few pints (…even at 1989 prices). I remember seeing The Blue Aeroplanes, this lot mesmerised me, I think there were 4 guitarists in the band at the time & they were amazing to see live. I also saw CUD (still going !) & The Family Cat (terrible name, great tunes) in that month.

It was a shame when the place closed, I guess being in the middle of Sheffield & Leeds a gig in Donny in between didn’t make much sense.

gazza285

10,526 posts

224 months

Monday 11th April 2022
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andySC said:
Being a Doncaster lad, The Jug was a pretty good venue to see up & coming bands for the cost of a few pints (…even at 1989 prices). I remember seeing The Blue Aeroplanes, this lot mesmerised me, I think there were 4 guitarists in the band at the time & they were amazing to see live. I also saw CUD (still going !) & The Family Cat (terrible name, great tunes) in that month.

It was a shame when the place closed, I guess being in the middle of Sheffield & Leeds a gig in Donny in between didn’t make much sense.
Very reminiscent of The Duchess flyers, same format, and mainly the same bands. I can only presume it was the same bloke booking them, John Keenan…