Just received this.

On Saturday 26th May one of Liverpool’s most famous venues, The Picket, will be one year old.

A venue that has attracted the likes of The Las, Happy Mondays, Noel Gallagher, Space, Cast, China Crisis, The Coral, Shack, Pete Wylie, Ian McNabb, Baaba Maal, Neil Finn, Billy Bragg, Deaf School, and presented 1,000’s of Liverpool bands, and supported 100's of the citys community organisations.

In 2004 the venue was closed down at its premises in Hardman Street, Liverpool.(More background at www.savethepicket.com).

Last May it re-opened in new premises with the support of Elvis Costello, Travis, Liverpool City Council and the citizens of Liverpool, attracting 1,500 people to its official opening.

New Liverpool promoters FUSION- based at Paul McCartney's "Fame" school
LIPA- have organised an event to celebrate the venues’ 1st birthday! Please see eflyer attached. Also check out the myspace page at www.myspace.com/fusionliverpool

I hope you can you can join us.
If you want to get in contact with me then please feel free, Please email n.baskerville@lipa.ac.uk
Telephone: 07774529202
Nicholas Baskerville.

so you re on their mailing list as well :)

There will be an annoucement soon of another very special gig at the picket.

Ged, Have you been to any gigs at the old picket and the new picket venue?

Didn't know it had re-opened :shock:

Thanks for the news :PDT11

Plenty at the old picket John. It was on our 'top end' pub crawl of The Phil, Chaucers, Plummers, Kirklands, Hardys and Streets initially in the 80s but then when some of the better groups were on we'd stay in there longer or even some times most of the night.

I remember seeing OMD on Mountford Hall in 1979 when I worked in Quiggin Bros 86a Renshaw St. We were having a liquid lunch in the Masonic, Berry St, later the stag and Rainbow and then the Liverpool brewery co (or something) when one of our workmates came in and said there's supposed to be a good group on up there and so we all trudged off and got back to work very much later - the boss was not amused.

I was in a group myself at the time and the local talent (groupwise) back then were Dejavu, Blue Vein and Riley (who became Groundpig and are still going although poor little Graham died a year or 2 ago)

A flock of Seagulls were doing the rounds and just breaking through too and we went to a party in Toxteth with them.

So which band were you in?

I knew Mike Score when he had the hairdressers in Whitechapel and Frank worked there, I remember watching them practise in the attic and Mike telling me they were calling thenselves AFOS I thought what a crap name and told him so :rolleyes:

I saw OMD in Erics they always played in the back of the club not on the stage.

The band was called Perspective. We did 95% covers and a few we knocked together ourselves. Phil Reynolds lived on the Easby estate in Kirkdale facing my then wife to be who I hadn't yet met. Frank Mawdsley, who now has Frank's news on Dale st was the brother of one of the Riley band members.

All our band members were in Mabel Fletcher music college, I was the only one working full time and that took it's toll in the end, it was one or the other and a regular job had to win hands down but it was great fun.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4201

Here's something I prepared earlier. Yes, I used to watch Blue Peter too.

Do you remember The High Five?

The name rings a bell John but I can't picture them.

Phil from the band set up/manages the Picket, Rob the drummer from Wah, they were around early 80s played the Peoples Festival, toured with the Smiths.
I am just getting their Myspace together for them.

Have you seen Nancyo's pics of Wah, Echo, Farm etc from the 80s?

Yes in fact I commented on the Peoples Festival one, in fact that is the High Five on stage.