Fantastic thread - thanx guys n' gals ha ha. Being a 16 year old school leaver in 78 (around the time of Night Fever and Grease, my mates and I were happy to get in any clubs that would have us so usually frequented the Tiger, Livvo's and Gatsby's. Graduated to Eric's (actually played there when it was Brady's and played the She too) The Tiger became Shanks and I actually got served in Pickwicks in 77 at the first ever Beatles convention on JL's birthday 9th Oct. Reading through this thread I can say that Motorheap has the name right about Milo's and that Probe Records was actually in Rainford Square but as John/Shytalk point out, it is now known as the Mathew st quarter anyway around there.
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Other clubs at that time were Ugly's (how appropriate) and the Babalou. The city centre has so many pubs that we'd usually do a different crawl each night from thurs to sunday. The top one would start out at the Phil, down Hardman St with The Flying Picket, Chaucers, Plummers, Kirklands, Streets, Hardy's then Bertrums. The next night might start at the Excelsior or Mitre, along Dale st to the Vernon, down Stanley st to the Gingerbread Man then the New Court bar/Captain's cabin then back up Cumberland st where there was the Cumberland, Rudi's then either end up in La Fayette/Joleen's or the old dive The Gaslight. Another crawl would see us down the bottom end of town. Tom Hall's Tavern, the Slaughter House, The cornfield?, Pig & Whistle, The Queens, Trials, Pen & Wig, Why not, The Liverpool. I'd be a millionaire by now if I'd stayed in but not richer in memories.
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