We used to go to Rios.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMan
the Timepiece was in Fleet st.
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We used to go to Rios.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMan
the Timepiece was in Fleet st.
Lindy, thanks heaps for that, made up, loved it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
Pretty much summed up my Saturday nights....Masonic..Kitty's...Pun and Timepiece.
There used to be a little place on Duke st. , think it was called La Lacunda
How can you remember the names. Didn't you people drink...
Oh yes and can remember lots from then but fa from last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by pablo42
Ha, you sound like me Nan....Quote:
Originally Posted by GNASHER
We used to go to the Masonic too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Davec
Changed a bit since then Lind, and it's name.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
I'll bet I know you from them days too. I was always round the good looking women.
Well, maybe not...
The name changed to some long hi falutin' name - - I can't think of it. It had a few words in it ! like Liverpool something or other Brewing Company.
Anyway, the pub wasn't the same after they refurbished it. They dragged all the soul out of it when they knocked it through and it was like a big souless room afterwards. A different crowd took over and the originals disappeared to pastures anew.
We used to go and watch live bands there when it was a good pub, and had some good nights there. We always saw someone we knew and have a laugh. Went back once or twice when it was altered but it had changed beyond recognition.
A mate of mine ran it for a few months about mid 70s. He was very popular with the ladies and the pool table saw quite a bit of action!
Yeah, we did too.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
We might be best not mentioning where we used to go again.
You never know...
Thanks Ged...
Flintlocks - was that in Seel st ?
Ugly's was in Wood st I think ?
Hi Lindy...went to Rio's a couple of times, a real class place when it first opened...and good music I recall...
A pool table....that would have to be after my night-clubbing days were over.Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin
Don't ever remember seeing such a thing when I was out and about. Pool tables, fruit machines, televisions..can't recall seeing any of them in the pubs in town that I used to go to.
The old Masonic...used to go to watch a mate of ours sing there..the Whitehouse on the corner of Duke St. only ever seemed to go there on a Sunday night..and the Indiana a little way up in Berry St, used to walk straight past it.
Uglys was in Duke StQuote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMan
Spent a lot of time in the Masonic when Brian G had it.A great pub for live music,a band on everynight.
Davec I bet I know your face, I went to all those places, do you rememberQuote:
Originally Posted by Davec
a band called Minnesota Fats, with Albie on Sax, also Colin Areeti on the
Masonic, great day,s
Lindylou Tar for the link to Les Spaine, Lindy did you ever go to The Sink
on Hardman St
That's a club I never went to.
Did you know that 'Queen' played their first gig there ?
George I wouldn't be surprised. Colin was the main reason I went to the Masonic, I knew him quite well - a lovely fella - ended up working the cruise liners before he died.Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
Minnesota Fats is a bridge too far for my seriously bad memory - although I keep thinking it rings a bell. Great days indeed....I can never hear Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition' without imagining the walls of the Pun shaking.
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Originally Posted by GNASHER
Tuesday was always a good night in Uglys - lots of footballers in there as they didn't often play mid-week in those days. It was probably 1972-79 that I'd have been in there (just the one night a week, not permanently!).
I'm trying to remember which club it was that opened on a Sunday night - though just until 12.00. I was often in there and can picture it in my head, but can't remember where or what it was. It wasn't very good - but just about the only place open on a Sunday.
Any suggestions?
No. Never went to The Sink.Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
Was it the Vic ? (The Victoriana)Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin
The Sink ...didn't you get in there if you gave a sink plug at reception ?...never knew Queen played there, but their FIRST gig (they were from London, so that seems odd ?)
Went to the Sink circa 1966. It was below a "caff" called The Rumbling Tum. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
C
Think it might have been the Flintlock.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
d'ya know what --- this is jogging my memory a little . . 'The Rumbling Tum' - I've heard of that. Maybe I have been there - not sure now .. it's all so long ago ! :PDT_Xtremez_42:Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
I know of a rumbling tum cafe in Nelson, Lancs. Just below their big chimney.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
They make the biggest batches in the World.
It's brought out to you be four semi naked black guys.
Really is big.
It was the first time Mercury sang with them.They were called Smile and they also played the Cavern.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMan
Have a read of Brian Mays book,all the details are in there.I would post them but my sister in law has still got it,must get it she's only had it for about 10 months.
The Rumblin' Tum was on Hardman St and was run by Neil English, who became the first manager of the Odd Spot.
My Dad worked on Ugly's and the Rainbow club for a long time , i'll ask him where else he worked , i know he worked on the Lacarno too ...
Hiya Dave I knew the Areeti Family pretty well, I,ve been living in CanadaQuote:
Originally Posted by Davec
35 years I did,nt know Colin had passed, what year was that, I had heard
that Tom Jones liked Colin,s singing, don,t know true that is, Cheers davec
Absolutely right Chris me old son, I,ve probobly rubbed shoulders with youQuote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
I went there from 66 to about 68-69, across the street was O connors, next
door was the Philharmonic pub, up the street was ye olde Cracke, that was a nice little pub, those were the days, Cheers Chris
I knew Neil English quite well from the Rumblin Tum / Sink, Neil drove aQuote:
Originally Posted by kevin
Gordon Keeble a very rare car, I remember when he ran the Odd Spot on
Bold St
I remember the Grotesque sign that hung outside Ugly,s on Duke St :shock:
Hi George,Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
Colin passed away in 2005, I don't know what the cause was.
A thoroughly nice fella - think the last time I saw him was on the Coconut Grove.
Don't know if this link will work; http://www.youtube.com/user/TONIO2K8#p/f/16/kozxeool3tE
Davec
Cheers Dave it did work, Great Singer, Great song, I had,nt heard it beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by Davec
it made my night, I owe you one, do you remember a group called
The Incrowd, played the Masonic, they were Tony Vale, Lawrence Areety,
Sugar Dean, and one more guy who,s name escapes me
Hiya George,Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
with the memory I've got these last few years, last week didn't happen.
Just like Minnesota Fats, the In Crowd rings a very vague bell, but it's more likely my mind trying to pretend it works.
3 of the lads you mention are on page 2 of this link (you may have already seen it)...
http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/a-z/sugardean.shtml
...don't know if the one you couldn't recall is the other lad in the photo.
Dave
After leaving The Spot he opened a very expensive shoe shop on Bold St called 'Neil's Shoes'. Called in to see him a few times when I was in Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
When the Albert Dock was restored he moved into one of the retail units there but don't think it went well - plenty of footfall but people went there to browse rather than buy. Like many others, as soon as his lease expired he moved on. Don't know what he did after that.
Anyone know where it went? I'm sure there was something about it being moved/preserved,in the Echo,some years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by georgieboy
It now hangs over Mart's door.