O`Connors

[lindac8941]

Anyone used to go there? I practically was there every weekend when I was about 16/17. Although it was a bit rough around the edges I loved it. I remember watching some great bands in the room upstairs. And the jukebox would be playing White Room, by Cream, or Led Zepperlin , Free ,Deep Purple or Black Sabbath.

[lindylou]

I went to a wedding party there 1970's.

[Stanier]

That was my favourite haunt when I was 17 in '68. I liked Double Diamond then, don't drink now.
I used to like watchig the Liverpool Scene on there.
I remember the poetry readings, one regular reader, Sid Hoddes,(sp), was my doctor some years later when I lived in Seaforth.

[kevin]

That was my favourite haunt when I was 17 in '68. I liked Double Diamond then, don't drink now.

Hi Stanier,
We're the same age and I used to go in there about the same time - a few pints in Ye Cracke first.
Never liked DD but O'Connors was one of the few places you could get Newcastle Brown in Liverpool. Tried a bottle recently and can't believe I used to drink such sweet stuff!

[lindac8941]

Do you remember Groundpig?? They were often on there.

[Ged]

Do you remember Groundpig?? They were often on there.

linda. Groundpig are my old mates, we are on each other band's myspace pages. Here's their official site.

http://www.groundpig.com/biography.php

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[Gerard Fleming]

Do you remember Groundpig?? They were often on there.

They're playing The Cavern... 5th February..
tickets £12 at The Cavern pub..

Ring up for availability... tickets selling very fast..


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I can only remember Dave being with Harpoon before Nutz, same band really.
Dave I see occaisionally, not for a while though.
Barry, I have only bumped into two or three time since working with him in Plesseys' in '69

Nutz....interviewed by my mate >> Tony Bolland...







1st part of 2 part interview...


>> http://www.youtube.com/user/MerseyMa.../2/M9z-sD7jxbg

[Stanier]

I remember the manager at the time, a chap named Jimmy Moore, he collected Embassy coupons. I used to look through empty fag packets for the coupons for him and got the odd free pint.

[GNASHER]

Oh yes,a great dive.'69 to'74 in there min once a week.Did a couple of PA hires there in the early '80s.
Slaughterhouse played there, a great band.

[Stanier]

Slaughterhouse played there, a great band.

I played in one of the carnations of Slaughterhouse around the mid '70s.

[ItsaZappathing]

Oh yes,a great dive.'69 to'74 in there min once a week.Did a couple of PA hires there in the early '80s.
Slaughterhouse played there, a great band.

You should post your "band stories" Gnasher. I know who you've rubbed shoulders with

[Davec]

Had a few DDs in there in the mid sixties and can vaguely remember avoiding the poetry upstairs (I wasn't always the sophisticate I am now) but recall it mostly for it's earlier use as an estate agents. I went to look at a ground floor flat in Fulwood Park, overlooking the river, it was expensive but I would have taken it if they hadn't refused me when they found out I worked for a bookmaker.

[wsteve55]

Great pub,jukebox,and ale! Had some good times there,but it changed when Jimmy popped off,but over the road lay the future....."Kirklands"

[wsteve55]

Had a few DDs in there in the mid sixties and can vaguely remember avoiding the poetry upstairs (I wasn't always the sophisticate I am now) but recall it mostly for it's earlier use as an estate agents. I went to look at a ground floor flat in Fulwood Park, overlooking the river, it was expensive but I would have taken it if they hadn't refused me when they found out I worked for a bookmaker.

So,it was really an estate agents,previously?!? Hard to believe,but then again,it's being used as some sort of studenty arcade,now!

[Davec]

Don't think the whole building was an estate agents but I remember collecting the key to the flat from an office on the ground floor. The year would be either '64 or '65.