Vanished places where I wish I had gigged

[Happy Jack]

[Silvia Bluejay]

Um, the acoustics there must have been interesting...

 

And there was I thinking you had started a thread about places such as, say, The Red Lion in Brentford, the London Astoria or similar...

[Muzz]

The Marquee, in any of its incarnations...

[Dad3353]

 

 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Dad3353

[Leonard Smalls]

20 minutes ago, Muzz said:

The Marquee

I played at the Charing Cross Road version 3 times, once supporting Carter the Unstoppables, and twice as headline...

 

[Nail Soup]

1 hour ago, Happy Jack said:

Wow, remember that….. the Windsock in Dunstable. So called presumably due to it’s proximity to the gliding club.

The site is just up the hill from where I live now.

As you say, long gone. Did they have bands there?

 

[joeystrange]

CBGB.

[Lozz196]

Would have been my answer too, Joey

[Len_derby]

My dad was a teenage dance band drummer in the early years of WW2*. They sound like they were wild gigs. Bomber crews dancing with easily impressed local girls. Wouldn’t it have been fantastic to play walking basslines to that audience?

 

*eventually he was conscripted and hit the beach as a Green Howard on D-Day.

[Rich]

2 hours ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

Um, the acoustics there must have been interesting...

 

And there was I thinking you had started a thread about places such as, say, The Red Lion in Brentford, the London Astoria or similar...

 

Oh yes... many, many good memories there. I can still remember the thrill of seeing SOLD OUT written across the billboard for the first time. Such a nostalgia rush. 

[CJPJ]

2 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I played at the Charing Cross Road version 3 times, once supporting Carter the Unstoppables, and twice as headline...

 

I remember seeing them (and PWEI) play there in the late '80s. Cracking venue.  

[Guest]

59 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

 

*eventually he was conscripted and hit the beach as a Green Howard on D-Day.

An old boy who is a good friend of mine was a Green Howard in the 50's.  

[Len_derby]

24 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

An old boy who is a good friend of mine was a Green Howard in the 50's.  

They have a great regimental museum in Richmond, Yorkshire. I was able to take my old man both there, and back to the Normandy beaches. The latter trip, in 2000 was brilliant. Through visiting the actual sites and local museums I was able to appreciate that what I, and my brothers, thought were tall tales where, in fact, the way it really happened. 

[Mickyk]

Eal Pie Island Twickenham iconic venue that must have been back in the 60s

 

https://www.greatdays.co.uk/tour/eel-pie-musical-highs/

[Mickyk]

5 minutes ago, Mickyk said:

Eal Pie Island Twickenham iconic venue that must have been back in the 60s

 

https://www.greatdays.co.uk/tour/eel-pie-musical-highs/

 

[Maude]

1 hour ago, Len_derby said:

My dad was a teenage dance band drummer in the early years of WW2*. They sound like they were wild gigs. Bomber crews dancing with easily impressed local girls. Wouldn’t it have been fantastic to play walking basslines to that audience?

 

*eventually he was conscripted and hit the beach as a Green Howard on D-Day.

There's a fantastic local band down here in Cornwall called Company B. They play lively jump jive music and wear American GI uniforms. 

Always a great night out. 

I'd imagine those gigs your dad played were a hoot. 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

The UFO Club.

 

 

[davepb24]

Currently living about 500 yards from Mother's in Erdington

[chris_b]

I never went to Eel Pie Island. Last buses running at around 11 pm made getting home pretty difficult, but I saw Fleetwood Mac, Cream, John Mayall, Jeff Beck Group, Hendrix etc etc many times at gigs including the Ricky Tick, The Starlight Ballroom, The Manor House, UFO, The Flamingo, Middle Earth and the Blue Moon in Hayes. Never played at any of those though.

 

I did get to play the Marquee, Ealing Club, 100 Club, Cavern, Tiles, Reading Festival and both Whiskey A Go-Go's, but the one gig I wished I had played was Woodstock, and maybe also the Fillmore's, East and West.

[mybass]

I missed all those early clubs (bit of a long trip from NZ!) but have played later versions of these clubs…and Fillmore West….where the ‘smoke’ off the audience went totally against the huge lettering on the wall saying ‘No Smoking’ !

[Paul S]

Atlantis.  Never played there, think we'd have gone down well.

[BigRedX]

16 hours ago, joeystrange said:

CBGB.

 

Whilst I haven't actually played there myself, I was lucky enough to be in the audience at CBGBs just before it closed for good.

[meterman]

16 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The UFO Club.

 

 

That, and possibly Middle Earth, would have been my first picks 👍 Or the Cromwell. Or the Bag Of Nails. Or Ally Pally ‘67...

[BigRedX]

I've never actually played at The Boat Club in Nottingham, although I have seen loads of bands there including YMG, U2, Comsat Angels, Bow Wow Wow and Orange Juice.

 

OtOH I have played on the main stage at Rock City.

Edited April 20, 2022 by BigRedX

[Stub Mandrel]

6 hours ago, BigRedX said:

I've never actually played at The Boat Club in Nottingham, although I have seen loads of bands there including YMG, U2, Comsat Angels, Bow Wow Wow and Orange Juice.

 

OtOH I have played on the main stage at Rock City.

 

I have played at the Boat Club, our guitarist photoshopped the sign with a list of bands to include us 😎