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Nights out in Brighton on the Late 70s - Early 80s
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Weststander
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Coasters played Tapps, Bobby O, The Flirts, Divine, Lime, etc, as well as more mainstream dance.
Brilliant nights.
Great introduction for us youngsters into Brighton's nightlife.
hitony
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Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
I'm sure I KNOW you
Return of the Rev
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we would pick a different area each weekend,kemptown,station,seafront,western road,hove,went through phases of locals william tell,city of york
daveinprague
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I lived at bottom of Waterloo St and used to go into Lyndon Club...Sid to shine to my missus and made her work on bar whenever we came in haha..cool....free drinks for Dave!
hitony
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My brothers name is Dave and mine is pretty obvious, what era did you use the Lyndon? we also used the pub just next to it (can't for the life of me remember the name of it) well used the pool table normally after the Lyndon shut, by then we were always very well oiled
do you remember the spoof games?There was often 3 of us, me my brother and a guy called George Mckenzie, he was VERY tall and thin, he was well known because his brother Alistair was the keyboards player with Suzi quotro at the time.
daveinprague
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Mid to late 70's Hitony......also used the boozer (Iron Duke).... I cant remember names from last week, never mind the mid 70s haha
hitony
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Yes!! The Iron Duke, Thanks, have to be honest I'm ok on names from the past, it what happened yesterday I struggle with!
Perry Milkins
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Great thread. Respect to the OP
public school boy
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Foreign student's night at the Top Rank Suit. Full of fit young foreign fillies looking for English sausage but seem to remember having to be careful
about their age!
about their age!
All ages downstairs and over 18's only upstairs.
Walking tall past those bouncers on the stairs at the age of 15 !!
Happy Dyas
Return of the Rev
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Beach Hut
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The place of choice was to take them down the beach afterwards, I managed the full set one summer - Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, top totty all round.
daveinprague
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a drink after 2.30pm whatever next
happy days!
Marvelous times... although, I have to say, the clientel for both the Iron Duke and the Lyndon back in the day, were, lets say to be kind.. a bit shifty....
I stumbled across this brilliant thread having typed in 'coasters Brighton' into Google....I am creating a playlist of all the poynient music from my early clubbing days, starting with Saturday night all age disco at the The Court, the all age night on a Tuesday at the Top Rank with DJ Phil Leppard, Coasters , Pink Coconut/Paradox, Orianos, Nightfever.
Does anyone remember the court from 1980/81? It was an old dance school in Gloucester Place, just along from Mr Ks. On a Saturday night it opened as a Disco Run by what we described as Queen Victoria. Very strict and the music would quite often stop mid track, while she told everyone off because she'd found cigarette butts in the toilet!!! HAA.
Then Coasters with DJ Rory. What was his catchprase; 'BONA' ? Straight blokes dancing to gay music (Boystown Gang, Evelyn Thomas, Donna Summer, Lime, Divine, Hazel Dean, Sylvestor - What else
) Coasters was ahead of its time as Brighton didn't have an overtly gay scene in those days. Yet Rory in his leather chaps and cap would mince around Brighton with his pink poodles! 1983/84 was my era there. When did it finally close? It would fit in very well in Brighton these days.....Anyone know what became of Rory I have my suspicions!
Having read this entire thread, it seems we all went to the same places in teh same order..I suppose there was an obvious pub route in those days with a few variables. 7.30 in the Druids (no mobile phones needed...It was religion. Just show up and you'd all be there!), Pump House, Sussex, Carvers (Black Lion),Annabels (Smugglers), then clubbing. Was it the Cage downstairs of Annabels. Quite seedy and druggy but brilliant! Upstairs was Nightfever. Always a smell of Amo' Nitrate! I recall the blond barmaid was also a model in one of the porn mags....
These days I'm happy with a real ale pub and a curry after, but I wouldn't change the past for anything!
Does anyone remember the court from 1980/81? It was an old dance school in Gloucester Place, just along from Mr Ks. On a Saturday night it opened as a Disco Run by what we described as Queen Victoria. Very strict and the music would quite often stop mid track, while she told everyone off because she'd found cigarette butts in the toilet!!! HAA.
Then Coasters with DJ Rory. What was his catchprase; 'BONA' ? Straight blokes dancing to gay music (Boystown Gang, Evelyn Thomas, Donna Summer, Lime, Divine, Hazel Dean, Sylvestor - What else
) Coasters was ahead of its time as Brighton didn't have an overtly gay scene in those days. Yet Rory in his leather chaps and cap would mince around Brighton with his pink poodles! 1983/84 was my era there. When did it finally close? It would fit in very well in Brighton these days.....Anyone know what became of Rory I have my suspicions!Having read this entire thread, it seems we all went to the same places in teh same order..I suppose there was an obvious pub route in those days with a few variables. 7.30 in the Druids (no mobile phones needed...It was religion. Just show up and you'd all be there!), Pump House, Sussex, Carvers (Black Lion),Annabels (Smugglers), then clubbing. Was it the Cage downstairs of Annabels. Quite seedy and druggy but brilliant! Upstairs was Nightfever. Always a smell of Amo' Nitrate! I recall the blond barmaid was also a model in one of the porn mags....
These days I'm happy with a real ale pub and a curry after, but I wouldn't change the past for anything!
daveinprague
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Most of my 80s was involved with KingTafarLove, and we did blues parties all over the town during the late 70s and through the 80s... became a popular after party place for people after the clubs shut...
DavidWatts
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Started off in '82 with Tuesday nights at the Top Rank & remember one of my mates having a fake Birth Certificate to get upstairs if challenged by the Bouncers, which would then be passed by a helpful elder or dropped from the balcony to any unfortunate who was stopped & turned away.
Coasters on Saturday nights until it closed. Then Busbys & later Pink Coconut or Orianas.
Same pubs as most: Smugglers, Shades, Swifts, Druids Head or Black Lion. Remember Frock & Jacket was always heaving on Saturday nights, even on the stairs, and sold bottles of Red Stripe.
Good times
Happy days.
Coasters on Saturday nights until it closed. Then Busbys & later Pink Coconut or Orianas.
Same pubs as most: Smugglers, Shades, Swifts, Druids Head or Black Lion. Remember Frock & Jacket was always heaving on Saturday nights, even on the stairs, and sold bottles of Red Stripe.
Good times
Happy days.