Nights out in Brighton on the Late 70s - Early 80s

[getz]

Top Rank - wasn't that the awful Phil Leppard? (nick named Phil Leppar by us, due to his out of touch music often, a naff moustache, twice as old as the patrons, and wouldn't play requests due to his intransigence overt his music choices...i.e. Rock the Boat, years after it was popular).

If my memory serves me right in the early days of the "Suite" Annie Nightingale DJed down there.

 

[Return of the Rev]

where?

Abinger?

 

[aftershavedave]

Abinger?

oh yes...fab times!

 

[aftershavedave]

If my memory serves me right in the early days of the "Suite" Annie Nightingale DJed down there.

annie nightingale spent many nights in the windmill (upper western road?) often with that fella from primal scream, so yes you're prob correct

 

[Return of the Rev]

Abinger?

Recall leaving there at 2ish and heading up to shrewsbury in a mini bus

 

[smudge]

Yep count me in as this was similar to the agenda we followed. I’m 61 now by the way

Cheers fella, made me feel young at a mere 56!

 

[smudge]

Racking my brains for that one! Any idea of the club below hotel on hove seafront,knocked down a long while ago

Only one that rings a bell is the Zipideedoodah. Good soul night on a Sunday. Not knocked down as it's regency, in Hove by Jove.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Cheers fella, made me feel young at a mere 56!

I wouldn’t have seen you when I first started visiting Sherry’s when I was 15 then!

 

[Return of the Rev]

Only one that rings a bell is the Zipideedoodah. Good soul night on a Sunday. Not knocked down as it's regency, in Hove by Jove.

It was the club below the Abinger i was thinking of

 

[Weststander]

the Bonsoir {or the "Bonce" to regulars}

In the 80's renamed Monty's,

 

[Weststander]

Only one that rings a bell is the Zipideedoodah. Good soul night on a Sunday. Not knocked down as it's regency, in Hove by Jove.

Isn't it still there, but now flats, as it's a listed Regency building at bottom of First Avenue (ish) ?

 

[Return of the Rev]

The bar at the bottom of 1st Av Hove,alot of Albion players got in there. Case Fossie etc

 

[Weststander]

Great place, remember it well. It was one of many on our route, including - The Green Dragon, The Richmond, The Albert, The Prince George, Sussex Yeoman, The Belvedere, The Quadrant, The Alhambra, Becketts, Subterfuge and anywhere with a decent band on. Interesting to see the majority on this thread going to all the places we weren't, surely would have passed many of you around town back in the day.

Introduced to The Electric Grape in Queens Road, when only about 17 years old, by older friends. A tiny place. Played brilliant music by The The, Altered Images, early OMD, Josef K, Cocteau Twins, synth pop. Ice cold bottled lagers. Pretty new wave female clientele.

 

[Lifelong Supporter]

Birds Nest in the week...anybody remember that.... then the Suite on Saturday. How about Cinderella's at Hickstead. Met my wife there, not that I knew too much about it.

Fun days.

 

[Rogero]

we used to go there....just a pain as one had to drive

Who would drive there now?

 

[aftershavedave]

blue parrot anyone?

 

[Rogero]

Deryk Carver ( Carvers ) Is the Black Lion I think, next to The Cricketers.

it was a new pub built next to the Cricketers.built about 73.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Birds Nest in the week...anybody remember that.... then the Suite on Saturday. How about Cinderella's at Hickstead. Met my wife there, not that I knew too much about it.

Fun days.

Remember the phones on the tables in the Birds Nest

 

[Weststander]

Birds Nest in the week...anybody remember that.... then the Suite on Saturday. How about Cinderella's at Hickstead. Met my wife there, not that I knew too much about it.

Fun days.

Older mates used to go to Cinderella's at Stroods Motel in the 70's,

By the time we went, for the rare night outside Brighton, it was called The Dance Factory in the mid 80's. It always ended in violence with the horrible sound of smashing pint glasses. Crawley and Redhill entitely lacked clubs then, so it drew the wrong crowd. It culminated in bouncers murdering a thug, so it was closed down.

Is it now the site of the Friday Ad business!

Sited on the old London Road, all the punters turned left or right to drink drive home in those days?

 

[Return of the Rev]

Birds Nest in the week...anybody remember that.... then the Suite on Saturday. How about Cinderella's at Hickstead. Met my wife there, not that I knew too much about it.

Fun days.

Got a lift with Graham Mosley to Cinderellas(known localy as the fight factory)