[Misc] Sherry’s - Today’s Argus

[timbha]

Could they get it more wrong?

“After Sherry’s closed, it became a roller-skating rink and then a bingo hall before being demolished in the late 1960s”

It’s a big part of Brighton’s history and was still open in the early 80’s. It was then closed for a while, refurbished and re opened as The Pink Coconut.

 

[WATFORD zero]

My first ever nightclub in the early 70s. Two older mates managed to talk me in on the door as 'Jimmy Clitheroe's younger brother'

 

[Sirnormangall]

Could they get it more wrong?

“After Sherry’s closed, it became a roller-skating rink and then a bingo hall before being demolished in the late 1960s”

 

[Sirnormangall]

No it didn’t. Utter bollox

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Ahh, Sherrys on Xmas Eve & NYE was one long snog-a-thon back in the late 70s

 

[Weststander]

Sums up The Argus today. A couple of 25 year old journalism graduates, with little knowledge of this city.

Confusing the site with another, spectacularly.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Sums up The Argus today. A couple of 25 year old journalism graduates, with little knowledge of this city.

Confusing the site with another, spectacularly.

You left off 'who are Southampton based'.

 

[OzMike]

It was the Paradox before becoming the Pink Coconut.

 

[The Optimist]

It was the Paradox before becoming the Pink Coconut.

Wasn’t it the Pink Coconut before it was the Paradox?

 

[OzMike]

Is it still called the Pink Coconut ?
Senior moment !

 

[Anger]

Could they get it more wrong?

No mention of Max Miller’s performances there nor Abba’s Eurovision win hosted by Katie Boyle.

Shameful research.

 

[Change at Barnham]

Very, very few of us pay for our news via local newspapers in print or on the internet.
Local media organisations are skint and struggle to pay staff.
Surely no one is surprised at the lack of quality journalism?

It's very easy to be critical, but very sad that it has come to this.

 

[Chicken Run]

Sums up The Brighton & Hove Green Party today. A couple of 25 year old graduates, with little knowledge of this city.

Confusing their dreams with real people’s needs spectacularly.

Edited for you

 

[Chicken Run]

Wasn’t it the Pink Coconut before it was the Paradox?

Yes

 

[Papak]

It was the Paradox before becoming the Pink Coconut.

Other way around. Pink Coconut then The 'Dox

 

[heathgate]

Ahh, Sherrys on Xmas Eve & NYE was one long snog-a-thon back in the late 70s

It was always a snogathon ... that balcony made for some very handy dark corners..... the laser lights at Sherry's was a quaintly revered technical highlight of those times,....

 

[Swimboy64]

It was the Paradox before becoming the Pink Coconut.

Other way round defo

 

[um bongo molongo]

Wasn’t it the Pink Coconut before it was the Paradox?

Yes. Bizarrely, I saw Blur play at the Paradox around ‘96/‘97. Not sure there was ever another ‘gig’ there. Used to be my go to on a Tuesday night as a BHASVIC student with a fake id. Zap on a Thursday.

 

[zefarelly]

Yes. Bizarrely, I saw Blur play at the Paradox around ‘96/‘97. Not sure there was ever another ‘gig’ there. Used to be my go to on a Tuesday night as a BHASVIC student with a fake id. Zap on a Thursday.

I went to that, IF I had to guess it may have been a year or two earlier , lots of gigs at the Event round then too.

Btn Uni 'Podfest' was also held there one year, 95 or 96, we played with label mates Spitfire, also Channel D and a few others.

 

[Official Old Man]

As an aging DJ who frequented Sherrys way back in the late 70's, why has Brighton never attracted a 'super club' to the town. By that I mean a night club putting on star DJ's from around the world. Yes we have/had all the clubs on the beach plus concorde2 and FBS with his nights. I recall a few years ago a big name have an all nighter at the Brighton Centre which sold out (Carl Cox?). But there's no Calvin Harris, James Hype et al.