[Misc] Sherry’s - Today’s Argus

[Questions]

It got a mention in Grahame Green’s Brighton Rock I think.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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.

If memory serves me correctly Gil Scott Heron played there once.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Dave the OAP]

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.

You are Rory and I claim my £5

 

[Live by the sea]

Just shown a friend this thread who has always lived in Brighton and she said all the cool kids went to the zap not the pink coconuts. She went to a club nearby called orianas.

 

[BN9 BHA]

You are Rory and I claim my £5

I preferred going to Coasters, much cheaper to get in and no dress code.

 

[um bongo molongo]

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.

You’re right actually as I can narrow it down slightly as I was definitely at BHASVIC as I remember who I went with (as I fancied her and failed in my mission that night ). So that puts it between Sept 93 and June 95. I’d guess at towards the end of that.

God I’m old.

 

[BN9 BHA]

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.

If only the so called Argus journalist had somewhere to do some research

Demolition of nightclub building on former site of Sherry's Dance Hall continues

A NIGHTCLUB on the site of a popular war-time dancehall is being demolished to make way for a new hotel.

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[BN9 BHA]

It got a mention in Grahame Green’s Brighton Rock I think.

Mentioned on here.

Soap stars and beauty queens join nightclub revellers

IF YOU wanted to go dancing in Brighton in the 1980s there were plenty of places to choose from, but where better than the Pink Coconut?

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

Don't tell me Eva Petulengro no longer predicts the future.

 

[Official Old Man]

You are Rory and I claim my £5

Almost. Whilst Rory worked in Coasters (Top Rank Suite) I worked 10 pm till 2 am in Rain, now Buddies. We were the only late night venue with a licence till 2 am. Met him many yimes when he came in post work.

 

[CHAPPERS]

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.

Cream tried to open a gaff next to the Sealife Centre around the 2000s but they couldn’t get the offence they wanted, if memory serves, so that was quickly forgotten.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just shown a friend this thread who has always lived in Brighton and she said all the cool kids went to the zap not the pink coconuts. She went to a club nearby called orianas.

I never set foot in Sherries because I could see (from among my class mates) the sort of clientele it attracted.

When I was 15 to 18 it was Hungry Years and Rock night at the Top Rank (where the DJ would play any vinyl we brought along - place was almost empty, just the way I like it).

If you preferred Rod Stewart and Elton John, had a Rod Stewart hair cut, work cow-pat shoes and Brut aftershave, it would have been Sherries.

Snob, moi?

 

[wellquickwoody]

Just shown a friend this thread who has always lived in Brighton and she said all the cool kids went to the zap not the pink coconuts. She went to a club nearby called orianas.

Nuffink

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I'm not one to defend The Argus but I think they are correct about the skating club - it was before Sherry's. Might be wrong as it was well before my time of going to the Pink Coconut. Anyway, bring back The Hungry Years I say !

 

[BN9 BHA]

Almost. Whilst Rory worked in Coasters (Top Rank Suite) I worked 10 pm till 2 am in Rain, now Buddies. We were the only late night venue with a licence till 2 am. Met him many yimes when he came in post work.

Coasters was in the large building called Kingswest on the seafront/ West Street, the Top Rank Suite (AKA The Suite) also in Kingswest was a separate nightclub.
I’m sure around 1883/4 Coasters was open until 1AM but Pink Coconut, The Suite etc opened until 2 AM

 

[heathgate]

I preferred going to Coasters, much cheaper to get in and no dress code.

Yes, but Coasters( formerly the more sophisticated Jenkinsons) was a relatively new venue at the time, early 80s.... main options centered around West St were Sherry's, Top Rank, Busby's...

 

[Triggaaar]

It was the Paradox before becoming the Pink Coconut.

No, Pink Coconut was before Paradox

 

[Blue3]

Only went in Sherry’s a couple of times really not my cup of tea awful pop music over priced drinks full of plastic wannabes and twats looking for a drunken fight
Much happier in the Hungry Years after a feed beers in the Basketmaker, The Eagle and King and Queen

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'm not one to defend The Argus but I think they are correct about the skating club - it was before Sherry's. Might be wrong as it was well before my time of going to the Pink Coconut. Anyway, bring back The Hungry Years I say !

I was a regular in the Years in the early/mid 70s. I was in Brighton in the mid/late 90s for a conference, and suggested to my GF (who was a massive GnR/Def Leppard fan) we check out the Years. It was exactly the same as it had been in the 70s, same music, same layout, same miserable bastard behind the bar. I was saddened to see that it has now been turned into some sort of dreary old bollocks.