If I could do one thing before its too late it would be to help her reconnect with people from her past in what was the prime of her life. A former nurse said she feels "lucky to . You may remember us as Jean and John the tall couple who danced a lot! Sixties and seventies I had 7 music and record shops around Tyneside so was involved with the discos and nightclubs dance music sounds and strings. Does anyone remember the Kontors band; Alan price, Chas Chandler, Bernie Maguian, Gordon Cleghorn, Nick Brandon, Chunky Bourne, Barry Preston? I will never forget you were working at the theatre royal and u let me see the stage set for Alice in wonderland and let me have a go on the big swing in the stage. `you may already have it? Hi June I do remember the Palleta, it used to be the place to go during the day, they cannot have done much business as we all used to buy one drink and make it last for hours until we got kicked out. But I am sure that they also got a lot of bands from London. to commemorate these experiences I have recently cut a CD called Cats Nite Out on which I have included the R & R music we used then.I went on the sing throughout my life as a solo artiste, called Ray Donne for a period and then back to my real name. Ziggy's 19 Bars & Clubs By C9460ITmarkg Venues were St.Georges Drill Hall by Northumberland Rd. 9 Jun 2022 . That building and those surrounding it were demolished and have been rebuilt. I dont suppose you have any photographs or memorabilia of any of the clubs you worked in I have memberships cards and entrance tickets but no photos! Went to the Dolce for years and my mate at the time was DJ at Sloopys. He was the minder for Tom Jones when he came to the La Dolce Vita. Maybe a good starting point might be the Chronicle as I am sure that they have a library full of old photos. Hi Marcus now lives in Leeds and is a professional artist. I was around a bit earlier-my brother Tony Gillman (friend of Kieth Crombie)was heavily involved in music scene through New Orleans Jazz Club and used to organize Beach /Forest Barbecues(sometimes unauthorized by council I believe)we seemed to `move away from scene quite quickly-Jazz Bands and all.Great fun and wonderful memories of Melbourne street which ultimately inspired my visit to New Orleans and Nashville-music cities USA-great times. Just found a post from Jane Maddison whos dad Ken Maddison was my bandleader for many years after I left groups to settle down. In the 21st century, we've seen many pubs adapting to cater for families, or attracting sports fans by providing large-screen coverage, and increasingly serving meals - not just pork scratchings. In its hey day the Quay Club was a popular late night watering hole for both local and national musicians after completing their own gigs in the city. When they played The Cellar Club, So. The reunion was a great success so full marks to Ian Wright for coming up with the idea and organising the event. You and I used to share guitar vocals with Ken Maddison in the early 70s at La Strada until I moved to Montego Bay. After the gig was finished Joe was going home and this band of youngsters were sitting in the arcade, one of them said Joe, lend us 10 bob to get some chips, were skint and starving so Joe took pity and obliged, that band turned out to be the Faces and the kid he loaned the 10 bob to was Rod Stewart, Joe was always moaning he never got his 10 bob back. ___________________________________________________________________________. The Best Nightlife in South Shields - Tripadvisor Also played drums on I Keep Singing that same old song, Heavy Jelly (Skip Bifferty). I loved the clubs The downbeat where the animals used to play, great memories to treasure. Pete Wallis. It was so dark and there were couples kissing in corners and dancing where they stood. We did Rehearsal Room, a Tyne Tees weekly feature on local bands, a half hour show presented by David Hamilton, we did 3 numbers loads of fun, and , we even got well paid for it. I also wore a lot of mascara and false eye lashes which sometimes pealed off! 2 inch thick marine ply shells with heavy duty internal struts and mounting frames but man the sound was awesome, power, punch and clarity. The Beacon The Beacon in Green's Place on the Lawe Top was one of the oldest pubs in South Shields, having served drinks since the late 1800s. It was situated at the junction of Newgate Street and Low Friar Street. So he cannot remember if the signage was still showing. Hello .would anyone have any information on Ken White..he was in a double act..Collins and Wright I believemy Dad was Ken and My Godfather was Lenny. Oh Mike Jeffrey. If you contact me, I think that I have a couple of pictures of your Dad at La Strada that you might not have seen. Just discovered this site. It sadly closed around 2016 and briefly turned into German bar, Das Wunderbar before closing completely. I then returned to a normal life !!!! We split at 21, she had a daughter I remember, and I heard she died at 34/35 a great shock to me at the time, we were the same age and both Pisces. 1. Great site and yes the Club Agogo was a Great Venue.I met my wife there in October 63 and we married in June 66.We are still together.Neville McKittrick the Invaders Singer was a colleague of mine at British Paints.Last I heard of him he had his own Paint Company in Canada.I would love to make contact again. I would like to say a huge Thank You to Roger for first of all, building up this amazing website and secondly helping people, as you have with me, to share their memories of a very special time in their lives. 69 Club Westgate Street plus MANY social clubs all around the North East. Ill post a comment as soon as I have anything to report. Met my husband there and saw some great bands and stood next to Eric Burdon at the bar. Lorraine, its lovely to hear how much you enjoyed going to Bloomers and glad the memories made you smile! I met my first girlfriend Yvonne there, started going to the Downbeat also Club Eleven in Sunderland with my close pal Rod. Best years of my life. Remember some of the places between 1968 to 73 as a 18 plus year old. lol. I went there quite a few times in the late 60s. If I had three wishes . I found a photograph of my great-great-grandmother Mary Jane Fergusons public house, the Station Hotel, in Laygate Lane, South Shields. Tinker Smiths Our 10 photographs from the ChronicleLive archive recall some of the many and varied pubs, past and present, of South Shields, As anyone who's ever done it will vouch - South Shields is a great place to have a night out (in normal times, anyway!). Hi Anna #156. I used to visit clubs like the Flamingo,La Discotheque, The Scene,Marquee,Whisky A Go Go,All Star, Tiles etc. old nightclubs in south shields A couple of years ago we were in Benidorm and we got talking to these three couples, one of them said You are obviously from the Newcastle area, where did you go on Friday nights in Toon ? I answered The Maj Ok he said, now who where the resident group ? Rue and the Rockets I answered, Well meet Rue and the Rockets, its us three and we are still going in fact we are on the Dynastic tonight. I gave my mate his and told him see that guy look at the back of his jacket just as he turned round and it was `Chris Farlow. However at night it became a private membership club with jazz being served up by some of the best musicians around. John Colin Woodland, greetings. blog 28 mentions thelate Mike Carr.. been on wikepedia and seems he still walks among us.. thankfully. Suzanne, Of course I remember your dad Jimmy, many great times working together. I remember the 60 they where wonderfull years. He now lives in High Heaton I believe. Ifeel so incredibly nostalgic about those very important days, which went over much too quickly. As a PS Leam Lane WMC still have a thriving group night on Fridays, they also have a first class resident duo in Dougie and Carl, not many if any clubs still have live backing for the turns. Along with La Dolce Vita, the Cavendish featured some of the best acts on the cabaret circuit. But last week I did visit an old friend in Whitley Bay and realised that my Dad must have been working at The Pickwick shortly aftter it opened (which I guess was why we moved to Whitley in the first place). If you're from South Tyneside, these 21 photos might - ChronicleLive Then when I went to work at the Ministry in Longbenton the next day people were coming up to me saying they saw me onstage with Wilson Pickett. If anyone knows how to get info on the bands that played there I would be most grateful. Jeffrey was CONTENT!!! however I cannot remember who it belonged to. JT, #74. Yours nostalgically I also remember the Findlay boys and one of their cohorts Big Paddy. Newcastle was the place to be back then! Myself, Cass and Ken went down to Kings Road and came back with Leather Coats down to the ankles. I remember Pat mentioning names of people like Keith Crombie, Tommy Finlay etc who she met through Ron but the rest of us never met them. Top 10 Nightlife in South Shields, England - Things To Do We were also friends with music journalist Phil Penfold. . Hello, this has been a great read. You mentioned Bill Colwill there was a Bill C. who used to be always at the Mayfair maybe to do with the music and he was in my shop every lunch time with a Colin Topping and a guy called Brian. My old mans band (Alan NIcholson snr). Bars & Clubs By 688iang The range of beers and ciders is magnificent, all superbly kept by Kath and the staff. Jean, I wonder if you could share any photos you may have of Bloomers nightclub. He must have been in his late fifties in the time I knew him, and I think me may no longer be with us forty years on. Tommy Oxley can be seen in the film Get Carter. The building which housed La Dolce Vita still stands but now contains luxury flats. I went to a few with Billys Mills bonzo.. remember Trevor Chance practising above a pub in Clayton Street,.. My dad used to service the fruit machines in lots of these clubs for my uncle in the 60s. loved those ..times i/ve never lost my love of Jazz, and am still singing those beautifull songs in and around the Northeast. Also seem to remember a free concert at Leazes Park with a lot of local bandsmay have been 1967-68? George, John is still looking to see if he has any photos of the entrance to Bloomers on Bath Lane. After the party scene at John Osbornes house, the camera pans along a set of party goers as the police raid the party, and Oxley is one of those. Hi Alfie Wright AKA Tony Sands Hypnotist opened the Cresendo Club Whitley bay I named it after The Cresendo Club in U.S.A I was a regular there in the 60s maybe 63-64-65ish Lol. Does anyone remember seeing Dick Haymes at either La Dolce Vita or Greys & The Cavendish in the 1960s? We step back for just a while to the South Shields, Jarrow, Hebburn and Boldon of four decades ago. Bringing back lots of stories! From the Soap . The 'leisure industry' pubs of 2021, of course, exist in a very different world to their mid-20th century predecessors when the town's hardworking men - seafarers , shipbuilders, coal miners and the like - were the main customers in the street-corner and riverfront bars. Great site look forward to any info. The Marimba was open for just over a year before being gutted by fire. We regularly played the Seaburn Hall on Cats Nite Out which was on a Wednesday. Served lovely meals and had big Manny Burgo, ex-boxer on the door. They played Family In My Own Time and Curved Air Back Street Love and T Rex Get It On. We went often and went for the great music and danced all night. There is a good photo of the group playing in Wetheralls. He was a good friend many years ago. The casino in La Strada (photo courtesy of Rob Quinn), 1963 advertisement for La Strada (courtesy of Rob Quinn), 1965 Advertisement for La Strada (Courtesy of Rob Quinn), Resident group the Crusaders with La Strada owner, Sandford Goudie on the right with a conga drum (photo courtesy of Rob Quinn). If Pete is still around you could use my email to get them together. theses lists and memories are priceless but who can remember the truly horrible bands? Lived in Heaton as I remember. He was a drummer at La Strada, South Shields and Sunderland, in the 60s, my mother Rita Clay was taking the money on the door, I remember going to the kids Christmas parties that Sandford Goudie used to put on for us, he also played at the Pickwick in Whitley Bay, I can remember his band was called The Opus Three, he then went on to form a band called Paulas People who were resident at The Blue Star Club, Newcastle. Where is she now I wonder. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); But if you were there and you cant remember much, then this site will jog your memory, at least about the local north east music scene of the mid to late sixties. View listing packages . Youve managed to make a truly great website even better THANK YOU!!! Big hair and big eyes and John with his shoes wouldve been 65 We married in 1976 and continued to go out to Scamps and are still married now. Happy days .most of the time.no mention of New Orleans jazz club at Forth Banks..I assisted on the door and behind the bar at timesand I used to play with a local band called The Pilgrims..named after the Arcade in Pilgrim street where we were based ..always used to end up at the Asia Chinese on Bath Lane where the cheapest thing on the menu was Curried chicken livers with boiled rice for 2 bob in old money Good times- great musicians. Alan Price was, I think, born in Jarrow and worked at the tax office. old nightclubs in south shields - nasutown-marathon.jp Change Is opened with a flourish on 9th February 1969 with a promise of first class entertainment from the best acts around. The event is free to enter, with collection buckets out for those who wish to donate and will run from an early time of. Chic was there when I was set upon by a couple of London thugs connected to the Krays, I remember one of the patrons saying that buggers goin back to the smoke with a couple of cracked ribs. i used to go to the old cellar club in south Shields i/m sure it did/nt sell alcohol then, any way my mam bought me a can can petticoat and it was made of lace that was starched and when us girs sat down the petticoat was a massive sea of lace and our [sussies and stockings] were often on view!! 21 long forgotten nights clubs in Southampton | Daily Echo 10. I have never heard of Tom Oxley, but would love to know more. I probably went there between 1971 and 72 (I was 18 in 72) and can remember the feeling if excitement at hearing the very loud music coming from a juke box. He was with his daughter who is also a sInger. on drums (not Des Omally) and Maggie Miles vocals. I know this is a long shot. We drove all night and met some great Geordie at the match and who then took us to the Cavendish where we saw from memory Gerry and the pacemakers. We were also friends with Clive Lee who was a total fruitcake in the style of Freddie Starr! I spent so many happy weekends there in the 70s and remember being devastated when it closed down and we all had to transfer to the dolce. Both my grandmothers once worked in the Tyne Dock Hotel, now Kennedys at Tyne Dock, and I remember passing Slake Terrace on my way to work in Newcastle, with the Grapes Hotel and many other public houses before they were demolished. Happy Times. La Dolce Vita included a large cabaret lounge with seating for 500 and an illuminated glass dance area in front of the stage.