Who remembers....

used to be (I think) a big rave upstairs, only legal one in the country??? Anyway enough of that, what's your memories of the Northern from downstairs, hope you see this Dan, is he still on here?

So was I, think Bob was in our car... we were late, Dean was driving

Hi Byrney, How's it going mate?

Sure I took Bob down that night, think someone dropped him in Sherwood, might be mistaken it's been a good few years and have done an awful lot of Nighter's since, just the vehicle fire incident sticks out.

Tom, Ex Nottm'

I meant there was also a car fire at Keele.

I said not Coventry as I was going off topic and I had already got my legs slapped for doing that on another thread

Watch out for the leg slapper's Joan they are awaiting in the "Wings"

Tom

Went to the Eclipse on a few Amnesia House nights myself, and Shelly's up in Stoke. That's why I kept nipping upstairs for a pogo at the Eclipse soul allnighters

Laughs, POGOin.. or skipping if I remember right at the Hummingbird, you could dance in the middle or join a steady stream of Happy Ravers skipping round the dance floor, Here you go, Frightening!! I'm the monged chap in the Red Beneton top, my first and last try at Drug dealing, I basically I consumed more than I sold, and felt all the better for it!!! 20 seconds to comply!!!

happy dayz...

THE F***KIN NOB HEAD RAVERS RUINED EVERYTHING HERE,THEY MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO HIRE VENUES AND DESTROYED THE CHANCE OF ONE NIGHTER THAT WAS ALLREADY GOING.

THE F***KIN NOB HEAD RAVERS RUINED EVERYTHING HERE,THEY MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO HIRE VENUES AND DESTROYED THE CHANCE OF ONE NIGHTER THAT WAS ALLREADY GOING.

Steady Toad, its all good fun...was as much a Raver as a soulie, so love both music's and people, but we were just punters, you pays your money and in you go.......

Not wanting to turn this thread the wrong way...I leave you with a smilie face!! Mal.C.

Edited June 2, 201015 yr by Mal.C.

My old dear friend fuck em i day know there was a rave there, imagine who would have been left feeling out of their depth in our lot me Tommo and groupies, SOT CREW ETC..ETC..SCARY TO A LOAD OF KIDS THATSOMEHOW WERE MEDIA HOT NEWS, IMAGINE OUE ESCAPEDES IN PRINT, MAYBE THATS WHY THE RAVE SCENE GAVE UP WEN FACED BR PROPER TYPES, NOT TO MENTION THE MUSIC THAT LIVED IN US ALL, THEIRS WAS IN A COMPUTER, DANCE BEATS FOR E'S, OUR BDANCE WAS TO DURAPHETE, DEXADRINE DRYNAMYL FILON ETC..THE REAL DEAL NOT A PISS POOR UNCLEAN COPY, THATS WHY WE ARE STILL AROND AND OUR SCENE REMAINS DEAR, AND THE SHIP JUMPERS ALL, ABOURD, AGAIN ...RAVERS DONT WORRT AT Chedar gorge met cavers, they daint get mt gear either

Right just want to say, who the f--k has got into my acc. and posted that shite above, it's not me i assure you, will be contacting Mike on this one

Apologies to all

Harpo

Edited July 11, 201015 yr by harpo1

I remember the nighters at the swimming baths, always liked the place, thought it was a good venue. no idea when it was on , guess around 85.

My old dear friend fuck em i day know there was a rave there, imagine who would have been left feeling out of their depth in our lot me Tommo and groupies, SOT CREW ETC..ETC..SCARY TO A LOAD OF KIDS THATSOMEHOW WERE MEDIA HOT NEWS, IMAGINE OUE ESCAPEDES IN PRINT, MAYBE THATS WHY THE RAVE SCENE GAVE UP WEN FACED BR PROPER TYPES, NOT TO MENTION THE MUSIC THAT LIVED IN US ALL, THEIRS WAS IN A COMPUTER, DANCE BEATS FOR E'S, OUR BDANCE WAS TO DURAPHETE, DEXADRINE DRYNAMYL FILON ETC..THE REAL DEAL NOT A PISS POOR UNCLEAN COPY, THATS WHY WE ARE STILL AROND AND OUR SCENE REMAINS DEAR, AND THE SHIP JUMPERS ALL, ABOURD, AGAIN ...RAVERS DONT WORRT AT Chedar gorge met cavers, they daint get mt gear either

Right just want to say, who the f--k has got into my acc. and posted that shite above, it's not me i assure you, will be contacting Mike on this one

Apologies to all

Harpo

Right, l don't know who is responsible for accessing Pauls account on here, however there are one or two names that spring to mind, No brainers with nowt else to do but shit stir , and have'nt got the balls to even use their own account to write such tripe...........Not only that, they can't even spell, l suppose they think they are clever .

Some that may know Harpo (Paul) and go back many years on the scene might have a grudge against him, however l'm more than inclined to think NOT. so that only leaves saddo's suffering from the green eye monster syndrome.

I've known Paul for almost 41yrs, and in all that time l've only ever known him to be polite, courteous,respectful, and somewhat moralistic especially when it comes to guy's being rude or course in front of women at any venue we have attended.

So for anyone who has read Pauls post on here over the years will know that 1stly, this unsavory post is totally out of character, and 2ndly should credit Paul with at least getting the grammer right.

I know Paul better than most, and l know he hates abbreviating words, even when sending text messages, so "l day" certainly would'nt of been written by him.......

For the person who did write this post can l just say "get it right..." The phrase is "l did'nt/did not" etc etc etc etc !!!!

l'm sure there's a law against P.C.Hacking, unlike you, l will be doing my home work...... watch this space.

l don't take too kindly to people who think they can do this type of thing and get away with it.

A very good friend of ours on the scene just happens to be a barrister, make no mistake, l'm off now to e-mail her, wish me luck and l'll wish you the same..

sandi

Edited July 11, 201015 yr by sandi

Thanks for posting those Echoes ads and the odd flier up Chalky - brings back some memories.

(I think Tim Fletcher is having a few memory problems in claiming he ran them, though!)

I ran the first Cov all nighter at the swimming baths with some help from Simon Bonsor; we had a great room, very big with a bowling alley alongside and a big record area outside.

Unfortunately, we never got more than 300 in (for some reason I kept accounts, and the most we had in was 299 in December 1988; usually it was between 230 and 260).

This was despite - or perhaps because of - having a pretty progressive DJ line-up (we had Dave Evison on for the oldies).

Highlight for me was having Butch, Guy, Ian Clark and Ady Croasdell on on the same night (I think Val Palmer DJd that night, too - I always rated Val very highly from the 100 Club sets).

After two or three, I got Rudzi in to help me run it and promote it from his shop in Leicester - I always thought he was an underrated DJ. Cliff Steele, Carl Fortnum, Mark Bicknell, Pep and Harpo... we had some good names on (and some crap ones, namely me).

After a while, numbers dwindled a bit (the last event we ran in the big room had 172 paying punters in) so we moved to a smaller side room overlooking the bus station. This was a perfect size, good dancefloor, but the curtains were crap so summer nighters lost a bit of atmosphere at around 4am.

My final involvement was the last three Cov nighters at the Alderman Callow school, thanks to Rob Messan. (A hexagonal room, and this is where the car fire was. Very entertaining.)

The ACS was a nightmare place to find, even though I printed fliers with a decent map and directions; numbers never got above 250 and work was taking me in directions where nighters were not possible, so I jacked it in in late 1989/early 1990. Rudzi may have carried on after that, I don't know?

Simon Bonsor and I did run a couple of all dayers in Cov at a snooker club on the ringroad but these were very poorly attended (Tim F and the late Niall Beveridge ran some far better attended dayers, as well as the excellent Hope and Anchor soul nights).

All in all, Cov (certainly in my experience) was a promoter's graveyard; I never once made a profit. But it was great to have a nighter on your doorstep (which was the main reason I started it, to be fair.)