What Was The Best All-Dayer

[Guest POTTERIESPECK]

LOADS OF ALLDAYERS IN THE 70'S

[Guest Nick Harrison]

Burnley Bank Hall Miners comes to mind closley followed by the Ritz Manchester

Julie x

Would agree with that Julie and the Cat Whiskers in Burnley town. Had some cracking sunday gatherings at the Bay Horse All Dayers in Todmorden late 70's.

[moddy]

Dixieland Morecambe was a brilliant dayer

[Guest SteveC]

The Bali Hai room downstairs was the Jazz Funk room with a revolving dance floor.

Recall meeting the revolving dancefloor for the first time after having done the Casino on the Friday and Mecca on the Sat. Don't think my head (or feet) coped very well with it but the Notts Palais dayers must be up there with the best.

[Guest Polyvelts]

We were only young teenagers and not very tough and we got chased through the bullring from New Street and all the way to Hurst Street every time we went.

It was almost like the alldayer had paid the skinheads and punks as the pre-event entertainment.

The Crown was the big skin/punk pub on the corner at the back of New St station on way to Hurst St, it sounds like you took the worst possible route there !!!

I don't think I walked anywhere in Birmingham in late 70s, I was always being chased by someone or other !!!!! And I lived there ! Happy days !

[Davetay]

Talking of posh ones, I can't belive I didn't post up..

Dunkenhalgh All-Dayer in the mid 70s in Accrington.

They where a few of us that walked it there being in our own town.

Another All-Dayer in Accrington was at The Spinning Jenny a year or two later.

It's quite funny that the Dunkenhalgh is gonna be used to stage the Ritz reunion in July.

Edited March 22, 2011 by davetay

[Guest Steve Playfair]

1. the 1st ritz alldayer

2.the last reading alldayer

3.the 1st purlley alldayer

4. whitchurch 1975

5. crown heights affair blackpool mecca

[wiganelli]

We are holding adayer at the RITZ in MAY as part of the MANCHESTER WEEKENDER see wwwmanchesterweekender for details its gonna be a great weekend tickets are going well, at just £22

[Guest astevec]

I remember Martin Christie, he certainly was a character, mostly dodgy, tho u had to like him. Think he lived in Leve in the l8 70's/early 80's. Don't kno wot happened to him. Useta like the Carousel, nighters 2 were better tho, u cud buy a load of ale @ last orders & hide em under them bench seats no prob. Did he promote Belle Vue wiv Tony Just? They still had the zoo there in them days! Q jokes.

Steve.

[Guest Steve Playfair]

i remember the bomb scare!

[MartynJJ]

for many reasons but mainly because of my late dad it has to be Notts Palais circa 78 to 81

Why my dad? well he was one of the doorstaff which meant we didn't have to queue for too long, would get in about ten minutes before doors open and get the best seat by the DJ's box and I'd get to see my old man (came from a divorced family and lived with my mum). I used to love getting a wave to come forward and walk past all those in the queue smug in the knowledge we would be the first dancing feet on the floor that day

The gang of the day, blimey I have some names but they's all come and joins us on the best seats and there we would stay. I think I'll pop up a seperate where are they now thread

My other faveorite day had to be Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, in fact I'd have it over the Palais based purely on music and atmosphere

[Gilly]

What about Kirby Belars(Painted Lady)a Mr Manship promotion

[Citizen P]

I remember Martin Christie, he certainly was a character, mostly dodgy, tho u had to like him. Think he lived in Leve in the l8 70's/early 80's. Don't kno wot happened to him. Useta like the Carousel, nighters 2 were better tho, u cud buy a load of ale @ last orders & hide em under them bench seats no prob. Did he promote Belle Vue wiv Tony Just? They still had the zoo there in them days! Q jokes.

Steve.

MJC was definitely a character- non stop student throughout the '70s-better than working

His (lack of) driving skills had to be experienced

I am told that he eventually acheived his ambition, and is now a Barrister

Also, he was directly responsible for me missing Jackie Wilson at Wigan, I've still got the Scars to prove it

Tony

[Guest martyn]

What about Kirby Belars(Painted Lady)a Mr Manship promotion

That was the one in a farmyard type of place wasnt it ?

[Guest moggy]

Birmingham Locarno for me, and does anyone remember the times you could walk 30 yards over the road to Romeo & Juliets for an all nighter straight after the dayer ended great days

takes me back to my yoot

[Guest mickeyb]

Thought it was Romeo and Juliets and then the Locarno? Of course the memory ain't what it was. Romeo and Juliets was probably the scariest nighter I ever went to. The NS crowd definitely wasn't welcome as far as the Jazz Funk lot were concerned and they outnumbered us in a big way. Shame because I would have been quite happy listening to Colin etc in the plush upstairs room for an hour or two. Locarno was much better - didn't seem to be the divide when you wandered between the rooms.

Went to Pulse all dayer about 18/19 years later and realised it was the Locarno - complete head f**k.

[Nige Brown]

THE TOP RANK <<< ALBION SQUARE <<<< HANLEY Soul on Trent circa 1973

ALSO THE HEAVEY STEAM MACHINE ,,, round the corner!!!

Both Stunning All Dayers with Top Live Acts and MARTIN ELLISS in Super Top Form ,,,his Hey Day ,,, ithink!!!!

Nige B

Edited March 22, 2011 by Nige Brown

[alison]

1. the 1st ritz alldayer

2.the last reading alldayer

3.the 1st purlley alldayer

4. whitchurch 1975

5. crown heights affair blackpool mecca

Did you have to raid the loft to remember all that lot ?

[Codfromderby]

yes that revolving dance floor, remember hitting the floor to dance, came of at the end of the track walked straight up to what i thought was my pint on the table, drank it straight back and then saw all my mates 180 degrees away from me on the other side of the room, luckily the bloke whos pint i,d necked saw the funny side as he had done it earlier

oh my fave dayer was matlock bath pavillion bank holidays,

[Homage]

My very first All Dayer was Sundays at Cleethorpes Wintergardens, as a young 16 year old in early 1977, that took some beating.

But then I went to the Ritz 3rd Anniversary All Dayer on Easter Sunday 1978 and had a revelation music wise, changed my direction and life altogether I'd say....LOL!

So for me it would have to be the following:

1. The Ritz

2. Cleethorpes Wintergardens. Hard to choose between this and the Blackpool Mecca, but Cleethorpes had a more friendly together among friends/family vibe about it. Blacpool had a buzzing energy, but maybe too many competing tribes from the various UK locations who were trying to be the best on the day!

3. Blackpool Mecca All Dayers

[Gilly]

That was the one in a farmyard type of place wasnt it ?

No it was a club in the middle of nowhere with a house,spoke to the owners daughter recently,she told me it was now an housing estate.

[Guest martyn]

No it was a club in the middle of nowhere with a house,spoke to the owners daughter recently,she told me it was now an housing estate.

I know I went there after a nighter (Coalville or Hinkley Town Hall I think ) , we went there because a mate of ours (Hammy) was DJ ing with JM .I just cant remember the building at all but do remember there were chickens in the car park.....weird

[Guest Rich]

Cleethorpes Winter Gardens (which in its day, was as good as any AN imo), closely followed by Notts Palais.

Went to a few JazzFunk all-dayers in the Kent/Essex area but Purley was pretty massive - must have got 3-4000 in - but could never get my head around a lot of the music.

Also made a trip to Reading (Top Rank) which again were belters - but the music was in one main room - which did cause some grumpiness

[Arthur Fenn]

Cleethorpes, Highwaymans Halt & Todmorden for me , Arthur.

[Guest martyn]

To be honest Martyn that sums up the whole point of "our" northern scene...........we know we had lots of fun etc but...........the facts are a little..or a lot mixed up...............ONE thing is for sure we did not think(or care at the time) that we(or the scene) would last this long!! we just enjoyed ourselves

Steve

Spot on Steve , I wouldnt have had a clue that 30 odd years on I would be wishing Id have taken less drugs & more notice of what was going on around me ! ........In fact I would have thought a 51 year old listening to Northern was either DS or belonged in a mental institution

[Munchkin]

A few from Wolverhampton used to go to Tiffany's in Newcastle Under Lyme.

The Flaming Emeralds sticks in my mind from that venue.

Here's a ticket from 1978.

Also liked going to the Locarno in Birmingham - particularly after an alnighter.

lol, yeh remember, then well kev, locarno always somewhere to go to come down, also ritz, whitchurch civic, few at totw stafford too if i remember correctly...

[Munchkin]

Yes Kev. Watson Hall and Locarno were great. Many happy memories. But for me Todmorden was the only one - it was like a nighter. So many faces from all over. Remember the coach from Cheltenham New Years Day in 81 - picked up at the King Teddy in Glos and a load more got on. Everyone was hung over but by the time we got to about Frankley the vibe had changed completely. Remember Jeff Leach, Sarah Buchanan and a load of the young Cheltenham crowd - made it for me, it wasn't about it's not as good as the Torch/VaVa's/ the Cats/Wigan blah blah - they were just up for it

forgott tody(what an hill to get up), n picking mushtooms in the field across the carpark..

[Munchkin]

Same here, though I usually ended up in some sort of trouble.. Often a nice crowd of skinheads to offer help and advice on leaving the place too. Stafford Top Of The World had some good alldayers in 79 on alternate weeks to the Locarno, unfortunately I was arrested twice by the DS and decided it was probably not the best place for me to go after that.

remember this so well pete, always sticks in my mind you on the stairs telling everyone that ds were in....lol

[shelly]

Not mentioned yet, but it was one of, if not the first all dayer

76 Club Burton upon Trent, straight after the Torch

Shelly

[Vanda]

Birmingham Locarno for me, and does anyone remember the times you could walk 30 yards over the road to Romeo & Juliets for an all nighter straight after the dayer ended great days

takes me back to my yoot

I can remember the Lacarno with Romeo & Juliets straight after, loved the Lacarno also Tiffs in Newcastle Staffs and the Ritz in Manchester, Certainly not forgetting TOTW in Stafford ... Great days with fond and very funny memories

Edited April 25, 2011 by cherrylips

[Guest chrislokeh]

Me too still got my ticket,but for me it has to be the Winter Gardens Cleethorpes,it was just mad

[Harry Crosby]

HOTEL COTTAGES, BOROUGHBRIDGE, NORTH YORKS. Had a great time there,

[Mach]

My top 3

Cleethorpes winter gardens

Manc Ritz

Bensons Bradford

[Ceejay]

Dunelm House in Durham, late 70's.....................absolutely brilliant All-Dayers.............very good memories!!!

[Ernie Andrews]

went a few aldayers in the 70s but for me it has to be Manchester RITZ.

My memories ofstanding on the dance floor as the French fries played not having to move but appearing to dance as the floor went up & down is echoed in my mind along with the infamous Levine must go Badges. Look back at these times with fond memories.

[Guest]

Cant believe its not been mentioned!

The 16 hour alldayer at the Top Rank in Hanley (in 1974?) the Real Thing were on in the afternoon and they were brilliant, opened with Papa was a rollin stone behind closed curtains. Major Lance......brains a little foggy after 35 or so years.....I think Edwin Starr was also on, maybe Jnr Walker, we had done Wigan on the Saturday night and 4 hours later we were on the floor at Hanley.....what a great venue!!

Edited April 26, 2011 by Guest

[Ian Parker]

What about Kirby Belars(Painted Lady)a Mr Manship promotion

I remember getting there about 11am , because the only bus to leicester was about 10 on a sunday . Soul sam, Bub, JM and an oldies room which was no bigger than a cloak room !!

My fave all dayers without a doubt - Nottm Palais, simply because it was my first one (Feb 78) and i never missed one for the next 3 years... that was a close contest with the wonderful St Ives . what a place. hitch hike, bus, train, stolen car .... we had to get there one way or another.

[Tony Smith]

I think that was the Queens Hotel,(the posh one) Nobody mentioned (also Stafford era) the all-dayer at the roller rink-Stoke? i know Tony Smith was there ! wild day ..............Stafford? Working mens club,where Butch first started to entertain us with his cove- rups ..............and not forgetting also Stafford times...The Humming bird, The Rummer,Unicorn Club

,Coventry radio station

As many all-dayers then as niters!!

Steve

I was , though most all-dayer memories are quite foggy, I remember Guy playing Tony Gallo c/u there.

I did enjoy the Bankhall Miners Boxing Day do's, was usually part of a heavy 4-5 days of niters/dayers!

[Guest kid mohair]

CENTRAL HALL......KETTERING ....

[Paul R]

It's quite funny that the Dunkenhalgh is gonna be used to stage the Ritz reunion in July.

I remember the Dunkenhalgh in 75, I had recently been busted & was grounded from Wigan(I was only 16 going on 17). I turned up at The Dunkenhalgh and the local squad started to question me. At this, my smashed sister & her mate, fresh from Wigan, waded in and sterted to give the squad a real hard time for picking on me . Very funny at the time. Weren't the Tymes on live?. All I can remeber were tracks like "I'm Shaft" &"Who Can I Turn Too". I'm sure the second one was cancelled.

Paul

[Peter]

1. Manchester Ritz, we (Wayne & Jackie Bloe, Paul Hitchin, Douglas, Mac, Hilary Mee, Willie Hunt, NattyNeil, Alan Jackson to name but a few) all used to meet up in a pub called "Paddys Goose" at the side of Chorlton Street bus station for a few pints before the Ritz opened. We didn't miss many and the last one I went to was August Bank Hloiday 1979 with my ex wife who was 5 months pregant with my daughter.

2. Any others that fitted in on a sunday.

3. I can remember going to the Casino one Boxing Day alldayer to see Tommy Hunt we got the bus from Swinton (Manchester) and were eating christmas cake and washing it down with a large bottle of Martinit, (Urrgghh).

Edited May 1, 2011 by Peter

[Guest little glyn]

1 whitchurch

2 blackpool mecca

3 top of the world stafford,talking to major lance at the bar after his performance what a buzz !!

Edited May 1, 2011 by little glyn

[jimmy clitheroe]

Did anyone go to the all -dayers at The Golden Palms (Blackburn Mecca) in the late 70,s ?

[soulsalmon]

Went to a couple of the blackburn dayers,not bad ,very short lived werent they ?

[Guest Phoenix8049]

Only just seen this thread.

But spot on Julie,Burnley took some beating.

With the Ritz a close second.

Stu.

[Guest Phoenix8049]

Ah yes i forgot about Todmorden.

Yes they were good, But the place was only small for the amount of people they used to get in,If my memory serves me correctly.

[Guest proudlove]

Whats a memory?...............................fooked if I can remember.

[Guest in town Mikey]

Whats a memory?...............................fooked if I can remember.

WHAT DO WE WANT?

more memories

WHEN DO WE WANT 'EM?

what?

[Petedillon]

The Central, Leeds yesterday!!!

[Davetay]

Did anyone go to the all -dayers at The Golden Palms (Blackburn Mecca) in the late 70,s ?

Yes Panny. I went. :thumbsup: