Musical memories for northerners

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Accy cyclist

Accy cyclist

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I saw Slade at this place, in i think 1980.
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co....not-forgotten-blackburns-thriving-club-scene/
They were past their prime then and reduced to performing in nightclubs. They were still good live though! My main memory of seeing them at 'The Cav' is of me sticking my head in one of their hollow speakers!:ohmy: My hearing hasn't been the same since!!
 
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Blue Hills

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Accy cyclist said:
On about northern musical venues, did any of you ever go to Wigan Casino? There was a coach every Friday night from Accrington then onto Blackburn to the venue. I never went as i considered Northern Soul 'too poncy' and in a way i still do.:smile: All those baggy pants, vests, wussy 70's bouffant hairstyles, Adidas holdalls with 'Northern Soul' sew on patches, Brut aftershave etc weren't for me.:smile:
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not me - knew someone from school who went. Also someone I knew when very young went - apparently lead to a drug problem.
 
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Blue Hills

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Accy cyclist said:
I remember seeing them one Sunday night. It must've been sometime in 1978. The audience or crowd if you were into punk rock :rolleyes: started chucking beer mats at the stage. Someone must've nicked a whole box of them from out the bar as hundreds were launched at the band. Pete Shelley said in his slightly camp voice Quote... "If you lot don't stop chucking those f..k..g beer mats at us we're gonna f..k right off home"!

No more beer mats were launched at the stage after that.:smile:
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I do remember Shelley stopping and threatening to walk off - my memory was that it was about spitting/gobbing - but I may be wrong about that detail. So it could well have been the same gig. I wasn't a punk.

I saw them again years later in Clapham London but they would have been in their 30s - not quite the same - rather odd to see 30 year olds singing about teen angst.
 
Dave7

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Accy cyclist said:
At least you're honest Dave and didn't say "I saw the Beatles, Cilla, Billy J Kramer, The Searchers" etc etc when many talk about their Cavern Club 'memories'.;)
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A mate who was 2 years older did see the Beatles several times plus many other big names (of that time).
 
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Blue Hills

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CanucksTraveller said:
That's such a wonderful name, so evocative of a different era that came before the bands even. A ballroom. Wow. To have been there!
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as above there was the Hammersmith Palais ballroom - had a very long history well before I came along. Now very sadly flattened. In its latter years it was for a while even a roller skating place/possibly roller disco. Earned the label from some - skinheads on wheels.
 
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Accy cyclist said:
I saw Slade at this place, in i think 1980.
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co....not-forgotten-blackburns-thriving-club-scene/
They were past their prime then and reduced to performing in nightclubs. They were still good live though!
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They later came back though didn't they?
They were actually a damned good band - not just a teenybopper bunch - there is some fine stuff on Slade Alive - including I seem to remember a song made famous by janis joplin. Noddy Holder had a great voice.
 
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CanucksTraveller

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Slade were before my time but I've grown to love them in retrospect, Noddy is a phenomenal musician and vocalist. I recall watching The Grimleys in the 90s where he played the part of a teacher, and there were a few scenes where he'd sing. In one memorable scene he's giving life advice to a lad, then the lad's voice-over says "for some of us, the brightest days are already in the past" as Noddy looks melancholy. It cuts to him alone in the gym, playing "Cum on feel the noize" acoustically. So moving. I'd love to have seen them, past their best or not.


View: https://youtu.be/WWdwH6_Uzpc
 
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CanucksTraveller said:
Slade were before my time but I've grown to love them in retrospect, Noddy is a phenomenal musician and vocalist. I recall watching The Grimleys in the 90s where he played the part of a teacher, and there were a few scenes where he'd sing. In one memorable scene he's giving life advice to a lad, then the lad's voice-over says "for some of us, the brightest days are already in the past" as Noddy looks melancholy. It cuts to him alone in the gym, playing "Cum on feel the noize" acoustically. So moving. I'd love to have seen them, past their best or not.
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they had real roots - before the glitter - in fact very early (before my time) I seem to recall that they had a skinhead look and following.
 
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Blue Hills said:
They later came back though didn't they?
They were actually a damned good band - not just a teenybopper bunch - there is some fine stuff on Slade Alive - including I seem to remember a song made famous by janis joplin. Noddy Holder had a great voice.
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This was the track I was thinking of - Move Over - turns out that it was probably from the Slayed album.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzl5MPelgc


No idea if they did at when I saw them at King George's Hall - I was pretty young.

Never quite understood why Noddy packed in the singing.
 
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