I lived in Whitley Bay in the apartment of a house owned by Jimmy Bence. I have never heard of Tom Oxley, but would love to know more. Wow Rue and The Rockets have certainly filled out ! 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 My sister was the girlfriend of Gordon Cleghorn. Hi, I was in the Ken Maddison band for a number of years but when he died then Margaret I lost touch with her. We were more 18 year olds from Sunderland who found our way to the Club A Gogo hoping to meet someone to give us a lift home! Fantastic!!!!! Sad to hear about Dave passing. I briefly played guitar with the George Ricco Band, rotating between Wetherals, La Dolce Vita and the Cavendish, 1965/66, If anyone knows how to get info on the bands that played there I would be most grateful. I then returned to a normal life !!!! Id listen to the bands, be dazzled by the girls! Dusk nightclub to return to South Shields for one night only, as Like George I have been looking for pics for years. Also meeting up on Saturday at the Pit then up to the Go-Go in the afternoon, purple hearts were the thing to have instead of alcohol. Then late 1962 we changed to mods and started going to the Go-Go, and also the West End boys club. on drums (not Des Omally) and Maggie Miles vocals. My memories of that time are very hazy, I know we had good times, I just cannot remember many of them. Great band, very professional. Mum is 80 now and terminally ill with cancer. As well as the Crescendo he ran the Club Tempo in London and the Pentland Club in Edinburgh. Ironically my son is now engaged to Billy Furys great niece! Billy. Thank you. The club ran for about five years and closed around 1966. Further to my last comment, some of the regulars I remember from La Dolce Vita were The Barton Brothers (Andy and Phil), Brian Stanners, (Formula One) and Pauline Hall (Fenwicks) JT, #74. Greg Burmans speakers were legendary but were a bastard to transport and set up. Just stumbled across your website. Maybe a good starting point might be the Chronicle as I am sure that they have a library full of old photos. Whow I thought I was the bees knees. Dont know how she knew cos she had never been there!!! I know I had a great time working at many NE clubs during the late sixties and early seventies. I have a photo from The Viewer (the forefunner of the TV Times) showing a line-up of pianists and singers, Dad is on there but the only other pianist I recognise is (the much-admired, not least by my Dad) Billy Hutchinson. Brings back many memories. Absolutely loved it. #93 Roger. 2. 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. 1. Gigging in the North East 1965-1972. Real name "Northumberland Arms". The builders had only erected the wall a few days earlier HAPPY DAYS !!! Buy Tickets . it was Alfie wright who owned the Crescendo Club at Whitley Bay, not Ray Grehan, trust me I opened it Myself, Cass and Ken went down to Kings Road and came back with Leather Coats down to the ankles. Great site..lots of nostalgia. We step back for just a while to the South Shields, Jarrow, Hebburn and Boldon of four decades ago. 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. Basically we went to anywhere where Eric Burdon was! Does anyone remember seeing Dick Haymes at either La Dolce Vita or Greys & The Cavendish in the 1960s? I worked in the baileys club Bloomers in bath lane first manager was Dave abbot who went to a bailey club in Stockton second manager was Bob Duncan who after three years moved over to manage La Dolce Vita . Bars & Clubs. 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. 9 South Tyneside nightclubs and pubs we loved and lost - Shields Gazette I was born in Teesside in 1971 my Dad and Godfather had been doing the club circuit until we moved to Brighton about 73. Bars & Clubs By 688iang The range of beers and ciders is magnificent, all superbly kept by Kath and the staff. The last couple of times I've been in the beer has been very poor, I tried the Landlords bitter and old speckled hen but both were tasting dodgy. Phila. Sydney Australia. Anyone coming to the club during that period would have had to have been let in by me. 30 left on 9 February 2013. He had a son with cerebal palsy who needed to attend Prudhoe hospital on a regular basis and he felt he needed some sort of base in the north east. i was the original singer with the Gamblers when we split they joined Billy Fury, who also stole my girlfriend ! I can still remember the feeling of excitement as you stepped down each dark stair til you opened the door and the whole place came alive, with music, gorgeous people and the amazing music which never sounded the same anywhere else and still doesnt! even had chairs in the corridor of the hotel they stayed at. Tom was a regular photographer for the Bailey Organisation. I had a great time.Lots of memories. i used to be a singer and guitarist in Newcastle in the 1960s in the MAYFAIR with The Gamblers (they became Billy Furys band) i then was a singer with George Ricco on the Bailey circuit and we moved to Jim Wrights 2 rooms in gallowgate Newcastle. Has anyone out there got an actually photo of Bloomers with its name on the building been looking for years .thank you. I left England in 1966 to emigrate to Canada but still look fondly back to my younger days and great music in Newcastle. I stayed with Kim when she went solo but only again for a short time. 2 inch thick marine ply shells with heavy duty internal struts and mounting frames but man the sound was awesome, power, punch and clarity. anybody remember? He was always a dapper dresser!! Brought back a loot of memories. I later joined the Gamblers backing Billy Fury. I came up to Newcastle in 1968 when the clubs in london were on the way out. He played a vital role in its history and the history of Newcastles night life in the 60s. pm me at cmburney@outlook.com. Things started to go wrong the following year when Bob Monkhouse found out that Ronnie Markham (who later rebranded himself as the hypnotist Romark) had been helping himself to the club takings and cooking the books. He now lives in High Heaton I believe. Unfortunately I am not able to see them as I am not on Facebook. 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. If anyone has any input on my post please respond. Any comments welcomedthanks. me and me mates were rockers, wed move down to the rockliffe arms and the station hotel then the club a go go. I met my first girlfriend Yvonne there, started going to the Downbeat also Club Eleven in Sunderland with my close pal Rod. I was best friends with Pongo (Keith to me) and for a short while roady for them. The Tube being one of his projects. The club was opened on 6th February 1963 by the Levey brothers from Wallsend. My mate and I were upstairs buying hot dogs and I got ours and put plenty of Tomato sauce and Mustard on both and went to move away from the counter when a guy in a light tan suede cowboy Jacket backed into me covering his suede tassels in sauce. Im not sure what Dave does now as my dad lost touch with him. The Greg Burman Sound was resident at the Quay Club and I will never forget Greg showing me the proper way to play James Browns I Feel Good top bloke. But the Gogo was the best of them all I remember seeing Chris Farlowe, Brian Augers Trinity, Spencer Davis Group, The Family, Zoot Money, Geno Washington, Georgie Fame, Otis Redding. Pete Wallis ( ex Juncopartners and Gamblers), Re Jean McGowan, there are some photos of the inside of Bloomers nightclub on Facebook site called 70s Newcastle Nightclubs if thats a help still have not found a photo of the outside in its hey day but still looking. The Marimba opened in 1959 serving Italian food and snacks during the day at prices students could afford. old nightclubs in south shields - mail.fgcdaura.sch.ng June Viner. 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 Does anybody remember the Dolce Vita house band, a guy named Robbie was the bass player and I cannot remember the names of the drummer, organist and lead Guitarist. LA DOLCE VITA CRAZY NIGHTS!!! Does anyone remember the old New Orleans Jazz Club in Melbourne Street.the manager was Polish, Jurek.also his son, young Jurek, also his sister used to make an appearance every now and then. Any information you have would be great. could.nt aford a leather jacket I was an early mod, not wantin any botha, then bought me 1st real bike from kens on westgate road. Buy tickets from a trusted primary outlet. My favourite place ever was Scamps. My mobile no is 07580452584. A Cumbrian group Rue & The Rockets were the resident band at the Majestic for a number of years and had a massive following in Newcastle. I used to go to the Club A Gogo in 1967/1968 as a 15 year old and saw many great bands; Hendrix, John Mayall, Cream, Family and loads of others. It was originally the Clergy Jubilee School, which opened in the early part of the 19th Century, Read more about the Downbeat Club on this link. Not in the same league as the other clubs in the area, but full of the essentials of life beer, women, music and food. 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. Other people I remember from that period were Greg Burman (sound equipment), Dave Woods ( Impulse Records) and Dave Dixon and Geoff Wonfor from Tyne Tees Television.

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