Aberdeen Pubs And Clubs Of The 80S

[Simply Red]

2 minutes ago, RedArmyFakshun said:

Gil Scott Heron was a top gig.  Half man half biscuit in the early days also

Gil Scott Heron gig in the 2000s? Postponed cos of the volcano in Iceland, that een? 

[RedArmyFakshun]

Just now, Simply Red said:

Gil Scott Heron gig in the 2000s? Postponed cos of the volcano in Iceland, that een? 

nah this was around 86 or 87

after that he was banned from the uk for quite a while on a coke bust

[RedArmyFakshun]

The Station Hotel also had some primo gigs back in the day

Spacemen 3, the Shamen, the Meteors

 

[Ke1t]

22 minutes ago, RedArmyFakshun said:

The Station Hotel also had some primo gigs back in the day

Spacemen 3, the Shamen, the Meteors

 

Participated in a furious bottling (plastic beer glassing) of The Shamen at The Venue back in the day. 

Either we simply weren't ready for their brand of brilliant electronic music, or they were shite... I can't remember which... 

Regardless, they would go on to be a top act, despite that setback. 

For some reason I have almost perfect clarity in remembering the circumstances of Sid Ozalid also being bottled (plastic beer glassed) off the stage after about 30 seconds. 

Comes on stage in a Hawaiian Shirt, carrying a trumpet, and proceeds to say, and I quote... "Everybody GET DOWN! Now GET UP AGAIN! Now GET A LITTLE BIT SIDEWAYS!"

At which point the crowd turned on him... Goths are not tolerant of, nor patient towards, acts of blatant frivolity... and that was Sid's 30 seconds on stage at The Venue. 

He went on to be a poet of some repute, apparently, and is still at it... if that's your thing... while I am no longer a Goth. 

So... Sid won that one. 

 

[chief_wiggum]

Used to go into the Balmoral Lounge for a couple of lunchtime pints when I worked in a garage on Chapel Street. Got a bad pint one time (honest!) had to sprint to the door and projectile vomited across the pavement then walked down to the zebra crossing  and while I'm crossing violently throwing up what seemed to be 10 feet in front of myself, (like the David Walliams racist woman in Little Britain) same all the way up Chapel Street... Never returned

[RAZOR]

14 hours ago, Captain Caveman said:

Amadeus was for folk who didn’t know what proper clubbing was. 

I'm only young enough for the U18 nights they used do to so probably true enough.

Happy to sneak in a 1/4 quarter bottle of vodka and split it between 6.

Used to enjoy the nights back in the day.

 

[Studebaker-90]

2 minutes ago, RAZOR said:

I'm only young enough for the U18 nights they used do to so probably true enough.

Happy to sneak in a 1/4 quarter bottle of vodka and split it between 6.

Used to enjoy the nights back in the day.

 

Was shut by the time I was going to those. Hotstepper, min. 

[ericblack4boss]

Bad mobby , will recall the Alford person making a hoax 999 call to fire service saying Ramadam was on fire

[dazzy_deff]

6 hours ago, RAZOR said:

I'm only young enough for the U18 nights they used do to so probably true enough.

Happy to sneak in a 1/4 quarter bottle of vodka and split it between 6.

Used to enjoy the nights back in the day.

 

CLUB FRUITY!!! Had to hand in your chewing gum at the door. 

[ericblack4boss]

12 hours ago, Bad_Mobby said:

I will accept that!!!

[redone]

Ritzy .....unlikely venue for one of the best gigs I went to back in the day .... The Redskins.

Hoachin wi nurses (female) and other potential victims just there for a Thursday night oot rather than any show of solidaririty for the miners.

[cheesepipes]

Ritzys changed to Bonkers before settling on The Palace. 

Im just glad i grew up going to Rock/indie/rave nights at a club called Bonkers. 

[NEM]

1 minute ago, cheesepipes said:

Ritzys changed to Bonkers before settling on The Palace. 

Im just glad i grew up going to Rock/indie/rave nights at a club called Bonkers. 

Showing your age, was the Palace when I started going into toon. Monthly Love Child being a highlight of my youth 

[cheesepipes]

10 minutes ago, NEM said:

Showing your age, was the Palace when I started going into toon. Monthly Love Child being a highlight of my youth 

We probably bumped into each other, mumbled "im fucked min" put our hands on our knees for a few seconds to compose ourselves then disappeared in opposite directions, finger pointing the DJ. 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Was that the one maybe halfway down Windmill brae or the one round the corner past the pizza place towards bridge st?

[styrofoamplates]

1 hour ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Was that the one maybe halfway down Windmill brae or the one round the corner past the pizza place towards bridge st?

The one round the corner. Opposite Riley’s. 
Became Liquid after The Palace and fuck knows what else after that. 

[NEM]

1 hour ago, Bad_Mobby said:

Brilliant nights, never attended work the day after those babies 

Had my first dalliance with Ketamine in there (when 2 off my mates got a taxi to hospital lol) 

I was still at College but the Monday after a Love Child was a guaranteed Torry holiday (for dozens, if not 100's of folk) ?

[cheesepipes]

Calling in sick from the Schooner lavvies. 

[Guest milne_afc]

Love Child was bank holidays anyway, no?

[NEM]

43 minutes ago, milne_afc said:

Love Child was bank holidays anyway, no?

It was once a month so only some of them were bank holidays.  Killed it when they started doing them every week

[Ke1t]

7 hours ago, cheesepipes said:

Ritzys changed to Bonkers before settling on The Palace. 

Im just glad i grew up going to Rock/indie/rave nights at a club called Bonkers. 

Believe it was Ritzy's where we once saw The Damned, of all places. 

Puzzlingly, the lead singer of Nervous Choir kept screaming "Sham 69!" over and over at Vanian between every song. 

Eventually a dear, dear friend of mine, and a wonderful human being who valued dialogue over violence always, went over to the lead singer of nervous choir and had a wee chat with him, after which the lead singer of Nervous Choir chose to stop screaming "Sham 69".

Nervous Choir weren't bad, in the main. 

80's were a terrific time for local bands in Aberdeen.

To be honest, I'd have put money on Toxic Ephex being the big break out band, rather than Annie Lennox. 

Anyone remember an Aberdeen sado-metal band called 'Laz-her'?

Seem to recall seeing them play, and thinking, "This must be what it was like for British soldiers captured by the Japanese during the war."

 

 

 

[Guest milne_afc]

47 minutes ago, NEM said:

It was once a month so only some of them were bank holidays.  Killed it when they started doing them every week

You’re right. I’ve nae idea where my bank holiday theory comes from. And I certainly dinna remember it going weekly - what a stupid idea.

 

[ericblack4boss]

3 hours ago, cheesepipes said:

Calling in sick from the Schooner lavvies. 

I used to work with a guy was on the door there

[ericblack4boss]

Surely just me went in the Argo bar, 

I remember one time we took lad wet behind the ears there 

He wore thick Nhs glasses, we thought that it would be fun to watch the  go go dancers pick on him,

Backfired lucky bastard got his head buried in tits , 

 

 

[Ke1t]

47 minutes ago, Bad_Mobby said:

Always enjoyed DC’s company 

Is there anyone in Aberdeen who doesn't have a Dod story?

A stand out character of the era. 

 

[RedArmyFakshun]

23 minutes ago, Ke1t said:

A stand out character of the era. 

True that

Spotted him once on the car deck on a ferry, he was retrieving a bike, tartan bondage troosers being the dead give away

TOXIK EPHEX !!  shouted i down the booming hallway

I guess you had to be there

[cheesepipes]

1 hour ago, milne_afc said:

You’re right. I’ve nae idea where my bank holiday theory comes from. And I certainly dinna remember it going weekly - what a stupid idea.

 

They started out as Bank Holiday weekend events. 

 

Got popular, was fucking ace, went regular and turned shit. 

 

[cheesepipes]

2 hours ago, Ke1t said:

Believe it was Ritzy's where we once saw The Damned, of all places. 

Puzzlingly, the lead singer of Nervous Choir kept screaming "Sham 69!" over and over at Vanian between every song. 

Eventually a dear, dear friend of mine, and a wonderful human being who valued dialogue over violence always, went over to the lead singer of nervous choir and had a wee chat with him, after which the lead singer of Nervous Choir chose to stop screaming "Sham 69".

Nervous Choir weren't bad, in the main. 

80's were a terrific time for local bands in Aberdeen.

To be honest, I'd have put money on Toxic Ephex being the big break out band, rather than Annie Lennox. 

Anyone remember an Aberdeen sado-metal band called 'Laz-her'?

Seem to recall seeing them play, and thinking, "This must be what it was like for British soldiers captured by the Japanese during the war."

 

 

 

Fud Rot never made it onto Top of the Pops. 

 

Real shame. 

[Ke1t]

TE had a tune, I DONT WANT A BOMB IN MY BACK GARDEN, which a chum of mine thought was hilarious to roar in response, "WELL FUCKIN' MOVE!" each and EVERY time it was sung.

EVERY fucking time.

 

[Misers Hill]

46 minutes ago, Ke1t said:

TE had a tune, I DONT WANT A BOMB IN MY BACK GARDEN, which a chum of mine thought was hilarious to roar in response, "WELL FUCKIN' MOVE!" each and EVERY time it was sung.

EVERY fucking time.

 

ACAB....bump.....Try Blitz....?...loves ehs markies cheese