Early Disco/ Ruff 15. Used to throw everyone out at 11.59pm and re-open again a minute after midnight to get around the licensing laws. Monte Carlo was never a night club. It was a working mans café frequented by skinheads. It wasn't open very late on a night time either. Monte Carlo didn't last long, maybe 18 months at the most, about the same time as the skinhead fad. Malcolms was the 'in' night club during the Monte Carlo days, followed by 'Highfields or Bulliens' as it was called on the corner of Witham/Holderness Road. No mentions of Baileys, Kestrel, Romeo's, Mecca or Bali High.
Anyone remember Audrey who worked behind the bar in Queens? Her daughter Mandy also worked there and also in Reflections.
I saw a lot of those too, must have crossed paths with you a lot back in the day. Cerys was/is a favourite of mine, glad she still pops up in the media now- can remember her clearly swigging from two bottles of lager during that gig think she was fairly pissed throughout!
Frank was the landlord of St Johns, which has already been pointed out. Now living in Cyprus, allegedly. Monte Carlo Café shouldn't even be on this list because it wasn't a night club. It was on the corner of Midland Street and Osbourne Street ?, opposite where Age Concern is today. It used to be a pub.
Wasn't Cheese some boring pub that nobody ever went to when they did a tour of town. Then it got done up and it was really popular. It was only later that it got rough.
small world - I got two or three of their drumsticks when they hit the cymbals and rebounded into the audience and a couple of bullets out of overend watts guitar strap
I went to a late night coffee club in the Old Town when I was about 17 and I met a woman in her 30s who said she'd meet me in Vicky's later. I'd never been but she said get a cab and ask for Vicky's. I went with my mate and we sat down having a coffee. This guy came over and started chatting. My friend said something to him and he said: "Who's talking to you?". My mate got up and went to the toilets. I realised what this guy was up to so I followed my mate into the toilet. Then this guy came in so we both went into a cubicle and this guy was banging on the door. Eventually he left. I said to my mate we should stick together. We'd be safe like that. My mate said OK. We went out the toilets and straight away this guy came up to us and my mate bolted for the exit! I followed him and we both got outside. Luckily, the woman I'd met earlier turned up in a cab and got out. My mate got in the cab and escaped and me and this woman went back into Vicky's. She told me to ask for a bottle of vodka. The guy who was chasing us wasn't seen again.
Oasis used to be our last part of call on the 90s Bev Rd pub crawl.. that or Instutute or Pepys.. (was on dockside don't think it lasted long)
