Corn Exchange/Bamboo Club/Dug Out.

Cheers Wiz, amazing to see roads with just a few cars.
8.34 in the video is the exact car I passed my test in, a Ford Anglia Estate.
Are we old or what !

 

Yes you are

 

This was the sort we had to look forward on our night outs

 

Amazing how different the streets look without all the cars. I work in Clifton, some of this was a stones throw from my office

Catching up on a few posts.

I think that the club on Anchor Road was called Le Mans (or Le Mons) and then Martells at one point, went there a few times and seem to remember it had a lot of mirrors and I think an episode of Only Fools was filmed there when Del Boy and Rodney went drinking (might have been Arnos Court though, it's a bt hazy)

Did frequent The Alex Club once or twice back in the day (it is now called Luna). I seem to remember that this had mirrored pillars as well. Some of my younger workmates stuck their noses in the door after our Christmas meal last month on our way back to Queens Road from Clifton Village but didn't stay more than a couple of minutes. Not the best apparently (not that it ever was)....

 

Not forgetting.....The Granary.

http://www.thegranaryclub.co.uk/

 

Now we are talking, saw one of Maiden's early gigs there, can't put my finger on the year but it was just before my mate's first wife's 18th (when she had her first perm). This is relevant as before then, she had hair down to her bum and when she started head banging, we had to make a 5 foot clearance zone because anyone who encroached was liable to get their head chopped off...

Saw early Leppard as well (I am fairly sure it was The Granary but again, it's a bit hazy) and I am very lucky to have one of those early pressings of the debut EP, "Getcha Rocks Off", the one that sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a biscuit tin but, what a ****ing belter of a track it was....!

 

The Locarno from the first floor balcony...

 

The place on Gloucester Road may have been Millards at the top of Pig Sty Hill...? they sold (and still do) just about every spare part known to man

 

I had my Stag do in there! A brilliant night.

 

Was that pre Rick Allen's accident? Fantastic loyalty on behalf of the band to wait for him to learn to drum one armed.

I saw Maiden on the Number of the Beast tour but that was in Colston hall, the first album with Bruce Dickinson.

 

I used to catch the coach from Chew Magna at 6:30 every morning, do a days electronics lectures with Daldry, Suggs or Conlon, then get back to Chew Magna for 6pm just in time to change for my evening shift at the Dundry Inn (it was very popular in those days). I was too knackered to do any study.
I ended up bunking off and using the coach as a free trip to the Cabot Bar.
Wasted a year of my life - didn't even experience the funny ***s or dodgy women - just fatigue, poverty and misery.

 

Yep, Rick still had both arms when I saw him and DiAnno was still front man for Maiden

 

Done the jazz festival a few times, never really liked it (other than Acker of course) until bizarrely, me and the Mrs ended up in Ronnie Scott's one night at about 3am after wandering aimlessly around London after a show (we were staying in the Shaftsbury Hotel). Came out of there as the sun was coming up to spy a queue forming to get in a club at about 5.30/6am...?!