Apparently they did, though I went and don't remember them being on, I must still have been in New York for their set.
This thread is like walking back to my youth, a gold mine of memories and information, thanks to all the contributers. Can I save this individual thread or are there copyright rules or something legalistic, and how would I do it anyway?
Amazing. Once read an interview with McCartney where said he got the inspiration for 'Let em in' from a gig he'd done in Hull.
It was also called Early Disco. It had no late license so it used to chuck out at midnight and re-open at 5 minutes past.
Just happened to be spending one Friday night in the luxurious surroundings of Queens Gardens nick, early 70's You could get yourself locked up for the night in those days for wearing Doc Martens. About 2.00 am there was a lot of loud screaming, threats, banging and shouting, someone was getting a good kicking. When the jam sandwich and cold mug of tea breakfast arrived questions were asked about the previous nights kerfuffle. Copper said 'It was Ray Harvey' We were told later that Ray had been beaten up in his cell by a local wino who was twice Ray's age. And gullible as we were ( I wasn't alone in getting locked up) we believed the duty sergeants story. Ray Harvey had a huge reputation in Hull during my youth. He must have gained it somewhere.
Bit if a late comment on a 9 year old thread (!) but someone on here must be able to help our fading memories! When Bierkeller closed (1980 ish?) what did it become before it became Hitchcock’s? I’ve read Montagues but none of us recall that. Actually trying to remember what it was in 1987? Google failed..,not sure why I didn’t ask here first. Cheers
During the 1970s the Bishop Lane Club catered for the younger market and was known amongst other things as “Temptations” and the more memorable “Bier Keller” which it remained until the late 1970s. By the end of the 1970s (1980?) No.1 and No.2 High Street were part of a group of buildings, which also included the former Dunwell’s Forge next door on High Street. Under the name of Montagues Club, the former front building of the former Dunwell’s Forge had become the “Forge Bar”, with the disc jockey sat directly in front of the old forge chimney. Above this in former offices was a wine bar that had its entrance from the tunnel entrance to Stewart’s Yard. The main entrance to Montagues was via No.1 Bishop Lane whilst the “downstairs dancefloor” was the former No.2 Bishop Lane, the original entrance to No.2 being used as a fire escape. Montagues had gone by the end of the 1980s and the “Hull Food Restaurant” took over after vacating their former premises in Charles Street in 1991. Source: https://www.paul-gibson.com/streets-and-architecture/bishop-lane.php And then Bruce took it over.
I score a respectable 4/8, though I must have been in Royal Oak once. Waterhouse Lane I think, behind the shop that began with a W...Witnessed a punch up between two bald men fighting over a comb and a prosie...Quite funny, looking back. Silhouette on SB had a cracking dance floor in the basement and the music was a bit Indie for the day..Liked it in there. Always a decent Saturday night. Ocean owner/manager/doorman Mike had a side kick from overseas who once nicked my 50p entrance fee off the counter...I would have loved to have cracked the little $hit, but never went back in.... Seem to recall a coffee club on Dagger Lane that was in a bombed out building that remanded from the blitz.
Didn't Macca do a tour in a camper van and just rocked up at odd venues, usually university halls without any warning, found the entertainments geezer and persuaded him/her to let them play and did a gig for his beer money. With Linda and Denny Laine and Henry McCulloch or someone.
The early Wings played at Hull University and stopped at the Newland Park Hotel across the road, now a pub. Someone mentioned Ocean 11 club, Witham. I was there New Years Eve 1970, it was a regular late night haunt in those days. Dark dingy place, with a lot of little rooms leading off each other, but it was somewhere to go late at night for us young 'uns. We never had any money so I cannot see how it made a profit. Another place was Penny Farthing, which was in a basement of buildings on Spring Bank across road from Disc Discovery. It was a late night coffee bar, which as a 16 year old at the time was fasinating to me and my mate. We always believed they served alcohol illegally but we could never afford any. It was the haunt of the very late crowd, prostitutes, West Indians, visiting seamen and the eccentric of Hull. There was a similair place called Pink Flamingo, this was in a house ( or appeared to be) on Londesbourgh Street, just neat the junction where the walkway to the stadium is today. Always had a couple of West indian blokes on the door and me and my mate ( we used to sneak out of our houses late at night to go to these places) never managed to gain entry. Saw some glamourous woman ( to us anyway) getting out of taxis there. You could smell the perfume, beer and tobacco on them from 50 yards. Another one was Early Disco, which was on Whitefriargate, down a passageway under the Lantern restaurant. This was early 70's and the haunt of the mods in the town centre, tamla motown and soul music. the odd thing was they used to throw every one out at midnight and let you all back in five minutes later. It also had a bar football game in one of the back rooms. Don't remember it lasting long. One lasting memory of those days and the summer of 1970, besides Mungo Jerry 'In the Summertime' playing everywhere was the Monte Carlo Cafe on Midland Street corner, Stevie Wonder blasting away from behind the counter and the 'owner' Mohammed, or Hamed? dancing to himself whilst making us fried egg sandwiches! Pin ball machine in the corner, the sun shining through the leaded light windows and the door open to the hustle and bustle outside. It was a skinhead haunt, an exciting place to be and to be seen, when all it was in reality was an old pub converted into a greasy spoon caff, but it caught the essence of the time and what it was like to be a teenager and to be the city centre of Hull, which seemed a wonderous, pulsating, lively place compared to what it is today.
I went to that concert to see Wings - climbed in through a window opened by some accommodating students - I also remember popping into Penny Farthing with a couple of my mates as we were walking home on early morning - what a total dump - I remember signing my name in and looked who else was there - some one called D Duck and someone called M Mouse
D.Duck and M.Mouse could well have been me and my mate. The old memory does play tricks obviously but I remember it as exciting edgy place where you needed your wits about you, remember we were kids of 15/16 and our parents thought we'd gone to bed! I used to sneak out of the bedroom window, lived in a maisonette and slept on the ground floor, then meet my mate on the corner of Orchard Park Road, who'd done the same trick. It probaby was a **** hole and Hull City centre was really like Withernsea on a wet Tuesday night in February but it was like Las Vegas to us. Broadway pub on Ferensway was like the Ritz, we couldn't wait for a Friday to get in there and see all your mates in their new gear, all bought on club cheques, or knocked off from Arthur Masons on Carr Lane, and with City to come on the Saturday, remember 70/71? Watney Cup, Terry Neill, big crowds, Waggy and Chilton almost in thier prime? It was a great time to be alive
