ot is it true

my wife has just told me the hammersmith palais has been demolished
tell me it aint true
so many drunken happy times in there

Wednesday night grab a granny night.. ahh the memories..(Pauline from bandon)
underage drinking
false id


first ever concerts
blow monkeys followed weeks later by the pogues

 

Yes good memories there kiwi a long time ago.

 

rep
even though you now make me feel old

 

Sadly it is true - been gone a few years now. Very sad. My Grandparents met in their during the war.

 

I have no idea what you are talking about but it sounds good ............... so rep, for you!
( well I tried ............ blo_ody thing is out of bullets again )

 

Ahh those were the days...pub crawl down Chiswick High Road, starting in the Old Packhorse and ending in the pub on the corner of Hammersmith roundabout (can´t remember the name but not the IRA pub). Getting in the Palais having a top night dancing to Kool and the Gang and trying to grab the attention of the backing singers of ´Luna Park´. Tensions running high at the end of the night nearly always fighting going on outside....stagger to the N97 bus stop via the burger place nearby.
Sunday morning up at 9.00 to play footie over Dormers Wells. Those were the dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz RIP HP

 

Oh it was you was it? ... I always used to ignore the groupies ... Wasn't you the one who danced a little stiff?

Get your Mobiles and Laptops out ... it's in-play time:

[video=youtube;48kbF4jc84w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48kbF4jc84w[/video]

 

My first trip to London in the 80s I went to the National(?) in Kilburn. Mayhem! Drunken Paddies everywhere. How I got out alive I still don't know.

 

I saw siouxsie, the cramps, pig bag, soft cell, the slits, the clash, and some others there, how sad

 

The blow monkeys - was that your pet name for Pauline from Bandon?

 

Shame, had some good times there apparently!

 

I remember being in there many, many years ago.

It is all a hazy alcoholic blur.

 

Because they knew that you were a Kerryman and nobody bur no body bugs the lads from the Kingdom

 

no
she had a different name
chopper or Raleigh or maybe bmx

 

Dormers wells...500 or so from my house.....so you must have played against Milford Rangers, Sandgate etc...?

The barmaid who worked for my old man in our pub was the admin sec when it became "Le Palais" so every week for 6 years or so I was comp on the guest list plus 9.

free night out every Saturday.

before then, back in the days of the old palais, orig it was the biggest dance floor in London, had the revolving stage and then became a notorious haunt for some very seedy characters.
spent many nights in there pissed, then getting a cab from the burger bar just on the corner & debating where we were gonna "run the cabbie" from...Ravenor park a favourite!!
Also worked the door in The Clarendon (remember it?), which used to be just across the road on the roundabout. dodgy pub but some ok live bands. Always a laugh and then the short stroll to the golden gloves...
Happy days!

 

Many a time had to buy
a shirt from the firemen next door to get in
things you do when pissed

 

I feel there's a party you and I shud be at