... other than because I wanted to post it. I was looking for a piece of music and came across this link to Rock City. It's a list of bands who've played there so I had a look at my first ever night on the door, Duran Duran July 1981. It was easy, 2,000 excited girls willing to do anything to get past the security on the dressing room area, me Roll on to the Saturday and I was back for a group I'd never heard of, Rose Tattoo. Cue 2,000 bikers, skinheads, mohicans and around 50 Hells Angels .... ... oh shyte!!! An absolutely insane night of fighting on the dance floor, group going mental and an after-gig party with more booze, drugs and half naked girls than I'd ever seen. Over the next 15 years I worked there, with a few gaps, and saw some of the best bands on the planet. Not only that I went straight from my day job, shared their catering and met some incredible characters. Everything from playing pool with Clare Grogan to shoving Ian Gillan's manager in a speaker cabinet for two hours. Great memories I doubt anyone else is interested in but I just fancied posting the thread, https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/music-nightlife/rock-city-definitive-list-every-2428261
The lead singer was absolutely mental mate. It was my second night and the atmosphere was toxic, the group has a big Hells Angel following and we had them from Wolverhampton, Kent, etc as well as our locals, Ashfield. The group destroyed the dressing room and fought with their own roadies. I was terrified tbh.
Angry Anderson. One of the nicest blokes you'll meet in real life, does so much for charities. They launched an album "Beats from a single drum" and i had it on pre order. Went into the record shop the day before it was being released on the shelves and they'd come in and the guy let me take it because i was there. Following day they were all pulled off the shelf and the sleeves changed as the band had broken up. Most of those sleeves say "Beats From A Single Drum - Angry Anderson" Mine says "Beats From A Single Drum - Rose Tattoo" Edit: looks like there's a few of them out there so i'm not as lucky as i'd always thought
Nice story mate, I love stuff like that. I'm grinning mate because it's all coming back to me, Angry Anderson that's the fella .... as Aussie as a kangaroos ball sack. I remember him having a row with a lad called Frank from Wolverhampton Hells Angels. Frank had the HA death's head tattooed on his tongue and Angry was telling him it wasn't properly done ... ... ffs man, I was on edge all night, nearly jacked the job in. To top it off the local HA thought I was an infiltrator from Nottm drug squad ..... I did a great job of acting Mr Cool but couldn't wait to get out of there.
yeah, "Suddenly" which is why the album was re released as his first solo album My favourite album of theirs is "Scarred for Life"
I used the pronoun "her" to refer to Clare Grogan. That in itself denotes I was referring to a female. I think you need to see an optician if you can't see that or failing that an English teacher
Drove pop stars around for a few years doing gigs all over Europe. It’s amazing how much females throw theirselves at you when they see a laminate around your neck and find out you have some access behind doors. One of the funnier stories I came across was when I was on tour with jethro Tull, didn’t particularly liked Ian Anderson as he was a ****a but some of their music was class. One of my good mate was a roadie and Anderson was always having a go at for one reason or another, this one night they were playing in a town just outside of plzen and as usual he had a go at my mate who had had enough of him by this time so he went to the bogs and took his rack of flutes and penny whistles. After he had a piss he wiped every one of the mouth pieces of his instruments then placed the rack in its position on stage, sure enough Anderson used everyone of them throughout the night without knowing what happened until the next day. My mate got the sack for it but he said it was payback for all the **** he had off him throughout the tour. Doesn’t sound funny but you had to be there. Sort of payback for me also as I made a mistake on one of the colours on the lights one night and Anderson never had me doing the job again, I was relegated to clicking on the doors. still got £10 an hour for it. Lol
I once heard a story about Rock City, where a doorman saved the life of a punter by gaffer taping him to a chair and using said gaffer tape to stick his wound together.
That was me mate, or at least it was a few of us. I posted the whole story on RTG. It was in the days before we learned that blood carries all kinds of mad lurgies.
