Seen all those bands live except the Sex Pistols. Siouxsie and the Banshees was another favourite. In Bristol and Bath these bands could be seen it felt like weekly. Different now.
Tougher crowds tougher gigs and often kicked off. As a young kid nobody touched me stayed at the back it was the safest place. What went on back in the day would be front page news now. Part of the ride it wasnt the Carpenters. brilliant days not costing a fortune unlike todays bands charging £50 a ticket and more and we are looking at you Massive Attack!!!!
I do remember the Pogues playing at the Locarno and there were hundreds of BCFC fans there, the Pogues finished their set and came back on for an encore and had the misfortune to play goodnight Irene and the place was trashed and they had to quickly make an escape from the stage.
There was a time in he 60's where we could see bands almost weekly. During that era went Mondays to the Bath Pavillion - Ike and Tina Turner, Arthur Brown, Equals, Amen Corner etc and Thursdays in the Locarno - The Foundations, Marmalade etc. Best was the Stones at Longleat a bit earlier.
Saw the Damned at the locarno and at the same time Robin Cousins was doing a show in Silver blades it kicked off outside with City and Rovers and the battle went through Silver blades doors onto the ice. Wonder what the reviews were like???
During the early sixties all of my music was on 45's and one of my favourites was Eddie Cochrane who I saw in Bristol at the Hippodrome - and we all know the rest of the sad story, and not many years after I took my now wife to watch Gene Vincent (Eddie's co-traveller) in Woolwich. Great time to be around with such great music and musicians.
I gave my daughter over 200 45's quite a few EP's one was the dr WHO & DIALEKS! and over 50 LP's all in reasonable condition
£50 is cheap I paid well over £120 per ticket to see both ELO at the O2 and the final Black Sabbath gig at the Genting in Birmingham. This is all due to the way that 20,000 capacity venues sell out 1 second after they put tickets on sale as they allow the likes of Ticketmaster and ENTS24 to block buy huge sections of the arenas to sell on to joe public at a 200% - 300% profit The government need to get a handle on this shady practice, it's a disgrace.
I was Queen mad. Favourite albums in no particular order would have been , A Night at the Opera, A day at the races , Shear Heart Attack, Queen II , and Queen, oh and News of the world. I also was mad about Buddy Holly, (although I tended to keep quiet about it at the time) I also liked Ramones, Clash, Undertones, Elvis Costello , Madness , ELO amongst many others .
A few of you mentioned the Locarno - where was that? I’m assuming you don’t mean the Locarno in Swindon? The abandoned building is just up the road from me and many headliner bands played there in the 1960s and 1970s including the Beatles, the Stones and the Kinks. Sadly the place is falling down - it’s a ‘protected’ building , so the local council won’t let anyone develop it. It’s been empty since before I moved here in 1997 and it’s caught fire twice. It’ll eventually become so unsafe that it’ll have to be demolished - just like all the rest of the architecture that was half decent in this town ffs. https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14768856.its-now-or-never-for-the-locarno/
The Locarno was in the same block as Bristol's ice skating rink in the new Bristol centre in Frogmore Street.
many happy memories of the locarno on a monday night in the early seventies and the bloody awful double diamond beer.
uuuuuuuuuuurgh Double Diamond … used to drink Simmonds bitter ale, trouble was it was in bottles and 4 bottles cost as much / more than 3 pints! In the early days say 70 onward? did they ony have the one brew... or was there a courage? bitter? cant place it as being on sale …. because would likely not bought bottles ...
ACDC - High Voltage ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees Status Quo - Blue For You Jefferson Starship - Spitfire Eagles - Hotel California yeh thats 6 but they are all good
