They didn't hold out that long. Appeared on it January 1967. Think it was more a case of them not being asked. Managed to upset people and get loads of publicity for refusing to stand on that revolving stage at the end waving to people.
The upside was people actually went out to socialise. And parents, and later work, couldn't keep track of you.
Outside ABC was another meeting point (just across the road from the blue box) Oh the times I got stood up outside ABC I was once accosted there by a couple of lasses from the 'Moonies' when I was a teenager and invited to join them at their house just near Pearson Park. I thought there would be sex involved but they just tried to get me to join. Waste of a night that was..
Did you see It Was Alright In The 60s the other night? Worth watching for the difference in attitudes. And how some modern comedians didn't get things as they look at everything from today's perspective, especially the famous song with Millicent Martin and the Black And White Minstrels. Anyway, there is a clip of the Stones in it. I was in that crowd, it was the second time they had appeared there. The following Thursday Little Richard was on. (Promoted by Don .Robinson who made a fair few bob, more than the council did with the Stones which upset them). Best act I ever saw. Those were the days!
I saw that. The modern comedians (most I had never heared of) seemed to have had a humour by - pass. It'll be interesting to see if any of their work stands the test of time. Unlikely as it seems to have failed in the short term.
I thought it was me DMD as regards so called comedians these days, Harry Hill???, Alan Carr???, Michael McIntyre??? Frankie Boyle??? Lee Mack ??? need I go on none and I mean none could ties the laces of Dave Allen, Billy Connelly, Bob Monkhouse, Dennis Norden, Frank Muir and others, and as for the women none had the cutting edge of Joan Rivers, today they are humourless, devoid of irony and scared of upsetting the status quo, hopeless in other words.
May so OLM but none of todays comedians make me laugh and believe me I had tried to watch some of the stuff on TV but I find it purile in the extreme.
Alan Carr seems to appear quite often at Hull City Hall so I assume he is quite popular although on TV his style doesn't impress me, and yes OLM my age does come into it as I know PC is a bugbear which old time commedians didn't have to worry about, Dave Allen relentlessly took the mick out of the Catholic Church which I'm not sure would be permitted today but there again he took the mick out of anyone.
It was the way they missed the point. Especially regarding theMillicent Martin number. The shock, horror at the use of the N...... word showed they had completely missed the point. It was a cutting dig st the American South and its attitudes. Quite brave in those days of cosy entertainment. I remember watching it as a thirteen year old and the impact it had. Singing about hanging an African American from the nearest branch wouldn't have had the same resonance. Equally ridiculous was the reaction to the clip of the first night of BBC2 (which was hilarious as things went wrong) when the sound came in just as he was quoting what a bus conductress had been sacked for saying to a Pakistani. An Asian lass seemed most put out just because the words were used, ignoring the context. Most remarkably the point of the report was that the bus conductress, who had been sacked for her actions, had been reinstated because of representations and threats of action by her union. That wouldn't happen nowadays.
On Spring Bank West was a large cinema - the Priory,[2][20] from 1938 to 1959, since used as retail premises. What is this building used for now? When I lived near there is was a supermarket (Kwic Save?) with a video shop on the corner. I'd been told it had been a cinema in it's day.
I saw the original Star Wars at the ABC and I have a vague recollection of watching the Death Star destruction scene which pretty surprising as I was 4 in 1977. The last film I saw in there was Roger Rabbit which can't have been that long before it closed for good. Wasn't there a hole in the wall burger place on the corner called Bun in the Oven? and a British Gas show room on the far corner?
