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I'm struggling to remember the exact year, but early 80's, maybe 83 or 84.
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Trouble / violence at gigs.
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FalmerforAll!**
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Was at The Twang gig, wasn't that bad at all. Over reaction from the bouncers by all accounts.
Remember it going right off outside The King Blues at Komedia back in 2008. They were a great bad.
Ok ta, I was curious because I'm from Brighton and I've never heard of a mob from Edward St flats.
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smudge
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It became a bit of a saga, ending up with 2 brothers from Lewes taking things probably a bit too far after some of the Brighton lads had been in the Rainbow Tavern back bar & robbed the till after pepper spraying the landlady. The retribution occured up at the previously mentioned flats up Edward St. I believe the lads from Edward St were WSF. It got very nasty.
Back on topic, The Piranhas in Dicks Bar was preceeded by marvellous scenes against Donny!
St johns mountBrighton boys club ?
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DR
Sounds about right.
Some of the original WSF went to the Brighton Boys Club in Edward St.
Talking of The Piranhas, they used to play in The Buccaneer pub basement ( now Audio Club??) on some Sunday evenings,
this was 1978/79, I tagged along with some older lads from the area in Brighton where I lived, they didn't tell me about the 'Teds' pub we had to walk/run past until it was too late.
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I was there at the same time on those Sunday nights, with Mr PPF!
Brilliant times back before The Piranhas reached the charts, remember a mod type of band called Chicane that supported them?
Was Das there too
brighton bluenose
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Brilliant times back before The Piranhas reached the charts, remember a mod type of band called Chicane that supported them?
Was Das there too
Used to go and see the Pirahnas regularly back then - good times! And a couple of my pals were in Chicane too!
I thought Chicane were a very good band, did they split up late 70s or early 80s? I don't remember hearing much about them after the Buccaneer days.
smudge
Up the Albion!
Brilliant times back before The Piranhas reached the charts, remember a mod type of band called Chicane that supported them?
Was Das there too
Yes, Das was there, now PPF! One band name I'll never forget from those days, the Lil-Lets. I used to like Nicky & the Dots out of all those Vaultage bands back then.
The Piranhas nights at The Bucaneer were great though.
brighton bluenose
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I thought Chicane were a very good band, did they split up late 70s or early 80s? I don't remember hearing much about them after the Buccaneer days.
Very early 80s I guess - though the effects of age and alcoholic intake etc etc over the years means the memory maybe isn't what it could be
brighton bluenose
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Vaultage 78 featured a band called the Vitamins who were my good pals from school - the lead singer was Addison Cresswell who went on to be a big shot in the comedy world and who passed away last year at 53yo! Adds brother is Luke of Stomp fame.
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yeah , remember being sold cloudy lagerBrilliant times back before The Piranhas reached the charts, remember a mod type of band called Chicane that supported them?
Was Das there too
regards
DR
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you used to drink in the queens head in those days didn't youvery early 80s i guess - though the effects of age and alcoholic intake etc etc over the years means the memory maybe isn't what it could be
regards
DR
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sunday at the alhambra surely
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Great Memories I was at both gigs, As i remember Buzzcocks went off because of spitting the more they complained the worse it got, they refused to come back on and when the bounces tried to stop people getting on the stage and stealing their stuff they were met with a hail of plastic glasses. The Clash gig we spent most of the time trying to avoid the Sham 69 Skins and Jimmy Pursey came on to try and calm it down, The Suicide singer kept howling and hitting himself in the face with the mic, which didn't go down well and a big cheer went up when a skinhead jumped on the stage and started kicking him. How about the New Regent Sham 69 gigs they were the best all crammed into the tiny narrow pub, Jimmy Pursey's great oratory at least it seemed so at 15.
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i think one of the road crew at the buzzcock gig lobbed a hammer into the crowd,plenty getting chucked from the balcony when the police tried to clear the floor!