Long gone Brighton bands/Lost venues

[desprateseagull]

Would have liked to seen Transvision Vamp, live - that Wendy James was durrrty.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

As for venues ... does anyone else remember Club 66, run by the now-famous Harvey Goldsmith, at Brighton Polytechnic?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Would have liked to seen Transvision Vamp, live - that Wendy James was durrrty.

Too right!!!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Too tight, too right...

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Those Stranglers gigs were legendary at The Top Rank . Pretty sure the cover of Something Better Change was taken st the Top Rank.
I like to think they dedicated the Flock of Seagulls chant from Toiler of the Sea, to us when they played The Centre on the Black and White tour.

Yeah I remember that - Great times

 

[desprateseagull]

Here's our Wendy, owning Frank Bough in some interview..

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I remember seeing Wayne County and the Electric Chairs one year and Jane County & the Electric Chairs the next!!!

 

[Chicken Runner61]

You lot have got my brain buzzing now but didn't The Tubes play Brighton or was that somewhere else?

That gig was an eyeopener for a young lad !!

 

[PFJ]

You lot have got my brain buzzing now but didn't The Tubes play Brighton or was that somewhere else?

That gig was an eyeopener for a young lad !!

29th of May 1979 if memory serves me right.It was at The Centre and I had just arrived back after the Albion tour of the USA.Thats how I can remember it.

 

[brighton bluenose]

Anyone remember The Clash at Sussex Uni on White Riot tour -27/05/77 - best gig of my life even now!!
Remember seeing the picture cover of the single in the window of Fine Records in Brighton Square - thinking thats a bit of me, nicked a pair of straight leg trousers from the dead mans shop at the top of Church St to replace my flares and all of a sudden 1-2-3-4 I was a 16yo punk - exciting times!!

 

[Peteinblack]

Most pretentious unlistenable local band I ever did see.

Used to love 'em. Bloody art-students, eh?!

Oh, and also used to love going to see The Chefs, and The Objeks.

In fact, still have a couple of the Vaultage albums (compilations of Brighton bands from the early 1980s).

 

[Peteinblack]

Saw Banshees, Cure and Spizz at the centre the day the Banshee's split and Robert Smith had to step in

Ramones, Vibrators, Japan, Ramones, Undertones, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Sham, Cockney Rejects, XTC, Punilux, Killing Joke, Ants, Spandau, Duran, Pretenders, Bauhaus, 999, Slits, Clash, Pistols, Comsat Angels, Passions, Jam Joy Div, New Order, The Fall, TV Personalities, ATV, Ruts, Big Country, Skids, Stiff Little Fingers, The Members plus a few others at the centre, Top Rank Dome Xtreems etc

Great days, so many great gigs

Fantastic list - some of my favourite bands in there; saw The Ramones, Undertones, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Killing Joke, Pretenders, Bauhaus, 999, The Clash, The Jam, Skids, Stiff Little Fingers, New Order, The Fall, Skids, Big Country, at various Brighton Venues in late 1970s and early 1980s.

Also: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of Four, Mekons, Au Pairs (the last three at the Art College on Grand Parade).

Oh, and saw U2 on their first ever tour (they rocked then, believe it or not, before they became a stadium band, and Bono developed an ego the size of Africa), playing to about 200 people on a wet Sunday night at, er, Jenkinsons!

 

[Binney on acid]

I do remember club 66 at Brighton Poly on a Friday night. That was my drunken era & my recollections are vague. Remember jumping into the fountain fully clothed. Must have been circa 1971.

 

[Jesus Gul]

'The Hiccies' upstairs at the pub on Preston Circus

 

[Seagull58]

Brighton art college see the Ruts there , didn't have a ticket but paid a bloke £10 to let me and my bruv jump over the gate around the side of the building :guitar: GOT INSIDE AND A FEW CAMBRIDGE SKINS MADE THEMSELVES KNOWN
regards
DR

If you're in a rut you've gotta get out of it, out of it, out of it, out of it, yeah!

 

[BadFish]

Part of a week of gigs down the Zap Club that were broadcast on Radio 1 some 20 years.

Often supported these animal men, before they went all new wave and were a crusty band. Hooligan was just Julian back then (and one of the least hooligan like people I have ever met).

 

[Seagull58]

Was lucky enough to see The Ruts doing Babylon's Burning on TOTP when I worked at the BBC. Bumped into Malcolm Owen in the bar. Said something like cracking single, shame about the cover (it was a white sleeve with red triangles, a bit average for the time). '**** off' he said 'I designed that'. He was wearing a black and white polka dot shirt. About a week later he was dead.

Owen's last gig was in Feb 1980 at Plymouth Poly and he died in July. Time passed so quickly in those days!

 

[Seagull58]

replaced by commercial rap rubbish , poncy boy bands and rent a girl bands
regards
DR

Have to agree. It was a special time.

 

[Seagull58]

The early Cure stuff was also very good, very talented man Smith.

Lime green lime green and tangerine. The sickly sweet colours of the snakes I'm seeing.

 

[maltaseagull]

That brings back memories, nicking posters

I had a Damned poster off a board about 5 minutes after it had gone up.

We used to "collect" them from outside the council building in the Steine. There used to be a couple of rows of cases advertising events at the Dome etc. Derek and the Dominoes was one