theclarkness

aye is that you Les, I remember the scrap outside McRobert hall after the gig & the Marsh with the pigs head the following night.

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The Mary Chain was sold out and it was a Friday that i can remember as the following night Erasure played to an empty-ish venue, I probably did the poster for both nights, i think it was a VENUE HOUSE poster . Bobby Gillespie's Primal Scream played at the Flesh Exchange (thats upstairs in the Hotel Metro, this was pre Peli -)

"Best in Aiberdeen no Scotland" quote the previous club owner.

No it's dated really badly listen to the drum machine and the live synth drums - the best part is Eddie the Reids live one take improvised sax (wonderful sax player from the now defunkt Jazz club/Gloucster Hotel). No need for the "ali" - just listen to the lyric, as for the goth tag . More of that rubbish is posted on last.fm

I think gigs in general were. I still get amazed at some gigs that there is no trouble.

Around that time, the Angelic Upstarts were playing at Fusion and there was a stabbing mainly as the dandy dons were competing with Celtic at the top of the league. This spilt over to the trouble at the Music Hall with the four be two's who had Defiant Pose supporting and whos roadies were wearing celtic shirts. The singer jumped into a crowd of Hilton boys and it just accelerated as the night went on.

The Venue used to be rough, with kincorth sitting on one side and torry and others on the other. Even the reggae discos at St Ks were vicious at times. Those were the times we were in and you had to look after yourself. Generally if it were just the punks then there was no trouble.

Remember there were not many nightclubs then. You had champers, mr g's had not long opened and Tatlers had a late license upstairs. So going to gigs was slightly different in that it was an excuse to have a later night which saw a lot of different factions.

Punks were always chased by guys coming out of the lodge - now jimmy cheungs - and throughout the country there was a lot of trouble with riots, the NF, protests through to the miners strike.

As for the 62, it was mainly Pat who stopped the trouble, once he stepped in then others would back him up. Him and Dod Copland went big time into the martial arts, maybe because of this?

Not all the 'punks' were at the 62. There were the likes of Hen, Harper etc who were at the Harriet bar and then down to Valhallas along with Mike Craighead, Les Clark and the romantics/goths. You had the faces in each area and then the town punks like Marsh, Pat and Alice who was a skinhead. you'd find them at the star and garter.

Drummonds came onto the scene around 88, mainly from Ian Slater of APB i think. Hen, Mike who worked for Aberdeen Promotions, were all involved. The pelican took over from the Bang Club and Fever opened with Clash fanatic Bruce Mills on the door. Both these places would bring in Pat to deal with things when it got too naughty.

just some memories....

The 62 Club was rattling with punk sounds as far back as '76, Stevie Booth (Biker) had the first import Ramones Lp. Punk tracks were spun inbetween Northern Soul tracks, "i'd painted a few "Rock stars" directly onto the walls downstairs in the disco bit, as my Dad had painted directly on the walls (a cracking Jimi Hendrix) in the 60's. The 62 Club was a "Youth Club" run by Harry???, then a different lot came into run it Christine???? and the whole dynamics of the 62 Club changed. Out went the look and it became more "drop -in " friendly. Names from the early days were Gary Clark, Kenny Bowie and Dave King. The City had already been visited by The Stranglers, Subway Sect, The Clash in 76 and 77, but not at the 62. Its was mentioned on this forum the Angelic upstart at Fusion, but they'd played the McRobert Hall with Girlschool, where Mensi came on with a frozen pigs head, for who killed Liddel (this was 79?). The next night there was an incident at the 62 involving the said pigs head.