Norseman Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Crimson Glory!!! (now that was a mistake, we thought Sabbat were on), Fuckin Hell..Nowt wrong with Crimson Glory and the silly masks, I got knocked out on the Transcendance tour at the Edinburgh venue, Slammer were ace as support, British Bay Area thrashalikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Thats the one I was at, I suppose it was alright considering how up their own arses they were, goddam Cylon fools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koolsville Posted August 14, 2007 Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 Just read through this thread. The venue was my favourite venue in Aberdeen. Took the present Mrs Koolsville there on our first date, some twenty odd years ago to see ace Glasgow rockabillies THE SHAKIN' PYRAMIDS.Fave gig there has to be WEDDING PRESENT who, if recall correctly, were supported by a youthfull INSPIRAL CARPETS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallboy Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 VenueAmazing place even tho remembered wi rose tints.Drift in and sometimes at what is the tap bar? for some pre venue band.Like mentioned.....total mix of people all on the same sticky carpet.As for Valhallas...free stovies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Thats the one I was at, I suppose it was alright considering how up their own arses they were, goddam Cylon fools.They were actually alright to talk to as I spent sometime with them after the gig. I still fire up Tanscendance now and then. The singer at the time "Midnight" was a bit strange though. They are still going but the masks got ditched a while back and they have a different singer now. Was a real blast from the past seeing Sabbat at Bloodstock in August, took me back 20 years and they have lost none of their intensity. Martin and Simon were a good crack afterwards though Andy didn't come out to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Were you one of the guys interviewing them afterwards, along with Ian Head (real name?!), coz I sat in drunkly not saying anything, I think, Yowsah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimsin Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Just skimming over this thread - off the top of my head could add Nervous Choir, The Meteors, The Godfathers, The Prisoners, Fields of The Nephilim, The Fall ... some awful bands too like Fairground Attraction, Simply Red & Deacon Blue - all a bit hazy now. I remember Benny tried to launch a music career, singing a song called 'Ready For Action' - was very amusing. I even saw the video which featured him singing on the stage at Ritzy's and walking down that graffiti'd tunnel that used to be in the railway station. Benny where are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyr40 Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 boothill foottappersI can't imagine Mrs Twojoe as a goth! (Unless she was the psychobilly & you were the goth?)?(i remember the boothill foot tappers down by the beach somewhere, when spear of destiny playd the venue duncan hendry let me in for free and gave me a tenner to humph the gear in,irk brandon was a knob....#but it was ace staggering round the venue checkin who was drunker than you were.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 I probs saw the Boothills there too.....I probably already mentioned the Bluberry Hellbellies (who, I think, were an offshoot of the BFTs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallboy Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 hellbelliesBig guy with Massive sideburns in Hellbellies.Telephones on the tables at one point in the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallboy Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Other clubsAlso remember a club upstairs at the Metro and downstairs in the Victoria.Both quite shortlived I think and both mid week?St k's for bands as well.Names are gone a long time ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 I saw a few things upstairs at the Metro....eg Shop Assistants, Richard Thompson. Were not all 3 Blubbery Hellbellies big guys with massive sideburns?we need more accordians.........Jona Lewie is the boy (as is Jeremy Barnes of AHAAHS!)Which reminds me...there's a 'free reed' conference thingy coming up at the University. I probably won't go (despite once being asked to join Mrs Willis Gerrard's Accordian band!), but it'll probably be fun.A weird night at the Venue was the TVP's 'Danless' one.....but I still enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallboy Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Memory upload3 with big sideys...sure your right.Looking earlier pages saw Fusion(Ritzys)mentioned.Bo Diddley playing his guitar like a bumble bee,Ian Dury,Smiths,Meteors,Pogues supported by Reel Alians??.Things slowly coming back......Sigue Sigue.....aw no!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David B Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 I can only recall 3 gigs at the Venue from the 80's.Vow WowCherry BombzDumpy's Rusty NutsEach one a gem.In a sort of camp, drunken, post NWOBHM kind of way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimsin Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Also remember a club upstairs at the Metro and downstairs in the Victoria.Both quite shortlived I think and both mid week?St k's for bands as well.Names are gone a long time ago!I saw a few things upstairs at the Metro....eg Shop Assistants, Richard Thompson. Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead - but the club upstairs at the Metro was called 'The Flesh Exchange'. Saw the Shop Assistants there too - and also went to see a double billed gig in 1985 - Meat Whiplash and Primal Scream. It was completely empty because The Cult were playing in Aberdeen the same night - but funny to remember in light of their subsequent success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 I remember seeing Primal Scream supportimg Teenage Fanclub at the Beach Ballroom,too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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