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Hi Everyone,

Noticed on J.D site that QB was master & servant (DJ) @ this venue.

this brought back many great memores from my goth days.

Anyone else who went there & to other venues:-

The Ritz (Monday)
42nd Street (Tuesday)
Legends (Thursday)
Berlin (Friday)
Cloud Nine (Saturday)

+ devilles, placemate 7, Rotters etc.

Rise & Reverberate

Cheers Reptilel

If J.D. Drew Blood, Then The Sisters Cut Right
Through To The Bone. It Hurts. But Feels So.... oooo Good

I'm perhaps a tad too young for some of those venues (I've never even heard of the Banshee), But nearly every monday night for 3 years (96-99) I went to 'student night' at the Ritz.

Oh, the memories! beer was a quid for a bottle of holsten pills (sometimes certain bottles were 50p!)- I could have a top night out for under a tenner!
I'd be too nervous/self-conscious to dance, until anout half one when 'Temple of Love' came on, and I'd force myself onto the dancefloor to shuffle about like a wierdo.

I'd always end the night with a donner kebab from 'Monsoons' on Oxford road. mmm, I could go for one of those right now...



I also once went to 'Berlins'. top place.

Yeah I know the Banshee. And I'm led to believe that the Banshee knows me. Clicky for mine and QB's discussion on the matter.

ahhh, the banshee.

bless it

myself and sam donut are old hands down there. sam worked behind teh bar for a time, and i did a wee spot behind the decks on a "80s" night (think strawberry switchblade & sigue sigue sputnik back-to-back ) that ran for a while...

my dj stint was towards the end of its original incarnation down on oxford street, and i think sam's stink behind the bar was during its second phase (underneath the halfords shop, piccadilly gardens)

from your list i also used to frequent:

The Ritz (Monday)
42nd Street (Tuesday)
Legends (aka 5th Avenue) (Thursday) (with a wee jaunt over to the banshee at about 11.30 when the pissed up baggy manc kids came in)



you were always guaranteed a stack of chameleons at legends

My ex brother in law always use to go on about the banshee, like it was some kind of goth mecca..

Gary wrote:My ex brother in law always use to go on about the banshee, like it was some kind of goth mecca..

it was.

along with leeds' "phono" and liverpool's "planet x" during the mid/late 80s & early 90s it was one of the best goth clubs in the north - certainly a damn site better than anything around now

sisters, march violets, ghost dance, bauhaus, sex gang children, specimen, alien sex fiend, yadda yadda yadda. tunes by all the big goth bands and more, spun regularly alongside other more esoteric stuff like radical dance faction, the poppies, rev co, 242 etc etc etc. and wall-to-wall goths, grebos & punks.

very f*cking cool and very f*cking wonderful.

*sigh*

feeling all wistful now

Quiff Boy wrote:...radical dance faction...

I f'cking hated their record "Surplus People". It seemed to go on for about 3 hours

Quiff Boy wrote:ahhh, the banshee.

bless it
and i think sam's stink behind the bar was during its second phase (underneath the halfords shop, piccadilly gardens)

Ha! My "stink" behind the bar? Oof!



I was behind the bar at Oxford Road Banshee too! Snooker room on Thursdays and back bar on Saturdays. I also stocked the bar during the day! I actually painted the place, and sound proofed the ceiling when it moved to PicadillY!

sam donut wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:ahhh, the banshee.

bless it
and i think sam's stink behind the bar was during its second phase (underneath the halfords shop, piccadilly gardens)

Ha! My "stink" behind the bar? Oof!



I was behind the bar at Oxford Road Banshee too! Snooker room on Thursdays and back bar on Saturdays. I also stocked the bar during the day! I actually painted the place, and sound proofed the ceiling when it moved to PicadillY!

how could i forget

I didn't even know it HAD moved to Picadilly. Oxford Rd was ace - loads of little corridors that went nowhere (not counting the fondling goths that hid there). I walked past it a few years back, having left home for Leeds ages ago, to discover it had been bulldozed, whilst the buildings surrounding it were still intact.

Went to Planet X once - Floorshow started as I wandered in - nice start. Unfortunately located (ie Liverpool) for any repeat visits though.

And before that, it wer' all fields.