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A brief history of goth at the Phono
Posted: 04 May 2004, 22:59
by Quiff Boy
A brief history of goth at the Phono
http://www.sheepish.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=58
an interesting read
Posted: 05 May 2004, 08:56
by Thrash Harry
Re-opened in 1996 after being shut for ten years? Surely it was still open after 86? And not as a a tropicana bar.
Posted: 05 May 2004, 09:29
by markfiend
You're right Harry. If it
wasn't open between 1990 and about 1994 then where the f*** did I spend all that time? I must have taken a lot more drugs than I thought.
Posted: 05 May 2004, 09:34
by Dave R
Was NOT shut for ten years at all!!
God, me and the lads from Wolves would travel up regular as clockwork every saturday all thru 89 - 91 either up to the phono in Leeds or Planet in L'pool, sometimes both the same day if we could keep our driver sober...
50p in and a washer for your troubles...hand it in at the bar for a warm bottle of pils...
Course, this was after the only decent venue in our neck of the woods shut down...the Barrel organ in Birmingham - was the only place to be seen/go/live during the early eighties...
Ah, memories....
And was Floorshow written bout the phono or the Warehouse...cos i'm sure that was where Almond DJ'd, have a dogy old video of a Soft Cell gig at the Warehouse, made it onto a Yorkshire TV Documentary.....
Posted: 05 May 2004, 09:37
by markfiend
IIRC Body Electric is the Phono, Floorshow is the Warehouse. And I think you're right; I've seen that video too and it's definitely the Warehouse.
Posted: 05 May 2004, 09:39
by Quiff Boy
markfiend wrote:IIRC Body Electric is the Phono, Floorshow is the Warehouse. And I think you're right; I've seen that video too and it's definitely the Warehouse.
aye, the one with a very young richard madley (sp?) (from "this morning" and "richard & judy") in a dinner jacket? talking about "new romantics"?
Posted: 05 May 2004, 10:23
by Thrash Harry
And the bit about 'The Mish in one corner and Eldritch in the other'. Surely Eldritch had buggered off to Hamburg by the time the Mutton would have been there? And where's 'there'? The Faversham? Perhaps. The Phono? Too small to contain that many egos, surely? The Warehouse? Last went there circa 1985 and Duran Duran seemed to be taking over.
Posted: 05 May 2004, 10:34
by Thrash Harry
markfiend wrote:IIRC Body Electric is the Phono, Floorshow is the Warehouse.
That was always my impression too:
http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2982
Posted: 05 May 2004, 11:07
by markfiend
OK, yeah, it looks like you and I read the "bathroom walls" bit the same way. It just seemed blatantly obvious the first time I went in there.
The Hussey and Eldo both used to be spottable in the Fav from time to time even quite recently; (I dunno, they both may still go occasionally? I've not been to the Fav for a while) but I'd agree that it's unlikely that you'd see either in the Phono. Especially now
If you're 20 you're too old to get in these days (other than the sad old goff night they do on Sundays).
Posted: 05 May 2004, 13:44
by Chairman Bux
As a wise man once said:
The Net is allergic to truth and reason.
Posted: 05 May 2004, 14:12
by Quiff Boy
Posted: 05 May 2004, 14:26
by Thrash Harry
Don't know whether this was cause or effect, but the guy who managed the Faversham around 83/ 84 also used to DJ at the Phono, which was owned by a pair of Noel Edmonds lookalike twins. There were also a couple of guys who really pushed Alice and Floorshow at the Leeds University Union Thursday night shindig, or Cattle Market, as it was affectionately known (probably located where the Wendy House is now). In fact one of them was the guy who ran against Andy Kershaw for Ents Secretary, primarily on the basis that he would invite the Sisters to play at the Refectory, as Kershaw had refused to do cos he didn't like them. The guy got in and lo and behold the Sisters return to Leeds University in May 1984.