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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:44 am
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Yeah Roland, it's a mystery and because the Bluenotes played there every week and were there most days anyway, it became like our second home. Well..a lot of people kinda looked at us like we contrived a way to get it outa there but I'm pretty certain it wasn't one of us. Can't be 100% of course but I knew those guys and we were together, apart from one for many years after the Cubi days and nobody ever mentioned it.
I knew those guys too well and I feel they would have quietly spilled the beans, they just couldn't have kept it a secret from the rest of us. But....???
Was it Clive Kelly? but it was his club, so his picture anyway, so no need for him to be secretive, he just takes it and so what! Nor was it Tony, our's and Cubi manager, he assured me of that only last week.
So we just don't know Roland, one day it might surface from somewhere and I feel it belongs in the Rochdale Museum, it was a piece of real rock history and people could view it and hear the story behind it and the opening night at the Cubi Klub...yeah! Ha.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:01 pm
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I don't know whether you guys get 'Coronation Street' over there in the States but it's one of our longest running tv soaps, if not the longest and it's based around Manchester.
Well back in the early sixties, a very young Davy Jones made a brief appearance as the grandson of Ena Sharples, haha, I guess you had to be there but I've seen a picture somewhere, can't think where.

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BTW: according to the Guinness Book of Records, Corrie is the longest running TV soap in the world. For what it's worth...

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:25 pm
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Thanks Ceri, I knew I'd seen a pic somewhere but I'd never guess it was him if I didn't already know, would you? Cheers man you always come up with the goods. :D

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:51 pm
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Found this at wiki:
"Madchester was a music scene that developed in Manchester, England, towards the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The music that emerged from the scene mixed alternative rock, psychedelic rock and dance music. Artists associated with the scene included New Order, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Northside, 808 State, James, The Charlatans, The Fall, A Guy Called Gerald, and other bands. At that time, the Haçienda nightclub was a major catalyst for the distinctive musical ethos in the city that was called the Second Summer of Love."

The Stone Roses - Breaking into Heaven

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:17 am
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Hi Roland, yeah the Hacienda. I remember Tony Wilson was a local entrepreneur and tv presenter who was always banging on about it, I think he owned a record company too. I never went there personally, the mid to late eighties were one of my domesticated periods and I didn't get out too much. But the Hacienda was very well known in the Manchester area. Like you say, lots of big bands played there.

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:12 pm
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a short list of Manchester bands:

10cc
52nd Street
808 State
A II Z
A Certain Ratio
A Witness
Barry Adamson
Addictive
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
Alfie
Alpinestars
Amplifier
Audioweb
Autechre
Autokat
The Answering Machine
Badly Drawn Boy
Barclay James Harvest
Beecher
Bette Davis and the Balconettes
The Bee Gees
Beau Leisure
BigFinn
Big Flame
Billy Ruffian
Black Grape
Blak Twang
Blue Orchids
Buzzcocks
Tim Booth
Brassy
Brown Brogues
Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds
Elkie Brooks
Ian Brown
Victor Brox
Mark Burgess
Tim Burgess
Cargo Cult (musician)
The Chameleons
The Chemical Brothers
Cherry Ghost



Cleopatra
The Clint Boon Experience
Cohesion
The Colourfield
The Courteeners
John Cooper Clarke
Crispy Ambulance
The Dakotas
Daddysmilk
Daniel Land and The Modern Painters
Deaf to Van Gogh's Ear
Delphic
The Distractions
Doves
Dub Sex (band)
Dumb (band)
The Durutti Column
Dutch Uncles
Easterhouse
Egyptian Hip Hop (band)
Elbow
Electronic
Everything Everything
Mangled After Dinner (band)
The Fall
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
Fear Of Music
Fingathing
George Formby
Frantic Elevators
Freddie and the Dreamers
Freeloaders
The Freezing Fog
The Freshies
Futurecop!
Stephen Fretwell
The Future Sound of London
David Gray
A Guy Called Gerald
Happy Mondays
Herman's Hermits
Hurts
Tom Hingley
Tom Hingley and the Lovers
The Hollies
I Am Kloot
Inca Babies
Inspiral Carpets
J-Walk
James
The Janice Graham Band
Jazz Defektors
Jim Adama
Davy Jones
Joy Division
Joy Formidable
Kinesis



King of the Slums
Lamb
Lonelady
The Longcut
Long-view
Ludus
Luxuria
Liam Frost
M People
Magazine
MC Tunes
Man From Delmonte
Marconi Union
Mayhew (band)
Johnny Marr
John Mayall
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
McGuinness-Flint
The Mindbenders
Mint Royale
Mock Turtles
The Mockingbirds
The Modern Weepers
Monaco
Morrissey
The Mothmen
Mr. Scruff
N-Trance
National Forest
New Order
Nine Black Alps
Northern Uproar
Jim Noir
Northside
Oasis
Oceansize
The Oldham Tinkers
Omerta
The Other Two
Our Innocence Lost



Paris Angels
The Passage
PLANK!
Puressence
Quando Quango
Rae & Christian
The Railway Children
Eric Random
Revenge
Lou Rhodes
Rufus ish
Sad Café
Salford Jets
The Seahorses
The Shirehorses
Frank Sidebottom
Simply Red
Slaughter & The Dogs
The Smirks
The Smiths
So Shush
Sonic Boom Six
Space Monkeys
St Louis Union
John Squire
Stack Waddy
Starsailor
Stay+
Sub Sub
Subway Collective
The Stone Roses
Sweet Sensation
Swing Out Sister
T-Coy
Take That
The Cygnet Ring
Theatre of Hate
The Ting Tings
Tiny Phillips
Tractor (band)
Twang
Twisted Wheel
The Unexpectable
Van der Graaf Generator
The Verve
The Waltones
The Warning
We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists
When in Rome
The Whip
Winterfylleth
Working For A Nuclear Free City
World of Twist
Wu Lyf

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:03 pm
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From your list Rollie..Frank Sidebottom
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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:15 pm
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Epic thread Rhumba, some great acts have come out of Manchester.... Just ask SBLS :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:57 pm
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John, that video is psycho :lol: , Frank Sidebottom is a comedy nightmare :lol:

Snowy, I freaked a little bit when I saw how many bands came out of Manchester.

Steven, I think that I saw this band open a show at White City Stadium (demolished in 1985) for Canned Heat, The Kinks, The Edgar Winter Group and Sly And The Family Stone. I think B.J.H. should be included in the "Progressive Rock Music" thread.

Barclay James Harvest - Mockingbird

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:39 am
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Thanks for that Rip, for many Frank Sidebottom will live forever, the guy was a genius.
Great to see you Snowy! you've been missed, where have you been?
Wow!! thanks for that list Roland, an awesome piece of work there, I'll have to pass it on to the Manchester Newsletter. :D
Yes, Barclay James Harvest, I remember them from the late sixties, they locked them selves away in some house somewhere up on the moors and one day emerged as this incredible band.
I agree, they should be included in any prog rock thread, 'Mockingbird' was an absolute classic and I am also guilty of overlooking this grossly underrated group. Funny how we stand up on our toes and look off into the distance and miss what is under our noses.
So thanks for the reminder Rollie and I'm off to buy one of their albums now. It will of course include 'Mockingbird' and this one that I recall from the old days.
'Poor Wages'

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:00 am
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Hey Roland, I've just bought a BJH album and great stuff too but I am reminded of another group from the late sixties-early seventies. I had an album of their's that was a little gem.
The group was Magna Carta and the said album was 'Seasons' I've just ordered this on cd and I can't wait to hear it again. In the title track, that is 22 mins long they blend poetry in with the music.
These are not from Manchester..well I don't think so but if you haven't already heard this, I think you should give it a try. Put your feet up and float off into nostalgia.
Here's a little snip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdJngJgljSk

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:07 am
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Thank you for posting those links Steve. Magna Carta brought back some memories, lol. Both of those bands remind me of The Moody Blues, they influenced a lot of 60s and early 70s bands,

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:46 am
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Rhumba wrote:

Thanks tedj, the name Sweet Chariot rings a bell, are you still local?


I now live about 15 miles from Manchester in a place called Tyldesley
The bass player from Sweet chariot was our original bass player in our group "The Pages" (well, it was 1963!!) and our drummer (my cousin, Steve Revel) went on to join Stackwaddy who were managed by John Peel the radio DJ
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:11 am
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ted j wrote:
Rhumba wrote:

Thanks tedj, the name Sweet Chariot rings a bell, are you still local?


I now live about 15 miles from Manchester in a place called Tyldesley
The bass player from Sweet chariot was our original bass player in our group "The Pages" (well, it was 1963!!) and our drummer (my cousin, Steve Revel) went on to join Stackwaddy who were managed by John Peel the radio DJ
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Yeah! Thanks Ted, I've been through Tyldesley a few times on my journeys. Do you still play yourself, or are you kinda semi retired like a lot of us here? you must have a Fender guitar yet to be with us on the forum, yeah? :D
John Peel !! now that is impressive, did he ever put you on his 'Top Gear' show, he must have got you're cousin some good work?
Anyway, take care Ted, maybe see you around sometime. :D

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Post subject: Re: Manchester UK sixties memorabilia
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:07 am
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Great stories, friend. You don't have to be too slim to gain popularity with your new blues instruments. Those leather pants might cut your wind off though. :D I love these stories of the old days. Keep them coming! Peace brother. G


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