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ratty Wrote:

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> Sterns had a big tea room outside where a cuppa

> would cost ya 50p. Many a lass chatted up in there

> and then taken into the car park for a fumble! :)



Ratty - Wasnt there a cinema in the tea room as well?


Will never forget that sweaty basement with the ceiling literally dripping... urgh (loved it)



I will now admit to going to the Blue Orchid once or twice.... perhpas '88 '89 and Bon Bonnies on a wednesday night... well could go to Worthing every night of the week could I? Could I? hmmm

benjaminty Wrote:

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> I went to some do's at the Lazerdrome in early

> nineties.... i keep trying to work out where it

> was but reckon it was at the very bottom of the

> rye.... did there used to be a pub called kings n

> queens there on the corner??

>

> Bouncers use to have huge swords that they'd

> brandish if anyone got out of line..... oh yes all

> good fun. what was I thinking?



Lazerdrome was just before the start of the one way system at the bottom of Rye Lane, there is a now a New Build called Cooperative House (the old building also had this name actually). There was a pub on the corner, but I can't remember the name. The onlt Kings I can think of was "Kings on the Rye" which was on the cross roads, and used to be a very very dodgy club, and there would be 20-30 BMWs parked up on the grass across the road every Friday and Saturday night. Classy joint!

Keef Wrote:

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> benjaminty Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I went to some do's at the Lazerdrome in early

> > nineties.... i keep trying to work out where it

> > was but reckon it was at the very bottom of the

> > rye.... did there used to be a pub called kings

> n

> > queens there on the corner??

> >

> > Bouncers use to have huge swords that they'd

> > brandish if anyone got out of line..... oh yes

> all

> > good fun. what was I thinking?

>

>

> Lazerdrome was just before the start of the one

> way system at the bottom of Rye Lane, there is a

> now a New Build called Cooperative House (the old

> building also had this name actually). There was a

> pub on the corner, but I can't remember the name.

> The onlt Kings I can think of was "Kings on the

> Rye" which was on the cross roads, and used to be

> a very very dodgy club, and there would be 20-30

> BMWs parked up on the grass across the road every

> Friday and Saturday night. Classy joint!


OH MY GOD, LAZERDROME! Forgot that one. I used to be there every Saturday when I was 17 in my Jungelis days!! Keef, if you remember seeing a group of girls in hot pants, belly tops and Chipie trainers - that was me and my posse!

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> Atilla, did you not also do The Royal Oak in

> Tooley Street or the Lilliput Arms in Bermondsey?



Indeed I did young Tillie, the Royal Oak no longer exists it has long since been pulled down to make way for offices.

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> I bet we had a few boogies then Atilla....our eyes

> may have even met across the room. Prince

> Charming ah ah Prince Charming. :-$ My uncle

> actually used to own both the Apples and pears and

> The Oak back in the day.


Our eyes may have met across the room but only if you were a teenager in the 70's, as I was.

  • 2 months later...

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Minnies - Youghal

> Gigis - Youghal

> Spiders - Cork

> Level 3 - Swindon

> Boxes/Warehouse - Exeter

>

>

> But to call them clubs in the sense that you

> probably mean ratty is probably wrong.


I used to go to Level 3.. about the only place in Swindon that played some decent music. Not saying much of course...


I've never been much of a clubber... seems to have bypassed having a misspent youth and I doubt I'd have the stamina to be doing it every weekend now!

SORTED FOR E'S AND WIZZ - PULP


Oh is this the way they say the future's meant to feel?

Or just 20,000 people standing in a field.

And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is.

But that's okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.

And tell me when the spaceship lands cos all this has just got to mean something.


In the middle of the night,

it feels alright,

but then tommorow morning.

Oh then you come down.


Oh yeah the pirate radio told us what was going down.

Got the tickets from some f*cked up bloke in Camden Town.

Oh and no-one seems to know exactly where it is.

But that's okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.

At 4 o'clock the normal world seems very, very, very far away.

Alright.


In the middle of the night,

it feels alright,

but then tommorow morning.

Oh then you come down.


Just keep on moving...

Everybody asks your name,

they say we're all the same and it's "nice one,"

"geezer"

but that's as far as the conversation went.

I lost my friends, I dance alone,

it's six o'clock, I wanna go home.

But it's "no way," "not today,"

makes you wonder what it meant.

And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows,

and you want to phone your mother and say,

"Mother, I can never come home again,

cos I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere,

somewhere in a field in Hampshire."

Alright.


In the middle of the night,

it feels alright,

but then tommorow morning.

Oh then you come down.


What if you never come down?

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