Tony stresses it is essential to establish a communication between the disc jockey and the audience; There has got to be feed back; if the disc jockey doesnt communicate it will not be a success, he says, - and one wrong record could destroy an atmosphere its taken half and hour to build up. Jeff also worked across the road at number 51, which was the legendary 51 Club. Managements have varying means of fighting another problem, the bovver boy; by trying to tackle it at its roots before it has a chance to grow. The fashion, the music and the nightlife Friday, 26 March 2010 Welcome To 70's Disco Nightlife Chapter - 2 Where do you start?? I remember the jive dancers giving shows and also meeting Joe Cocker in his early days. Email us, Scamps Out of School Clubs Upstairs was Scamps which was I believe owned by the same people. After a pause he replied where commercial ones are concerned there has been some relenting on the part of the Watch Committee I think, and the whole area is waking up to the idea of sound and vision. Use the top menu to navigate via section indexes, or just browse the latest entries on the left! Something went wrong, please try again later. But those who admit to being under 18 on one night may want, for drinking purposes, to be over 18 on another. Tamla/Atlantic music all-nighters club was hated by those "normals" from locarno ect., but much loved by in "in crowd". Share on Facebook Share. It was renamed Tiffany's in 1972, when it became the only place to be. But did it still serve Tetleys? Bailey's closed its doors and was put up for sale in August 1977 due to falling attendances. Both venues were burnt to the ground in, I am almost certain, 1985 Steve and I had been to Waterfront followed by the take away curry house on George Street and were just walking past when the fire brigade first arrived. A cabaret club open in the early 1970s, with an excellent name, and its logo was a cute Penguin carrying a drinks tray (from an advert in the Hull Times, 2 May 1971. I saw the visiting American blues harp player Little Walter there; it may have been a place where the can the white man play the blues early British R`n`B people like Chris Farlowe, Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band etc. Scamps of course became Odyssey (actually wasnt it spelt wrong?) Club Website: www.scamps.homestead.com. One was clearing debris from a stairway when he was blown down the stairs in a blast from a gas explosion. Not to be out-done, the East Hull Baths also held regular dancing evenings in the 1950s. One of Hulls discos is pushing the idea of an under 18 night. That had been a gambling place at some time, it still had blackjack and roulette tables when I first went in, in 1968. Only one was listed in 1971 - Red Bird Discotheques of 22 New Walk Beverley, in the entertainers section. Malcolms was recorded in the telephone directories from 1972 until 1974 after which it was known as Intercon for a short while before re-opening as Bali Ha`i. Sounds like a musos venue or a jazz club? Not listed separately elsewhere. Regular band was - of course - the Newington Orchestra. The neighbouring empty Dingwalls music venue (former Hofbrauhaus) was gutted, along with the Oddessy, with firefighters describing the blaze as white hot, bending steel girders out of shape. However, Graham Hardy has a different take: - 'I dont actually remember the Barracuda but do recall seeing a photograph ofBishop Lanewhen it was there. Fast forward to the mid-90s and . Ten years later it underwent another revamp with. and incorporating Luckies Bar upstairs circa 2001. 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Francis was our Vice President, we went to all the opening dos and presentation ceremonies as we got him all sorts of awards. Peter Croskill vets everyone as they come in the door specially designed, he says, to keep out undesirables. variation on the Albion Street theme. Owner Malcolm Backhouse of South Cave had known there was a demand for this type of entertainment for some years. 42, George Street, went up in smoke in the early hours of Sunday, January 8, 1984, when a fire broke out just after the club. Ephemera: John Lee Hooker / Skyline ticket, Emma Fee - Too Busy Watching Invisible Things. More commonly, it was known as Bier Keller, but not referred to as such in the telephone directories. The Blue Lamp (a reference to the club having been a police station) took over from the Jailhouse late in 1992, but was never convincing as a proper live venue. Click the relevant link below to join the groups you are interested in and get involved! However, a website viewer Robert W notes: -, 'I was one of those 'elitist students' at Hull University in 1972-75, and didn't like the discos there, except that on Sunday evenings the OUTSIDER DISCO was on in one of the small rooms. From 1992 it was listed in the Yellow Pages as a night-club, so does this suggest it was at this point it got its first regular late licence? The building's owners, London based Freshwater Group, made a start in sending insurance assessors to the building shell. Keith, Kitti and Lesley have all COMPLETED (YIPPEE)their level 7 in Social Care, Children & Young People. Graham Hardy remembers it was still open circa 1979. There is also copy of it in the cloakroom area at Scamps. The majority of his friends visit discos two or three times a week, and Terry and his pals find them the current in-place to meet girls. Now [2001] Club Zen. The luxuriously named Paradise Club was first mentioned in the telephone directory of 1990, listed as a night-club from 1993, and closed 1998-99. But their work is not just a question of putting on records and flashing a few lights. And I was surprised to find on Tuesday evening in one of the towns discos two young married women without their husbands. It appeared to last less than two years and was not recorded in 1993. Intriguing As well as having rock groups in the 1960s (and 70s?) In the 1980s it became. I seem to remember foreign seaman, prostitutes etc. In 1972, just months after this article appeared, the Hull Telephone Directory had a section for Discotheques in its Yellow Pages for the first time. Scamps of course became Odyssey (actually wasn't it spelt wrong?) TEAM KEY WORKERS Every member of the team is allocated their own group of children to make observations, interact, engage, listen to and support each childs needs using the GIRFEC and SHANARRI approach. Regular bands were those of Harry Chatterton, Stan Thrussel and Leslie Rose. The Oddessy Diskotek, formerly known as Scamps, located at no. A working mens social club, later to become Olivers, Jailhouse etc. We also put the latest news in our Instagram Stories. Noted for the first time in the telephone directory of 1961 under Dancing, Ballroom and later probably became the Top Rank Club, circa 1966. Help! Mark Peacock recalls it was part of the Hull Brick Company, a promotional company that formed in 1970 and was responsible for attracting larger bands to Hull (usually at the City Hall) T Rex, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes, Free, Lindisfarne, Mott the Hoople, etc. Part of the Dorchester Hotel to you and I. A double site coupled with Annabellas, and both owned by the Mecca Group. scamps nightclub sutton. They have very regular bookings at various pubs in the district where they are an added attraction for the customers. Ephemera: Scamps Ticket by Nick Boldock on 12th July 2016 Ticket for Scamps nightclub (loaned to us by Rob Goldberg - thanks Rob! I think I went a number of times in the (late?) As the 60s drew to a close the more popular chart music commanded most attention, and alongside all the small eclectic Folk and Jazz clubs, many large new discotheques and dancing clubs opened their doors. Still there in 1991, as the photo below was taken in that year. Keep yourself to yourself and you are OK; and he believes there is far less chance of a fight breaking out in a disco than in a dance hall. Gatsby Club (The), Royal Station Hotel, Ferensway. Graham Wilkinson remembers it as a dance place. Scamps of course became Odyssey (actually wasnt it spelt wrong?) People dont just want to go out for a drink they want something to look at and listen to as well. This seminal Club, then went on to become the city's main & best ever Gay Nightclub. Now demolished. Some parents have taken their younger children to a disco and collected them again later when they had enjoyed an evening out themselves. My memory of it really is as a coffee bar. A representative of the management consortium said it could be 12 to 18 months before it was possible to re-open if a decision was taken to rebuild it. Click here to give it a like! Those are three of the conclusions to be reached from a steady look at the swinging discotheque scene in Hull a scene that has mushroomed in recent months to provide the city with discos of all types. Listed as a pub from 1994, but as it had a large dance-floor it was obviously intended as a place to boogie. Took over from Ritzy as part of the Central Park premises in late 1995 early 1996. Listed in the telephone directories from 1970 until 1977 under clubs, social & general and (students and teachers), which may have been some sort of licensing loophole i.e. Listed under clubs, social & general from 1971 but may have been known as a more of a dance venue (as Ruf 15 was) as it was to become the Rio Discotheque in 1973. Based in the old Edwin Davis building this club opened late 1992 and attempted to fill the need for a rave venue, yet sadly succeeded only in creating a drug-pushers paradise. Flipper Disc Caf, 155-157 Holderness Road. Ceased to be listed in late 1992. Noted under clubs, social & general from c.1969 and was possibly the first in Hull to be known as a discotheque but seems to have gone by 1971. This remained the case throughout the 1960s but as the decade wore on the ballrooms began to be complemented by coffee bars, which became a place for teenagers to gather and listen to their new music whilst sipping Espresso day or night. In the late 60s I think it was known as 'The Round' and /or 'Bizarre society' c.1971. The lads go up later answered Terry, maybe they are not dancing tonight because there is something on at 10.30 said Pat Barkworth, referring to both the empty floor and the fashion show due to be staged later. There is says Peter Croskill, manager and part share owner in one of Hulls smaller town centre discos a certain amount of misunderstanding, as so many places of ill repute are associated with discos. etc. Hull Entertainment Guide- Issue No.8 April 1948, Vogue Publicity Co., 6 Bond St. They opened a new club downstairs in june 1968 as Penny Farthing, and we moved our radio discos there. The club opened in 1961 when it was called Mecca's Hull Locarno Ballroom. Enjoying a renaissance in the early naughties. Pic 'Scamps_Nightclub': 'The entrance to Scamps' Pic 'scan0013 . In march 1968 we began renting it for one early night a week for our Radio 270 fan club, when I began my DJ work (still but 13). Regular bandleader was Norman Mail & his band. Emily joined the team in April 2021 and has completed her level 7 in Social Care, Children & Young People just in time before going off on maternity leave in November 2021. For cancellations or changes please text or call the team on, Please BOOK NOW using the Cheqdin Parents Portal or via the App, Cut off date is Friday 1st July after which late booking fees of 2.50 per child per session will be added, *** Please use SUBMIT ENQUIRY button for any registration queries before completing registration. But even so it doesnt make us wish we were single again. I have mentioned some in the gazetteer to get us started, mostly taken from Hull Jazz & Jazzmen by Laurie Dex. A much younger clientele although it retained a dark side until its closure in ? An application to transfer the Oddessy license was made in August, 1984. First listed in the Night-club section of the Yellow Pages in 1981 and still going strong in 2001 when you had the choice of Positively 4th Street upstairs, and Indie & Rock downstairs. This new music was epitomised by one group, as Ian Macdonald summed up well in his excellent book Revolution in the head - Though ultimately the product of influences deeper than pop, the Sixties soaring optimism was ideally expressed by it and nowhere more perfectly than in the music of the Beatles. Stackridge, a particularly memorable rendition of "Let there be lids". The light-show side has its own people to run it, and Neil Manyan is the back room boy who looks after the sound equipment. Club Sahara and Quigleys joined forces to create one of Hulls rather down market night-clubs in late 1993. Advertised as The intimate yet lively, fully licensed disco. If I could find my copy of the NME encyclopaedia I could give you more names. Those are three of the conclusions to be reached from a steady look at the swinging discotheque scene in Hull a scene that has mushroomed in recent months to provide the city with discos of all types. Nos.1 and 2 High Street were part of a group of buildings, which also included the former Dunwells Forge next door on High Street. No windows and no sign outside, and later fitted with ultra violet lights on the small dance-floor upstairs, which served only to make you feel more disorientated than when you went in. Owned by Sami Leisure and included its own Taxi firm - Kings Taxis. I don't think we served alcohol. Prices as stated on the card in 1969 were as follows: Thursdays 3 shillings, Fridays and Saturdays 5 shillings, Sundays 3 shillings. See Room. The viewpoint of these girls in their mid-twenties? Hull College-Students Union, Queens Gardens. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Chris Ketchell recalls this had red awnings outside. Elsewhere, left-over do-wop hits jarred against the odd Folk protest song, and even a few Jazz hits. as a more trendy venue. Follow us on Twitter -For breaking news and the latest stories,click here to follow Hull Live on Twitter. So why then at 9.50 in the evening, were there no men on the dancing space at all I wondered? Hartlepool firm Camerons Brewery were also in a dilemma as they were due to submit details on turning the Dingwalls venue into a pub before the Hull City Council Planning Committee on January 11. Demolished circa 1992? We supported Francis Daly through all the planning battles he had over it; and when it opened, based all our activities there; we had committee meetings and public meeting there and stored things in the basement. Work was planned to be completed by January 1985, with site owners Freshwater being tight lipped at the time about the future development. Knowing what sort of entertainment they want when theyve paid their entrance fee is the work of the disc jockey people like Dave Sanders, at 20 very au-fait with the 18 to 25 year olds who are the discos most frequent customers; and who moves from being an office clerk by day to a DJ at one of the towns smaller discos by night. it may have tried to be known officially as a club just for students and teachers. There was later a Kon Tiki suite within Bali Ha`i for functions etc., which some will remember as a separate venue. This suggests a possible distinction between those listed as social clubs and those listed elsewhere, i.e. Demolished along with Odyssey next door following a fire in 1984. SCAMPS. For, say 8 you can have a full evenings entertainment of music and lights for your party, with the music to suit your own or your guests varied tastes. Site re-opened as a pub (?) How wrong could I be, Paul Rusling, a DJ from the time recalls: - 'this was a coffee and coke speak-easy late night club in 1967. First listed in 1982 under clubs, social & general and still going in 2009, it was opened as a music venue by Paul Jackson in 1984 and incorporated the Unity Club in 1985. Last stop on the way home from town (unless you had gone to Paradise, but that was usually early in the week and Spiders only opened Fri/Sat) with your pointed suede shoes. It continued to be listed until 1977. Now a driving school, but once a small club that served coffees, upstairs above Furmans shoe shop, during the day and had a select clientele during the evening my sister Anne recalled this was one of the first places you could go just to dance. Tagged #soul#funk#disco#soul funk disco boogie A running mix recorded live of the music that people would have danced too in Scamps Nightclub in Sutton and many other nightclubs around the UK in the 70s & 80s. Trouble is of course, cater for one group and you throw yourself open to abuse by another. Another great name, and Near St Judes Church Hull's swingingist new club in a 1967 advertisement, mentioned in one of Tim Josephs Grandads columns in WHERE? For the first few minutes when playing to a new audience the DJ must watch for their reaction and then cater for it throughout the evening. For discos are now more than just rooms in which to dance, with records booming away in the background. Things appear to have come full circle now [2001], and night-clubs (which is what this one thinks it is) have now reverted back to a fragment of their possible origins coffee bars. Took over the Club International in 1989-90 and was demolished shortly after, circa 199 something. was it to do with licensing hours? new orleans paddle boat to zoo; who has an eagle patronus; apple cider vinegar went up my nose; 341 overwood road, akron, oh; wagons east john candy last scene; I remember seeing there, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (some of the band members sitting round the Queens Garden fountain in stage clothes earlier in the day). Not sure if this was anything to do with the old T.C.s in Folkestone Street. Vol. but initially more of a working mens place. The first of a new breed of clubs, which accompanied a shift in the music scene in general and was noted as a night-club for the first time in 1990. Why do he and his friends make these frequent visits? Anyone remember Scamps? As with many clubs, the Welly was also a place you could see local bands. Scamps This George Street establishment started out as Scamps, which served beer in German-style steins in the adjacent Hofenbrau bar. Contact Information: Phone: 714-307-3040 Email: lancepr@mac.com. Also it took over from Bier-Keller, which definitely was a proper club. Later listed as Club International, a night-club, until 1989. A rig includes frequency lighting, ultra-violet light and slide projection. Taylor joined the team in December 2021 and will be starting her level 7 in Social Care, Children & Young People. Latterly closed and under threat but now [2009] open again as . Somewhere to go and not much else to do. It closed and re-opened again in the late 1990s but was not listed in 1999. Scamps Snack Menuplease follow this link to view or download. Who remembers a popular night venue for clubbers and partygoers which met a sudden demise after it was ravaged by fire? The Waterfront Club opened circa 1979 in a converted warehouse to acclaim from all sections of the community and after a near disastrous fire was still going strong in 2001. Under the name of Montagues Club, part of the building of the former Dunwells Forge had become the Forge Bar, with the disc jockey sat directly in front of the old forge chimney. It was formerly Seven Seas Club, and had nice Tetleys beer in the upstairs bar. Email me your picture and a little about yourself, including your address, to Scampclub@ventura breeze.com. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1982. Opened over 40 years ago, Spiders has seen all the alternative music scenes come and go and managed to live to tell the tale. Mecca Dancing, Locarno Ballroom, Ferensway. Regular band was The Alan Bond Orchestra. Noted in 1964 and conjures pictures of guys and chicks standing around a juke box grooving to the latest discs (well it does for me, but in Cave Street that would seem a little unlikely). At the moment he finds what all the other DJs I spoke to find that what pleases the majority is the Motown sound. A temporary home for the club was sought with a former club on High Street, the Washington DC Club, selected as a possible venue. We continue to offer Gluten Free, Dairy Free and other food allergy and intolerance compliant food and this guidance is always strictly adhered to and alternatives are offered. I will find the file. A few have even arrived and asked to be shown around. A Coffee Bar type place within Alexandra Terrace on Hedon Road, that was known as a coffee bar, but allegedly one could also buy more illicit substances and have a dance (Graham Hardy remembers). Latterly incorporated Samanthas and Strollers rooms as separate dance areas available for private hire. Keith Daddy recalls Hofbrauhaus had strippers and topless go-go dancers at lunchtime for a couple of years and Dave Burton remembered he and Keith used to go and sit there with just half a pint a very cheap afternoon out [they only went for the beer of course]. Still running in 1981 but Oddessy took over from it in 1981- 82. As you say in your entry it was run by the local hippies - if my vague recollections are correct, the disco had been going for some time before I discovered it in late 1972, and was run by students of a hippified nature who later set up in Leonard St.I didn't go much to the town clubs - I found them too elitist - you had to wear a TIE!! Usually with the Maxwell Daniels Band. Listed from 1961 - was it an early coffee club, can anyone remember that far back? 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Categories . Aberdeen Clearly, the telephone book would only list the venues that actually had a telephone, so there must have been many more, but by 1961 two more ballrooms were listed, the Majestic in Witham and the New York Hotel & Ballroom Anlaby Road, the latter listed in the Hotels (mostly public houses) section. 22 - July 27 - Aug 9, 2022 - Scamp Club Following further uses as a nightclub and bar, the building was also used as . I have memories of this being the place to be when it first opened (my diaries say I was at a party there in February 1981), very new-wave, very black clothing, very drunk. Also catered for the rock crowd as most clubs eventually had to. qiiktitle = 'Ephemera%3A%20Scamps%20Ticket';
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