Ziderarmy Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 My memories are as follows Club IQ - Used to feel like the whole place was just a series of steps, was quite small but a great little club. Oddessy / Works - Bigger and harder work to get into back in 1997 till 2000 you actually had to dress up to get into places which meant trousers, shoes and a Ben Sherman type untucked shirt. The upgrade to the works and special revolving bar was the talk of town at the time :laugh:. McCloskeys = Used to just be a place to go to either have a fight or watch one. Branigans = Next to what is now Lloyd’s. Cheap drinks and cheaper women :laugh:. Mauritania = All you can eat and drink night which I think was a Wednesday or Thursday was about £15 all in, mental really, some right rough women preying in younger blokes :laugh:. Horn and Trumpet = Used to get packed. 31 Corn Street = Used to love that place. Sedan Chair = Funny little place. We used to go all over the place loads of different clubs and pubs. Loads not about now. Scene has changed I guess. Was more drink and a giggle and going out early now it’s all drink and home and whose doing lifts whilst doing balloons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 19 hours ago, ziderheadarmy said: My memories are as follows Club IQ - Used to feel like the whole place was just a series of steps, was quite small but a great little club. Oddessy / Works - Bigger and harder work to get into back in 1997 till 2000 you actually had to dress up to get into places which meant trousers, shoes and a Ben Sherman type untucked shirt. The upgrade to the works and special revolving bar was the talk of town at the time :laugh:. McCloskeys = Used to just be a place to go to either have a fight or watch one. Branigans = Next to what is now Lloyd’s. Cheap drinks and cheaper women :laugh:. Mauritania = All you can eat and drink night which I think was a Wednesday or Thursday was about £15 all in, mental really, some right rough women preying in younger blokes :laugh:. Horn and Trumpet = Used to get packed. 31 Corn Street = Used to love that place. Sedan Chair = Funny little place. We used to go all over the place loads of different clubs and pubs. Loads not about now. Scene has changed I guess. Was more drink and a giggle and going out early now it’s all drink and home and whose doing lifts whilst doing balloons... We must have seen each other a lot as I used to spend a lot of time in all of those places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BanburyRed Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Not sure if anyone has mentioned 'Mistys', half way up Park St on RHS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ever-red Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Silks always full of city boys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 On 28/09/2019 at 22:18, ziderheadarmy said: My memories are as follows Club IQ - Used to feel like the whole place was just a series of steps, was quite small but a great little club. Oddessy / Works - Bigger and harder work to get into back in 1997 till 2000 you actually had to dress up to get into places which meant trousers, shoes and a Ben Sherman type untucked shirt. The upgrade to the works and special revolving bar was the talk of town at the time :laugh:. McCloskeys = Used to just be a place to go to either have a fight or watch one. Branigans = Next to what is now Lloyd’s. Cheap drinks and cheaper women :laugh:. Mauritania = All you can eat and drink night which I think was a Wednesday or Thursday was about £15 all in, mental really, some right rough women preying in younger blokes :laugh:. Horn and Trumpet = Used to get packed. 31 Corn Street = Used to love that place. Sedan Chair = Funny little place. We used to go all over the place loads of different clubs and pubs. Loads not about now. Scene has changed I guess. Was more drink and a giggle and going out early now it’s all drink and home and whose doing lifts whilst doing balloons... Some good memories there. 31 Corn Street was indeed a good gaff. I did actually used to like Brannigans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 Always used to be a nightmare finding anywhere open late on a sunday evening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saturday Boy Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 Anyone remember Chaplin's? "Entertainment club" sort of underneath the Union Street bridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 On 28/09/2019 at 22:18, ziderheadarmy said: My memories are as follows Club IQ - Used to feel like the whole place was just a series of steps, was quite small but a great little club. Oddessy / Works - Bigger and harder work to get into back in 1997 till 2000 you actually had to dress up to get into places which meant trousers, shoes and a Ben Sherman type untucked shirt. The upgrade to the works and special revolving bar was the talk of town at the time :laugh:. McCloskeys = Used to just be a place to go to either have a fight or watch one. Branigans = Next to what is now Lloyd’s. Cheap drinks and cheaper women :laugh:. Mauritania = All you can eat and drink night which I think was a Wednesday or Thursday was about £15 all in, mental really, some right rough women preying in younger blokes :laugh:. Horn and Trumpet = Used to get packed. 31 Corn Street = Used to love that place. Sedan Chair = Funny little place. We used to go all over the place loads of different clubs and pubs. Loads not about now. Scene has changed I guess. Was more drink and a giggle and going out early now it’s all drink and home and whose doing lifts whilst doing balloons... This is my era, I can just about remember going to Ritzy before it became Club IQ. Patrick at Odyssey was hard work to get past until you managed to get a decent fake id (bumped into him a few years ago working the door at the sports bar place near the triangle). Mauritania was amazing value on those nights - think it was Wednesdays. All you're missing here is Evolution on the water front - filling up on cheap vodka/red bulls in the Figurehead beforehand and then watching all the tools who couldn't hold their cider throwing each other in the harbour outside afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gakoe Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 9 hours ago, Masala said: Anyone remember Chaplin's? "Entertainment club" sort of underneath the Union Street bridge? I remember Chaplin's. We'd sometimes go in there for a giggle while shopping in broadmead. Never frequented on an evening but some of the girls on the afternoon shift were ropey old sorts! What was the name of the pub along there? Lord Rodney springs to mind but I may be completely wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 6 hours ago, Gakoe said: I remember Chaplin's. We'd sometimes go in there for a giggle while shopping in broadmead. Never frequented on an evening but some of the girls on the afternoon shift were ropey old sorts! What was the name of the pub along there? Lord Rodney springs to mind but I may be completely wrong. Prince Rupert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gakoe Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 48 minutes ago, Slacker said: Prince Rupert? That sounds more like it. Couple of decent pool tables if my memory serves? (it's a gamble these days!) Has anyone mentioned Clifton village? Had some great nights going round there and seen some pretty tidy local bands playing. The Albion used to be good in that respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 On 28/09/2019 at 23:18, ziderheadarmy said: My memories are as follows Branigans = Next to what is now Lloyd’s. Cheap drinks and cheaper women :laugh:. Mauritania = All you can eat and drink night which I think was a Wednesday or Thursday was about £15 all in, mental really, some right rough women preying in younger blokes :laugh:. I remember them well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 On 24/09/2019 at 18:55, Med/MadHatter said: Jitter, abuse word only used in Bristol i think as I've never heard it anywhere else :laugh:, i was once a long haired biker and was called this many a time when in town Wasn't the word 'Grebo'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 1 hour ago, PHILINFRANCE said: Wasn't the word 'Grebo'? Both unfortunately :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 On 24/09/2019 at 18:55, Med/MadHatter said: Jitter, abuse word only used in Bristol i think as I've never heard it anywhere else :laugh:, i was once a long haired biker and was called this many a time when in town 19 minutes ago, Med/MadHatter said: Wasn't the word 'Grebo'? Both unfortunately I was a sort of 'mod', or 'suedehead' as it was called back then (Yes, I had a Crombie, with the City badge on the pocket!), and recall joining in with the 'Grebo' chant whenever we used to see you with your leather jackets - you used to have those metal studs in the back of your jackets, with the name of your 'chapter'? With some embarrassment, I must admit, I used to join in with those chants without a clue as to what I was chanting about: Grebo, Grebo.... Ha. The joys of youth. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 3 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said: I was a sort of 'mod', or 'suedehead' as it was called back then (Yes, I had a Crombie, with the City badge on the pocket!), and recall joining in with the 'Grebo' chant whenever we used to see you with your leather jackets - you used to have those metal studs in the back of your jackets, with the name of your 'chapter'? With some embarrassment, I must admit, I used to join in with those chants without a clue as to what I was chanting about: Grebo, Grebo.... Ha. The joys of youth. . Leather jacket but no studs for me :laugh:, I hated the "bike club" thing, prefer my independance, had plenty of friends in them so used to go visit their various clubhouses etc but all good , and agree, the joys of youth, miss those days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted October 3, 2019 Admin Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Med/MadHatter said: Leather jacket but no studs for me :laugh:, I hated the "bike club" thing, prefer my independance, had plenty of friends in them so used to go visit their various clubhouses etc but all good , and agree, the joys of youth, miss those days! No studs for me either, but there was a great bike scene in Bristol in the 70’s/80’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said: No studs for me either, but there was a great bike scene in Bristol in the 70’s/80’s. Alas, I moved away from Bristol in the early 80s, sometimes i wish i hadn't! Miss the old place like crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 14 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said: I was a sort of 'mod', or 'suedehead' as it was called back then (Yes, I had a Crombie, with the City badge on the pocket!), and recall joining in with the 'Grebo' chant whenever we used to see you with your leather jackets - you used to have those metal studs in the back of your jackets, with the name of your 'chapter'? With some embarrassment, I must admit, I used to join in with those chants without a clue as to what I was chanting about: Grebo, Grebo.... Ha. The joys of youth. . ‘Grebo’ was common, but I also remember being called a ‘squatter’ and chased up Cotham Hill by some skinheads. Narrow escape... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted October 4, 2019 Admin Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 17 hours ago, Med/MadHatter said: Alas, I moved away from Bristol in the early 80s, sometimes i wish i hadn't! Miss the old place like crazy It’s not the same..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziderarmy Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 42 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said: It’s not the same..... It’s crap these days mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 41 minutes ago, ziderheadarmy said: It’s crap these days mate. It’s nowhere near as good as it was 20 years ago never mind further back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted October 4, 2019 Admin Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, TomF said: It’s nowhere near as good as it was 20 years ago never mind further back. At the risk of repeating stuff further back in the thread, it just seemed more.... exciting, daring, whatever then, as pubs and clubs closed at 22:30/23:00 and 02:00, so we had lock ins, underground clubs that whilst you were there, always had that slight edge that they might get busted. There was one at the bottom of park street, up a little alley, one in Brook Lane St Paul’s, and many others. The only 24 hour place was John’s cafe near the BRI. No social media to advertise these places, it was word of mouth, get in once or twice with a friend or a friend of a friend and then you could get in again. It might not seem much to today’s youth who have clubs open all night, but it was a good craic and a very diversified scene, biker bars and clubs, punk bars, places like the Dug Out where many mixed, clubs and pubs where the mainly Caribbean community (and Irish) went, town pubs where the ‘kitters’ went and then they went onto the discos, which had a dress code. The Hofbrauhaus, which was a strange mixture and good for a brawl with the odd bus load of Taffs in from Cardiff or Newport. Clifton, some good pubs and a club whose name eludes me, but it was a great little place, the green rooms, Steamers, which an ex Avonmouth Docker bought with his redundancy - used to be the Quay club before that, a real den of hard men and iniquity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Maesknoll Red said: At the risk of repeating stuff further back in the thread, it just seemed more.... exciting, daring, whatever then, as pubs and clubs closed at 22:30/23:00 and 02:00, so we had lock ins, underground clubs that whilst you were there, always had that slight edge that they might get busted. There was one at the bottom of park street, up a little alley, one in Brook Lane St Paul’s, and many others. The only 24 hour place was John’s cafe near the BRI. No social media to advertise these places, it was word of mouth, get in once or twice with a friend or a friend of a friend and then you could get in again. It might not seem much to today’s youth who have clubs open all night, but it was a good craic and a very diversified scene, biker bars and clubs, punk bars, places like the Dug Out where many mixed, clubs and pubs where the mainly Caribbean community (and Irish) went, town pubs where the ‘kitters’ went and then they went onto the discos, which had a dress code. The Hofbrauhaus, which was a strange mixture and good for a brawl with the odd bus load of Taffs in from Cardiff or Newport. Clifton, some good pubs and a club whose name eludes me, but it was a great little place, the green rooms, Steamers, which an ex Avonmouth Docker bought with his redundancy - used to be the Quay club before that, a real den of hard men and iniquity. Oh totally agree. Some of the 20 somethings in work find it bizzare that pubs had last orders at 22:30 and clubs only stayed open till 2. Part of the problem is that culture change - lots of people don’t go out till 10pm now and just stay out till 4am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 9 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said: At the risk of repeating stuff further back in the thread, it just seemed more.... exciting, daring, whatever then, as pubs and clubs closed at 22:30/23:00 and 02:00, so we had lock ins, underground clubs that whilst you were there, always had that slight edge that they might get busted. There was one at the bottom of park street, up a little alley, one in Brook Lane St Paul’s, and many others. The only 24 hour place was John’s cafe near the BRI. No social media to advertise these places, it was word of mouth, get in once or twice with a friend or a friend of a friend and then you could get in again. It might not seem much to today’s youth who have clubs open all night, but it was a good craic and a very diversified scene, biker bars and clubs, punk bars, places like the Dug Out where many mixed, clubs and pubs where the mainly Caribbean community (and Irish) went, town pubs where the ‘kitters’ went and then they went onto the discos, which had a dress code. The Hofbrauhaus, which was a strange mixture and good for a brawl with the odd bus load of Taffs in from Cardiff or Newport. Clifton, some good pubs and a club whose name eludes me, but it was a great little place, the green rooms, Steamers, which an ex Avonmouth Docker bought with his redundancy - used to be the Quay club before that, a real den of hard men and iniquity. This is true, the 70s had that atmosphere that i miss, anticipating the next fight, drink, drugs and all round edginess :laugh:, old bugger now and bored i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 04/10/2019 at 21:14, Maesknoll Red said: At the risk of repeating stuff further back in the thread, it just seemed more.... exciting, daring, whatever then, as pubs and clubs closed at 22:30/23:00 and 02:00, so we had lock ins, underground clubs that whilst you were there, always had that slight edge that they might get busted. There was one at the bottom of park street, up a little alley, one in Brook Lane St Paul’s, and many others. The only 24 hour place was John’s cafe near the BRI. No social media to advertise these places, it was word of mouth, get in once or twice with a friend or a friend of a friend and then you could get in again. It might not seem much to today’s youth who have clubs open all night, but it was a good craic and a very diversified scene, biker bars and clubs, punk bars, places like the Dug Out where many mixed, clubs and pubs where the mainly Caribbean community (and Irish) went, town pubs where the ‘kitters’ went and then they went onto the discos, which had a dress code. The Hofbrauhaus, which was a strange mixture and good for a brawl with the odd bus load of Taffs in from Cardiff or Newport. Clifton, some good pubs and a club whose name eludes me, but it was a great little place, the green rooms, Steamers, which an ex Avonmouth Docker bought with his redundancy - used to be the Quay club before that, a real den of hard men and iniquity. The Green Rooms, Rockpile and Steamers.....and before that The Lochiel floating pub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWSM Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 Guess I'm bored so Random post..I know with picking this thread back up, typical Fri and Sat night College Tavern run by Martin early 90s ...last orders then "get out of my pub you horrible lot" Then on to Corkers Then over to Boulevard, Then on to Pappillons/Odysseys if get passed Patrick. If not back to Micky Finns for a burger or in to the Bombay and see Massam and Anjid Dk St for a curry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Dazzler Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 27 minutes ago, MattWSM said: Guess I'm bored so Random post..I know with picking this thread back up, typical Fri and Sat night College Tavern run by Martin early 90s ...last orders then "get out of my pub you horrible lot" Then on to Corkers Then over to Boulevard, Then on to Pappillons/Odysseys if get passed Patrick. If not back to Micky Finns for a burger or in to the Bombay and see Massam and Anjid Dk St for a curry. Great to see the Bombay get a mention in the 90s, was our back stop on nights out during the late 70s/early 80s. Often used to get Welsh rugby club nights out, and stag nights in general into the early hours. Remember more than one Friday/Saturday night when the curries were flying around, think they had a hot-line to the Police by the end of the 70s! Still going strong today as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted July 11, 2021 Report Share Posted July 11, 2021 13 hours ago, MattWSM said: If not back to Micky Finns for a burger That place was awesome. Insanely good value and quality. It’s still missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWSM Posted July 12, 2021 Report Share Posted July 12, 2021 On 11/07/2021 at 13:39, CyderInACan said: That place was awesome. Insanely good value and quality. It’s still missed. Or to Rendevous chippy for chips n curry Source next to Harvey's at back of hippodrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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