Charlie
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Next thing you know, it'll be raining nuts and bolts and the councils won't have the right sort of grit for dealing with it, and the schhols will close, and the buses won't run and the world will end.
PS - Beefy, do you really have a pit stop at the end of your drive? Cool!
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Oops - sorry!
Anyway, HG, do you remember Ian's pale blue V dub? Plus he also had a girlfriend (barmaid) at T&P - she looked like a lot of his girlfriends, long brown hair, tall, willowy, frop dead gorgeous..... Also, like a lot of them, she was called Janet or Janice!
He also had a favourite opening line - 'Tickle your arse with a feather' and when the girl said 'what did you say?' he did his knicker-melting smile and said 'I said, Typical Manchester weather'. He made it all look so easy!
He told me that after pulling at T&P, where there was real competition, pulling in town was a doddle!
lol
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Blonde hair? Little bit of backcombing? Dressed to perfection and more chat-up lines than Euston has railway lines! Amazing bloke really! There was another Mancunian turned up for a while - taller than Ian - bleached-blonde hair - called Clive. He cut Trevor (if we have the same trevor) with a steel comb and then left town! Trevor, in handcuffs, was dragging two cops around in the Hippo as he tried to pursue Clive! Clive actuall fled - with his face whiter than his hair! Never did like him!
Dunno, could have been Sandra? Could have been Mavis - all I can see is the face! Pat'll know!
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Yes he did work at a club in Manchester - Time and Place I think. He had been in the army and then worked the clubs and then decided to get educated. It so has to be the same Ian!!
I don't suppose two miracles are possible - would Suzanne remember him? Would she be able to contact him? Or maybe even remember the name of his company and then I could kind of contact someone there!
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Yes he did! He just upped and quit - well, almost. Neither of us had been in the poly for the whole term and were on our way out anyway. Ian had met a girl - petite, dark haired - Janice? Janet? Very shy girl. Having talked me out of settling down when we met - so I could be his ugly mate - he suddenly decided to quit college get married himself and get a job - with the Insurance company - Colonial? Imperial? Wish I could remember.
I was supposed to be best man but I had a very heavy night before - I think I'd ben tripping - and never made it out of bed. He never forgave me. :-( I think he moved out to a flat near the top of Carlton Hill.
I've googled him to death but he too has vanished!
Our other friend was Stevie frost - big gangly lad - skinhead hair but not nature - total nutter though! Steve lives in Wales somewhere now - very successful businessman - married a lovely girl had kids and stuff! I tried to get him to join Nottstalgia, but no joy.
We used to hang out with Colin and Alan, up near the top bar and then wander down onto the dance floor to make the acqauintance of some young lady.
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Mind you - you saying that about a tall girl brings back a memory of a tallish, pretty blonde - hair parted centrally (?) style a bit like early Lulu? I think she worked the top bar sometimes. Do you remember her? Is that you? Pat, does it ring any bells with you?
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Magic our Mick, but watch out for the operforming arts rights liberation whatever they are - they'll make you take out a licence!
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She wasn't tall - it was just the step behind the bar! Colin was in love with her - so was I and Steve and Ian and..............................Pat will know who it was!
She can't have been from Manchester 'cos I'd remember Ian using that as a way in to her affections - he was a Manchester lad, at the poly, with me. But for Ian, I'd never have gone out on the town! But, I would be a barister making gazillions defending the worlds businessmen from there just desserts! Hmm, maybe I made the right choice after all!
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You have a thing for Aliens? There's a movie you should watch - with Sigourney Weaver - Bip fathered those mean little suckers! Right now he's in pursuit of Putin's grandaughter, which may result in a visit from some Russian guys armed with radioactive suppositrys!
Be prepared Bip! Don't ever bend over unless you're sure no one is lurking behind you.
Nuclear Bip + suppositry
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Hi Hippo Girl! That is such a good question - but I keep wondering it about so many people! How come there's only about half a dozen of us left? I sometimes wonder if I've misremembered it all! Don't suppose you ever had any luck with Alex? Passionate Pat? There are just so many people I'd love to say 'and how's your life been then' to! I was really big mates with Andrea - we shared a flat for God's sake - but she seems to have vanished of the face of the earth.
Yes I know you were the prettiest girl behind the bar - but was that really you? Not tall, dark hair and a smile that gave any man within twenty yards a hard lump in their throat?
I seem to remember there was no draught beer up there - I also remember it was Watneys red on the main bar! 10p for half a pint! Which is expensive when I think I can get boxes of Carlsberg now that work out at about 67p a pint from Bargain Booze!
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I always thought he just liked the feel of his finger, but now that you mention it it does make sense!
I thought the brass section was awesome
If anyone other than me and Craig actually look at this there is a series of CDs called 'Motown Classic Hits' which I think were imports, and which are available on Amazon second-hand and which do have lots of the brilliant early stuff on them - well up to about vol 3 anyway. Vol 1 is my favourite!
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It would be the greatest of pleasures to help you jean but I have been told to cool things down when talking to a lady so the answer to the question is no I can't help.
By the way are you m*****d ? and if so would you fancy an a****r, if all criteria is met drop me a PM….
I remain yours Bip.
Bip, you are unbelievable! A couple of days into your new relationship and already you're cheating on her.
Jean, take no notice, Bip is a very bad man. Although he allegedly has a very interesting water feature and a penthouse somewhere on Mars.
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Too easy for some, too hard for others, but at least it's a pic!
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I have all their vinyls except 'Rock n Roll Survivors '..the one with the new line up.
WOW!
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Now that's dedication! I just have Mother's Pride and Charity Ball on vinyl..............but I think it's enough!
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What about Wendy - barmaid - Red hair and enough make-up to open her own salon? Wasn't there a pretty, dark-haired lass who was usually up on that little bar, up the stairs off the dance floor?
Pat was actually a lovely lass - just not bright enough to understand what they were turning her into. I used to feel really sorry for her as it happens.
Trev Austen - can't remember him at all - was he on the door?
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I liked Alsatian Pat! Although, I have to say, I wouldn't have wanted to get too close. Besides, it was the bad guys what brought her to that pass!
Two guys came back to memory - I think one was Trevor Wood - local hard man - and a guy who was a mercenary - well on the way to being overweight - can't remember his name - but he used to come back from Africa every now and then loaded down with bootie! I seem to remember they both helped to train her................
Don't suppose you know what became of 'Big Al' -used to DJ at the Ad Lib and come down to the Hippo to steal your ideas!
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What the flick is flicker - I know, I know, it's only technology and it's easy! I'll figure something out! But not till in the morning - we pensioners need our zeds!
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Hey - the bouncers may have been scumbags but the DJ was Awesome!
Under Flash Pete they were, unpredictable. Ted, who was a little mean, had this 'kojo' thing he'd made and he used to punch holes in the wall going up the stairs, then later he'd punch holes in heads. They used to march everyone out the back and kick the sh1t out of them. If the victim bled on them they gave him another kicking, just for spite. When it came to going up against Pete himself, though, everyone lost their bottle - he was well 'ard!
Under Cuddly Cotterill, it depended on the mix at the door on any given night, but by and large they did like a good fight. The night cuddly set them on me it did hurt, but five bouncers onto a 5' 6'' Dj, with specs? That kind of gives you the perspective.
Mostly, if you knew them they were OK - I knew Ron from the Hippo, Stu 'cos everyone did, Didn't much care for Tom or Dave - miserable tw*ts at the best of times.
Brian, on the door at the Hippo was always a gentlemanly sort of guy - well to me and me mates anyway. And Ricky, who someone else mentioned and I'd forgotten - he was a good guy too.
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Didnt think anyone else remembered these......excellent girl band
got all their cd's and some vinyls
Remember the boat club very well..fell off the balcony a few times too......then also got in without paying a few times that way.
the the Silver Slipper once every month
Well, they were OK..............I have a couple of albums and brilliant they ain't. Still, they did have balls which is probably why Pat played 'em! Right after Nazareth doing 'Dear John' if I remember correctly and then followed by Jo Jo Gunne - Brilliant segue Pat! !jumping!
What really bugged me was that the mix of Charity Ball on the album is completely different from the 45 - no edge to it at all!
CDs? I thought there was just the one - very expensive one - on Amazon!
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Since no one can find an album cover, I will give you another?
That is Booker T - McLemore Avenue - awesome!
No - I don't get on with photobucket! It chews up me photos!
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Just this moment listening to and loving - Chris Clark (6foot, blonde and white) singing 'Do right baby, do right'. Now, if that isn't soul - don't know what is!
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Gordon did indeed buy a club in Derby (called it the Hippo) about 1969/70. He also bought one at Leicester too. I went over to Derby on a Wednesday night for a while. Gerry Gibson Jr was the manager there.
Barry died in a car crash but I don't think it was on the way to the club. Sad day that as his brother Gren died the same way a year or so before.
The girl you mean was Miney Todd, she did a lot of art work when the former kitchen was turned into the restaurant.
I'm sure the club WAS haunted, I had some very strange experiences in there all the time I worked there. A number of people said the same, they saw & felt things that they couldn't explain.
PS Nice to know ya still got your hair.......lol
A lot of the girls used to say they felt things on the dance floor that they couldn't explain. Said it gave 'em the willies! Well, there is an explanation and it was called Ian Barratt! Or Stevie Frost. Or Colin. But never me!
Mick McCardle aleways reckoned that the barrel cellar was the spookiest place in the world - he reckoned ghosts for sure.
Don't suppose any of you remember Alsation Pat?
PS - where's Tony buggered off to now?
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Donkey Bray Dec 20th 2008 , 05.50pm
Hi Tony,
I don't know if you or anyone else remembers me. I'm Derek (Donkey) Bray
I worked the door at the Hippo with a guy called Kenny Burt on Friday and Saturdays from 1969 to 1971.
I let Keith Moon in one night as he wanted to meet Pat and view her records.
I remember you well – the smartest guy in town!
Working there at the time, I also remember Gordon Long, Ricky, Brian (Who worked on the bins in the daytime), Pat the dj and George Markowski, the deputy manager who broke his leg carrying potatoes down the stairs, I also remember a Spanish chef – a tiny bloke with an enormous temper.
I can remember us all playing football against the 'Eight til Late Club at Bulwell Hall one Sunday morning. Gordon was in his Aston that day. I think we drew 1-1.
I'm now retired and living in Peterborough with very fond memories of that era.
I'd love to hear from you and anyone else who may remember me.
I'd forgotten Ricky! Brian - I couldn't forget. I always thought the Chef was called Manuel.
Not owt about nowt
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Caz, take no notice, this site has turned into an opium Den - Even Ian does ten lines a night!
Still, Happy Birthday anyway!