Riff

Cuba Libra

Hi. If you get my books. 'Images of England - Radford' and 'Nottingham Through Time', both of them have Raleigh Social Club and Athletic Club location information in them. You can order from Amazon. Best wishes Chris Richards

Is the Greasy Lil building still there?

Has anybody got any memories of the old Ainsley Estate? I lived there till 1994, saw an old neighbour this afternoon and he said it has gone downhill.

Hey chaps if you like my stuff I have a new book coming out on 23 Nov - Nottingham Through Time, published by Amberley. Loads of images of 80s Nottingham on there. Be sure to stock up for Christmas! CR

Oh the Greek was great. They did a great doner and chips, You could also walk into the place from Victoria Street and go out the other side into Pelham Street. We used to go in the Bodega first, then the Corn Exchange, Prince Albert, Corner Pin (always full of codgers), and walk back to the Greek before going to the Palais. Happy days

We always went to the Skylark on Alfreton Road, opposite Boden Street. Flock wallpaper, and a super hot Chicken Vindaloo. And great coffee afterwards. I can remember it being quite cheap as well. This would be about 1978-79.

Does anyone remember a cafe called Greasy Lils that was somewhere near the Vic Centre bus station? I can remember going there, drunk, on several Friday nights for greasy fry ups at 3 in the morning, but where was the place? Can anyone remember?

Hi Stu. We were there at the Rock City Futurist Evening when it first opened. Some girl handed us tickets in Langtreys and me and my mate Paul Fillingham went down, It was like a freak show - we were in our element. The first night was a bit quiet, but after a few months every exhibitionist in Notts had crawled out of the closet and was down there. We can remember the plastic glasses (we always drank Red Witch (cider, pernod and black), and normal guys in suits, shirts and ties applying eye-liner in the toilets. The video wall always played Bauhaus and that song called 'Fish Heads'. There were

The pics are on Waynes MySpace page, so you'l have to ask him! Good Sid story - 'Frog Save The Queen' lol

ooops sorry my apologies!!!

Theres a load more shots of Gaffa from the late 70s on here: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...;albumId=577889

Cheyanne Ali?

He's still got The Frog! Yes, he used to call Mick that! We used to annoy John by screaming 'Ey Mazzo' at him from the side of the stage. Wayne once told us a funny tale of being driven to a gig in a van, where the driver had taken Magic Mushrooms!

Wayne is the original undiscovered lyrical talent. I can remember his mum always coming to the gigs at the Imperial, this little old lady standing there with all us lot with spiky hair and leather jackets on.

haha the top two photos are mine! Mick Barratt had left and John Maslen was on drums. In the second one Dawn Foxall is on vocals.

Saw Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Clumber Street about 4 years ago, with his girlfriend. He asked directions to a jewellers shop, and I started to get a bit star-struck and lost it. He shook my hand and said 'I'm just a lad from Sheffield you know'. Such a nice guy.

I met Billy Connolly at a cashpoint in Nottingham in the late 80s. He was in front getting money out and I made a joke about 'Thats the first time I've seen a Scotsman GETTING MONEY OUT of a cash machine'. He laughed and started telling jokes to a crowd of us. Very funny guy.

Russell Slade was the year above me at Glaisdale. His brother Mitchell was in my year. But the best player of the lot was Trevor Morley (son of Forest's Bill Morley). He used to own the newsagent on Grassington Road, and we used to play footy with Trev. He was that good you could never got the ball off him, like a young George Best.

Babysitting off the Neither Use Nor Ornament LP is hilarious. Its basically a story of a girl babysitting and her attempts to sneak her boyfriend in for hanky panky while the family are out. Very funny.

Some other bands I remember seeing at the Imperial included: Loose House, The Cutouts, Harry and The Atoms, etc.

Waynes great lyrics - 'I've given up the world and my paper round - to be - the First Teenager On The Moon' Brilliant!!

Yes - some other songs I remember were: Painkiller, Adult Entertainment, Man With A Motive, Attitude Dancing, Woman's Problem, Never Again, Different Story, Trackless, Heart Of The Matter. Wayne lived on the Ainsley Estate like me, and I believe he was in a late 60s group called Tadpole Lane, along with a guy on guitar called Richard, who lived a few doors away from me. We used to marvel at Clive (Myph) Smiths guitar playing, he had a really great sound, like a Nottingham version of Jeff Beck. Keyboard player John Maslen had a Korg synth out of which he used to extract the weirdest noises.

Didn't Sisco have a lead singer that used to have a bottle of MILK at the side of his mike stand to soothe his shredded vocal chords? And wasn't one of their songs 'Good Company'? A play-on-words of the famous rock band.

I lived there from 1965 - 2004. Firstly on Pine St (opposite Bright St), and then on the Ainsley Estate. I can remember going in the Nottingham Arms for my first drink aged 15, and then at 16 with my Dad to the Plough, Rose, Bobbo, Marquis, Midland and Higglers. Dad always called this pub the 'Hilly Joggers'.