johnl 1 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Good afternoon all. Anyone remember the package tours that used to come to the Odeon cinema? In the early to mid sixties I saw many popular groups there including, Roy Orbison, The searches, Brian poole and the tremeloes, Swinging blue jeans etc. The one that I really sticks in my mind was Ray Charles, he was superb. When you went to see the 'beat groups' you could never hear very much because of the continual screaming! I also went to see Tom Paxton at the Albert hall. Another memorable gig was John Lee Hooker at the co-op elizabethan rooms on the top floor of the big store on parliament street. I went to see Sonny boy williamson at the dungeon, I know he used the undertakers as his backing group but I cannot remember the year. It would be nice to share other peoples memories of these gigs. Cheers, Johnl. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 i was there too..can remember the applejacks and the honeycombs ( with the girl drummer ) and having a coffee with them before the show at the wimpy bar on maid marian way..saw so many acts at the odeon..this was before i was old enough to go to the beachcomber, boat clubs etc !!! always loved my live music and still do! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Thanks for the memories of the Ballroom upstairs at Coop House. Saw Russ Abbotts and the Black abbotts there Early 70's Didn't The Beatles appear at the Odeon, around 1963? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnl 1 Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Thanks for the memories of the Ballroom upstairs at Coop House.Saw Russ Abbotts and the Black abbotts there Early 70's Didn't The Beatles appear at the Odeon, around 1963? Yes they did appear there, not sure if it was 1963 but I remember it was bitterly cold! We couldn't get tickets so like idiots we hung around outside. There were hundreds of people at the back of the Odeon. I can remember striking matches to feep my hands warm! Whilst I'm on....went to see The Graham Bond organisation at the boat club. They were incredible and had Ginger Baker on drums at the time. Poor old Graham commited suicide some years later. He threw himself under a tube train. Towards the end I think he suffered from delusions, at one point he declared himself to be the grand wizard of all England! Cheers Johnl. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 most memorable gig at the dungeon was the steam packet ( long john, rod stewart and julie driscoll) and at the coop Garnet Mims!...best ever gig in nottingham Hendrix at the beachcomber..happy days John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnl 1 Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 most memorable gig at the dungeon was the steam packet ( long john, rod stewart and julie driscoll) and at the coop Garnet Mims!...best ever gig in nottingham Hendrix at the beachcomber..happy days John Never saw Jimi, he played the Sherwood rooms as well. He really was something else wasn't he? Still listen to his stuff regularly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnl 1 Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 i was there too..can remember the applejacks and the honeycombs ( with the girl drummer ) and having a coffee with them before the show at the wimpy bar on maid marian way..saw so many acts at the odeon..this was before i was old enough to go to the beachcomber, boat clubs etc !!! always loved my live music and still do! By the way the Applejacks drummer was Honey Langtree. (Useless piece of trivia!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 By the way the Applejacks drummer was Honey Langtree. (Useless piece of trivia!) Sorry - it was the "Honeycombs". The Applejacks had a lady Bass player. (What year is the Midget?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnl 1 Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Sorry - it was the "Honeycombs".The Applejacks had a lady Bass player. (What year is the Midget?) Hi Limey, yes you're right! Just shows you how the old memory plays tricks! The midget is 1977. It has the Triumph engine which I don't like as much as the A series. I guess that you're A MG enthusiast from the pics. I had a '66 BGT some years ago, I think that was one of the first ones, wire wheels and huge steering wheel. A very nice car to drive. It went when the kids came along. Rplaced it with a Cortina GT. OK but not what I call a sports car. Cheers, john. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Sorry - it was the "Honeycombs".The Applejacks had a lady Bass player. (What year is the Midget?) Interesting one. The lead singer and harmonica player of the Honeycombs was Dennis D'Ell. Prior to me moving to Braintree 18 months ago I lived in a very pretty but isolated Essex village called Finchingfield. Dennis lived in a flat in the old Guildhall and his brother Lol lived just along the road from me. They had a very good local pub band called Den and Dell that regularly played in the local pubs, The Red Lion in particular. We used to have some great discussions at the bar, about the Honeycombs, life the Universe and everythng, they really were great people. a bit dodgy, knew how to work the system, but loveable all the same. Poor Dennis died of cancer 3 years ago, he was a lovely bloke, did you know that he once stood in with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band during a US tour, he told me it was the best thing he ever did, happened by chance during a backstage conversation with the man himself. The Beatles were due to appear at the Odeon and my cousin, the ultimate fan, arranged to meet me to buy a ticket. When I got there, the qeue was about 2 miles long, I gave up and didn't bother. Meanwhile, on the night of their appearance, my mates old man, a traffic copper, was given instructions to meet a van on the Ollerton A-1 roundabout. Arriving at high speed, he was told to get inside the van and look after the occupants, yes you've guessed it, it was the Fab Four. When I wandered round the next day to see my mate, I had these autographs waved in front of my face, written on police paper. He sat in there with them all the way to the Odeon and reckoned it was one of the best experiences he ever had, he said that they were so incredibly clever and amusing, particularly Lennon, that he felt ashamed at initially considering the operation as just being a baby sitting exercise with morons. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Thanks for that Firbeck Weren't the Beatles smuggled past the Waiting crowd, disguised as Bobbies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MartynE 2 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Interesting one. The lead singer and harmonica player of the Honeycombs was Dennis D'Ell. Prior to me moving to Braintree 18 months ago I lived in a very pretty but isolated Essex village called Finchingfield. Dennis lived in a flat in the old Guildhall and his brother Lol lived just along the road from me. Hi Firbeck, Nothing to do with the topic, but do you by any chance know my cousins, John and Jenny Kelly, they live in Finchingfield, The Green? Regards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Frank 13 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Nothing to do with the topic, but do you by any chance know my cousins, John and Jenny Kelly, they live in Finchingfield, The Green?Regards. Well. well. I know John very well as he is a customer of mine. I've done some work at John's house in Finchinfield (Pr**pe*t House) , London office and Nottingham office also. Small world eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MartynE 2 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 That's them, When you see him next him please mention Martyn and Doreen from Newark. The world gets smaller with age! Regards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Bloody hell, how wierd, no I don't know them personally, maybe by sight. My association with the village and all it's intricancies dissolved a while ago when all the real people dissapeared, the kids grew up and it became an expensive pain in the bum to live there, full of people emigrating from the London suburbs who wanted to live the village life but in reality were destroying it. It was fantastic 20 years ago when the old boys were about, I took a major part in village life, involved in the school, fete, cricket team, everything going, but it started to become a bloody London suburb, full of dickheads, we had to leave, it became unbearable. People are astonished that we should have left such a place, but we are happier living in a proper town, occupied by real people, whatever their faults, Finchingfield immigrants don't think they have any, they are welcome to their little enclave, go back and it's like Groundhog Day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BAZZER 10 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Can anyone recall who was on the bill with the Big 'O' ? For some reason, I thought it was the Beatles,,,, just before they 'made it'. Anybode remember 'Nottingham Such' ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 knew nottingham Such back in the day..started a topic on nottingham cafes hoping to track him down (think it was put inthe 70's instead of the 60's forum) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BAZZER 10 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 “Back in the day” makes us sound old !!!! Talking of Cafes & in the 60’s thread, we used to go to a café on Clumber Street (The Pepper Pot I think). A lot of us would just have a bowl of mixed salad. There was a flavour there that I’ve never been able to replicate. I can’t even remember what the taste was,,, but it just made that salad. Don’t s’pose anyone on here worked there in the mid 60’s ? We’d often pop in there before going off to Matlock Bath for the weekend. Remember the Trogs and the Nomads (nah,,,, not pop bands !) ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 remember all that especially matlock bath, the troggs( lived in the caves ) and the pepper pot.was Such's real name Clive? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 sorry it was the pepper mill not pot....use to go to don juan, el toredor and the pancake house..did anyone else? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BAZZER 10 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 went to don juan,,,, and Jules et Jim. also used - was it the Belvedere Club ! Late drinking establishment (they also sold bowls of mushy peas) & some rough rough cider ! On my last stay up there I used the Ad Lib a lot. Never knew 'Such's real name - but he used to answer to Dave (amongst others) - as in David Such. The real Such came to Matlock a couple of times,,,, but I don't think they got together. Happy Happy Days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Belvedere Club THANKS I have been trying to think of that upstairs club, above the Windmill Pub? Weekday Cross? Kicked in Juke Box and cheap bowl of Curry Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BAZZER 10 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 spent many many hours up there & had great times (or so they tell me) a great way to finish off nights enjoyment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 i can remember the mushy peas at the belvedere on the way up to the adlib..can you remember Gwen who ran the club? Such was always found in the square with the beatnicks or at the don juan on Parliament street..great days, fond memories Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BAZZER 10 Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 I can't recall any names i'm afraid,,,, but used to get on well with them all,,,,, there always seemed to be 2 or 3 girls working there. I used to spend lots of time in slab square,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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