Police dispatched a team from the Home Office forensic laboratory at Wetherby to analyse the ruins, gather evidence and make appeals for people who were in the club to come forward, in particular a party of 15 who visited from Cleethorpes. My parents are often quite worried in case there are fights, said Paul. Did it have anything to do with the Corn Exchange pub? You will be in the Breeze and become world famous. Now [2001] Enigma. Both Scamps and Hofbrauhaus had strippers on during the day at one time or another. I remember the jive dancers giving shows and also meeting Joe Cocker in his early days. Bailey's closed its doors and was put up for sale in August 1977 due to falling attendances. Our daily newsletter- To get the latest headlines direct to your email inbox every day,click here. Email us, Scamps Out of School Clubs 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!! The Twist and the Jive were hot then. I recall seeing Elkie Brooks & Vinegar Joe there on a number of occasions. Listed from at least 1960 as a ballroom dancing venue, but gone by 1963? There was a very large Bouncer called Dennis. Paul Taylor was a regular, and he recalls: - 'Kestral on Charlotte Street Mews opened 1970 and the dance floor was on the 1st floor. Ive just been looking in old diaries. At the moment he finds what all the other DJs I spoke to find that what pleases the majority is the Motown sound. Perhaps not them, but I wouldnt have minded shedding a few years on Tuesday evening. It cost 10p to get in and smelt mostly of patchouli oil. A foam party at Kings Club on Canvey in 1995. Excellent music, always. AB15 5HY, Tuesday 18/10: The Land Before Time Dinosaur Day (fossil making, dinosaur dig excavation, lava slime), Friday 21/10: Pumpkin Art (pumpkin painting, slime making and cinnamon pumpkin pie baking), Wednesday 26/10: Halloween paper mach Art, Thursday 27/10: Halloween themed games and crafts, Friday 28/10: PJ + Movie with Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows. Extremely loud, with impressive light shows etc. But who are the people who frequent the discos the people who are Hulls night owls and who are just starting to wake up when most of us are going to sleep? 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. which burnt down under allegedly suspicious circumstances back in the 1980s. Circa 1982. 22 - July 27 - Aug 9, 2022 - Scamp Club Slade again, and several others there. Listed as a social club and changed to No.11 South Street from 1962 - I just love that name. - we are quite happy with the image of discos and a disco is a bit more lively than a pub. Anyone remember Scamps? 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. Work was planned to be completed by January 1985, with site owners Freshwater being tight lipped at the time about the future development. Something went wrong, please try again later. Took over the Club International in 1989-90 and was demolished shortly after, circa 199 something. Click here to give it a like! Opened circa 1990, taking over the former Sculcoates Club - a working men's club. A much younger clientele although it retained a dark side until its closure in ? For 17 year old Terry Baynes its the atmosphere that draws; Its more lively, there is more happening. By the end of the 1970s (1980?) And as Peter Croskill says young people do seem to have more money than they used to. The team will be updating the wall murals and photo displays throughout the year now the halls have been repainted. The Oddessy Diskotek, formerly known as Scamps, located at no. Club Restrictions: Guests Pilots Welcome, General Public Welcome, AMA Membership Required, No Drugs/Alcohol, Model Inspection. Rave Magazine, November 1966 & April 1967 editions, Tower House Publications, London 1967 (authors collection). I have since updated it with additional memories sent in by readers and viewers of this website but it must only be a fraction of the places that you could call a club in Hull since the Second World War, other than traditional 'Social Clubs' and working mens clubs. Ticket for Scamps nightclub (loaned to us by Rob Goldberg thanks Rob!). Why do he and his friends make these frequent visits? Opened in 1996. Listed as a nightclub from 1999. Scamps of course became Odyssey (actually wasn't it spelt wrong?) Contact Information: Phone: 714-307-3040 Email: lancepr@mac.com. 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. My sister, in a recent discussion about it thought of it as a sophisticated jazz club which it may have been - that may have been the reason for the appearance of black R`n`B musicians - the date of this event is in an article in Mojo which Dave Burton loaned me recently in an article about Davy Graham and Bert Jansch (Bert Jansch was involved in some gigs with Little Walter). Only Clubs, Social and General were listed (of which there were 96) and Clubs Dancing and Ballroom, which had one entry - the Kevin Ballroom, North Church Side (also the home of the Birdland jazz club see later). All the flashy sound and lighting rigs could never quite recreate the ambience of the Jailhouse. Listed in the telephone directories under cafs and restaurants from 1964 until 1975. 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. Scamps will be closed for the holiday starting Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 and will reopen on Tuesday, January 3rd. as a more trendy venue. which burnt down under allegedly suspicious circumstances back in the 1980s. This suggests a possible distinction between those listed as social clubs and those listed elsewhere, i.e. Later to become the equally short-lived Mutiny on the Bounty pub etc., which also died a death or the same reasons. It housed two bars and boasted 800 sq ft of mirrors, over 100 plants and a colour scheme of white, lemon, green and gold, and was advertised as the latest concept in clubbing entertainment. Continued to be listed until 1984 when it was almost destroyed by fire; demolition was underway by November 1984 and the site cleared by February 1985. Not sure if this was anything to do with the old T.C.s in Folkestone Street. 15 with a Bullet. As with many clubs, the Welly was also a place you could see local bands. Website reader Terry Scott recalls the Prohibition 66 Club - possibly on the site of the old Kevin Ballroom. as possibly a club over the covered market. It ran as a regular late night coffee club and disco after 10:30, when the resident DJ was Jeff Bunting. Still running in 1981 but Oddessy took over from it in 1981- 82. Upstairs was Scamps which was I believe owned by the same people. The photograph which was takenfrom the Lowgate end, from what I can recall, would suggest that the Barracuda was on the opposite side to the Bishop Lane Club and was very near tothe Lowgate end. Published by at June 30, 2022. 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. There was a lot of speculation surrounding the fire. First listed in 1987 as a night-club, known colloquially as el-aays and incorporating Luckies Bar upstairs circa 2001. Confused? now [2001] offering; House, Trance and Funk Lounge. Mention the word discotheque. 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. twitter_user = 'via=hullmusicarchiv'; Copyright 2022 Hull Music Archive,All Rights Reserved. Latterly the New York Hotel & Ballroom, from the 1950s onwards, where you could dance away to Harold Dawson & his band. [Scheduled for demolition in summer 2009 as part of the continuing Ferensway regeneration]. 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. An ex Hull Mod recalls 'Mod haunt 66-68. Opened 1994 ish and was listed as a night-club that became known as Room 82-88 by 1996. Noted for the first time in 1963 as the Wellington Social Club, under clubs, social & general but was probably more of a working mens club until its new lease of life in the late 1970s (?) Now demolished. It was a place you went after going round town and where you could get a drink after pub closing hours. Tiffanys Nightspot & Discoteque, Ferensway. If I could find my copy of the NME encyclopaedia I could give you more names. Elsewhere, left-over do-wop hits jarred against the odd Folk protest song, and even a few Jazz hits. It was a turning point for the city. Flamingo Coffee Club & Casino, 106 Londesborough Street. These appeared for the first time in the telephone directories in 1971 although I suspect they existed earlier. Download our app-You can download our free app foriPhone and iPad fromApple'sAppStore, or get theAndroid version from Google Play. Emma Fee - Too Busy Watching Invisible Things. Listed for the first time in 1973. Now they can include snack bars, flashing lights, waitress service, drinks with meals all competing for one of the most attractive money markets in the country today the teenagers. Sparkling black walls, floor awash with sticky beer, Sylvia (Focus) & Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Band) on the Juke Box, bliss. The headline was: -. Theres no question of them appearing at the door in jeans. May have later become the Cameo Club. Scamp Club (Scampclub pets are not for adoption.) My memory of it really is as a coffee bar. In 1997 Dj vu (Independent Promotions) situated in the Hull Business Centre were first entered in the Yellow Pages under night-clubs. One was clearing debris from a stairway when he was blown down the stairs in a blast from a gas explosion. 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. Managed by the leader of Cheds Blues Band (later Vigilante) Ched Cheeseman, who filled the Juke Box himself and made it the cheapest and best juke box I can remember anywhere, ever. 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? I think I went a number of times in the (late?) Shortly before that happened, we were young kids hooked on the promise of fun, mad action & Disco . I mean in theory I know the date it opened - I have a file on it if only I could find it, I saw it recently. Pepper`s place, i.e. Also, click through Categories and Tags (at the bottom of each page) to discover different content or use the Search box at the top of the page! It later became a club known as Scamps, before developing into a nightclub in the 1980s called Le Beat and then Metro. First listed as a night-club in the telephone directory of 1992, located next door to Club Sahara, with which it joined forces at some point in 1993 to create the larger Oasis. qiiktitle = 'Ephemera%3A%20Scamps%20Ticket'; Anyone remember Scamps? 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. Ten years later it underwent another revamp with. The night after I left my job there, The Beatles actually performed there. Later listed as Club International, a night-club, until 1989. However, it never seems to have been listed in the telephone directories, unless it was classed as a pub - everyone knows it was in the old Skylines premises, so where was it recorded? The Jazz fans had their own favourite haunts and could be seen as several distinct groups; modern Jazzers, who listened to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus etc., and traditional or Trad Jazz lovers who had Chris Barber, Kenny Ball etc. Discoteque, rear of 48-49 Whitefriargate. as a more trendy venue. Took over from the short-lived Fagins in 1986. The following list of fondly remembered venues was gathered in 2001 from my own memory and those of friends and family, and may spark a few memories of our dancing (or relaxed listening) days. Jeff also worked across the road at number 51, which was the legendary 51 Club. The main entrance to Montagues was via No.1 Bishop Lane whilst the downstairs dancefloor was the former No.2 Bishop Lane, the original entrance to No.2 being used as a fire escape. An oldie but a goodie, The State opened as a nightclub in the 80s. Blue LampLive Music Club & Bar, 2 Norfolk Street. Opened over 40 years ago, Spiders has seen all the alternative music scenes come and go and managed to live to tell the tale. If you are up there and others sit down, you stop up there, but you feel more self conscious if you get up early and you are the only ones. Towards the end of its time, they opened a second dance floor on the ground floor. Not listed in 1994. 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). White Boy Singin the Blues; The Black Roots of White Rock, Michael Bane. Tots 2000 (pictured in 1997) in Southend. 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. Rebuilt after blitz damage in the 1950s. 25 year old Ray Copeland was appointed the manager of the 80,000 club, scheduled to open in August 1971. First listed under clubs, social & general in 1982 having replaced the New Waltham Club, remaining until 1985. New kid on the block opened circa 1998; catering for thirty-somethings apparently although their original promotion suggested they were introducing an over 25s club to Hull. Use the top menu to navigate via section indexes, or just browse the latest entries on the left! Noted in the 1966 telephone directory under cafs and restaurants, but could you dance there? Even classical composer Aaron Copland agreed: - if you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. 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. The article recorded that the disco was purpose built as a nightspot for Hulls younger generation, Malcolms Discotheque on George Street will be opened on Saturday August 21st the disco has two floors and entertainment will be in the form of dancing to the latest discs. Top groups had already been booked to appear and the club had a late licence but would also be open for the under-18s on certain nights. Regular band was The Alan Bond Orchestra. Still running in 1989 but converted to the Paradise Club in 1989-90. Club Sahara and Quigleys joined forces to create one of Hulls rather down market night-clubs in late 1993. Remembered by Chris Ketchell (what isnt?) Took over from Studio Circus in late 1992 and included Ritzy, which later became Eclipse. Blues sat alongside Rock & Roll and Skiffle, and Motown met with Rhythm & Blues and spawned a new breed of soul. Founded on May 26, 2005, GESCO provides private and corporate security services in various regions of the country including Baku, in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001. Gondola Club & Coffee Bar, Little Queen Street. Six firefighters were hurt, but none seriously. But he finds no fights where he goes. 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; Older people are finding the discos more attractive. Scamps are always eager to promote and encourage outdoor play, even during the winter months but especially in the Summer; so please make sure you provide SUN CREAM (it should be in the original packaging and clearly labelled with your childs name) as well as suitable wet weather clothing and shoes for your child. A working mens social club, later to become Olivers, Jailhouse etc. Sounds like a musos venue or a jazz club? Graham Wilkinson remembers it as a dance place. Spiders Nightclub is an independent alternative music club in Hull. Very rough and tumble with an old black guy on the door who always had a baseball bat handy. And included Ritzy, which was the legendary 51 Club did it have anything to do with the image discos! 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