Month: September 2018

Flamingos Discotheque Queens Road Hastings – 1984

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Who remembers Flamingo’s?

Matt Thomas…  remember of it but was too young to go in. Was thinking about this place recently and thought that it couldn’t have been very big inside

Peter Thomson… I remember it being there but never went in.

Dennis Torrance… Was it called something else before flamingos

Tony Davis… Amongst other things it was the Astral Club

Karen Sweatman… Remember where it was but was a wee whipper snapper and too young

Harry Randall… The Pamdor springs to mind that was opposite the Disc Jockey

Terry Hardwick… Toffs

Max Marriott… Yep, remember it well, my cousin worked behind the bar! Sarah Marriott remember this? Blast from the past or what! I remember tottering up those bloody stairs in my stilettos!

Sarah Marriott… Oh my goodness yes. God those stairs were lethal in heels

Kev Perry… Went there a few times

Pauline Richards… Was that the Pam dor then? Before

David Edwards… The Pamdor was at the bottom end of Queens Road about where Thomas Cooks is but the Disc Jockey of Big Al fame was half way up Queens Road on the right hand side. Remember the name of the Astral club but not where it was.

Alan Esdaile… Both right. Yes Pauline it was the Pam Dor and the Astral. and David, Disc Jockey was further up Queens Road at one stage and moved to the bottom of Queens Road

Martin Richter… used to go there on Monday nights

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Wilko Johnson – De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill 2nd March 2019

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The original Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson is performing here at DLWP on Saturday 2 March!

Heavily influenced by Mick Green, Wilko employs a finger-style, chop-chord strumming action (the ‘stab’, as he describes it). This allows for chords and lead to be played at the same time, giving a fluency and a distinctive sound very unlike the cleaner swat of a pick. With this economic sound, coupled with that black-suited, scowling look, and the yards he covered across the stage pausing only to twist the guitar lead out from under his feet, Wilko became one of the guitar heroes of the era.

for further information… https://www.dlwp.com/event/wilko-johnson/

Alan Pepper… Is that Norman Watt Roy ( ex blockhead ) in the lineup ?

Tony Ham… Yes it is, Wilko used to be in The Blockheads.

Paul Bryant… Looks like him.

Tony Ham… It is, seen them a few times in recent years. I took this when they played in Rye.

Mike Curtis… And support act………Glenn Tilbrook!!! With a bit of luck a couple of local lads will turn up – Chris Difford to play with Glenn, and Roger Daltrey with Wilco?

 

What if James Brown…

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Julie Findlay-jones… What if we didn’t all live in a yellow Submarine.

Colin Fox… What if the mule wasn’t muffin. What if it was a greener shade of pale.

Leigh Wieland-Boys… What if they actually named that horse in the desert?

Melody Gray… What if the lights never went out in Georgia. What if there was no highway to hell. What if Eminem didn’t clean out his closet

Elaine Roberts… What if the stairway was to hell?

Mike Guy… What if that Californian hotel had been full? What if she didn’t have a ticket to ride?

Nigel Goodman…. And the highway was to heaven

Jane Cranfield… What if Dolly only worked 9 to 5?

Paul Huggett… What if nobody had let the dogs out..?

Stephen Moran… What if there was no black paint available and the only option was to paint it in a different colour? Who is going to water his plants and patch his pants?

Chris Grainge… What if mud really didn’t love my tiger feet

Tony Ham… What if Sheena hadn’t been a punk rocker? What if there was someone quite like grandma?

Mark Randall…She’s have been a ‘Modern Girl’. What if a picture didn’t paint a thousand words?

Phil Gill… What if Jolene had found a single man? What if she hadn’t worn a raspberry beret? What if Billy Joe had changed his mind and didn’t jump off the bridge? What if Daniel didn’t wave goodbye? What if the angels hated wearing red shoes? What if Dusty knew exactly what to do with herself? What if Cilla told you to step outside, love? Send me the pillow that you drool on

Dawn Leaney… Will I leave if the midnight train to Georgia is cancelled?

Mark Randall… What if I was in fact a a member of the Master Builders of Carpentry

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