Alan Esdaile… Not much change outside, from what it looks like today. Went to many great gigs downstairs in the seventies.
Martin Richter… Tuesday nights ?
John Wilde… Expandis debuted there.
Alan Esdaile… John, I was there!
Terry Tollan… Ahh Yes
Stuart Moir… Many times watching Ray Fenwick perform with his band
Andy Maby… Expandis, Tich Turner & the Escalators, Electric Bluebirds, etc… loved it!!
Alan Esdaile… The Mets, The Mobiles, Jim Jim & The Jims and many others.
John Gale… Martin, wasn’t you there for Daddy Yum Yum? Was a good night .
Martin Ritchter… John, the guy with the washboard waistcoat ?
John Gale… that’s it mate, a rare gig for them this way. I’m glad I saw it though. Was a packed midweek gig I seem to remember.
Lesley Farnborough… My late husband Paul, whose family owned the Chatsworth, started ‘Rock at the Chats’ on a Tuesday night in 1980. We got to number 13 in the New Musical Express as a venue for up and coming bands. Great memories!
Martyn Baker… Jim, Jim and The Jim’s?
Paul Dove… My dad used to stay there when he came to see me and my brother Chris, after mum & dad split up late 50s, I do miss Hastings when your brought up by the sea it’s stays in your blood, still have a lot of good friends still living in the town. Best wishes to friends and family for Christmas &new year, keep well. Paul, xx
Angela Frances Gardner… A great nightclub in the basement
Sheila Maile… Grab a granny night as it used to be called. Got pushed there in a shopping trolley one sat night good old days (&nights).
Patricia Burgess… Stayed there on our visit back to England and Hastings in 2003 it seemed stuck in the 70’s. Hope it’s been updated by now
Graham Sherrington… The Chatsworth was my hotel of choice when I came back home from Jeddah for breaks, staggering distance from most places in town, three bar electric fires and a shower one had to run around in to get wet. Have some photos of the front from the balconies somewhere 1980′-90’s
Adrian Sooty Lily Hennings… I love Hastings we have stayed here before lovely hotel .
Chris Baker… Played there a few times. Nothing like a low ceiling to get the crowd warmed up!
Joe Knight… Good times!!
Dave Nattress… I knew Paul but did not know he’d passed. So RIP and best wishes to his Wife. A great venue as a punter or performing. Played there once with “The Charts” early 80’s. A good gig. Andy Leaney, (RIP), Mick Bridgeland, Steve Watson and myself. Lee Sulsh joined at about that time. He was a good lad and is still doing it I believe. We had become quite a tight little outfit by then
Our family stayed here on our visit back to England and Hastings in 2003, it seemed stuck in the 1970’s then, hope it’s been updated now
I knew Paul but did not know he’d passed. So RIP and best wishes to his Wife. A great venue as a punter or performing. Played there once with “The Charts” early 80’s. A good gig. Andy Leaney, (RIP), Mick Bridgeland, Steve Watson and myself. Lee Sulsh joined at about that time. He was a good lad and is still doing it I believe. We had become quite a tight little outfit by then