Alan Esdaile… Always excellent live. Many happy memories.
John Wilde… Excellent Live indeed.
Terry Huggins… They were still gigging quite recently and Sonia’s still with them, but not sure if any of the other original members are.
Chris Giles… Enjoyed seeing them live ..
Pete Prescott… I’m learning back Street love ! Love that song !
Alan Esdaile.. and the wonderful Fusion Orchestra the following week.
Sarah Harvey… Current members….. -Sonja Kristina – vocals (Original Member) -Florian Pilkington-Miksa – drums (Original Member) -Kirby Gregory – guitar -Chris Harris – bass – Robert Norton – keyboards – Paul Sax – violin. Stephen Turners’s 30/11/74 article reviewing Sparks the week before and previewing Curved Air.
supplied by Sarah Harvey
Jan Warren… Yeahhhhhhhhh, Fusion Orchestra – loved them, went to loads of their gigs!!
John Upton… Back Street Luv is such a cool track!
Alan King… Tony Reeves, the bass player in my lot was in Curved Air a bit later on, with Stewart Copeland on drums
Chris Jolly… I rehearsed in a band with Florian Pilkington Miksa about 1976, the original Curved Air drummer… Tony is a fine bassist and a lovely chap!
Julie Findlay-jones… Great times at Mr Cherry’s mostly on a lunchtime break from college.
Amanda Hilton… Julie, yep or after a week on Fridays. Good live music too
Reid McDuffie… Julie, Me too!
Danielle Reed… Great memories of Mr Cherry’s in college days don’t think I ever did a Friday after at college lol
Barry Upton… Worked in a flat above recently and the disco lights are still in their loft which was a dance floor I think on the first floor
Tim Moose Bruce… Did a couple of gigs on the 1st floor in the 80s with the band I was in at the time. Most gigs were ground floor and occasionally in the basement.
Romaine Fulton-hart… So handy, so close to college
Ian Johnson… The live music was good
Stuart Tanner… First stop on a Friday night!!!!!!
Oonagh Hague… My late husband worked there x
Leigh Mitchell… A regular haunt during & after my college days in the 70s with my friends – over 50 years ago
Sandra Mcguinness… OMG!! Doesn’t time fly. I loved it there xx
Leigh Mitchell… Sandra, do you remember the polo mint incident with Ron Graham! He was picking it off his jumper for days after
Carrie Downing-Waite Sawatzky… Xlent music, esp for Blues
Stuart Moir… Played there many times with “Centre Page” brilliant clientele was always packed and you had to be in there early to bag a seat
Nastassja Kaschevsky… Played many a gig there in the 1980’s – was a great venue always packed!
Judy Atkinson… I worked there briefly aged about 15 when it was a rather gentile tea shop, long before it became a night spot
Sharon Sellens… Keith & I met there in 1985 at a Better Days gig! x
Rebecca Polain… Sharon, Wow, Better Days! I remember my dad getting us a cassette when they supported Steeleye Span at the White Rock. We liked them more than the main act. Played the tape relentlessly!
Matt Thomas… I have more memories of The Wellington
Christine Burton… I liked the Wellington, good times.
Virginia Davis… I always remember waving to my grandad working in the top right window in Marriott’s from the top deck of the bus. He usually didn’t see me
Peter Houghton… Thank you for sharing this!
David Edwards… I really enjoyed the Wellington.
Stuart Moir… Very long narrow bar .
Andre Martin… Bought out new furniture from Courts when we married back in 1972, and some is still useable, made in Britain and built to last in those days.
Martyn Baker….Wonderful gig, that night. Mixed live in Quadrophonic sound too, as I recall, probably for the first and last time on Hastings Pier. What a fantastic Rn’B band they were
Terry Huggins….They were originally called the Tornadoes, but had to change their name as there was already a band by that name (The other band had an instrumental hit with Telstar). They became the Golden Earrings, but later dropped the ‘the’ and the ‘s’.
Jim Hobbs….I was there that night. Great gig in the very week they got to number one with Radar Love. I recall that the numbers were very low, which was a shame as they were amazing with great sound from their Quadrophonic sound system. Vanilla Queen (from Moontan) is still a favourite track. I wonder if their drummer still jumps over his kit on the last chords of Radar Love? Also saw them play Brighton Dome with Lynyrd Skynyrd in support (they stole the evening), some gig!
Mick Mepham….Hey Jim, I roadied most of that tour and that gig for sure. Silly sods in the Dome management wouldn’t allow the quad p.a. to be set up at the back of the theatre so there were 2 stacks on each side of the stage. LS were really good too and made GE play even better.
Kevin Carlyon….Bloody hell. I printed these at Berfort Reproductions and used to go out fly posting with promoter Joe Morowski!
Jim Hobbs…A Classic track
Karen Sweatman Was Blackman…..Radar Love was the first song I ever sang at karaoke – trouble was I forgot there was about half an hour in the song where there is no singing and I was standing in the pub looking like a twonk for the duration. On a lighter note, I did win a bottle of wine. Think it was for the karaoke, not looking like a twonk!
Lauren Gower… My Uncle Simon roadied for them.
Chris Giles… I think this was the loudest band I ever saw on the pier….I was deaf for days after….brilliant though.
Phil Thornton… An excellent gig !!!!
Eric Cawthraw… Yep at this one – stood by the mixing desk to enjoy the quad sound. I remember the guitar sounds circling in one direction and flute going the other way. It made you go boss-eyed! Mick, I seem to remember our mate Simon Pont helping to get all their gear on the Pier – he got given a very glittery Golden Earing t-shirt. When wearing it – it looked like he’d got shiny dandruff. Didn’t a wheel of their loader go through the pier – or an I mixing this up with someone else?
Dave Nattress… Yes, went to this one. Golden Earring had a great couple of years on the back of Radar Love. They are STILL going – have a look on their website, got several of their vinyls including of course Moontan and 2 versions of Moontan on CD – slightly different track listing. I saw them at Brighton Dome but unsure if they were headlining or support. I half think they were supporting Free at the Dome but the other half of my thinking says this was unlikely. It was a long, long time ago and all that. I also, bought the vinyl of the Nutz first album – still have it – interesting cover!! Think they came from Liverpool.
Ian Mantel… Now a certain Mr Graham How tells me they had a spot of difficulty with their transport when they backed it onto the pier….
Chris Coleman… I was lucky enough to be there working with Jon Royle and the Music Machine Disco
Stuart Moir… Wow just look at the entrance fee
David Norman… It was a great performance by the band,they performed a long version of Radar Love, brilliant
Simon Elder… I rather guiltily highly remember the poster for Nutz, can’t recall what the music was like though, I’ll have to search for a video.
Ken Hatch… We used to skive off school to try and get in to watch Wings practicing here for “Wings Over America” tour (unsuccessfully)
Jim Peckham… Where’s that in rye or has it been demolished?
Ken Hatch… Jim, demolished, used to be next to the Police station
Mike Haddock… Remember going to see “Davy Crocket – King of the Wild Frontier” at the Regent in Rye with my mother in
the mid 50’s. Then home on the Dengate bus. Happy days.
Micky Erends… I saw the film” 20 million miles from Earth” here early 60s “
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Linda Day… Omg thank you, thats wonderful. My son is to the right of photo Stuart Day. Left to right Jon Porter Dan Cox front middle Patrick Woolloff drums and Stuart Day far right. Also Stuart played in the group Daytripper a year later with Wayne Jeffery Nick Goddard and Joe Clements.
John Gale… What a lovely old building that was .what a horrible replacement too.
Angela Frances Gardner… My mother brought me my first bra there she was very optimistic as I never grew into it .
Tony Court-holmes… my mum worked there in the late 50s early 60s
Colin Bell… My Uncle George managed menswear, when i was a kid, very Grace Brothers!
Gerry Fortsch… I had completely forgotten about this shop.
Mike Mitchell… I have a memory of seeing Father Christmas there…. Long time ago
Carol Paffett… Lovely shop , always had Father Christmas
Karen Towner… Loved you Mastins – from my young self
Amanda Hilton… I have a photo of me with Father Christmas in Mastins circa 1965!!!
Linda Gowans… My main memory is trying to wait patiently while my mother tried on what seemed like every hat in the shop, gradually reducing the choice until she finally came to a decision!
Gary Benton… Loved going to Mastins as a kid.
Linda Turnbull… Remember it well.
Jasper Bitter… I hadn’t realised that the older of the two office blocks had gone up whilst Mastins was still around. I don’t recall ever going there. When did it go? Was it another unexplained Hastings phenomenon aka spontaneous ignition leading to a major fire?
Sandy Max… Jasper, no it was sold off when the council wanted to ‘renew’ the area. Shame, the old building was so much nicer
Sandy Max… We cared for Ron the last owner of the store in one of the rest homes I worked in. Lovely man, he had a wealth of stories about the place and it’s people
Chris Meachen… I loved going in Mastins at Christmas, it was brilliant, especially the huge & spectacular light fitting which hung in the grand stairwell. When they started to demolish it I snuck in & stood very still in one of those big display windows, waiting for people to notice me, when I would suddenly move. All jolly good fun…
Kevin White… Wasn’t that the shop that had a model train in the window and you dropped a penny down the shute and it went round the circuit?
Jane Hartley… Kevin, no that was along Marina. My God mother worked in Mastins. I remember the Christmas grotto, was the best ever.
Steve Holland… My Auntie Francis Frazer worked there a very smart Lady .
Lloyd Johnson… The Street Party in Victoria Avenue in the 50s…I think it might have had something to do with The Queens Coronation…My sister & I are in this photo as are a lots of my friends….I think we were watching a ‘Punch & Judy’ show…
