100 Wigan Pier memories

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so if i have to sit in tonight i'll do something constructive

1. malcolm charles thorpe aka fat malc aka malc t aka and my personal fave The Master Tee
2. Ian "Ruddy" Rudd
3. One of the above constantly breaking tracks while the other constantly stole them and played them for the next 2 years see pka - eclipse for evidence of this.
4. one of the above leaving after a dispute with terry over money and the worse of the two stayed.
4. a certain character off this board falling in the canal
5. the same character jumping in the canal after being dared by a big titted bird to do so. (and no i didn't get a shag)
6. phil and dave hongkins
7. the sign inside the entrance "no drugs in this establishment. cheers phil"
8. terry "the turtle" lennon
9. terry's quite amazing shirts
10. phil giving out ice lollys
11. phil getting on the mic at the end of the night and promising all nighters and stuff.
12. k klass pa 1200 in 800 lokced out
13. bassheads pa 1000 in 500 locked out
14. rozalla pa
15. the malc getting welly sacked rumours
16. terry getting the pier on panorama
17. every loon from wigan on there.
18. hilda woods. the stalwart of wigan nightlife from working the cash till at the wigan casino she moved to the pier. oversaw two generations of drug fuelled dancing wigan youths.
19. hilda woods dancing!!!
20. dreaming a dream nights
21. shortened to D.A.D
22. Those Car stickers. not as good as the legends ones but still good.
23. Those Queues, "fck me there queing over't bridge"
24. Saturdays were manc nights with mike e bloc on the decks.
25. The downstairs half moon seating area
26. That Pier smell. The only club in the world with that certain smell. I love that smell. it's a mix of stale vicks,tiger balm and sweat, sounds shit but smells ace.
27. Lee Turner taking over from Ruddy
28 Dave Charnley guesting on Fridays
29. Jumping the queues as you knew someone on the door and as you were walking through all you could hear was a chorus of "bastards,bastards"
30. Good E's
31. The night when the loon pulled a gun on the dancefloor and started waving it round at everyone.
32. Doing Laps of the place non stop.
33. Malcs odd mixes Lonnie Gordon into Beltram and Sam Cooke into Altern8. er.
34. The lunacy on the car park after it all
35. Mints Cafe Bar. 1.00 for a paper cup of vimto. cheers mints
36. Martin Brown on the door. very small lad
37. trev the porn star on the door smaller
38. Cam breakdancing in the middle of the upstairs bit(dear me)
39. Akinwale Arobieke after Cams ass in there.
40. It then went shit
41. Everyone buggering off to Legends the 05 or Hard Times
42 For those that kept on going the ensuing mayhem between Wigan and Salford, Wigan and Skem and Skem and Salford, Chuck the odd visit from Carlisle in the equation and er
43 It picking up a bit then going really,really rough
44. Dreaming a Dream changing it's name to Dream. That really was the end
45. Satisfy on Saturday with mike e bloc finishing for good
46. Mike E Bloc wanting to call his Ellustrious - Dance No More remix the Wigan Pier Remix but terry apparently wanted to much money for him to do it.
47. Pleasure starting on a saturday
48 It going good again for a bit
49. It went rough again
50. "Tall" Paul Newman coming a bit unstuck in the pier then telling lies to mixmag about what really happend.
51. As did Colin Favor. booed at end of set with loads of your shit calls.
52. Matt Bell playing there and him annoucing to the crowd "for everyone to get on the dancefloor now" the battle hardened 200 in there just looked at each other as if to say who is this dick?
53. A boltoner called paul rae residenting there and being a really good dj.
53. Malc upping sticks and hotfooting to canada amidst rumours of unpaid debts.
I'm bored of this now.
54. Welly getting fridays back after 7 years
 

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61 - full off muppets aka wiganers and leythers
62 - some woman who was about 60 off her head who was always there
63 - Maximes was better
64 - going on a thursday or friday night and having a culture shock when they played chart music or rock :confused:
65 - withington and wythenshaw vs salford
 

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fugjostle said:
69. Pissheads jumping into the canal

lol, was just going to put that

69a. one pisshead jumping in the canal, swinning over and climbimg out, about 100 loved up ravers running scared from him

72. it being better than maximes, guess it's all about when you went..
73. that top geezer in there who made his own diddlies and every week had a new batch for me to test drive..all free as well :thumbsup:
74. michelle & leona :love:
 

WAFC

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Maximes

79 Maximes was no where near the pier when the pier was in it's prime. Maximes will always be Tiffanys where they had under 18's breakdancing and mod nights.
80.wedensday night was rockers night
81. Mints cafe again
82. mints appereantly a now a homosexual tramp in blackpool
83. Kev Panda
84. Long Haired Dean(something to do with the wiggly worm in stockport) organising a rave in the Empire Skate Building, Terry shitting one and letting him promote a couple a nights.
85. Opel Mantas on the car park
86 Kerry from horwich mmmm. kerry. now lives in new zealand or something.
87 Maximes starting up dance nights in wigan with dj trix/trax. maximes had palm trees in then.
88. Malc not owning a set of decks till 1992
89. "Wigan" as they say not going in any shape or form since mid 95.
90. Bees Knees then Pier. a time honoured route.
91 movies starting up dance nights in wigan called club bagdad. spelt just like that. appalling as well.
92 The appalling shed starting up dance nights called either two tone or funkatron.
93. Drunkards from Platt Waz in there sparkling new Revenge Tee Shirts talking in that fake manc drawl.
 
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