When did these nights first open?

[Danny C]

Home opened about late 93 if I remember. A lot of the Hac crowd started going there. Got big for a while until it was raided by a 40 stong mob of Salford gangsters with baseball bats!!

 

[grover]

Must have been a bad year for bogs

The flyers were ace. The dali and new age were cool and those scary omen ones



Mart

these were great flyers....

 

[Wezza]

I remember that doorway. Wasn't there another entrance in some sort of covered shopping arcade(quite athstethically pleasing)? Or was that back 2 basics?
Trying to piece my memories back together again

this was the other door way mate for up yer ronson now its that shit hole

 

[chemayne]

Danny C, think u might be rite fella, can remember (vaguely! lol) going there in Oct'93 when it had just opened. Didn't move up here 'til the September though, so may b wrong!!

 

[chemayne]

Someone got shot there aswell, was there when it happened, not pleasant . Thats when they closed it down

 

[Chris Angels]

As far as I know, Angels opened in 1973. I think it was northern soul and disco right up until the mid 80's, had a pop session and then found house alongside its Northern soul and disco nights.

As for when the dance music/house music started there, Id have to guess at late '88 early 1989, probably more 89 though Id say cos its in the grotty outbacks lol.

Maybe somebody can confirm this info - as ofcourse this is the tales and recolections of a few peeps from the Lancashire area. Dont know how youd find out for definate.


Sirius.

Near enough spot on there mate, but Angels actually opened in 1970, Paul Taylor first started playing there in 73/74

 

[coggledots]

was good in its early house years, one of the best then it went all poo in 1996ish

Always remember Angels used to sell the most diluted half pint of coke you have ever seen in your life! :S Was like clear coke 10 years before it was invented! This was in the days when no one used to buy alcohol of course, lucosade, water or coke all night Never once did the old bill smell beer on me whenever i got pulled doing the 100's of miles each weekend i used to do When all they had to do was look into my eyes Were not as clued up the old bill in them days, in fact they had no clue at all!

Sorry for waffling, got a bit off topic there reminicing

 

[Wezza]

:S this may help on legends or may be not http://board.lovelegends.com/yabb.pl:S
:S which hippodrome are we on about :S

 

[PepeLePew]

this was the other door way mate for up yer ronson now its that shit hole

Is that what it looked like - the night for me was a bit patchy.
In fact I can summarise; remembering the short stairs up - being greeted by some bird with angel wings - A lot of mental blackout - me cutting up the dancefloor large style in the chill out area; while my mate tried to dissasociate himself from me. About 2 minutes worth of memories :$ .
The other 2 times I went through the street entrance I have good memories of.

 

[Barrie Jay]

As far as I know, Angels opened in 1973. I think it was northern soul and disco right up until the mid 80's, had a pop session and then found house alongside its Northern soul and disco nights.

As for when the dance music/house music started there, Id have to guess at late '88 early 1989, probably more 89 though Id say cos its in the grotty outbacks lol.

Maybe somebody can confirm this info - as ofcourse this is the tales and recolections of a few peeps from the Lancashire area. Dont know how youd find out for definate.

Sirius.

When the Highland Room at Blackpool Mecca closed one of the resident dj`s - Ian Levine - (Take That and other shitty boy band producer) who had moved on from Northern Soul to Disco and Hi NRG started a residency at Angels. This was around the time the club first opened (I thought 72 but with my memory I`ll agree with 73).

He had been influenced by the New York gay clubbing scene on his frequent trips to the USA searching for northern soul tunes.

It was the first club I had ever been to where the dj did not talk and whilst he did not quite get the idea of beat matching he used to play a lot of American 12" singles (I can still recall seeing my first one - what a novelty !!) and `blended` them together over the beat breaks using all different mixes and kept the music flowing all night without a break.

For me he was, genuinely, the first guy to do this ever in the UK - back in 73 and way ahead of his time.

Interestingly Shaboo lasted just 5 Thursdays and 6 Saturdays and I went to every sinlge night. Warehouse atmosphere in a club. Simply brilliant.

 

[Wezza]

Interestingly Shaboo lasted just 5 Thursdays and 6 Saturdays and I went to every sinlge night. Warehouse atmosphere in a club. Simply brilliant.[/QUOTE

Ive always wanted to know were shaboo was or wot was it near Ive been to the love shack and the zone @ jenkes bar and the venue but never got to shaboo missed my chance allways regreded it .

 

[Barrie Jay]

Shaboo was at Jenks Bar - when we took over as Zone the club was exactly the same as when it closed.

 

[Wezza]

Shaboo was at Jenks Bar - when we took over as Zone the club was exactly the same as when it closed.

:S well i never knew that it buged me for years that one nice one p s may italian live for ever top man and d j had some good nights @jenkes bar

 

[chris17]

Is that what it looked like - the night for me was a bit patchy.
In fact I can summarise; remembering the short stairs up - being greeted by some bird with angel wings - A lot of mental blackout - me cutting up the dancefloor large style in the chill out area; while my mate tried to dissasociate himself from me. About 2 minutes worth of memories :$ .
The other 2 times I went through the street entrance I have good memories of.

i've never been in since it changed to heaven and hell used to go quite regular when the entrance was on the street and it was the pleasure rooms
sure i heard a story not long back that a floor had collapsed there don't know how true that is though

 

[Wezza]

i've never been in since it changed to heaven and hell used to go quite regular when the entrance was on the street and it was the pleasure rooms
sure i heard a story not long back that a floor had collapsed there don't know how true that is though

may be that one they fill in to make the dance floor upstairs

 

[chris17]

may be that one they fill in to make the dance floor upstairs

i was out in town a couple of months ago and someone told me a floor had collapsed on a friday night the weekend before
like i said i dont know if its true lol

 

[OldskoolDazed (al)]

RE wez & coggledots

From hazy memories, is this the place with old fish tanks in wall and sunken dancefloor at bottom then upstairts theres a glass roof that fucked my head up that did, mid flow sun was out lol and dance floor gettin lighter lol

 

[Wezza]

From hazy memories, is this the place with old fish tanks in wall and sunken dancefloor at bottom then upstairts theres a glass roof that fucked my head up that did, mid flow sun was out lol and dance floor gettin lighter lol

their were some fish tanks 3 on each side of the wall as you walked into room 3 down that black corridor from the dance floor upstairs wear they had filled it in to make the dance floor if i remember rightly .but i can't remember the glass roof :S
the fish tanks were their when it was basics / up your ronson dont know if their still their ant been it since it was took over by heaven and hell.

 

[chris17]

From hazy memories, is this the place with old fish tanks in wall and sunken dancefloor at bottom then upstairts theres a glass roof that fucked my head up that did, mid flow sun was out lol and dance floor gettin lighter lol

i can deffo remember the fish tanks
and there was a bar that looked out onto vicar lane with another dance floor and massive windows
if my memory serves me right i was always pretty battered when i was in there lol

 

[Wezza]

i can deffo remember the fish tanks
and there was a bar that looked out onto vicar lane with another dance floor and massive windows
l

:S dint the bar run along the left as u went in room 3 and the d j used stand in the window thats looks out to vicar lane :S