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Post by nigelhberry on Feb 22, 2013 8:03:37 GMT 1
Who remembers the Mistrale Club? Great memories of seeing The Nice playing America there. Also Rory Gallagher when he broke from Taste. Anne O'Hare was a great fan and she lived next door to me in Goddard Road. I remember Richard Kennedy trying to blag a lift from John Peel there to his next gig. He was a great blagger was Richard. We used to go with Martyn Jack and Jim Longford. Martyn was a great fan of the Amboy Dukes (American) who we saw. Other great bands that were on were: King Crimson, Fleetwood Mac (Pete Green at his best). Try this blog for some fond memories transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/mistrale.html |
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Post by The Historian on Feb 22, 2013 8:17:04 GMT 1
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Post by ska2soul on Mar 24, 2016 21:08:53 GMT 1
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Post by blodwynpig007 on Nov 18, 2017 21:07:49 GMT 1
I saw Spooky Tooth there in late 1968 early 1969 also remember the Rolls Royce. |
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Post by Pete on Nov 26, 2017 13:33:57 GMT 1
As I mentioned in the original Mistrale Club post - our band The Unattached played there, but slightly earlier than that of the more recently suggested opening date of 1968.
From memory (it was long time ago!) we played there in 1966 or '67, but either way, just shortly after it changed it's name from Beckenham Ballrooms.
So, if it was no longer Beckenham Ballrooms -but not yet The Mistrale Club -what was it called in between?
Pete
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Post by gren on Aug 9, 2023 22:57:20 GMT 1
I worked at Tights as an upstairs barman from about 1975 to 79. I met the owner Mike while I was on my gap years and working at the Saunders Abbott garage in Albemarle Road, at about the time of the oil crisis. He and the manager both had exotic and thirsty cars, and since we had HUGE petrol tanks, and some very rich customers, I made sure that they always had a good supply ;-) That lead to my job offer. Mike offered me a rare 1950's Rolls Royce Touring for £250, it needed some work, and due to Uni approaching I had to decline; another great life-choice, as today it would be worth millions.
For those still in love with her (we ALL were), I'm sure that the lady who took your money was Jodie, she was the manager's wife, so you stood no chance anyway - lol.
Yes, I was there in the spam and coleslaw days, fortunate enough to have Carol Mann as my "waitress"; tall, blonde, beautiful and smart, you could not have found a more magnetic lady in the whole of SE London. Despite my witty banter (I wish), many lifts home in my dad's Singer Vogue, and all the free drinks that I could persuade her to swig, nothing (other than a snog) ever came of it.
I recall the guest bouncers on a Saturday, Mick McManus and Johnny Kincaid spring to mind. The Radio 1 DJs were on £1k/night even then, and mostly creeps. I do recall being told by the resident DJ that "Fluff Freeman" had tried to 'have' him in the downstairs office - that's both a room, and a euphemism ;-)
MANY thanks to the folks who created this web site, it's been a fantastic trip down memory lane.
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