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Brum and Black Country- Venues Of The Past

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ethanedwards

Brummie Muso
Please check out the link below,
to see the more famous Venues of the past

https://www.unsignedcity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Brum & Black Country- Halls of Fame- The Definitive List

Hopefully we are getting together the definitive list
of all the live venues on the Birmingham music scene
during the sixties.;-

Please add any, we may have missed.

59 CLUB John Bright St
ACORN Hockley
ACORN Pub Aston
ADELPHI BALLROOM
ALCESTER TRADES & LABOUR CLUB
ALDRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE
ALEX HOOPER'S
ALEXANDRA THEATRE John Bright St
ALL SAINTS YOUTH CLUB Four Oaks
AMBASSADORS CLUB
APOLLO Cinema Tyburn Road
ARTS LAB Summer Row
ATLAS BALLROOM/BINGO HALL Stechford
ATV STUDIOS
AUSTIN WORKS Longbridge
AUTO CLUB Coleshill St
AYLESFORD HALL
BAG O' NAILS CLUB
BALSALL HEATH LABOUR CLUB
BARBARELLAS
BEAR HOTEL
BELFRY Wishaw
BIER KELLER
BILLESLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE
BILLY POND'S DANCE SCHOOL
BIRMID CLUB Smethwick
BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
BIRMINGHAM COUNCIL HOUSE
BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL
BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
BLACK CAT CLUB Rubery
BLACK HORSE Northfield
BLAISES
BLAKENHALE HIGH SCHOOL
BOGARTS
BOGGERY
BOLTON ARMS Small Heath
BOMBAY Restaurant Essex Street
BOURNBROOK
BREEDON CROSS Cotteridge
BRITISH OAK Pub Pershore Road
BROMSGROVE BATHS
BROOK STREET YOUTH CLUB
BRS Club Erdington
BRUM BEAT CAVERN Summer Row
BRUM KAVERN Small Heath
BULL'S HEAD Moseley
BULL'S HEAD Pub Kings Norton
BUSHMOORE HALL Hall Green
CAFÉ DE PARIS
CALIFORNIA Pub Weoley Castle
CARAVELLE CLUB Elmdon Airport
CARLTON CLUB
CARNABY CLUB Yardley
CASTAWAYS
CAVENDISH CLUB
CAVES CLUB Walsall
CEDAR CLUB
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE Bristol
CHALET Lickey Hills
CHATEAU IMPNEY Droitwitch
CHESTERFIELD CLUB Castle Bromwich
CHETWYN'S Navigation Street
CHRIST CHURCH YOUTH CLUB
CHURCHFIELDS SCHOOL- West Bromwich
CHURCH GRESLEY MEMORIAL HALL
CLEVELAND ARMS Pub Wolverhampton
CLIFTON HALL
CLOCK Pub Bickenhill
COFTON COUNTRY CLUB
COLESHILL Youth Club
COLLEGE ARMS Pub Kingstanding
COLMORE FARM SCHOOL Rubery
CONTINENTAL CLUB Soho Road
CO-OP BALLROOM Nuneaton
COTTON YOUTH INSTITUTE Holloway Head
COVENTRY FLYING CLUB
CRAWDADDY
CROWN & CUSHION Perry Barr
CROWN Pub Corporation Street
CROWN Pub Digbeth
CROWN Pub Hill Street
CROWN Pub Stourport-upon-Severn
CUSTARD HOUSE Pub
DELTA METAL SOCIAL CLUB Erdington
DIGBETH CIVIC HALL
DOG & PARTRIDGE Yardley Wood
DOGPOOL Stirchley
DOLPHIN SUITE Bromsgrove
DOWNBEAT CLUB Hockley
DRAGOON Pub
DUDLEY HIPPODROME
DUDLEY LABOUR CLUB
DUDLEY LIBERAL CLUB
DUNLOP SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB Erdington
EAGLE FOLK CLUB Hill Street
EDGEWOOD HALL Rednal
EL SOMBRERO Coffee Bar, Horsefair
ELBOW ROOM
ELMDON HEATH VILLAGE HALL
ENGLEBACH YOUTH CLUB Turves Green
EXCHANGE Pub
EXECUTIVE CLUB
FACTORY
FARCROFT HOTEL
FORDBRIDGE VILLAGE HALL
FOREST Pub Lickey End
FULFORD HALL Earlswood
GARDEN OF EDEN CLUB
GARRINGTON'S WORKS SOCIAL CLUB Bromsgrove
GALA BATHS West Bromwich
GAY TOWER BALLROOM Edgbaston
GEORGE HOTEL Walsall
GLEBE Pub
GOLDEN CROSS Pub Erdington
GOLDEN CROSS Pub Harborne
GOLDEN DIAMOND CLUB
GOLDEN EAGLE Pub Hill Street
GOSPEL OAK Pub
GOSTA GREEN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
GRAND HOTEL Colmore Row
GRANT Pub Pershore Road
GREAT BARR COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
GREAVES HALL
GREY'S Store Bull Street
HARLEQUIN Pub Shard End
HARP CLUB Walford Rd
HEN & CHICKENS Pub Langley
HENRY'S BLUESHOUSE
HOBMOOR Pub Yardley
HOLLYBUSH Pub Quinton
HOLY GROUND CLUB
HOPWOOD CARAVAN CLUB
HUNTERS MOON Shard End
JACK WOODROFFE Shop
JEROME STUDIO Great Western Arcade
JEWISH CLUB Holloway Head
JUG O' PUNCH CLUB
JUNGLE COFFEE BAR
KARDOMAH COFFEE BAR
KAY WESTWORTH'S Cannon Street
KING GEORGE V Pub Northfield
KINGS HEAD Pub Hagley Road
LA DOLCE VITA
LAS VEGAS COFFEE BAR
LAST CHANCE CAFÉ Aston
LAURA DIXON DANCE STUDIO
LE METRO CLUB
LEA HALL BRITISH LEGION
LICHFIELD GUILD HALL
LOCARNO BALLROOM Hurst Street
MACKADOWN Pub Kitts Green
MAJESTIC BALLROOM Wellington
MANEY HALL Sutton Coldfield
MARINE BALLROOM Evesham
MARKET TAVERN Bilston
MARQUEE
MASONIC HALL Bordeseley Green East
MAYFAIR SUITE
McDONALDS FOLK CLUB
McKECHNIES SOCIAL CLUB Aldridge
MEADWAY Pub 36 130
MIDLAND ARTS CENTRE Cannon Hill Park
MIDLAND RED SOCIAL CLUB
MIDNIGHT CITY Digbeth
MOAT HOUSE CLUB Bradford St
MONTE CARLO Club
MOORFIELD HALL Heathway
MOORPOOL HALL Harborne
MORGAN STUDIOS
MOSSLEY YOUTH CLUB Bloxwich
THE MORGUE
MOTHERS
NAVIGATION Erdington
NECHELLS GREEN COMMUNITY CENTRE
NELSON HOUSE Dale End
NEW INNS Handsworth
NEW OSCOTT SOCIAL CLUB
NUNEATON CO-OP Hall
OLD CONTEMPTIBLES
OLD OSCOTT SOCIAL CLUB
OLD STONE CROSS Dale End
OPPOSITE LOCK CLUB
OSMINGTON BAY COMPLEX
OUTLAW SOUND STUDIO
PARKINSON COWAN SOCIAL CLUB Stechford
PELSALL COMMUNITY CENTRE
PENTHOUSE CLUB Constitution Hill
PERRY COMMON BRITISH LEGION
PERRY COMMON SCHOOL
PINK ELEPHANT CLUB
PLAYBOY CLUB London
PLAZA BALLROOM Handsworth
PLAZA BALLROOM Old Hill
POLKA TULK
PRINCE RUPERT Pub Nechells
PUNCHBOWL Lapworth
PYE STUDIOS
QUEEN MARY BALLROOM
QUEEN'S HEAD Pub Erdington
RADIO CAROLINE
RAILWAY Pub Curzon St
RAINBOW SUITE
RASPUTIN'S CLUB
RAVEN Stechford
RAVENSCROFT CLUB
REBECCA'S
RED HOUSE Wheeler St
REGAL CINEMA Handsworth
REGENT SOUND STUDIO
RESERVOIR Pub
RINGWAY CLUB Bromsgrove St
RINGWAY MUSIC Moor Street
RIO GRANDE LOUNGE Yew Tree Pub
RITZ Kings Heath
RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT Tenbury Wells
ROUNDHOUSE Chalk Farm
ROYAL HOTEL Sutton Coldfield
ROYAL OAK Hockley Heath
ROYAL OAK Kingsbury
RUBERY SOCIAL Club
RUM RUNNER
ST AGNES CHURCH YOUTH CLUB
ST CHAD'S CHURCH HALL
ST FRANCIS CENTRE Bournville Green
ST FRANCIS CHURCH HALL Bournville Green
ST JOHN FISHER West Heath
ST JOHN'S CHURCH Perry Barr
ST JOHN'S RESTAURANT Digbeth
ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH HALL
ST NICHOLAS CHURCH HALL
ST PATRICK'S CHURCH HALL
ST PAUL'S HALL Balsall Heath
ST PETER'S COLLEGE Saltley
SANTA ROSA CLUB
SARACEN'S HEAD Youth Club
SAY MAMA Sutton Coldfield
SELLY OAK INSTITUTE
SEVEN STARS BLUES CLUB Stourbridge
SHAKESPEARE Pub
SHAMROCK CLUB Hurst St
SHARD END COMMUNITY CENTRE
SHARD END SOCIAL CLUB Bookbank Avenue
SHIRLEY INSTITUTE
SICILIO COFFEE BAR Five Ways
SILVER BEAT CLUB Stephen St
SILVER BLADES ICE RINK
SKILLET POT CLUB Livery Street
SLOOPYS Corporation St
SOLIHULL CIVIC HALL
SPEAKEASY London
STAR & GARTER
STAR BALLROOM
STAR CLUB Hamburg
STAR COFFEE BAR
STATION Pub Selly Oak
STUDIO MUSICA Shirley
SUMMER HILL ICE RINK
SURFSIDE STOP Constitution Hill
SWAN Pub Yardley
SYDENHAM Pub
TAMWORTH ASSEMBLEY ROOMS
TARDEBIGGE Finstall
THIMBLEMILL BATHS
THREE HORSESHOES Pub
THREE MEN IN A BOAT Pub
TITO'S Soho Road
TOP RANK Dale End
TURF Pub Monument Road
TYBURN HOUSE Pub
TYSELEY WORKINGMEN'S CLUB
UNDERWOOD SCHOOL HALL Erdington
UPLANDS YOUTH CLUB
VALLEY Pub Yardley Wood
VARIETY ARTISTES CLUB Aston
VIKING Pub Solihull
WALSALL ARBORETUM
WALSALL TEACHER'S TRAINING COLLEGE
WALSGRAVE WORKING MEN'S CLUB
WARSTOCK Pub Yardley Wood
WEDNESBURY YOUTH CENTRE
WEOLEY CASTLE COMMUNITY CENTRE 3
WEST END BALLROOM
WEST END CLUB Suffolk St
WESTCOTE HALL Frankley Beeches
WHARF HOTEL Holt Fleet
WHISKEY A GO-GO Navigation St
WHITE HART Pub Redditch
WHITE LION Pub Portway
WILLOWS Pub King Norton
WIMBLEDON PALAIS
WIMBLEDON THEATRE
WINDMILLL CLUB Yardley
WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL
WYTHALL VILLAGE HALL
YARDLEYS
YEATS WINE LODGE
YENTON BOYS CLUB
YEW TREE Pub
 
Aint got time to look through the list But Slade and the various pre slade bands the in betweens the n betweens the vendors Steve Brett & the Mavericks The Phantoms/ Memphis Cutouts & ambrose Slade played these venues:




THIS INFORMATION IS NOT TO BE USED ANYWHERE ELSE AND COMES FROM SLADE HISTORIAN CHRIS SELBY ALONG WITH MYSELF & MANY OTHER SOURCES

Edited due the reply below if you wanna rip information off other web sites that's fine (as in Brumbeat) but just coz you aint gained permission off me and your reaction to remove the brumbeat Slade info from your forum.

THE REASONS FOR THE REFUSAL TO PUBLISH THIS LIST OF SLADE GIGS WAS MADE CLEAR IN MY REPLY TO YOU
 
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My favourite pop group venue in the 60's was the Hen & Chickens at Langley. Any photos?:) Graham.
 
ethanedwards said:
gary jordan,
what a great list,
here is my forum's profile page for

Ambrose Slade

https://www.unsignedcity.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=426

I would ask your permission to post this
most informative list on our forum,
or even better for you to join, and make it possible for yourself,
and your friends to contribute on our forum,
it would be greatly appreciated,
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Sorry no can do, this is privy slade information, and we do not want it displayed all over the net, one day this will appear in a special Slade book, which would be our & the bands copyright, however we are prepared to let you edit the list and only display any venues not on your list.
 
Although not of an age and not personally remembered I believe the bull on the Coventry road, near where the bill and bull stands today was a popular venue, a guy I used to work with remembered seeing Fleetwood Mac their amongst others, also Birmingham Bingley Hall seems to be missing off the list I know this was used in the 80's so expect it was used in the 60's.
 
gary jordan said:
Sorry no can do, this is privy slade information, and we do not want it displayed all over the net, one day this will appear in a special Slade book, which would be our & the bands copyright, however we are prepared to let you edit the list and only display any venues not on your list.
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IMO I thought any publicity and memories of a band were worth sharing!
Perhaps if it is a problem , I should take Slade out of my Forum?
 
ethanedwards said:
IMO I thought any publicity and memories of a band were worth sharing!
Perhaps if it is a problem , I should take Slade out of my Forum?
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SEE THE RESPONSE TO THIS UPTOP

I thought any publicity and memories of a band were worth sharing!

READ IT IN THE BOOK ALONG WITH PHOTO'S THAT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE BAND
 
mention of the Hen & chickens made me remember playing there myself, on the same bill was as he was known then Shane Fenton andThe Fentones

shardeen
 
I may have missed it but I did'nt notice Digbeth Civic Hall listed as a venue ,it was a midweek venue I rmember seeing The Move there in the sixties. I also used to go to the allnighters at the Midnight City ,and saw some gerat bands there ,Cream , The Who and Family to name a few. The Midnight City was only open for a few months and was booking bands along the same lines as Mothers , the problem was that it didn't have a drinks licence ,although the owner or his dad owned The Moat House which was directley above it. It seems that the club had a reputed drugs problem and the police took to waiting until the headline band opened up and raided the place ,this soon led to closure ,pity . regards Bernie
 
berniew said:
I may have missed it but I did'nt notice Digbeth Civic Hall listed as a venue ,it was a midweek venue I rmember seeing The Move there in the sixties. I also used to go to the allnighters at the Midnight City ,and saw some gerat bands there ,Cream , The Who and Family to name a few. The Midnight City was only open for a few months and was booking bands along the same lines as Mothers , the problem was that it didn't have a drinks licence ,although the owner or his dad owned The Moat House which was directley above it. It seems that the club had a reputed drugs problem and the police took to waiting until the headline band opened up and raided the place ,this soon led to closure ,pity . regards Bernie
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Hi Bernie,
It is in the list,
and here's our Forum profile of it.

https://www.unsignedcity.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=372

Also thanks for reminding us where Midnight City was,
I went there a couple of times.
 
Sorry Ethan you are doing afine job of what must be a mammoth task ,but while my memory ,unlike my sight , is working I wondered if anyone else went to the blues festivals held at Town Hall annually . I went to two around 1965 67 . The first headlined by Sonny Terry and Brownie Magee the second by Lightening Hopkins and included a host of talent Albert King , Etta James , Big Bill Bronsby , Sonny Boy Williamson . Little Walter etc ,great shows regards Bernie
 
I am not sure where to post this as I don't know where it was. The cutting is from The Birmingham Weekly Post 1952.
 
Wendy said:
I am not sure where to post this as I don't know where it was. The cutting is from The Birmingham Weekly Post 1952.
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Hi Wendy,

I played there in bands,
and it is near Kenilworth.
Many top bands played in the ballroom ,
and also in the cellar type bar underneath.
 
berniew said:
I may have missed it but I did'nt notice Digbeth Civic Hall listed as a venue ,it was a midweek venue I rmember seeing The Move there in the sixties. I also used to go to the allnighters at the Midnight City ,and saw some gerat bands there ,Cream , The Who and Family to name a few. The Midnight City was only open for a few months and was booking bands along the same lines as Mothers , the problem was that it didn't have a drinks licence ,although the owner or his dad owned The Moat House which was directley above it. It seems that the club had a reputed drugs problem and the police took to waiting until the headline band opened up and raided the place ,this soon led to closure ,pity . regards Bernie
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Bernie,

I've only just seen this post! I saw Cream and The Who at Midnight City, and couldn't hear for about a week afterwards! You're dead right about the lack of drinks licence - we used to slip a half bottle of Bell's into a pocket, but I recall a lot of drinking on the pavement outside. I can't remember being there when it was raided, but, as they say, if you can remember the 1960's, you weren't there!

In a simliar vein, I remember staying with a friend in Hayes, Middlesex, about 1969, and he suggested we go down to some pub where they had bands. Typical enormous London estate-type boozer, but the band that night was 'only' Derek And The Dominoes, before it was generally realised that 'Derek was Eric' - Clapton, that is. What a night. The 'Layla' album is my most-played CD, having worn out my vinyl copy ages ago.

Regards,

Big Gee
 
Thanks for the info Ethan I had no idea where it was but it was such a lovely advert. I would have loved to have seen you play.........wouldn't it be nice to go there now!:)
 
Didn't see the CAT (now University of Aston) on that list. I saw bands there such as The Bonzo Dog Band, Brian Auger Trinity, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Steampacket (Rod Stewart and Julie Driscoll), Carl Wayne & The Vikings, and many others.

Digbeth Civic Hall was also famous for the Jug O'Punch Folk Club on Thursday nights, hosted by Ian Campbell. Rough cider, too....ye gods...

Big Gee
 
Hi Wendy:
I remember the ads in the Birmingham Mail for dances at Chesford Grange
in the l950 s and early l960 s. The last time I saw the sign for Chesford Grange was on the programme Keeping Up Appearances. Richard and Hyacinth stayed there for a weekend supposedly. The place is still going it seems but very expensive.
My apostrophes and inverted commas have decided to have a French flavour so not usable at the mo. Will get it sorted later.
 
Wendy said:
Thanks for the info Ethan I had no idea where it was but it was such a lovely advert. I would have loved to have seen you play.........wouldn't it be nice to go there now!:)
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Thanks Wendy,

It would be nice to go there,
and incidently, I still play and record,
so there's chance to see me yet, before it's too late lol

Bee Gee,

Here is the Unsigned City profile on
Digbeth Civic Hall
https://www.unsignedcity.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=372

I used the Jug 'o Punch lots.
 
i Big Gee I think the Civic Hall promotion on Tuesdays was called the teen and twenty disc club , it used to feature some live bands and also had an audition spot for bands that wanted to work for the agent who ran it. You sound a likely customer for Henry's Blues House upstairs in the Crown Station Street ,The Bakerloo Blues Band , Champion Jack Dupree etc. Do you remember a local band , Craig , who had Carl Palmer on drums who was about 15years old at the time ,they weren't bad but he was areal talent . regards Bernie
 
Hi Bernie.

Henry's Blues House I do remember, but sadly I never saw Champion Jack Dupree there (or anywhere else, unfortunately). The band called Craig I don't remember. Didn't a band called The Artwoods play there regularly?

Strange how in those days I used to go to folk, blues and jazz clubs and enjoyed it all. I think I was much more open-minded back then.

Big Gee
 
Big Gee I am sure you are right about peoples musical interests being more varied than probably any other time , I could happily watch a jazz , blues folk or rock band then but as I got older I prefer blues which was always a slight preference from my youth . regards Bernie
 
berniew said:
Big Gee I am sure you are right about peoples musical interests being more varied than probably any other time , I could happily watch a jazz , blues folk or rock band then but as I got older I prefer blues which was always a slight preference from my youth . regards Bernie
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Hi Bernie,

If you like blues it'd be great to see you at The Sutton Blues Collective, at the Station Pub, Sutton Coldfield. Google it for more info. Regular guests, and a jam every second Wednesday of the month.

Big Gee
 
dwilly said:
Although not of an age and not personally remembered I believe the bull on the Coventry road, near where the bill and bull stands today was a popular venue, a guy I used to work with remembered seeing Fleetwood Mac their amongst others, also Birmingham Bingley Hall seems to be missing off the list I know this was used in the 80's so expect it was used in the 60's.[/QUOTE Were the The Bull gigs run John Tropman?.
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Got to say although i,m a brummie used to have some great nights out at the Hen and Chickens on the Wolverhampton Rd in the 60s. Dek
 
I am researching the history of the Stockley family - West Brom, Kings Heath etc. I would like to hear from anyone who remembers the White Lion Pub, Portway which was run by members of this family in the early 1900s, before they moved to Kings Heath. This pub was demolished when the Maypole to Studley duel carriageway was built about 40 years ago. Any photos would be appreciated.
 
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