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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    RIP.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    I remember seeing Stray at the Poly but was in early 70's, also Pink Fairies, and some others. Great gigs, but Buzzcocks surpassed them.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    After the Buzzcocks maybe - but before they played there I saw The Kinks and Genesis there late 60s/early 70s (I was very young!) and The Stranglers at some point but can't remember when (that drunken haze again). I also have a vague recollection of Van de Graaff Generator but that could have been an hallucination!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    bobmunro said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    After the Buzzcocks maybe - but before they played there I saw The Kinks and Genesis there late 60s/early 70s (I was very young!) and The Stranglers at some point but can't remember when (that drunken haze again). I also have a vague recollection of Van de Graaff Generator but that could have been an hallucination!
    before my time. I was only 16 when I saw Buzzcocks there.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Henry Irving said:

    bobmunro said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    After the Buzzcocks maybe - but before they played there I saw The Kinks and Genesis there late 60s/early 70s (I was very young!) and The Stranglers at some point but can't remember when (that drunken haze again). I also have a vague recollection of Van de Graaff Generator but that could have been an hallucination!
    before my time. I was only 16 when I saw Buzzcocks there.
    I was only a little bit older!!! (ok 4 years older!)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    bobmunro said:

    Henry Irving said:

    bobmunro said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    After the Buzzcocks maybe - but before they played there I saw The Kinks and Genesis there late 60s/early 70s (I was very young!) and The Stranglers at some point but can't remember when (that drunken haze again). I also have a vague recollection of Van de Graaff Generator but that could have been an hallucination!
    before my time. I was only 16 when I saw Buzzcocks there.
    I was only a little bit older!!! (ok 4 years older!)
    I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

    As the poet once wrote
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    anyone see any of these?




  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    edited December 2018
    Henry Irving said:

    bobmunro said:

    Henry Irving said:

    bobmunro said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    After the Buzzcocks maybe - but before they played there I saw The Kinks and Genesis there late 60s/early 70s (I was very young!) and The Stranglers at some point but can't remember when (that drunken haze again). I also have a vague recollection of Van de Graaff Generator but that could have been an hallucination!
    before my time. I was only 16 when I saw Buzzcocks there.
    I was only a little bit older!!! (ok 4 years older!)
    I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

    As the poet once wrote
    ... and what a poet.


    Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
    Too noble to neglect
    Deceived me into thinking
    I had something to protect
    Good and bad, I define these terms
    Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
    Ah, but I was so much older then
    I'm younger than that now.

    Edit: Apologies - this thread is about Pete Shelley.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    Good read


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  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,963
    The Lurkers also played there after the Buzzcocks. @Big William can advise who supported them.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    bolloxbolder said:

    The Lurkers also played there after the Buzzcocks. @Big William can advise who supported them.

    Loved their single ‘Shadow’
  • Paddy7
    Paddy7 Posts: 1,663
    stonemuse said:

    bolloxbolder said:

    The Lurkers also played there after the Buzzcocks. @Big William can advise who supported them.

    Loved their single ‘Shadow’
    They're playing the Hope & Anchor in February.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    bolloxbolder said:

    The Lurkers also played there after the Buzzcocks. @Big William can advise who supported them.

    What I remember about that one was a load of skinheads turned up, and things kicked off pretty badly. There was a different set of bouncers on to normal who seemed to be well up for it as well and Lurkers gave up half way through. Waiting for the bus afterwards, it seemed like half the Met was swarming around the streets. Just another night in South London.....!

  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,963
    Big William said:



    bolloxbolder said:

    The Lurkers also played there after the Buzzcocks. @Big William can advise who supported them.

    What I remember about that one was a load of skinheads turned up, and things kicked off pretty badly. There was a different set of bouncers on to normal who seemed to be well up for it as well and Lurkers gave up half way through. Waiting for the bus afterwards, it seemed like half the Met was swarming around the streets. Just another night in South London.....!

    Didn't you say hello to Esso on the stair well and get a less than satisfactory reply?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    stonemuse said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Covered End said:

    I think it was the only gig I went to at the Poly. I have a vague recollection of a grubby basic downstairs bar off what looked like a dinner hall ? Am I right ?

    Yes, with a high stage.

    I don't think I ever went to another "gig" there either. Mostly 2nd rate hippy bands.
    I remember seeing Stray at the Poly but was in early 70's, also Pink Fairies, and some others. Great gigs, but Buzzcocks surpassed them.
    My uncle was a regular here around that time and he saw Stray & The Fairies. We went to see The Fairies at the Beaverwood in Chiselhurst a couple of years ago.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    bolloxbolder said:

    Big William said:



    bolloxbolder said:

    The Lurkers also played there after the Buzzcocks. @Big William can advise who supported them.

    What I remember about that one was a load of skinheads turned up, and things kicked off pretty badly. There was a different set of bouncers on to normal who seemed to be well up for it as well and Lurkers gave up half way through. Waiting for the bus afterwards, it seemed like half the Met was swarming around the streets. Just another night in South London.....!

    Didn't you say hello to Esso on the stair well and get a less than satisfactory reply?
    LOL, no Esso was alright, the bloke who gave me a dig in front of the stage less so. If he hadn't 40 bald headed mates backing him up I would have had to have spoken sternly to him :-)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Not related to that article really, but I went to a Scottish university 1998-2002, and whenever the buzzcocks came on at the indie clubs I used to frequent, the place erupted. In a bouncy student on cheap vodka red bull kind of way. Some very, very happy memories, particularly of Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't).
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP

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