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So I'm picking my step daughter up in town on Friday night , now just to be on the safe side I park the car up and meet her outside the venue and save her the walk through town on her own .
The thing is , nobody is out , not a soul , the pubs are empty and nobody is even walking around , it's friday night ffs , what the hell happened here , there's more life on the Marie Celeste .
Friday night was THE NIGHT , out with your mates night , you took the bird out on saturday and only if the reds were at home , away days feckin forget it .
Round the town and on to Rebeccas maybe , sometimes Wakefield , *****cats or Rooftop Gardens .
Birthdays or stag nights , Josephines in Sheffield , Adam n Eves or Leeds and Mr Craigs or Tiffanys .
Sunday night was live band night , New Road club or Farm Road , Gents , Teaser , Radiation , Johnny Echo , great nights .
What's your memories of nights out back in the day ? .
They tell me the Ba Ba club was brilliant for the older lads on here , would have loved that and Batley Variety too , missed out I'm afraid .
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We used to go to BaBa on a Setdi neet I liked the casino in there, sometimes we went to Mecca at Waky. could only afford one neet out a week in them days, it got better after the 1972 strike we started to get a decent wage then, but then again I got married in 1972 and running tarn gate had to stop.
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Went to all them animal and Ba Ba Batley variety saw Freddie star there but the boozers now haven't got a touch on old boozers cross keys wine shades market Inn paddy Jacksons globe plough characters in em all and better ale obviously too old for Tarn now
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Bet it war areight the Ba Ba , nice meal , casino , some good turns on , I'd have liked a bit of that Colliers on a Saturday tekin bird art or wife .Originally Posted by upthecolliers
What kind of acts were on in them days mi owd ?
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Nearest I got dooali was *****cats and The Frontier at Batley , most of the groups were from the 60's or 70's and weren't current at the time .
Seen Gerry and The Pacemakers , Hermans Hermits , Showwaddywaddy and they were all brilliant mate .
Nowt like that today and it's a real shame .
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Never really enjoyed nights out. Loud, crowded bustle weer tha couldn't get to bar or hear what folk wo sayin and drank overpriced shyte. Just did it cos it's what tha did as a young adult or led to believe tha should do. Twas the 11th commandment- thou shalt get shyte faced wi thi mates on Friday neets if tha frum tarn. Bit narrow minded that for me.
Much preferred a neet art with missus. We'd do Wusbro- Edmunds, Red lion, Wharf n Ship in us cooertin days. Sometimes Greasbro n all cos shes frum theer. That was a decent pub crawl 20 years agu. Milton, Greasbro WMC, yellow lion, Ship, Crown. All them pubs are still theer n all.
Rarely ventured into tarn simply cos of the reasons above. Liked tarn on an afternoon though.
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Dress code at Ba Ba shirt and tie and no side burns I used to borrow a tie from bouncers I didn't do owt at casino and never saw anybody else do
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Pass I couldn't wait for friday neet and the weekend mate 35 years ago , art wi lads on a Friday , match and a tasty away day the day after , just the way I was .
It took me to get to 50 before anybody got me and that's with a good bat of the ball .
I don't think I could do the tarn nar if tha paid me , a few bottles on a night and out for a nice meal is about my barrow these days .
Holidays are our thing , see the world , nowt to go out for these days , I'm older and things have changed and it's not the same .
Things have changed and I've got older , it is what it is , wouldn't change the past though mate , loved it .
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I was in O'Neills in Blackpool town centre 2 Saturdays ago and there were 6 other blokes in there at 8 o'clock.
Four lads that looked like they'd been on it all day, 2 rowdy lads that looked like they'd been doing drugs and a woman bouncer.
I said to the wife that 20 years ago you wouldn't have been able to get near the bar.
I used to drive a black cab in Blackpool in the '90s and there were queues outside every bar. Now it's more fashionable to get pi55ed before they go out. They don't know what they're missing.
I was born in '57 and I don't think there was a better time to live. The music, the football and the social life.
I went to *****cats once, the night I came over to watch us knock Man City out of the League Cup. I stood on the kop with my young nephew with all the City fans because I couldn't get a ticket for the home end. Gerry and the Pacemakers were on and he finished with 'You'll never walk alone'. It brought a tear to the eye.
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I'm a bit of an odd ball though mate. Certainly no killjoy don't get me wrong. I love a social drink but in a more reserved place than a tarn centre boozer on a Friday neet.
I went with the flow through all my late ****s and early 20s cos I didn't have the courage to say what I really felt about neets art back then. Everyone young likes to be liked and I was no exception. Couldn't care less nowadays. Aif o them lads were aquintences/work colleagues rather than friends but I din't want to upset em or the apple cart. We ed some laughs dunt get me wrong but deep darn it was never really my cup of tea. My focus was always on the Saturday for the reds match. Nowt else mattered. Funny how pier pressure can allow to dictate how you live your life as a kid. Looking back I was a ***** for not saying what i felt or following my instincts and doing what I really wanted to do on a Friday night. I wasted too many hours of my life playing the Friday night game/routine.
Its no criticism at aĺl of anyone who likes their rowdy neets art. Each and everyone to their own though innit mate.
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