The Nightclubs Of Your Youth.

[mickd1961]

Where did you lot hang out?

Any of these on your list gents?

Christopher’s Kingswinford.

McCoys/ Mr Tweedies Stourbridge.

Rothschilds Stourbridge.

Jesters Stourbridge.

The Dome Birmingham.

Eves Wolverhampton.

Valentino’s Leeds.


My favourite was Rothschilds in Stourbridge......it was a wine bar and club and from 78-84 I seemed to live in there more than I did my home!

[Q165]

Don’t know those Mick. Where was The Dome?

I went to

Sloopys Birmingham
Rum Runner Birmingham
Rainbow Suite Birmingham

Above Bearwood Ice Rink. This was the first club (it was disco really). I was 16 where I had first real drinks

Top Rank Birmingham Suite. More an upbeat dance hall. Saw some great live acts there including the original Fleetwood Mac and Spencer Davis Group before they made it big.

[mickd1961]

The Dome was formerly “The Night Out” Q.

Chicken in a basket and a “top” act 🙄

I went in 79 and saw Ted “Dusty Bin” Rodgers who was as funny as Covid in an old people’s home.

I went to the bar with the girlfriend’s dad to get drinks and as we struggled back with drinks the music started and “Blame it on the boogie” by the Jackson’s was being sung as flat as a witches t I t by my girlfriend of the time Jill.

It was her 18th birthday and Ted had been tipped of and dragged her up to serenade us all.

Seeing her on stage her dad Bill turned to me as we struggled with the drinks and said.......”Jesus.....let’s stay down here until she’s finished! 😆😆


When it became The Dome nightclub I went one night with my brother and his mates.

My brother surprised one young lady who turned his advances down by pouring a pint of Brew X1 over her head🤭😫

Cue the mayhem as the bouncers chased the four of us all around the venue.

Hilarious after we escaped but not so funny when it happened!

[kettering_baggie]

Mothers Club in Erdington, lots of musicians went there that eventually became very famous.

Opposite Lock Club, Gas St, Birmingham, the owner, Martin Hone, a very average racing driver, was something of a ‘wide boy’!

Rum Runner

Chateau Impney, used to be a ‘club’ of sorts in the basement every weekend, ‘substances’ available!

There was another place, similar to Chateau Impney, can’t remember the name but it was rough and even more substances available! Came out of the place one night and a bloke was lying across the bonnet of a car having been stabbed!

There were other establishments that I frequented but I can’t remember the names, probably paled into insignificance compared to the above.

[OldThrostle]

Mothers Club in Erdington, lots of musicians went there that eventually became very famous.

Opposite Lock Club, Gas St, Birmingham, the owner, Martin Hone, a very average racing driver, was something of a ‘wide boy’!

Rum Runner

Chateau Impney, used to be a ‘club’ of sorts in the basement every weekend, ‘substances’ available!

There was another place, similar to Chateau Impney, can’t remember the name but it was rough and even more substances available! Came out of the place one night and a bloke was lying across the bonnet of a car having been stabbed!

There were other establishments that I frequented but I can’t remember the names, probably paled into insignificance compared to the above.

We probably bumnped into each other! Mothers, Opposite Lock and Rum Runners were my/our regular haunts too. Claim-to-fame: I was at Mothers Club for the live recording of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma (April '69) -- though due to technical problems much of it had to be re-recorded a few dayts later in Manchester..

[Q165]

We probably bumnped into each other! Mothers, Opposite Lock and Rum Runners were my/our regular haunts too. Claim-to-fame: I was at Mothers Club for the live recording of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma (April '69) -- though due to technical problems much of it had to be re-recorded a few dayts later in Manchester..

I always wanted to go to Mothers. Too far away.

[Prando]

I always wanted to go to Mothers. Too far away.

Mothers was originally the Carlton Club. I remember seeing Georgie Fame there and of course Spencer Davis.
The Belfry (pre golf, pre hotel and pre Belair) was a night club on the current Belfry site. They served a curry on a paper plate occasionally.
I took “she who must be obeyed” there for our first posh date. (Fish and chips, Dandelion and Burdock, and the Beehive (our very first date)

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

Mothers was originally the Carlton Club. I remember seeing Georgie Fame there and of course Spencer Davis.
The Belfry (pre golf, pre hotel and pre Belair) was a night club on the current Belfry site. They served a curry on a paper plate occasionally.
I took “she who must be obeyed” there for our first posh date. (Fish and chips, Dandelion and Burdock, and the Beehive (our very first date)

Saw The Who at The Belfry very early 70's it was bonkers in such a small venue.

[Q165]

I left in 1970 but was back quite a bit. I still cannot picture The Dome. Where exactly was it?

Went to The Belfry once. We walked into the bar area and was immediately greeted by the sight of a really big punch up getting under way. I cannot remember much else about it.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

Or discos as I once called them much to the merriment of my kids.

All these memories from the 70's with some acts I recall seeing. Used to love a night out

West Brom
Sandy's-Lenny Henry Bernard Manning

Steering Wheel Club-Freddie and the Dreamers

One in Wednesbury can't remember the name been trying to forget the girl (shudder)

Brum

Dolce Vita-night club upstairs disco down- Dave Allen and a topless girl band. A fine ensemble they were too.

The Night Out-Frankie Vaughan he was very good. Tommy Cooper saw him 10 years later and his act was the same

Rebeccas, Barbarellas, Rum Runner, Romulus, Top Rank, Tower Ballroom grab a granny on a Wednesday night, one above the ice rink in town

Don't think they have the slow dances at the end anymore. If we hadn't scored by the time they started we used to call any girl we chose to dance with with 10 to 2ers

Happy blooddy days