I have heard there used to be this club called Rebels long ago that was open, I would like to know what happened to it? and weather it will open or has opened again ever?

It closed maybe 8 years ago (not sure about that exactly). I used to DJ there. It was previously 'The Penthouse'...owned by Peter Stringfellow.

If I remember correctly, my buddy Steve and I did one of the last nights and Mr. Stringfellow was there with two very young ladys on his arms.

It was the first nightclub I ever went to. Never thought I'd end up a DJ there. We did Thursdays and sometimes Fridays and Saturdays.

'Lez' was the main DJ just before we kind of took over (my buddy Steve and I...he was DJ 'Rude Dog' and bless him....he named me DJ 'Spider', for which I'll never forgive him).

It was dark, dingy, sticky, tacky and I miss it.

Music ranged from goth to pop rock to punk (depending on the night and the DJ). I doubt Rebels will return...the owners (the Baxendales) opened up 'Capitol' (is that still open?). Drop and Corporation took over....tastes, music and people changed.....

If I think of more, I'll post it...unless you have specific questions? :)

[edit] In case you don't know it was at the top of Dixon Lane up a HUGE flight of stairs.

The buildings still there, but in a bit of a state. Apparently its got half its ceiling missing. Capitol didnt last long, its now called .zero, just off the moor.

I heard that the reason it shut down was because of fire regulations. Is that actually true?
I would like it to come back so i can go and see what it is like.
Sure we can make way for more than one metal club in sheffield.
I remember the capitol. Only ever went there once, didn't like the place too much so never went again.

Originally posted by miss_piggy
I heard that the reason it shut down was because of fire regulations. Is that actually true?
I would like it to come back so i can go and see what it is like.
Sure we can make way for more than one metal club in sheffield.
I remember the capitol. Only ever went there once, didn't like the place too much so never went again.

I can't really remember the reason it closed. I think it was probably a combination of things...fire regs, the Baxendales wanting to get into a more 'lucrative' (read 'dance' music) market....and so on.

My DJ partner and I did one of the opening nights at Capitol after Rebels closed. They hired dancers to do their stuff up on podiums....but it was blatantly obvious that they were not used to dancing to Slayer. HA! Soon after that, I quit DJ-ing...went to work at Virgin on Fargate and then a few years later, found myself in the video games industry and leaving Sheffield.

The funny thing is, people used to bitch and moan about Rebels all the time when it was open. But when it was gone - everyone missed it. There was a long gap (it seemed) before something replaced Rebels. (DJ) Mutley started a few things...eventually settling for Corporation (which I think started out as 'Reservoir Rocks' at the Mandela building).

Corp was pretty cool...I haven't been in ages (since I live in the US now and its moved location as I understand it). But a memory that sticks with me is being stood on the side of the dance floor (this is at the original Corp off Snig Hill) and Nirvana - Teen Spirit coming on. The kids went nuts and my friend turned to me and said: "Do you realize that when this song came out, these kids were 8?" I was broken...lol ;)

Anyway - Rebels....

Everything on the inside was painted black, floor, walls, ceiling. You'd get in by climbing a long flight of stairs to the ticket office at the top and the usually huge bouncers (one of whom ended up with a machette in his head and lived to tell). Once through the doors, there was *I think* the ladies on your left and the gents straight ahead. The men's bathroom in Rebels was inspiration for the scene in Trainspotting, I believe....a vision on hell on earth. ;)

Through the entrance, you'd turn right and head into the club itself. There was a pool table on your right and the bar on your left. Over in the far right corner was the DJ booth (although it used to be on the right hand wall before they moved it). The room was basically rectangular in shape with a dance floor (sticky...VERY sticky) in front of it. I'd say the 'room' was maybe 100 feet long by 30 feet...but I could be wrong. It was a pretty small place.

Like slh73 says, the building is in a bad state now. After the placed closed, the Baxendales went in and tore it apart as I understand it. And now the roof is missing and Pigeons make it their home.

It would be cool to see some place do a 'Rebels' night, although I'm sure that most of the people that went there would need a hard-core diet to get back into their old outfits...heh

There were some colourful characters at Rebels....'Trish' sticks out. There were so many bizarre rumours about her. I'm sure that she was actually very nice. 'Lez' - one of the DJs. 'Viking' Mark...another DJ...there was our little crew...all long black hair and eye-liner...

...good times. :)

wow what a long post and very informative.

I think there should be more than one metal club in leeds. So can't they sort out rebels and re-open it. Its worth looking into i think.

Originally posted by headup
There were some colourful characters at Rebels.......good times. :) [/B]


what about those lasses that used to ....erm....'hang about' in the body stockings/leather cozzies with enough back combing to have put kiss to shame!!!??
me and my mate denise used to love going in there and taking the p### out of them!!!!

boy, were we niave.

;)

Originally posted by samsmum
what about those lasses that used to ....erm....'hang about' in the body stockings/leather cozzies with enough back combing to have put kiss to shame!!!??
me and my mate denise used to love going in there and taking the p### out of them!!!!

boy, were we niave.

;)

Heh..I remember going in and seeing guys with bandanas on (all very early Gn'R look) and asking a mate "what's wi' all'ot blokes wi' tea-towels on their eads?". A few months later - I was one of them. I discovered that laydeees seemed to like this 'look'...and so...the long black hair, eye-liner and PVC became my wardrobe. I also loved the music - bonus!! ;)

The funny thing was - no matter how outlandish people dressed - there was never any trouble. The bouncers new better than to let 'townies' in, I think. I think I saw *one* fight when some guy got a bit out of hand on the dance floor, but that was it. It was such a small club that everyone practically new each other too, or at least new *of* each other.

wasn't there a big thing between the hair metallers and the hippyish clientelle?

Originally posted by dodger
wasn't there a big thing between the hair metallers and the hippyish clientelle?

Not sure about that. There was always a 'friendly rivalry' between the 'thrashers and the glammies', though...heh. There weren't really any 'hippy' types when I went there. The closest were probably the old-school rockers.

There's a great little website about Rebels here (http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/pubs/rebels.html)

Originally posted by Fantomas
There's a great little website about Rebels here (http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/pubs/rebels.html)


WOW!!!!
Thats an excellent site......christ, did we really backcomb our hair THAT much!!??
Oh, happy days.......!!!!!

sue:D

I used to lurve Rebels, it was the one place you could relax and let your hair down:headbang: and feel totally unintimidated by anyone. Wonderful atmosphere and completely friendly. No posers palace for me, I like the original sticky carpet club. I used to like the Wap too.

I wonder if it worth getting a few people together and all put money in so that rebels could be re-opened...... Would it work? Altho i do know it would take alot of money and its i suppose a question of weather it is worth it.

I heard that rebels re-opened a few years or so back. Was this true?

What ever happened to roxy rock night as well? I have always wondered what happened to that on a monday night.

Some one on here looked into re-opening it (goldenfleece I think his nick was) and its in such a state now that it just wouldnt be financially viable to do it.

Who is rebels actually owed by? is it the council or someone else?

I would guess whomever owns the entire building. It used to be some kind of department store downstairs didn't it? What's there now?

It's funny - when Rebels closed, there was a whole bunch of people talking about re-opening it. Of course, nothing came of it.

My buddies and I fantasized about opening our own place. One of us even looked into what's now some kind of self-store place down near the roundabout at west bar. I think it used to be a furniture store.

How would a new Rebels compete with Corporation? How successful is that place now? The old Corp on Angel Street(?) did OK didn't it?

Maybe the rock bar on Ecco road should do a 'Rebels' night? It'd be interesting to see if any of the old crowd would come out of the wood work.

Rock Night at Roxy's was fantastic. I loved going there every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. At its peak, the place was packed out. People travelled from all-over to get there, even though they had work the next day. My Tuesdays at college were a wreck. ;)

'Miss Glam Rock' was funny to the point where the Sheffield rock scene's resident trans-gender wonder James/Janner took to the stage if I remember right. TV shows used to turn up (ITV's late night rock show 'Power Hour') with 'Krusher' in tow. I think MTV stopped by once (Headbanger's Ball). Oh Jesus - yeah....what were the two local brothers called.....THE BAILY BROTHERS. lol...they were funny. Two Sheffield guys that hosted Headbangers Ball (they also had a column in 'Metal Hammer') for MTV in the UK (maybe Europe too).

After Roxy's, it was off to the 'Option' chippy outside and home in a Taxi. God, I miss it.

Thats sounds like a good idea maybe somewhere should do a rebles night.

As for how another rock club would compete with the corporation, well who says it has to. I mean there is two rock clubs in manchester and leeds and they both do ok. So i am not much would happen.

Corporation moved a while back, where the corporation used to (bank street wasn't it?) is now a car park, just like where the open markets used to be, they have moved as well and that space is also now a car park. The corporation is now near the devonshire cat. I think the club before it used to be called the unit or something like that.

I also miss roxy's monday rock night, it went to every week at one point, but then for some(i think minstery of sound took over the nights) it went to once a month, it kept changing at one point alot. One time it was once a month, then it went to every fortnight, then it went to once a week and then suddenly back to once a month, then roxy's shut down for some reason. Not sure why it suddenly shut down tho.

Hmmm....I'm not convinced Sheffiled could host 2 rock clubs...is there that big of a crowd that would go?

You'd need to be 'better' than Corp somehow or offer a true alternative in terms of music. Does Corp still do 2 rooms with different styles?

Does Corp meet the needs of the consumer? If not - what could you do that would?

Heh...I'm getting all 'marketing' on you. ;) :P

It would be cool to do a 'Rockers/Rebels reunited' *thing* of some kind...see what happened to guys 'after the haircut' and 'after the fishnets' for the girls... ;)

I didn't know anyone on that old Rebels 'site that fantomas pointed to. That must've been before my time. Judging by the appearance of most people there, it looked like the 80s.

Oh and I miss the Wap. My sister used to go in there before me and told tails of sawdust on the floor to mop up spilled beer and other fluids. The Wap also used to be packed-out. A night out went like this:

Wapentake -- Yorkshireman's Arms -- Rebels or Roxys (depending on the night).

well! well! well! it would take alot to start up another rock club in sheffield. At this moment in time i could not even do it because i do not have the money.

I have a few ideas, but would rather not say at the moment, especially on here. Plus i need to get them in more order before i say anything. I have them all written down, but then again i have to think about how i would go about it. I think maybe i should start like the corporation did. Start small until i have got enough money to start up a club and keep it going. Ok so it would take alot of years and alot of effort, but hey wouldn't it be worth it in the end?

However i was just suggesting Sheffield to have two rock clubs, i am not sure there would be enough people that would goto both. Its something i would really have to look into. I really wish i knew how to do websites.

Originally posted by miss_piggy
I really wish i knew how to do websites.

It's fantastic that you have this idea for something new. I wish you the best of luck with it. Do something that we never managed to pull together. As for websites - there are now quite a few pieces of software that almost do everything for you, including lay out and uploading to a server. You'll just need to buy a domain name and rent some server space. Maybe ask the mods of this forum - they might be able to help?

Again - good luck!! :)

Thanks. Thats one possiblity i suppose. I want to do something that has not been done before, however i know that is not always possible, but only time will tell and we will see what happens.

I too remember Rebels (very dark and very sticky - best not to stand in one spot too long!!!), Roxys rock nights - so much drunken revelry and the Corp when it was on Bank Street - much better then than it is now they've moved to Milton Street (liked the place so much I got a job there!!)
Ahh, those were the days!!!

Damn - this thread is making me miss my youth. I was watching VH1's top 100 metal moments last night and seeing how all the old bands have aged makes me sad.

Vince Neil (Crue) is a bit of a tubber, LA Guns (especially Phil Lewis) look 'old' but strangely, Alice Cooper looks just like he did years ago. ;)
Sebastian Bach still looks OK and he's as funny as ever.

I'd love to know what everyone I used to hang out with is up to. I guess I'll find out as I plan to come home next month. I might even go for a tour around the old places and show my wife where I used to hang out.

Wow - this whole thread has reminded me of things I haven't thought of in ages...remember Pippy's? Void? Oblivion? These were the alternative shops to get PVC and all manner of alternative clothing and gear from. Not as good as places in London or elsewhere, but not too bad. I actually worked at Oblivion for a short time...there was a huge rush on para boots at one bit - even clogged versions for the kids into the Levellers and New Model Army.


Gah....must....stop....reminiscing....

Pippys, Void and Oblivion are all gone now. Not sure whats in the place of Void and Oblivion, but where Pippys once was is now a place that does false fingernails.

where did pippys, oblivion and void used to be?

Pippys was down the road from Cole Brothers, opposite the casbah (or wap as it was then). Void was , I think, down the little alley next to where the Pizza Hut is on the High Street. And I think Oblivion was up on the gallery near the old sheaf market, but Im not 100% on that.

Yep, thats where I remember Oblivion being as well!

Originally posted by slh73
Some one on here looked into re-opening it (goldenfleece I think his nick was) and its in such a state now that it just wouldnt be financially viable to do it.


Yes that was me. It was impossible to re-open it...the Councul and the Fire Department and the Police all objected even at the start. The stairs were too narrow by 3 inches or something stupid since the new 1992 regulations for Fire escapes and access, and it was not possible to widen the stairs. The roof was still intact in 2001 when we looked it over, but crumbling badly. And yes, the place had been totally trashed in 1996 by the Baxendales when it shut.....everything was smashed to bits except the bar, oddly. It was full of pigeons, dead birds, and would (assuming the stairs could ever have been rebuilt) cost around £25,000 to just do essential repairs without a refurb (and my God it needed it). IMPOSSIBLE.....

I paid for architects and surveyors to look the place over and everyone agreed it was a dead duck...the building has various concrete "cancer" and will be pulled down at some stage soon I guess......

We went on to run a few rock nights in Sheffield at the University of Sheff, but they kicked us out after 3 weeks as they decided to refurbish their venues over the summer. We moved to the City hall and ran it for 3 weeks but the Corporation wanted it and kicked us out....been looking for a venue ever since.

We came SOOOOO close to getting what was YORKS opp the Casbah, putting in a freehold offer for the block, but the owner of PLANET club got there with a better offer (Although he bought a lease and not the freehold). Pity, that was a good venue over 4 levels.....

Originally posted by miss_piggy
well! well! well! it would take alot to start up another rock club in sheffield. At this moment in time i could not even do it because i do not have the money.
However i was just suggesting Sheffield to have two rock clubs, i am not sure there would be enough people that would goto both. Its something i would really have to look into. I really wish i knew how to do websites.


Hey Miss Piggy PM me......we ran a few nights here and know where we went wrong....and how damm difficult it is and expensive to do. To make a profit from any club these days is a very very sticky business.....when I ran the Sheffield Friday rock night in 2001 at various venues I lost mega-bucks in 3 months......mainly as host venues kept cancelling us for either refurbishment or recieving a better offer from the Corporation (LOL). It actually didnt matter so much about the money as we really enjoyed organizing it and promoting it, but it would have been nice to be able to stay in one place, or purchase our own venue. To be honest, to make a profit from any rock night these days is going to be a real challenge...to break even would be possible but you need to be so popular and "cool" to even reach the break even stage. In 2001 the City hall ballroom charged us £500 for a Friday night hire, the Students Union £1,200 a night.....see what I mean? Its a bit better now as u can get free hire of some venues, but they will grab lots of box office money as a rule...

I have thought about hiring some venues, however it would take alot of checking into. I have some places in mind, however i would no way be able to run a night or something like that on my own.

Heh - I'm glad I dropped out of all of that. Luckily, Rebels paid *us* to DJ. But I know from experience of my friend who sometimes DJs to this day that it's Uber expensive and *can* be a lot of hassle from existing DJs and club owners who don't like people *stealing* their custom.

It would be very cool if someone started a new Rebels. New place, new music...all that.

Wouldn't be stealing business would be trying to bring in a new and old crowd so both clubs could run. Sure there is alot of people that would go to both.

Have you thought about getting in touch with Mutley at Corp and seeing if there is any chance of him putting on a Rebels 'night' a kind of one off thing - you never know!!

maybe that could work. However would have to think about that one.

Oh my god! Almost my entire wardrobe came from Pippy's. A couple of stone heavier and 20years on, naaaa, I don't think I could get away with it now. Weren't they just the best days though.:razz:

Originally posted by miss_piggy
maybe that could work. However would have to think about that one.


I took a few ideas to Muttley in 1998 when the Corp first opened.....they never came to much. and to be honest, I think a fresh start in a different venue would be better. A lot of people dont like the Corp current venue......I dont mind it too much myself but it has never struck me as an ideal layout. But then....what is? Still, I guess it would be cheap...if NOT free, I dont know...

TOO RIGHT. What clubs are available now? Find a club, lets form a consortium, and be prepared to stump up some hard cash. Leases on clubs are not as huge as u might think......depends on the freehold owners. Rebels for example was only £9K per annum to lease (price negotiated with freehold owners in london) when I consided it (before the surveyors damming report on the structure), but a club not totally trashed and empty for 8 years is going to be a bit more (read quite a bit more there!!!) When I viewed what is now Charles STreet, formerly YORKS, the lease was inviting offers around £20K per annum......but that did require a complete refurb as it was flooded back in the late 90's and needed re-wiring. The freehold was somewhat more and as much as a large detached house in S11...

Lets get a team together.....it can be done......but it needs to be costed, calculated and evaluated with ruthless market precision....its a cold fact of life....

Wow - I wish I was over there to be a part of this. I shared this dream for a long time.

Get off yer arses and do summert!!!!! ;)

Originally posted by kookie
Oh my god! Almost my entire wardrobe came from Pippy's. A couple of stone heavier and 20years on, naaaa, I don't think I could get away with it now. Weren't they just the best days though.:razz:


hehe....you and me both!!! I still have a couple of cheesecloth tops with the tassle-frill round the bottom.......kept em just in case I suddenly loose 4 stone and regain my youthfull appearance!!!!!!! A pair of skin tight black leggings, knee length black boots and half a can of hairspray on back combed hair.....memories....:D :D :D
Dont think id make it up those stairs though.......:rolleyes:


sue:D :D :D

This is what the Classic Rock Bar are gearing up to do next. We did lead on a one off Rebels night at the NMB last year. Rebel's old DJ Lez runs a Rebels style night at the CRB every Friday (until the bands start playing). We are looking for premises to relocate to. Should anyone come across anything that would be suitable we'd be eager to hear about it.

Additionally we are always open to suggestions for specific styles of nights to run at the bar.

Rebels, incidentally is available to hire, should anyone care to repair the roof and widen the stair case. I was talking to the agents who are trying to lease it last week - it would be highly pricey to take it on and of course location, location, location isn't quite right in the ghost part of town.

Rebels, incidentally is available to hire, should anyone care to repair the roof and widen the stair case. I was talking to the agents who are trying to lease it last week - it would be highly pricey to take it on and of course location, location, location isn't quite right in the ghost part of town. [/B]


its not quite as simple as that. the place is a total wreck inside. You could not get health and safety to approve it without spending a fortune. There is NO WAY TO WIDEN THE STAIRS without leasing and knocking through into the shop in front, which is not available, or it wasnt 3 years ago anyway. And for that matter, the Police would object to any license application or transfer application as the fire exit comes out on the decaying old balconies....which are simply no longer to modern exit requirements. At night the only way down is across that rickety old bridge (assuming it is still there not been down Haymarket for 2 years)which is a wreck. The amount of money that venue would swallow up just to open the doors alone would be enormous....

I wish.....but its not going to happen. But call me an old softie, if someone wants to do it I will put up some money and form a consortium.....

i can't be arsed to read 3 pages of chat now since i' m ******.
But as far as i'm aware rebels closed long ago in my youth. Last time i was there was rougly 10 years ago, and it was a dive then, good riddance (although fun at the time).

[i] Last time i was there was rougly 10 years ago, and it was a dive then, good riddance (although fun at the time). [/B]


oh its always been a sleazy hole. EVen when Peter Stringfellow and his brother opened the place up in 1969 as the Penthouse, with undiscovered psychedelic rock bands like YES playing live, and serving chicken in the basket meals, it was a dive even then. The whole block opened in 1969, the top part was purpose built as a club, and Stringfellow was the first one there, relocating from an underground bar on the High Street near the Bluebell. I did quite a lot of research into Rebels history a few years back if anyone is interested. In 1969 it was painted purple, the extreme loft area above the old pool table bit is still as it was in 1969 above the false ceiling. It had open windows to the sky then which Rebels boarded over in 1982 so it looked like the whole roof was all concrete. The roof now is in such a bad state you can see where the skylights are, now full of pigeon **** and decades of grime, they stuck up like turrets or miniature greenhouses, quite tasty for 1969 in a design sense. The original dancefloor is still there, now broken and very dangerous, and in 1987 the original 1969 PENTHOUSE patterned carpet was still in situ, although so covered in dried on Newcastle brown and **** you could hardly see it. The whole interior was painted black before 1982, but not sure when. The PENTHOUSE kitchen area which served meals to happy clubbers at their tables became part of the extended Rebels bar. MOst original fittings can be seen if you look round the place, just get the key from the agents and they iwll issue you a document stating that they deny all responsibility for what happens to you if you view it. It really is DNAGEROUS inside, when we looked it over 3 years ago one of the ceiling extraction fan units was hanging out of the ceiling on one screw, and fell out when I poked it with a mop. Whole chunks of the ceiling were caving in and there could be nasty accidents for the unwary. Hard hats essential......and breathing gear....the stench of dead rotting pigeons and other rodents is beyond belief.....

Stringfellow opened it as a trendy venue with the logo "LONDON COMES TO SHEFFIELD" in July 1969, and a few famous faces placed live there. Stringfellow, astute about the state of Sheffield clubland in 1968/9 being a bit backward and provincial, decided to model PENTHOUSE on a similar London club in Mayfair, with glitzy waitresses and bunny girl staff for a while. It had a "Ladies night". The club was very successful in 69/70/71/2, and Mr Stringfellow no doubt made a lot of cash from his investment. The stage was still intact until 1983 time when it was removed by the Rebels management due to danger of collapse. You used to be to sit up there in 1982 and look out to the City through the windows, shortly painted black after the stage was removed. In the mid 70;s THE PENTHOUSE became a rathole, attracting lots of sleazy crowds and got itself a bit of an image problem. Better clubs had opened since, like ROXY's, which was then the biggest and best club in Sheffield, and very glitzy and successful.


In the late 70's the former Rebels venue became a punk and new wave sort of club, experimenting with various styles of nights. peter STringfellow got bored and went to Leeds to open a club, and then down to london to open his famous girl emporium. He left his brother there to run the Penthouse but by 1981 it was on its knees and became available. Another Sheffield set of brothers acquired the club in January 1982and filled the much needed gap in Sheffield for a rock venue, opening in February 82, and the rest is history. The place was rammed solid throughout the 1980's, and started to fall apart in crowd terms from around 1991 when all rock music began to change radically.

Oh I could go on.....

I'd be up for chipping in for the right venue and price used to work for a promoter a while back too so I have a little insight into the business

I suggest getting a full list of names together of anyone who is interested in this and having a meet of some description. I will post a new topic on this this week and see how many are up for it

Originally posted by snowboarder
I suggest getting a full list of names together of anyone who is interested in this and having a meet of some description. I will post a new topic on this this week and see how many are up for it
Would you p.m me sometimes I dont get chance to browse the forum

wow!

Well if people could pm if they fancy trying meeting up again to discuss ideas about starting another rock night in sheffield. I think it is an idea that should be explored and discussed. I am sure there is some way we could have another rock night in sheffield.

I used to go to rebels 3 nights a week in the 80's
nothing has replaced it since!!!

Originally posted by RMCB
I used to go to rebels 3 nights a week in the 80's
nothing has replaced it since!!!

WELL SAID THAT ROCKER!!!

It sounds as though I'm a little older than most of the previous posts that remember Rebels as I remember it from the days of the Penthouse which is talked about elsewhere on this forum.
What happened to the club 'STARS' next to the ice skating rink on Queens road? I can recall that used to be hired out for rock nights every few months and as I used to natter to the guy responsible I'm sure he used to make a profit.
Just to show my age,
Don't talk to me about the Baley Brothers, I remember them as nonentities
Les the DJ? Bob the DJ was better
Inbetween the Penthouse closing and Rebels opening there was a successful rock night below the old Abbeydale Picture Palace
I knew DJ Muttley when he was JUST a DJ.
In case anyone's interestred the Rock Reunited site has pics of many of the regular faces who frequented Rebels in the mid 80's I should know I took them.
Good luck Snowboarder, Misspiggy and any others in your endeavours.

What is this rock reunited site? Address?

This is the address for the site Rock Reunited, I've noticed if you use the search engine Google it's one of the firdt things that come up if you type in 'rock reunited' otherwise find the site about Rebels and there is a link.
Hope the pics bring back happy memories

http://www.borracho.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rock/index.shtml

Anyone remember the tall, thin bloke with a floor sweeping beard and a wooly hat? He used to play a wild air guitar that would carry him from one side of Rebels to another, spinning and jumping onto seats? This would have been late 80s. he used to turn up alone and I never saw him speak to anybody, he was just lost in the music. One night he wasn't there and I never saw him again anywhere. Wonder what happened to him.

Originally posted by _mojo_pin
Anyone remember the tall, thin bloke with a floor sweeping beard and a wooly hat? He used to play a wild air guitar that would carry him from one side of Rebels to another, spinning and jumping onto seats? This would have been late 80s. he used to turn up alone and I never saw him speak to anybody, he was just lost in the music. One night he wasn't there and I never saw him again anywhere. Wonder what happened to him.


I think I saw the gentlemen in question and he was iseen 2 weeks ago downstairs in the Nelson on their Saturday night with DJ Lez spinning the classic rock CD's. Well he had a floor sweeping beard anyway and definitely looked familiar........not too many people in Sheffield can boast such a beard....

Gosh, it took ages to read all that! That'll teach me not to miss a couple of days.

Was Rebels' floor painted black? I dropped something under the bench seating once and was surprised to find that the dancefloor wasn't that mastic stuff that trainstation platforms are made of, but parquet. I can only assume the sticky black stuff underfoot was years worth of compacted beer and fag ash :gag:.

I too have never had the heart to bin some of my favourite clobber from my Rebels days ('89 onwards), and my collection of boots is still wearable :wink: !

I recently took my 18 year old brother to see Def Leppard at the cambridge corn exchange, and he wore my 'Yorkshire's No.1 Rock Club - Rebels' T-shirt. Dunno if the band spotted it though.

So, Buffy, when's the next Rebels night? After Jack's bithday?

And Oblivion was/is on the gallery below Rebels. It was one of the places I was hoping was still there when I returned here, but alas....

http://community.webshots.com/album/112108582xmZsnc

Half of these photos were taken in Rebels/Roxy/Wappentake/Yorkshiremans Arms 1989-1992 the rest are from Rock City for the same period.
They might provoke a few memories.

Dom

Originally posted by headup

'Lez' was the main DJ just before we kind of took over
You can still catch les doing his stuff at the CRB (Classic Rock Bar):headbang:

Originally posted by DomB
http://community.webshots.com/album/112108582xmZsnc

Half of these photos were taken in Rebels/Roxy/Wappentake/Yorkshiremans Arms 1989-1992 the rest are from Rock City for the same period.
They might provoke a few memories.

Dom
Well, that was some trip down memory lane! So many characters I never knew, but were always in the same pub/club. Except Pete. I hadn't seen him since Poly, but saw a figure in the distance in Nottingham 3 years ago with his walk! As I got closer, I decided either I couldn't remember if his name was 'Pete', or anyway he wouldn't remember me. Thanks for clearing that mystery up for me though.

I suddenly feel 'homesick' for ROXY's