Does anyone remember the Daisy, best night club in Sheff during the seventies?

Ah yes, I remember it well :)

Those were the days.

God yes! I used to be there every Friday night, drunk as a skunk!

that was the 1st night club i ever went in...sooooo long a go..

jt

used to be a regular most thursday and fridays.

If anyone has any pictures I would love to see them !

An old workmate used to tell me about the Crazy Daisy, I can recall the name of it, but where in Sheffield was it?

Ended up in the daisy on my stag night. Cant remember too much about that night! I can remember going straight to away matches in Plymouth , Brighton and Exeter in the back of an transit van with no seats after nights round the Wicker and a session in the Daisy. Happy times.

Remember when it shut and they re-opended it, all spruced up, and called the Geisha bar if i remember correctly.
Carsupplier; the daisy was on the High Street, same side as the cathedral, downstairs in one of the buildings

An old workmate used to tell me about the Crazy Daisy, I can recall the name of it, but where in Sheffield was it?

high street, about halfway down on the left hand side as you walk down
or thats where i remmeber it from the early 80s anyway......near where there was a record shop inside an archway.
was also just above where virgin records used to be.

lol sorry a bit vague, i can picture it but cant explain very well......now record shops thats a different story :P

Wasn't it to become Legends after it was crazy daisy??? I remember you had to go downstairs to it....thats what it was when i used to go but can recall my cousin telling me she used to go before when it was the crazy daisy???think i'm right anyway...does anyone know what it is now?

that was the 1st night club i ever went in...sooooo long a go..

jt
Me too and only 16.:hihi: :hihi: :thumbsup: Great place on a Saturday afternoon.

There's a bit on sheffieldhistory.co.uk about both crazy daisy and legends.

Wasn't it to become Legends after it was crazy daisy??? I remember you had to go downstairs to it....thats what it was when i used to go but can recall my cousin telling me she used to go before when it was the crazy daisy???think i'm right anyway...does anyone know what it is now?

before it was the daisy I think it used to be a bier keller. oompah bands and everything.

The beer Keller...i sort of remember that...how old am i.!!

bikerteck...i beat you..my older older bro took me with his mates..think i was 15 if that...oooh my how many years ago was that......scary aint it when you think about where the years have gone..

jt

Isn't that where Phil Oakey saw two lasses dancing and asked them to be in his group..the rest they say is history.

I used to go at the weekends with all my mates,I remember Johnny Lockwood spewing up at the side of the bandit when he had supped a few too many Pernods,but it was great us all walking down the Moor to get home to Heeley,no trouble at all,cannot say that today.

Isn't that where Phil Oakey saw two lasses dancing and asked them to be in his group..the rest they say is history.

That was when it was the Crazy Daisy yeah.

Isn't that where Phil Oakey saw two lasses dancing and asked them to be in his group..the rest they say is history.

yeah, think it was..but not sure if it had changed it's name to the gaisha bar by then.!!

Used to go down stairs to get in..

jt

It has been the beer kellar, crazy daisy, geisha, legends. Its where the GT news is now.

I went when it was the geisha and somebody I know fell down every step when it was the Crazy Daisy. ;)

Isnt' it where 'blacks' is now ?

glad you all remember. i used to live in there. it was where human league was came from. i remeber having to come out to catch the 1.30am 75 bus. it used to be packed, all drunk in flares, big collars and 7inch heals. town was always full in them days. if you go now, i am tonight, you might see a few on west street but the rest is **** poor. other night clubs i used to go in were the Tivoli Bar, downstairs in the Marples and of course the Penthouse, when i was too young to get served anywhere else! others were the Genevieve, The Roxy ( a bit later ) The Merry England, under the Black Swan I think. Josephines ( bit posh tho ) Tur Ups and Romeo and Juliets. Bloody hell those were the days!

Was the Bier keller not where Berlins was, (dual carriageway behind the Moor) Hoffenbrau? Rembember getting covered in beer and dancing on the tables to the oompah band.

and they sold steins? 2.5pints i think.a bloody revelation in them days

glad you all remember. i used to live in there. it was where human league was came from. i remeber having to come out to catch the 1.30am 75 bus. it used to be packed, all drunk in flares, big collars and 7inch heals. town was always full in them days. if you go now, i am tonight, you might see a few on west street but the rest is **** poor. other night clubs i used to go in were the Tivoli Bar, downstairs in the Marples and of course the Penthouse, when i was too young to get served anywhere else! others were the Genevieve, The Roxy ( a bit later ) The Merry England, under the Black Swan I think. Josephines ( bit posh tho ) Tur Ups and Romeo and Juliets. Bloody hell those were the days!

Brings a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye.
I probably know you but have never spoken to you.

That was also the first nightclub I ever went in.Actually I was still at school when I went.It was great.I was very into Bowie , and the dj there, while looking very boring and conservative actually had quite good taste in music.Used to dance away to Bowie on the raised dance floor!
My mate, mandy got barred once, and so came in the week after in a curly wig, and they let her in and we all cheered!!Happy days.
Oh, I've just remembered, when I was at work, the daisy was still going strong, and at Christmas, all the nightclubs used to open up at dinner times for office and work parties and stuff, but anyone could go in.Remember going back to work three sheets and stinking of pernod!!!

what about the chips in a basket went down a treat with all that beer:hihi:

Was the Bier keller not where Berlins was, (dual carriageway behind the Moor) Hoffenbrau? Rembember getting covered in beer and dancing on the tables to the oompah band.

that was the second one the original was where the daisy was

david jamieson was the manager scotish bloke went on to manage turn ups in town, used to have silver hair. remember when it was in the star ,pop haywood and lol knight were attacked round the back and had to fight off 22 people,what always puzzled me was while they were fighting them, who was counting them?:huh: :huh: :huh: :huh:

fantastic nights in the daisy, saturday afternoons were brill too. It was frequented by all the freaky dressers of the day, I suppose it was just before or around the punk explosion 76/77, this is where all the normal folks went just to gawk at all the 'freaks' as we called them. The atmosphere in there was always buzzing, fantastic.

glad you all remember. i used to live in there. it was where human league was came from. i remeber having to come out to catch the 1.30am 75 bus. it used to be packed, all drunk in flares, big collars and 7inch heals. town was always full in them days. if you go now, i am tonight, you might see a few on west street but the rest is **** poor. other night clubs i used to go in were the Tivoli Bar, downstairs in the Marples and of course the Penthouse, when i was too young to get served anywhere else! others were the Genevieve, The Roxy ( a bit later ) The Merry England, under the Black Swan I think. Josephines ( bit posh tho ) Tur Ups and Romeo and Juliets. Bloody hell those were the days!

I used to go in the Daisy around 76/77 - what a lot of memories this is bringing back. Anyone remember Mick Ledwidge (not sure of spelling) - big lad, used to be a bouncer there? A bit rough round the edges, but used to look after me as I was his mate's kid sister :) I always remember pouring a drink over someone who had offended me, and then Mick having to escort me home because they wanted to beat me up for it - he did tell me off! He died very young, sadly :(

I used to wear a shirt and tie there - can't quite remember why now :huh:

I was skint so used to make one orange juice last all night, (still managed to enjoy myself without alcohol), or if I was richer I used to ask for a creme de menthe with lemonade - not because it was nice, but because it was unusual then to have a bright green drink, and boys used to talk to me to ask what it was - lol.
And then catching the late night 82 bus home. Oh to be young again.

Originally the area where the Crazy Daisy was the Sheffield Telegraph canteen for many years.

how come there were more steps on the way uot than the way in :hihi: :hihi:

Isn't that where Phil Oakey saw two lasses dancing and asked them to be in his group..the rest they say is history.

Correct! I worked there for a couple of years - bit of a haze really but what a laugh.

david jamieson was the manager scotish bloke went on to manage turn ups in town, used to have silver hair. remember when it was in the star ,pop haywood and lol knight were attacked round the back and had to fight off 22 people,what always puzzled me was while they were fighting them, who was counting them?:huh: :huh: :huh: :huh:

I worked there at the time of David Jamieson - it was such a laugh - all the bar staff were p..... up on a regular basis. We were not supposed to drink behind the bar but no one took a blind bit of notice of him - I remember one night in particular being called to the office and I was finding it difficult to stand up straight, he said, I have been told that you have been drinking, is this true - I said, yes it is Dave I am sorry but I have only had the one - he said for being honest get out and don't do it again! He was scary at times tho.

Oh my- what memories- they did great cheese omelette and chips at lunchtime. My mum went once to check it out as I was always talking about it!
Saturday lunchtime in there was great- I discovered Bob marley and reggae in there (not literally!), and it was hot when punk came to Sheffield.
Stopped going when it became geisha- never the same- started going to the Limit on west street instead