Not lived in sheffield for nearly 13 years now, but still have familly there, so still visit

does anybody remember jive turkey at the city hall, if so does anybody have pics...

I remember that all we used to do is go to the leadmill ( sumer of love 2) jive turkey and oh yes Fannys...now can any body remember that

also does any body know Desi , and where he may have got too.

god eighties house music was great

or was it????

Do you still have you're red menbership card with bugs bunny on it?

is this where rotherham hit pop combo "jive bunny" got their name?

HOUSE NATION , HOUSE NATION , HOUSE NATION , HOUSE NATION .........................

Originally posted by pete_fcs
is this where rotherham hit pop combo "jive bunny" got their name?

They might have got the idea from Jive Turkey Pete, but the two entities had nowt in common!

In a world in which truly great club nights seemed few and far between, Jive Turkey saw coach loads coming over from Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham every month. One of Parrot and Winston's pioneering house nights, it's always been my belief that they broke house over in Sheffield before the Hacienda got in on the act.

It was quite a dressy occasion, had a very healthy inter-racial mix, and always featured people who could REALLY dance - the kind of all-purpose generic rave dancing hadn't yet taken root. Jive Turkey's heyday was pre-acid house after all.

Originally posted by Damon
They might have got the idea from Jive Turkey Pete, but the two entities had nowt in common!

In a world in which truly great club nights seemed few and far between, Jive Turkey saw coach loads coming over from Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham every month. One of Parrot and Winston's pioneering house nights, it's always been my belief that they broke house over in Sheffield before the Hacienda got in on the act.

It was quite a dressy occasion, had a very healthy inter-racial mix, and always featured people who could REALLY dance - the kind of all-purpose generic rave dancing hadn't yet taken root. Jive Turkey's heyday was pre-acid house after all.

Spot on!

I've still got my Red membership card!

My cousins/friends used to travel from London, Birmingham and Bristol too.
My brother's even got the 'local tv report' on video when either Look North or Calendar came to see what all the fuss was about!

I was fortunate to be at the right age, when house music broke!

Remember the "Steamer" at the Leadmill on a Wednesday Night with Graeme Park for 80p?

Halcyon nights indeed!:thumbsup:

bloody hell...i do have the membership card, and your right it was a very multi cultural group of people, took it for granted at the time, but i suppose that was quite unique, and there was some great dancers, all that jazz dancing trip stuff....to the tune of piano house. I remember really making an effort in clothers when going there...unlike the leadmill where you would just turn up...still graet though

you've got to get a copy of the look north report transferrd into real player or quicktime....pure gold

if so give us a shout

if any help i work in the TV industry

Originally posted by Damon
.....One of Parrot and Winston's pioneering house nights......

this'll be the dj parrott then, of all seeing i? i gave their keyboardist dean all their best ideas! :thumbsup:

Yep, that's him.

booch you must have been signing on it was £1.20for workers at the leadmill 80p ub40

i never went, but i used to know winston from warp records

i noticed that theviker was asking about someone called Desi,
he's one off the dj's at a nigh called scuba.
was he around at the time of jive turkey?:help:

brilliant to be reminded of jive turkey - a whole posse of us used to go down from pitsmoor - all aged 16 or thereabouts. it was our introduction to clubbing and what an introduction...

most of us had been in the breakdancing scene that wound up a couple of years before, and a lot of the people in that scene had moved on to the jazz / house dance thing in the early 80s. Anyone remember the Limit on a Saturday afternoon in the early 80s? I did a lot off "breaking" down there and as far as I know it was where Winston started DJing. Great times.

Yes, I remember The Limit on saturdays, Winston was dj'ing
before that though i think.

I remember going in to town as a 14 year old and seeing what looked like 300 people all breakin' outside The Roxy, where Odeon is now. Winston was the one who had the tunes on his "blaster". I'm not sure if this all happened before the limit started. It feels as far back as '83-'84.....not sure though..

you've got to get a copy of the look north report transferrd into real player or quicktime....pure gold


I have the "Yorkshire TV, Calendar" program on the "breakin challenge" that happened at the Mandela building, sunday night years ago ('85 ish) on video at Mums, must find it.....

I've sent you a private message "theviker"

Originally posted by whothis
Yes, I remember The Limit on saturdays, Winston was dj'ing
before that though i think.

I remember going in to town as a 14 year old and seeing what looked like 300 people all breakin' outside The Roxy, where Odeon is now. Winston was the one who had the tunes on his "blaster". I'm not sure if this all happened before the limit started. It feels as far back as '83-'84.....not sure though..

Memories!

Saturday afternoon's at The Limit was ace, loads of breakin crews 'challenging', 'uprockin', 'poppin n breakin'....

I remember the Soulhead's doing routines on the stage too.

And, yeah, breakin' outside the Roxy....

God, I miss those days!:sad:

Yeah man, Smak 19, Street Crew, ScratchMix, Positive Force....wow, going back now Booch...

I guess Jive Turkey was a continuation of that scene, some of us are still going out and looking for it, guys like Winston and Desi are still playing music in their sets today from that time....in fact, if you hear people like these guys play today, and you are familiar with the music from back in the '80's, you will hear their influences from that era, it is more or less the same scene, only without any "breakers".......:D

Without giving too much of myself away, my brother and I are very good friends with Winnie and Parrot.

I know Desi too - from when my bro, my mate and I, did our shows on pirate radio.

We DJ'd with them on many occasions (Occasions - d'ya remember those days too?):thumbsup:, at loads of different parties in and around Sheffield!

The Jive Turkey night's were seminal.

No club nights (apart from The Steamer @ Leadmill, The (old) Limit on West St, Funk/Soul/Disco all-nighters @ Locarno's, and the sporadic one-off's that appeared outta nowhere, ie: The Garage/Kool Kat in Nottingham have come close!
Oh, and the Hacienda too.

Spikey - I was inbetween jobs when I started going to the Steamer:cool:


Do I know you?

:suspect: :)

Originally posted by whothis
I remember going in to town as a 14 year old and seeing what looked like 300 people all breakin' outside The Roxy, where Odeon is now. Winston was the one who had the tunes on his "blaster". I'm not sure if this all happened before the limit started. It feels as far back as '83-'84.....not sure though..

83/84 sounds about right - i was about 12 when that was going on - unfortunately, the scene started to fall apart as I got good a couple of years later!

I don't live in sheffield , but call me crazy....

why dont you guys that used to so the DJ ing at Jive turkey, try and get one togethe agin , of cource it would have to be at the city hall

A kind of one off, revival, same music, same Djs, even dress code
If marketed and publiced well enough. You could have a winner, i know myself and many other people who no longer live in sheffield would come back.

I work as a director for the BBC and channel 4, i'm sure i could get a crew together to film the event, and make something around it. Before you get excited, i know that they would not sponcer it in any way though.

Contact me if anyone has any thoughts.