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Gefferson

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  1. Taton isn't overrated, Tapton has its reputation for bringing the best out of kids from all areas and achieving almost year in and year out, the best results.
  2. i've moved from Sheffield to the Caribbean, and we got big fat tornado's round 'ere.
  3. Although I am way to young to have been a member of club 60, (I wasn't even a twinkle in my dads eye!), I do know alot about this place. About 5 yers ago, Friends of my brother, bought a shop next to the ship inn, opened a printshop there which produced the above mentioned book, But low and behold, when they first went downstairs to the cellars, they found the club, intact like in a time capsule, a little damp, but everything still in place. With a group of friends including myself, we got to work and restored it. Now, although not a club as such, it still is renown amongst the muso's of the sheffield music scene as a top venue for live bands aswell as a recording studio, and venue for private parties. It still retains the old look and the arched brick ceilings give it amazing acoustics not to mention, class!
  4. I was at Tapton from 83 to 89. Yeah Mr Reid would always get into tantrums. Can't remember my form teacher, but I was learning woodwork from Mr Hook and never forget I left the chuck key in one over the upright drills and nearly killed someone when I turned it on! Mr King was a good teacher too, sad when I heard he had passed away. Mr Jackson - Head of 6th form Mr Speed - Top Headmaster and geography teacher Mr Mantle and "Felix" his big stick. Laughed my head off when he was bollocked for leaving the kids too roam around London whilst he went and watched the tennis at wimbledon!
  5. the 'wag' you refer too is my late grandmother, Marion Day, who took the name from the tv western "Bonanza", which we would watch at her house before going to play cowboys and indians on the "ponda"
  6. The 'Ponda' is a place I used play everyday as a kid and My Grandmother Lived right next to it on Oxford street, for most of her life. It was named by her in the 70's and caught on amongst all us kids. It refers to the ranch in the western tv series "bonanza" which we used to watch at her house.
  7. AHHHHUUURRRGG! i CAN STILL TASTE IT IN MY MOUTH! The very first time I went out in the city centre, drinking, 'frog and parrot' was our first port of call, I was 16 and all my mates had raved on about the Roger and out and the certificates to recieved, so naturally, I had to try. Sickly sweet treacle, like concentrated guiness. Horrible for the first time drinker, but still, I managed to drink my 3 glasses and get my certifcates. the last one very blurred writing and the emblem with the frog throwing up and the parrot passed out on the floor! Sure enough, we ended up clubbin it down at Roxy's and when I staggered home, I remember throwing up and tasting that treacle taste. a memory, that will never leave me!
  8. I was born in Sheffield in 71, lived in New Zealand from 74 to 80 then back to Sheff where I lived untill 1998. I lived in Antibes in the South of France for 11 yrs then Australia for a year, and now living in the British Virgin Isles in the Caribbean. I always pop back at least once a year to see Family and friends, but alas being away from the place so long and seeing every time I visit, the massive changes, its no longer 'Home'. Still though, great great memories
  9. Hi there! Just was googlin to find any stuff on my ol' band BMR and found this thread! Great to see people remembering the good ol' days of the sheffield music scene. I'm so out of touch as I left the UK in '98. As for memories of that golden past, I first started gigging in Sheff around '92 with my brother Bryan in a band called BCF (Brotherhoods cosmic foes) a sort of hendrix/james brown meets Ozric Tentacles sorta band, we played the Hallamshire and the Hadfield and Devonshire green many times. The Garden rooms was also a place I got involved with, some manic parties there with the likes of Pig 64, red eye reduction and Docter Uggs. M y bro joining the various veggies in their latter days and me joining Blind Mole Rat for their final European tour and last gig in sheff before they split up. I followed Chris into Swamp circus and the ice cream men. Was absolutly gutted I couldn't make it for the BMR reunion a couple of years back. couldn't get my passport renewed quick enough to fly back. So many band names here ring bells, Elfin - Supported them a few times Freakspurt - wow all a remember is that crazy scottish dude and another geezer who wore a dress and a pair of safety googles doin a top gig on Devonshire green. Durango 95 - think we played a battle of the bands with them in 92 or 93 Dylans/Happening men played in my Kitchen once! The list is pretty endless so I won't bore I did alot of work for the Hallamshire designing flyers and posters around that time and still got a folder full of old flyers. Still keep in touch with some of them, but would love to hear from Chris, Kiri or Dan from BMR, and really really want a t-shirt from our last gig we did.It had a picture of a mole rat drinkin a pint of frothy beer and "adios amigo's" written underneath. I printed them all! If anyone has one they don't want, I buy it, any condition! Keep up the good work!
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