Vintage Photos

[K23]

https://twitter.com/trailockgateloc/status/1484885840421691397?s=21

I think I remember Ryan Davies from when I was a kid. Wasn't he in a comedy double act with someone called Ronnie something?

 

[Muteswan]

Victoria station and Mumbles train shed still there but tracks missing.
Anyone spot their house? My old school is there.
East bank railway sleepers at the Vetch.

Lovely to see Castle Gardens.....it's coming back isn't it?
What year is that?

Sorry , not sure of the year.

 

[Robbie]

Have a look at this Mr Karnataka. :lol:

https://twitter.com/dazpross/status/1484475746802352131?s=21

https://twitter.com/rogersteenband/status/1484943208073158656?s=21

Seeing Squeeze as the support act on the poster and that other posters on the wall mention Hackney & other Londony type places, I think that poster would have been for The Tubes show in 1977 at Hammersmith Odeon as it was still then known. Iirc, I think they may have done 2 nights there which were recorded and became the What Do You Want From Live double album released in '78. I was at one of those shows and it was the first time I'd seen The Tubes live and it still goes down as one of the best live shows I've ever been to.

July 1979 for me seeing The Tubes for the first time , Old Sophia Gardens Pavillion in Cardiff , place burned down some time later .
Few years later at Colston Hall Bristol , really underated musicians if you look past Fee as the showman .

 

[Darran]

Seeing Squeeze as the support act on the poster and that other posters on the wall mention Hackney & other Londony type places, I think that poster would have been for The Tubes show in 1977 at Hammersmith Odeon as it was still then known. Iirc, I think they may have done 2 nights there which were recorded and became the What Do You Want From Live double album released in '78. I was at one of those shows and it was the first time I'd seen The Tubes live and it still goes down as one of the best live shows I've ever been to.

July 1979 for me seeing The Tubes for the first time , Old Sophia Gardens Pavillion in Cardiff , place burned down some time later .
Few years later at Colston Hall Bristol , really underated musicians if you look past Fee as the showman .

Brilliant brilliant band.
And talking of vintage photos Fee is my chum too. :lol:

 

[K23]

July 1979 for me seeing The Tubes for the first time , Old Sophia Gardens Pavillion in Cardiff , place burned down some time later .
Few years later at Colston Hall Bristol , really underrated musicians if you look past Fee as the showman .

Brilliant brilliant band.
And talking of vintage photos Fee is my chum too. :lol:

I've just done a little research just to jog my memory and I was wrong, Squeeze supported the Tubes (as per the poster), at Hammersmith Odeon in 1979 on the "Remote Control" tour and not on their 1977 UK debut at that venue as I stated. However, I was right about them playing and recording 2 nights at the Hammy Odeon in Nov 1977 for the WDYWFL double live album which was quite a bold move as they'd never even played in the UK before. I can't remember how may times I've seen them since '77 but I can recall at least 8, the most recent being in Bilston in 2016.

I came across some interesting NME quotes about those first 2 shows in 1977:

"Without doubt, the most spell-binding rock show I have ever seen was staged by The Tubes at the Hammersmith Odeon in November 1977."

“If you saw them, you will probably feel conned next time you hand over the notes to watch some other group merely stand there and play. The Tubes are a spectacle unlike any other. They present a relentless onslaught of humour, outrage, parody, idiocy, music and costume – a feast for the senses.”

“The stage exists in a continual chorus of activity that veers from anarchic chaos to precision orchestration with virtually no breathing space. The band continually assail the senses with extremes of spectacle. After doing their duet Don’t Touch Me There from astride a motorbike, Fee Waybill strapped backing singer Re Styles between two video monitors for Mondo Bondage."

Sorry, this has somewhat derailed a thread about old photographs so I will try to stick to that topic now.

 

[Muteswan]

Recognise the area?

 

[Darran]

Brilliant brilliant band.
And talking of vintage photos Fee is my chum too. :lol:

I've just done a little research just to jog my memory and I was wrong, Squeeze supported the Tubes (as per the poster), at Hammersmith Odeon in 1979 on the "Remote Control" tour and not on their 1977 UK debut at that venue as I stated. However, I was right about them playing and recording 2 nights at the Hammy Odeon in Nov 1977 for the WDYWFL double live album which was quite a bold move as they'd never even played in the UK before. I can't remember how may times I've seen them since '77 but I can recall at least 8, the most recent being in Bilston in 2016.

I came across some interesting NME quotes about those first 2 shows in 1977:

"Without doubt, the most spell-binding rock show I have ever seen was staged by The Tubes at the Hammersmith Odeon in November 1977."

“If you saw them, you will probably feel conned next time you hand over the notes to watch some other group merely stand there and play. The Tubes are a spectacle unlike any other. They present a relentless onslaught of humour, outrage, parody, idiocy, music and costume – a feast for the senses.”

“The stage exists in a continual chorus of activity that veers from anarchic chaos to precision orchestration with virtually no breathing space. The band continually assail the senses with extremes of spectacle. After doing their duet Don’t Touch Me There from astride a motorbike, Fee Waybill strapped backing singer Re Styles between two video monitors for Mondo Bondage."

Sorry, this has somewhat derailed a thread about old photographs so I will try to stick to that topic now.

Never apologise,DTMT is one of my favs.

 

[Darran]

Twenty two years ago today after winning the Child of Achievement Awards at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

 

[Darran]

A letter written by the then Swans manager John Hollins in 1999 as part of the nomination process for the Millennium Child of Achievement Awards.

 

[Muteswan]

Tawe Bridge, St.Thomas side.

 

[Best_loser]

Tawe Bridge, St.Thomas side.

Good one , look how close the Norwegian church is to the rail line

 

[Swanjaxs]

A letter written by the then Swans manager John Hollins in 1999 as part of the nomination process for the Millennium Child of Achievement Awards.

From the heart that ♥

Old skool is Mr Hollins fair play

 

[Swanjaxs]

Tawe Bridge, St.Thomas side.

Awesome photo!
Have tried to zoom in on the advertising boards to no avail to get glimpse of the "in thing " then
Can't make them out ☹

 

[Muteswan]

Taken at a different time I think, but another close up of the same place.

 

[K23]

Twenty two years ago today after winning the Child of Achievement Awards at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

That's a really lovely picture of Amy, Darran.

I also know for a fact that Amy has seen The Tubes live!! Bristol November 2005, and here's the proof, a picture I took of Amy AND The Tubes at the same time.