Xela Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 Saw Fergie at Godskitchen one NYE @Morley_crosses_to_Withe - what a night that was. 2002 I think. Brum had a great clubbing scene back in the day - Godskitchen, Gatecrasher (formed in Brum before moving to Sheffield), Sundissential, Moneypennys, etc. Great venues as well - Que Club, Code, The Sanctuary. Happy days! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: Did you ever meet Fergie? It was De Vit who tutored him and help kickstart his career. I remember being out in Wobble and a good friend of mine at the time (we’ve lost contact over the years) brought over someone he knew to introduce them. The person in question was Fergie. If I remember correctly, he was still just playing warm up sets in one or two places at the time. I followed his career for a while, but eventually became out of touch as I got older and more detached from the scene in general. It was this April that I suddenly became reminded of him. I was strolling along the Vegas strip and saw Fergie’s face and name up in lights to promote his residency at Hakkasan nightclub. What a career he ended up having. I did indeed meet Fergie & actually played on the same line up as him a few times. Up in sheffield mainly at Insomniacz where I was a resident in the early days before the promoters had a spat & fell out lol! Fergie actually asked me the name of one of the tunes I had just played as he loved it and wanted to nick it lol! I didn't know him that well but we crossed paths a few times & always exchanged pleasantries etc. Your right though Tony did get him in to Sundissential and his career took off from there pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8, 2022 Roland Gift is a Brummie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 8, 2022 11 minutes ago, sidcow said: Roland Gift is a Brummie. So were David Steele and Andy Cox who were both previously in the best band ever on the 2-Tone label Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted September 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 On 29/08/2022 at 19:23, Xela said: Saw Fergie at Godskitchen one NYE @Morley_crosses_to_Withe - what a night that was. 2002 I think. Brum had a great clubbing scene back in the day - Godskitchen, Gatecrasher (formed in Brum before moving to Sheffield), Sundissential, Moneypennys, etc. Great venues as well - Que Club, Code, The Sanctuary. Happy days! Cream as well, many a night dancing around some shit hole in hockley. Wobble was a bit special as well, right mixed bunch in there . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 Just been playing the final Move album (Message From the Country) and the debut ELO album, which were recorded at the same sessions, and then somewhat arbitrarily split into the 'cello tunes' and the 'saxophone' tunes for the two parallel 'bands'. And you know what? They'd make a damn fine double album - the short-lived sweet spot with Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne working together. Like Lennon and McCartney, they went on to more commercial success separately, but for my money were never quite as inventive again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bielesibub Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Before I left the midlands ('94), I think most of the time I saw bands at the Barrel Organ. Occasionally, The Pen and Wig, The Hummingbird, The Institute. I've got a 'memory' where I think I saw Napalm Death in a pub in Brum, Costermongers? although most probably not and it was some copy band and I was blind drunk at best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 9 hours ago, tinker said: Cream as well, many a night dancing around some shit hole in hockley. Wobble was a bit special as well, right mixed bunch in there . @bickster was a huge fan of Cream in Liverpool 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hey @sidcow, funny that this article turned up on Birmingham Live, a couple of days after this thread was started! We know newspapers trawl Mumsnet and Tik Tok for stories... looks like they keep an eye on VT as well https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/music-videos-show-birmingham-different-24833222 Quote For a better look at the Rum Runner, we only need go back in time one year. The Beat filmed Mirror In The Bathroom there, and club regulars will remember the bathrooms well. As a bonus, there's a shot out on the street that uses the reflection of a window. Blink and you'll miss it, but a C&A sign is visible for a couple of seconds, giving away Corporation Street. Flash forward to 1991, and we have The Wonder Stuff's Caught In My Shadow. The Stourbridge band gathered what looks like a few hundred people to film outside St. Philip's Cathedral, in our beloved Pigeon Park. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 1 minute ago, Xela said: Hey @sidcow, funny that this article turned up on Birmingham Live, a couple of days after this thread was started! We know newspapers trawl Mumsnet and Tik Tok for stories... looks like they keep an eye on VT as well https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/music-videos-show-birmingham-different-24833222 Crikey. We should be getting Royalties. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 16 minutes ago, Xela said: @bickster was a huge fan of Cream in Liverpool Ah yes, Cream. Eric, Jack and Ginger. No? No? OK... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 9, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 9, 2022 38 minutes ago, Xela said: @bickster was a huge fan of Cream in Liverpool I have mixed feelings about the club night itself. I have a lot of love for the venue it was in (RIP - now a block of shitty flats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted September 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 3 hours ago, Xela said: Hey @sidcow, funny that this article turned up on Birmingham Live, a couple of days after this thread was started! We know newspapers trawl Mumsnet and Tik Tok for stories... looks like they keep an eye on VT as well https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/music-videos-show-birmingham-different-24833222 Might encourage some decent content, rather than the 'out of a box' news articles they keep running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted September 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 32 minutes ago, tinker said: Might encourage some decent content, rather than the 'out of a box' news articles they keep running. If they produce an article on the virtues of gravy on fish I'm going to get mighty suspicious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Some views of the city in this video 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 On 26/08/2022 at 20:30, Marka Ragnos said: Birmingham's Music Scenes past and present. Who are some of your favorites, past and present? As an outsider looking in, to me Birmingham seems uncommonly blessed with an incredible music history. I'm just obsessed with certain parts of it I know. I don't know why exactly. The whole two-tone thing is the best. Just can't get enough. There are so many names I've heard of and love (Dave Wakeling is a favorite of mine), but many are surprises to me. The more obscure the better, even if they're unsigned or pub covers bands and DJs, etc. -- I don't care. Feel free to expand it out to West Midlands. If you have links to videos, I'd like to see. The late Tony DeVit is my third cousin, actually. Sadly died before I met him. I missed this thread, some great memories from Brum’s best. My memories are all of the club scene variety. I didn’t know TDV like @danceoftheshamen did, but I did see him live on a few occasions. He was the real pioneer of hard house, and I still listen to his music and mixes today. I met Fergie once or twice, and he got me on the guest list for a hard house event in Milton Keynes, nice lad with an enviable record collection. I spent A LOT of time in the clubs of Birmingham from 1996 to around 2005. Godskitchen and Sundissential were my favourite club nights/days. But special mentions to other nights like Polysexual, Babooshka, Miss Monepenny’s, Kudos, Atomic Jam, Flashback etc… some great times. I’d have to say the Que Club was my favourite venue, such a good place to get lost in. I don’t know what the club scene is like in Birmingham today, I imagine it’s none existent outside of your cheesy drinking clubs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 11, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Xela said: Some views of the city in this video You can kind of see why they were tipped to make it but also see why they didn't. And to be honest it looks like he casually flicked past a Blancmange record without a second thought there so can **** off anyway. Edited September 11, 2022 by sidcow 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted September 11, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted September 11, 2022 52 minutes ago, sidcow said: You can kind of see why they were tipped to make it but also see why they didn't. And to be honest it looks like he casually flicked past a Blamanche record without a second thought there so can **** off anyway. Kind of hate the production. Too echoey reverby, everything gets a bit washed out. To me they look like English kids trying to act like American kids from the late 90s acting like English kids from the 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 11, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11, 2022 57 minutes ago, sidcow said: You can kind of see why they were tipped to make it but also see why they didn't. And to be honest it looks like he casually flicked past a Blancmange record without a second thought there so can **** off anyway. In fact it was Blind Vision. Scum, pure scum. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 On 09/09/2022 at 18:40, bielesibub said: Before I left the midlands ('94), I think most of the time I saw bands at the Barrel Organ. Occasionally, The Pen and Wig, The Hummingbird, The Institute. I've got a 'memory' where I think I saw Napalm Death in a pub in Brum, Costermongers? although most probably not and it was some copy band and I was blind drunk at best. That's when I left Brum too. As well as the places you mention, there was also Edwards No.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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