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Multiple entry here as well You could just go for the disc shaped corn based snack (powerful salt and vinegar) or discos you have been too. Indeed the very naming of a disco as a disco, instead of a club or a gig or a dance marks it of its age. Is that age the seventies. Do discos exist any more.

And Mobile Discos too....

― Pete, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

discos = potato-based snack you clown

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the way the title of this thread rolls of your tongue. Discos exist for under 16s or something, possibly because the people who organise these events still think disco is the term of choice for young people. At least this was all true 3 or 4 years ago, in my day.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If they are potatoes (I can't check in my shop because we are shut for renovation) then they bear little relation to real potatoes. Unlike Square Crisps.

Are they blasted against a wall with riot hoses.

To our eternal chagrin, when we were at college disco was far too cool a name for Friday night dancing in the beer cellar. We used an even more archaic term.

― Pete, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Salt and Vinegar Discos make my eyes water - esp. if you suck 'em...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like what? Hoedown? Shindig?

― Ronan, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think you'll find it was the dreaded 'Bop'

― Nick, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Joys of a classical education my arse. Though the beer was only 80p a pint. It used to get so hot down there whn we played the Stone Roses that sweat would drip off the roof. Then some fat lat would trip over and knock the decks flying.

What were you doing in the indie wars of 1992?

― Pete, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was staying in.

― Nick, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suppose you were waiting for Supergrass to release Go Out to tell you how to do it.

― Pete, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes once he found out that he had to read it in the papers er show them what its all about, he became a party animal.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

That doesn't even make any sense.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't help but feel this thread would have continued for some time were it not for the timing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It always weirds me out when I see threads with that date.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If we let this thread die the terrorists have won.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn - I was going to type the lyrics to the immortal "Macho, Macho Man" for our edification, but then I saw the date above and pretty much lost all of my steam. So how long will it be before we're able to not immediately feel sick to our stomachs on the ninth of September? Never?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I pretty sure that time has already come.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I missed it.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

11th, Laura. This is also my ex-wife's birthday.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor Martin. There's two disasters he relives on the 11th.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if they are linked somehow.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Bet Martin wishes they were.

*runs away*

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Martin - gotta love the little Freudian slips of the typing fingers. I was thinking about writing out nine eleven and just got off course *sigh*

It still sucks.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm intrigued about these '92 indie wars mentioned above

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, what were those? In '92 I was too busy dancing in teen discos to know anything about indie.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Was Pete referring to, not bops or shindigs, but the horrifying 'mingles', I wonder?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Indie Disco just has such wonderful alliteration...

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Schmindie Shmingle.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If only we had had The Campaign For Real Indie back then.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

More assonance really.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it really was bop.

The indie wars, I came out of them with only three Carter singles unscathed, luckily I had my PWEI flak jacket (it was Bulletproof natch).

Disco flooring eh. Was there some bylaw that said you couldn't dance unless you had some highly polished slotting faux wooden flooring?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly you've never been to Eve's on Regent Street, home of the Common People flashing dance floor.

Whit Stillman said he got the inspiration for Last Days of Disco by coming to London and going to Annabel's and Tramp (jet trash Piccadilly discos, see also Xenon) with his Sloaney mates just before punk happened. I've never been to those places because you have to be the right shade of IJT orange to go. Also eurgh I have no Ungaro to wear.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the ultimate disco:

http://www.churchnext.net/images/networking/profile_realm_roxyoutside.jpg

roxy's in sheffield, now a church for 2 thousand people!?!?
also, the 'r' has fallen off, so it is now Oxy Disco

which is the best name for a club ever

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oxy-cute 'em!"

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to be spotted there.

I was talking more about wedding discos really. Underfloor flashing is way Kewl though.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhh, the Roxy

"Is that alright fer yiz?" What was that blokes name???

Barry Noble, that's him, it used to be known as Barry Nobles' Roxy. I went to a pre-teen disco there once and danced to Madness and the Specials.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

And Bananarama I bet.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably, it was a metallers hang out on certain nights, my cousin used to go occasionally.

Underfloor flashing is not cool at indie discos, not when the psychobillys take to the floor and try and stomp their way through the bloody thing, as used to happen at the Hothouse.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Roxy! Ambrose I kiss you! I think I spent far too much time there as a student getting drunk on free Hofmeister and behaving lewdly. (Yes it was tacky as fuck, but something just pulled you in. Then on Thursday you would pretend it had never happened and go to a deep house night at Orchis.)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

pre-teen disco

I gather it was this every night, or rather a hybrid of pre teen disco(for girls) and over 40's night (for men).

by the end they had free entry, free drinks and free buses.

it then closed down.

but it lives on as St. Toms!

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ambrose, this was a Saturday afternoon (while my parents shopped) in about 1981!

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't those the sort of events that Jonathan King et al. used to frequent?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I doubt it, his fancy southern ways would have been drummed out of there very quickly, no they chose the fittest looking kids and sent them off down the pit.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I never went to the Roxy when I lived in Sheffield but I did look at it from a distance (the Odeon). I fancy my fancy southern ways would have been drummed out of me very quickly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The chip shop on the same little elevated bit as the Odeon used to be fantastic, and yes, you'd have been toast in there old boy.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

any more pictures of the roxy? i want to use it for a tape cover.

i imagione that most of the things being drummed out of people at the roxy were puke and teeth.

ps i never went...just heard the stories.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

More Carter singles really ought to have been scathed in those indie wars.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

No pictures on this site (WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO NICHE!!!) but here's the history:

The Roxy Is Closed, But It Is A Very Large Club With Several Bars On Two Floors. It Has A Large Dancefloor And Stage, With A Very Expensive Light Show, With Moving Gantries, Which Come Right Down Over The Dance Floor. There Are Also A Couple Of Small Dance Floors On The Upper Level.
As the Top Rank Suite in the seventies and early eighties The Police, Bad Manners and The Jam played.
In the Eighties when the club became Barry Noble's Roxy, and was marketed as a very cheesy chart night club. Barry Noble himself, used to tell jokes in the advert on local commercial radio, to a silly tart named Tracy, a regular customer, we were to presume. These adverts ended however with the sudden untimely death of Barry Noble, and the club reverted to The Roxy.

According to a report in the weekly Sheffield Telegraph 30-12-99 the Roxy is going to be demolished as part of a larger scheme to improve the area between Pond Street and Arundel Gate.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

niche is harsh - total gangland bizness...wouldnt want to go there unless i wanted my legs broken or something. it kinda looks evil too. i get the jitters when i go down there in the day( whihc isnt really very often)

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I went there a few times after the republic and other places in about 95/96, it was scary and full of off duty bouncers. Last I heard, the owner had been stabbed on the street outside. For some reasons a few of my chums were inordinately fond of the place.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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