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tony dixon

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #75 on: 15:16:54, 07/09/08 »
I've got a bedroom similar. Wife keeps theatening to clear it out and put a bed in there. Illogical or what ?

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #76 on: 15:18:39, 07/09/08 »
I have a bed in there as well, but still have about twenty five handbags in there too ;D
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tony dixon

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #77 on: 15:29:20, 07/09/08 »
I've got three book-cases (full)  a cabinet full of vinyl and my Fender Strat guitar and amp plus the cat basket.

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #78 on: 15:42:18, 07/09/08 »
I've got a full-length shelf, a small wardrobe, bed, a shelf unit that goes over the bed, and two shelves at the other end - I'm a hopeless case I'm afraid :-[
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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #79 on: 16:11:18, 07/09/08 »
That sounds like a regular bedroom unlike mine.

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #80 on: 17:37:51, 07/09/08 »
my main bedroom has a four poster bed, floorboards with black and cream pattern carpet in the middle, two three piece wardrobes in dark oak with shelves in the middle, art deco mirror, pictures, looked great - till I hung my dresses on  my four poster bed, and bought more handbags
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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #81 on: 19:36:43, 07/09/08 »
Sounds great - you could be a contender for Britains Best House - was showing recently on T.V.

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #82 on: 19:41:37, 07/09/08 »
that's if anyone could get in it ;D
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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #83 on: 12:09:26, 25/09/13 »
The Manchester area has nurtured thousands of musical acts, ranging in styles as diverse as Freddie and The Dreamers and Oasis. Although many have been adopted on a national scale, others have managed to stir only local interest before their eventual demise

Are you able to add info to the site - memories of groups, clubs, venues, music shops, anything! You don't have to have been in a group - just lived and clubbed around Manchester area in the 60s!! Any contributions always gratefully received and noted.
Try here:


http://www.manchesterbeat.com/


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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #84 on: 19:24:10, 24/11/13 »
I used to go to the Top ten Club in Kings Hall BelleView every Sunday evening in 1965. Jimmy Saville was the DJ and there was either his E-type Jag, rolls or Isatta bubble car in his parking spot just outside the doors. On stage there'd always be a framed black & white press photo of him shaking hands with Elvis on a little coffee table.


Then there were the school trips to the Halle orchestra in the Free Trade Hall. Mostly it was his sidekick Arthur Purcival on stage, but occasionally the great Barbirolli appeared.


The late Paul Young, from Sad Cafe, was at school with me (Ducie tech), but a year above. On a school trip to Norway in 1962 he picked up a girl at a youth hostel there very efficiently!


Like many of my contemporaries I was bought a guitar from Mamlocks on Oxford Road aged 13. The best thing was buying the sheet music of the latest Beatles hit and studying the chords - so unique were they compared to those of other groups.

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #85 on: 21:49:27, 24/11/13 »
This is amazing.. I too went on a school trip to Norway in 1962 and I remember Paul meeting a girl in a youth hostel !! There are other things that spring to mind about it too apart from staying in a youth hostel at the top of the funicular railway in Bergen !!

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #86 on: 19:34:30, 25/11/13 »
Great. But who are you? I'm Dave Jackson.

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #87 on: 21:39:52, 25/11/13 »
Hi, Graham Hall. I actually though you were going to be Phil Chadwick

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #88 on: 23:11:10, 25/11/13 »
Don't recall your name, but yes Froggy Hulme and room 12. I became pals with Peter Lloyd.

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Re: 1960s Music scene in Manchester
« Reply #89 on: 06:13:46, 26/11/13 »
My wife put my Buddy Holly 45's on the back bedroom windowsill in 1967, in the sun.
They all warped.
They are long gone but the wife is still here!