Ok let's try again!!!!! during a drunken state Thursday night we got talking about the old day's as you do and some of BEST MOMORIES were @ the early Special Branch doos @ without question the early DOO @ THE ZOO gigs hosted by Nicky Holloway what are your BEST MEMORIES

Where U @: The Shed

Memories.......Ah yes.....Robbie Vincent playing Sexual Healing twice in the Main Room back to back....The Pyramids,Balcony Jumping,Yachting shoes,Baggy jeans,rope chain,blonde wedge,cowboy shirts,designer sweat shirts,Paco Rabbanne,Kouros,Aramis-Blimey! Did I really have some sense of fashion in those days?

Where U @: Birthday Partying

You mean you aint a trendsetter now frost? B*llox thats my whole looky-likey wardrobe out! only joking bruv, its me martin by the way dont like hiding behind unsigned posts

Where U @: in some shop doorway

Going to Caister after collecting the New tribe shirt on the Thursday night at the local(we had to warm up)
Wearing last Caister Shirts on the way up. 1 crate of red stripe to drink on the coach. Stopping off at the Chase in Thetford for the last supper. Getting to Caister changing into new shirt,shorts and Kung Fu slippers then not changing for the rest of the Weekend.
Large Rubbish Bin in the middle of the chalet filled with water(we had our own in door swimming pool).Opening a can of Stripe before crashing out(it saved time once you came round) oh what happened.

Ah Blowie......You do make me laugh!Spesh that last bit about the pre opened beer........Wonderful!

Allo Martin Maaaaaate.......Yeah good call about the unsigned posts!Check out the Soulpranos On Radio Message andnote my comments to Ekat Ssip......Nothing wrong with a bit of wit as long as you put your name to it-With apologies to Hilly who can deservedly go under his psuednom(sic...I know!)-Anybody worked it out yet?
Back to best memories......The lock in down The Mine when nobody could get home coz of the weather....Anybody else down there that night?

Hey Bev, you talking about the Black Kidney/Frontline combined curry take-out with a Meeeeoooow Madras for Plebbers?. Now that was a memory!

Wotcha Keith maate Yep that woz the one - remember all the jocks comments on the radio "this is going out to all u cats out there!" Poor Adrian didn't hav a clue bless him. And he ate it all - YUK!

Where U @: work

My memories.....

The Countrymen - Chelmsford;
The Goldmine every sat nite;
The Pre-Clones;
The Corner by the Chuck Wagon - "The Pre-Clones Corner";
Thames Bitter;
St Tropez;
The Bloke in the tree at St Tropez;
Cape D'Age;
Funkmaster Generals;
Frontline;
Stifford Sax Maniacs;
Souldiers;
Didcot Dames;
Paddington Soul Patrol,
...+ every other fecking Goldminer;
Rio - Didcot;
Jackson - Staines;
Belvedere - Ascot;
Frenchies - Camberley;
The Jazz Nights in Brighton;
Swan & Sugar Loaf;
Royal Oak;
My Wedge;
Acorn - Stifford;
Robbies Sat Morn Shows;
My Vast TDK Collection of Robbies Sat Morn Shows;
Kung-Fu Slippers;
Jellies from Flip in Shoreditch;
Sleeping in the car Parks of the Goldmine, Rio, Sheffield Arms....etc etc;
Sheffield Arms;
Taffy's Stag Nite at the Sheffield Arms;
The last ever nite at the Goldmine (cried me eyes out);
finally.................
JUST BEING THERE AND BEING PART OF IT AND MEETING WONDERFUL PEOPLE.

Bev I remember Adrian and the cat food. Foookin funny. I will never forget the time we went to Caister on the train and me and my mate Jerry Sims got arrested at the train station in Norwich. Never got to Caister until after midnight after they let us out of the cells. Went back to Norwich a few weks later and was fined 300 quid for being drunk and disorderly

Me and a dj who shall remain nameless(i shall provide all the clues you need!)several years ago at caister telling everyone that Roy ayers was coming up after agig in london to do a live PA on caister radio during a certain nameless djs regular graveyard slots from 4am. It was cowboy & indian night and needless to say i loaded the bullets & my anonymous partner in crime who was dressed as a female red indian squaw at the time went round firing them all day long, before long the story was coming back to me and even those who know us better than to beleive our wind ups had there doubts when we stuck on Roy Ayers Live Cd and got my pal stevie timo (the soul equivelent of alistair mcgowan) to do his best Roy impression and give us an interview and add the line we live in caister baby into we live in brooklyn baby!

How could I forget that!Whoooooops....Dont tell Sir!
Also Andy,remember the Frostie & Andy UR unrehearsed Derek & Clive Skit live on radio that seemed to continously relate a four letter expletive to a five lettered person?

Where U @: Just Visiting

My first ever soul night at The Bull in Royston. Life would never be the same again. The minibus broke down on the way and, getting bored while the driver went for help, I fixed the bus and drove off in search of the driver. We soon found him and I went on to have the first of many top nights, all-dayers and weekenders. My first gig at Harlow when a 'dance round me 'andbag' type asked if I had anything by Cher. (Actually, I have now - Take Me Home) Popping my Caister cherry in a threesome and missing most of Saturday night. Walking into the caravan, cracking open a beer & sitting down only to realise after several minutes that it's the wrong one. ******* dressed as an Indian squaw stripping off in the radio room. Dave Blow, Steve Reid & the late John Atkinson returning from an afternoon's drinking in Yarmouth. When asked why they had multicolour stains down their t-shirts, they said they'd been on a Hooch frenzy. Dicky's accessories, including a plastic heron, a tampax machine and best of all, cos you had time to flee, his hand cranked air raid siren. Flying to Kilmarnock for a soul night. Flying to Milan for a soul night. Dancing to sweet house tunes at SVO on the terrace, watching the sunrise. There's probably more fun & games that I've forgotten. Good thread.

Where U @: Hemel Hempstead

1st goldmine '76
The Nelson Thurs nite,Sat.lunch
& early evening
Lacy lady Friday
Lacy lady Saturday
1st reading alldayer
1st Purley allday
1st Bournemouth allday
Atlantis Margate
George Benson RHA'77
Roy Ayers Hammy O '79
herbie Hancock Hammy ) '79
Kings Lodge/Hill Top
Grover RHA 80 something
Last 17 years

The best of memories...

1st time at a club to Deejays in Chelmsford to see Dr Bob
Scamps Southend
Dr Zhivagos Southend
Room at the Top Ilford
Regency Suite Chadwell Heath
Zero 6 Southend
The Countryman
United Brethren
The ‘Mine
Stage 3
Southampton All-Dayer
Luton All-dayer
Jazz rooms at Caister
Privates
Frontline
Pre-Clones
Kidney v Frontline footie matches
Maggot driving over bouncers’ foot at Caister
Horizontal Nurse
Xmas party at Caister with Pigs Head
Bournemouth
Burger and Chelmsford boys
Saks
Hadleigh Suite
Moonraker in Westcliff
Southports

Glad to have been part of it all.

Keith from the Kidney, how could I have forgotten Horizontal Nurse, she brought a new meaning to opening bottles of beer BTW, Burger got married a few weeks back, lots of old faces at the wedding including Grumpy Brown, Russ B, Bernie, Time Gillis, Our Price Paul etc etc.

Mimmsie!Was you at the horizontal nurses soul bash at Chelmsford?What was her real name?......Right-Re that era-All night at The Skala-Sunday night at The Rising Sun with Grumpy and Russ,Bournemouth,Radio Haddock,Leigh Elms,Celia,Stella,Elaine,The Norwich boys(Howard,Martin,Simon and Paul)Jamie(Gay Soulboy)all the Canvey Sat night Wag Club crew,The Beat Route,Mud Club,Moonraker,Special Branch at Royal Oak,The Harlow Boys(Shaky,Malcolm-Good to see them again at the last Caister)Kevin and The Oxford Boys,Blowie,The Croydon boys,Snowboy live,Doo at The Zoo(And Dome)Ibiza,Corfu,Neptunes,Showbar,Swan and Sugarloaf,Rio at Didcot,Peggy,The Bull at Royston,Mambo Madness,The Baptiste Brothers(Gilles and Bangsie)Sunday afternoon at Dingwalls or The Belvedere Ascot and sadly The Mine's last night-Still The Island Lacy Lady was some consolation.

Where U @: Just Visiting

ALL ON MY BACK

you need to watch some movies,son.

You need to see some daylight

Where U @: The Shed

Frostie were you ever sober enough to remember all that? what about the Holidays Libza I and 2 and Corfu?

Wings Northfleet (Vincent/Tong/Young/Hudd)
Parties at Brands Hatch
Room at the Top
The Hill Top
The Kings Lodge (getting chucked out for fighting with my sister!)
Flicks, Flicks, Flicks
Global Village
THE GOLDMINE (Royal Wedding Day!)
Knebworth
Sleeping in a lift in Hammersmith after Funkadelic
Never having a hangover
Giving it all up to sleep under a tree in Corfu
Never having been to Caister (oops not that one)

DANTES BOGNOR
JAZZ ROOM PRESATYN
JAZZ ROOMS BRIGHTON
JAZZ BOPS BRIGHTON

Blowie Maaaaaate1Were you sober when you read my posting? Or did I think I was somewhere else?......Now im suru it was Ibiza and Corfu......

Sorry MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE missed it boss came in in the middle of me reading it. Jumped straight to reply

Frostie dancini with his TALLYWHACKER out a few months back

Me? Dancing and displaying? Im not normally that cocksure of myself-Must have been a combination of Snakebite,Viagra and adulation-Any idea what room,when and who was playing?I normally reserve that kind of display for after party antics or Kims chalet(See May Caister posting)......

Caister Curry and Chips...........you know you love it??????????

Talkin of Best Memories its about time Hilly gave us A NEW VERSION of CAISTER BY THE SEA...12inch remix...dub style

Where U @: The Shed

Any set where Frostie eats the mike????

Where U @: BOOKING OFFICE

Best memories...

The Goldmine (so many to count)

Tim Gillis ******* in a pint glass on the way to Caister in my car and chucking it into someone elses car...

Peggy (didcot) at the goldmine one sat night (private one there)

The Countryman with the Pre Clones every Tue

The Sun at Billericay with Russ and Grumpy.

Alan Mimms hanging out of a car coming back from Bournmouth (I dont know how he didnt fall out)

Wendy drinking snakebites at Bournmouth and getting real sick (Rememeber that Gary?)

The smell of the Goldmine (what was that)

The Bury Girls dancing to Astrud Gilberto, Take me to Aruanda.

Seeing Gil Scot-Heron at the Hammersmith

Where U @: Los Angeles