hillsbro Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 ...Just need more people to frequent clubs in Sheffield in order to stop them from being closed down, people need to rally round. Exactly - it's the old adage "use it or lose it". Look what happened to the Dial House... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beamish Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I agree with you Hillsbro' "use or lose it". If people don't go in there's no money for redecoration or good bands. Up until the mid eighties or so there were some great bands around like Radiation, Teaser, TNT, The Internationals and Bitter Suite. I used to work for one of the bands and I had a hell of a time in the clubs. Cheap beer and free entertainment. What more do you want? Do you really want to work hard all week for your money then queue up at a bar down town TRYING to spend it on way over-priced 'foreign' lager-beer...no thanks. Nobody would deny that most of the clubs are in dire need of updating, not only in decor but in attitude of the people running them but sitting around moaning about it ain't gonna help. If you don't like how WMC's are and don't want to see them disappear altogether and you think you've got any ideas on how to improve things, get off your arses and do something about it...get involved with your local club. This city is famous for producing good bands, covers and originals, now new bands are struggling to find somewhere to play while these huge buildings with stages are stood doing nothing. Rant over...back to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Macbeth Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 I have an O.C. (our clubs) booklet for the 22nd September 1976. For those of you who don't know what that is, it was the weekly booklet (price 5p) people could purchase, to see which artistes were appearing at W.M.C.'s in Sheffield and a few in Rotherham. In this booklet there are 70 clubs advertising. Out of the 70 only 28 are still in existence, 38 are long gone and the other four i'm not sure about. To clubland old timers like me, this is a sad reflection of the times. I wonder how many will close in the next few years? My OH was a singer and WMCs were his bread and butter. The job meant working mainly the North East of England and Yorkshire, Scotland and South Wales had their share of clubs then too. We used to buy the O.C. booklet regularly, just to see who was where. We lived in Doncaster, and often saw really good bands at the Yarborough Club - Jason's Flock and New Jersey Turnpike to name but a couple. I have some good memories of the Dial House - OH was in band (along with a girl singer) that played there regularly on Friday nights - it was usually packed! Its strange to think that we now live so near to the DH, and sad to see its demise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellatutchai Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Wadsley Bridge is great on a Saturday night. Does anyone know any clubs that are allowing children in on Xmas eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyle Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Handsworth Social Club on Hall road Handsworth allows children in at all times. If you are not a member of the social club you have to wait until 8 oclock to get in but you have to be a member of another working mens or social club. Its a brilliand club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derfblade Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Handsworth Social Club on Hall road Handsworth allows children in at all times. If you are not a member of the social club you have to wait until 8 oclock to get in but you have to be a member of another working mens or social club. Its a brilliand club. my club the hartley house on bellhouse road is still open.....just:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightonYork Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I have an O.C. (our clubs) booklet for the 22nd September 1976. For those of you who don't know what that is, it was the weekly booklet (price 5p) people could purchase, to see which artistes were appearing at W.M.C.'s in Sheffield and a few in Rotherham. In this booklet there are 70 clubs advertising. Out of the 70 only 28 are still in existence, 38 are long gone and the other four i'm not sure about. To clubland old timers like me, this is a sad reflection of the times. I wonder how many will close in the next few years? ? Do you know which of the 70 are still in existence and where were the other 38? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookingfat Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Yeah, well, ur all just too cool for skule I was talking about this the other day with a random person and she said they were having a meeting soon to discuss the future of their social club as the members were all older and the smoking ban was keeping them away etc etc. Poor old guys and gals huddled outside in the freezing cold just to have a fag! It's a disgrace, really. Anyway, my point is that we slightly older people need somewhere to go to socialise but most of us wouldn't want to go to a drab old fashioned WMC to do it. If only some of them could turn themselves into something like the old Turn-Ups club in Nether Edge used to be, I bet they'd be buzzing! I'd go deffo, cos there is nowhere for the 0ver-50s to socialise these days. i used to go to the arundel club on city rd and went you went in the concert room you couldnt see for fag smoke however the singer sang breathing all that smoke into his lungs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salts Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 East dene working mens club in Rotherham puts many clubs to shame these days, which is a shame there isnt more like it, which is how it used to be. Its nearly always busy, good mixture of acts, mixture of young through to old punters and on events like new years eve its filled to the rafters with young and old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awoollen Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 THEY HAD TERRIER AND LURCHER SHOWS THERE many years ago and hound matches at Burnaby street hillsbourgh,,, that showing the age ageean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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