oioi 8:33 Wed Sep 27
Billy Walker's Uppercut Club
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Anyone on here remember it? My standout memory was seeing the Small Faces, I think it was 1967. Their roadies were chucking over enthusiastic girls off the 6' high stage. I was 15, desperate to pull birds and I'm totally impressed and in awe watching Stevie and the boys throwing them away!
PS North Bank on Saturday afternoons too, Happy Days. ⚒
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The Stoat
8:47 Wed Sep 27
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My Sister saw Jimi Hendrix there on my BIRTHDAY !!
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oioi
8:50 Wed Sep 27
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I heard that he wrote Purple Haze in the dressing room when waiting to go on.
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southwoodford
8:53 Wed Sep 27
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The Stoat 8:47 Wed Sep 27
I was there also that night. It seems improbable that anybody can say they saw Hendrix perform live, let alone in Forest Gate. If I'd known it was your birthday I'd have given her a card for you!
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jack flash
8:56 Wed Sep 27
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I remember going a couple of times
The outstanding memory I have is a soul night with a host of big stars of the day including Sam & Dave amongst others
I was a naive teenager at the time with a couple of mates. They'd all gone to the bogs while I was browsing all the LP covers in the corridor outside
I hadn't realised it but I was actually standing directly opposite the dressing room door, when this gorgeous black lass with an American accent asked "Do you know the address of this place?"
I was totally taken back & stammered "Er, I know it's Forest Gate, it'll be E something!"
She said "Would you come to my dressing room and help me to look it up?"
At that point my mates came back out of the bogs & like an idiot I said "I'll have to get back to my mates, sorry"
My mates were gobsmacked "That was Carla Thomas you were just talking to!"
Sure enough she appeared on stage later
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The Stoat
8:58 Wed Sep 27
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southwoodford 8:53 Wed Sep 27
It was an afternoon gig and she was back for the evening party and family get together in the evening
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Far Cough
9:05 Wed Sep 27
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Don't suppose Billy Fury played there did he?
Just listening to some of his stuff, what a great singer he was
Of course he died too young
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hammer205
9:09 Wed Sep 27
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A couple of links for you
Opened a few months before I was born
http://www.e7-nowandthen.org/2013/07/the-upper-cut-club-part-1-rise.html?m=1
http://www.e7-nowandthen.org/2013/07/upper-cut-club-part-2-hitting-deck.html?m=1
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The Stoat
9:10 Wed Sep 27
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Far Cough 9:05 Wed Sep 27
Billy Fury was on the bill of the first concert/gig I ever attended, also on the bill were The Tornados (Fury's backing band), Marty Wilde, Karl Denver, Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers and a couple of others
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Far Cough
9:13 Wed Sep 27
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Yeah I liked Marty Wilde as well and of course Adam Faith
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charleyfarley
12:00 Thu Sep 28
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Used to be a skating rink
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horrible
12:40 Thu Sep 28
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I'm reading Eddie Blundell's autobiography at the moment and Billy walker and the upper cut club have had quite a few mentions
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Billremfrey
1:23 Thu Sep 28
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horrible 12:40 Thu Sep 28
Blimey, that takes me back to my first job years ago. As a kid, I had to look out for the old bill while the ice cream van was on double yellow lines fleecing tourists outside Madame Tussauds. Couple of quid a day, lovely.
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southwoodford
1:39 Thu Sep 28
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The Stoat 8:58 Wed Sep 27
Interesting - I definitely saw him play an evening gig. Always assumed he only did the one show ...
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Takashi Miike
1:39 Thu Sep 28
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no, before my time but I drank in the white horse in east ham when Tommy Taylor ran it
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percyd
4:04 Thu Sep 28
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Went to the Upper Cut several times, though more a Lotus man (boy) me. Remember the Stax show - Otis et al and also saw Jimi. Missed The Who, though did see them at the Ilford Palais. Those, truly, were THE days.
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SecondOpinion
11:46 Thu Sep 28
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Green with envy withn anyone who saw Jimi play live. Although I did meet him once on the London Underground a few days before he died.
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ted fenton
11:55 Thu Sep 28
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Great days and I believe Hendrix wrote Purple Haze for obvious reasons and on a fag packet.
Had my Stag up the Lotus I seem to remember :-)
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Northern Sold
12:05 Thu Sep 28
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Sounds the nuts... I imagine my old man would have been to this place (seeing him tonight so will ask) ... used to go to all the clubs (la Discoteque, Flamingo, 100 Club) in the 60's... think he saw everyone play apart from the Beatles (never liked them)... I asked him what was the best gig he saw and he reckoned Booker T and the MG's at the Moby Dick ... he reckoned half the audience were all famous pop stars of the day
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percyd
12:26 Thu Sep 28
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If my memory doesn't deveive me the band for the Stax gig at the Upper Cut was Booker T and the MGs, certainly contained Steve Cropper, "Duck" Dunn and BT himself.
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Northern Sold
1:54 Thu Sep 28
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Certainly was Percy.... I got a great screen saver of all the artists of the stax tour
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