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to think there are no discos anymore in Solihull / Birmingham

103 replies

MarigoldSimpson · 14/02/2015 20:37

Used to love having a dance - used to go to the Tower Ballroom, Barbarellas etc.

Now I'm much, much older I'd still like to go somewhere for a bop. Don't want to do ceroc or whatever, Just want to go to a disco, but not one with young lasses who look as though they need to put a cardi on before they catch their death.

AIBU to think there is nowhere for me to go?

OP posts:
RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 15/02/2015 20:11

Do we all like the same kinds of music though? I'd be up for an indie night.

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 15/02/2015 20:12

Kaleidoscope was on John Bright street by Bizzy Lizzies and Sam Wellers

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 15/02/2015 20:13

I love all music but luckily I really love Indie

BuzzardBird · 15/02/2015 20:14

I remember seeing Womack and Womack at Brannigans Broad St.

Footsteps on the dancefloor...

PrincessOfChina · 15/02/2015 20:14

I'm also an Indie girl Grin

kwerty · 15/02/2015 20:16

Oh I do hope someone remembers the METRO, or maybe LE METRO, under the railway arches, maybe Snowhill station. The girls from St Agnes' would meet in a coffee shop and then on to the club. I had to get the last bus from outside Rackhams afterwards. I told my parents I was going to my friend's youth club; we were all about 17.

HerefordMum · 15/02/2015 20:16

Moseley dance centre - good times. Snobs is still open I believe.

HerefordMum · 15/02/2015 20:17

Sparklingbrook, are you from where your name suggests?

Sparklingbrook · 15/02/2015 20:19

No-I know where you are thinking of though Hereford. Smile

Sparklingbrook · 15/02/2015 20:20

i am now not a million miles from you if your name suggests where you are. Grin

BuzzardBird · 15/02/2015 20:26

Oh Hereford I have just read that article about that poor woman from Hereford who has to write to her partner in prison by order of the courts. Shock

I like Hereford. Although I once lost a heel off an expensive pair of boots there on the cobbly pavement on Church St and so whenever I think of Hereford I get an earworm of "you picked a fine time to leave me loose heel" Grin

Sparklingbrook · 15/02/2015 20:28

Is Hereford nice for shopping?

LastNightADJSavedMyLife · 15/02/2015 20:28

We used to go to Paramount on John Bright Street and The White Lion oppo. the Dome.

Anyone used to go to Red Balloon at Subway City?

BuzzardBird · 15/02/2015 20:32

Church Street is lovely. Actually generally Hereford is nice, not as big as Worcester but pretty.

DoItTooJulia · 15/02/2015 20:32

Oh, I'm in!

I used to like the dome and Dome II and used to go to Exile in between. And Central Park and the White lion. Used to love a bit of heroes too! A monkey brain was the thing to have in there!

I used to love the steering wheel, snobs, the institute, the q club.

And we used to pretend we were posh and go for drinks in Rafeals in paradise forum.

But he best night out ever was MDC. how I miss the, with the red stripe larger and refresher bar. Sad

LastNightADJSavedMyLife · 15/02/2015 20:40

God how could I forget the Steering Wheel!!

We went to the Glassworks when we were feeling posh Grin

CuttedUpPear · 15/02/2015 20:42

meandmymuffintop I used to go to the Rum Runner when Duran Duran were there as well!
The level of posing (by poseurs) in those days was truly incredible.

livedtotellthetale · 15/02/2015 20:47

I used to go up town in the eighties, Edwards no 7 and 8, Snobs was a favourite, we had our school leaving party at 16 at top cats. all silky dresses perms and white stilettos. My 18 and 19yr old dds went to snobs at xmas when we were staying with my mum, they wouldnt let me come.

ChicosGirl · 15/02/2015 20:49

Did Red Balloon used to be at pagoda park before subway? You paid a fiver, got a glass and got free drinks all night as long as you had the glass. I'd left brum by then but I remember my brother going

Didn't Le metro used to be subway before it became subway?

I used to go to cap towny places that would let you in when you were blatantly 14. Haha Notes bar!

Then indie places. Pubs like the pot, the black horse, hummingbird, snobs. Then places like Wobble and Tin Tins. I used to love a chill out night they did at Bonds called Oscillate. Ooh and Sweat at the Dance Factory

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 15/02/2015 20:51

DoIt- Exile was my first underage clubbing experience. I loved it it was so cheesy and 90's!!

tobysmum77 · 15/02/2015 21:48

Haha exile was my first underage clubbing experience also. that end of town hasn't even changed that much (will apart from there and Ritzys gone)

It would cost a little too much for a taxi home for me to make it worthwhile for a night Sad

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 15/02/2015 22:01

Where abouts you from tobysmum?

OneInAMillionYou · 15/02/2015 23:00

Kwerty are you a former St Agnes girl? Me too!

kwerty · 15/02/2015 23:37

OneInAMillionYou Yes! From waaay back! When were you there?

EleanorAbernathy · 16/02/2015 00:03

I spent a good part of the 90's and early 00's in Edwards no.8 - went back to Brum recently and was delighted to find out it still exists only in a new location as the old one burned down!

We went along for old times sake and had a great night - great music and the same atmosphere despite a bit of a weird smell! Grin
VERY cheap beer too, they seem to have skipped inflation completely so it added to the nostalgia.