Gossips, Dean Street: let's have your memories!

editor · Feb 27, 2009

I'm doing a feature on the much loved home of all things goth, rock and roll and bluesy, and the home of Alice in Wonderland, After Dark, Buttz and Spike and the Batcave.

Anyone got any anecdotes or pics?

(Batcave thread here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=250236 )

editor · Feb 27, 2009

Lordy. There's some *shocking* pictures about to go up in this feature.

80s big hair ahoy!

Divisive Cotton · Feb 27, 2009

Gossips - is that where Gaz's Rockin Blues used to be?

That was a weird crowd back in the 90s - minor actors that you remembered being in Grange Hill and glamorous prostitutes

Ground Elder · Feb 27, 2009

I only went once. The Fuzztones put me on the guest list for a gig they did at Alice in Wonderland. Spent the night drinking Jack Daniels with them and half the Damned. It all got a bit messy

As anecdotes go, I realise the above is a bit shit :rolleyes:

I do remember the bloke from Dr & the Medics who was DJ playing an English psychedelia type tune with the lyric "daddy always said to eat up my bacon rind/the traffic lights are changing somewhere in my mind". Anyone know what it was?

editor · Feb 28, 2009

I forgot I saw the Damned play there. And the Mission too.

Cloo · Feb 28, 2009

I enjoyed the few times I went there - less of a club, more a goth after-hours drinking den, very relaxed and fun.

editor · Feb 28, 2009

Here's the article - http://www.urban75.org/london/gossips-club-london.html

And Gossips today:

mick collins · Nov 3, 2009

hello everybody i am mick who ran gossips for all that time

It is amazing to see all these limks to my club Gossips of Dean Street

thanks very much to (the editor) for setting up this forum

he did many drum sessions for me with a lot of bands and was the best drummer i ever used

i am living in france now with a familly i never thought i would ever have.

Please send me photos or e-mails to remind me of those great days

lots of love to you all what a great time we all had!!!!!

astralmick at aol dot com <broken, FM>

Mick Collins

bi0boy · Nov 3, 2009

Hi Mick

Dan U · Nov 3, 2009

not sure this is spam tbh.

wasn't/isn't Ed a drummer?

swampy · Nov 3, 2009

http://www.urban75.org/london/gossips-club-london.html

cliche guevara · Nov 3, 2009

What a terribly rude reception. Hi Mick, please excuse the animals, they haven't been fed.

cliche guevara · Nov 3, 2009

It's not spam. He's not selling anything, for a start, and seem to know Ed quite well.

lizzieloo · Nov 3, 2009

Bloody hell peeps this isn't spam!

Do any of you actually read anything on here?

editor · Nov 3, 2009

Hi Mick
Great to see you here - and I'm glad you found my article!

I'll remove the clueless spam comments, because that's no way to greet a bona fide poster, you rude feckers.

Mick used to run the Gossips Club in Soho home of the Batcave, Gaz's Rocking Blues and other great rock'n'roll nights. It was ace! Vic Reeves got his big break there. Dr & The Medics, The Quireboys, Sisters of Mercy, The Mission were regulars there. I played there a few times too!

Other threads about the club here:

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=281548
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=281548

tendril · Nov 3, 2009

Jesus gives you the thumbs up Mick:

Wookey · Nov 3, 2009

Favouritism!

vauxhallmum · Nov 4, 2009

Well, we def would have met at some point. I was in that place all the time.

*waves at Mick*

mick collins · Nov 4, 2009

gossips mick collins

hello everyone

i never realised my club was so well known

it's great to see the photos of the old place and so many familier faces

So sorry the club closed but the leases ran out and were not renewable due to the change of use for 69 Dean street to be an hotel

Am living in france now

if anyone would like contact me, my e-mail adress is

astralmick@aol.com

be nice to hear from you all.

moomoo · Nov 4, 2009

Didn't you do this yesterday? :confused:

mick collins · Nov 4, 2009

editor said:
I'm doing a feature on the much loved home of all things goth, rock and roll and bluesy, and the home of Alice in Wonderland, After Dark, Buttz and Spike and the Batcave.

Anyone got any anecdotes or pics?

(Batcave thread here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=250236 )

hi editor this is mick collins

iran the club for 26 years

what do you wabt to know

if i can remember i will tell you

Sadken · Nov 4, 2009

He definitely did. I say we kill this guy.

Ground Elder · Nov 4, 2009

Mick - the editor has replied to the thread you posted yesterday - http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=9902093#post9902093

editor · Nov 4, 2009

PM sent!

danny la rouge · Nov 4, 2009

I've never heard of your club.

Yelkcub · Nov 4, 2009

danny la rouge said:
I've never heard of your club.

I heard stuff but apparently it was just gossip(s).....

editor · Nov 4, 2009

danny la rouge said:
I've never heard of your club.

You missed out then. Gossips was ace.

Let me merge this thread before Mick starts any more!

Onket · Nov 4, 2009

Dan U said:
not sure this is spam tbh.

Ha ha ha ha! What muppets were going on about spam this time? The usual clowns? :facepalm:

citydreams · Nov 4, 2009

My mate ran Rumours - that's as close to Gossips as I got.

goldenecitrone · Nov 4, 2009

citydreams said:
My mate ran Rumours - that's as close to Gossips as I got.

I used to listen to Careless Whispers a bit when it first came out.

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