Remembering Cardiff's old clubs: Montys, Smileys, Moon, Revolution, Top Rank...

[Supine]

^ I used to run a night at a venue just up the road from that place. The Warm As Toast Cafe (TWAT Cafe). Happy times

There was an excellent warehouse party that used to go on in the 2nd hand furniture/clothes shop on the same street.

 

[Gromit]

The TWAT. I remember that place.

Didn't they have on the menu the 'As Good as Ramones breakfast'.

I had one. It wasn't.

 

[nogojones]

^

There was an excellent warehouse party that used to go on in the 2nd hand furniture/clothes shop on the same street.

Jah Scouse's - now been turned into a Tesco

 

[Ranbay]

Square Club
Metros
GW's
Hippo
Grown up things

 

[Ranbay]

The Stage Door used to get around the licencing by serving everyone a plate of chilli, thus giving them some sort of licence to stay open late.

Did the same in the hippo club, there was frozen burgers in the freezer so they could be served, nobody ever asked for one.

 

[nogojones]

Did the same in the hippo club, there was frozen burgers in the freezer so they could be served, nobody ever asked for one.

I remember Andy the bouncer offering me a slice of pizza once. I just looked at him gone off

 

[Ranbay]

Andy got blood all over my posh white daps one night, 3 blokes came in thinking they where the bollocks, one took a swing at Andy and landed a punch knocking his glasses off..... the next thing i knew was all three of them where on the floor and bleeding and Andy hadn't taken another hit..... two of them had to be carried out, the other one ran.

to be fiar tho, in all my time there i only ever saw trouble 2-3 times.

 

[nogojones]

Was there every Fri and Sat from when it opened for two years and never saw one bit of trouble

 

[Ranbay]

Was there every Fri and Sat from when it opened for two years and never saw one bit of trouble

I was there every Friday and some Saturdays, played the odd set in the Chillout on Saturday nights, still hang about with most of the staff, best days of my life in there

 

[nogojones]

I'd most likely recognise you

 

[ddraig]

you guys not met?

 

[nogojones]

Don't think so, but memory isn't one of my key skills

 

[ddraig]

Cardiff xmas 'drink'?

 

[nogojones]

Yea. I'll be up for just about any going out after Monday

 

[ddraig]

tidy

 

[junglevip]

The TWAT. I remember that place.

Didn't they have on the menu the 'As Good as Ramones breakfast'.

I had one. It wasn't.

Loved them TWAT! Preferred the tuck in to new ramones

 

[junglevip]

Hippo
Bogiez - Never went

 

[junglevip]

Managed to find a pic of the New Moon Club from 1981

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Man, I always remember seeing that when I was coming in on the train from the Newport

 

[Ranbay]

Don't think so, but memory isn't one of my key skills

faces init

 

[cybertect]

Bogiez - Never went

A mate dragged me along to see Slayer play at Bogiez circa 1986/7. I thought they were hilarious.

The Dog and Duck served till 4am illegally till they got caught and closed down

Quite handy that was.

Though I did get my front tooth chipped there when some over-enthusiastic dancer exited the tiny dance floor rather too quickly and bumped the pint glass from which I was supping into my face about 3 in the morning.

 

[junglevip]

A mate dragged me along to see Slayer play at Bogiez circa 1986/7. I thought they were hilarious.


Quite handy that was.

Though I did get my front tooth chipped there when some over-enthusiastic dancer exited the tiny dance floor rather too quickly and bumped the pint glass from which I was supping into my face about 3 in the morning.

I would have liked to have seen slayer actually

 

[Gromit]

A mate dragged me along to see Slayer play at Bogiez circa 1986/7. I thought they were hilarious.


Quite handy that was.

Though I did get my front tooth chipped there when some over-enthusiastic dancer exited the tiny dance floor rather too quickly and bumped the pint glass from which I was supping into my face about 3 in the morning.

Tiny? That would be the downstairs cellar one then.

Upstairs one was just about big enough to swing a small cat.

 

[cybertect]

Tiny? That would be the downstairs cellar one then.

That was it. ISTR lots of pine wood, Fairground Attraction and The Cure.

 

[nogojones]

 

[Yr Ellyll Goch.]

I used to go to Smileys, The Moon, The Lions Den, The Terminus, and later, Bogiez and the Square Club, had some great times in all of them. (especially shagging in the alcoves upstairs in Smileys, but thats another story )

I was talking to Andy Franklin (Bogiez bouncer) on Sunday, i'll ask him if he remembers decking those two guys next time i see him..

 

[Yr Ellyll Goch.]

I have just been talking with Andy Franklin, (and his new young lady this afternoon) and yeah, he still remembers getting really pissed off with those dickheads who broke his spec's.

 

[Ranbay]

I used to go to Smileys, The Moon, The Lions Den, The Terminus, and later, Bogiez and the Square Club, had some great times in all of them. (especially shagging in the alcoves upstairs in Smileys, but thats another story )

I was talking to Andy Franklin (Bogiez bouncer) on Sunday, i'll ask him if he remembers decking those two guys next time i see him..

Tell him he owes me £10 for dry cleaning

 

[nogojones]

and ask him why he threw me out of the Philharmonic whilst you're there

 

[editor]

I used to play gigs at the Pig & Whistle.

 

[nogojones]

Rajah's on Cathedral rd. I presume that place is long gone!

Hippo, amazing Soundsystem. Full of drugged up ravers and sweat rain from the ceiling.

Rajah's closed under pretty sad circumstances. It's re-opened as the Rockin' Chair. Pretty empty most of the time. The only real difference is that the tables ain't bolted to the floor any more