Photo below via Dave Travis “Here’s a photo that I took at the last night at The Rum Runner or ‘Demolition Party’ as it was referred to.” Broad Street The Rum Runner nightclub was opened on Broad Street in the Birmingham city centre in 1964. It was demolished in 1987. One… Read More »Rum Runner
Raoul De La Bedoyere played an integral role in Events Committee at the Guild. Here Raoul provides a brilliant and fascinating personal insight to life at the Guild from 1978 /79. The natural beginning to my story is the collapse of the Events Committee at the end of the 1978, at the end of my fresher.… Read More »Birmingham University Guild
The Old Hill Plaza was one of four venues run by the legendary Irish husband and wife team Mr and Mrs Regan. Mary ‘Ma’ Regan was an ex-schoolteacher and a shy but formidable woman. She came over with my grandfather Joe from Ireland when they were teenagers. During the Second World War she was a teacher and… Read More »The Plaza’s- Handsworth and Old Hill/ The Ritz Ballroom- Kings Heath
Where was this venue? 11 February 1967 – Deep Feeling with Me of Life
Pub over in Hockley Heath 20 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham on drums)
A club in the exotic location of Birmingham Airport! 16 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham on drums) 6 February 1967 – Normie Rowe & The Playboys
Anyone know where is this was? 11 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham on drums) 30 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham on drums)
Venue in the Bulls Head in Yardley. 4 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham on drums)
Club that was on Bromsgrove St, in the city, now the Gay Quarter 4 November 1967 – The Penny Peep Show
Any more info on where this venue could be? 25 September 1967 – Yellow Rainbow