SkyblueDad
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Actually Ill amend that it wasn’t the Locarno it was the Lanchester Hall opposite the cathedral I seen lots of top acts there and the Locarno you get moved up who.
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play_in_skyblue_stripes
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Im the same, twice in 79 at Tiffiny's and next time at Cathedral and also last year in Manchester.
Really upset by this. Obviously saddest for his family but I'm devastated and part of me has gone with this.
SkyblueDad
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Do you know thinking about it I’m not sure if it was the Lanch or Locarno, racking my old brain, around that time the Lanch had a music festival and I know all the top Mowtown stars came to the theatre week after week Including, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye. Temptations, Jackson 5 week after week. The Who came to the Lanch for definite.
Samo
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I saw The Clash at the Lanch... couldn't hear properly for 3 days afterwards.
Legia Sky Blue
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The Specials were a huge part of my youth. Saw them at the Butts when I was about 15 and then again at the Ricoh when they reformed. Cov was a dangerous night out back then, think Lynval even got his throat slashed in Shades club in the Burges at one time. Terry was a complex character but was a Cov kid regardless of the Man Utd fandom. One of my friends once told me that his daughter's job required her to deliver something or other to where he was living in London, and when he recognised her Cov accent he insisted on inviting her in for a cuppa and a chat which they spent talking about the City, so was maybe not the miserable sod he was often portrayed as being.
Covkid1968#
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Imagine coming from Leics and having to big up Showaddywaddy!!
Really enjoyed this article by Coventry-based journalist Neil Kulkarni - reinforces quite a few points made in this thread.
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Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni | The Quietus
I have a theory about love. It’s not about taste, or compatibility or about ‘fitting’ with someone. It’s about finding someone who has a mix of hope and hopelessness that matches your own. Find someone too cynical, and you will feel foolish, hopeful, idealistic. Find someone too hopeful, and you...
thequietus.com
SkyblueDad
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I was there for a Who concert crammed in like sardines health & safety didn’t exist then, the nut case Keith Moon smashing his drums to bits and Pete Townsend his guitar, there were lots of London based groups who played there and went on to be top bands Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac pre-Stevie Nicks, Deep Purple, Genesis and others. I missed Zepplin annoyed about that. I was told Smile played there which was pre-Freddie Mercury and Queen.
Otis
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Yeah, I am only saying it's grim because everyone was saying it was. I didn't feel it personally and the late 70's was great, because I was so into the punk scene and great bands were playing pretty much every week in Cov back then. I saw the Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, X Ray Spex, The Undertones, the Skids.
I had a great time. Everyone was saying it was a grim place though, but I was a teen and having a whale of a time.
Terry_dactyl
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Exactly this. It’s part of being a Coventrian…which I still consider myself to be even though I ain’t lived there for nearly 30 years.
Otis
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Yeah, it's quite funny really. My new missus was from Coventry. Moved down to Kent when she was 6. She had nothing good to say about Coventry.
I brought her up to show our city now and she absolutely loved it here. Thought it was fab and then also started to remember all the good bits she liked back then in the first place.
Covkid1968#
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Wait…have I missed the ‘new missus’ memo?Yeah, it's quite funny really. My new missus was from Coventry. Moved down to Kent when she was 6. She had nothing good to say about Coventry.
I brought her up to show our city now and she absolutely loved it here. Thought it was fab and then also started to remember all the good bits she liked back then in the first place.
Otis
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Samo
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To be fair, the do have Kasabian
Terry_dactyl
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Like you, I had a great time as a teenager, although it was in the early to mid 90s. We were all over the place!Yeah, it's quite funny really. My new missus was from Coventry. Moved down to Kent when she was 6. She had nothing good to say about Coventry.
I brought her up to show our city now and she absolutely loved it here. Thought it was fab and then also started to remember all the good bits she liked back then in the first place.
Nowadays I’m like some sort of stupid Cov ‘ex-Pat’. I get accused of constantly banging on about the place.
The Specials have been a big part of this romanticising.
My dream is to move back one day and get a season ticket up the city. I just need the kids to grow up and fuck off!
Otis
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And Englebert Humperdinck
Bloody hell.That memory still fuzzy .
duffer
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Spot on, Otis. It's always been a rough old working class town, and it's funny how we can both hate it and love it in equal measure.
Anything that was anti-Thatcher and poked a finger in the eye of the racist dickheads was ok by me, the fact that it was brilliant music just added to the mix.
I couldn't care less that Terry was supposedly a Man U fan, or that he slagged the place off from time to time. He was always one of us, always will be, and what he and The Specials achieved will rightly be linked with the city forever.
Samo
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And I hope he'll get a rousing chorus of 'He's one of our own' on Wednesday night.
bawtryneal
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torchomatic
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Great article on Terry and being a Coventrian.
thequietus.com
Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni | The Quietus
I have a theory about love. It’s not about taste, or compatibility or about ‘fitting’ with someone. It’s about finding someone who has a mix of hope and hopelessness that matches your own. Find someone too cynical, and you will feel foolish, hopeful, idealistic. Find someone too hopeful, and you...
thequietus.com
torchomatic
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Delia Derbyshire too and David Freeman of The Flys and The Lover Speaks. He wrote No More I Love You's.
Samo
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Great article on Terry and being a Coventrian.
Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni | The Quietus
I have a theory about love. It’s not about taste, or compatibility or about ‘fitting’ with someone. It’s about finding someone who has a mix of hope and hopelessness that matches your own. Find someone too cynical, and you will feel foolish, hopeful, idealistic. Find someone too hopeful, and you...
Made me cry that!
nicksar
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Annie Lennox heard the Lover Speaks perform no more I love you's when they supported the Tourists at the General Wolfe... probably made David Freeman a lot of money from her cover of the song.
RIP another great Cov legend. It’s funny the different perceptions of Cov. My old man was brought up there and couldn’t wait to leave but only to SW Leics and that’s where I was brought up. All my family were from the City going back generations and it has always been my home City and go to place for everything from shopping, theatre, music, sport etc
I think it’s improved no end too in the last 20 years.
I think it’s improved no end too in the last 20 years.
Houchens Head
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I've lived in a few other places other than my city of birth - Coventry, but I would never return to live there. Just visiting folk these days is a depressing chore. I will always speak highly of the place and carry the torch proudly, but return to live? Nah! I'm quite settled in lovely Malvern.
Sbarcher
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I seem to remember Pink Floyd did a midnight set after Chuck Berry.
alexccfc99
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duffer
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Great article on Terry and being a Coventrian.
Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni | The Quietus
I have a theory about love. It’s not about taste, or compatibility or about ‘fitting’ with someone. It’s about finding someone who has a mix of hope and hopelessness that matches your own. Find someone too cynical, and you will feel foolish, hopeful, idealistic. Find someone too hopeful, and you...
Excellent read. And yes, agreed, fuck that racist boor Philip Larkin - not fit to lace Terry's boots, in football parlance.
SkyblueDad
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U2 played at the General Wolfe
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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RIP Terry.
Much to young.
Much to young.
