Well said Vasty....

Old bar steward.


Anyway, Variety or Frontier... Didn't matter.
Whenever us "Barnsley Gentlemen" attended the venue, we were always greeted with - and I quote.....
"You can come in, but we don't want any trouble..."
How rude.

Who remembers Wednesday nights at the Unity Hall in 1963/4. Saw Freddie & The Dreamers, Kinks, Gene Vincent, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Paramounts (later to become Procul Harem) there. The gigs were promoted by two "wide boys" from Sheffield viz: Geoff and PETER STRINGFELLOW. Not very likeable chaps I recall at the time. The Sex Pistols appeared in later years.

They only took you to hold the coats

must admit BG, a couple of times during the year all my mates from the pit would go either to Wakey Tiffs or Batley the times we were turned away from Tiffs cos they were from Barnsley , ended up in Heppy’s and you can guess what happened in there most of the time

A bit later I saw The Tourists there, fronted by Annie Lennox, what a night that was.

What's available night club wise in the city these days.
I have great memories of the Mecca, intercon, moonraker heppys and one at alverthorpe but can not remember the name.
The pubs of the time had great characters.

Chiaroscuro?

Used to be the old Co-op store. Very popular in its day.

[The pubs of the time had great characters.'"

We used to go to the Frontier quite regularly during the mid to late '80's but 9 times out of 10 the headline act was "The Dooleys"




One memorable night however was when Barry McGuigan was fighting for the World Title and they were showing it live on the TV screens in the club and there were more people watching the boxing than The Dooleys

Thanks for that 131.

It'll take a heck of a lot to beat the Kalahari Bush men at Balne Lane Club on a Monday night or the Flanshaw Hotel. Great times, great music .