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Bloody hell!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4wShL3lIkro

The "this is me" song from one of the recent films. Bloody annoying

Every fucking time. At the end of the night in whichever nightclub I ended up getting drunk in.

After promising myself after the last time, and the time before that, and so on, that I would never catch myself singing it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb-bKKRl_hw

Aaaaargh!

Either that or Im Not In Love by 10CC

Dancing to that one would mean you'd pulled, though. So not all bad.

What was that sone where everybody sat on the floor in a row amongst all the fag ends and spilt beer - some kind of rowing involved.

Ah the erection section

Oops upside your head.  Gap Band

That’s the one! Always got a good sneak up some girl’s bumper, too!

It was usually Im Not In Love OR silver lining. Not both, even if they were both played.

If you pulled, you were dancing with your new crumpet to I'm in love. If you pulled, you WOULD NOT be singing silver lining, lest your new crumpet fucks off.

Silver lining was for the sad, single people that couldn't pull. Like me, most of the time  :cry:.

"If you leave me now" by Chicago was one that I saw as an invitation to touch some bottom. With the benefit of hindsight, what I saw as an invitation was closer to assault. Different times is my excuse, but it's a crap one.

That's how it was in the early 80s at the Brunel rooms!

Similar to Devizes in the mid-70's.

Should have kept away from the Brunel Rooms then.

Not only the Brunel. I was sexually assaulted by the gorgeous bird while I was queuing for drinks in Yates’s. Unzipped my strides and had her hands round my Crown Jewels while whispering (ok shouting) in my ear to get her and a mate some drinks.....I kid you not.

Whereas the sisterhood used to circle the handbags while 'I will survive' was belting out.

Jump Around by House of Pain brings back bad memories of Golddiggers.

Freebies handed out by Golddiggers and The Blasters, presumably because ticket sales were slow. Then Elvis Costello announced he was doing a warm-up gig there on the same night. Rammed.

It honestly seemed like a good idea pissed up on student night in Ritzy in Swansea

https://youtu.be/SWHS4HsgnUk (https://youtu.be/SWHS4HsgnUk)

fuck it, I'd probably do it now :)  I'm through the other side of caring  now and  give less fucks than the time  in-between then and now.

Brunel rooms in the 80's was ace. Sleeping it off in the car park before driving home to Newbury not so ace.

Actually did I see Shalamar there? That probably keeps this topic on focus.

Are you a Calney around 50?

I think I caught the very tail end of that - late 80s/early 90s.  I remember the Amphi was where you went for a quick snog when the music in the main club was a bit too banging.

I also have this memory - and I still don't know if it's just in my head because it seems so old-fashioned now - of groups of lads in suits (I'm not making this up) up in Old Town for pre-club beers in the late 1980s.  And then walking down Victoria Hill en masse in to town mid-evening before Harding's opened.  I'd only just started drinking back then, so getting served anywhere was a bonus.  It was in the days when all the pubs were in Old Town...a few years before the rash of chain pubs (Yates', the Slug & Lettuce, Mondo Mondo etc.) opened in the town centre.

Smells like teen spirit always gave the bouncers something to do in diggers  :)
I used to say I was from Derry Hill to get into diggers, for some time people from Calne weren't allowed in  :hmmm:
To be fair I left one night to see some lads I knew scrapping with the doormen  :D

Not 50 yet , a few years to go

A Night to Remember  :hmmm:

Doesn't help much reg. I think i saw them. But then again i've seen 3 ufo's so who knows on either

When I was 16/17 I had a weekend job at Hygrade in Chippenham. 0600-1400 on Saturdays/Sundays and despite the decent pay, I dreaded it all through the week.

They used to have the radio on the factory speakers and there are a collection of songs from that time which were on GWRs heavy rotation. Almost 20 years on and I still shudder/experience flashbacks whenever I hear those songs....

They Include:

'Keep on Moving' by Five
'Spinning Around' by Minogue
'Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)' by Spiller
'It Feels So Good' by Sonique
'Music' by Madonna
'Out of Your Mind' by Truesteppers
'Beautiful Day' by U2
'I'm Outta Love' by Anastacia
'Babylon' by David Gray
'Fill Me In' by Craig David
'I Turn to You' by Mel C
'Life is a Rollercoaster' by Ronan Keating
'Breathless' by The Corrs
'Black Coffee' by All Saints
'Whole Again' by Atomic Kitten
'Lady (Hear Me Tonight)' by Modjo
'Rock DJ' by Robbie Williams
'Don't Stop Moving' by S Club 7
'It Wasn't Me' by Shaggy
'Love Don't Cost a Thing' Jennifer Lopez

The thing is Rich, I bet you know the lyrics to every single one as well!  :D

For similar reasons, an old workplace used to have Classic Gold Gem on all the time. Now i'm a fan of some classic older tunes but when the playlist has about 12 songs and barely changes...well certain had my fill of Black is Black by Los Bravos for ever. Likely played about 3 times an hour or at least it felt like it. I know all the words to that too.

On a similar note, I used to work in Tempo electrical superstore on Greenbridge. They never used to go in for Christmas stuff but one year we got load of decorations sent from head office, and a 2 hour long CD that was on repeat from the end of November until the middle of January. That CD was bullshit.

^^^^^^^^

still get flashbacks wherever singing is played off "the Gateway tape"

'I guess that's why the call it the blues' could be the reason I can't attend Elton John

Were you his manservant?

Any shit by Black Lace, incidentally who I have seen live and they are shocking.

But for me its this pile of utter trash that used to be played at every wedding etc I ever attended in Swindon, although not so much in Somerset so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZZjemferM

Even posting it makes me feel dirty, hateful shit.

Anyone remember the Flamingo club at Corsham ?,  Had some brilliant nights there in my younger days.

Used to go there most weekends up to about ‘72.

One mega punch up springs to mind.

Ha, ha,  most weeks.

Think it must have been 73/74 when I used to go,  thanks for reminding me of the dates,  fuck, that's over 45 years ago,  where has it gone ??.

Problem was with Corsham being the mid point twixt Swindon and Bristol there was always an element of both sets of fans. Although I lived in Corsham all my mates were from Chippenham and we’re all Town fans.

Got lairy

To clear the room at the end of the night, my local disco used to turn the lights up full and play Daytrip to Bangor by Fiddler's Dram.

The Dingo  :)

Indeed, the Dingo!

I don't have much in the way of songs, other than maybe drunkenly singing along to American Pie at shit student nights.

Nightclubs on the other hand..... Goldiggers in its twilight years, Baby D and One Nation jungle nights...... Being the only Chippenham lads on the bus to Reflextions in Westbury...... The R&B room at Oscars 😅...... Getting punched by a gorilla in Boss Hogg's.....

Apologies for taking off topic, but fan base and geography has always fascinated me. To me, Chippenham is also pretty much midpoint twixt Brizzle and Swindon. Is the affinity because Town is Wiltshire's only league club ?

Back on topic....the great Chuck Berry...My ding a ling. FFS.

North Wilts is Swindon with a touch of Bristol, West Wilts is the other way around.

Exactly,  that's my take,  plenty of Southampton,  Rovers, Slavetrader fans around here but when asked why I support Swindon I  always reply -  at least its in Wiltshire -  why don't you follow your local team ?.

Wiltshire is a pile of shite. Swindon has far more in common with Cirencester, Cheltenham, Burford, Witney, Faringdon etc than it does with Salisbury, Trowbridge etc.

Just the name Wilts makes me cringe.

He can't help his name.

Wiltshire and proud.  Fuck you if you don't like it.

Now that film does remind me of the Flamingo club at Saturdays at the County Ground.

It's better then Berks I guess

And quite a few of them live in Wiltshire !!.

Wiltshire is wonderful. Lovely countryside, quaint villages and great walks. I had a stroll to this gem yesterday.

The Lansdowne Monument at Cherill, haven't been up there in years.

True to an extent, but there is a story underlying much of what we see, which isn't so wonderful.

Wiltshire has some important historical sites but in terms of the countryside it is no more remarkable than anywhere else.  Of course, it is natural to feel very strongly about where you live. I suspect that this is hightened where you have not lived elsewhere or seen much of what the British isles have to offer.

Did it have a rotating bar or something like that, I vaguely recall coming through from Witney one night only time I have ever been out in Swindon.

On a similar theme I worked in shops and then erecting marquees in the early 90's and we always had Fox FM on.

They seemed to play Take the Weather With You by Crowded House about 3 times a day for about 5 years!

That was the big secret if you were going with new out of towners. Send them to the bar and watch the confusion from afar when they'd been served and thought everyone had buggered off.

Come On Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners. Always played at shit discos.

And the far superior Geno never gets a spin.

Bit like Love Shack and Rock Lobster!

Yup, Geno is a great song. I wholehearted agree with Love Shack also, bloody awful song.

This.

Yep, the standout song on 'Cosmic Thing' was 'Roam' not Love Shack. But its still no Rock Lobster, Give Me Back My Man, Planet Claire, Private Idaho etc etc