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Title: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Mr Stevens on Friday, February 21, 2025, 22:29:12 Wonder if anybody used to go there to see bands. From memory, which is not so good
nowadays, I recall:- The Smiths Bernard Manning (sorry, I didn't realise he was a fat racist) Lenny Henry Neil Innes Elvis Costello (supporting The Blasters & Nick Lowe) - freebie Tenpole Tudor Yazoo (never actually saw them as got pissed off waiting three hours for them to appear on a school night) There may well be more but the mists of time etc etc. Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: 4D on Friday, February 21, 2025, 23:17:28 No bands for me, just clubbing, pissed and scraps ;D
Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: No Longer Posh Red on Friday, February 21, 2025, 23:26:15 Used to go every week on a Thursday night
Saw several shows there including Motörhead Hawkwind Gillan Budgie Iron Maiden Jim Davidson & Freddie Starr Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Steak supper on Friday, February 21, 2025, 23:53:21 Grand Slam
Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Mr Stevens on Friday, February 21, 2025, 23:59:53 Used to go every week on a Thursday night Saw several shows there including Motörhead Hawkwind Gillan Budgie Iron Maiden Jim Davidson & Freddie Starr I'm getting a sense of your musical taste. As an aside, I saw Budgie in Devizes. It was a long night. Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Jimmy Quinn on Saturday, February 22, 2025, 05:30:49 Sunday nights on the Perrier water :D
Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Saturday, February 22, 2025, 08:14:15 The Style Council played there in 1984. It was something called Sight & Sound In Concert and the concerts used to get broadcast simultaneously on R1 and BBC2. Delighted to see it's made it on to YouTube. Will have to watch that later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_iFl1Lq_g Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Batch on Saturday, February 22, 2025, 08:49:38 Some incredible bands on the list. Incredible that they played Chippenham.
I always thought I was too young to have gone, didn't realise it only closed in 99 so no excuse - though I suppose it was Branson and the 80s when the big bands played? My overriding memory of it is it being in the news for drugs/ fights almost every Monday! (Probably a false memory) Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Saxondale on Saturday, February 22, 2025, 10:02:46 Public Image Ltd where Lydon stormed off during the encore when some of the old punks of 'nam decided that spitting was still the done thing. Fair amount of it on my back when I got home.
New model army a couple of times as well. Title: Re: Goldiggers - Chippenham Post by: Ginginho on Saturday, February 22, 2025, 11:07:16 I never went, but I remember reading a story about an April Fools joke; they sold out a gig for "The Farm" and then pulled back the curtain to a packed club only to have pigs, cows and a tractor on the stage :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
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