Valve
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Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 12:17
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Blimey, those words jumped out at me. The Bandwagon was a disco in a pub in Kingsbury, Harrow. I never went, LIVE music was my thing - I was going to see bands in the Tithe Farm Pub not far away. The Soundhouse later moved to the Headstone in North Harrow and then the Clay Pidgeon in Eastcote. I always heard it mentioned but never checked it out but I knew long haired lads at Harrow Tech who were regulars. By the way, that hardboard guitar was nothing knew, there was a little old man at Slough Community Centre who used to get up and mime to Chuck Berry with one.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 12:25
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A blast from the past. He was always mentioned in Sounds. Who were that (northern?) DJ double act, from around the same time?
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Davey_B
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 13:51
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The Bailey Brothers. Used to go and see them DJ at the Clarendon.
I think they are still going
David B
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 13:55
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That's them! I saw them once. I can't for the life of me remember where. And am utterly at a loss as to why.
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machineryelf
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 15:49
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I went a couple of times, travelled up from Hampshire, probably when it was at Eastcote 'cos a lad we knew had moved to Northwood
It may well have been at the cutting edge of metal when NWOBHM began but when we went we found it pretty dire, too much american AOR and Quo for us, the rock night at Tiffanys in Bournemouth was a much better bet.
The fabled Newcastle Mayfair rocknights were not as wonderful as they are now being painted as, much as I love metal its fans are sometimes its own worst enemy, conservative would be a polite way of putting it, I will tip my hat to the geordies being a great audience however, if you were a live band at the Mayfair and you deserved it the crowd would give you 110% back
in an effort not to tar all rockclubs with the same brush in the 80s Bradford Rios & Nottingham Rock City were the places to hear new metal, I once spent an evening in a pub in Brum City Centre that had a jukebox that was almost entirely thrash metal, grindcore & reggae and whose clientele seemed to be 95% office workers completely oblivious to the great music
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bubblehead2
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Edited Mar 08, 2010, 15:56
Re: i was a suburban teenage rocker
Mar 08, 2010, 15:52
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I used to go to the Bandwagon in Kingsbury most Sunday nights c.78/79 to hangout with friends and always had a great time ( well, the bits i can remember anyway ). As a 16 or 17 year old at the time i wasn't exactly difficult to please, mind.
Gotta say the sound system / PA was mightily impressive and hearing the likes of Motorhead or Zeppelin blasting through it was something i really looked forward to. Think i stopped going when the NWOBHM starting dominating procedures at the expense of old skool hard rock, guess i just can't handle ( and still can't ) those widdly diddly guitars.
As an aside, i love the track Teenage Metalhead by the New Lou Reeds on the HH compilation, the lyrics especially, all that stuff about running around in a Camaro and getting wasted really takes me back to the Bandwagon, er, only we were on FS1E's and RD200's :-(
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Vybik Jon
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 15:56
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I moved to London in Autumn 1979 and became a regular at the Bandwagon within weeks of arriving. Happy days.
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bubblehead2
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 16:10
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I always thought you looked familiar !
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Vybik Jon
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 08, 2010, 16:40
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I always thought the same about you!
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ToneStone
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Re: Neal Kay’s Heavy Metal Soundhouse at the Bandwagon!
Mar 09, 2010, 00:42
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Chesterfield probably DJing in the Anchor. They were both ex miners from Killamarsh
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