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Post by Timeblue on Sept 25, 2020 21:46:09 GMT
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Post by arthur10538 on Sept 26, 2020 20:20:03 GMT
Cool Footage!
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Post by orioles70 on Sept 26, 2020 21:20:55 GMT
Somehow, I didn’t know Duran Duran was a Brummie band.
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Post by Horacewimp on Sept 27, 2020 7:51:22 GMT
Somehow, I didn’t know Duran Duran was a Brummie band. Yeah, they used to frequent Barbarellas and The Rum Runner nightclubs in Brum before they become mega famous, I visited the Rum Runner once with a mate hoping to see them, we were disappointed.
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Post by Timeblue on Mar 14, 2022 18:37:41 GMT
Somehow, I didn’t know Duran Duran was a Brummie band. Yeah, they used to frequent Barbarellas and The Rum Runner nightclubs in Brum before they become mega famous, I visited the Rum Runner once with a mate hoping to see them, we were disappointed. Are these clubs still in existence?
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Post by Horacewimp on Mar 14, 2022 20:40:53 GMT
Yeah, they used to frequent Barbarellas and The Rum Runner nightclubs in Brum before they become mega famous, I visited the Rum Runner once with a mate hoping to see them, we were disappointed. Are these clubs still in existence? Unfortunately not, both are long gone, swallowed up by urban renewal schemes. Barbarellas became a bank www.birminghammusicarchive.com/barbarellas/Rum Runner was knocked down. www.birminghammusicarchive.com/rumrunners/
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Post by Timeblue on Mar 25, 2022 20:54:17 GMT
Just reading the archive piece on the Rumrunner, it sounded like a great place to be and should have been saved. Maybe if a 'blue plaque' had been offered then it could have been....
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 1, 2022 16:50:27 GMT
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Post by fourlittlediamonds on Apr 2, 2022 1:06:13 GMT
Just to be pedantic only three of them (Roger Taylor,John Taylor and Nick Rhodes) were Brummies. Simon Le Bon was from Middlesex and Andy Taylor from Northumberland. And if you want to get technical, John Taylor was from Solihull and they get very upset if you claim that's part of Birmingham even though it has a "B" postcode.
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Post by Horacewimp on Apr 2, 2022 7:53:14 GMT
Just to be pedantic only three of them (Roger Taylor,John Taylor and Nick Rhodes) were Brummies. Simon Le Bon was from Middlesex and Andy Taylor from Northumberland. And if you want to get technical, John Taylor was from Solihull and they get very upset if you claim that's part of Birmingham even though it has a "B" postcode. When the band were first formed Simon Le Bon wasn’t a member, the singer was Stephen “Tin Tin “ Duffy and was Roger, Nick and John so this I guess is where the Birmingham band link comes from. As an aside check out their first recordings with Stephen Duffy it was released under the band name The Devils and called Dark Circles, it’s an ok album especially the haunting track Barbarellas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(band)
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 2, 2022 8:10:44 GMT
Were the two clubs similar to The Blitz Club in London? rather than being clubs known for specific bands they were known for the movement they were involved in?
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Post by Horacewimp on Apr 2, 2022 8:58:16 GMT
Were the two clubs similar to The Blitz Club in London? rather than being clubs known for specific bands they were known for the movement they were involved in? I was slightly too young to go to these clubs when they were at their peak but yes I believe they were know for the movements or styles of music played, like the Blitz. When I first started going to clubs, Kiss Me by Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy and Welcome to the Monkey House by Animal Magnet were the floor fillers, I think these were songs just popular in the Brum nightclub scene. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_(Tin_Tin_song)duranduran.fandom.com/wiki/Animal_Magnet
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Post by fourlittlediamonds on Apr 3, 2022 12:52:34 GMT
Were the two clubs similar to The Blitz Club in London? rather than being clubs known for specific bands they were known for the movement they were involved in? I was slightly too young to go to these clubs when they were at their peak but yes I believe they were know for the movements or styles of music played, like the Blitz. When I first started going to clubs, Kiss Me by Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy and Welcome to the Monkey House by Animal Magnet were the floor fillers, I think these were songs just popular in the Brum nightclub scene. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_(Tin_Tin_song)duranduran.fandom.com/wiki/Animal_Magnet I remember seeing them on a local music/culture show for BBC Midlands called Look Hear (which Toyah Wilcox used to present) around '81 doing Planet Earth, which I thought was quite good.
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 6, 2022 6:56:27 GMT
I was 17 in and around 1981,I'd have loved to have gone there if I knew that the 'scene' was going to explode nationally.
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