oioi 8:33 Wed Sep 27
Billy Walker's Uppercut Club
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Anyone on here remember it? My standout memory was seeing the Small Faces, I think it was 1967. Their roadies were chucking over enthusiastic girls off the 6' high stage. I was 15, desperate to pull birds and I'm totally impressed and in awe watching Stevie and the boys throwing them away!
PS North Bank on Saturday afternoons too, Happy Days. ⚒
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Briano
12:00 Sat Sep 30
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Any Old Iron 2:09 Thu Sep 28
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Talking of Billy Walker, anyone remember his fast food chain 'Billy's Baked Potato'?
That business was the first set up by his brother George, went on to become Brent Walker, owners of pubs hotels and Breweries. They also financed films including Quadraphenia.
Then they went skint
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Far Cough
3:09 Fri Sep 29
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Terry Downes beat Sugar Ray Robinson didn't he? to be fair, Sugar Ray was 42 at the time
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terry-h
1:49 Fri Sep 29
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I see Billy lives somewhere in Essex with his fourth wife. He is now 78.
Terry Downes is also still punching above his weight at 81. Now he was actually a world champion!
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jimmy iron
1:26 Fri Sep 29
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My old man saw Little Stevie Wonder there.. Amongst others I can't remember now. He saw Hendrix at The Manor House pub N London.
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Loafer
12:32 Fri Sep 29
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southwoodford You might have seen Hendrix play the second time he played the Upper Cut in Jan '67? That was a regular night time gig.
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charleyfarley
12:29 Fri Sep 29
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Terry Spinks Olympic boxing champion, there's a blast from the past, his mother had a sweet shop in New Barn St
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The Stoat
12:10 Fri Sep 29
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southwoodford 1:39 Thu Sep 28
Well it ended around 6pm on Boxing Day so I guess it was dark by then ;-)
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11:49 Fri Sep 29
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I don't know how much of a supporter of WHU Billy Walker was but as a lad I regularly saw Terry Spinks over there in the late fifties early sixties.
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CasualKen
11:26 Fri Sep 29
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oioi 8:50 Wed Sep 27
I read the book Passion is a Fashion by Pat Gilbert about The Clash and it's mentions in there about Hendrix writing Purple Haze in the 'green' room at Upper Cut, which was actually purple. Goes on to say that when the club was demolished loads of hippies where there to grab a piece of the rubble. What a story
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terry-h
2:33 Thu Sep 28
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Someone told me Billy and his brother George owned a garage in New Barn Street Plaistow. I wonder if they were Hammers fans.
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Any Old Iron
2:09 Thu Sep 28
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Talking of Billy Walker, anyone remember his fast food chain 'Billy's Baked Potato'?
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Northern Sold
1:54 Thu Sep 28
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Certainly was Percy.... I got a great screen saver of all the artists of the stax tour
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percyd
12:26 Thu Sep 28
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If my memory doesn't deveive me the band for the Stax gig at the Upper Cut was Booker T and the MGs, certainly contained Steve Cropper, "Duck" Dunn and BT himself.
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Northern Sold
12:05 Thu Sep 28
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Sounds the nuts... I imagine my old man would have been to this place (seeing him tonight so will ask) ... used to go to all the clubs (la Discoteque, Flamingo, 100 Club) in the 60's... think he saw everyone play apart from the Beatles (never liked them)... I asked him what was the best gig he saw and he reckoned Booker T and the MG's at the Moby Dick ... he reckoned half the audience were all famous pop stars of the day
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ted fenton
11:55 Thu Sep 28
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Great days and I believe Hendrix wrote Purple Haze for obvious reasons and on a fag packet.
Had my Stag up the Lotus I seem to remember :-)
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SecondOpinion
11:46 Thu Sep 28
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Green with envy withn anyone who saw Jimi play live. Although I did meet him once on the London Underground a few days before he died.
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percyd
4:04 Thu Sep 28
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Went to the Upper Cut several times, though more a Lotus man (boy) me. Remember the Stax show - Otis et al and also saw Jimi. Missed The Who, though did see them at the Ilford Palais. Those, truly, were THE days.
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Takashi Miike
1:39 Thu Sep 28
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no, before my time but I drank in the white horse in east ham when Tommy Taylor ran it
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southwoodford
1:39 Thu Sep 28
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The Stoat 8:58 Wed Sep 27
Interesting - I definitely saw him play an evening gig. Always assumed he only did the one show ...
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Billremfrey
1:23 Thu Sep 28
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horrible 12:40 Thu Sep 28
Blimey, that takes me back to my first job years ago. As a kid, I had to look out for the old bill while the ice cream van was on double yellow lines fleecing tourists outside Madame Tussauds. Couple of quid a day, lovely.
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horrible
12:40 Thu Sep 28
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I'm reading Eddie Blundell's autobiography at the moment and Billy walker and the upper cut club have had quite a few mentions
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