Moving to Bradford

[pk]

think his name was barry (although i could be wrong there). a few of my mates were friends with him, i knew the people who took the place after him though.
think he started another club down by the kashmir, which was good, but closed pretty quickly.

Shah Jehan is now called omar khans, still good though, although i prefer the kashmir because it's cheap

Barry, that was him. They used to have loads of freaky roleplay nights down there, and because I lived across the street they'd let me in for a drink and watch them all pretending to kill each other and shit.

I was the one who used to set up the video projections occasionally... if you were in Bradford in '95 - you'd definitely remember me.

 

[boha]

They used to have loads of freaky roleplay nights down there

I was the one who used to set up the video projections occasionally... if you were in Bradford in '95 - you'd definitely remember me.

my mates used to go to that. they were all vampire live roleplayers
couldn't see the attraction meself.
a few of them got cautioned by the police for sprinting past bombay stores carrying fake plastic beretta's yelling at each other

bit of a pain when you were sat in the pub and they went into character. got some funny looks in the westleigh.

i mentioned the video projections to my other half and she remembers that.
she used to live opposite the underworld as well.
small world innit

rio's is still open unfortunately

 

[Spion]

I probably know you then!! And/or maybe your g/f!!
I knew the owner quite well, tall goth type bloke, his name escapes me but he was sound, I used to DJ there along with Scott, and Keith, and a load of others from SRS, Keith was hooked up with the 1 in 12 and builds PA's.
I was there pretty much every night during '95.

A couple of mates of mine used to DJ at Tumblers - Richard and Jason. Rich also did a near the knuckle pub quiz with a guy from Hull

 

[boha]

tumblers used to be fairly decent, especially on a monday night.
iirc it was £2.50 in, and 50p a pint.

not much fun trying to get to work on a tuesday morning though

 

[citygirl]

K...so where's it gunna be???

Jonnyd's getting impatient

chompin' at the bit, 'e is!

 

[jonnyd1978]

tumblers used to be fairly decent, especially on a monday night.
iirc it was £2.50 in, and 50p a pint.

not much fun trying to get to work on a tuesday morning though

Thursday night used to be a few quid in then 10p per pint! Fridays were my college day and I didn't look pretty. Richard or Jason from Tumblers still dj's at The Love Apple one Friday every month. I think it's Jason but I can't quite recall! It's like a Tumblers reunion in there!

 

[lihp]

Thinking about it Lihp, I find this question rather discriminative. What reasons do you have to long for work within immigrant/minority communities?

Would you be interest in working with the Polish & Serbian communities in Bradford?

i know what you mean MM, i've had several long discussions about more or less that topic. is it positive discrimination? can there be such a thing as positive discrimination? is that term oxymoronic? etc. etc.

every time i've had the conversation i've more or less ended up saying that i don't work for/with/in/etc. minority communities (be it gay, ethnic or whatever) because i feel quilty about being a straight white male (which i have been more or less "accused" of) but simply because those communities are being neglected and pushed around by the societal mainstream and are entitled to whoever will help them.

is this true altruism? hardly. i obviously do feel good about not complying with the set stereotype white male heterosexual, but i'm not a black, asian, gay fanboy to get off on being such a grand person either.

hope that made some sense,

lihp

 

[pk]

Where was Tumblers??

It rings a bell, though it be a distant bell clouded in the damp sheets of a hangover.

Queens Hall and Underworld were my main haunts, but I had a fair few good proper parties at the old Victorian Turkish Bath house in Morley Street, round the back of the Queens Hall, before Vibealite came along with their white gloves and rave kiddies!!

 

[citygirl]

tumblers was on tumbling hill street, right being the college

 

[Spion]

Richard or Jason from Tumblers still dj's at The Love Apple one Friday every month. I think it's Jason but I can't quite recall! It's like a Tumblers reunion in there!

Yeah, it's Jason. He was complaining that everyone still wants the same tunes as in 95

 

[boha]

Yeah, it's Jason. He was complaining that everyone still wants the same tunes as in 95

does he still stick on 'I am the resurrection' when he needs a pee ?

 

[Spion]

does he still stick on 'I am the resurrection' when he needs a pee ?

Heehee . . . I'll ask him (seeing as I never go to any of his nights)

 

[pk]

Fuck yeah, I remember Tumblers.

Some surplus low life stole a really nice jacket off an Urbanite who posts here whilst we played pool.

 

[Roadkill]

If you move to Bradford, you become a 'wezzie.'

So far as most people from the East Riding are concerned, that makes you lower than whaleshit...

 

[citygirl]

strange that...cus that's how we think of them lot that can't make up their minds about being humberside, or east yorks...

 

[_angel_]

strange that...cus that's how we think of them lot that can't make up their minds about being h*mberside, or east yorks...

Pah! Wash your mouth out young lady we won;t have any of that talk around these parts.

 

[Roadkill]

Our minds are very much made up - we're East Yorkshire!

Meanwhile, you'll have to resign yourself to being called a 'comfort' (pronounced in thick, faux-Wezzie accent) or a 'Twirlie' by everyone in ERoY.

Why?

'Cos Wezzies invade the seaside towns saying they 'come for t'day,' or stick their heads round the door of the chippy half an hour before opening time and go 'are we t'early love?'

 

[aqua]

Pah! Wash your mouth out young lady we won;t have any of that talk around these parts.

we certainly will not

 

[citygirl]

US??..thought you'd emigrated down t'south?....

come along and join in then, if you're "in" East Yorks

 

[Roadkill]

US??..thought you'd emigrated down t'south?....

I have, unfortunately.

I'm a (adopted, since I'm a Midlander by birth) Hull man in exile.

 

[jonnyd1978]

Yeah, it's Jason. He was complaining that everyone still wants the same tunes as in 95

1995 eh? I was 16/17 I had no school, college one day a week, a cash in hand job and not a care in the world. What went wrong?!

 

[Spion]

If you move to Bradford, you become a 'wezzie.'

So far as most people from the East Riding are concerned, that makes you lower than whaleshit...

That's probably not an insult. I mean, whaleshit is likely to be quite a delicacy over that way

 

[Spion]

does he still stick on 'I am the resurrection' when he needs a pee ?

I found out last night Jason used to use the 8mins of that track so he could nip down to the garage for a pee as he didn't like the ones in Tumblers

 

[KGlad]

Blimey, there's a right little Keighley set on Urban!!!

AAAAhhhhh and iam sure more to come lol...

 

[HackneyE9]

Apart from the 1 in 12 club, the best pub in Britain (Beehive) and the cheap curries and crumbling Victorian architecture, the best thing about Bratfud is the cinema - every arthouse film that gets released in London eventually makes its way, if only for a night or two, to the NMPFT cinema.

Bratfud's also so cheap that a lot of genuinely alternative people live there, if you look hard enough. That's said, like everywhere, it's a lot less alternative than it used to be - demise of the Queen's Hall (fuckin' Wetherspooons) and the old Playhouse cinema/theatre.

Is Tumbers still going then? I spent every Friday night there from 1988-1991, it feels like....

 

[citygirl]

love that term "genuinely alternative"

tumblers, alas, is no more

 

[HackneyE9]

love that term "genuinely alternative"

Not me, I hasten to add! I'm boring old Bingley. Or was.

 

[catinthehat]

Ah Bingley - home of Damart and Five Rise Locks - lived there in the 90s.

 

[HackneyE9]

Don't forget the Brown Cow - only riverside pub in UK with, er...no riverside beer garden!

And the concrete Inca temple that is the Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

 

[citygirl]

it does, however...have a lovely new bypass....which is what they always wanted...now they just need to knock that shopping centre down