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Sir George Robey, Finsbury Park!!!!

Paulie Tandoori said:
on the basis that the 414/nfz made me all nostalgic, i was curious as to the collective memory of the George Robey on 7 sisters road up finsbury park? scene and setting for punk/ska/oi gigs, club dog nights (club dog nights!!!!), desmond dekker in a white leather suit, far side raves, more things that i can't remember than i can.

and now it is no more. anyone remember the robey?
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fucking great .. tons of ska gigs in the late 8ts :D what a waste
 
ianw said:
I saw Snuff's very first gig there, to about fifteen people, during an all-dayer. I was there to see a mate's band. Also saw Fugazi there. It was slightly fuller for them! I must have been to countless gigs there...
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robey all-dayers were something special. mind you, the all-nighters were pretty good too...:D
 
and that fish bar ( rainbow fish bar??) that sold beers? its gone i think .. in fact its a brothel or language school or something similar :D
 
First went there around '79 for a London PX gig, some of them lived on Isledon Rd IIRC. The gig room back then was really small. They made it bigger in the 80's but it was a shithole plus the bouncers were well dodgy. They killed some punk one night & chucked his body in a skip.
 
Sir Belchalot said:
First went there around '79 for a London PX gig, some of them lived on Isledon Rd IIRC. The gig room back then was really small. They made it bigger in the 80's but it was a shithole plus the bouncers were well dodgy. They killed some punk one night & chucked his body in a skip.
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i know the bouncers may have been vigorous but i certainly don't remember any whispers to this effect.

i do remember a punk rocker called skinny, who got pissed on by someone when he went to sleep under the bridge after a night at the robey.
 
I used to go there a lot and see bands like Back To The Planet,RDF,Co-Creaters etc,loads of dodgy acid house allnighters as well,long time ago now though.
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
s'funny innit, you wouldn't have a shadow with some of those places now, they'd shut you down before you'd even opened up iykwim? i loved how rough and ready everything was then. i sound like an auld daytime punter for the place now.....:D
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I just missed out on it all tbh, I was just getting into grunge when the Robey was in its heyday so it was a slightly different milieu from what I was into, and by the time I was into clubbing, trance etc it had already shut down :(
 
Used to go to Club Dog - but to be honest, it's all so long ago now I can't remember who I saw there or much about it. I do remember it being pretty skanky - but no more than loads of other places around that time - or at least the ones I seemed to end up in. It was great really. *gets nostalgic*
 
I used to live in Finsbury Park about eleven years ago - the place was closed by then I think but I have heard it mentioned by friends ;)

What intrigues me is what is supposed to be happening to the building? It's got scaffolding up and has been partly demolished for some years now and I can't understand why they haven't finished the job.

Does anyone know anything about it?
 
I wuz, we were were stupid, etc.....


We had read a load of these,,,,

SPLEEN

by: Charles Baudelaire

'M like some king in whose corrupted veins
Flows agèd blood; who rules a land of rains;
Who, young in years, is old in all distress;
Who flees good counsel to find weariness
Among his dogs and playthings, who is stirred
Neither by hunting-hound nor hunting-bird;
Whose weary face emotion moves no more
E'en when his people die before his door.
His favourite Jester's most fantastic wile
Upon that sick, cruel face can raise no smile;
The courtly dames, to whom all kings are good,
Can lighten this young skeleton's dull mood
No more with shameless toilets. In his gloom
Even his lilied bed becomes a tomb.
The sage who takes his gold essays in vain
To purge away the old corrupted strain,
His baths of blood, that in the days of old
The Romans used when their hot blood grew cold,
Will never warm this dead man's bloodless pains,
For green Lethean water fills his veins.


We were pompous gits, looking back.....:D:D
 
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