Nightclubs and Stomping Grounds

[hobbo1]

Scone Golfies is where it was at! Only big name band i ever saw there was the Choir Boys and they were pathetic!!

Met a bloke on Xmas Day from Scone via Gladstone ...nice bloke

Was he wearing pants?

 

[Runningit11]

Seriously amazing times watching some of the best gigs at all those above mentioned joints as well as The Bayview tavern Gladesville which saw bands such as INXS ,chisel amongst so many other bands Narrabeen Antler was known for the Oils residing for a good while, ***The joint (name escapes me at the moment)at Dural*** had many gigs as well.The Manly Vale did its stuff as well as The Venue at Dee Why

Pokies and State Govts certainly killed those wonderful musical moments

The Vicar of Wakefield is the pub at Dural that you are thinking of, my old stomping ground

Ahh yes The Vicar of Wakefield !cold chisel played a huge gig there as well

 

[cochise]

Scone Golfies is where it was at! Only big name band i ever saw there was the Choir Boys and they were pathetic!!

Met a bloke on Xmas Day from Scone via Gladstone ...nice bloke

Was he wearing pants?

If he is from Scone, then probably not.

 

[diedpretty]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today

Have had a few drinks there. Always stay just down the road.

 

[patwalker]

My younger brothers would have been at the Golfies around the same time as you Pat as they loved the place.

What are there names? I actually avoided the Muswellbrook pubs as i got in too many fights! My sister worked at the prince for years and then the Muswellbrook but that was a few years later.

 

[patwalker]

Met a bloke on Xmas Day from Scone via Gladstone ...nice bloke

It's hard not to be a good bloke when you grow up in god's country mate!!

 

[Cairnstigers]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today

Have had a few drinks there. Always stay just down the road.

Yes well I'm lucky enough to live just a 10 minute beach walk from Palmcove at Clifton Bch
My wife and I walk our dog up to Palmcove every weekend for lunch and almost every day since on holidays
Lots of places to eat and drink
I have just noticed an influx of tourists the last few days which is great for the cafe's and restaurants as us locals have had this place to ourselves for most of the year
It really is a great place to live

 

[happy_tiger]

Met a bloke on Xmas Day from Scone via Gladstone ...nice bloke

It's hard not to be a good bloke when you grow up in god's country mate!!

He's actually born in Gladstone ....he and his daughter are involved in horse racing ...I didn't know Scone had such a big breeding program with the Thorobred race horses

 

[patwalker]

Scone has always pumped itself as being the Horse capitol of Australia, there are more horse studs than you could poke a stick at!!

 

[happy_tiger]

Scone Golfies is where it was at! Only big name band i ever saw there was the Choir Boys and they were pathetic!!

Met a bloke on Xmas Day from Scone via Gladstone ...nice bloke

Was he wearing pants?

Yeah ...yours

 

[Tigerwould]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today

Nice looking spot for a swim and beer. Why do they call it a “surf club”? Do you ever get surf there?

 

[diedpretty]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today

Have had a few drinks there. Always stay just down the road.

Yes well I'm lucky enough to live just a 10 minute beach walk from Palmcove at Clifton Bch
My wife and I walk our dog up to Palmcove every weekend for lunch and almost every day since on holidays
Lots of places to eat and drink
I have just noticed an influx of tourists the last few days which is great for the cafe's and restaurants as us locals have had this place to ourselves for most of the year
It really is a great place to live

I owned a couple of investment properties at Trinity Beach so got up there pretty regularly. Even though i have sold the properties my wife and i still get up to Palm Cove at least once a year.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today


Nice looking spot for a swim and beer. Why do they call it a “surf club”? Do you ever get surf there?

No surf in Cairns unless you get a cyclone
The club is more for the Nippers
And the lifeguards man the stinger nets

 

[innsaneink]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today

Have had a few drinks there. Always stay just down the road.

Yes well I'm lucky enough to live just a 10 minute beach walk from Palmcove at Clifton Bch
My wife and I walk our dog up to Palmcove every weekend for lunch and almost every day since on holidays
Lots of places to eat and drink
I have just noticed an influx of tourists the last few days which is great for the cafe's and restaurants as us locals have had this place to ourselves for most of the year
It really is a great place to live

We stayed up there a couple years ago... Agincourt beach front apts.
Watched us beat Melbourne up there added to my memories

 

[happy_tiger]

Down at the Palmcove surf club in Cairns today

Have had a few drinks there. Always stay just down the road.

Yes well I'm lucky enough to live just a 10 minute beach walk from Palmcove at Clifton Bch
My wife and I walk our dog up to Palmcove every weekend for lunch and almost every day since on holidays
Lots of places to eat and drink
I have just noticed an influx of tourists the last few days which is great for the cafe's and restaurants as us locals have had this place to ourselves for most of the year
It really is a great place to live


I owned a couple of investment properties at Trinity Beach so got up there pretty regularly. Even though i have sold the properties my wife and i still get up to Palm Cove at least once a year.

Pretty place Trinity Beach ...bet it isn't the sleepy NQ beach town it was when we 1st went up their in 1979

 

[cochise]

Scone has always pumped itself as being the Horse capitol of Australia, there are more horse studs than you could poke a stick at!!

I was up there at Christmas and Segenhoe has really expanded, I used to be a ring in in the Studs Touch Footy competition, it was supposed to be for employees only so they would gives a couple of days work leading up to the comp.

 

[the_third]

Barons Kellet st. No music, crappy juke box, had to “dine in” to get upstairs. Unreal place

Played a bit of golf with the long time owner(30yrs..?)...said he "dealt" with standover men,bikies,druggies..the lot.
He wld be 80kgs wringing wet,but reckon he saw it all in that part of town!

Haha he did well. it was an oasis in the cesspool that was kings cross. I remember playing backgammon and having a drink until about midday with someone (slightly dodgy) one evening.

 

[Magpie1969]

Tiffany's at Blacktown, Parramatta Leagues, Reactive One Penrith, Selina's at
Coogee Bay Hotel. Metro George Street.
Seen the cream of Aussie Rock. Great era sadly gone and a lot of them have sadly passed,
INXS, Hunters and Collectors, Dragon, The Divinyls, Screaming Jets, Hoodoo Gurus,
Midnight Oil, Powderfinger Jet, 1927, The Angels, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Crowded House,
Split Enz, Jenny Morris, Spy vs Spy, Icehouse, Choirboys, James Reyne, Boom Crash
Opera, Black Sorrows, Baby Animals, Pseudo Echo, Big Pig, Mental As Anything, Painters and Dockers, You Am I, The Church.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Sundowner hotel resident singer was JR known as John Rowles,I was 16 at the time.Later was also a member of Penrith Leagues and Drummoyne sailing club and Drummoyne rowers.They were the days.

Have great memories of the Sundowner at Punchbowl, saw many a great band there in my youth, Cold Chisel being the standout.

Other old places I frequented were the Haberfield Rowing Club, Pine Inn Hotel at Burwood, Canterbury Leagues, Centrepoint Tavern, Bomaderry RSL & various pubs at the The Rocks - I loved the Rocks, I was there just about every weekend! The Hero of Waterloo, Governer’s Pleasure, Navigators, Orient, Observer and the Lord Nelson were all great pubs. Saw many a good act at these joints. And who could forget the Lowenbrau Keller German Restaurant - I imagine many of these places have been renamed or are obsolete now.

As far as OS bands go, I got to see Genesis, Dire Straits, Eurythmics & Paul McCartney, at the Entertainment Centre during the 80s and Meatloaf & Average White Band at the Hordern Pavillion. I was too young when Deep Purple Led Zep and Chicago toured in the early 70s and my mum wouldn’t let me go, much to my eternal disappointment. I remember seeing Simple Minds at Selina’s at the Coogee Bay Hotel also.

I once went to a 2sm concert in, I think it was Hyde Park (2sm was a rock radio station back in the day) when Split Enz came running onto the stage in highly coloured checked outfits and weird hair do’s - I remember thinking WT..? I think they were just coming onto the music scene at the time. They may have looked weird, but I thought they were pretty bloody good.

One of the best musical experiences I ever had was when I attended a 3 day music festival at Narara on the Central Coast in the early 1980s. Just about every Aussie band known to man was there, so I was able to experience them all on the same long weekend. It was awesome! Once again Chisel were great, as were Midnight Oil and the Angels, but I really remember INXS stealing the show on the last day - they just seemed to be a cut above the rest, musically, for me. No mean feat considering the talent on show that weekend, but I’m sure everyone who saw all these bands will have a different opinion on who they think was the best.

Anyway enough of my ranting trip down memory lane - some great memories there, but it was all such a long time ago now. Sadly, it’s a whole new world these days.

 

[tigerballs]

Sundowner hotel resident singer was JR known as John Rowles,I was 16 at the time.Later was also a member of Penrith Leagues and Drummoyne sailing club and Drummoyne rowers.They were the days.

Have great memories of the Sundowner at Punchbowl, saw many a great band there in my youth, Cold Chisel being the standout.

Other old places I frequented were the Haberfield Rowing Club, Pine Inn Hotel at Burwood, Canterbury Leagues, Centrepoint Tavern, Bomaderry RSL & various pubs at the The Rocks - I loved the Rocks, I was there just about every weekend! The Hero of Waterloo, Governer’s Pleasure, Navigators, Orient, Observer and the Lord Nelson were all great pubs. Saw many a good act at these joints. And who could forget the Lowenbrau Keller German Restaurant - I imagine many of these places have been renamed or are obsolete now.

As far as OS bands go, I got to see Genesis, Dire Straits, Eurythmics & Paul McCartney, at the Entertainment Centre during the 80s and Meatloaf & Average White Band at the Hordern Pavillion. I was too young when Deep Purple Led Zep and Chicago toured in the early 70s and my mum wouldn’t let me go, much to my eternal disappointment. I remember seeing Simple Minds at Selina’s at the Coogee Bay Hotel also.

I once went to a 2sm concert in, I think it was Hyde Park (2sm was a rock radio station back in the day) when Split Enz came running onto the stage in highly coloured checked outfits and weird hair do’s - I remember thinking WT..? I think they were just coming onto the music scene at the time. They may have looked weird, but I thought they were pretty bloody good.

One of the best musical experiences I ever had was when I attended a 3 day music festival at Narara on the Central Coast in the early 1980s. Just about every Aussie band known to man was there, so I was able to experience them all on the same long weekend. It was awesome! Once again Chisel were great, as were Midnight Oil and the Angels, but I really remember INXS stealing the show on the last day - they just seemed to be a cut above the rest, musically, for me. No mean feat considering the talent on show that weekend, but I’m sure everyone who saw all these bands will have a different opinion on who they think was the best.

Anyway enough of my ranting trip down memory lane - some great memories there, but it was all such a long time ago now. Sadly, it’s a whole new world these days.

I must know you Spud, Haberfield Rowers, The Hero, Governers Pleasure. I worked on the door at The Orient and Balmain Leagues. I saw INXS play support for Mental As Anything at Bexley North and Men at Work open for someone at the joint downstairs in the AMP building. Good times but I'm lucky to still be alive really...