Some interesting items in our newsletter for November 2012 but first a reminder for our reunion gig of the year!

Pull out all the stops to make it to the Lion for this one. Wallow in a whole night of classic rock tracks brought to you by the team that first played them at the legendary Granary in the 70s and 80s and created those life long musical memories. From the starting point of 7.30pm the Granary DJs will present the music of the bands that played on the Granary’s tiny stage plus the fantastic floor fillers from the rock discos that filled the club every week. Wanna feel that heady feeling again? Of course you do! And for crying out loud, it’s all FREE

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WANTED FOR PLAYING LOUD MUSIC

Last months newsletter included a picture of the band Zenith playing on stage at the club in 1985. Interest was stirred in who the characters were in the DJ box above the stage. Adrian Coleman, who later on became the resident Granary DJ in the closing years of the club, has provided the answer. “The person in the light top looks like Jon Shortman. “Disco Jon” we called him. He used to take care of the private functions in the club. Mainly for schools/ colleges who couldn’t book anywhere else due to their ages. I served my apprenticeship with Jon and it was indeed he who got me my Granary gig. Lost touch years ago. John Mason should remember him too. Too dark to really see the other person but could be me.” It would be really good to track down Jon and add his Granary memories to the archive so if you know the whereabouts of Jon Shortman let us know or tell him to get in touch with Al at the Granary (al@thegranaryclub.co.uk )                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

VERY PRETTY BUT NOT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL!
After the Granary closed in 1988 several companies put forward plans to the Council of renovations that they considered possible. Here are a couple of artists impressions of their “new look” Granary which failed to come to fruition that we’ve been able to add to the Granary archives.They seem to have left out somewhere to park one’s Harley Davidson !

The Granary fifth floor

The Granary first floor

The Granary top floor ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Keep in touch with the Granary-Bristol facebook page and post your favourite classic rock tracks. Copy this and send it to all your friends and please keep the Granary alive and well by supporting Granareunited 27 at the Lion on the 16th December. Love & peace, Al & Ed.

GRANARY CLUB NEWSLETTER LATE OCTOBER 2012

The rocking event of the year for the fans of Granary styled classic rock. Not to be missed. All the Granary DJs will be on hand to bring you the classic tracks that made the Granary Rock Discos famous. We have added some Christmas goodies like Super-Ed’s Lucky dip and a free raffle for an original framed Granary poster. Entry is free which can’t be bad. See ya there!

ZENITH PICTURES FROM 1985

On Saturday 29^th June 1885 Zenith supported Karrier at the Granary and Zenith member Cliff Evans supplied with some great pictures s of the gig. The disco room and the balcony identify it immediately as the Granary. Were you there? Who’s that in the disco room?

IS THERE ANYONE LEFT WHO HASN’T GOT A GRANARY BOOK?

If there is then this is the perfect Christmas present.

With each page packed with Granary memories no Granary fan should be without a copy of the Granary book. It is available from the Granary web site shop http://www.thegranaryclub.co.uk/shop/ at £10 including p&p. There are other sites where it may be a little cheaper but only at the Granary can you have it signed by the author.

Visit the Granary page on Facebook (Granary-Bristol) and post your favourite rock tracks. We use it as reference for our Granareunited Rock Discos. Please copy this and forward it to your friends. Keep the Granary alive!

See you on the 16^th December – Al and Ed

COUNTRY JOE McDONALD made his name at the world famous WOODSTOCK festival with the classic “Fixing to die” and the infamous “Fish Cheer”.

This picture was taken at the Granary on  Monday 14th March 1983 by Animal Rights gig organiser Robin Askew.

THE GRANARY GREW FROM THE DUGOUT.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Before moving to the Granary in 1968 we were based for a short while at the Dug Out Club in Park Row Bristol. Our artistic partner in the organisation Terry Brace designed this logo for the Dug Out.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

HANOI ROCKS POSTER and PICTURES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

POSTER FOR MARILLION GIG   1982                                                                                                                                                                                                               

PICTURES OF (POSSIBLY) THE GRANARY’S GREATEST GIG - ROBERT PLANT and the HONEYDRIPPERS, Tuesday 19th May 1981                                                                                               And that’s Al Read in the Disco Box above the stage wearing a TIE! A true Granary faux pas! A legendary night indeed.

LES PEARCE along with rock band WEAPON in 1981                                                                                                                                                        

PAT TRAVERS AIR CARDBOARD GUITAR  Brilliant guitarist Pat Travers played at the club on Saturday 3rd July 1976 and provided several members of the audience with cut out cardboard guitars so that they could join him on stage. We though that these  unique items had disappeared into the past but one, at least, has survived!                 

Make an extra special reminder in your 2012 diary for our next big Granary gathering on April 8th 2012.

It’s time to strap on your jingle Bells as we gear up for our Christmassive Rock night! Non-stop Classic Rock until the bells end!

Always the big one of the year, bringing Granary fans old and new together to revel in the classic rock that made the Granary famous. As well as the music there’s all the Granary showcards and posters to make you feel at home plus a dip in “Santa’s Rocking Sack” and possibly an air guitar to strum into the night. Be early as the night starts at 7.30pm and, of course, admission is FREE!

Once again the four horsemen of the poxy lips will be riding into the Lion to blast classic rock in true Granary style - the club may be gone but the spirit lives on. Starting a 7.30pm with a trip into the tripping past with DJ Super-Ed, on to Ade the First firing on both barrels (of real ale) with his pick of the classics, Al Read will do his best (if he can remember who he is and where he is) to bring back all those memories of the Friday night rock discos, then there’s the true rocker Adrian Coleman (the man who held the Granary together in it’s final years). Be prepared for a mega-bash of classic rock when all four join together to present the feast of floor fillers! See the show cards and posters of Granary memorabilia and see if you can catch a free air guitar!

All Granary fans were saddened to hear of the death of guitar maestro Gary Moore. One of Gary’s first gigs in in England was at the Granary as the front man for Irish band Skid Row. Here’s the page from Al’s Granary desk top diary where he kept details of all the Granary bookings which shows the third Skid Row date in May 1971 and, a few weeks later, the booking of Skid Row’s stable mates Thin Lizzie (they changed the “ie” ending to a “y” before the release of their first English record ( NEW DAY EP for which Plastic Dog partner Rodney Matthews did the cover).

We were so impressed by the musicianship of this 16 year old guitarist the we re-booked Skid Row immediately and put them on the front cover of our Granary Dogpress magazine for May 1971.

Skid Row played six times at the club and Gary always stayed over at our flat in Clifton and wow did he like to party! Full stories on pages 35 and 50 of the Granary Book. Gary also did three gigs at the Granary with his Gary Moore Band. Al did ask Gary to write the foreword for the Granary book but he was unable to meet the publishing date.

A few interesting items that didn’t make it into the Granary book have surfaced including this ticket for the 3rd day BBC RPM music series that were filmed at the Granary in 1981. Wednesday 11th November 1981 featured THE STRANGLERS and VICE SQUAD, Thursday 12th was ALARM CLOX, THE GROSS CLUB and BLACK ROOTS, Friday 13th was SLOW TWITCH FIBRES, NEON and the PAYNEKILLERS.

The collection that contained these Granary bits and pieces were found in Les Pearce’s desk and were given to us by the Pearce family for which we thank them.

One ticket for an event in 1986 answers that age old question “When and where did all this binge drinking start?”

Gran Fan Aidan Naughton supplied us with this pic of Welsh band MAN on stage at the GRANARY on 2nd Feb 1984. The photograph was taken by Mike Ware.

Granareunited is always a great night crammed with all those classic rock tracks that made the Granary Club legendary. So whilst the rest of the country is going royal wedding crazy why don’t us rockers go crazy with a magical marriage of loud classic rock and beer at pub prices. Make a note in your diary to be free to make it to the Lion on Sunday 24th April.