BrotherJoybert Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 232 Tue 9th Feb 2010 1:43pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:117 "Wetbicycleclappersoup" posted this a cracking picture of the old Coventry Theatre
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Chaingang Tile Hill Village All posts by this member | 2 of 232 Thu 17th Nov 2011 12:10am Member: Joined Oct 2011 Total posts:60 ![]() adopted coventry |
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Robin D Leach Kenilworth All posts by this member | 3 of 232 Thu 1st Mar 2012 7:58am Member: Joined Feb 2011 Total posts:8 As an addendum to my recent posting about Sammy Newsome, the man who built the Hippodrome, does anybody know who the building contractors were that actually constructed it? I am tempted to think it may have been John Gray but accurate info would be most welcome.
Incidentally, one of my abiding memories of the 'Cov Theatre' as we referred to it, was being in the circle for a Slade concert (late 70s) and feeling it bouncing up an down; we always say about six inches though I suspect it was actually only about one, but still a little unnerving at the time!!
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 232 Thu 1st Mar 2012 9:04am Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 On 1st Mar 2012 7:58am, Robin D Leach said:
... Incidentally, one of my abiding memories of the 'Cov Theatre' as we referred to it, was being in the circle for a Slade concert (late 70s) and feeling it bouncing up an down....
I can relate to this. If you were lucky you'd either be in the Stalls or the Dress Circle. If you were not so lucky you might find yourself in the Upper Circle - and if you were at the back of the ticket queue you'd end up on the very back row of the upper circle (or up in "The Gods" as we called it) - which was me! ![]() ![]() |
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Robin D Leach Kenilworth All posts by this member | 5 of 232 Thu 1st Mar 2012 4:09pm Member: Joined Feb 2011 Total posts:8 Ah the Kinks; quite by chance my favourite band! I am originally from Muswell Hill as were they. It is thought that Coventry was the first place they played the music-history-changing 'You Really Got Me' in public for the first time, though perhaps not at the one you saw. |
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heritage Bedworth All posts by this member | 6 of 232 Thu 1st Mar 2012 4:42pm Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:368 Two highlights of the Hippodrome. Tommy Steele in the 1950s at the height of his fame and the Temperance Seven in the 1960s. Our crowd filled the complete length of the front row of the Grand Circle. |
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GVB All posts by this member | 7 of 232 Thu 1st Mar 2012 8:12pm Total posts:109 I remember seeing Steel Eye Span there and Maddy Prior was amazing. When they did "All around my hat" she started singing it on stage, danced off and up the aisles, around the circle and back on to the stage. She was still singing when she got back on stage and wasn't even out out of breath. Cracking night and I enjoyed it immensely. |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 232 Fri 2nd Mar 2012 4:23pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 I've just uploaded some scans of adverts from 1963 to my gallery. One of which is for The Coventry Theatre ![]() |
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rojwhittle derbyshire All posts by this member | 9 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 12:42am Member: Joined Aug 2011 Total posts:57 November (I think) 1963, The Beatles appeared at Coventry Theatre. I had a ticket, but hundreds didn't and there were traffic jams all along the A45. The concert started about an hour late and none of it could be heard for girls screaming. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 10 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 12:58am Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 My dad told me that in the event of Hales Street being blocked by fans, the fire engines were to be called out on a bogus emergency so as to clear the road! ![]() |
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rojwhittle derbyshire All posts by this member | 11 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 1:03am Member: Joined Aug 2011 Total posts:57 I seem to remember that the fire engines were brought out to block the road by Lady Herbert Garden so the band's car could get down to the stage door. It was complete chaos. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 12 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 8:54am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 On 4th Mar 2012 12:42am, rojwhittle said:
November ( I think) 1963, The Beatles appeared at Coventry Theatre. I had a ticket, but hundreds didn't and there were traffic jams all along the A45. The concert started about an hour late and none of it could be heard for girls screaming.
Wasn't Helen Shapiro top of the bill ? |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 6:37pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 She certainly was...
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 14 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 6:46pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 That was an earlier appearance. They made another in November by which time they were far more popular and topped the bill. |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 232 Sun 4th Mar 2012 6:58pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 That's correct. The day after Helen Shapiro's tour finished, they started their own as headline act. Then returned to the city on Sunday 17th November 1963, exactly a year to the day after they first appeared here at the Matrix Hall. |
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