As someone who grew up in the 70’s/80’s in and around London love these old memories, thanks Jim & happy Christmas 🎄 😊

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Thanks: the same to you. Please keep watching! 🌻

Good effort taking a chance on giving the pogues a gig , I'm sure landlord got his £50 back after fairytale New York, all the best for 24🎶👍

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Micky! I'm not so sure he did but I couldn't swear on it. I think Shane's memory wasn't totally up to speed in those days. All the best to you and everyone for the "dreaded" 2024!

I lived but a stones throw from the Sir George Robey Jim ,that really was a Venue ,I was actually in it before catching the Pogues in a Marquee not too many yards away in Finsbury Park ,the Proclaimers were doing back up but definitely not 5000 miles from the good old Robey ,I remember catching Steve Marriott in there one night which as a confirmed SF's fan was a treat ,great ,great shop that was ,Happy Days

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Ah, the good old days when venues like the Robey and The Cricketers were buzzing with live music and unforgettable performances. It's a shame we can't hop in a time machine and relive those happy days!

Luigi and the boys hanaway street good memories ❤

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Indeed: me too!

The Cricketers. Oh I saw the off-the-boil-by-then Glitter Band there. They had the star guitar and everything. They were fantastic.

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

I totally agree! The Glitter Band were fantastic and such nice people! Even then (and this was the 1980s), they said how much they mistrusted Gary (Paul Gadd)…

Merry Christmas Jim! It’s a quarter to four on Christmas morning here in Massachusetts and I just got home from a twelve hour shift in the emergency room at the local hospital, where I work with psyche patients. Thought I’d try to quickly wind down with a big old bong, a glass of port and whatever I could find on KZread. And there you were, with your usual charming performance of, this time christmas tales from that special time and place. It has worked wonders! Especially effective was your reminiscences of The Cricketers at the Oval, because in ‘81 thru ‘82 I was sometimes working around the corner, out of the Oval Arts Center with various theatre companies. It was before I started busking and getting into performing music but you’d probably have liked the fire eating and smashing pavings slabs over our chests with sledge hammers whilst lying on broken glass! The fringe stuff maybe less so (we were the first men’s anti sexist act on the fringe scene, as the Y Front Theatre Company - two shows, I acted in one and did the lights and sound for the other). If I’d spent two more years in the Oval our paths might have crossed there! Anyway, that’s why I like your videos so much. They take me back to a certain time and place I really enjoy revisiting.

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, Francis! Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your story! It's amazing how videos take us back to a certain time and place. I'm glad my Christmas tales could help you wind down after a long shift. Merry Christmas to you too! I'm sure the bong and port ("any port in a storm", eh?) helped…

Love your stories Jim! Keep 'em coming

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Haha! Thanks a lot: I’ll certainly try to keep going 😀😀🥸

Hi Jim , Love your videos, great memories of the London pub rock scene , I was bass player in a pretty well unknown .south London rock band called Sensei , we were the band due to play at the Cricketers for our second or third time I think , the night after it was burned down , we turned up with all our gear and saw that it was totally burned out , no one told us we stayed for a while to greet and apologise to any of our punters that were going to show up , no Internet or mobiles in those days !! Keep the videos coming, all the best Steve ....

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! I remember Sensei! To compound their crime, the bikers bought a load of empty speaker boxes from a friend of mine to burn (that's how I know it was a scam) and sold the PA afterwards on the "open market". That and the petrol bomb travelling 90 degrees once it had entered the building! I don't think the fire investigators had much trouble working it out…

@user-hd2km9sk9e

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Jim , The local rock and roll scene was just as corrupt as anything else , thank you for sharing your sharp memories with us , your channel is of great value to the past music community of London, kind regards Steve ....

Saw the pogues 1983 support to King Kurt The Brixton fridge l really liked them.

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

They were really good, especially in the early days before it turned into a business. Their extreme talent and energy shone through like a beacon!

@stephensnelling3664

6 ай бұрын

@@JimDriver What Was a shame when certain individuals turned it into a political platform, Dark streets of London great 45.

Cool, mayn. Thaaaanks. Merry Christmas.

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! And a very Merry Christmas to you (not to mention a totally Happy New Year!)…

Keep it coming Jim, priceless stuff.

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for those kind words! Frank would have said it’s worth about 25p, but what would he know?! Cheers!

Love your videos! I'm from Southend, so a big Feelgood and Kursaal Flyers fan (went to the same high school as Wilko, but a few years after him). Merry Christmas, and keep up the good work!

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Glad you like them and thank you very much for being part of our little community. Cheers (and Happy New Year!)!

Good Videos Jim. I have been watching all of them. Keep up the good work! We have worked quite a few times together, and me being a nostalgic mofo, I wallow in the memories of way back when......also I'm glad to see you haven't popped your cloggs boy! (not many of us left nowadays)....Merry Xmas to you, and get something done for New Year's Eve, as you put a load of gigs on over that period, many moons ago.

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍 I'm also quite glad neither of us has popped their clogs just yet… 😀 And thanks for the compliments. Merry Festivus to you too!

Hi jim . rip shane macgowan . i was the guv at the manor house pub early 90s . frequently visited the robey . after was powerhaus . then closed . i lived with spider stacy of pogues in bethnal green after .manor house quiite often forgot about as a music venue . stones hendrix Fleetwood mac played there

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I'm a big fan of what Ron and Nanda Leslie did at the Manor House in those early days and I've mentioned them in a couple of videos. You too, though there was a bit more competition in the 1990s! Keep watching and thanks for joining in. Cheers!

@jasonshaw40

6 ай бұрын

I have a original promo poster from the manor house i found wen fairground attraction played there

@jasonshaw40

6 ай бұрын

Also have set list from the smiths

@jasonshaw40

6 ай бұрын

@@JimDriver hey jim . ever heard of a band called " asssgsai " have two of there albums were early afro punk/rock

@jasonshaw40

6 ай бұрын

Assagai

Kirsty was a great loss. There's story in someone's biography (maybe hers?) where an American singer had a hit with The First time Ever I Saw Your Face. Kirsty was on a school trip that happened to cross paths with said singer, and one of her classmates said, "her dad wrote that song". The singer obviously didn't believe this and went on their way. Apologies if I misremembered any part of that story, it is Christmas Eve. And a Merry Christmas to one and all!

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Great story! I think the American singer could have been Rita Coolidge, who recorded it as slow and sad as she did because her pet cat had just died! Ewan McColl said that Elvis's version was like "Romeo at the bottom of the Post Office Tower singing up to a Juliet he obviously had never met"… 😀😀 Cheers!

@borderlands6606

6 ай бұрын

@@JimDriver Yes Jim, I think it was Rita Coolidge, who was returning from a European tour (on the ferry?) at the same time as Kirsty McColl's school trip. Ewan would sit down to analyse Kirsty's songs in the same forensic manner that he ran the Singer's Club, which couldn't have been easy.

Thanks for taking the time to make another interesting vid. And a bit of Frank Sidebottom as an added bonus. Happy Christmas to you too 👍

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

Same to you, thanks!

Have you made a compilation album or thought of making one; similar to that album about the Marquee.?

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

I've done a mix-tape or two in my time… I'm pretty sure anything like that I tried would be a commercial flop! 😀

rambling man to paraphrase Hank Williams,but it's all good...Merry Chriistmas

@JimDriver

6 ай бұрын

You can't beat a good ramble on Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas right back at you… Cheers!