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Winger
Did you go, what were your memories and what do you miss. The carpet, toilets, dirty everything, including the women. For me everyone seemed to be in there in and around my world back then. Oh the joys.
Mid 90s Ku club
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herra soul mob
Winger
80s was the golden age, 10p shorts and 40p pints on Tuesday, then shorts went up to 20p in a matter of weeks, demos in High St West due to 100% inflation but still the punters flocked.
Cee Jay
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Aye…back then my tipple was vodka and lime…£1 for a quadruple with mixer.
Stone stairs didn’t help some of the punters falling down mind
Bladecat
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Used to book a day off work the day after and go to student night on a Tuesday. Few pints in the pubs first then cheap shots of rum at Ku, but used to hit the dance floor as we loved the eclectic range of music so much.
B 52s , The Levellers , The Smiths , Killing Joke, Rage Against The Machine, The Cult, The Breeders....I still hear music now which instantly takes me back there
Even some of the dance music I like such as "Groove is in the Heart" stems from hearing it there
B 52s , The Levellers , The Smiths , Killing Joke, Rage Against The Machine, The Cult, The Breeders....I still hear music now which instantly takes me back there
Even some of the dance music I like such as "Groove is in the Heart" stems from hearing it there
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Cee Jay
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It’s also the likes of American Pie, Love her Madly etc that take me back
Yip. Worked there from 1996 for three or four years with @MackemBob for the first year. It was like going out every weekend.
Bladecat
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American Pie always reminds me of last drinks in the Derry with the whole pub singing along
Cee Jay
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Often used to be "we'll meet again " ..belted out at 3 o'clock
Used to think aye, give it till reopening at 7
There always was puke in one of the toilets, it must have been Mike Downey's first job when opening up to get one of the staff to puke in the toilet. I have seen a few people carried out especially on a Tuesday.
Mid to late eighties, early nineties for me, halycyon days. Superb music mix, Noddy Merritt was DJ and there are certain songs that take me back.
Mid to late eighties, early nineties for me, halycyon days. Superb music mix, Noddy Merritt was DJ and there are certain songs that take me back.
herra soul mob
Winger
someone took 'Sunderland will be in the first division( 73 cup final song ) ' one time, lights went on at 2- ish and Colin played it, dance floor filled up again.
Did you do the weekend betting tips before or aftersomeone took 'Sunderland will be in the first division( 73 cup final song ) ' one time, lights went on at 2- ish and Colin played it, dance floor filled up again.
DieselBert
Winger
I grew up in Yorkshire but I was back home to Sunderland for matches all my life. When I was 17/18 if we came up for the match I'd go out with my cousins after and we'd end up in Ku Club. My memories are getting smacked in the face by a lass for a mildly sarky remark, the bogs being lifting, bottles of random lager, Mackem accents and I am the Resurrection.
For a young Sunderland exile whose heart never left Wearside it was heaven
For a young Sunderland exile whose heart never left Wearside it was heaven
Bob Fleming
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Great days.
Would get hoyed down the stairs by the bouncers but back again next day/week.
Tommy Hair RIP
Would get hoyed down the stairs by the bouncers but back again next day/week.
Tommy Hair RIP
herra soul mob
Winger
Flea Market Trader
Winger
I was there in the 80s as well and if you were a New Romantic or a punk then this place was ideal. I liked it then too, but not nearly as much as the early to mid 90s
Late 80s for me. Ivy house first then Ku. Girls in Laura Ashley dresses and DM boots.
