Vintage Documentary: Blues Parties & the closure of Black night clubs in London, UK - 1980
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2019
- Vintage Documentary: Blues Parties & the closure of Black Clubs in London, UK - 1980 .........
Never seen before - rare documentary about the closure of Black-owned clubs in London in 1980 by the authorities and the resulting popularity of Blues parties springing up all over London. Also highlights how some Black Clubs tried to ban Rasta youths in 1980......
Interviews with : Count Suckle (owner of the Q Club), Lloyd Coxsone (Owner of Sir Coxsone Sound System), Bill Vaz (owner of the Carib Club), Jah Bones (from 'The Voice of Rasta), Frank Irving (owner of the Palm Tree Club) + more..
Big Respect to Guvna Gregah for editing & processing the video
Met my wife at ah Blues ....... 37 yrs later .. We still deh about
Blues parties were awesome where man and woman used to meet. Back in the day when I was in my teens I remember going to a Fatman blues in Richmond road in Dalston with my school mate Denly Nyack what was funny is that we took the 30 bus to the blues from Fulham. We were both 14 year old school kids who were adventurous West London at the time had sounds like Count Steve and Jesus but we didn't like staying in our area we found it boring . Our next adventure was going to Brixton a total different atmosphere completely very tense and much more aggressive and that area seemed more forward in terms of the fashion and swagger. Then a sound from Battersea came to West London and blew everyone away the sound was called Sufferer sound who played in Ladbroke grove a club called Metro which was on every Friday night. It was packed every Friday night. Sufferer was a great sound and Sufferer used to play in awesome blues dances in and around Ladbroke grove and the surrounding areas like Kensal RIse and Paddington. Fast forward to the early 80s Frontline played in nuff blues in Brixton Railton road wicked blues parties but you had to be diligent. Then in the middle 80s a sound from Wandsworth came out which was a combination of school mates from South and West London called Diamond the girls best friend who played like a party sound in a blues dance. Those blues dances were legendary as the selector played a lot of high grade soul music and top reggae music . At the time I would say Diamonds blues dances in West London were so popular that people from other areas began to follow the sound in droves. Specifically the women there were no major incidents in those dances because the men were too busy trying to check the women and man and women were also busy scrubbing down in the dark rooms .
Fatman is family 👑
Just beautiful memories.
Check out Finborough Arms, Earls Court every last Friday of the month. Next one on 31st January 2020 with Cabbage Man and other djs playing the best of revival, lovers rock, soul etc.
@@kredsentertainment9554 hopefully over in Jan hope to be there, Hamburg is shit for quality music, venues and qualified DJ's.
Do u mean the same fatman as in fatman & the colonel?
When yardman just wanted to work during the week and bubble at weekends, the police called them 'trouble-makers'. 20 years later, their own children started copying 'soundman culture' but they called it ACID house...
veriteinternational bless up
Illegal raves were an awful lot different to this. And the police would ruin them if they could find them aswell.
100% REAL TALK
They did the same ting across the whole of Birmingham aswell
SALUTE @KOLLECTIV DRAMA
@Micky Bricks 2.0 ting lol how old
Well said, especially white working class youths and young people, clothes, music and the females, bottox, , fuller lips, bigger butt's, hair extensions., funny in one way but disrespectful to black females, oh well at least the carribean culture is still influencing white society, I find that quite interesting....
I was around 10 years old then and I really miss those times. I love watching these documentaries. There's a saying 'you don't know what you have until it's gone'.
“And they paid paradise to put up a parking lot”
What's wrong with a random party. Bless to the people who are older and had a good time back in they're days
Prod Jay Lamaj truss mi it was brilliant
Jah know good to see Jah Bones who is now with us in spirit🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
expecially now! 😷
Best times of my life! Men don't dance with women these days either unless they're from that era! Very sad...
Believe! The tune at the beginning was enough for me 👏🏾👏🏾
All for the love and passion of music. Nothing more, nothing less.
I’m a white woman and married to a Jamaican man in the 80s. We visited Birmingham Blues all over. I loved it. We go to dance and dress up. The good old days.
Me too, Maria........
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Thank you for uploading and sharing a rich slice of Londons black social history and Club culture, this contains some rare and unique interviews and footage. It's easy for others here to be critical of this film, as they have the luxury of viewing it through the eyes of someone living in 2021, but I'm sure this fine journalist documentary had good intentions when it was made back in 1980. Will this documenaty satisfy everyone? No! Is it a perfect piece journalism? No! But in my opinion we should value the fact that this rare documentary was even made back then and that it still survives all these years later.
Here in Huddersfield we had around 10 blues every weekend from the 1970s to 1990s , but now nothing very sad ☹️. How I miss those days😢
Bradford road blues 1 way in 1 way out them were the days
Before Crack hit the community and destroyed the laid back culture. Rastaman to Yardie. Sad, Sad, Sad.
Awesome video. I was born the late end of the 70’s. And remember these blues at my cousins. I also remember my cousins trying to steal Cani & baby chams at all the family blueses. This is a great documentary but also sad. As yet again, everywhere plays out music but yet we don’t have our own ones.
My aunt and uncle always had blues parties in the 80s and they were always ram..everyone was happy just enjoying the music/dancing drinking smoking Having a good time..as a yute man I would sometimes sneak down in my Pjs until I got caught..good times 🔥👑
This brings back so many childhood memories, Church rd NW10!
Knock knock, hello darling is your mummy or daddy in, me...no...
what it tis is we is having a party and they are invited ok darling, I as a child attended
and seeing the speaker boxes loaded with 12 inch speakers and not failing to hear the music,
the bass line...the people were really nice and the rasta sound man showed me around his decks and
equipment and from there I created my own sound system but with less speakers and reggae music
was imprinted into my DNA.
55yrs old and still have a sound system and deck to play my old school tunes :)
Wow, did you here that.... council estate in west London with lots of empty flats that they finding difficult to rent out.
Growing up in London during the 70s and 80s was fucking brilliant.From Blues and Soul parties to Acid House raves.Great times😁
Thank You for sharing this piece of reggae/soundsystem history. Respect Big Up!
Thanks - Respect !
If u ain't partied/raved in a dark n dank place...u haven't partied
@@stevenjames4469 True say
@@africangodman6145 best years of my life going in a cellar from 12AM until 7AM. I enjoyed it so much that the owner used to ask me if I didn't, have a home to go to. It used to make my blood boil when the police raided and took the drinks, but more importantly stopped the music and made everybody leave. They were better than any night clubs my friends had told me about. Some stayed open for years if the owner paid the police to leave then alone.
thankyou for this footage, many a sunday ngt @ the Q club, but alway's went to a blues after, they were still rocking, Columbo's was a nice club too, but again there was alway' blues party to follow on, oh how i would love to go back for just for little hours ♥♡★★★★★
Paula Jordan Q club paddington, Colombo’s carnaby street, 4 aces dalston. The good days Lawdsah!
anthony russell i see you have this is lovers rock in your playlist, i own one on the 12" b side is grt too :-) so, please feel free to be nosy too, & check out my lovers rock playlist, i only went four aces once, & i remember the song that my late man & i danced to, Nina Simone, my baby just cares for me :-)
Paula Jordan Colombos!
Congrats on unearthing this film!
So glad we had that time, sweet music. Farrah slacks and coney fur jackets. The youth today have missed out big time.
That's not noise that's pure good sweet music
100%
Fond memories of some great times in Birmingham back in the 80's 👍.........
I remember bk in the 80's/90's going to lime grove blues in Birmingham, ley hill blues but my favorite was George St in handsworth getting a peach cani at bar n rubbing off the wallpaper with some guy lol smoking resin mmm I loved that stuff, I used to stand by the speakers half the time u didn't have to dance the speakers would move u, come out there 7 in morn go the dumpling shop over the road and go home get some sleep and do it all again, best days of my life.
🤣🤣🤣You’re on about Plaza off Villa Rd Enit?!🤷🏿♂️
Don't forget Barker Street blues.. Great times for sure..
@@MrEazyrasta Good olde days
@@bezzyranx9839 Don't forget Frontline in Birmingham, when the Fire brigade flood out the place😎
I used to go to Blues Clubs in Hackney 84 and the Jah Shaka gig in Leyton/Leytonstone and as a white northerner, my mates and I never saw or had any trouble, totally blew me away 😁💙🎸🎶🥁🎹🎛️🎤
good times Rosko 🥁🔊
We deal in love of all people. 💚❤💛
Best years in hackney not now to much stabing from black drug idiots,and when I say this it's not racist because the young boys now are being used and are vulnerable..all so Pakistanis suppose to be peaceful but are selling heroin in London too no respect for the country they live in ....them days only Jamaica weed.
Paul Whiteman the old front line was on Amhurst Rd with Sandringham Rd Hackney by the shops, £10.00 of Lambs Bread or Sensi and like I said I never saw any trouble, lived down on Kingsmead Estate had a few squats one with equipment in so we could play music, a reggae band called The Elevators used to jam there, great days man 😁💙
@@theblurredcrusade.2557 went there many times....then they started selling rocks in the Caribbean food shop ...but yes no trouble them times I lived in hoxton...my best days ...I even saw Dennis brown at the studio out side...rip mr brown.in dalston
These were the best day's of my life.Can never get them back.
England was such a boring country until the Jamaicans came.....BIG UP to all the Jamaicans..... ❤️💛💚
Great report from way back when... We need to see more of our UK history on RUclips. The footage is there, just mostly hidden from view.
Pathetic way for police to spend their time
Nothings changed
Blues parties were the best thing ever . I had the greatest experiences xx
Excellent footage back in the day.
Phebes, Four Aces, Columbos,Chicken etc enjoyed every minute.
Good memories❤
Shame about the commentator though!!
Bless up💚💛❤
Wow I used to go out clubing till 2 in the morning then to the western till 5 then blues till buses were running at 7am and go home thats a night out
Similar for me. BUT one of the reasons was that if you were lucky enough to have a taxi driver stop to pick you up, as soon you mentioned your destination - such as Brixton in Sth London - they'd drive away.
@@phverona cab drivers were famous for not going south of the river!
brilliant video. thanks for posting.
My mum an dad used to love a blues party lol
Seven And how did you turn out successfull i hope?
@@waydewatson5720 turned out into a big fan of rock steady an dub lol
Those were the best raves. That's when we all dressed up. Great memories ❤️
Bwoy I miss these times, so much amazing Blues Dance's. Irie memories.
Best time ever. No shade, no stress. Righteous.
Oh those were the real times , the real way of community one year after this was the 1981 new cross fire in which 13 dead nothing said , communities changed after that oh how I long for those days again .😍💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💥💥❤️
Yes...remember that sad moment well
Steven James ❤️lose my sister in the fire 🙏🏾
Back then we smoke ganja bud weed herb not DOPE ❗️ you silly billy 😂 my era got the last of the shebeens, afters, blues to drink two two peach canie n bun two skliff 😀💯
Yeah....I made the mistake of offering a Ras a 'dope'(hash) joint....
😎.... Happy days mate.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I used to go to Blues in North London, even though I am white I was never unwelcome. Usually in kitchen 2 enormous pots on cooker, one with rice and the other with goat curry, paper plates and plastic cutlery, although there was a small charge for cans of (mostly) red stripe beer, the delicious food was complimentary, and it WAS delicious.
Of course there was always the aroma of weed/cannabis, it is part of Jamaican culture. I smoked dope long before I was old enough to be permitted in a blues.
Smoking weed and enjoying the party atmosphere, all ages and lots of dancing to great Jamaican records everyone was happy, never saw any fighting, not even arguments.
What is wrong with that, a time before blacks got involved with freebase coke, crack, ruined everything.
sound phylosophy here did ladbrook 2 carnivals, later half of 80s . respect to field marshal. . an friends trever an shirley
Those Rastas know how to keep dances diciplined and trouble free.
Thanks. I jus think its central middlesbrough near ironopolise club. i actualy think the stabbing of lee duffy got the place shut down but dont quote me on that but the rastas where allways well behaved i went late eighties early nineties i think the building is still up with sign "Afro Caribbean centre" but yeah good times at them blues parties. it was allways simple isolated things what got them shut down.
Decent channel by the way Safron Safron.
Thanks
👍🏽
I'm so glad I had the experience of blues parties like soul 2 soul, Manhattan, Gemi Magic and of course the one and only Funky Jamaican Express, big up Jarrets, M. Nash, and all the Broad water Farm Massives...
tom tom Can you remember any of the places of the soul II soul blues parties ?
@@tunein8700 yeah, a lot of them I'm sure was in Finsbury park, but they also mainly done warehouse gigs like the C.U.T, Camden United Theatre... What's your memory...
@@tomtom-yj8yq yes i was at most of them, before the warehouse gigs they done nuff blues dances (they called them Soul Party's at that time, although they also played reggae)
Finsbury Park in Perth road the two floor blues party, i remember 1 blues in a Hackney estate where a disgruntled neighbour was stopped from setting a fire at the front door, it could have been disastrous cause all windows of the flat were boarded up.
Warehouse gigs: Kings Cross in the arches on St Pancras Way, Red Church St - Old street, you mentioned the C.U.T, under the flyover in west london and off course the African Centre (of the World) Just a few memories
tom tom ggg TV
Good how Tvg
Ca
When I was an indie kid, I used to go to the after parties that the fanzine I wrote for put on. They were amazing times, as my publisher put on the really good punk , indie, garage and Death rock from midnight until about 4am. Klaxons even had their second gig at one of these, which I was a witness too. There were parallels between this and the blues parties, especially when they were on a DIY basis and held in a house. Different crowd, but the same effect.
Had great days going to the Blues round Handsworth Birmingham back in the day.
Great video...big up Saffron
Love this video. Who doesn't love a squat/house party. Everyone there having a good time.
Thanks you so much for the video and the memories. We’ve been trying hard to find venues in West London where we can play our music. Blues and clubs have been shut down. At last 31st January 2020 and then every last Friday of the month Finborough Arms, Earls Court, SW10 9ED Dj Cabbage, JB Crew, 24ct Golden touch and different djs every month playing Reggae, Lovers Rock, Revival, Rock Steady and Soul. Good vibes. Small clip of previous dance on
instagram Jerktoyourdoorltd. Longer clip in the week.
The good old days. No trouble
What's happen now 🤔
When I was in college back in 1987 the virgin island students had parties like this in the rental houses off the campus of Barber Scotia College in Concord, NC. The virgin island students really know how to party 🎉
They can't keep the black man down...
george31531
They don’t, the black man keeps himself down, no one tells them the stab the life out of each other 🤷♂️sorry bruv if the truth hurts.
Well I just cringe when he calls the Godly crop dope smh ‼️
Those blues party, was were African Carribbean youths were, able to go and socialize, make new friends, and reconnect with their culture. Unfortunately the police would target, many, of the young black men, after closing, beat them up and arrest them on trumped up charges. Sad to say, but that was the reality.
Stop calling us African Caribbean! We are Caribbeans not Africans.
@@babytt8487 foolish....how we get to the Caribbean? On a ship filled with enslaved Afrikans transported to the Americas... listen Peter Tosh... if you are black you are Afrikan... learn your history... racial pride... I am black... therefore I am Afrikan... Marcus Garvey.. "A people without knowledge of their past is like a tree without roots" stop the ignorance... if u are black... if from Ja... St Lucia... Barbados... Grenada.... Antigua....parents black... grandparents black... you are Afrikan.... I traced my ancestors to Ghana... proud Afrikan....
I remember a lot of sounds getting their equipment confiscated back in the day
Yes sir brings back memories dancing to reggae reggae nice man eating my sugar cane in the corner drinking my redstripe yes having a spliff me remember that bring back memories
Brilliant footage. Great film.
'bout dope. SENSI!
Crazy ppl mek this...bout Dope...lol...
THE BEST TIME IF MY LIFE. THAT'S WHEN A YOUTH WAS A YOUTH. YOU NEVER HAD PROBLEMS WITH MUCH RESTRICTIONS?
THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE WERE MORE CARING.
THAT'S WHEN MEM AND WOMEN COULD FIND EACH OTHER.
MEET ABD GREET.
I REALISED THE MODERN DAY YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT DANCE TOGETHER.
THE MUSIC WAS BASED ON GETTING TOGETHER.
NIW THEY ARE SPENDING TIMES CUTTING AND STABBING.
IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE. ?
Big up Saffron logo looks good respect & manners
Respect & Thanks Don Sinclair - thank you for your guidance & encouragement over the last few months Sir !
That was a good one, never saw that one! Thanks!
Great documentary, the real stuff.
Wicked bit of footage, how do i contact you regards to a film event i have coming up. Would love to screen some of this footage, Thanks
Forest Gate vale Road East London 🍒 blues blues dance until next day. the afternoon 💃💃💃those were the days...sweet..Good Documentary 👍👍👍👍
Nataliah Scott not far from me but I was young Plaistow my ends
"Smoke Dope"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jah Bones was a good friend of my father and my brothers Godfather. They came up together from Jamaica .
Jah bones is my father he done a lot of community work in Tottenham ❤️✊🏿💚
@@mightydread3116 RUZ days man
Loved going to the Blues parties in the 80’s from Middlesbrough to London.
Interesting documentary.
Proper music not like today where DJs play 20s of a tune and shout for no reason
If you are in your sixties and fifties and was living in London in the late eighties and nineties. Then you must Remember a wonderful reggae club called Gossips on Dean Street in Soho. David Rodigan was the star Attraction Dj there for many years. Its clientele was a great mixture of black and white people. It was owned by a Black Jamaican man call Vin Hutchinson. Never ever saw any Comotion or feuding in that club. And it was always Rammed!!
I’m much younger and it’s good to here no trouble was there 🎉😊
Came from Paisley 1983 aged 18 to Brixton used to love a blues
Great upload!
I was a student at Leicester university in the 70's which the presenter also attended.
His views and attitude does not reflect mine.
Where is he and what is he doing now?
Rewind Selector.. Hold A Thunderbird and A Cute Lady and Rub up till Morning Light..
In Swahili..
Ubarikiwe - Bless You..
Great Post...🔥✊🏾☻
Hello can you tell me is this available to license?
I wonder if you would do the same commentary TODAY?
BOOM!! GOD BLESS! ALL SOUND SYSTEM CREWS IN THE UNIVERSE! Xx
Is any of this documentary available to be licensed?
Ageless story. When human/ity meets the various and diverse parts of himself there will be conflict. Love is always a work in progress.
Big up Count Roy Sound from dem time...
Been to many of these parties and they were great, anything that isnt taxed will always be against the law , government is too greedy ,
Used to luv a good old blues party
I remember Gemi magic used to string up their sound at one in the morning and the dance would start about two am.
I would creep out my bedroom window and go straight across the road and walk in and party!
Tottenham system.
Are they still operating?
@@anelectrician yep!
Respect & Manners
Chicken in Hackney was something else,blues got nice from 10 am to 12am,then football in park in the late afternoon.Clubs Aces ,Noyrick,Phebies,were nice no bombo.
Anyone remember Metro sound system from leytonstone? Better than coxone.
Best times! Miss these days so much
I went to Aba Shanti in the Scala last week..it was boring..no vibes and they just played heavy dub that none of us recognised..times have changed and God has left the building.
Siobhan X sad to say the good nights at scala are long gone.
Kid in the 70s-80 London 🇯🇲 I remember, I guess I caught the tail end of those days. The last time I saw a blues night was in the early 80s
We used to have blues bars in Sheffield we used to go to after raves in the early 90s police clamped down on these places because of the criminal justice act used to love them places better then raves at times
NUFF BLUES WE KEEP AND ATTEND REGULAR TING AND NUFF PROBLEM WID POLICE BUT HAS DEM SEY EVERY MAN HAVE A PRICE PLENTY BLUES DANCE COULD'NT KEEP IF YOU NEVER WORK WID DI AUTHORITIES YEA MAN WHOLE HEAP AH RECORD GET BUST AND NUFF SOUND MANIFEST OUT A DEM DANCE GOOD OLE DAYS RASPECT
Wow had the shock of my life at 2:08 lol!
Now everyone but the creators capitalizing off of this movement.
Why is it important to capitalize? Everyone that shared their life to create the movement got so much more from this than money. They touched infinity and danced with god. We dont need money, we need God and Love bro.
@88_hon_hon_hon_ 88 So true. In an ideal world & yes there are those of us who persevere. That does not mean that both the historical & present global systemic demonisation, abuse & appropriation of people of colour should be ignored to focus on the utopia you dream of. ✌🏽
@@Sensiking19 Its not an ideal world or utopia. Its called the Kingdom of God, its real and its right now, for those that chose to see they are blessed. You cant enter the Kingdom of God with hate in your heart or chips on your shoulder. So you choose Brother - Gods Kingdom of Love or Babylons a system of hate.
Well Done.
Man, this reporter in black skin is the most annoying person I have heard in a longtime. He uses the language that his paymasters want him to use without a single thought towards its impact
All reporters do
Ninja Man what a djamarse, I wish his stupid words weren’t on this. Was going to save this but his voice just puts me off. We lived it
Well spotted, his language is so scripted.
Lol
Language, linguistics are key. Remember whose it is we are using. ✌🏽
Thanks for uploading..what a find .so many questions 'who was it made for?', 'who funded it ?'..
was it shown at film festivals? anyone own the rights to it? ( this would make a great 'extra' if 'Babylon' gets another upgrade bluray release )
What is the song @ 5:21? "From coast to coast, the sound of now!"
Lock Jaw by The Uppsetter
@@johntom8291 Thanks!
Been to few of them me self. 😎😍
5:16 'From coast to coast, the sound of now' comes from Tommy & The Upsetters - 'Lock Jaw' (1969) ruclips.net/video/TeXakJbGQuA/видео.html
Info about Count Suckle:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10886974/Count-Suckle-obituary.html
www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/04/count-suckle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Suckle
Whats tune called at 0.20.. love it.
Mr Skabina by Alton Ellis & The Heptones
ruclips.net/video/63Eq802R0Xk/видео.html
Mr Skabeana by Alton Ellis 🎶🎶🎶
Gangsters was ripping off their own
And blaming the police
Bull shit
12 tribes dances were good ,jah bless ,
Such a negative narrative... nothing good in it... not surprised... my exp of blues was everything positive..Thurs...Fri...Sat night was almost a permanent fixture in my diary... from blues to the 2nd round of black clubs...i remember winding down the window to listen for the bass line and finding a blues any Sat night...was always full of good vibz and my presence was for the great reggae music....most of my great nights were in London SW and East...and later clubs in N London or East... those days were the best days... precious memories...
It is probably in the depths of some old factory. So they smoke up and dance so what!!!