The Buzz Club
The Buzz Club was in Surrey and Hampshire and was organised by Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan (who went on to found The Green Man Festival). The Buzz Club ran from 1985 to 1993. From the C86 days including The June Brides, The Mighty Lemon Drops, That Petrol Emotion, The Chesterfields and The BMX Bandits through to The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Blur, Primal Scream, The Manic Street Preachers and Suede. The Buzz Club was a pivotal gig for nearly a decade. This blog features live recordings, fliers, posters, photos, memories and music of that era. Jo and Danny have also been in the bands Bluetrain, It's Jo and Danny and The Yellow Moon Band.
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And so, they came to play The Buzz Club, when ‘Love Birds‘ was still a demo that Gary Crowleywould play regularly on his GLR show.
I used to work at Ultimate Records doing press, radio and general bits and pieces that needed doing. One of my bosses was one Andrew Winters who also managed a few bands. One of those bands wasDodgy, who used to come into the office and raise merry hell on many an occasion.
It was very exciting watching a band develop and sign a major deal and then start to have hit singles at such close range.
We used to go and see Dodgy play live all the time and join in the ridiculous ideas Andrew would have – ‘Let’s get Nigel arrested at Speaker’s Corner!’ Yeah!!
‘Dig the music and follow the words, this is the sound of the suburbs’ Krispy 3 Aldershot Buzz Club 22nd March 1991
Then, from Hulme in Manchester, The Ruthless Rap Assassins. Kermit from this group went on to form Black Grape with Shaun Ryder.
We tried to broaden the remit with this one. A fantastic night of British hip hop. First up, from Chorley just outside Manchester, Krispy 3.
The Manics came to Aldershot to promote their ‘Motown Junk‘ single, released on Heavenly. The gig easily sold out with people travelling down from London and far further a field than the usual Buzz Club gigs, as you can see by this letter which appeared in the ‘N.M.E.‘ the week after the show.
