Comments on: Edward’s No.8 Night Club – The Rock Complex Remembered

By: chris

chris — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:22:38 +0000

Some of the best music nights of my life at edwards… used to go mainly on sunday nights to the skulsuk club

By: Lindsey Turner

Lindsey Turner — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:26:48 +0000

Just in case anyone reading this is a sabbath fan i went to watch ozzy saturday and an organisation called home of metal. com are trying to archive photos sabbath/zeppelin meorabilia such as badges/ticket stubs/ biker jackets photos etc

By: chris

chris — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:04:08 +0000

hey, great memories of a great club!. i used to frequent “No8″ in 1988/89. there is one particular night i remember very well, a beer shower with another two guys at the bar, resulting in me driving back to selly oak bollock naked in my fiat 131 sport!. the reason i came looking for edwards number 8 is to find someone, anyone who would remember a tune i heard there with my girlfriend now wife helen, i can’t remember much about the song except the memorable line about hiding or pushing someone down a well, it was a slow kinda song, bit american redneckish if i recal, if anyone has a clue about what i’m rambling on about here, please put me out of my misery!, thanks, chris

By: Neville

Neville — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:49:40 +0000

Hi Tony,

yeh i remember Tony Craig! I went to the Rio too and the Costers but before that the Golden Eagle and Bogarts!! Remember Marti from Bogies?
What a great scene Brum had then for rock!

By: tony bayliss

tony bayliss — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:06:56 +0000

Does anybody remember the DJ Tony Craig from the Rio, old bulls head, the grapes, the costers and edwards who was “The Rock Crouds” number one rock DJ from 1970 to 1994 not a bad run 24 years.

By: Andy Doherty

Andy Doherty — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:49:06 +0000

Hi Kev, yes I remember the night you overdid it! Cracking club in its day and we have in common the very exclusive ’sacked from Edwards’ membership.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:56:44 +0000

ah the memories…
used to work front bar at Eddies; dark hair, shades, hat, couldn’t see a thing>

Half pint of JD topped up with coke and ice each night, ratted by mid-evening, waiting for Paul to put on a fave tune so I could leap over the bar and have a dance… and hearing Paul shouting “Kev – you’re sacked” each time..

Until eventually I was: it was one of the first nights after the Ansell’s take over> Dave Juste had the plan of having me run a cocktail bar out the back “Krazy Kev’s Cocktail Bar” with such great cocktails as the Motorhead (half pint of cider and three shots of JD anyone).But I kind got a bit carried away, by midnight the bar had taken only a tenner as there’d been a few freebies too many, I was howling and sick out the back and the night culminated after some spliffs, JD, poppers and everything else with me be snogging the barmaid who’d only started that night, and explaining to the man from Ansells why the takings were so low!

Dave and Paul kindly suggested I went home for the night…and that was the end of my fab time at Edwards.

Fabulous place. Really life changing!!!!

By: Steve Kavanagh

Steve Kavanagh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:48:29 +0000

I played there twice in 1988 when I was the guitarist in power pop trio ‘Glass On Ice’ (Long forgotten now unfortunately). We were a 3 piece with a girl drummer and the gigs there were great, it was a very big deal for us to play there as we’d only been around for a couple of months. I am putting a myspacepage for ‘Glass on Ice’ up shortly.
Good days

By: Lindsey Turner

Lindsey Turner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:24:41 +0000

The first time i went to edwards was on sat 28th may 1988 on a date with my first love at the age of 16 so i tryed not to make eyecontact with door staff however he was noticiable as he was 6ft 4 long dark hair skinny black jeans!however if medium/long red hair, a black velvet jacket or belstaff,hippy tops with jeans with flower embroidery down one of the legs rings a bell??

By: Andy Doherty

Andy Doherty — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:40:20 +0000

Glad you found them of interest Lindsey, I really miss them too – definitely halcyon days in the late 80s. As it transpires, I did come across some photos of me during that period a week or so ago: can’t believe I used to look like that!! I remember a Lindsey from when I was on the door there, I wonder . . . .