Angels Nitespot

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:23 pm

Was it Nitespot or nightclub?

Anyway, any memories? Marcus K , Paul Taylor, MC Cockle have you got,the bottle?

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:24 pm

Was Carl cox angels resident?

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:24 pm

Nightspot

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:28 pm

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Bin Ont Turf wrote:Nightspot

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:30 pm

Acne spot

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:31 pm

Did people take drugs in angels?

Leon_C · Post by **Leon_C** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:32 pm

Saxoman wrote:Was Carl cox angels resident?

Carl Cox was quite regular (at some points, appearing once every few weeks or so), in the early 1990s, but not a resident.

Caballo · Post by **Caballo** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:33 pm

Saxoman wrote:Was Carl cox angels resident?

Edit: Leon beat me to it.

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:38 pm

Club XPO replaced angels elsewhere in the town, but was unsuccessful. That's the place I went to, but was unimpressed. Not surprised it shut down.

BennyD · Post by **BennyD** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:39 pm

NL Claret wrote:Was it Nitespot or nightclub?

If you need to ask, you are beyond help.

Holmeclaret · Post by **Holmeclaret** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:52 pm

There was a bouncer in the early 80's we used to call 'national' on account of his thick black national health specs.

There was less fighting at Angels than Cats, at least as far as I can recall.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:54 pm

I had the pleasure of Dj'ing there many a time, loved the place

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:54 pm

Angels was a brilliant club in the mid-seventies, if you could get in.
There was big Welsh bloke on the door who seemed to take a perverse
delight in turning people away for no reason.
"Not tonight lads, try t'Cats." was the common refrain.
But well good once admitted. Although the ale wasn't great.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:02 pm

Saxoman wrote:
Angelsburnleysign.jpg

Nitespot is a crappy Americanism of nightspot.

Nightspot means nightclub.

If you need help with anything else, just ask.

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:04 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Nitespot is a crappy Americanism of nightspot.

Nightspot means nightclub.

If you need help with anything else, just ask.

That is a screenshot of the sign that hung outside the club. Don't shoot the messenger.

Claretitus · Post by **Claretitus** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:05 pm

Yep, big Bryn used to love turning the lads away. The ale was J W Lees from Oldham, absolute **** water. That's why everyone was on the Holsten Pils.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:07 pm

Saxoman wrote:That is a screenshot of the sign that hung outside the club. Don't shoot the messenger.

I know.

I've been fighting crappy Americanisms all my life.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:09 pm

JW Lee's, yeah.

Some of the worst beer I've ever tasted.

welsbyswife · Post by **welsbyswife** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:21 pm

Don't remember a great deal of beer being drunk when I used to frequent Angels which also gives a clue to the answer of one of saxoman's previoust questions

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:34 pm

welsbyswife wrote:Don't remember a great deal of beer being drunk when I used to frequent Angels which also gives a clue to the answer of one of saxoman's previoust questions

E.. By eck..

welsbyswife · Post by **welsbyswife** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:51 pm

Angels was great. There used to be a place called out in't sticks over Todmorden way that was mental. Used to go on all night.

yorkyclaret · Post by **yorkyclaret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:23 am

Claretitus wrote:Yep, big Bryn used to love turning the lads away. The ale was J W Lees from Oldham, absolute **** water. That's why everyone was on the Holsten Pils.

Bryn was right enough.

Garnerssoap · Post by **Garnerssoap** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:26 am

Carl '3 decks' Cox I think you'll find

yorkyclaret · Post by **yorkyclaret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:41 am

Don't know

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:53 am

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Garnerssoap · Post by **Garnerssoap** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:03 am

Hardcore uproar live. About as good as life got back then. £25 quid for a white dove - worth every penny

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:05 am

I remember Ray the bouncer, good bloke .

Oshkoshclaret · Post by **Oshkoshclaret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 4:17 am

How on earth is Angels going down as some kind of legendary venue. Let's have it right, the place was a complete sh*thole!

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 4:43 am

Oshkoshclaret wrote:How on earth is Angels going down as some kind of legendary venue. Let's have it right, the place was a complete sh*thole!

It wasn't the brick or the decor or the beer sold, it was the people and the music - phenomenal club

Terrier · Post by **Terrier** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:30 am

Only went down there once, not a patch on the circ!

No Ney Never · Post by **No Ney Never** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:42 am

I had the pleasure of frequenting the Angels when it was a night club and also when it first started out as a rave club. Had acts such as Guru Josh and his saxophonist Mad Max back then. Has been a great club in many of its guises.

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:38 am

joey13 wrote:I remember Ray the bouncer, good bloke .

Still going strong is Ray. He's a good friend of mines dad..

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:20 am

RocketLawnChair wrote:Still going strong is Ray. He's a good friend of mines dad..

Good lad was Ray give him my best , Colin’s brother Paul from White Horse and fitness training at the Thomson centre.

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:33 am

joey13 wrote:Good lad was Ray give him my best , Colin’s brother Paul from White Horse and fitness training at the Thomson centre.

Will do.

NCClaret · Post by **NCClaret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:56 am

In the 70's the 'El Trop' in Nelson on a Monday ... Angels, Thursday, Friday, Saturday!! Absolutely brilliant place. Remember Bryn and also a bouncer I think was called Johnnie Caesar(?) - Italian chap, only small but very handy and a lovely lad.

3putt · Post by **3putt** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 11:31 am

A great night club in the 70's/80's. Good music and atmosphere and very little agro. Circ was there for that if that was your thing.

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 11:45 am

NCClaret wrote:In the 70's the 'El Trop' in Nelson on a Monday ... Angels, Thursday, Friday, Saturday!! Absolutely brilliant place. Remember Bryn and also a bouncer I think was called Johnnie Caesar(?) - Italian chap, only small but very handy and a lovely lad.

Yep that was Jonny Caesar - worked there for years and hard as nails.

Angels was a great place - coaches used to come from all round the north west. I worked in Manchester from 1986 and for years the only reason many people had ever been to Burnley was to go to the Angels - though as time went by that turned into "oh that's where Boundary Mill is" !!

Anybody remember the latter days of The Angels when it was on the brink ? There were new owners and it was changing its name. One weekend it was called Millers I think - they did an opening promotion one Saturday of a fiver in but free booze all night.....it was carnage !! The locals drank the place dry - they ran out of absolutely everything. I remember my mate asking for a pint of vodka - which they refused....so he just asked for a load of doubles....which they gave him. Even the red, green and blue spirits on the top shelf were getting drank. Needless to say it did not last long as Millers (weeks from memory) and that special promotion never happened again ! What were they thinking ? Burnley people would be polite and civil and just have an extra couple of pints ?!!!!

shulgin · Post by **shulgin** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:23 pm

My fave nightclub along with Cream in the 90s. Sweat dripping of the ceiling, dancing on the stage, meeting randomers, after parties with mixtapes then handling it a with a Sunday drink sesh. Good times.

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:22 pm

There were many things that I never understood about nightclubs (or spots).

Why did they make you queue outside? Even though when you got in, it wasn't full? It wasn't as though they were waiting for people to leave? Everyone left at 2am!

Why did they turn away groups of lads? Surely, everyone, like me, just split up into smaller groups or chatted with some girls in the queue to make it look as though you were with them?

Why did they make the drinks prices so expensive so that the bar was always empty?

Why did you have to wear shoes? Surely, if you were going to kick someone's head in you would do less damage in a pair of Sambas?

Why did they blatantly let in some underage drinkers but not others? I always got in - whereas a mate of mine never did. I didn't look particularly 'old' but assumed it was because I was tall as this seemed to be the thing that decided it - did bouncers think you grew a lot after the age of 18?

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:43 pm

NCClaret wrote:In the 70's the 'El Trop' in Nelson on a Monday ... Angels, Thursday, Friday, Saturday!! Absolutely brilliant place. Remember Bryn and also a bouncer I think was called Johnnie Caesar(?) - Italian chap, only small but very handy and a lovely lad.

if by battering innocent young lads half senseless for no reason is your definition of "a lovely lad" then I suppose he was.

Jimmymaccer · Post by **Jimmymaccer** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:47 pm

In the 80’s the Burnley FC players used to turn up after away games......having usually lost to places like Exeter, Colchester etc. Oh how things have changed where a lot of players now insist in living in Rangerovershire!

Loyalclaret · Post by **Loyalclaret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 3:26 pm

shulgin wrote:My fave nightclub along with Cream in the 90s. Sweat dripping of the ceiling, dancing on the stage, meeting randomers, after parties with mixtapes then handling it a with a Sunday drink sesh. Good times.

Appropriate user name for the later days of the club

AlargeClaret · Post by **AlargeClaret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 4:14 pm

Used to go there if you couldn’t get into Cats, but more music scene at Angeks in early 80’s to kinds lateudh before it turned into a raving gaff. Was a bit of a downmarket cats imo, always harder to cop off there as well. Never saw bother at Angels though .Cats and then Ritzy (give or take the odd big row) were hardly danger zones in any shape or form. Had my 1st ever one night stand at Cats so always have affection for it ( couple of porkers from barrowford but still) Used to take all
My mates from rochdale and Manchester to Burnley and they all loved it over the yrs ,in no small part to the fact that so many girls had their own places and lived close to the clubs .Savanahs a great copping off joint too early to late 90’.s

NRC · Post by **NRC** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:09 pm

Vegas Claret wrote:I had the pleasure of Dj'ing there many a time, loved the place

Well I might have shaken a few moves out to you then, Vegas....... but as bird-pulling went it was shite.... or I could be ugly...... but nah, this is Burnley we’re talking about

Used to go shopping at the Martinique store around the corner in the days that brand was good before it was chav

ontario claret · Post by **ontario claret** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:32 pm

No fighting? What was the reason for going, then? Give me the Baltic Fleet instead anytime.

basil6345789 · Post by **basil6345789** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:24 pm

Think Richard Searling DJ'd there during it's JazzFunk phase.

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:51 pm

Weird stats
Paul Taylor was resident DJ there from the day it opened in 74 till the day it closed

Angels was the UK nightclub of the year in it's first 3 years of existing

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:11 pm

Chester Perry wrote:Weird stats
Paul Taylor was resident DJ there from the day it opened in 74 till the day it closed

Angels was the UK nightclub of the year in it's first 3 years of existing

Never hosted 'The hitman and her', after Pete waterman was unimpressed by the revellers harassing him during a visit.

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:20 pm

I have to say that the Angles was the best night club i have ever been to , now a close 2nd was Boxes in Exeter
.Now again during the late 70s early 80s nothing has come close for me .
Jezzzzzz i remember the night Bootsy Collins was in the Angles sheer class ...............

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:49 pm

NRC wrote:Well I might have shaken a few moves out to you then, Vegas....... but as bird-pulling went it was shite.... or I could be ugly...... but nah, this is Burnley we’re talking about

Used to go shopping at the Martinique store around the corner in the days that brand was good before it was chav

always though the women were better in there - though annabellas wasn't too shabby - never really had a problem myself

did you mean Matinique - shop was called Oggi I seem to remember