New Roscoe
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Don't worry - The New Roscoe's a nice pub - for locals and anyone else! I once had a couple of pints of tetley's in the (Old) Roscoe on Chapeltown Road- I was young at the time - perhaps should'nt even have been served!, so I reckon it must have closed 1975 or 1976.
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Karaokeloverjen wrote: Hi,My boyf's wanting to go in the New Roscoe, but I wasn't sure if it was a locals only, music stops as you walk in kinda place. Can anyone help?Thanks!Jenny have a wander in at lunchtime today, my mate timbos band "blackout" are playing - they are excellent if you like classic heavy rock.
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munki wrote: Since the New Roscoe is the closest thing we now have to the very-sadly-missed Duchess of York, then it should be celebrated!Does anyone have any pictures of gigs from the Duchess? I would love to see it again! I have a few pix of when a band called Last Of The Teenage Idols played there, and I have a video of my old band Assassination Bureau there...
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Is it true that Nirvana once played down there at the Duchess? That would have been worth seeing. I seem to have missed more of the legendary gigs there than I care to remember, though. My friends all went to see the Tindersticks at a time when I had wrongly dismissed them as a joke. I don't have many regrets in life, but...
'Are we surprised that men perish, when monuments themselves decay? For death comes even to stones and the names they bear.' - Ausonius.
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munki wrote: Is it true that Nirvana once played down there at the Duchess? That would have been worth seeing. Oh aye, it's true. I didn't go, cos I'd heard the album they had out at the time ("Bleach") and thought it was terrible. I still say the Duchess is the best live venue Leeds has ever had. I saw so many great bands there. There was a time in the late 80s when I was doing to the Duchess two or three times a week.
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I kind of dismissed Nirvana at the time as being a bit of a watered down, marketable version of Pixies, with less swearing & references to incest. Being a goth in Leeds in the early nineties was great fun, & I wouldn't go back & change that time for the world, but there was a bit of an inherent 'superiority complex' in being a goth, & I missed out on a hell of a lot of good music because of that, which I am now getting into long after the bands are (in some cases, dead &) gone.The Stone Roses, Nirvana, Blur, the Mondays... When I look at how the section of my record collection by 'The Mission' is I cringe slightly - thirty odd twelve inches & LPs!
'Are we surprised that men perish, when monuments themselves decay? For death comes even to stones and the names they bear.' - Ausonius.
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A great adopted son of Leeds!?!
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