Which one was best?

I'm too young to have sampled Asters but I was a regular in The Gem every Friday for a couple of years before it became Buzz and Zoom. The best bit was that really classy piano themed bar downstairs. That's where me and my mates used to do all our tapping as we would appear sophisticated compared to all the sweaty gadgies on the dancefloor.

What, even with that wonderful hospitality on the door provided by the oh so lovely Lesley?

Did the Claggy Mat not serve food like Dibs?

She walks her dog past my house every day. Still looks well scary now!

Gemini on a Thursday for me. Bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 for a quid. Quality

Mad Dog Grapefruit flavour mixed with a snakebite- QUALITY!

Thursday nights were cool, quid a pint til twelve then about 1.80 after so we used to line up about half a dozen pints each at ten to twelve, drink them and fk off.

Thursday nights at the Gem!!!! :sweet:

met my ex wife in asters...still got happy memories of it though!! .
the biggest decision of the night was getting to around 1 am,not having pulled was whether to spend the taxi fare on another round or walk home. think we used to live haswell avenue way at the time and thats a long way when you're pissed

not as far as Dawlish though - or are you in Dawlish Drive??

Yeah, Thursday nights at the Gem. Started going there about 1986- aged 16. I was at sixth form so knew loads of people in there.
Bottles of 20/20 as already stated and a pound a pint means its easy to work out how many more you can have when you're already sozzled.
Gavin Wise was the DJ then - always played Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees, Panic by the Smiths, Going Underground by the Jam and something by the Clash.
You wouldnt have got them anywhere else at the time so it was miles ahead for me
Good memories

gem - thursday nights, caspers fridays and saturdays and then pianos on a sunday when you had to be a member and buy beans and chips coz of some abstarct licensing law -

went to asters a few times but only liked the roomm upstairs

gem on a thursday was class - some quality tunes in my day 86-91 - fookin great tracks that you hear every now and then and you're stood in the gem near the bar leaning against the raised floor or blagging a booth upstairs - loved it - and the carpet was class that sticky walk to the bogs - i'd love to buy it and open it up again as it used to be.

i i liberate i i liberate i liberate :sweet:

that gave it the name of
"THE CLAGGY MAT"

NO NO NO
the riveria was the claggy mat the gem was a pale imitation

not exactly.
I remember always starting at the greenside when it was trying to be trendy,all silver tables and mirror balls.
anyone remember the greenies bike ride,that used to be a cracking day that

the clash track was 'rock the casbah'.
another class track on a thursday was 'cry boy cry' by blue zoo.
happy day's back then,but had loads of time of work on friday's !!
as for steve pettigrew,really suprised he didn't go on to bigger & better thing's.
we used to do the gem on thursday & fridays.asters on a saturday,living up king oswy,it was a hike getting home.
can't believe it's 20 years ago.

I concur. You had to tighten your shoelaces in the Riv to make sure you didn't walk out in your stocking feet!
It was called the claggy mat long before the Gem even got to the drawing board.