Bona-fide chart acts that have played live in Hartlepool...

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:18 am

As Yubep says The Sherlocks have played Hartlepool twice. I think 6 of their current 8 tour dates have sold out and they reached 6th in the album charts the other week.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Joe Mac wrote:

I've got a feeling Pigeon Detectives played Jax at some point.

That was quite a coo

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

poolieinnottingham wrote:

Who did Dock Rock apart from Madness and Dr and the Medics?

Dr Feelgood
Lindesfarne

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:41 am

JohnnyMars wrote:

Gloria Gaynor, Real Thing at Asters, mid to late 1980's

Also remember seeing ABC in there too around about 84' ish.

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:51 am

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

We had a 3 piece girl group play at Tunny around 1999. I seem to remember the teachers making out they were famous or something but cant remember name.

Was something like 'Personnelle' or summit.

Was it not Milan?

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

yloop wrote:

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

We had a 3 piece girl group play at Tunny around 1999. I seem to remember the teachers making out they were famous or something but cant remember name.

Was something like 'Personnelle' or summit.

Was it not Milan?

Rings a vague bell?

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:09 am

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

yloop wrote:

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

We had a 3 piece girl group play at Tunny around 1999. I seem to remember the teachers making out they were famous or something but cant remember name.

Was something like 'Personnelle' or summit.

Was it not Milan?

Rings a vague bell?

They did a schools tour. Martine McCutcheon was in them.

The schools tour was about 10 years before you said you were at school though?

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:11 am

He was 6 when he started Tunny

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

yloop wrote:

They did a schools tour. Martine McCutcheon was in them.

The schools tour was about 10 years before you said you were at school though?

I wasnt at Tunny in 89 like.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

if they did a schools tour at tunny in 99 how where you still there in 2007?

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

I err meant my daughter saw them sing.

fatherofnight · **Joined:** Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:33 pm **Posts:** 24

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TT6AEP5Ss

At the Gemini, early 80's if my memory serves me well.

RAY52 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:36 pm **Posts:** 932

fatherofnight wrote:

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TT6AEP5Ss

At the Gemini, early 80's if my memory serves me well.

Aye, they were on at the Fiesta when I had my stage night (although it was called batchelor night then) in 1977

born toulouse · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:57 pm

Chick Henderson who sang 'Begin the Beguine' for the Joe Loss Orchestra was from the Headland. Would probably have been a long-running star but was killed in the war when he was only 31. Elvis might remember him playing in the town.

Stomper409 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:01 pm

Dr Feelgood, Town Hall Theatre, 11 December 1989.

thedno · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:19 pm

ElvisC wrote:

Toy Dolls at the Birds Nest 1981.

Was at that

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:12 pm

George Formby, West Hartlepool Empire, pre-war. I win.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

yloop wrote:

They did a schools tour. Martine McCutcheon was in them.

The schools tour was about 10 years before you said you were at school though?

I wasnt at Tunny in 89 like.

I was and I can't remember anything like this happening

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:52 pm

The Monkey Hangerz - Seaton Carew outdoor stage at the fireworks.

Surely I win Mr Monty :laugh:

Mhanger33 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:26 pm **Posts:** 28

Doctor and the medics, Dock rock.

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Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:29 am

I once played upstairs in the Clarry supporting Misled Heroes.

TCN · **Joined:** Mon May 10, 2010 3:54 pm **Posts:** 187

Groundhogs at The Belle Vue. Can't remember the year tho

yloop · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:30 am

The Furniture Detectives played The Bunker last week.

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:33 am

Great night that, Tree was smashed.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Joe Mac wrote:

Great night that, Tree was smashed.

Must have been them 5 pints of Birra Moretti.

Or the Irn Bru WKD.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:53 am

Montpoolier wrote:

George Formby, West Hartlepool Empire, pre-war. I win.

Hold your horses. I think you'll find the appearances of Vesta Tilley and Happy Fanny Fields at The Empire Palace in Lynn Street in early 1910 beat the the ukulele bothering pervert to the punch by a few decades.

I'm guessing that Happy Fanny Fields was part of their programme of "high-class vaudeville".

Think Elvis was at Vesta Tilley but wasn't old enough to get in for Happy Fanny.

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 11:04 am

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Joe Mac wrote:

Great night that, Tree was smashed.

Must have been them 5 pints of Birra Moretti.

Or the Irn Bru WKD.

Or that Smirnoff Ice you had in Yates.

And · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:15 pm

New Model Army in the Nursery? Could have been solo or Justin and Joolz? Don't know, didn't go

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:20 pm

born toulouse wrote:

Hold your horses. I think you'll find the appearances of Vesta Tilley and Happy Fanny Fields at The Empire Palace in Lynn Street in early 1910 beat the the ukulele bothering pervert to the punch by a few decades.

Ah yes I remember they had a whole string of hits. People use to queue up every time they released a new cylinder.

The Kit Kat Kid · **Posted:** Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:07 pm

There was a guy who's family lived on The Cliff at Seaton who was involved with one of the big record labels. Think he was involved in the Never Say Die record, early 70's.Recall him setting up a gig in the Borough Hall featuring Groundhogs, Man & Help Yourself in (yet another) effort to "Save Hartlepool United".
Recall it being a decent gig, but I was nobbut a bairn meself, like !

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