We are trying to compile a list of as many people who visited the club or were members. If you have any others, please contact us through the Contact section.
People who went to or visited the Blue Note:
Dave Phillips
Bob Cummings
David Lomas – DJ – Rubberlegs – probably the best soul dancer in Manchester at the time (now deceased)
Paul Roman
Tony Owens (drummer, Famous Watson Browne Band)
Leicester Montrose (singer)
Les Lee – DJ
Denise Ireland
Jean Ireland
Lawrence Werner
Mike Ashdown
Gilda Nevitt
Heather Miski
Jed? Drove the van for the Famous Watson Browne Band
Joan – cloakroom
Margery Brown
Mike the doorman
Mike’s brother, Paddy
Alan Totto – the boxer
Phyllis Stewart
Vivienne – John Fogel’s girlfriend
Pat Dempsey
Rob Barlow
Shirley Brown
Mike Brown
Sammy Brown
Alan Levy
Sandra Brown
Mike Cooney
Barry Holland
Julie Jawando
George Konig
Marie Tarpey
Berny Roberts
Jimmy Smith
Terry Flood
Rob Davies
Ian Mathers (Mav)
Fred Dale
Phil Nielson (Nelly)
Gina Gregory
Chris Bean
Gemma Tinker
Syd Wolfe – demolition expert
Monica ? – from Moss Side
Mike Zule
Ian ‘Aker’ Wilkinson
Dave ‘Edders’ Edwards
Derek Croft
Jimmy Riddle from Stockport
Jeanette ? – from Revine Avenue Moston
Ann Rufai
Brian Sarge
Leroy Smith
Carl Green
Carol(?) – male
the guys in the band the Exits who had a car crash
Dave Jawando
Stan Finney
Phyllis and Sonia Williams
Gilly?
Billy Marble
Paul Mullins
Ray Turner
Tony Perrera
Lynn Brooks
Paul Udo
Little Junior
Manny
Ken Morgan
Neville Rose
Tunji (Terry) Thomas
Comments
Blue Note Club – members — 16 Comments
Berny from Stockport Went to the blue note in late 60’s in between wheel and other clubs. From Stockport and went with Jimmy Smith think Rob Davies went and Terry Flood Mavs (Ian Mathers) Fred Dale, Phil Nielson (Nelly)and some other guys who went to the Tabernacle club in Stockport. Good site this the tunes bring it all back.
Berny
Thanks for the comments. I am sure many people walk past the car park which is all that remains and remember the good times spent in a crowded cellar. At least we can still pop in the Waldorf! What price a blue plaque?
I still have my club card from 1968. I used to go with my brother Steve who DJ’d at some of the all-nighters. I remember meeting the Watson Browne bands members. Les James was my brothers friend and used to come to our house in Cheadle Hulme. I used to go to the Tabernacle, The Sinking Ship and Sgt Peppers in Stockport, The Bamboo Club in Hazel Grove and other clubs in Wilmslow. I have all my membership cards. I really enjoyed the time I spent in The Blue Note even when I was sweeping the floor on a Sunday morning.
Penny
Thanks for this! If you have any photos or scans of your Bluenote card these would be most welcome. If you used to sweep the floors, maybe you knew some of the other staff? All this is such a long time ago and if you can correct any of my recollections, please feel free!
Bob
Hi Bob
I think I sent you all the old club cards I had, including The Blue Note.
If you can’t find them let me know where to send them.
Penny
I visited the club regularly with my friends Diane Creighton and Chris Haughton. Diane was going out with Ray Heslop (who I seem to remember played for Stockport County). I remember quite a few people on the list of members. Tried to find the contact section to add my name to the list but can’t find it!
Gina
Please give me your full name and I will add you to the Blue Note Members list. Is Gina short for Georgina? and do you know Dave Phillips?
Regards
Bob Cummings – ManchesterBlueNote.com
Hello Bob
My name is Georgina but people would have known me as Gina. I have been in contact with Dave Phillips recently and plan to meet up with him soon. Am trying to carry out a bit of research on Manchester’s soul scene during the 1960s. If any past Blue Note members would like to take part they are welcome to contact me.
Best
Gina
Thanks for the comment. I would like to tag along with Dave when you meet – I may be able to add useful additional info.
bob
Hi Gina, I used to go to the note back in the day. I’m interested in your research if you want to get in touch. Helen (Johnson)
Hi Penny,
I was so sad to find out that Les James had passed.
I remember both you and Steve (Zodini Soul Syndicate) along with Graham Porter, John Wales Jackson, Paul Bamford, Kenny Kerwin and a load of others.
Seems a life time ago but the music was the best.
Still in Manchester.
Best regards
David Hallam
Hi Dave
I remember you, too. Nice to hear you’re still around. I lived in Manchester until I finished college but by then the club had disappeared. Shame as I have happy memories of dancing the night away there. Haven’t been to Manchester for many years. Been living in Spain since ’76.
Hi, Im Paul the sax player in the Famous Watson Brown Band, lots of good memories from that time, lots of stories about the band. I would love to meet ex band members and anyone I met at the time. Lots of love to all. XXX
Fascinating reading about the club. I was a regular between ’68 -’70. I also worked behind the unlicensed bar for a time in ’69. One of my abiding memories is sweeping up after the all nighters, and a familiar smell would fill the air having been disturbed from the carpets. Still have a lot of the records listed. Although it seems a world away now, I have a daily reminder of the club, ‘cos I met my wife there. Married in 1970 we are still together, 45 years later.
Does any body remember “the gay Dolphins” I think it’s called the picadilly now. The pavement resembled a chemists shop when the crowd dispersed to the “Wheel” and “Note”
After the all nighter most of us would make our way up to the “Top Twenty” club for the Sunday all dayer somewhere in northern Manchester.
Little aside, there was a parking meter just outside the entrance that if you gave it a tap, would rewind. Unfortunately we didn’t have a car back then. But used to cast an envious eye over John’s blue Alvis.
Thank you for all your research and the memories.
Keep the faith.
Cheers Terry I will add your name to the members list. If you have any memories of the DJs you saw, please let us know. If you were going in 68 we may have passed in the night. I remember the parking meter well, as a friend of mine, Mike Ashdown used to regularly have a boxing match with it after coming out with his catch phrase at the time (in thick Irish accent): “Would it be trouble you’re after starting?” – don’t ask me why – he just did. Thanks for getting in touch.
Bob Cummings
I used to go to the Blue Note with my friend Doreen. I loved it, the music, the atmosphere, the dancing all night. I remember the band The Exits who sadly had a bad crash. The Twisted a Wheel gets lots of publicity still but I preferred The Blue Note. Helen (Johnson)
Berny from Stockport Went to the blue note in late 60’s in between wheel and other clubs. From Stockport and went with Jimmy Smith think Rob Davies went and Terry Flood Mavs (Ian Mathers) Fred Dale, Phil Nielson (Nelly)and some other guys who went to the Tabernacle club in Stockport. Good site this the tunes bring it all back.
Berny
Thanks for the comments. I am sure many people walk past the car park which is all that remains and remember the good times spent in a crowded cellar. At least we can still pop in the Waldorf! What price a blue plaque?
I still have my club card from 1968. I used to go with my brother Steve who DJ’d at some of the all-nighters. I remember meeting the Watson Browne bands members. Les James was my brothers friend and used to come to our house in Cheadle Hulme. I used to go to the Tabernacle, The Sinking Ship and Sgt Peppers in Stockport, The Bamboo Club in Hazel Grove and other clubs in Wilmslow. I have all my membership cards. I really enjoyed the time I spent in The Blue Note even when I was sweeping the floor on a Sunday morning.
Penny
Thanks for this! If you have any photos or scans of your Bluenote card these would be most welcome. If you used to sweep the floors, maybe you knew some of the other staff? All this is such a long time ago and if you can correct any of my recollections, please feel free!
Bob
Hi Bob
I think I sent you all the old club cards I had, including The Blue Note.
If you can’t find them let me know where to send them.
Penny
I visited the club regularly with my friends Diane Creighton and Chris Haughton. Diane was going out with Ray Heslop (who I seem to remember played for Stockport County). I remember quite a few people on the list of members. Tried to find the contact section to add my name to the list but can’t find it!
Gina
Please give me your full name and I will add you to the Blue Note Members list. Is Gina short for Georgina? and do you know Dave Phillips?
Regards
Bob Cummings – ManchesterBlueNote.com
Hello Bob
My name is Georgina but people would have known me as Gina. I have been in contact with Dave Phillips recently and plan to meet up with him soon. Am trying to carry out a bit of research on Manchester’s soul scene during the 1960s. If any past Blue Note members would like to take part they are welcome to contact me.
Best
Gina
Thanks for the comment. I would like to tag along with Dave when you meet – I may be able to add useful additional info.
bob
Hi Gina, I used to go to the note back in the day. I’m interested in your research if you want to get in touch. Helen (Johnson)
Hi Penny,
I was so sad to find out that Les James had passed.
I remember both you and Steve (Zodini Soul Syndicate) along with Graham Porter, John Wales Jackson, Paul Bamford, Kenny Kerwin and a load of others.
Seems a life time ago but the music was the best.
Still in Manchester.
Best regards
David Hallam
Hi Dave
I remember you, too. Nice to hear you’re still around. I lived in Manchester until I finished college but by then the club had disappeared. Shame as I have happy memories of dancing the night away there. Haven’t been to Manchester for many years. Been living in Spain since ’76.
Hi, Im Paul the sax player in the Famous Watson Brown Band, lots of good memories from that time, lots of stories about the band. I would love to meet ex band members and anyone I met at the time. Lots of love to all. XXX
Fascinating reading about the club. I was a regular between ’68 -’70. I also worked behind the unlicensed bar for a time in ’69. One of my abiding memories is sweeping up after the all nighters, and a familiar smell would fill the air having been disturbed from the carpets. Still have a lot of the records listed. Although it seems a world away now, I have a daily reminder of the club, ‘cos I met my wife there. Married in 1970 we are still together, 45 years later.
Does any body remember “the gay Dolphins” I think it’s called the picadilly now. The pavement resembled a chemists shop when the crowd dispersed to the “Wheel” and “Note”
After the all nighter most of us would make our way up to the “Top Twenty” club for the Sunday all dayer somewhere in northern Manchester.
Little aside, there was a parking meter just outside the entrance that if you gave it a tap, would rewind. Unfortunately we didn’t have a car back then. But used to cast an envious eye over John’s blue Alvis.
Thank you for all your research and the memories.
Keep the faith.
Cheers Terry I will add your name to the members list. If you have any memories of the DJs you saw, please let us know. If you were going in 68 we may have passed in the night. I remember the parking meter well, as a friend of mine, Mike Ashdown used to regularly have a boxing match with it after coming out with his catch phrase at the time (in thick Irish accent): “Would it be trouble you’re after starting?” – don’t ask me why – he just did. Thanks for getting in touch.
Bob Cummings
I used to go to the Blue Note with my friend Doreen. I loved it, the music, the atmosphere, the dancing all night. I remember the band The Exits who sadly had a bad crash. The Twisted a Wheel gets lots of publicity still but I preferred The Blue Note. Helen (Johnson)