The Goldmine, Canvey Island, Essex, UK - Part one

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PART ONE of THREE - Apologies for the slight voice 'out of sync'...not my fault! Blame the mighty YouTube loading tool. Annnnyway...Part ONE of three videos of this TV shown (The Tube) programme from 1982-3? I will load the other two videos later. They are huge in Mb size, so I needed to split them into three videos. The Goldmine, the original home of Jazz-Funk music...since 1973.

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Music

Tags:

• Goldmine
• Caister
• Southport
• Weekender
• soul
• clubs
• DJ
• Chris
• Hill

[bojangles1310]

this is where is all started. Tho i never went here, a year later ('84) at the Bognor Soul weekender, then Barry Island, Prestayn and on and on, soul, acid jazz, funk, and then into the acid house of the 90's. Chris Hill IS a legend. Met him at a small doo at Sheffield Park, just outside Brighton....back in the day!

[Disco247]

The Sheffield Arms "Hillies" night I believe?

Glad you like it, it's a pity I haven't found any Lacy Lady club footage so far, I'll keep 'searching'...now, that's a tune!

[bojangles1310]

from what i remember they were kind of all dayers, on a sunday?

[Disco247]

Friday nights featured Pete Tong, Jeff Young or Bob Jones. Saturday night the club became 'Hillies'...however, the vast amount of punters had to travel from London, so the hastle of getting down into the 'Forest' became too much of an obstacle, a great underground club though! And yes, they had some rather splendid All Dayers, summer tea/BBQ parties no less!

[bojangles1310]

blimey, the memories are flooding back! went to many an all dayer-weekender where meesrs Tong, Young,Vincent,Hill, Fung,Holloway,Westwood et al were spinning the discs! back in the day or wot!!Some of the venues i remember (vaguely!) were Doo at the Zoo (Regents Park) went to one at Chelsea FC, one at Brightons Aquarium, one at a club in Dartford, and many many more besides...

[Disco247]

What about the 'doo' in the Cave! Chislehurst Caves ;-)

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

@bojangles1310 That was the one Kleeer played live too - i just knew it was definitely April 1986 because I recorded some tapes off the radio there which I played until they broke and which I wrote Bognor 1986 in big letters on them.Sounds like you had a good one with the ladies - more then I did myself - now Caister 1983/84 that was different!

[bojangles1310]

@LondonAcidHouse1988 possibly, memory fades now, coulda sworn it was 84, with Geno Washington as headline act? maybe it was 85,86, pulled a cracker there n all... :)

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

If anyone wants to see the point when the old jazz-funk scene turned into the Acid House scene in 1988 look for "Prestatyn 1988" on youtube and you'll see some real historical footage. Some of the earliest (large scale) rave footage I've seen plus lots of Chris Hill and the more traditional funk side of the weekender.Well worth a look.

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

@costco5626 He did a lot of Acid House parties in 1988/89 then I heard he was mostly djing abroad.

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

@bojangles1310 Bognor started in 1986 didn't it (possibly 1985) it was still definitely just Caister in 1984. And Acid House was 1988/89 not early 90s.Sorry if I'm being a bit pedantic.

[TheDAllenShow]

first!

[colindeanYT100]

first soul weekender was Caister in April 79

[squirrell57]

love it...

[costco5626]

@bojangles1310

Anyone know what happened to Trevor Fung? I used to go to school with him ???

[DJdefcon4]

Its Caister now - but never for get your roots!!