ursamyn0r

“i've just noticed your ticket.... yours was in the 500s which means my recollections about the place not being busy must be wrong... i just remember it being very empty. i don't remember about the DAT machines... probably didn't get that close to the DJ... but it sounds very plausible.”

“Hiya... this is from Issue 2 of City Life and it's actually from January 1984... the '1983' on the front cover is a typo. The page this article appears on is page 27, a round-up of clublife for the whole of 1983.”

“I have a couple of flyers for Breeze at the Old Steam Brewery which I'll upload (also Tintin.) The night was run by a guy called Denton who moved to London after about 18 months, at which point the night ended. It ran on a fortnightly basis, through 88 and 89. It was mainly frequented by students because of the venue's proximity to the polytechnic. Denton played jazz-dance and I can still remember the weird feeling of dancing on the tiled floor. The downstairs was a good space; the same size as the ground floor but with a low ceiling and tiles on the floor instead of timber.”

“Dale thanks for scanning this in and submitting it.
I wanted to submit something about this night because it was great, but I didn't have anything to scan in! I've used your scan on my website in an article about the Black Rhythms night. I hope this is ok. It's at www.mancky.co.uk if you want to check.
Thanks again, Ursula”

“Re: Tuesday Nights at the Berlin around 1985/6 (discussed above)
I can't remember the name of the night but I went week after week to hear the jazz/latin music and see the freestyle jazz dancing at the beginning of the night. After about 11.30pm the DJs switched to slow (unfunky) soul, not much of which I recognised and which was so boring it made me want to cry.
The jazz dance was eclectic and inspirational but the soul set was like wading through treacle by comparison; the DJs' refusal to play anything up-tempo after 11.30pm was so depressing that on a couple of occasions I just had to leave early! (and go home because there wasn't much else going on on Tuesday nights after midnight in city centre Manchester in 1986.)
The Jazz Defektors, Foot Patrol and others like Danny Henry and Trafford danced to the jazz at the start of the night. I don't remember anyone dancing 'at' Colin Curtis though...
The Ruthless Rap Assassins were also there regularly. They were really young (about 17) and they openly laughed at me dancing in my Doc Martens. They gave me and my friend a lift back to Whalley Range once in their car which had big holes in the floor - like the Ant Hill Mob from the Wacky Races!”

“I made this flyer (and others like it) using Letraset! My brother Alf was the other DJ.
This was Trafford and Alf's first DJing project - it was 1987-88.
There were a few 'Brazil' nights at Precinct 13, the Old Steam Brewery and one at the New Ardri (Irish Club Hulme) which was almost completely empty.
Out of this experience, Trafford and Alf went on to develop the Carwash night which was very successful and ran on a Thursday at the Man Alive Club from about 1989 through to the mid-90s.”