Cardiff Top Rank

late sixties just a young teenager then used to go on saturday mornings then after to the sarsporela bar in the morgan arcade great times

Cant belive when I stared this thread, how many people have so much good memories of the place, just go,s to show how music and football is twinned in our lives.

Ridifrid just going to post that but thought no one on here that old. Sunday Night club best night around late sixties with Ronnie Keen Resident band. and Chris DJ. Could drive home pissed in those days as well. Great Days. Tosh used to be there with Sue and other City youngsters.

I'm sure the Amen corner played there a few times in the late 60's, one of my aunties was a big fan back then.

I'm sure the Amen corner played there a few times in the late 60's, one of my aunties was a big fan back then.

Did they sing " If paradise is half as nice" Andy fairweather low the singer is a Cardiff boy as well.

Saw Amen Corner in the Kensington Club in Newport, anyone remember Gino Washington and the Ramjam Band?

Sham 69
The Damned
UK Subs
SLF
Discharge
Anti Pasti
The Ruts

All those plus The Clash, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Jam, X Ray Specs, The Specials, Madness, The Selector, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Adam & The Ants, 999, The Psychadelic Furs, The New Hearts [aka Secret Affair],The Jam, The Ramones plus loads more punk bands that escape me for now as there were about five top bands a month during late 70s early 80s and worked there with Saxon [grim!!], Voice of the Beehive, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet

great days at the rank,Specials sham69,Selector ub40 Buster Bloodvessell, Police,pretenders,Dexys midnight runners
the Clash The Damned,great days city in the afternoon into the albert straight from game then into the rank for the
gigs,some great nights there,Scrapping with Dexys's also Hammers fans at the Sham 69 gig and who remembers
when they used to have chinese doorman?Used to laugh they had about 20 of them working there.They couldn't srap to save there lives!Great times many memories like having a toke with Buster Bloodvessell at the first Bad Manners Gig only about 300 people there,What a great night he was mad as f**k!anyone else remember these nights?

Did you see the Clash on the white riot tour 77 ? They were supported by the Buzzcocks, Subway Sect and the Slits, sad to hear of the death of Slits singer Arri Up a couple of months ago, Did the Sex Pistols ever play the Rank ? I remember they were banned form the venue on the "Anarchy" tour, and ended up playing a gig in Caerphilly, not sure what place this was though.

I saw the Clash that night and if memory serves me right the Buzzcoks didn't turn up... Pistols did play there under a pseudo name but can't remember what it was now - I never saw them though.

Did the Ruts playe there?
I heard a punk got chucked off the Balcony by some skinheads

Not sure if they played there, but i remember seeing them in Port Talbot, cant remember name of the club, but i remember it was inside some sort of shopping precinct, perphaps some older posters on here from Port Talbot could remember the name of it ?

Was it the Afan Lido? For some reason that rings a bell. I think they played at Stowaways in Newport too around that time. I can't remember the Ruts ever playing at Top Rank.

Splodgnessabounds played there and the was ariot when the singer made a joke about Johnny Owen the boxer not long after he died. I am sure The Ruts did play the Top Rank but it was abandoned half way through as it got a bit tasty with the punks and the skins.

Did the Ruts playe there?
I heard a punk got chucked off the Balcony by some skinheads

Not sure if they played there, but i remember seeing them in Port Talbot, cant remember name of the club, but i remember it was inside some sort of shopping precinct, perphaps some older posters on here from Port Talbot could remember the name of it ?

The Troubadour

" DEXY MIDNIGHT RUNNERS PLAYED THERE "

Did the Ruts playe there?
I heard a punk got chucked off the Balcony by some skinheads

Not sure if they played there, but i remember seeing them in Port Talbot, cant remember name of the club, but i remember it was inside some sort of shopping precinct, perphaps some older posters on here from Port Talbot could remember the name of it ?

The Troubadour

Thats the one, The Troubador ,Cheers mate.

" DEXY MIDNIGHT RUNNERS PLAYED THERE "

Wasn,t there a bit of bother at that gig Annis, I think Dexy,s road crew were all Birmingham city fans, and Kevin Rowland who is a big Wolves fan,said on stage , " Where,s this Famous f**king Soul Crew then", needless to say it all kicked off.

One of the highlights for me was the Live Stiffs tour - Dury,Costello,Wreckless and co, fantastic. Saw XTC there twice, the last being their last ever UK gig before Andy Partridge walked off the stage in Paris and the band never toured again. Talking of last tours, wasn't the Beatles last ever UK gig in Cardiff at the Capitol? Saw some great bands at the rank like Slade, Clash (who were supported by the Coventry Specials?), Skids, X-Ray Spex, The Stranglers, The Police. The mention of the Pistols playing Cardiff Top Rank, didn't they play there billed as Spunk (or something similar?).

One of the highlights for me was the Live Stiffs tour - Dury,Costello,Wreckless and co, fantastic. Saw XTC there twice, the last being their last ever UK gig before Andy Partridge walked off the stage in Paris and the band never toured again. Talking of last tours, wasn't the Beatles last ever UK gig in Cardiff at the Capitol? Saw some great bands at the rank like Slade, Clash (who were supported by the Coventry Specials?), Skids, X-Ray Spex, The Stranglers, The Police. The mention of the Pistols playing Cardiff Top Rank, didn't they play there billed as Spunk (or something similar?).

Someone told me last night that the Pistols done a tour as The Spots ( Sex Pistols On Tour). The live stiffs tour that must have been brilliant.

The Johnny Owen joke was ' What is Wales' favourite vegetable?' - I'm not a violent person but I think even I would have got up at that jibe ( he was in a coma at the time ).

The Johnny Owen joke was ' What is Wales' favourite vegetable?' - I'm not a violent person but I think even I would have got up at that jibe ( he was in a coma at the time ).

Thats what Splodgnesabounds said about Johhny Owen was it, nowonder the the crowd went nuts, I think i would have as well if I heard that !!

One of the highlights for me was the Live Stiffs tour - Dury,Costello,Wreckless and co, fantastic. Saw XTC there twice, the last being their last ever UK gig before Andy Partridge walked off the stage in Paris and the band never toured again. Talking of last tours, wasn't the Beatles last ever UK gig in Cardiff at the Capitol? Saw some great bands at the rank like Slade, Clash (who were supported by the Coventry Specials?), Skids, X-Ray Spex, The Stranglers, The Police. The mention of the Pistols playing Cardiff Top Rank, didn't they play there billed as Spunk (or something similar?).

Did you think that Slade were any good when you saw them, as I saw them with about 4 mates at the Top Rank around 1974, only I thought that they were shit live? They were certainly entertaining, but their music didn't sound anything like their albums or singles stuff?

The support act were the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, who were Fecking awesome, did 3 encores if I remember rightly and nobody wanted them to get off the stage!

I then saw them (Alex Harvey) at The Capital a few months later, when they were the main act and they were brilliant again!

I went with the same mates to the Top Rank around 1974 again, when we went to see Roy Wood's Wizzard!

They only played for about 45 minutes, before they went off for a break, only to find that somebody had rifled their wallets out of their changing rooms and wouldn't come back on, until they got their money back!

I have no idea who nicked their wallets, but whoever it was, saved me another 45 minutes or so of watching and listening to probably the worst band, that I have ever seen live!

The "Sensational Alex Harvey Band", what a band they were, never saw them in Cardiff, but remember seeing them at the Reading festival in 78 or thereabouts . Forgot all about Wizzard ,Roy Wood formed them after falling out with Jeff Lynne of ELO, something about who was the real leader of the band.

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the beat 1980
bad manners 1981

remember some nutter from canton driving a mini into the doors

remember some nutter from canton driving a mini into the doors

Never knew that The Doors played at the Rank!!

remember some nutter from canton driving a mini into the doors

Never knew that The Doors played at the Rank!!

1st band I saw in the Rank was The Jam in 1977,the last Band I saw there saw Pill (Public Image Ltd) 1983,and saw most bands inbetween those dates.

I seen Santana in the rank

Angelwitch
The Damned
B.A.D
Chiefs of Relief (Paul Cook/Matthew Ashman)
The Cramps
The Age of Chance


We had great venues back then

New Ocean Club (Troubador)

Sigue Sigue Sputnik (Yeah I know)
Fields of the Nephillim
The Damned
The Icicle Works
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Gene loves Jezebel

Students union

Julian Cope
The Cult
Level 42
Icicle Works
The Christians

Loads more plus St Davids Hall, The Mars Bar, The Ice rink (Faith No More), Monte's (Stump)

I wish I could remember more of them

Just came across this, only goes back to the early 80's but it might jog a few memories


http://www.songkick.com/venues/44481-to ... gigography

Just came across this, only goes back to the early 80's but it might jog a few memories


http://www.songkick.com/venues/44481-to ... gigography

That was fantastic information,looking at that, it jogged my memory of bands I didn,t think I had seen there, Cheers mate that was great.

Did the Ruts playe there?
I heard a punk got chucked off the Balcony by some skinheads

Not sure if they played there, but i remember seeing them in Port Talbot, cant remember name of the club, but i remember it was inside some sort of shopping precinct, perphaps some older posters on here from Port Talbot could remember the name of it ?

The Troubadour

the troubadour was in porthcawl, it was amazin, had a suspended floor you could feel it bounce when you danced on it