The Palace Dance

[peterwalker123]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Palace Dance Hall.I have many fond memories of that time and the many friends I made there.Great musicians every Friday & Saturday including my favourites 'the Dynatones' with Keith Sussex.I should mention all my mates who played there,but they know who they are.It was allways my regret as a musician that I never played there.Maybe I can play in the car park

[strat]

hi pete
i remember the palace and all the other names it went under(sands adams beach)and so on lets be honest i remember it as a picture house i used to go there with cedric and try to sneek into all the x films.we saw some good bands there screaming lord sutch and the savages played there i met him a few years later and he remembered playing there he said it was a bit scary but it was just the norm to us i know kieth sussex quite well he has retired now and does up old tractors as a hobby

[jeffery07]

Hello Pete!
I have a thread somewhere here regarding the Palace dance hall.(From a year ago) . Remember Tommy Scott and the Senators?-Future Tom Jones? Had a great voice!
My elder brother Derek, was once part of Keith Sussex's pop group; indeed they were at one time good friends. I can picture Keith now, tall,fair hair, glasses...(At times he used to forget the words to the songs he sang on stage!)
At one time towards the eventual demise of the group, I suppose, he asked me to join them for a gig at some working man's club. I agreed. When about to go on stage, Gerald and Keith refused to go on; so just one of the singers/guitarists and myself went out on stage.
The song was: "Please lock me away." (Quite appropiate). As he sang I came in behind playing a 'boom ba boom' on the base drum. (We had no rehearsals!) He threw me a dirty look, so I played quietly. I was 15/16years old at the time in the early sixties. After a few minutes the manager came on stage and announced that "this could not go on!"
He paid us up and we left. To this day I do not know why the rest of the group refused to go on stage. I don't think it was my drumming skills!!
Any ideas?

[peterwalker123]

Sept 17, 2009 17:07:59 GMT 1 strat said:

hi pete
i remember the palace and all the other names it went under(sands adams beach)and so on lets be honest i remember it as a picture house i used to go there with cedric and try to sneek into all the x films.we saw some good bands there screaming lord sutch and the savages played there i met him a few years later and he remembered playing there he said it was a bit scary but it was just the norm to us i know kieth sussex quite well he has retired now and does up old tractors as a hobby

[peterwalker123]

Strat I can remember the Palace as a cinema.Took a date to see Dr No

[jeffery07]

Before I forget, Pete, the pop-group called The Savages-rings a bell(another bloody one!): Please enlighten me: who were they?
Jeff.

[cos]

i think my parents use to go there, my father was a merthyr boy, he use to live in the row behind where koolers is today and my mum was a dowlais girl, they may have meet there

[allythedog12]

i loved the palace, we were the kasyer bondor girls, i learnt the twist in the palace. i loved the live bands . i remeber one group had a guitarist who had a limp i think his name was ray sullivan.there were some great jivers there too .

[mikegriffiths1999]

i remember the palace as a cinema and the dance hall
remember the regular group remember the guitareist with th limp the drummer was called jaffa and the singer was lyn mitell aka owen money
used to go out with jennny frompub in glebland street cant rember the name just up fromthe bell vue

[lee]

The pub was The Red Cow. It's now called The Venue, I think. Before that it was called Buffalo's.
Ray Sullivan later became a lay-preacher in the local chapels. I think he eventually had severe sight problems.