Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Fishmongers Arms and Fagans Wood Green
Both local jazz / rock hot-spots back in the dim and distant past.
Anyone out there with any memories ?
Thanks
Steve Wilkins
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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I seem to remember part of my mis-spent youth in Fagans, or maybe it was O'Rafferty's I'm thinking of.
Edit: a quick google search tells me that it was the Fishmongers that became O'Rafferty's as I knew it. Where the police station is now. Certainly do remember the good old days in the Shebeen down the back and have some photos in a box somewhere. Saw a few bands there, probably need to get the photos out to remember who.
Further Edit: Ok, so a further search reveals that Fagans, Fishmongers and O'Rafferty's are one and the same. I think some of my older/ Irish mates used to call it Fagans that's why I got confused.
http://www.locationlondon.net/london-streets-on-screen/wood-green-h...
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The link refers to the Bourne Hall, a jazz club to the rear, which I suppose is what became The Shebeen when it was O'Raffertys.
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Permalink Reply by jane on
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I always thought Fishmongers was the pub, and Fagans was the hall behind (in the late 80s at least).
But the Free Cinema short, Momma Don't Allow, is well worth a watch, even if it's before your time.
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You might be right Jane, I would have gone in the mid-late 90's, the pub was O'Raffertys then and The Shebeen was the club at the back, but it was all the same enterprise I think, except you sometimes had to pay £3 to get down the back when there were bands on, or depending which bouncer was on the door.
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I also remember a few lock-ins and once being let out through the timber yard next door at daybreak and wondering where the hell we'd ended up!
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Permalink Reply by Steve Wilkins on
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Ta for these memories of misspent and misremembered youth !
I put this up after hearing a reference to a past show by Liverpool Art rockers, Deaf School at Fagans, on Marc Riley's splendid 6 Music show.
It seems that Led Zeppelin did their first London gig - possibly as the New Yardbirds ,at the Fishmongers, and other young hopefuls included Pink Floyd, Cream, Roxy Music,Bowie, The Faces, Mott the Hoople and plenty of others.
Over a similar period of time, the Rainbow hosted everyone from the Beatles to the Wailers, whereas the rural backwater of Edmonton had to make do with Frank Sinatra, Lou Reed and the Who !
Happy days !
It kind of puts the prospect of a night out at Alexandra Palace seeing the Alt-J / Metronomys of this world into its dreary context !
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I don't have memories Steve, but check out this thread from the dim and distant, for more on the Fishmongers
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Thanks for this Dermot..There's also a site called Marmalade Skies which trawls thru' all kinds of old hippy yesteryear. Hours of fun for the elderly and infirm !
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