Jo & Danny: Green Man, The Buzz Club, music & our bands

Jo and Danny formed their first bands together and promoted their first concerts together, as The Buzz Club, when they were teenagers living in Surrey.....

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New site - please note - I have started a new blog site! I’ve transferred (or am transferring!) everything for this site now to: www.indiethroughthelookingglass.com please come and visit! Jo x

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The Buzz Club, Green Man and more.

This site contains artefacts from the many gigs and festivals Danny and I promoted along with photos and memories of our bands. On this home page it’s The Buzz Club - which we ran from 1985 - 1993. I’ve put artifacts from some of the most famous bands who played The Buzz Club at the top. Please take a few minutes to scroll back down through the pages. I’ve written about the eight Buzz Club years finishing with the last one in 1993 and starting right back in 1985. This site includes live recordings, photos and anecdotes. The Buzz Club lasted for eight years and it took me five years to collect everything for this site. Please also check out the menu section and read about the Green Man Festival which we founded and our bands - you probably haven’t heard of any of them but hopefully I’ve captured something from each era to make you smile.  Jo 

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#TheYellowMoonBand

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Live recordings from The Buzz Club inc The Happy Mondays, Blur, A Certain Ratio, The June Brides, Spiritualized and many more.

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So that’s it! 1985 – 1993 The Buzz Club. Thanks so much to everyone who came, who played, to everyone that worked at the West End Centre and thanks so much to everyone that has provided me with fliers, photos, live recordings and memories. I’ve been collecting and writing about those eight years for about five years!

This appeared in the ‘N.M.E.‘ a month or so after we finished, proud to see us at Number 1!

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Party backstage after the last ever Buzz Club

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Dodgy / Shed 7 4.12.93

Danny and I had a band called Poise who were first on – we started The Buzz Club as an excuse to support our favourite bands, so I guess it’s fitting we sneaked ourselves on to the last ever line up.

Shed 7 were looking for a label and had come down from York to play London, Ultimate had gone along to check them out. They signed to Polydor but I booked them for The Buzz Club anyway!

Andrew Winters who ran Ultimate Records (with Maurice Bacon), also managed Dodgy. They had played once before when their first single was released and agreed to come down and help us wave a fond farewell to the Buzz Club with a wonderful acoustic set. (Which included a great cover of ‘I Got The Key’ by Urban Cookie Collective as I recall!)

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Dodgy / Shed 7 / Poise   4.12.93

So here it is! The last ever Buzz Club! It’s funny whenever I mention what bands played The Buzz Club I never think of Shed 7, nonetheless they certainly played on December 4th 1993.

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It also gives me an excuse to put these photos up. It’s not actually The Buzz Club. A few of us went to Paris to see The Stone Roses around this time and found ourselves staying in the same hotel as Elastica so we had a few drinks with them.