John L 13/10/2004
B4 it was Rebels it was "Penthouse" early/mid 70's, many happy
memories there of wild Saturday nights, chili burgers and one certain
lady who took part of her clothes off each time a Deep Purple track
was played..... Boy were Deep Purple songs popular requests, but unfortunately
no pics none of us could afford or bother to buy a camera.
had my 21st Birthday bash there 1976 the hot summer and them steps were
always daunting but on your 21st how did I manage to get up and down
I still don't know.
Andy L
I used to be one of Steve/Ron's 'Bastard' glass collecters (remember
Bob Maltby used to play "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", when Ozzy
Ozbourne got to "...fill your head/all full of lies" he'd
wack the volume right down and yell "What do you think of the glass
collectors?" and every w*nker in the place would scream "YOU
BASTARDS!!!"). Anyway one night Ron stuck me on the door with a
counter, everytime someone paid to come in I'd trip this thing. He said
let me know when it gets to three hundred. I did. By midnight (this
was a Saturday night) it was well over the six-hundred limit and the
bodies were still queueing down the stairs You just don't get that level
of health and safety consideration these days!
there used to be a low stage at the far end, roughly shaped like half
a hexagon, with a long bench like structure against the wall that everyone
used to sit on. This disappeared during the first refurbishment.
Richard 26/10/2004
It’s great to see Rebels remembered online. I was a regular from 1989/90
through to when it was closed-down. I remember that we all complained
about the place but I’m sure that everyone who went there misses the
black walls and sticky floors. My earliest memory of the place involves
seeing guys dressed in black, high-gloss PVC jeans, whilst wearing eye-liner
and a bandana. I remember one bloke talking to a female friend of mine
and after he left asking her, "Oos yer mate wi’t tea-towel in ‘is ‘ead?"
I was 17 at the time and little did I know that in the coming months
and years, I too would end up with eye-liner (and More) and a ‘tea-towel
on mi ‘ead’. My mum was not pleased and when I dyed my hair black, my
dad called me a ‘stupid puff’ and didn’t speak to me for a week, bless
him.
In another flash of memory, I just thought of the dodgy kebab stand
that would set up at the top of Dixon Lane ready to snare drunken Rebels.
He was a nice guy as I remember. Possibly selling dodgy food, but a
nice guy all the same.
Of course, I was a regular at the Wap, Roxy Rock Night and the Yorkshireman
too. But everything’s changed, now. I wish I could relive it –
it was a great time. In saying that, my life now is great, but I’ll
always look back fondly on the guitar-driven, hormonally-fueled ‘days
of my youth’.
I actually DJ’d at Rebels for a while and also went over to Capitol,
I’ll always remember Mick behind the bar throwing ice cubes at
us…and our claim to fame was having people living outside the
city centre ‘phoning the club to complain that we were too loud!
Bev 26/08/2005
Did you mention on the Rebels section the crap free Wednesday night
discos? We used to go to them because I think it was cheap beer?? Really
dead though... As the Sheff Uni HM Soc publicist, I remember we once
managed to get Motorhead
to play at Sheffield Uni. We took Lemmy
down to Rebels afterwards. Nice bloke. I think that was a Wednesday
night. Anyone remember the night Lemmy came to Rebels? I'll have to
check the details with my old boyfriend.
Nayab 10/10/2005
i want to congratulate you on keeping sheffield/rebels alive for me.
I was at the polytechnic in sheffield for 3 years. i lived in rebels
and the roxy and sometimes the wap and yorkshireman too. I have to say
one of the best crowds i have ever known.
seeing the pictures from others brought back many happy memories. so
now after getting the dream job, i bought my dream car, put in the dream
sound system, and instead of pumping out crap music, i play all the
stuff that sheffield taught me.... very very loud indeed.Every time
I go anywhere in it, the heavy metal must be "turned up to 11"
Spinal Tap style. I feel it refreshes me.
I have to say that as one
of the few asians into rock and metal from that era, i not ONCE encountered
any comments about my colour. I found my friends and fellow rock-clubbers
to be some of the most honourable human beings ever to have drawn breath.
I can't think of who to say it to apart from you, but for all the people
in the pictures, and to all the memories of happy times, thanks. .
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