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groovy cellar, the regal, sweet charity
was one of the cheshunt/enfield mods and we used to make many a trip to the groovy cellar. great fun arriving on our scooters, and taking off our parkas to reveal those fantastic paisley shirts from the regal. the groovy cellar was a great little club. i always preferred it to the mod clubs cos the birds were much fitter. they were all mary quant minis and peggy moffatt haircuts. the groovy cellar was so cool it could even afford to turn away paul weller!
the regal in kensington market and newburgh st was a great little shop. expensive, but that was ok, cos it kept the tickets out. sweet charity was a girls stall in kensington market, but they made some great hipsters for the boys.
the bands from the psych scene were dreadful, but they put on some great happenings. i remember going on a psychedelic boat trip down the thames, grooving at the cafe royal and a couple of swinging parties at the london dungeon.
mike jones and his brother nick from the playn jayn were two ace faces from this time. they were both riding their scooters around bournemouth before the mod thing happened. mike and eddie pillar had a bit of a punch up in the regal, i seem to recall. mike was a top bloke and the playn jayn one of the better bands from the mod revival scene. mad as a march hare, but he had some great threads.
the whole scene only lasted for a few months and coincided with the release of 'sound affects'. there was a film being made at the time called 'the groovy movie' which probably has some great images from this time. don't think it ever made it to celluoid though!
anyone else there?
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21/Feb/06, 8:12 am
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Re: groovy cellar, the regal, sweet charity
we used to go to the parties at the London Dingeon and had hipsters from Sweet Charity...really enjoyed the communal mixed changing room.
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Re: groovy cellar, the regal, sweet charity
I never was into this psychedelia stuff but a few of my friends were, I went to see a few of the bands though ... and visited Regal & Co.
It's funny I was talking with one of them about todays swirlies and he admitted they were so far removed from the 81/82 scene - more 70's rock than Swingin London.
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Re: groovy cellar, the regal, sweet charity
it lasted about 6 months for me..a few bandsman jackets and some striped hipsters with suede chelsea boots and a cravat....and those awfull shirts that buttoned up on the shoulder...most other people were getting into northern and scooters...I skipped that.
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22/Feb/06, 8:50 pm
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Re: groovy cellar, the regal, sweet charity
Out of all the clubs going on in the 80,s in London , this is the one that fascinates me most and the one I most wanted to go to
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Re: groovy cellar, the regal, sweet charity
agree with ya there shake some wud have bloody loved to have gone to it, was more into that than the mod? clubs.
my g/f at the time practially lived in sweet charity shop, every time we went to london for the day she had 3-4 hours muching around sweet charity i had 3 - 4 hours muching around record fairs 
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I'm sure there's a few here who'll remember the same stuff, if the old age and substance abuse hasn't wiped their miinds clean! 