Scott Parker found these tickets in a scrapbook while moving house, remarking "Incredible the stuff you keep. I’m sure others must have gone to this event, we must have thought it was very posh at the time. 1987, seems like yesterday."
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I Was There - The Social Side Of ISTEL
Dave Handley
Hello Scott - thanks for this - it’s fascinating what people find in their lofts. What I like about this site is how one persons photo will trigger a lot of comments. So hopefully we”ll hear people’s accounts of these events - I never went to one myself so keen to hear everyone”s stories.
I had to google the attractions on your ticket “ The Mike James Sound” does sound very 70”s - more like an Alan Partridge house band . However they are still around and performing . The news on the Stutz Bearcats vocal harmony is not so good , most google searches come back with a car of that name . So it sounds like that group is no longer performing .
Scott Parker
Hi Dave, yes I’m sure some of those acts might not have aged too well I’m not sure if dinner dances are still a thing really?
Karen Millham
I met Ozzy Osbourne in the foyer of the Metropole after his concert next door in the early 1980's, I think it was. Got his autograph up in the loft somewhere....
Julie Partridge
I remember that too Wendy x
Wendy Noke
I remember going here, it was my first posh event aged 20
Trace Eley
I was there too Wend To be honest, I pretty much went to every Christmas do til I left in 2003, hic
Rogan Meadows
Was it F.O.C.? I have vague memories that some were.
Graham Rainbow
Was this a new venue for the Christmas do? I only remember (vaguely) the parties at the Engine House at Tardebigge, where you were called a lightweight if you could still stand up straight at 5pm. Ever since when I hear 'Get Down Saturday Night' by Oliver Cheatham I am transported back to the dance floor with Sharron James and Caroline Burrows . Although I do remember an earlier venue at the carvery at the Red Lion at Alvechurch (probably 1980). Great times (I think)
Hello Scott - thanks for this - it’s fascinating what people find in their lofts. What I like about this site is how one persons photo will trigger a lot of comments. So hopefully we”ll hear people’s accounts of these events - I never went to one myself so keen to hear everyone”s stories.
I had to google the attractions on your ticket “ The Mike James Sound” does sound very 70”s - more like an Alan Partridge house band . However they are still around and performing . The news on the Stutz Bearcats vocal harmony is not so good , most google searches come back with a car of that name . So it sounds like that group is no longer performing .
Scott Parker
Hi Dave, yes I’m sure some of those acts might not have aged too well I’m not sure if dinner dances are still a thing really?
Karen Millham
I met Ozzy Osbourne in the foyer of the Metropole after his concert next door in the early 1980's, I think it was. Got his autograph up in the loft somewhere....
Julie Partridge
I remember that too Wendy x
Wendy Noke
I remember going here, it was my first posh event aged 20
Trace Eley
I was there too Wend To be honest, I pretty much went to every Christmas do til I left in 2003, hic
Rogan Meadows
Was it F.O.C.? I have vague memories that some were.
Graham Rainbow
Was this a new venue for the Christmas do? I only remember (vaguely) the parties at the Engine House at Tardebigge, where you were called a lightweight if you could still stand up straight at 5pm. Ever since when I hear 'Get Down Saturday Night' by Oliver Cheatham I am transported back to the dance floor with Sharron James and Caroline Burrows . Although I do remember an earlier venue at the carvery at the Red Lion at Alvechurch (probably 1980). Great times (I think)
