FILM CENTRE CONCERT CENTRE
LIVE ON STAGE LIVE ON STAGE
ROCK 'N' ROLL ROCK 'N' ROLL
HISTORY HISTORY
1973 to 1985 1973 to 1985
Hits: 45691754 Active Users: 89
Page views : 44950820 
 Friday, 29th March, 2024 07:43:41 GMT 
Add Your Apollo MemoriesGet YOUR T-SHIRT HERE
Updated Home
Updated Site News
BUY @ OUR SHOP
Green's Playhouse
The Apollo Years
Clouds Nightclub
Updated Interviews
Band Memories
Who Played
Who Played When
Galleries
Links
The Musical
APOLLO MEMORIES
Updated Author's Update
How it all started
Who We Are
Updated Web Design
Feedback
Archived Letters
Make an Impact
Andrae Crouch &
The Disciples
1980
Leon Patillo 1980
 
rss feedrssfeed

Keep the site running!!
In Association with Amazon.co.uk
DeutschlandEspa?aFranceItaliaPortugal
 
join us on facebookjoin us on twitter
 
And then he walked along the edge of the Circle

This is the place where we will post your stories about the Green's Playhouse, The Glasgow Apollo and Satelitte City (The Wee Apollo). As it develops we will break the stories up into sections such as Myths, Gigs I missed, Meeting the Bands, Where are they now etc. No story too trivial and we will only edit out bad language!

New Forum structure on Apollomemories soon. 


To add or reply to a message, you must register or login first!
login:   password:   
Click here if you have forgotten your password
 
Anything you want more of? [reply]
 
i like the way the section works [reply]
 
As someone who has many spellbinding memories of the Apollo, I'd just like to say thanks for a great site. I'm delighted that someone is keeping the memory of the old place alive, especially now that the location has been given over to the multi-storey cinema with, sad to say, nothing to mark the one-time presence of the Apollo. A commemorative plaque in the lane that runs between the UGC/Walkabout and the burger bar next door surely wouldn't go amiss.
The Apollo was a huge part of my teenage years and I still get nostalgic whenever I walk past the site (the more so, since I now work in an office building that is just a stone's throw away!

thanks,
russell leadbetter
[reply]
 
thanks russell,

it's great that you like the site, scott and i certainly enjoyed your book "You don't have to be in Harlem" and we are glad that so many people are willing to share the memories they have of the apollo on this website.
I'm surprised to hear that there is nothing to mark the place where the apollo once stood.

cheers andy
[reply]
 
hi Andy

the book was written in about three months' flat and even at the time I was aware I'd missed out some highlights and lots of gigs. anyway, thanks for your comments. one day I might get around to starting a campaign for a plaque!

russell
[reply]
 
i also have and enjoyed your book Russell. Pehaps some of your phots could end up here or at least who to ask for them! On the subject of plagues This would be as good a time as any considering that Scotland's Minister for Culture and the Arts at Hollyrood is now Frank MacAveetie, whose love and knowlege of rock and pop, not to mention his record collection, is legendary. As well as him being an old Apollo regular he still finds time to get to rock gigs when he can (witness the Glasgow Herald's Diary article about him and Andy Kerr- Finance Minister, giving it laldy at a Stiff Little Fingers gig at the Barrowlands! And not only that, he's also a personal friend of one of my regular Apollo gigging mates who I have introduced to this site. The climate is good and he could be minded to look into it. Gathering the support of all the great names who played in the past shouldn't be a problem considering their written and verbal support of the Apollo in the past and Tom Morton(Radio Scotland) and Tom Russell(Radio Clyde) could certainly get widespread publicity for the idea. What d'you think? Considering you keep tripping over plaques in Dublin to Phill Lynott, U2, Van Morrison, and the Boomtown Rats it shouldn't be too much to ask for just one at the site of the greatest rock venue in the known universe.
Would Bon Scott've sat on his arse over it?
Slainte
Noddy
[reply]
 
Russell, I have a copy of your book on loan from a friend who picked it up in a second hand bookshop (shame on the person who ditched it). Any idea where I can obtain a copy for myself. I checked with my local Branch of Ottakers and it apparently is out of print.
I am also with you and other contributors on the subject of a comemoration plaque or stone.
[reply]
 
Well done on an excellent site! I read the bit in the Sunday Post about this web site and have spent most of today trawling through the pages ,reliving happy memories! and I spent last evening searching for ticket stubs!!
I spent a lot of time in the 70's in the Apollo concert hall or in Clouds disco...ahh those were indeed the days!! Long may it's memory live on!
[reply]
 
I WORKED AS AN USHERETTE AT THE APOLLO 1978/79 AND REMEMBER THAT TIME VERY FONDLY, SO I WAS REALLY PLEASED TO FIND THIS SITE.  I WONDER THOUGH ARE THERE ANY LARGE PICTURES OF THE OUTSIDE OF THE APOLLO FOR SALE ANYWHERE? [reply]
 
A friend of mine sent me this site, Superb stuff, I have read every word in every section and will be reading it all again no doubt many times. It has brought back some fantastic memories(although the state we were in at most of the gigs makes you wonder how we can remember). Just to echo the thoughts of everyone else, Green's/Apollo was the best venue anywhere. I had the great pleasure of seeing a big majority of the bands listed on the site. I remember turning up for a John Mayall concert one night and as we stood outside waiting to get in we were concerned that there wasn't going to be a big crowd there and that those that were going looked a funny lot. When we got inside we discovered we were a week early and it was a movie that was being shown. We did however see Mayall the next week. Anyway keep up the good work, terriffic stuff. Has put me in the mood to look up some of my old mates from those days and shoot the  ******. I have already forwarded the site to lots of people. [reply]
 
fantastic site guys its helped me re - live a graet period of my life from my late teens to mid twenties. [reply]
 
THIS WEB SITE IS SO FREAKING COOL I CAN NOT PUT IT ALL IN WORD'S. I WAS IN THE U.S. NAVY STATIONED IN DUNOON FROM 1981 TO 1984. I HAD BEEN THERE ABOUT A MONTH WHEN I LEARNED OF THE APOLLO.IF I SAW ONE GIG I SAW AT LEAST 15 OR MORE,
SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN ROCK.AND NO MATTER WERE YOU SAT THERE WAS NO BAD ONES. I RECALL THE BANNER'S THAT WOLD BE HANGING IN THE LOBBY TO LET US KNOW OF UP COMEING CONCERT'S.{whitesnake} GETTING OFF THE TRAIN AN GOING INTO BURNS HOUFF PUB ACROSS FROM THE APOLLO FOR A FEW PINT'S,AN RUNNING INTO MEMBERS OF NAZARETH, MOTORHEAD'S ROAD CREW.SOME OF THE GUY'S IN BLACKFOOT.
WELL YOU MAY NO LONGER BE STANDING/ BUT THE GREAT APOLLO IS AN WILL FOR EVER BE IN MY HEART-N- SOUL!!!!!    CHEERS,JIMMY SMITH
[reply]
 
I had such a good time this morning browsing through the site and reliving fond days. I remember getting a pail of water thrown over me by Mick Jagger, who was dressed as a Peirrot, and a bouncer, who I later discovered was a freind's brother, belting me over the head with a big rubber torch 'cos I wouldnt stay in my seat.  I was a tiny wee lass at the time and he was enormous, but it didn't keep me down for long.  Favourite gigs Rory Gallacher, Bad Company, Stones, Bowie  and on and on and on, too many to mention.

I'm off to sit and smile for a while.
[reply]
 
Folks-respect for keeping a huge part of Glasgows social history alive.For all us auld yins the apollos name lives on and just browsing the site has been nostalgia overdose!brilliant.Ah,memories-birds,booze,puke,parties and,sometimes,the music was cool as well.

Aye,phenomenal people and a phenomenal place.Am away tae get pissed.Cheers!
[reply]
 
This site is fantastic.  I have only just turned 22 so have never been in the Apollo but have heard so much about the Apollo especially from my dad who went to see Queen there when he was about my age.  I have often wondered why the owners of the Apollo let it get so run down and never did any work on it.  It dissappoints me to think that they could let such a building become a wreck. [reply]
 
Cheers lads for creating the site. It's simply wonderful and brings back so many happy memories of the world's greatest venue. Keep it up.

I really like the idea of some sort of permanent reminder at the site of the old place.
[reply]
 
 
 
^^top 
© 2002- 2024 glasgowapollo.com. all rights reserved