Will Warren is the co-host of Track by Track, a podcast that reviews pop albums from the past – think Girls Aloud, Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue. In this podcast from Lost Spaces, a queer podcast about lost gay venues, he recalls alcopops, pre-drinks, and all the alcohol you can drink for £20 at Flamingos, a bar in Bristol that billed itself as THE South West Gay superclub. Will recalls his time living near Old Market and also briefly mentions monthly club night Wonky in Frogmore Street.
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Lost Spaces explores queer experiences as told through now-closed bars and clubs. Every episode singer/songwriter K Anderson interviews a different member of the community to find out about a venue from their past, the memories they created there and the people that they used to know.
Do you have memories of Flamingos?
Flamingos was in the building that is now the Old Market Assembly; previously it had been Winns nightclub. We want your stories about your nights out, photos (inside or out), dates they operated, the people who ran the clubs and regulars. Please leave comments on our pages about Winn’s or Flamingos.
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The entrance to Winns was down the side passage and the que went down the road.
People would go between Castros and Winns. Two very different style clubs.
Castro was a pill club open to all and the first club in Bristol to have a 24hr licence as far as I remember.
One night Infamous and Heresay club night at Lakota was closed down by the Council at
2am because they didn’t have a licence for later 9n that evening. The whole of Lakota went across town
To Castos to continue the night. Obviously not everyone would fit in so the party continued in the street.
Those were the days back in 1999