Historic gig poster spotted Margate Dreamland 1972

Supported by Snake Eye. Never to be heard of again. I actually looked them up and they did record an album in 1970, which was re-released on CD in 2016. This is them. Maaaaaan



I see Vinegar Joe were on the following week as well. Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer before they found smooooth 

Incidentally, my first Quo gig was 60p as well. That was March the following year. So inflation was obviously under control

Great find though. I'd have been hanging back until under cover of darkness, working out how to get it off that board. 

"Vandals attack Dreamland in vicious nostalgia spree"

Very cool seeing some real rock history CeeGee.

That's me investigating all things Margate now for the rest of the day!

Seaside town in Kent I think. Never been personally. Never been to that part of the world at all. The Garden of England. 

Apparently.

It's a seaside resort on the Kent coast of England.  

It it's hey day, it had an amazing fun fair and giant open air train ride/rollercoaster. The huge wooden structure is all that's left now. And the fun fair is much smaller because they've gone back to gigs again!  Open air.  Not that big but a few thousand could stand.  I've had a look and the only bands I recognise are Slade (for Christmas, of course), UB40 and Martin Kemp. 

They've also got a new modern art gallery, Turner Modern to attract visitors. Otherwise, I thought it a sad but quirky town. Very few chains which is good but so many rundown or closed shops.  And old Victorian town that's seen better days.

Ah, Portobello. The Mauritius of the north east  

Bucket and spade job as a kid down there. It's funny, it only seems to have become cold as I've grown up  

I think there are lots of towns like Margate all over the UK. Destined to fall into terminal decline. Campaigns to resurrect them and to try and make them what they used to be are ill-conceived. The market simply isn't there anymore. It needs different thinking. 

Last time I holidayed in a place like that was probably Colwyn Bay in (I think) 1990. Spent a wet weekend there. Ended up living in the hills above it 18 years later!

Bizarrely it hadn't changed! 

Ah, good old Margate. Lots of happy memories of going down there on the train with my mum, dad and sister in the early 1980s when I was about 10 (I think it was a South London thing). The Bembom Brothers theme park was amazing back then; the closest thing we had to Disney World. Even getting my arm stamped on the way in to prove that I could go on any ride for free had me bursting with excitement!

As we got off the train and walked past the tower block on the front, I used to look up at the monstrous thing and think that the people who lived in there were the luckiest people on earth! Different times back then, but it's funny how a 10 year old sees the world...

As someone has mentioned, the theme park now hosts a range of bands during the summer and I saw The Happy Mondays there in 2019. It was a great night and we shared an Uber home, which only cost 20 each - bargain! Coincidentally, there is of course a tenuous link between the Happy Mondays and Quo...

He did indeed. From memory, he called it Fatty Towers. 😀