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Author Topic: Aston Villa Leisure Centre  (Read 6914 times)

Offline rob_bridge

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2023, 10:47:06 PM »
Seem to have a combo of above.

Bullets a couple of times mid 80s
Transvision Vamp on an unbelievably hot day 1989 I reckon. Maybe Wonder Studf but maybe that was Hummingbird
Some accountancy exams too - mid 90s

Offline gage against the machine

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #31 on: October 02, 2023, 11:05:05 PM »
Yeah it was a bit of a crappy shed, but Pixies was a beautiful riot.

Offline Paul T

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #32 on: October 02, 2023, 11:11:33 PM »
Used to watch the bullets there & saw Terrorvision.

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2023, 12:21:29 AM »
I went to see the basketball when they were still called Team Fiat.

Offline Flamingo Lane

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2023, 09:06:30 PM »
What became of the ASDA?

Offline Brend'Watkins

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2023, 11:51:08 PM »
Played squash there a fair few times also played a few 5 a side tournaments too. We won one. Seen some basketball and netball too, can’t remember who though. Seen Howard Hodgson’s pitch to replace Ellis, quite ludicrous thinking about it. Never seen a gig there. I snobbishly thought it wasn’t a great venue based on the experiences of some who had. The car park, I remember a sandy surface with craters that filled with water and held that water all year round so it seemed.

Offline Bent Neilsens Screamer

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2023, 12:03:24 AM »
There was a 24hr, charity 5 aside tournament held there that we had a team in.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2023, 09:35:11 AM »
There was a 24hr, charity 5 aside tournament held there that we had a team in.

I have a very vague recollection of that, when was it?

Offline Gareth

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #38 on: October 06, 2023, 10:53:56 PM »
We used to hire the court for lunchtime football when working at Aston Cross…we’d have 7/8/9 a side games as it was a great size court.

Also attended the Ellis protest meeting, unless memory playing tricks I remember them bringing in Dennis Mortimer rocking a full shell suit :-)

Offline eamonn

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #39 on: October 09, 2023, 12:40:22 PM »
Did any of the musicians who played live there, reference the Villa at all between songs? Surely Shaun Ryder waxed lyrical about Tony Daley or something.

Was never there but have listened to the Blur/Pulp/Supergrass bootleg of their  Villa Lesiure Centre gig in 1994.


Offline Exeter 77

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #40 on: October 09, 2023, 08:03:21 PM »
I remember the Gigolo Aunts' lead singer talking about Villa winning the League Cup in 1994 when they supported the Wonder Stuff in April 1994.  That was only because he had heard about it being sponsored by Coca Cola though.

Online London Villan

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #41 on: October 10, 2023, 11:24:50 AM »
Morrisey came on stage wearing a Villa shirt in 1994-ish.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #42 on: October 10, 2023, 11:53:24 AM »
No way?!

Offline eamonn

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #43 on: October 10, 2023, 11:56:05 AM »
Just googled it, and there's reference to and photos of a Villa football he apparently autographed and chucked into the crowd:

https://www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/signed-morrissey-football.115063/

Offline Laurence

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Re: Aston Villa Leisure Centre
« Reply #44 on: October 10, 2023, 12:46:36 PM »
I saw The The too, waited around much earlier in the day for autographs and got to meet Johnny Marr and Matt Johnson, which was nice.  Looking forward to seeing The The when they play again next year!

 


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