Portsmouth Music Scene


The Portsmouth Music Scene


SPECS - Some Place Else Club
Palmerston Road, Southsea

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Owned by the Arnett family who also own Crown Bingo. It became CoCo's after SPECS, then was it Route 66 after that ?
Mike Jay was the DJ there for some time, also Merrick was a DJ there for a few years.


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First ever Basins gig at SPECS in Palmerston Rd on January 15 1985, with Dave Allen on vocals and Lenny Tench(?)on drums

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The Reds. The Reds were Steve Browning (centre, bass guitar) with Dave Allen on the left (vocals) followed by Steve Cole on guitar. On keyboards right is the much lamented Brian Kemp and back on drums the shy retiring L Tench esq. The other guitarist was Jim Zimmer. The occasion is the launch of the famous Basins Club run by Chris Abbott and Jim Lawrence. This was at Some Place Else Club (SPECs) and this band, the Reds, opened the night supporting London R&B band Wolfie Witcher’s Brew.

SPECS became Flamingo Road? which became The Grand and became
Route 66 - a club playing 60's/70's and 80's music, then that shut and it was refurbed as the current Wetherspoons.

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Whiterspoons called The Lord Palmerston


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