It’s an institution for music lovers. Every Tuesday evening at the Prom Music Bar in Gloucester Road to find out who is a smartypants and who turns out to be pants in the music recognition stakes. Main man from the Granary days, Al Read, presents the quiz once a month and Al would love to see you at the Prom. Al and Ed also make a point of being there virtually every Tuesday and will make always you welcome.

It’s an institution for music lovers. Every Tuesday evening at the Prom Music Bar in Gloucester Road to find out who is a smartypants and who turns out to be pants in the music recognition stakes. Main man from the Granary days Al Read presents the quiz once a month and Al would love to see you at the Prom. Al and Ed also make a point of being there virtually every Tuesday and will make always you welcome.

A Great shot of the Options on stage at the club during a special showcase night for local bands. Also on the bill were Mind Tunnel, Sneak Preview and S.O.S.

Gran Fan Aidan Naughton sent us this newspaper article re the biography of Ian Dury. The Kilburn and the High Roads gig with Ian Dury on vocals was on Thursday 4th July 1974.

Ian winds up, Ian winds down, Bristol 1974

September 9, 2009 by Will Birch : This great photograph was taken by Alain Le Kim, minutes after a sweat-soaked Ian Dury came off stage at Bristol Granary Club in 1974 where he appeared with Kilburn and The High Roads. In the audience was Ian’s art college tutor and mentor Peter Blake, who spent most of the set in front of the stage, mesmerised by Ian’s performance. ‘Ian would wind people up,’ recalls Blake. ‘At one point he tried to get the other Kilburns to throw the man who ran the Granary Club off the balcony!’ Photo copyright Alain Le Kim.

THE PROM MUSIC BAR - POP QUIZ NIGHTS

There’s just about the best pop quiz in town at the Prom Music Bar every Tuesday. Al Read is one of the regular quizmasters posing an entertaining selection of questions to test your knowledge of pop & rock from the records of way back then to the downloads of right now. There’s cash to be won plus prizes of drinks and t-shirts and even other goodies for those who come last. It’s just £1 per entrant and you can form a team of up to six persons. Go on. give it a try. The Prom Music Bar is at 26, Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8AE Tel: 0117 942 7319. Al Read is quiz presenter on Tuesday 2nd March and Tuesday 30th March. Are you a smarty-pants or are you just pants?

GRANAREUNITED 16 was great, thanks to everyone for making it just about the best to date.

Can it be bettered? We’re sincerely hope so. Make a note of the date of GRANAREUNITED 17. Same venue, same line up and same atmosphere. We hope to see you there.

THE PROM MUSIC BAR - POP QUIZ NIGHTS

There’s just about the best pop quiz in town at the Prom Music Bar every Tuesday. Al Read is one of the regular quizmasters posing an entertaining selection of questions to test your knowledge of pop & rock over the decades. There are cash prizes to be won plus prizes of drinks and t-shirts and other goodies. It’s just £1 per entrant and you can form a team of up to six persons. Go on. give it a try. The Prom Music Bar is at 26, Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8AE Tel: 0117 942 7319. Al Read is quiz presenter on Tuesday 2nd February.

Photographs from the Granareunited gig on Sunday 27th December 2009 can be viewed as a slideshow on You Tube via the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQCPr3pycs

Al and Ade at the turntables- Granareunited 16

When Al Read’s book about the Granary’s rock history was published in 2004, BBC TV’s Points West news programme included a feature about it. You can watch this interview on you tube via this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBij5uU4p8

An added interest in this feature is the rare footage of the Stranglers performing “Golden Brown” at the club. This was the first time that the Stranglers had played their iconic hit in public.

BBC presenter Ali Vowles is seen inside the Granary after it’s reconstruction from a club into an apartment block.

And there’s also Al Read fondly remembering the night in 1972 when he had booked Supertramp with Judas Priest supporting for a total of  £95.00.