Gilly Good Memories

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What were
your
best
memories
of
it
after
that?
Once
you
got
going…
What
are
your
best
memories
of
it?
All
of it.
Well
you
you
also
you
started
off
Monroe’s
in Great
Harwood didn’t ya?
Yeah
with
my
friends.
Yeah you
invited
me
to
do…
it was
on
a
Thursday
night
first…
That’s
right…
You
asked
me
to bring
the PA
over I remember
starting…
Did I?
Blummin’
heck.
So
we
started
that
up
and
you
were
saying
I’m
trying
to
get
this
thing
going
on
here
give us a hand…
Right… Sorry
Tell
us
about
Monroe’s
Well
basically
I
was
I
was
DJing
from
like
1986-87
when
the
House
music
scene
started out
I
was
always
putting
in
on
little
bits
of
do’s
on
in
Great
Harwood
I were
DJ-ing
in
all
the
pubs
I
had
a bit
of a
following
and we
all
became
friends
and
one
of me
close
friends
a
lad
call
Simon
Duxbury
and
some
of
me
other
mates
they
decided
they
were
going
to
like
they’re
going
to
take
it
a
stage
further.
So
we’re
going
to
find
our
own
little
night
spot.
So
I’d been
and
approached
Monroe’s
Simon
He
was
called
Simon
who owned
Monroe’s
and
Steamy
Windows
which
were
a
bloke
called
here..
who’s
legendary
now
and
said
look,
we’re
interested
in
putting
a
night on
so
the
next
thing
Simon
came
back
to
me
and
said
right
we’re
going
to
be
doing
a
Thursday
night.
He’s
gonna
give
us
a
go…
not
a
Friday
which
we
wanted.
It
was
a
Thursday.
So
we
said right OK
then
so
then
that’s
where
Joe
came
in then.
We’ve
got
the
sound
system
down
there
and
then
from
that
night
onwards
because
I
knew
quite
a
lot
of
people
from
Accrington
and
Clitheroe
and
and
only
only
a
few
from
Blackburn.
We
got
everybody
together
and
there
were
no
mobile
phones
then
it
were
all
like
word
of
mouth
an’
an
odd
telephone
call
from
from
the
telephone
box
around
the
corner
and
everyone
came
together
and
from
there
it started
on
Thursday
nights
and
then
it
came
to
a
Friday
night
and
Friday
then
it
moved
to
a
Saturday
and
they
that
was
another
another
part
of
the
journey
for
well
for
me
personally
being
involved
with
my
friends
and
and
all
the
surrounding
people
y’know
people
from
all
the
areas
were
were
coming
together
There’s
as
many
people
remember
Monroe’s
as
Sett
End
It
carried
on
afterwards
Yeah
it
did
it
did
carry
on
afterwards
it
carried
on
for
years.
It
went
through
all
different
scenes
of
House
music.
Yeah,
and
so
that
actually
got
closed
down
and
then
I
think
a car driven
into it
and it
were set
on fire?
yeah it were…
burnt
t’
ground
which
were
very
sad,
but
Monroe’s
is
another
part
of
the
history,
but
I
say
Crackers
and
Sett
End
wer’
what
you
know,
like
that’s
where
it
all
started
but
Monroe’s
was
part
of
it,
of
course
year
some
fantastic
memories
from
that.
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What were
your
best
memories
of
it
after
that?
Once
you
got
going…
What
are
your
best
memories
of
it?
All
of it.
Well
you
you
also
you
started
off
Monroe’s
in Great
Harwood didn’t ya?
Yeah
with
my
friends.
Yeah you
invited
me
to
do…
it was
on
a
Thursday
night
first…
That’s
right…
You
asked
me
to bring
the PA
over I remember
starting…
Did I?
Blummin’
heck.
So
we
started
that
up
and
you
were
saying
I’m
trying
to
get
this
thing
going
on
here
give us a hand…
Right… Sorry
Tell
us
about
Monroe’s
Well
basically
I
was
I
was
DJing
from
like
1986-87
when
the
House
music
scene
started out
I
was
always
putting
in
on
little
bits
of
do’s
on
in
Great
Harwood
I were
DJ-ing
in
all
the
pubs
I
had
a bit
of a
following
and we
all
became
friends
and
one
of me
close
friends
a
lad
call
Simon
Duxbury
and
some
of
me
other
mates
they
decided
they
were
going
to
like
they’re
going
to
take
it
a
stage
further.
So
we’re
going
to
find
our
own
little
night
spot.
So
I’d been
and
approached
Monroe’s
Simon
He
was
called
Simon
who owned
Monroe’s
and
Steamy
Windows
which
were
a
bloke
called
here..
who’s
legendary
now
and
said
look,
we’re
interested
in
putting
a
night on
so
the
next
thing
Simon
came
back
to
me
and
said
right
we’re
going
to
be
doing
a
Thursday
night.
He’s
gonna
give
us
a
go…
not
a
Friday
which
we
wanted.
It
was
a
Thursday.
So
we
said right OK
then
so
then
that’s
where
Joe
came
in then.
We’ve
got
the
sound
system
down
there
and
then
from
that
night
onwards
because
I
knew
quite
a
lot
of
people
from
Accrington
and
Clitheroe
and
and
only
only
a
few
from
Blackburn.
We
got
everybody
together
and
there
were
no
mobile
phones
then
it
were
all
like
word
of
mouth
an’
an
odd
telephone
call
from
from
the
telephone
box
around
the
corner
and
everyone
came
together
and
from
there
it started
on
Thursday
nights
and
then
it
came
to
a
Friday
night
and
Friday
then
it
moved
to
a
Saturday
and
they
that
was
another
another
part
of
the
journey
for
well
for
me
personally
being
involved
with
my
friends
and
and
all
the
surrounding
people
y’know
people
from
all
the
areas
were
were
coming
together
There’s
as
many
people
remember
Monroe’s
as
Sett
End
It
carried
on
afterwards
Yeah
it
did
it
did
carry
on
afterwards
it
carried
on
for
years.
It
went
through
all
different
scenes
of
House
music.
Yeah,
and
so
that
actually
got
closed
down
and
then
I
think
a car driven
into it
and it
were set
on fire?
yeah it were…
burnt
t’
ground
which
were
very
sad,
but
Monroe’s
is
another
part
of
the
history,
but
I
say
Crackers
and
Sett
End
wer’
what
you
know,
like
that’s
where
it
all
started
but
Monroe’s
was
part
of
it,
of
course
year
some
fantastic
memories
from
that.