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The Downstairs Club

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67: 180:. From the outset Stooks ran it as a full-time venue, featuring a variety of live bands each night of the week, including Sundays, with weekend all-night sessions extending to 6.00 am. although the club was not licensed to serve alcohol. The initial booking policy was slanted towards jazz but within a few weeks the emphasis switched to rock’n’roll and the first rock groups began appearing at the club, though jazz combos also continued to be play there over the following years. During the period of Jerry Stooks's ownership the club featured almost exclusively local bands, though several of these included musicians who later achieved wider fame, including 208: 192:
played its first public performance at the club in Autumn 1961. This policy largely continued during the ownership of Tony Silvestri, who renamed it the Lansdowne Club, before Allan Azern (who later became pianist with
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The club later became a discothèque/nightclub under various names, but the basement premises eventually reverted to use as a storage room.
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was opened by Jerry Stooks, a local musician, on 3 May 1961. It occupied a cellar under a greengrocer's shop at 9 Holdenhurst Road,
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was Bournemouth's first full-time rock, rhythm and blues and jazz venue. It opened in 1961 and under its later name of
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On 14 September 2014 a blue plaque commemorating the club was unveiled at the site of the premises by Zoot Money.
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The building on Holdenhurst Road the basement of which held the Downstairs Club, photographed in 2015
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Al Kirtley Biography: Jerry Stooks, The Downstairs Club and the naming of Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band
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commemorating the club was unveiled outside the former premises.
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The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!)
50°43′21.4″N 1°51′57.5″W / 50.722611°N 1.865972°W / 50.722611; -1.865972

Events
Lansdowne, Bournemouth
Manfred Mann
The Who
Eric Clapton
Andy Summers
Georgie Fame
Zoot Money
blue plaque
Bournemouth
Lansdowne, Bournemouth
Michael Giles
Peter
Big Roll Band
Trendsetters Limited
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers




"Al Kirtley – and another thing... – Jerry Stooks, The Downstairs Club and the naming of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band"
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0-7499-5117-6
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9781897887950
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9781897887899

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