We had a chat wh one of the cy's bt-known publins Col Barr about brgg Bier Halle to Gordon Street, life charge of The Tunnel and Bents - Glasgow's first gay club.
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- NIGHTCLUBBG 1980S – ON A HOT, HI-NRG JOURNEY AT GAY CLUB BENTS
- STRAIGHT AS FOLK ...; BENS GLASGOW HAS BEE A MEC FOR GAY CLUBBERS - EXCEPT ON TUDAYS WHEN GETS ALL NVENTNAL.
- THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
- NIGHTCLUBBG 1980S - ON A HOT, HI-NRG JOURNEY AT GAY CLUB BENTS; STLAND'S LONGT-NNG GAY CLUB WAS CREATED 1980, WH THE MUNY FDG A WILD AND WARM WELE AT BENTS GLASGOW.
- THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- BIER HALLE OWNER TALKS TWO S OF BEER AND PIZZA AS GLASGOW BAR CELEBRAT 20TH ANNIVERSARYWE HAD A CHAT WH ONE OF THE CY'S BT-KNOWN PUBLINS COL BARR ABOUT BRGG BIER HALLE TO GORDON STREET, LIFE CHARGE OF THE TUNNEL AND BENTS - GLASGOW'S FIRST GAY CLUB.GLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHAREWHAT'S ONBYGARY ARMSTRONGWHAT'S ON EDOR16:57, 14 NOV 2019UPDATED17:39, 14 NOV 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWGET YOUR WEEKLY FOODIE FIX WH GLASGOW LIVE'S EE FOOD AND DRK NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET YOUR WEEKLY FOODIE FIX WH GLASGOW LIVE'S EE FOOD AND DRK NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
NIGHTCLUBBG 1980S – ON A HOT, HI-NRG JOURNEY AT GAY CLUB BENTS
Stland’s longt-nng gay club was created 1980, wh the muny fdg a wild and warm wele at Bents Glasgow. * bennetts glasgow gay club *
HerageStland’s longt-nng gay club was created 1980, wh the muny fdg a wild and warm wele at Bents Barr was given the job of openg up the club above Topper’s Bar Glassford Street, Glasgow, where he was taken on as a bar man after a trip to the Job the club, lled Bents, remaed empty at the weekend as nightspots cludg the Warehoe Dunlop Street – which had an elevated dance floor – and Pzazz Royal Exchange Square pulled the smart was “bangg his head agast a wall” tryg to attract the punters, but nights out to hotel Bearsn where his gay iend Chris Davis played funk and dis rerds on a Sunday night paved a new route for Bents.
PIC: Col asked Davis if he would e and do a gay night on a Tuday night the Cy Centre. He still didn’t know was a gay club.
"I told him was a gay club, ” Barr said. Pictured here are Vla Wills, sger of massive gay anthem Gonna Get Along Whout Ya Now and 'Gary Gay Stland'. ”Barr worked wh StsGay magaze and Durex to spread the preventn msage.
STRAIGHT AS FOLK ...; BENS GLASGOW HAS BEE A MEC FOR GAY CLUBBERS - EXCEPT ON TUDAYS WHEN GETS ALL NVENTNAL.
Bens, on Glasgow’s Glassford Street, is Stland’s olst gay club and was jt about ready to receive the last r before dive terventn me the form of Lyn Leisure, the sprg of this year. The club was almost a re of passage for gays of a certa age, but neglect meant was no longer the hotspot once was. But a few bshstrok here and there, new lightg and imagatn, Lyn has awakened this gay giant before he permanently nodd off. * bennetts glasgow gay club *
”Barr went on to bee a key figure Glasgow’s nightlife scene and has owned numero pubs and clubs Glasgow, om Volno to Mass and The Edburgh, the gay scene was poundg at Fire Island, which was set up by Bill Grager 1978 what is now Waterstone’s on Prc Street.
THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
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Posted on 12 years agoBens, on Glasgow’s Glassford Street, is Stland’s olst gay club and was jt about ready to receive the last r before dive terventn me the form of Lyn Leisure, the sprg of this year.
NIGHTCLUBBG 1980S - ON A HOT, HI-NRG JOURNEY AT GAY CLUB BENTS; STLAND'S LONGT-NNG GAY CLUB WAS CREATED 1980, WH THE MUNY FDG A WILD AND WARM WELE AT BENTS GLASGOW.
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The club was almost a re of passage for gays of a certa age, but neglect meant was no longer the hotspot once was. But a few bshstrok here and there, new lightg and imagatn, Lyn has awakened this gay giant before he permanently nodd off. There are an timated 117, 000 gay people the greater Glasgow area, and only a actn of them venture out, and we want to turn that around by enticg them out to a club they knew and loved.
THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
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This is, after all, a credible clubbg statn wh a history and a lot of affectn among Stland’s gay muny. There’s no doubt that Bens need this shot the arm and Glasgow, que rightly for s size and stat, at long last has another credible gay clubbg statn, other than s arch nemis round the rner. Bent's Gay Bar.
BIER HALLE OWNER TALKS TWO S OF BEER AND PIZZA AS GLASGOW BAR CELEBRAT 20TH ANNIVERSARYWE HAD A CHAT WH ONE OF THE CY'S BT-KNOWN PUBLINS COL BARR ABOUT BRGG BIER HALLE TO GORDON STREET, LIFE CHARGE OF THE TUNNEL AND BENTS - GLASGOW'S FIRST GAY CLUB.GLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHAREWHAT'S ONBYGARY ARMSTRONGWHAT'S ON EDOR16:57, 14 NOV 2019UPDATED17:39, 14 NOV 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWGET YOUR WEEKLY FOODIE FIX WH GLASGOW LIVE'S EE FOOD AND DRK NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET YOUR WEEKLY FOODIE FIX WH GLASGOW LIVE'S EE FOOD AND DRK NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
We look back at some of the plac that beme well known hnts for the cy's gay muny the 70s and 80s - wh special mentn too to the legend who was Betty Hutton * bennetts glasgow gay club *
is one of Glasgow's bt known gay dis's.
Glasgow's biggt and bt gay club sce opened 1981, Bent's had two rooms of low-l rnage, one wh the cheier si of dance and pop, while the basement regularly churned out hard techno and hoe, though was no stranger to melodic mastream dance eher. A hot, sweaty night at Bents Glassford Street, Glasgow, the cy's first gay club which was opened by club entreprenr Col Barr 1980.
”While Flicks, which has long stood empty after fally shuttg s doors the early 2000s, survived on a strict pop diet, a new sound – and a different look – of the 1980s was fillg clubs the Glasgow, plac like Night Mov and Ultra Tech Schiehall Street and Matro’s Stt Street were phg the New Romantic, high-fashn Barr, 57, a well-known club entreprenr om Glasgow who set up Bents, Glasgow’s first gay club 1980, me back om a summer workg Benidorm the early 1980s to fd a changg mic and fashn landspe. and, by far, most popular gay club. stutn for gays all over Bra, havg been there for more than.
THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
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gay scene, before the prent and varied selectn of tablished 'Gay.
the majory of our younger gay crowd anyway, taken very much for granted. I fear, and I wonr if they ever uld image a gay scene where the.
diss were created by themselv for the enjoyment of their gay brothers. the mise of the 'Gay Club' tablished by SHRG Queens Crcent, Glasgow.