What Happened to the Dee Why Hotel? - The Venue - Glider Room - Jade’s Place - Jet Club

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Revisiting iconic live music venues around the Northern Suburbs of Sydney, my first venue is "The Venue" AKA The Dee Why Hotel. It had a few names in its day from The Venue to The Glider Room to Jades Place to The Jet Club.
I revisit the old pub and discover that it has been knocked down and rebuilt into a new complex. They have a memorabilia room with all the posters of the bands that used to play there.
Thanks
Gioia
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[@CraigFerguson]

Growing up in Mona Vale, this was the place we went to the most. Saw the Radiators there on my 18th. A friend who was underage grew a beard so he wouldn't get asked for ID. Also saw Celibate Rifles, Cruel Sea, Lime Spiders, Hoodoo Gurus, Spy V Spy, Concrete Blonde, Screaming Jets, You Am I and a lot more I've probably forgotten. Was going to see Nirvana there but it got cancelled. Would probably have seen INXS when they played the Jet Club opening but already had tickets to them at Selinas so didn't. Great venue.

[@Gioia67]

Great stories. A very iconic venue indeed. ✨️

[@zenvagabond]

Saw Hoodoo Gurus, Lime Spiders, Kings of the Sun, Johnny Diesel, the Smithereens, plus AC/DC, Van Halen, Zep, Hendrix and Doors tribute bands in the 90s: left my liver and my hearing there ....

[@nickmorris6221]

A band called Killing Joke destroyed my ears one night at the Glider Room.

[@Gioia67]

I remember seeing them 👍👍👍

[@TheBestFamily12]

I have their vinyl somewhere, I also recall the intensity and volume of their guitars omg!

[@Angel-nr8td]

@@zenvagabond can I ask did Lime spiders wear wigs and had two crazy looking chick's that were have naked and had huge large syringes they pretend to stick it down below seen that band Mossman hotel back in the day.

[@kellyswoodyard]

There was another Jet Club in Coolangatta back around that time. It hosted the best going around, Oil's, Kevin Borich, Farnham, Dragon, Party Boys, etc.

[@jedskull3084]

Faith no more with Ratcat. We drove down from Newcastle. Out of all of the hundreds of gigs that I have been too, that gig was in my top 5. What a great night!

[@kateberridge2839]

I lived in Mona Vale coming out from the UK and this pub was the BOMB, I saw so many great bands, I remember turning up for Faith No More, no idea who they were and was shocked at the SOLD OUT sign as that had never happened to me before haha! So many international acts played, I seem to remember seeing the Violent Femmes, the Cramps and Butthole Surfers

[@Gioia67]

Wow. How lucky. Great days indeed!

[@BROOKS39]

I saw the Hunters & Collectors at the DY Hotel ( The Venue ) around 1986. I definitely remember the night because I ran up the arse of a car at Chatswood on the way home!! 🤣

[@davidwoolley8157]

Was a great venue to see bands , so many great memories, both Oz bands like the Stems, Lime Spiders, The Trilobites and international acts like Rollins Band, The Damned, Faith No More, The Motels, Concrete Blonde, just to name a few!

[@johnathanwetherill456]

I saw a couple of bands there back in the day . Celebate Rifles I remember .

[@corinamullins7]

The Jet club was the place to go to on a Thursday night 27/28 years ago to drink copious amounts of $2 bourbon/ vodka mixers and turn up to work on Friday still intoxicated! Fun times!! ( as long as you got there before 10pm to avoid the $5 entry fee)!! not to forget getting a kebab from kebab world at 3am haha

[@Angel-nr8td]

I grew up in Dee Why from 1968 till 1989❤ anyone remember Pat drummond lol seen him too mental as anything, dynamic hypnotic, angels, INXS, radiators, cramps, dead Kennedys, hardons, grum grum, slime spiders, damned, regurgitator, wall of voodoo, wa wa nee, world war 24, divinyls,rose tatoo, midnight oil, cure, many more😊 oh add dragon

[@PhilipBurton-dn3ce]

AZARIA!!!...growing up in Newport was mind blowing

[@Gioia67]

Northern Beaches are honestly Sydneys best spot - beautiful beaches and nice people ..I remember seeing the name Pat Drummond a lot in the gig guide back then! Yes lots of amazing bands played at the DW Hotel, I did actually go to this one quite a few times ...

[@mathewhunt2588]

I've just found your videos! They are fantastci!

[@Gioia67]

Thank you 🤘🤘🤘

[@TheBestFamily12]

I was a local teen growing up here in the eighties, it was the most amazing time having international and many amazing Australian acts Thursday through to Saturday nights. Sooo many, but my favourite memory was going in my lunch break to purchase tickets to see the Iconic Ramones, there was a pay phone box on the corner (we did not have mobiles obviously) and I needed to call my boyfriend to ask if how many tickets to buy, Joey Ramone was in the phone box….he barely fit. We had a little chat about the upcoming gig he was a lovely bloke. Also notable Iggy Pop, and Pop Will Eatitself playing there. And once whilst watching Divinyls, I should have known better than to be front of stage and centre, Chrissie Amphlet dressed in school uniform kicked a beer can off the stage and hit me in the face lol

[@Gioia67]

Love these stories! Thanks for sharing. Wow Joey Ramone in the phone box . Very cool!

[@davodrums]

How depressing. 😞 From one of the best live venues on the northern beaches to a generic soulless pub with no name solo acts - typical Sydney. Had some great nights at The Venue. We will never see another age of pub rock like it unfortunately. Pubs pumping with bands from the city to the outer suburbs. 🤘 Back when pokies were only in the clubs - but even they still had good rock bands playing in them.

[@EnSeaCook]

I remember seeing Ned’s Atomic Dustin in 1993 at what was called The Jet Club then.

[@patrickpereira7069]

Sad those days have gone

[@Gioia67]

Agree however still lots of good musicians plying their craft at various places around town - we just a tad old now and gets hard supporting them Cheers

[@joncoutts1330]

Great video. Thanks for doing it. I was living in Manly in the 80s. I stayed there for the surf as the Dee Why surfers were too snotty but I heard of some great gigs going on there. It was a great era of Sydney music - all bands were possible and they played as hard as they could. The posters you showed are almost a roll call of honour as the bands were firing on all cylinders then and the venue was there for them. Definitely a worthy and memorable piece of Aussie music history.

[@Gioia67]

Thanks . So important to have a record of this era. Video chats and images are the way to do it too

[@mattbarbarich3295]

Love your u tube channel and the subject. Shame it's only places in Sydney. The only place I've been to there is the legendary Basement a few years before it closed, had agreat time there with my girlfriend. Luckily we still have the great Charles Hotel in Perth which is virtually unchanged since the 80s and still hosts local and overseas bands every week.

[@Gioia67]

Yea I'm doing a few Victorian venues ..did Punters club Fitzroy recently . I also did the Charles hotel in Perth WA 😊 thanks for the support

[@bsways]

The same thing that happened to Narrabeen sands. They gutted it, got rid of the garden and turned it into a cold soulless dive with massive screens and pokies that most people don't want to go to.

[@teambonry]

Well they actually sold the old Sands (with the massive beer garden) and its now units, they relocated to a new premises a block further up the road.

[@stevelawrie9115]

Favourite moments for my at the Glider Room what the Dyvnals and Concrete Blonde.

[@drenx4625]

Was the best venue. Lived in Katoomba for a while around 1990. Me and a mate used to make the 6 hour round trip quite regularly. Favs were Carter USM, Pop Will Eat Itself, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, so many TISM, Violent Femmes, Hard Ons. Sad that I missed Public Image Limited which the locals said was the best ever gig there.

[@Gioia67]

Wow. That's a long drive but yeh well worth it . Thanks for the support👌

[@Angel-nr8td]

I seen regurgitator at Katoomba was best gig

[@aussiejoker2031]

Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds played there on a weeknight great gig cos you could walk to the front of the stage and then to the bar with no worries and Izzy is so cool....😎

[@Gioia67]

Awesome 👌

[@aussiejoker2031]

@@Gioia67 When you start on the inner-city pubs like the Annandale, Hopetoun, Lansdown, etc that will be cool.

[@Gioia67]

I'll do Hopetoun soon. Have done Lansdowne and Phoenician..scroll through the videos and you should be able to find them 😃

[@aussiejoker2031]

@@Gioia67 Cool! I used to go to and book bands at all those venues in the late eighties and nineties is there any left?????PS Tuesdays at the Hopetoun at 4pm they had "Rock Against Work" a band would do 2 or 3 sets and we would all get pissed......

[@fishmich63]

Saw Stevie Wright there. He wasn't well and was on crutches but was still great to hear him do Evie.

[@Gioia67]

I also saw Stevie performing when he was on crutches ...a different venue though. ✌️✌️

[@peterk2455]

The Dee Why, back then I was at Manly BHS, just over the hill on Harbord Rd. Would buy a chook at Coyles Chicken, then walk to the DY and have at it in their beer garden with a schooner of 50/50. In school uniform. A few small notes would go a long way back then.

[@Angel-nr8td]

Omg I eat lots from Coyles chicken, yeap Walton's is gone I remember knock and Kerby at Dee Why. The strand is gone

[@queenslander7756]

Played and partied at the Dee Why in the seventies/eighties. Lived in the Western Suburbs and it was no trouble to travel to that side of town to party hard and drive home a little over the limit!🤔

[@Gioia67]

Northern beaches just an amazingly beautiful part of Sydney and Dee Why hotel was a great venue...I liked it 😀

[@queenslander7756]

@@Gioia67 👍🏼❤️

[@edwingarland8266]

More importantly It was local bands that always pulled the crowd Next the Fishos Royal Antler Manlyvale Many hotel Brookvale hotel Mona vale hotel .. some cool multi stage events. With a thousand punters. Underground bands Dee Why hotel Which still recently had bands Avalon RSL Boatshed ...still going At one time there were twelve original venues. .Up to seven thousand kids seeing original bands Friday and Saturday. Much bigger numbers the the inner city. The scene started in sixties. With bands like Taman Shud The late Lobby Lloyde father of Of Australian pub rock. He said to me when he came up from Melbourne. 1960s That was his favourite place play.in Sydney. It was wild .

[@Gioia67]

Fantastic. Thanks gor the comments. It really was a different world..👍

[@GenetNasty]

Played there many times saw the Church when Peter Koppes was leaving the band , The Angels farewell concert with original members , great venue.

[@Angel-nr8td]

I seen the angels in the 80s at Dee Whys guilder room, lead singer at the time had a broken leg. Had to sit for the whole gig😢

[@acrawfordsaid]

Faith No More changed my appreciation of music for the better, one of the best shows I've seen. I also think I remember seeing The Ramones.

[@BottleBrassMonkey]

What a great video, there was another venue at Collaroy that’s now fully gone. It was like halfway between Collaroy and Narrabeen and it was quiet big, I remember seeing Skunkhour in 1995, i can’t remember it’s name now….

[@nealehoward4315]

Surf rock cafe

[@markeggins890]

Great stuff, can you do the Mosman Hotel? Had a great red carpet and plenty of great bands played there, I saw Ratcat there before they were famous. Think it is a health club now.

[@Gioia67]

Definitely will in the next couple of months

[@Angel-nr8td]

@@markeggins890 members of rat cat use to hang at the mosman hotel before they was famous seen lime spiders there

[@BLITZKRIEG1]

You should do one on the old Manly Vale hotel. Similar venue, very popular with bands. As a resident of Sturdee pde I can tell you a little more. The original site was redeveloped by Bayfields into a shopping centre and apartment complex, which were both sold off about 12 years ago, but to my knowledge the family kept the new DY Hotel and the Bayfields liquor store which is in the carpark below ground.

[@Gioia67]

Manly Vale will be up in about a week. Cheers 👍👍

[@larryyxz177]

In 1990, I was backpacking around Australia. I stayed in Manly for 2 months.. we went up to Dee Why to the Venue some weekends .. I saw Boom Crash Opera (March 24) Underneath What opened up. on April 16 I saw Johnny Diesel & the Injectors , The Hurricanes opened up . Also saw some Tribute bands , Australian Doors (March 3) and a David Bowie Cover Band (March 10) .

[@westough9905]

got a recording on tape of Spy v Spy live at the Venue Dee Why 1985

[@TheBestFamily12]

Not music related really but I recall Layne Beachley pulling beers in the main bar around 1988.

[@Gioia67]

Yeh she worked there I was going to mention it. Should have. Cheers ✌️

[@Foolish_Paul_Australia]

I saw so many bands at Dee Why as a punter but also as crew, both when it was the Glider Room and The Venue. I did a lot of my crewing with the band Bobby Sox and through them got to work with many bigger acts. While the place might look all spruced up now, I really do miss the good old days of Aussie pub rock which the old Dee Why Hotel was a huge part of.

[@Gioia67]

Have to agree. It looks all fancy but it lacks soul.

[@CryptoSteve007]

Bobby Sox or Baby James? Lol. Say hi t Brad for me. Peace from Thailand.

[@andrewmcquiggin]

Lebbos chips , Maynard’s Ribs , Dee why fruit world and the fibros opposite the drive thru , Fiona Horne in silver doctor Martin’s , and the hardons , ramones , Izzy stradlin and the ju ju hounds , meanies and screaming jets ,( jeez the point looked good this arvo Dee why )

[@Gioia67]

Love it ! Thanks for the comments Great venue in it’s day

[@DaddyDepression]

Greatest gig I’ve ever Been to that wasn’t a concert , at the Dee Why Hotel in 86’ V Spy V Spy. Ao mod Tv versions. I got smashed to pieces in the mosh pit, the bands sweat was splashing us all.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍

[@fingey1]

Of all the bands that i saw there i reckon, for me, it was most synonymous with Johnny Teen & The Broken Hearts.

[@paulkingsman8021]

Saw Hunters & Collectors there among many more great bands.

[@Gioia67]

Great band

[@goldiebuckeridge7257]

The Venue - Spy's, Lime Spiders, TISM and the mighty Gurus of course. It was a bit of a trip from Kellyville as was Selinas but that didn't matter back then. Yes. FNM played Waves at W'gong in 1990. Tried to see them in Parramatta in this little hole in the wall club across the road from the station at the time that I can't remember the name of. The line was ridiculous and we didn't even get close to getting in. Remember The Kardomah ? Tiffany's at Backtown ? Banjo's at Gladesville ? Great nights

[@Gioia67]

great memories

[@gdawwg1125]

i remember it as the Jet Club . no l ive bands just cheesy dance music. cheap drinks and a lot of fun though

[@biggils8894]

Why do you ppl say the naughtys describing the 1990s? It doesn’t make any sense. It’s just like you want to label something bcse it sounds funny. The 90s was probably the most stagnant boring innocent decade. The government killed our culture by bringing in poker machines to make billions in revenue a year. Our live band culture and pup was decimated! Ppl were losing their homes, getting divorced bcse of the poker machines. The licensed venue sold out bcse how could they refuse? They made a hundred times more profit in a year from the licensing of gambling brought in by the federal government so they could make the billions in revenue. Government…”it’s about safety , your safety” lock um up and lock them down and gag them and track and trace and shot them up with the poison. Safety first soldier!

[@Gioia67]

90s= nineties. 2000 era is the noughties , as in 0. Zero. It actually is labeller correctly ✔️👌👏

[@Gioia67]

I agree about the govt and piker machine onslaught. Disgraceful. I loved the 90s music 🎶 Aluce in Chaind Soundgarden etc Rock still rocked Screaming Jets Baby Animals in Australia thrived

[@BottleBrassMonkey]

Lol you just said it, the Sands is what we used to call it, replaced with a pokie lounge how typical