Sounds like it’s over for Telford music venue.
Sounds like it’s over for Telford music venue.
The Haygate has carved itself into Telfords cultural history as a place where Punk, Ska, Metal and Rock bands cut their teeth and provided a much needed space for alternative music lovers.
While no-one will argue that the place will win any design awards, the pub has provided a backdrop to many festivals and first gigs for bands that probably couldn’t have found a home anywhere else in Telford or indeed, Shropshire.
The Saxons who have run the place for a number of years now, announced on Facebook that they are moving abroad and leaving the pub in the middle of April. The future of the pub will be down to the owners and the new licensee, so if you want a trip to reminisce over the good times you had, as a gig-goer or band member, you need to be quick.
While the pub is certainly not for everyone, it’s going to leave a huge hole in the music scene.
For your services to Telford Culture, we salute you and wish you all the best in whatever you choose to do.
What bands do remember seeing at the Haygate?
Shaun ‘sheepy’ Peate
Matt Worthington
Kirsty Hannah! Thomas Hoof
Jack Larsen
It’s the B.O club
Iain
Lindsay Newbery-Buckley Ray Plumridge
Lisa Wheaver
Josh Turner Jacob Collins
Just needs a lick of paint. Awesome pub.
Ben Bowden Sy Rhidian Bell Chris Monk
Dionne Jones Jordan Weaver
Gill Morgan-Roberts, John Davis, Oli Jones, Ashley Mello Evans
A few drunken memories of this pub in the 1970’s when we worked at EWS next door.
Jayne Hotchkiss, Peter Hotchkiss, Gillian Oakley.
Ruth Smallman Lonnie Richards
Liam Broome
Omg yes Jackie Lowe Gillian Oakley what memories x
Caitlin Haq
Tina Speed
The exit.
5 minutes after I entered
It’s a dump
Rachael BirdyFernley Tara Gale Aaron David Merlin
Has this anything to do with the new houses being built next door?
Hope Lye Hope Lye Hope Lye
Ref comment ‘It’s a dump’ – I think all or nearly all the pub gig venues where I saw the best new bands in the 70’s would be classed as dumps – you go for the music and a bit of madness away from day to day life not a ‘nice’ ambience. Having said that despite very noisy and ‘hyper-active’ audiences I always felt at home and unthreatened in those places, the beer was nearly always c**p but again that was not why you went – what we got was real music by real people just like us not some distant coiffured primped up ‘superstar’.
Thank you Bethany, love you too! 3