The Story of the Bamboo Club

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Bamboo club was built for the people of St Pauls, in Bristol, England - the people who were victimised or not welcome elsewhere because of the colour of their skin. We hear from dozens of people who were members, musicians, or simply occasional visitors. They all share the same idea that there were two themes running through the club – community and music.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the BBC World Service and I have a story for you, a story of a
0:08.8	nightclub that owned 50 years ago in the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom. My name is Roy Hackett and I love that
0:20.1	club. This club was legendary. It was welcoming. It had a great sound and it had great people.
0:28.0	It only lasted 11 years, but as you are about to hear, it is remembered by all who went there.
0:37.0	You'll hear me talking and many others, and you'll hear some great music.
0:43.0	The club left a legacy for race relation in a city with a very dark past and it left a legacy of reggae music.
0:57.0	The bamboo club, they made me who I am.
1:00.0	Bamboo club was international.
1:01.0	All the great chicken team, all of them past two
1:03.7	bamboo club. That was the very first show that Bob Marley did in the UK. Well it is a
1:09.0	fact that pop had the Cabin Club, jazz had Ronnie Scots, but for Blue Beaton Rage it was the bamboo club.
1:15.4	This is beautiful people, a Bombo club story.
1:19.3	You and me
1:22.4	off the darken. It's strange how although our standards of material beauty alter through the ages
1:37.7	the loveliness of nature symbolised by settings like these in the Caribbean
1:41.7	never fail to
1:42.5	Enchantis.
1:43.7	This then is Jamaica.
1:45.1	One step beyond.
1:47.8	I came to Bristol like thousands of others
1:51.7	over 50 years ago from Jamaica. I was born in Jamaica in St Thomas. I came to
1:58.6	join relatives here. I was born in Jamaica. I came to Bristol in 1955. My parents immigrated from
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