Tales from the Colony Room by Darren Coffield

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  • @iandavis2108
    @iandavis2108 2 роки тому +31

    Really good documentary, I have a particular affinity to it as I made it!

    • @friendlier
      @friendlier Рік тому +2

      But why does the volume keep going up and down?

    • @zamiadams4343
      @zamiadams4343 Рік тому +1

      Great film mate! Really enjoyed it.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 11 місяців тому +1

      @@friendlier You need to ask the uploader that question.

    • @chamberpot969
      @chamberpot969 8 місяців тому

      Fascinating.

    • @ObsoleteOddity
      @ObsoleteOddity 7 місяців тому

      @@ajs41 the Uploader would only know if the Uploader actually edited and put the video together - the volume problem is caused by different audio and video segments knitted together, without paying attention to the different volume levels of each.

  • @gingerfreak01
    @gingerfreak01 Рік тому +6

    Went a few times, firstly as a guest, thereafter just wandered in. My favourite visit was just after the smoking ban. Walked in to be greeted by everyone looking at me, checking me out. Took a few seconds but I passed muster and then all the cigarettes emerged from under chairs, sides of legs, every possible hiding place. It was like a 20s speakeasy. People were chucking their tab ends out of that window next to the toilet.
    Loved the place.

  • @raymemichaels
    @raymemichaels 4 роки тому +10

    Thanks for posting this. Page 152 of "Hitch 22" brought me here. Christopher Hitchens was also a member of the club and was made one by Tom Driberg in the 1970s.

  • @madamedellaporte4214
    @madamedellaporte4214 2 роки тому +3

    Took me back to 2002. Great days.

  • @sandyrickard994
    @sandyrickard994 11 місяців тому +2

    Put the names of the interviewees up !

  • @mokumhammer
    @mokumhammer 2 роки тому +2

    Fantastic tales - thank you!

  • @jeremyhaines4481
    @jeremyhaines4481 Рік тому +1

    This is very interesting I have some Books 📚 about the colony club in soho

  • @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi
    @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi 2 роки тому +1

    Pubs close at 23:00h in London since years, last place on the planet I want to live.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Рік тому

      Where do they close later?

    • @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi
      @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi Рік тому

      @@ajs41 In Belgium there is no closing time. A bar needs to close 12 hours a day yes, but up to the bar when this is. So after a club closes, just look for the after club.

  • @byronmillanicia3384
    @byronmillanicia3384 Рік тому

    I see where the gangs got the idea of the casitas!!! The underground world is so amazingly complex, you never know what you gona find on every turn. Amazing how this ideas transcend time, cultures, borders

  • @urbanpulsewalks
    @urbanpulsewalks 3 роки тому +3

    Very interesting social history.

  • @user-fb3pu3qx3t
    @user-fb3pu3qx3t Рік тому

    Superb! Thanks for posting.

  • @Mrrossj01
    @Mrrossj01 2 роки тому +6

    The biggest mystery about F.B. is how he managed to live to the ripe old age of 82. The best one can say about him is that he wasn’t a chocoholic. Every other excess known to medical science he pursued with vigor.

  • @contender54
    @contender54 2 роки тому +2

    I am reading sporadically Tales from the Colony Room.. i am fascinated , amused to snorting laughter and terrified in equal measure- just before it closed i went up for a drink with someone, so i saw it before it disappeared at least .. if hell is other people then at least this place seemed a hell of other intersting people ❤

  • @MontyCantsin5
    @MontyCantsin5 3 роки тому +6

    1:24: Great to see more footage from the discussion between Bacon and Daniel Farson (as well as Terry Danziger-Miles behind the camera?). There are clips from the same discussion included in Bacon's Arena, but these are new. Do you know if there's more available or who has the full recording?

    • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
      @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 3 роки тому

      Darren Coffield knowingly exhibited alongside badly faked Bacon drawings disseminated by fraudster conman Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarinoat at the Herrick Gallery and Alice Herrick also knew very well that they were extremely bad fakes but still made a greedy 'tidy' profit out of the fraud. So I would love to know what Coffield thinks now that the Italian police have confiscated nearly 500 of the fake Bacon drawings that he was happy to be exhibited with. Coffield and Herrick cannot now lie and say that they never knew they were fakes.

    • @MontyCantsin5
      @MontyCantsin5 3 роки тому +3

      @@AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw: I'm well aware of the Ravarino drawings and the news of the recently confiscated works. Hopefully a proper determination as to their authenticity will be made soon. It's embarrassing that it's dragged on for so long and people are making so much money from forgeries. Having said all that, I'm not sure how any of this is relates to my initial post.

    • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
      @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 3 роки тому

      @@MontyCantsin5 My apologies for inserting my message into your reply but I had trouble inserting it at the top so opted to insert it as a reply; my apologies for any stress caused. One does not need to be an 'art expert' to determine that the drawings are fakes because they are so incridbly bad and my point was that Darren Coffield knew all along they were fakes so maybe he thought that exhibiting his artworks next to the fakes would be a post modern statement concerning his own artworks being prototype fake Bacons; who knows!

  • @sianwarwick633
    @sianwarwick633 Рік тому +1

    Well, the clips are good

  • @paulphilipempey1
    @paulphilipempey1 2 роки тому +3

    I have never been to The Colony Room. However, it certainly had a reputation. Whether good or bad, I would have enjoyed seeing it for myself. You've got to give them one thing, they were definite characters. Thank you for the upload.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Рік тому +2

      Life in that area is very boring now compared to then.

    • @anthonymitchell8893
      @anthonymitchell8893 Рік тому +2

      A boring old pruvliged fart club to be honest

  • @debraoneill1930
    @debraoneill1930 3 роки тому +7

    Interesting, Ian Board was my Uncle.

    • @ObsoleteOddity
      @ObsoleteOddity 7 місяців тому

      How interesting Debra
      Did he leave any artefacts or photos behind, pertaining to the colony club?

  • @toulouseleplot3475
    @toulouseleplot3475 9 місяців тому

    i went twice late 80s with older company thent ended up owning two clubs in the Charing x rd i was propably twenty at the time,
    I miss all that now im 60 The A&R , TPA, Jerrys I kind of mis those days, Nicky Holloway

  • @embryoroom
    @embryoroom 3 роки тому +4

    Don't forget Tom Baker

  • @nickthelick
    @nickthelick 2 роки тому +3

    "...course, they're all dead now. Cheerio!"

  • @RataStuey
    @RataStuey 3 роки тому +1

    6:09 I think that's the chef Margot Henderson??

  • @robertparkes4982
    @robertparkes4982 3 роки тому +6

    I would have a finger amputated to be able to have just one afternoon in Soho in the fifties.

    • @bobpeckham7637
      @bobpeckham7637 3 роки тому

      As a Minor Poet i too Robert would have loved that opportunity...signed Bob Peckham....

    • @markeddeckmusic7202
      @markeddeckmusic7202 3 роки тому

      I’m with you

    • @anthonymitchell8893
      @anthonymitchell8893 Рік тому

      Sell your spilt to the devil and I will take you back through a portal in time to 1 Jan 1955 the ball is in your court now Robert how much do ya want it?

  • @insomnia3201
    @insomnia3201 2 роки тому +3

    beautiful Soho just died andbecame a gay and accountants rich hangout..this richness will never ever return

    • @redstar7292
      @redstar7292 Рік тому

      the same happened to Shoreditch after the 90s.

    • @georgeplattlynes11
      @georgeplattlynes11 Рік тому

      Get your facts straight. Soho has always been gay

  • @pattymelt-go3fv
    @pattymelt-go3fv 9 місяців тому +1

    Artists are the biggest gossips on earth!

  • @adamwebbartistwriterwebb7760
    @adamwebbartistwriterwebb7760 Місяць тому

    It needs to reopen: John Lydon the landlord (aka Johnny Rotten)

  • @adrianc1264
    @adrianc1264 9 місяців тому

    reminds me a lot of the landlady at the pub in spittlefilds where tracey emin used to drink. Genuinely one of the most unpleasant people I have ever met in my life - no doubt those she takes a fancy to love her. Idk maybe rudeness its a 'cool' 1950s thing

  • @DangerfieldChris
    @DangerfieldChris 3 роки тому +2

    Michael didn't owe dangerous people money, he got most of his crack and heroin from me, for free. (allegedly)

  • @byronmillanicia3384
    @byronmillanicia3384 Рік тому +1

    Like in jail drinking pruno 😅😅😅

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 3 роки тому +1

    Who's the guy who has a throat like a pelican ?

  • @mike581963
    @mike581963 3 роки тому +2

    Where was this interview done?? anyone know?

    • @Reed-bj2dt
      @Reed-bj2dt 3 роки тому +5

      The French House in Dean Street

    • @mike581963
      @mike581963 3 роки тому

      @@Reed-bj2dt Thank you so much. Mk

  • @jamesmalone1680
    @jamesmalone1680 2 роки тому

    What is the club used for now anybody know

  • @thewrinklingbrothers
    @thewrinklingbrothers Рік тому +1

    Francis!

  • @petehill8885
    @petehill8885 3 роки тому +12

    behind all the facade of the drink & banter it was probably a very sad, depressing place full of lonely people.

    • @shakesperezen6078
      @shakesperezen6078 3 роки тому +11

      Being the son of publicans..a place of drink,music and banter is fun,flirtacious and mischiefous when young..but, as the years fall away fast and almost unnoticed unseen in a fade blur of faces familiar and voices friend or foe..a place of innebriants intoxicants and breathed blue grey wafting poisons,turmoiled spirits and lost souls, ever so slowly inevitably incrementally evolves into a residence of walking slouching sleepwaking dancing falling human shadows of former bright eyed human beings that sit and ponder just how,and when, did their life become a faded cracked stained photograph with unknown forgotten unrembered faces.
      Places where the once adventurous and free of spirit reigned in warm light and glow..now become the places of wandering lonely human ghosts soon to be.
      (/-\)..😑💔

    • @jaybee2402
      @jaybee2402 2 роки тому +1

      @@shakesperezen6078 Cool write up. Ditch the pub and go to the gym instead.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Рік тому

      You sound like a right puritan.

    • @brannonmcclure6970
      @brannonmcclure6970 6 місяців тому

      Oh no this was a club; if you bored people, you were out!

  • @brannonmcclure6970
    @brannonmcclure6970 9 місяців тому

    I’m trying to work.

  • @chasbarr2612
    @chasbarr2612 2 роки тому +1

    24:18 - looks like a young Boris Johnson on the far left, if only they'd known what he would become they could have saved the country a whole lot of bother

  • @williamjessop
    @williamjessop Рік тому +1

    Clubs are odd things. What did it mean if some owner/manager subjectively liked or disliked you? It all sounds like membership of the cool set at school, or the Bullingdon at Oxford. What's the appeal, apart from exclusivity? If you're rejected by a group, you probably couldn't have been happy or safe in it anyway.

  • @butlincat1507
    @butlincat1507 3 роки тому

    classic 10000*

  • @densmorde4520
    @densmorde4520 8 місяців тому

    Well, I sure was born too late, would have been a regular.

  • @petehill8885
    @petehill8885 3 роки тому +6

    a very tedious presenter with such rubbish stories about the place.

  • @sebastianmelmoth685
    @sebastianmelmoth685 3 роки тому +6

    My God - that was boring!

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Рік тому +3

      Anything with Francis Bacon in can't be boring in my opinion.

  • @Zionist-Occupied-Government
    @Zionist-Occupied-Government 2 роки тому +2

    What a tragedy.. I recently read Tracey's biography and the most moving part was in chapter 3 when her cousin Albert smashed out her teeth with a McCowans silver toffee hammer during a game of Connect Four, when he accused her of cheating.. She had to be flown to Germany for emergency reconstruction of her lower jaw..

    • @contender54
      @contender54 2 роки тому +1

      Horrible, and from what i read , although verbally there was ruthlessness cruelty and blood, no physical violence was ever tolerated, or espoused so this is an awful story