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Thank you all from the Friars team for making all the Friars 2009 gigs so much fun!   

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NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON!

Please spare a thought at this time for Blodwyn Pig and Friars legend Mick Abrahams who is recovering from major illness. Also for The Groundhogs' Tony McPhee who is making a good recovery from his recent illness.

Kate McGarrigle 1946 - 2010

15th January 2010

Please support local talent wherever they play. Remember the numerous local acts that went on to play Friars  - they did so because they had the support - this needs us all to get involved! From The Beez and The Disco Students to Marillion and Kajagoogoo to The Stowaways and Otway and Barrett to Howard Jones and Crossfire and Orthi to No Nonsense...the list goes on.

This will be a historical last hurrah for local bands at the Civic (it is due to close days after) and seven great bands for a tenner in advance! Let's make this a great one! This gig has been organised by our good friends at Aylesbury Showcase.

FRIARS IN 2010...........

NEW GALLERIES COMING SOON - YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT WE'VE FOUND! THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WE ENVISAGE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF NEW PHOTOS AND UNSEEN STUFF! MORE INTERVIEWS and THE REMAINING HEROES AWARDS....AND SOME CHANGES TO THE WEBSITE.

THE 2009 FRIARS AYLESBURY CHRISTMAS PARTY!

WHAT AN AMAZING NIGHT! TWO BRILLIANT BANDS - KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS AND CHINA CRISIS PLAYED SETS LIKE THEIR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT! TRULY BRILLIANT!

        more contributions and memories of this gig needed - get in touch HERE    

FULL FEATURE ON THE SLF GIG  HERE!

FULL FEATURE ON THE PRETTY THINGS GIG HERE 

EXCLUSIVE GEOFFREY TYRELL PHOTO GALLERIES!

Did you go to Friars between 1975 and 1980? If so, check out the Geoffrey Tyrell photo gallery. Nearly 200 photos restored from negative by Geoff EXCLUSIVELY  for this website. Who knows you might be in them! There's pictures from the last night of the BAH, first night of the Civic, The Open Air Otway gig and loads more including Dr Feelgood, Genesis, Mott, Steve Harley, Blondie, Hawkwind, Steve Hillage, UFO and many more!

See Geoff's galleries HERE

EXCLUSIVE DON STONE PHOTO GALLERIES!

Did you go to Friars between 1978 and 1980? If so, check out the Don Stone photo gallery. Don is a local man who regularly attended Friars and we should be grateful he took his camera and exercised his passion for photography. The results came in 35mm slides which the webmaster converted and here we are!

There are a lot of pictures, so we will phase them in gently.......galleries up now include The Clash, Ian Dury, The Vice Creems, Penetration and Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Stop press! We've just taken delivery of lots more slides, so if you went to Friars in 1978/79 and saw Siouxsie, Tom Robinson, Camel, Steve Hillage, Undertones and many more, you could be in for a treat!

See Don's galleries HERE

 Inside....the gigs....the flyers....posters....the memories....and YOU !

More visitors than we ever thought likely and over 1,000,000 hits in 2009 .....THANK YOU !!!!!!!! for making this website a success.

Don't forget The Aylesbury Roxette! www.thenewroxette.co.uk

"It just became this very special gig that was up the M1. There were hundreds of ‘em but some that stuck out. Friars was one of ‘em. Great little club". - Ian Hunter

"Friars was the gig of gigs" - Steve Harley

"The Friars was a lovely intimate venue and I wish that we had played there more often" - Andy McCluskey (OMD)

"(Friars) was a great audience" - Tom Robinson

"I remember we used to really like playing at the Friars mainly because of the audience, which was always very supportive of us" - Andy Fraser (Free)

"Wonderful, it was after our first (Friars) gig we knew then we would break in the UK" - Milton Reame James (Cockney Rebel)

"You won't get a bad word about Friars from me" - Barrie Masters (Eddie and the Hot Rods)

"The audience reception was the best" - Woody Woodmansey (David Bowie)

"It was a little like a 'club' that both bands and audiences all belonged to!" - Blossom Toes

"We never could have imagined how great the audiences were or what an amazing reception we always got whenever we came to Aylesbury" - Phil Pickett (Sailor)

and many many more !

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