Armadillo Tea Rooms Liverpool

At number 18 mathew street stands the bar flanagans apple.

Armadillo tea rooms liverpool.

The building is grade 2 listed and the projection and rewind rooms are still a feature of the building. This was helped by their proximity to mathew street and probe records. What i liked about it was the absolute acceptance of it all. The armadillo probe and eric s were like the golden triangle of liverpool punk notes bernie connor whose early years were shaped by his time in aunt twacky s.

The building is now occupied by flanagan s apple. The armadillo was the control room where bands fanzine writers artists and organisers would congregate over cheap pots of tea swapping ideas theories proclamations and band members. The armadillo tea rooms was a café in liverpool that were a significant part of the early 80s music scene. Every 30 minutes starting at 7 49am finishing from city centre at 5 49pm x1 runcorn to liverpool city centre goes through speke will need to get off bus at liverpool john lennon airport signage and walk for 5 10 minutes towards hunts cross.

I ve always said there s a holy trinity a golden triangle between the armadillo tea rooms eric s and probe records explains bernie connor who was a regular face on the scene working at probe and running errands for eric s. At armadillo liverpool bootle we are proud to support our local charities by donating storage space to liverpool homeless football club the whitechapel centre the basement and national childbirth trust. She has a handle on nosh having worked alongside the inestimable award strewn martin cooper at the truly trail blazing armadillo tea rooms in mathew street in the 1980s and she is regarded as a catering guru in liverpool. His strong ties with manchester were formed 40 years ago when he moved to the city as an undergraduate and he would go on to dj more than 450 times at the hacienda nightclub write for the nme found the record label play hard and later chronicle the city s musical.

86b liverpool city centre halewood goes through smithdown road allerton road and hunts cross. The teardrops would be on one table the bunnymen would be on another table we d be on another table it was just where everyone hung out remembers. They were especially noted for the furry seat covers on the toilets. Along with erics and the nearby probe records which was then located on button street it was an integral part of the alternative liverpool scene.

As a dj promoter music writer and university lecturer dave haslam has a long association with the north west of england.