Artefact

Oh i rememeber going here (moss side) to see Generation X still have the poster. Didn't know it got named PSV club later, was in a bit of a no go area, remember the taxi wouldn't wait for us as we were a few mins late, ended up costing us a small fortune to get home.

Great club.
Used to go in 1992/3 when it was house-music-all-night-long. Still a buzz to stand in the same place Joy Division played though. And they served Lees bitter and Guinness upstairs.
Photos seems quite disorientating without the Crescents in the background.

I remember meeting Steve Garvey in the upstairs bar, it just jogged a memory vault for me lol

It even featured in Alan Bleasdale's GBH, there's a scene with Robert Lindsay standing outside.

I used to be 50 % of the in house road crew for the Russel Club circa 79/80 . It was my first ever job and consisted of playing pool a lot , glass collecting and avoiding Tex the bouncer who despised the fact that I was working there underage (14) he hissingly refferred to me as Blood Clot , after visiting Jamaica many years later I found out this had nothing to do with platelets and corpuscles but was more connected with a womens sanitary cloth , he also called me Bum Clot quite a lot ...but we won't go there .
I learned recently Tex was shot in the leg at a Shabeen and bled to death , basically because everyone was so out of their heads they didn't realise he was dying on them .
I saw a lot of great bands in that club , Stiff Little Fingers , Magazine , Bauhaus , Ruts , Furs , Joy Division , Wire , UB40 , who were excellent at that time and the Damned who had to have a matinee for the kids from the crescents because of the noise abatement people in the local community center , lots of ten year olds bopping around to Neat Neat Neat , then going home for their tea.
It's a shame they knocked it down considering what went on there , but let's face it the area was a dump and I should know I lived there .

the wesley is the name of a local charity that collects donations of household furniture and sells it on a dirt cheap prices to folk in the are-thus cutting out the need to use rip off secondhand dealers.
tony wilson came into the building while wesley were still in there an was greatley impressed by what was being done with the old place.

I think it got the name psv after public service vehicle as it became a late night venue for the bus drivers from the depot on Princess Road.
Sad to hear about Tex.I got on really well with him & he was a good guy.

Sad to hear about Tex-RIP big man.