Crazy Daisy Nightclub
The site of The Crazy Daisy Nightclub Today
('Blacks' is where the main entrance once stood) |
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| Former names | The Bier Keller, The Geisha Bar, Legends |
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| Location | 20 - 21 High Street, Sheffield, S1 1PU, England. |
| Owner | Tetley |
| Type | nightclub |
| Genre(s) | New wave |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1920s |
| Opened | 1973 (as Crazy DaiZy) 1978 (As Crazy DaiSy) |
| Closed | 1988 |
Coordinates: 53°22′58″N 1°28′04″W / 53.382823°N 1.467849°W
The Crazy Daisy Nightclub was a discothèque and dance club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England in the mid-1970s to late 1980s, located originally on the corner of York Street and High Street, Sheffield S1 1PU. It was known as The Beer Keller in the early to mid-1970s. It was renamed the Crazy Daizy in 1973 and run by Mecca. The club's most famous manager was David Jameson. Lunch-time discos and Brian Ferry nights were popular in 1976. In 1978 it was taken over by the Tetley company. Situated in the basement of an art deco building, it featured numerous supporting pillars and a steep, sweeping staircase down from the entrance, which was infamous for being responsible for many alcohol-related trip accidents.
The Crazy Daiz(s)y club was in business from 1973 to the late 1980s. At the time it became synonymous with the avant-garde early 1980s music scene. During its tenure it was a central social focal point in Sheffield city centre and claims a key role in 1980s Sheffield culture and British pop music history.
It later became the Geisha Bar (in the 1980s), then Legends Nightclub, and subsequently closed in the mid-1990s when the Sheffield social scene shifted to the redeveloped West Street area. The building is now used as a bank and shops, next to a Sheffield Supertram stop.
The club is principally known in UK/US pop history and worldwide as the 'birthplace' of the 'Mark Two' (commercially successful) version of the pop group The Human League.
In October 1980, Philip Oakey (lead singer of the group) was urgently searching for new members to reform the group after the original members had walked out on the eve of an international tour. He and his then girlfriend went into Sheffield city centre on a Wednesday night with the intention of recruiting a single female backing vocalist. After looking in various venues, they visited the Crazy Daisy where Oakey spotted two teenage girls dancing together on the dance floor. Susan Ann Sulley (17) and Joanne Catherall (18) were two totally unknown schoolgirls and best friends on a night out together. Neither had any experience of singing or dancing professionally. With no preamble, Oakey asked both girls to join the tour as dancers and incidental vocalists.
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