About TJs
TJ's first started life in 1971, half it's size and christened CEDARS REST, a restaurant specialising in steak and seafood before it turned into a burger bar with the name of THE PITTSBURG DINER. It was around this time that John bought the property next door joined them together and renamed it EL SIECO'S... before he eventually decided on TJ'S DISCO which has survived albeit in abbreviated form for the last 12 years.
What does TJ'S stand for? Quite simple - Trilby and John (Trilby was John's late other half; a remarkable, feisty, character who once boxed the Iron Maiden's ears when they happened upon the club and tried to have an impromptu jam on stage.
Kurt Cobain's been here (as John likes to tell everyone) so has Rik Mayall, who was a very nice man and got all the bar staff pissed at his expense. Richey Edwards used to hang out here at the weekends before he went missing.
The club was featured in the Dec 97 issue of FHM as one of the top '50 Big Nights Out' in the world!
John Sicolo, The Owner
For those of you who don't know, John is the proud owner of TJ's and has been for the last 37 years since leaving the merchant navy where he served as a cook, hence his culinary skills which have been enjoyed by more bands than you've had, er, hot dinners.
John Trivia
His middle name is Arthur.
He is not Italian, he's in fact half Welsh, half Seychellian.
His date of birth is the 9th of March (which makes him a Piscean believe it or not!) and his favourite tipple is dark rum.
When not having his photograph taken with famous DJs he likes to fill his time gardening, sailing, collecting bric a brac and acting (I kid ye not - he's appeared in a Welsh electricity ad and a BBC Wales Shakespearian adaptation 'The Tempest In Butetown').
John is single, eligible and open to offers from young heiresses who can keep him in the fashion he would like to be accustomed to.
Who's played here?
About 50,000 bands, including: Add N To X, Alice Donut, Arab Strap, Babes In Toyland, Bikini Kill, Bluetones, Boss Hog, Brainiac, Buzzcocks, Catatonia, Catherine Wheel, Chumbawamba, Cornershop, Cranberries, Dickies, Down By Law, Echo & The Bunnymen, Elastica, Fish, Fugazi, Girls Against Boys, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Green Day, Groop Dogdrill, Hole, Huggy Bear, Jesus Lizard, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lemonheads, Man Or Astroman?, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun, Mercury Rev, Misfits, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, My Life Story, Nation Of Ullyses, New Bomb Turks, New Model Army, NOFX, No Means No, Nova Mob, Oasis, Offspring, Pecadiloes, Pop Will Eat Itself, Primal Scream, Rancid, Redd Kross, Rocket From The Crypt, Royal Trux, Salaryman, Scarfo, Scott 4, Selecter, Shed Seven, Shellac, Skunk Anansie, Snuff, Supergrass, Test Department, Therapy?, Urge Overkill (with St Etienne DJing), Urusei Yatsura, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Wedding Present
... plus too many more to list here.
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