OneWingedBird
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I got reminded about this U/L fron the supermarket/train code video I dropped in Good Stuff Online and figured it could do with it's own thread... I know it's come up here in passing before but I'm going way back and don't recall it being explored.
The story is that Irish pubs in the UK cira 80s had to have a certain record on the Jukebox, and the only time it was played was as a coded warning to evacuate ahead of the pub being bombed.
My first ever job aged 14 was washing glasses in an Irish nighclub in West Park in Leeds (older Leeds bods may remember the Old Bank), if the story was true and applied to clubs too, I never heard of it, though I could tell you an awful lot of songs that it wasn't.
If true, I can't help thinking it would have had to be something well obscure that would be unlikely to get put on by accident, though there did tend to be stuff on the Jukebox that wasn't exactly party music eg The Old Rugged Cross, actually I was a bit of a bugger for sticking on The Green Fields of France around 1am.
Anyone else heard this story or have anything to add?
The story is that Irish pubs in the UK cira 80s had to have a certain record on the Jukebox, and the only time it was played was as a coded warning to evacuate ahead of the pub being bombed.
My first ever job aged 14 was washing glasses in an Irish nighclub in West Park in Leeds (older Leeds bods may remember the Old Bank), if the story was true and applied to clubs too, I never heard of it, though I could tell you an awful lot of songs that it wasn't.
If true, I can't help thinking it would have had to be something well obscure that would be unlikely to get put on by accident, though there did tend to be stuff on the Jukebox that wasn't exactly party music eg The Old Rugged Cross, actually I was a bit of a bugger for sticking on The Green Fields of France around 1am.
Anyone else heard this story or have anything to add?