Metronome by Going Going

released October 13, 1990

Richard Sinclair - guitar & purported vocals
Hugh Hopper - bass, fuzz bass (track 4)
Mark Hewins - Casio Synth-Guitar (keyboard sounds)
Andy Ward - drums
If Vince Clarke plays here, I don't hear him.

Recorded at the Metronome Theatre, Folkestone.
room6-folkestone.blogspot.com/2010/
www.setlist.fm/venue/metronome-folkestone-england-53d64789.html

"I was there: Grace Hill, Folkestone, opposite the site of the since-demolished Hillside Club, where Jimi Hendrix played on 31 Dec 1966. Very high stage, 5 or 6ft, from memory. Vince Clarke wasn't there. Recall being outside afterwards with Andy W when a group of pissed lads went by chanting against the poll tax, we joined in ... There are a couple of pix of the inside of the Metronome on Flicker."
- Pamela Mudge-Wood, H&TN Facebook group

"Originally housing a music hall, which became a garage, and then a skating rink. The Electric Theatre was opened on 3rd May 1910. Seating was provided for 400, all on a single floor. Patrons entered the auditorium from behind the screen, which was at the street end of the building. The Electric Theatre was re-named Savoy Theatre in around 1928. Disaster struck on 13th December 1928, when a fire began at the front of the building, destroying the entire structure. It was re-built and re-opened as the Savoy Super Cinema on 20th June 1929. The screen was now at the other end of the building, and the seating capacity had been increased to 932, with the inclusion of a balcony. The auditorium ceiling was painted to represent a sky of azure blue, flecked with clouds. The Savoy Super Cinema was closed on 27th July 1940, due to wartime conditions. It re-opened on 14th May 1941, operated by London and Provincial Cinemas Ltd. Taken over by the Star Cinemas chain in the late-1950’s, they introduced part time bingo in October 1961, and soon after, it was closed as a cinema and became a Star Bingo Club. This had closed by 1987, and the building was unused. It was last used as a nightclub and live music venue named Metronome, which closed in the mid-2000’s. Since then part of the building has been converted into flats, but the auditorium remains unused."
cinematreasures.org/theaters/35668

Cassette dubbed to CD-R for Richard's archives by Mick Capewell in 2001. Mick kept a copy, which he graciously shared with us.

"I copied them to CDR from his own old cassette tapes, when he did some tiling work on my house over 20 years ago."
- Mick Capewell

Thanks and a pint for Mick!