Jaguar Club
The Jaguar Club in Herford was one of the most famous beat clubs in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region from 1966 to 1970 .
history
Beginnings
The history of the Jaguar Club is closely linked to the name Carola Frauli. After their school days, their sons Axel and Harald founded a beat band with friends, the Jaguars. After appearing in different places, they looked for a room in Herford where they could also perform. At the beginning of 1964 the Jaguars began to organize concert afternoons in the Herford Schützenhof. At the end of the year there were additional groups. In January 1965 the name Jaguar Club was used for the first time.
Highlights
When the Jaguars band broke up and the lease in the Schützenhof was terminated, the Jaguar Club was opened on January 20, 1966 in the former Scala cinema at Mindener Straße 38.
As in the earlier cinema, the audience seats were arranged in steps to the rear. There were no rows of chairs, but tables.
The place of the Jaguars was taken by the Herford band "Rags".
In the next five years almost all known bands and singers of the time who were on tour in Germany performed there. Many came to Herford following their appearance on the Bremen television program Beat Club . The Jaguar Club was one of the best addresses in the country after the Hamburg Star Club .
The entrance fees were extremely low by today's standards. They ranged from 1.50 DM to 6.50 DM for Cream, 8.00 DM for Jimi Hendrix, who appeared in the Jaguar Club in 1967, and 12.00 DM for The Who. In part, the entrance fee was also offset against the drinks consumed.
While the already announced Bee Gees could not appear due to labor law problems, the Rolling Stones were unloaded again because they had previously dismantled the Berlin Waldbühne. Cliff Richard was unable to come because of an overlap.
The end
From 1969 discotheque events were held in the Jaguar Club in addition to live concerts. On October 30, 1970, a few months after the Hamburg Star Club was closed, the last guest performance with the German Bonds took place in the Jaguar Club. From 1978 to 1981, the premises under the name Scala Herford served as a venue for punk , reggae and new wave concerts. In January 1982 the Scala building was demolished.
Performed artists
In the Jaguar Club in the former Scala cinema, such important musicians as Jimi Hendrix Experience , Status Quo , The Who , Manfred Mann , The Spencer Davis Group , Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich , the Small Faces , Cream (with Jack Bruce , Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton ), Alexis Korner , Desmond Dekker , The Hollies , The Easybeats , The Troggs , Bill Haley , The Searchers , The Drifters , The Smoke , The Equals , The Remo Four , Geno Washington , Herd , The Love Affair , The Move , Tony Sheridan , Ben E. King , Graham Bonney , Casey Jones & the Governors , the Scorpions , The Lords , The Rattles , The Petards , Tielman Brothers , The Liverbirds , Roger Chapman , The Statesmen, Drafi Deutscher and Ted Herold up.
During the punk phase in 1980 and 1981, The Cure , Dead Kennedys , UK Subs , Stiff Little Fingers , Human League , Mekons , Athletico Spizz 80 , Abwärts , Fehlfarben , ZK , Hans-A-Plast , KFC , 999 , Toyah appeared , LiLiPUT , Mania D , Rotzkotz , Aheads , Zeltinger Band , Roger Chapman and the Shortlist , Dexys Midnight Runners , UB40 , Sniff 'n' the Tears and Gravenites & Cipollina .
Tambourine
Carola Frauli had already participated in the Tamburin discotheque, which opened on August 11, 1967 in Kurfürstenstrasse. Bands, singers and disc jockeys performed there, such as Chris Howland , Camillo Felgen , Ben E. King , Desmond Dekker , The Drifters and Shocking Blue . Gunter Gabriel was a disc jockey there for a few months.
In 1972 the tambourine was closed.
Carola Frauli
On August 6, 2005, Carola Frauli was 85 years old. On this occasion, a big party was held on September 3, 2005 in the Herford Schützenhof. She has put her memories of the Jaguar Club together in a book. In November 2006, she signed the Golden Book of the city of Herford during a ceremony. She died on February 11 or 12, 2017 at the age of 96 in her retirement home in Bad Salzuflen.
aftermath
In November 2007, Jimi Hendrix's autograph and an original ticket to his concert at the Jaguar Club on May 28, 1967 were auctioned on the Internet auction house Ebay. After 70 bids, the bid went to a Rhinelander on November 8, 2007 for € 4,132. The proceeds will go to the Bethesda Elderly Center in Bad Salzuflen for the expansion of a dementia garden.
In November 2019, a previously produced documentary about the Jaguar Club with the title “ When the Jaguar Came to Herford ” premiered in Herford's Capitol Cinema.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Westfälische of February 20, 2017: Jaguar Club founder Carola Frauli is dead
- ↑ Hartmut Horstmann: The best music of all time in: Westfalen-Blatt , November 11, 2019
- ↑ Peter Steinert: How the Jaguar Club in Herford conjures up youth , in: Neue Westfälische , November 11, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 17.9 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 50.5 ″ E