Following on from a triumphant reunion last year, The Friday Club will return once again.
Tickets are on sale for a second reunion of the popular youth group, this time taking place on October 18 at St Teresa’s Club from 7-10pm. Tickets are £10, with all proceeds going to Derian House and Galloways.
The event has is being organised by Mick Yeadon, whose parents started the popular youth group 50 years ago.
What was The Friday Club?
The youth club was open to all 11- to 16-year-olds in the Penwortham area. After a few months of it starting, however, they needed to raise more funds to keep it going, and so started putting on monthly Saturday night discos.
The first edition got about 140 attendees, but their mobile DJ soon revealed that he was leaving for college, meaning that the disco was without a disc jockey. Enter Mick himself, who – after persuading his parents to let him buy some equipment – managed to get the SaturnScope Disco off the ground. Within a couple of months, the event was attracting over 300 people, with keen students hot-footing it down Cop Lane after school to queue at Mick’s front door on the Wednesday before each Saturday disco to get tickets.
With the disco having run for over 10 years, Mick - still a DJ to this day under the name MicksDiscoFever – was moved to organise a reunion last year after being inspired reading the tributes to the event on the Penwortham Past & Present Facebook group during lockdown.
For ticket details, please contact Mick on Facebook here
