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Reno Club The Reno Club (Princess Road Moss Side, next door to the Nile Club)

The Reno was awesome, if a bit intimidating as a young lad from out of the immediate area! Fortunately I had a family cnnection to the DJ and all round influential character the scene who was called Persian. Great tunes and rum n cokes, maybe a trip to Banjo's shebeen on Cheetham Hill on the way home....

Salford Lad - 4/6/11

Got introduced to this club and the Nile by my mate Dave Ridsdale.A very basic place with no frills but the music was brilliant. More than the standard Atlantic or Motown stuff, real old blues and reggae and some calypso.Never felt out of place despite being white,and I could actually talk about the music without being considered a bit odd. Dave knew a bloke called Junior Thompson,who was in a band, only met him myself a couple of times.

I got very friendly with a little Nigerian bloke,Ansell.Worked with him for a while in Stretford,can't remember the name of the firm. He was a welder. Sometimes went in the Clarence.

Mike Cooney - 21/7/11

 

 

 

 

 

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Trevor Booth
6 years ago
The Reno Club operated from 1962 until 1986. The entrance was next to the Bookies on Moss Lane East  and Princess Road . It was run by a guy called Phil Magbotiwan. The club was in the cellar  down a steep , narrow flight of wooden staircase, There was a notice at the foot of the stairs saying "Anyone using drugs would be banned".  I think they missed out the word NOT. ! The club was a Registered  club  i.e. a working mens  members club.  I think its originally aim was a charity for Seamen. As you entered  there was a small bar to your left  selling Jamaican rum, brandy  Red Stripe beer  and other lagers all in can or bottles  and  quite expensive. 

 Opposite the bar was a dark room where the gambling was run  by a guy called Kitty George ,  who ran it and took a percentage of the kitty or gambling pot To the right of the entrance was the small dance floor   and a few tables  which was suppose to be a restaurant.

 Most people if they wanted to eat we  go next door upstairs  to the 212 ( Moss Lane East) shebeen  which was in the first floor between the Reno  and the Nile Club which was on the top floor. In 212  you could get fried chick   made by Chicken George, they (21) also sold baked fish  and a very mild curry with rice  and black peas
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Trevor Booth
6 years ago
The club was subject to an architectural dig  organised by a woman called Linda Brogan in 2018 and an exhibition is currently being held at the Whitworth Art Gallery on  Oxford Road
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