Sitting on the junction of the A30 and High Street, let’s hit you with a little pub history first: The current building was built around 1925, but there’s been a pub on this site since the Elizabethan period. Then it was called Blackboy. Its name changed, no later than the mid-16th century, to The Running Deer. It then changed to The Bull, and finally to The Fighting Cocks in the early 18th century.
The Fighting Cocks hosted the Thieves of Dreams and Blue Velvet, on 9 November ’91, with TOD returning on 11 April ’92. The Outcast Band appeared at The Fighting Cocks on 19 February ’93, and the following month, on 6 March, Who Moved the Ground? performed, returning on 17 December that year. Who Moved the Ground? would return again on 17 September ’94, when they included the pub on the promo tour for their second single, “The Chase”/”What’s That”. Three years after their last visit to the pub Thieves of Dreams’ first gig in ’95 was at The Fighting Cocks on 18 March.
The Fighting Cocks, Bagshot is now owned by Heineken and called The Cedar Tree. There used to be live music weekly, but no evidence of that since mid-2022.
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9 November 1991: Thieves of Dreams and Blue Velvet were at The Fighting Cocks, Bagshot. Source: TOD Thieves of Dreams
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