I lost some time in Bagley in my early 20's
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Interesting to see what it looks like after being abandoned:
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ChrisHeath - i was going to post both of those.
very fond memories of a under 18 hip hop event at the riverside, and sweat dripping from the ceiling at shindig. very vivid memories of the drop and the Rez at the mayfair.
both sadly missed
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The Blue Note in Derby.
Which if you google it you'd think would make the the hippest hipster in the world. Previous managers went onto manage the Hacienda in it's heyday, Robert Plant, New Order, Bo Didley, Soft Cell all played there.
But in the late 90's it was where you went to stick your feet to the floor and ruin any shoes that weren't matt black, the music was basically "student union alt-night, for everyone", lots of indie, D&B etc. The sign above the bar resd "Blue Note, where the staff are cheap and the drinks are easy".
I can't figure out if some of the reviews on the website are either from the 80's before I was born or it's latest incarnation as a upmarket hipster club, because it certainly isn't the club I went to!
Phono in Leeds, spent most of my youtful years lurking there and scaring shoppers in the Merrion Centre at 4pm on a Saturday afternoon and the goths emerged in a cloud of patchouli and dry ice.
Later in life the 1 in 12 in Bradford was always a good night.
franki - MemberThe Que Club Birmingham was epic in the 90s.
Atomic Jam for Techno & Spacehopper for Psychedelic Trance. Words can't describe how awesome those nights were.
(I'm in this video!)
Colin Faver and Sven Vath must have been quite a night!
Buffers - Ulverston
Scorpios - Barrow
Martinis - Barrow
And the pièce de résistance - Princess Selandia - Barrow's finest. Only went about three times cos it was expensive to get in.
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Knew one of the three lads who built the Republic, sadly not long after it opened two of them got ousted by the money man behind the project (local scrap dealer) and the rest was history, he ended up back in Ireland driving buses but it was fun whilst it lasted
I owe them a lot, that club was my life! Every Saturday on the railings without fail.
I used to work there!
The Phono!
Just realising how extensive my knowledge of is of
- Leeds clubs from end 70s (Warehouse - actually used to go out with the aim of dancing, unbelievable),
- Manc clubs start of 80s (after the Hac opened but before it went dance),
- Shef clubs through early to mid 80s, Limit, Leadmill, Josephines, that place by the Market, shitty little blues down near the Hangover accessed through a domestic garage. All of them basically.
- Istanbul clubs through later 80s can't remember names but let me tell you about dodgy
- Hull clubs, I say clubs, the Welly and Spiders, latter good for chocolate milk with four shots of brandy and that's about it, and a fight with my girlfriend on the way home. Yes I had a girlfriend by then. Lost the fight, not remotely an even match. Now married.
- Liverpool clubs and dives of the later 80s - Cream when it was top two floors of some offices or whatever. Excellent jukebox. Also Peter Kavanaghs etc
- London clubs of the late 80s, hazier knowledge. Beat Route. Not v good. Anyone remember Sun of Redneck off lower oxford street? Total carnage, though not that big a deal to lad who'd who'd survived the Gaiety (Leeds, beers served through metal grill). Christ, the Labrynth, Hackney, round the corner from where we lived.
Then we had kids. The end.
At least I've some vague recollection of how I wasted my life. Thread's brought back memories. In 1979 this is where you'd go if given the ticket for a party. No jeans or trainers.
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Can't find any pictures but the Zoo Bar/Tramshed in Halifax was where I grew up in the early 90's.
2 adjoining clubs or 1 club split in half, 1 side (Zoo Bar) Rock Club the other side (Tramshed) dance club. It was great. Mosh for a bit then dance for a bit and repeat......
Brilliant thread.
My contribution: Remix Dance Club, Bournemouth 😯
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Right, now I've had a think...
Picture house, millennium, all the bars on the waterfront, the shed, 42's, the Dorch, baker, Stoody bakers .... Right that's all the crap ones ..
Progress, Sundissential, Gatecrasher, Miss Moneypennys (Bonds, The Church and Canal club) regular, Big industrial until off foxes lane in Wolves used to do Clockwork Orange there iirc. Wobble, erm I know there's more but can't think
Happy days!
I'd forgotten about Wobble used to go there after the Institute when there were no unlicensed party's going on in Hockley.
Little known fact Dirt had their launch party there.It was a bit shit.
Houns, if you were in sunnies enough there's a fair chance I'll have chatted complete shite to you at some point.
I still have my progress jacket as well.
Thursday nights at heaven under the arches
AWOL at that place near the angel on Saturdays
Those were the ones we kept going back to
A place called The Office in Cockermouth.
Newcasle Riverside & Sabresonic in London .
Happy days.
Manchester: Mid 80s to early 90s. But not all in the same week.
Monday – The Ritz
Thursday – The Hacienda
Saturday – De Villes, Brickhouse, 42nd Street, 5th Avenue, Banshee, The Granby (!) and that subterranean shit hole on Whitworth Street whose name escapes me.
A couple of away days to Wigan Pier and Shelly's in Stoke too, but I didn't fit in with the drug culture so packed that in.
Almost exactly the same as me but I'd add Konspiracy and Sankies Soap to the mix. Which was the one that 808 state dj'd on Saturdays? Was that the Venue? Downstairs, no regard to getting out if it went pear shaped, stupid hot, pipes all over the place?
Went to the Que Club a few times and remember it with genuine love - had just fantastic times. No idea who played there.
The Crypt - Hastings
OZ - Plymuff
Legends of the dark black - Dance Academy, Plymuff
The Mission and the Venue in Edinburgh. (back when the Mission was in Victoria Street- before it became Espionage- and the Venue existed). And the Attic and Sneeky Petes as backup plans.
This turned out to be pretty useful... my mum and dad did not approve of me going out a-drinking, but one day I was saying where I'd been the night before (the Mission) and she goes "Oh! The place on 3 levels? That used to be called the Place, I remember scoring purple hearts in the toilets there... Uh, forget I said that last bit..." Nope, don't believe I will.
Oh, and worked in the horrendous Jaffa Cake- but that had its upsides, got me in with a lot of deranged bouncers which is always useful, and I got to see a load of bands from the booth- Mogwai, Uresai Yatsura, Tindersticks, the Divine Comedy with Michael Nyman, the Wannadies... had fun trying to stop Faust burning the place to the ground... Midge ****ing Ure! Almost made up for trying to police the place on a "20p for a shot of tequila" night
Goldsmith's Dudley!! Best known for holding a Peter Andrex night and load turned up thinking it was going to be Peter Andre...lol
Jesters (Stourbridge) once was enough...strolled in in my chinos, sat down, some rocker used my leg to dry the bottom of his pint glass....time to leave! lol
Christophers American (kford)
42nd street (Halesowen) Best known for it's Student parties and fluorescent lighting, which meant get your white top on to stand out... had some proper great nights in there!
All the MerryHill Waterfront bars, in their hayday, up there was heavenly!
Picturehouse (Stourbridge) worked in there first 16 weeks it was open.
The shed in brettle lane.
Rothchilds in Stourbridge.
McCoy's in Stourbridge.
The fox at Stourton.
God, I really am old...
Leeds and Bradfordistan for me, although the memory is now a little hazey.
Dollars and Dimes, Mecca(which became something else), Phono and Top Cats in he Merrion centre. (actualy worked in all of them).
Batley Variety Club, Dewsbury.
Various shitholes in Bradford
Pheonix bar in Chapletown and two others in Harehills one Irish themed, one Black themed, that were open through Sundays when everywhere else was shut.
Upstairs Downstairs in Armley for the guaranteed nookey.
With hindsight they were all crap but pre internet seemed ok.
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Roxy's in Sheffield. And I'm pretty sure I fell out of most of these: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/ten-legendary-sheffield-bars-and-clubs-of-the-1990s-1-7513958
I'm also told by a mate that we saw Def Leppard in a dive bar called the Wopentake around the same time. I have very hazy memories of that, but that might have been the same night I discovered you could mix spirits and beer in the SAME GLASS 🙂
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Of course, if you weren't a **** you'd head to Thursdays or the Escape instead 8)
Was that the Venue? Downstairs, no regard to getting out if it went pear shaped, stupid hot, pipes all over the place?
Yep. Down a flight of steep stairs about 2ft 6 wide with a few 90° turns thrown in. Imagine a couple of hundred pissed teenagers in the dark escaping smoke and flames! It makes me shudder.
Of course, if you weren't a **** you'd head to Thursdays or the Escape instead
Nah.
It was all about Martine's, New Yorks/McCluskeys or the Pier!
I bounced at the Pier for a while, and picked up a barmaid from McCluskeys one night....That led to many an interesting tale...! 😀
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Bakers, top of Broad Street 😀 went to many others in Brum late 90s early 00s but can't rEmember much. Bakers was always the fallback for a good night.
Was in there one night and the lights went out, Marcella Woods came on stage with Matt Darey in the both, performed Beautiful live, the place went mental 😆
Happy times....
Wow, some happy Brummy memories here, I've almost certainly shared a room if not a conversation with a lot of you.
Sundissential at...Pulse, Que Club, DNA
Gods Kitchen at...The Institute, Air, Code
Poly Sexual at...Code (I think)
Various filthy nights at The Rainbow
Slag at...Steering Wheel
Moneypenny's at...Bonds, the Canal and Bobby Browns maybe
General Trance nights at...Bakers, Stoodi's, The Church
And the odd away fixture at Storm or Passion at...the Emporium at Coalville
Happy days.
Jesters? I remember the Uni girls used to come up and introduce themselves to you in there.
Plaza/hard times in Huddersfield.
Gemini club in Huddersfield. It was a gay club and did a cracking dance night once a week.
Hacienda? Yep. Picadilly21's - could be quite nasty in there on occasion.
New York's in Southampton (shudders).
My all-time fave though... Barfly/Monarch Camden 8)
Im too young to have a clue what any of you are on about
I spent most of my youth dancing in a field but I'm pretty sure I did go to some clubs in the Aldershot/Guildford area in the late 80's/early 90's but I just cant remember, either old age or I'm mentally suppressing something?
Samantha's - Exmouth
Youth? That would have to be Hollywoods (as it was then) in Ipswich with Liberty as a fallback if I didn't fancy the walk out of the centre of town.
They sound revoltingly familiar.
At uni I don't think I set foot in jesters until year 3. Squeeze / Jollyes when it was in the old church in St Mary's.
With an old sailing friend we occasionally went to the avenue in Portsmouth. Where the MPs and ambulances cued up outside before it shut when the navy were in ...
Dancing in a field? Everyone's done that. Stop trying to gain kudos and points for 'I was there geeza you werent' 😆
All Southern for me until I moved to Bristol & then London - too many there to list
All of these were in 92-94 I think...
The Manor in Matchams
Madison's in Bournemouth
Simpsons in Bracknell - got a photo of me in mixmag there, 'avin it large
The Rhino in Southampton
Somewhere in Reading?
I went to Miss Moneypennys too, must have been in that Canal place above
Can't seem to find the nostalgic photos though!
I'm old
Can't find any pictures of The Kitchen on Barry Crescent in Hulme
The Kitchen was a recording studio, the 'venue' was the 125 Club, at 125 Charles Barry Crescent. 50p in, everyone had to pay, even the bands.
