[Closed] Your most memorable nightclubs

Q club in Birmingham - atomic jam specifically, but flashback or many others.
Earko @ custard factory, B'ham
The end in London
Sankeys soap in Manchester
The original warehouse project venue @ strangeways
The bunker -Alderney, not actually a nightclub, just an actual bunker which the police turn a blind eye to, because there are no clubs on the island - top notch, all nighters and longer.

A bridge under the m25. 8)

A bridge under the m25.

Hmmm, we may have met once in a field Buckinghamshire way

Empire in boro late 90's
Tall trees pre-2002
Stax in Catterick up until the day it was pulled down

As a Leeds lad I have to say Basics but I'm glad a few people have mentioned Turnmills; spent the mid 90's in London and rolled into Trade many a Sunday morning to do the 6am til 12 shift before moving onto Villa Stefano in Holborn, happy days, god knows how my brain's intact 😳

Shindig @ the riverside Newcastle

Epic

Also the stinky boat at Newcastle. A floating holding pen for horror movie extras

Davesmate, this is for you, unless you went to the Quad no one will understand

I use to be a regular at the Hayfield in Leeds, not your classic nightclub, but always dancing Red Stripe and trouble, sadly which in the end, got way out of hand.

Remix, Bournemouth

and Flying at Cellophane 92 I was there lol

Oscillate @ various Brum venues
Atomic Jam @ Que Club & The Hummingbird - Brum again
The Social - Nottingham

I'll start with Rooftop Gardens in Wakefield

I did a gig there once. not to mention a few at Heppy's under its pseudonym "the Hellfire club" in the early 80s
And one or two at Raffles (on Cheapside IIRC), top floor.

I DJ'd at Tumblers in Bradford on its "alternative" nights for a short while in the mid 80s.

but most of my "clubbing" (if you can call it that) was at Pickwicks, Bradford. 1982-90, then I moved across town to Laisterdyke. boy was that a mistake 😯

Saw the Sex Gang Children at The Warehouse, and possibly Skeletal Family too, but I wasn't a regular

Vibealite
Tomorrows World
Dielectric
Kinetic

Banging hardcore nights

went to the Riverside a few times but only for bands, never a club night.

Ah, the days.

One a few up in the Pyrenees reminds me of a ski trip one in Les deux Alpes. For reasons best left unexplained, we'd just been refused entry to a bar due to a/ general pissedness; and b/ me being dressed in one of those paper suits they give nonces while they're swabbing their clothes. I have to expand that I'm not a nonce, it was from the clean room at a mate's work, and it had also been 'decorated' with drawn on NASA style insignia to make it look like a space suit. Although the rocket motif was decidedly coack-and-ballsy.

Anyway - while mulling over how to continue our journey from being proper pissed to mortal, a bloke comes tearing up in an open top US army style jeep, beckons us over and invites us to go to his 'shitty little' club. After some brief negotiation ('does it have beer?' 'Yes' 'OK') he took us there. It was little, and quite shitty, but our first beers were free. We were mulling over whether to stay or go when the most extraordinary thing happened. The music stopped, the dance floor cleared, and 2 lasses (Lolita and Anita, apparently) came onto the floor and simulated some quite filthy acts. Then they came round with a bucket for tips and that was that.

We became regulars for the rest of the week, and by Thursday had been promoted from queueing punters to fully fledged jump the queue VIP room types (OK, a bit of a roped off area but where your beers were brought to you)

I can't for the life of me tell you what it was called, because I was was very, very drunk.

Got to be The Rat Trap on Glasgow, followed by Bedlam after the formers demise.

Nice mention of Clatty Pats I see by some obviously sick individual... thpugj it used to be good for the student nurses.....

Now then lets have a think.. these are not recommendations btw

Dollars and Dimes-Bradford
Cinderella Rockerfellas-Leeds
Batley Varieties-Guess
Phoenix Bar- Thornley? Thornton? somewhere between leeds and Bradford.
Mecca/Ritz/Confettis-Leeds
Top Cats-Leeds
Big Lils- Leeds

Theres probably others, never had much success with the ladies in them and cant dance so Im not sure why I bothered.

Richpips, didn't the Hayfield get knocked down after a murder??? I used to go the Blues Bar in Chapeltown, that was scary as well

1992 Hacienda in Manchester, Was a Ibiza night and K Klass was playing. Probably the best ever night out I've had.

Oh and just remembered a few nights in the Paradise Factory in Manchester, the old home of Factory Records. Now that place was an eye opener!

Many Q club nights
Nuclear Free Zone, 414
Zero Gravity, various

Ayr Pavillion Streetrave nights ( pre hanger 13)
Prestwick Airport Streetrave new year parties. (Yes they took over a whole airport terminal and we were dancing on the Avis car hire desk lol!)
Also the Pleasuredome in Irvine circa 1986ish was awesome. My first bar job and had some amazing times.
Also sub club and Tin Pan Alley in Glasgow 🙂

Music factory in sheffield
leadmill in sheffield
gatecrasher when it first started down the wicker in sheffield

The Mayfair - newcastle.

Various outdoor events 91-92 for an intro
Orb allnighters at Brixton
Ministry in '91 for the hot Israeli chic
Club Uk for Laurent Garnier
Rotters Golf Club. Weatherall/Hawtin
Checkpoint Charlie @ After Dark so many fun nights.
Fabric for hearing mates play a big room
🙂

I had a bar job at the Gardening Club in Covent Garden and on the gay night, Queer Nation, they used play 'Its raining men' and it was like scene from Fame, jock strapped men leaping onto the bar and giving it everything; quite a vivid memory

Eves Wolverhampton
The Dome Brum

The Boot- Whistler. late 80"s More of a bar but the best in Whistler

Davesmate beat me to it, The Quad Liverpool, kin awesome in the day. Bowlers Trafford Park and of course Wigan Pier. Then to the other end of the spectrum Downtown in Rhyl earlyyy 90's, bad but good!

Sterns near Worthing for all nighter madness

Atomic Jam at the Que Club for techno adventures
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BenHouldsworth

Richpips, didn't the Hayfield get knocked down after a murder??? I used to go the Blues Bar in Chapeltown, that was scary as well

Aye, it is now a football field.

Blues Bar, yes we used to go there too. Generally more friendly I found, well at least I never got threatened by a gang with knives in there.

[b]Pawlett Manor[/b] near Bridgwater, Somerset.
90s Rave daze

+1 Sterns - All about the Underground
Kev's House
Madisons

Deviate - Cape Town

XLs in Birmingham, happy memories of headbanging to Dead Skin Mask. Also saw Lacuna Coil live there. Went downhill towards the end when they turned the downstairs into a lap dancing club and divided the upstairs into multiple rooms.

Edwards No 8 (Eddies) in Brum. Ace.... Until it burnt down 🙁

In London:

The Cross
AWOL
The Rocket
Coalesce
Bagleys
Georgie
Clockwork Orange @ Camden Palace
Turnmills
Chunnel Club

Ibiza

Pacha
Ku
Space
Amnesia
Es Paradis
Blue Marlin

Elsewhere

Tunnel NYC
Sankeys Soap Manchester
Back 2 Basics Up Your Ronson & Hardtimes Leeds
Deja Vu Bournemouth (remember Kevin's House & Madison's too)

Sterns inter-dance nights, legendary club.

Soak / up yer ronson and back to basics at Leeds pleasure rooms
Hard times
Cream
Rennaisance
Clockwork Orange - Camden palace
To the manor born sedgefield
Club uk
Haccienda
rise, Sheffield
One under some arches in Sheffield - cant remember name saw sasha in 1995/6 any ideas?

Q-dance in Zandaam just outside Amsterdam. Never been to a club where the people were SO friendly.

Q-Club in Brum. Been to so many "last ones" before it closes.

Canal Club, Wolves. First Base / Screamers, Wolves. UK Midland, Wolves.

djglover.... iirc the club under the arches in shef is called, the arches, bizarrely enough.

Q-Club in Brum. Been to so many "last ones" before it closes.

I see it's back open again...

Ewer Street Car Park if that counts.

Yeah, the q-club has been closing down since about 93. I've lost count of the amount of times I've gone to the last ever ever ever one, only to see 3 months later the actual, genuine last ever party before it becomes flats, shops, boxing venue.

Still. Had some immense nights there I vaguely remember.

The Fridge in Brixton was pretty good too.

One under some arches in Sheffield - cant remember name saw sasha in 1995/6 any ideas?

Was that the lead mill? Gatecrasher was there I think, saw sasha/digweed around that time on the northern exposure tour.

 

Niche, Sheffield , scariest place I've ever been in especially when the big black guy walked in the toilets with a tray of drugs!!!!

haha who said Spiders in Hull! every weekend for 3 years when I were a student, can't remember most of it. There was some biscuit factory or something that stank on the way through the wierd industrial estate, then you were lucky if the bridge was down staggering home.

As a Manchester lad I was spoilt for choice

Hacienda

Legends

Rotters

Continental

Placemates 7

Pips

Swinging sporran

De Vills

Sterns, Worthing. Every week near enough from 91-93. Messed with my head that place!
Oh and I had quite a few great nights at Lost in Brixham and various warehouses in London

The Crypt.

Hacienda was were it all started.

But the thunderdome was my favourite, Where the hacienda was full of middle class students with fake accents trying desperately to pretend they were from Manchester. The thunderdome was the real deal, the music was more urban and industrial instead of the high energy dance music (scouse house) being popularised in Liverpool and down south.
Then after the thunderdome it was up to the warehouse party's in Blackburn.

Anything from my formative years in Notts in the mid eighties
Easy street
Astoria
Madison
Bubbles( i think it was called)
Palais

Then second wind late nineties( ha got divorced)
All the ibiza clubs but especially the first judgement sundays at ?(next to es paradis)

Progress at Derby
Tall trees
Renaisance at Notts
Passion @ the emporium in Coalville
The Arches sheff- wayyyy weird night once too many Eeees

The Roxy as it used to be at the end of Eastbourne pier. Hilarious now I think about it....

_tom_ - Member

Ewer Street Car Park if that counts.

Went to one at the skatepark there once. That was a fun night.

How could I forget Labyrinth in Dalston. That was the moodiest, darkest, most daunting place for a home-counties lad.

Kinetic -- Flat out hardcore and amazing back room
Carlos II --- with the JFMC as MC such good nights great music.
The Leadmill
Gatecrasher Sheffield
The 051
Cream -- went back recently for the 20th birthday that stung a bit the next week! Oakenfold was brill!
The Cross when I was visiting mates in London..

All good , how my knees are still working properly to ride a bike I'll never know!

Had some amazing times at The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes. Now sadly an Ikea.

Fantasy Island, Skegness has some good raves held there, complete with fairground.

Closer to home an old favourite was The Void, Hanley. Now sadly a car park.

Another tick for Space and Amnesia. Those ice cannons!

Aphex_2k " First Base / Screamers, Wolves"
Many happy memories of clubbing there. I used to work with crew on set up doing the decor there along with Atomic Jam and loads of other club nights.

Thursdays - Chichester ??

Right back in the day - Wigan Pier and Zone in Blackpool
Orbit in Morley for utter lunacy
The Hac at the height of the 'Madchester' madness, was bloody brilliant - I worked behind the bar, so had a slightly different take on it than most. Sometimes you couldn't believe you were being paid to work there though 😉
Paradise Factory - Justin Robertson and the Chemical Brothers on Thursday Nights - Bonkers!!

Oh... and Soak and Kaos when they had the all nighters in Leeds Corn Exchange. Brilliant!

Aaaaaaaaaah - happy days 😀

Monday night Coconut Grove in Liverpool. Shut down in 97.

Tor 3 ?

Thursday was Transmission at the Coven in Oxford.
Friday was Final Frontier at Club UK, London.
The weekend was for recovery.

On a more modern note: Detached in Leeds always had awesome DJs.

Rocking nu school techno at its best.

this month's middle aged raver thread

Most memorable club, probably due to going back there more than any other than anything else, was Rage@Heaven on a Thursday night.

Or maybe AWOL@Paradise

Can't decide

Or remember much either (****ing 20+ years ago after all)

Grannies - Portsmouth. Located in the beautiful Tricorn centre.
Even has it's own [url= http://sharemyplaylists.com/grannies-nighclub-the-tricorn-portsmouth-1985-1986 ]Spotify[/url] playlist!
Played in a band there when I met MrsDezB.

*sigh*

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DezB, I remember "Stairway to Heaven" in Tricorn. The tricorn certainly wasnt the gates to Heaven!

Ah, but it was for me, every Friday throughout the 80s 😉

'Optimo' at the Sub Club. Broadened my horizons in countless ways for many a happy year. Music could go from Basic Channel to Nina Simone to The Fall in the space of three minutes.

Also 'Radar' at the Art School, which had a nice line in punishing techno hell.

The Warehouse
The Phono
HiFi Club
The Elbow Room

Northwest as a Teenager
Hacienda
Shelleys Laserdrome (stoke)
Wigan Pier
Pleasuredome in Farnworth

London as a Twentysomething
Turnmills
The End
Cargo
The Cross
The Fridge
Jazz Cafe

Now its a quiet pub at the end of the road....

Where to start?

I remember going to AWOL in the paradise club in Islington, as a wide eyed 18 year old from newcastle in 1993, that was crazy!

Shindig in the riverside (ONLY the riverside, not foundation or digital) in Newcastle. went weekly for about 2 years. saw some great DJ's, met some great people.

Rockshots on a Thursday, Newcastle.

Que Club Birmingham.
Legendary. Especially Atomic Jam & Spacehopper! 😀

This thread made me realise that although I never considered myself a 'hardcore raver' or even a regular club-goer, I did actually go out occasionally during the 1990s and even the 2000s. Some nights were memorable, for a variety of reasons. Some nights were forgettable. some nights I'd like to forget. But overall it was a lot of fun really.

In no particular order:

Astoria
Marquee
Turnmills
Club UK
SW1
Fabrik
Home
Underworld
Bagleys
The End
Cargo
333 Old St
MetalHeadz @ Paradise Club Islington
Ministry of Sound (most overrated)
The Cross
The Fridge
Cool Tan Arts
Bluenote Hoxton
Megatripolis @ Heaven (most mental)
Some mad place under London Bridge

Various other clubs whose names I forget/don't want to remember/am too embarrassed to admit to, plus loads of illegal rave type things held in some field/barn/warehouse in the middle of nowhere, and countless little venues, pub backrooms etc. And I thought I was a lightweight really; I had friends who travelled the globe to party.

I quite like a nice quiet friendly pub these days. I think my glowsticks have faded for good.

My local's got a nice log burner, has a good selection of both beers and snacks, and has the footy on. Thats all my needs catered for nowadays 😀

Metro's in Cardiff before they had working aircon
The Fridge in Shrewsbury

Franki - thats my mate Dave's video of Atomic Jam. He did the Jellytree TV wall of psychedelic TVs!
How about a bit of Jeff Mills "The Bells" for that Atomic Jam feeling

One of my favourite clubs not mentioned on here as its not a raving club was the Dub Club in Tufnell Park - Jah Shaka, Abashanti etc

The Ritz - Doncaster
Joannes 70's night - Sunderland

Ahhhhhh happy days 🙂

Big Lils- Leeds

I guess only Leeds peeps will be aware of just how funny a nomination that is.

I got turned away from Big Lils once for being too drunk!! I always thought being completely arseholed was a prerequisite!

Nice one Tomaso!

I'm in that video from '96, along with my bro. and loads of old mates! 😀

Forget Big Lils, who went to Caspers on Burley Road?

The Coliseum in Halifax - a terrible club but absurdly easy to get into even at 15. Happy Days!

Wrightyson - we must have been in the same venues at the sametime
Krystals, Leicester, uni hunting ground 95 to 98 - one of the best nights ever with Alistair Whitehead as guest DJ. Just epic
Pleasure Rooms, Leeds, back to basics 93 to 95

Lakota - Bristol... 6am curled up in a corner waiting for my mates Dad to stop raving to get a lift home.

Castro's - Bristol... Very friendly, pool table, cafe... Didn't leave until gone 9am.

a night called LIFE at bowlers in trafford park in Manchester late 90s, we used to go once a month or so for 2 years, saw loads of PAs there, incl N Trance playing set you free, strangely can't remember any of the others.
Been to Orbit in Morley a couple times, great set up for a club, that was good.
In later years, sadly no longer, Tangled in Manchester, Oxford Road... one of the DJs that owned/run the night guy has moved to another club down the road next to Oxford rd railway station, forget the name now but we saw Krafty Kuts and A Skillz there in December.
Been to a club in Stoke a few times, the night was Golden but forget the name of the club, think it's been pulled down now. Say Boy George there and Goldie.
When I started doves were a tenner and they were mint, a wrap was a fiver but speed always made me a bit para 😯

The Original Kandi Klub, Bristol in the 90's.

+1 for the Lakota.