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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
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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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BenHouldsworthRichpips, 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_ - MemberEwer 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.