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Found it. It was called Horny, makes sense now because my memory of queing up outside are of girls with devil horns and randomly lads with old Team GT tops on.
Why did folk used to wear GT lycra to clubs? They can't all have been XC riders and I never noticed any Zaskars locked up outside afterwards.
I_Ache, I did attend a few of the harder nights in a Rock Shox top, a pair of baggy 3/4 length shirts and done Acupuncture trainers along with some neon in my hair. I was so washy chemically fuelled back then though.
The Pelican in Aberdeen on one particular night when JR was playing, horrible dump of a place even in the dark (but fantastic), I was unfortunate enough to be in it through the day once with the lights on!!!
Space closing parties.
Not a big proper club fan but these were always a good laugh in my youth.
Blast off at the Wolvo little civic
Canal club - Wolvo
Millenium - Merry Hill
Metros in Cardiff
The Barn in Penzance (in a really really its so bad its good type way)
Anyone go to the Orbit versus Omen weekends??
I went: Nige scared the locals,I got wrecked and lost my glasses, Sven paid my beer tab and Sean (orbit manager)almost got into a fight with the hotel security :-). Good weekend.
@Scotsman, the Pelican was brilliant, small, painted black inside, garden furniture, toilets were trainspotting quality but the music was class.
@Den - Is that Joe Paparazzi's you're talking about? I had many nights in there, or the Choice, or Tin Pan.
Sankeys
Turnmills
The End (where I met my wife)
The Cross
The Egg
Sugar - Leamington Spa
Did anyone who went to Atomic Jam go to the West End bar for the afterparties?
All Sheffield from my student days..
Urban Gorilla - various venues, good nights in Plug
Remedy at Po Na Na, Justin Robertson resident
Steem Wednesdays at Bed
Blessed on a Monday at The Republic
Disco 2000 on Thursdays at The Republic, Tom Wainwright
Insomniacz at Europa - dirty
Delve Deeper on Thursdays, can't remember the club name
Others of note, The Cross & Turnmills
Tram shed (dance side)/zoobar(rock side) in halifax. Spend most friday/saturday nights in there. First kiss with my wife as well 19 years ago.
Orbit in morley
Cream Liverpool
tin tins Brum
Fanclub Leicester
Black orchid Nottingham!!!!!
for me it was a case of
entropy
shellys
eclipse
club kinetic
vibealite
steam
the good old days 😈
ianv - Member
Anyone go to the Orbit versus Omen weekends??
I went: Nige scared the locals,I got wrecked and lost my glasses, Sven paid my beer tab and Sean (orbit manager)almost got into a fight with the hotel security :-). Good weekend.
Ha! sounds about right! 😆
God the the Orbit was mental, we used to go to that pub over road to get 'warmed up' on Ayingerbrau.
Did you go the night Aphex Twin played and peed off all the regulars?
And the night that lad fell off the balcony?
The round flyers...I could go on and on about that place 8)
chojin - MemberCaptainFlashheart - Member
Jesters.I sincerely hope you don't mean the hovel in a certain south coast university town
Nor the one in a certain North Yorkshire garrison town - Scorpion/Staxx, name depending on your age, was the one to go to (get some Colburn Commando action - very cunning move that by North Yorks County Council, building a housing estate for single mothers right next to a town more or less full of young, single blokes with some money to burn...).
Otherwise, The Generator in Prince George, BC - Canada's "most dangerous city" - or the Sin Bin (correctly titled The Assiniboia Inn) in Medicine Hat, AB. For similar reasons to the 2 fine establishments above...
Sugarsweet at The Art College, Belfast (90 - 93)
moved to Germany and spent 9 months listening to techno
moved to Manchester in '95 - Bugged Out at Sankeys, Electric Chair at Roadhouse, Grand Central parties, Hulme parties, Megadog
moved to Leeds in 2001 and it was shit by comparison...too much coke and rich students living off mummy and daddy
mid nineties , sabresonic = an 18 month blur. 😯 😀
I may have let myself down in Slam too!! haha
God the the Orbit was mental, we used to go to that pub over road to get 'warmed up' on Ayingerbrau.
We used to do that as well for a bit. I went pretty much every weekend for about 8 /9 years. I knew the promoters and was mates with nige so it was a cheap but ace night out. Saw apex twin twice, once early on and he scared people to death ( there were pilled up girls crying on the balcony, mental!). Second time the local speed freaks couldn't handle the lack of 4x4 and it all got a bit nasty, pity really and it was the start of the sad decline (2000 ish). I really loved the place but it all started to get a bit crap not long after that.
The orbit trip to the love perade was excellent as well. Tresor was amazing and we pretty much had access all areas as they were mates westbam.
aphex_2k wrote:
Did anyone who went to Atomic Jam go to the West End bar for the afterparties?
Yup. 😀
Used to meet up in Quo Vadis first, often as not.
Zouk in Singapore and La Cafe in Manila .
Ooh good idea!
Easy Street, Rock cIty, Venue 53 and The Running Horse in Nottm
Cinderella's in Guildford
Diztruxshon feat.JD walker in Donny
Glasiers / Crystals in Croydon (aka Jurassic Park)
Greyfriars, Nottm in my dotage
not exactly THE place to be ,but some good times had in the As you like it in Stratford upon avon the only club for many miles apart from the toll house rough as ... and if you know it you will also be gettin on a bit then many years later thursday 60 s and 70 s nights in the leadmill sheffield always made me miss friday lectures! spesh with a west street warm up happy days 😀 as this a memorable rather than greatclub thread the Marisco in woolacombe was always 'memorable' on surfing weekends
Deja-vu in Dundee... The club of legends for winners... 😉
Or the sticky carpeted Mardi-Gras..
Oh the memories!
Hard Times at that old church in Huddersfield.
The Bluenote in Derby
For many many good reasons, many of them not good!
And gatecrasher before it burnt down, surprisingly while it was empty apart form the managers, and the two bigger clubs in Sheffield had just recently been completely refurbished (or in Plug's case, built), definitely not an insurance job.
I have forgot the finest club in Brum, Snobs. The only place I know where you can get 2 bottles of beer and 2 gin and lemonade a for fiver. Still not be cleaned since the late 70's, still throwing out great tunes and still rammed every weekend. Brilliant place.
Sublime@ The Vaults, Edinburgh. Also Pure, Sativa and Purple Moon. But Sublime at its best was simply Sublime.
1981miked - MemberDeja-vu in Dundee... The club of legends for winners...
How could I forget that place after spending 6 months stranded at Barry Buddon...
Academy Manchester
Jabba Cleggs Manchester
Hacienda shit
Jesters Southampton
Academy Southampton
Rhinos Southampton
Plaza/the milkbar (the old church) Huddersfield
Gemini Huddersfield
Hard Times (Mirfield first site of the club the best) mr mojo 😉
Oakenfolds club in Leicester Square
The best though..
Barfly/the Monarch Camden
I knew Sean, he worked in hmv for a bit and used to sneak us a few n promos n other bits n bobs. Top bloke. Last time i saw him was a few years ago tho now.
Your right it did go shit and the decision too close was the right one imo.
Don't know if you still know Nigel Walker but he's back doing resident again at the reloaded nights. I'd post up as vid but is too much of a pita on the kindle. 😉
Monroes in Blackburn was bouncing back in the day like ha ha maximes in Wigan an the Pier hehe they was the days , Garry's are shit now though so wouldn't go ha 🙂
all my faves have been mentioned so far except one - The Key. Another sad casualty of the Kings X redevelopments, along with The Cross and Canvas. RIP The Key 🙁
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(that's basically all of it... doesn't look much but epic lineups, amazing nights and a light up dance floor is all you need really)
The Sin Bin... Medicine Hat!
Perhaps one of THE most violent clubs on the planet !?
Remember seeing a North American Indian dude getting a metal chair across his head ( just minding his own business) this then led to the biggest brawl I've ever seen. Same every night guaranteed.
Spilling out on to the streets. Jeez wild.
Pemps in Wigan. Woman on the door, sat in her Vitara, setting her Alsatian on anyone she didn't like...
The Turnkey, also in Wigan. Awful and hysterical all in one go.
Planet Earth, Leeds. Revolving dance floor...
And finally, Boulevards in Crawley, circa 1992. Capacity 30, but with mirrored walls it felt like the Hacienda!
However...
The Jazz Rooms in Brighton was amazing. Tiny, sexy, amazing music during the heady days of Acid Jazz.
Hmmm, let me think...
Yummy at the eddysons basement, Barrow in Furness
Friday nights at the Carlton, Morecambe
All nighters at the Empire, morecambe
Cream, Liverpool
Maximes and Wigan pier, Wigan
Bowlers and the hacienda, Manchester
Angels, Burnley
Up your ronson and back to basics, Leeds
Gatecrasher, Sheffield
E paradise, amnesia and cafe del mar, Ibiza
There's loads more that I went to but my memory's not what it used to be 😉 
I knew Sean, he worked in hmv for a bit and used to sneak us a few n promos n other bits n bobs. Top bloke. Last time i saw him was a few years ago tho now.
That was a different Sean (Kendrick), the manager was Sean Mcinerney. Kendrick is now in the US I think. Not seen Nige since about 99, he alienated a lot of people around then for various reasons. Hopefully he has sorted himself out now.
Energy - Brixton Academy
Sin - Astoria
The Drum Club's Thursday nighter at Soundshaft
A few nights at Turnmills
George IV on Brixton Hill
The Fridge
And the funky/easy listening night I used to run, but mainly keep quiet about now.
Harrys - Weymouth.
brack - Member
The Sin Bin... Medicine Hat!Perhaps one of THE most violent clubs on the planet !?
Remember seeing a North American Indian dude getting a metal chair across his head ( just minding his own business) this then led to the biggest brawl I've ever seen. Same every night guaranteed.
Spilling out on to the streets. Jeez wild.
Swiftly followed by being tazered by the Mounties...
There was also the strip club/bar on the edge of town, on the left, coming in from Suffield, where the blokes heated up loonies (Canadian quarter dollar coins to the uninitiated) with lighters and flicked them at the strippers as "tips". That was another godawful, but strangely alluring, place...
Edit: Cheetahs was the name...
the old riverside (when it had a propper upstairs) and Thursday night at rockshots were my weekly haunts.
but I have very very fond memories of arcane and hullabaloo at Newcastle student union.....ah, i can almost here the fire alarm now 🙂
Some stand outs for me
Sankeys / Bugged out in Manchester
Voodoo - Liverpool
The Orbit - Morley
Oscillate - Brum
Megadogs - Leeds / Manchester
Atomic Jam - Brum
And finally a place I've been going to for about 15 years which celebrates its [url= http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?440104 ]20th Birthday[/url] this year and was intro to lots of wonderful music
House of God - Brum
On your knees, sinners! 😀
Ikon in Newcastle in the old Ballroom near the cinema and the central motorway. 90's indie nights and occasional student foam parties.
Outdoor one in athens, turned up for the best alt/electro night in the city in an amphethetre turned out it was cheese night - still a great laugh
3 story town house in hull on a work trip bouncing till 4am
+1 Planet Earth and it's revolving dance floor = just wtf was that about?!?
Not a nightclub but the Galactica raves anyone?
Amnesia House nights?
Ratty @ Shelleys?
youngrob - Member@Den - Is that Joe Paparazzi's you're talking about? I had many nights in there, or the Choice, or Tin Pan.
aye that was it, nice one- I see it did become Velvet. I remember going in there a few years after Joe Paps shut and thinking 'this layout seems vaguely familiar'...
But my home was the Stage Door.
Wednesday night was nurse night 🙂