Your most memorable nightclubs

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.

Pretty sure that was at The Void.

I used to go to North, a Hardcore Techno night, on the Friday.

I also used to go to Bowlers, but for Compulsion.

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

Yes, to both.

Just had a think and it is really difficult to pick out a top 5, let alone a favourite of all time.

The Bomb in Nottingham for the Tyrant nights with Sasha.
The Emporium in Coalville when Passion and trance was huge.
The End in London on a Wednesday for Fabio’s Swerve DnB nights.
Fabric in London for the breaks nights on Fridays.
The Sanctuary in Milton Keynes for Dreamscape.
Heaven in London, can’t remember what the night was but it was great.
Victoria Warehouse Manchester for Happy Mondays, I still love a dance in a dirty warehouse even now.

Hacienda
Jilly’s
Crystal Rooms, Hereford (Sticky Carpets as it was know locally :D)
Abergavenny Hotel (late 80’s had a club in the basement)

Unless i’ve missed it: Mr Smiths…warrington, and mississipi (sp?) showboat in the same town, cinderellas/rockerfellas chester, Leadmill (sheff watching daisy chainsaw/ sheep on drugs). others in sheff that i cant remember 7th heaven doncaster i think, Hacienda, Mersey view (frodsham) and many other proper grotty dives up to and including Quaffers (god knows where is was as i was pissed up on the way on the bus..)

I’m a student, so the most recent one normally.

Monday – Ritz with Mark Gannon.
Tuesday – The Banshee on Oxford Road, 42nd Street or a gig at Band on the Wall, Boardwalk or the Gallery.
Wednesday – Hacienda or Berlin, maybe DeVilles or the Venue for a warm up.
Thursday – Jilly’s, The Banshee, The Gallery or The Boardwalk.
Reggae at Band on the Wall. Maybe 5th Ave or 42nd Street.
Friday – Band on the Wall again or The Venue. Hac now and then.
Saturday – Jilly’s, Banshee, maybe The Continental for pulling nurses.
Sunday – That Rock club above the Uni, up the escalator.

Plus Corbieres and The Beer House for a warm up, International for gigs.
Not forgetting the Sporran and the Press Club for afters.

For those with somewhat harder tastes:
Q-Club in Brum, specifically Sundissential.
Storm at The Emporium in Coalville
Gods Kitchen at The Sanctuary in Brum
Bakers over 5-Ways in Brum, though that tended to me very tracey

On a cheesey, bad but good because you are young way:
The Picture House, Stourbridge (met Mrs Lunge there)
Millennium by Merry Hill, my first trip to a proper club
The Dome in Brum, the student nights were incredible
Legends in Northampton, I spent most of my student loan there even though it was £1 a drink.

more memories for the Glesga crew, from my student days

Tin Pan Alley!
The Volcano (as featured in trainspotting)

and, anyone remember that one on sauchiehall st that I think is now the garage or was velvet rooms, had an amazing laser show, closed about 1992 though….

London-
gotta be Chemical brothers at the heavenly social..
regarding turnmills, has anyone ever entered and left by the same exit on consecutive visits? they seemed to mix it up just to confuse the punters.

Jacqueline’s in Ross
Gas in Cheltenham
Kandi Klub in Brizzle
Dome in Brum

Once went to the ‘U-club’ in Frankfurt, that was memorable for being so shite! The beer was flat and overpriced, you couldn’t move, the staff were uber-rude as were alot of the punters, we had to clear off before we started knocking heads together 😡

For some reason I never made it to the Omen club in the same city tho, regret that a bit…

Anyone go to the Orbit versus Omen weekends??

In Plymouth:
The original Candy Store / Ritzy’s
JFKs
Both on student nights. Awesome times

Rusty Spanner – Looking at your itinerary there, I’m pretty sure we must have bumped into each other at some point fella 🙂

Gods Kitchen at The Sanctuary in Brum
Bakers over 5-Ways in Brum
The Dome in Brum

I’m surprised we havn’t met before that night ride.

What was that night called in bakers that Dave Pearce played at every week? I think it was a Saturday night. I used to go to that every week without fail at one point.

A couple of years later I was in Rosie’s in Sutton Coldfield at least 3 times a week. That was a proper sticky carpet club but good fun.

Hacienda

Spider Galaxy in Zurich
Labyrinth in Zurich

I_Ache, no idea of the name of the night but I know my mate was called something rather rude by Mr Pearce for putting his pint on the DJ booth. Those nights were very hazy.

banshee in manchester

and some place called zodiac in oxford

i forgot

TNT in Manchester about 14 year ago

Atomic Jam at the Que Club in Birmingham
Orbit in Morley
Sanctuary in Milton Keynes
Bowlers in Manchester
A night we put on in Bentham Town Hall.

🙂

lunge

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 – Member

CaptainFlashheart – 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 4×4 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