Old nightclubs never die...

[rumple]

Some good posts on here, ive actually enjoyed reading through them, ahhh when we were young.

[grumpy52]

The Greyhound between Heathrow and Colnbrook was a great gay cabaret club/disco which then became Spearmint Rhino what is it now ?

[MarshPhantom]

vixen1700 said:

http://club414.org/calendar/?event=238

Old nightclubs never die, the 414 in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton where you can get off yer nut to the same techno DJs as you did nearly 20 years ago.

Do they let old people in?

[MarshPhantom]

Sinatra21 said:

Snobs in Birmingham has been going for many a year. Big Wednesdays with 50p shots is what i remember.

I spent many a night in there in the nineties.

[MarshPhantom]

sleep envy said:

Tough call between Turnmills and The Cross but both proper clubber's clubs although a certain someone who shall remain nameless (and is no doubt reading this thread) will disagree

Shame that fking sthole Ministry is still going, Palumbo is an utter knob.

The Egg had a good vibe for a while when The Cross shutdown, now it's just full of coked up birds scratching eachother's eyes out. No thanks.

ETA

How could I forget!!

Edited by sleep envy on Friday 1st March 21:01

I used to like Turnmills.

[Driller]

Is Nottingham Rock City still there?

[davepoth]

Life Saab Itch said:

luke111s said:

Can't believe how many people on here know Cadillacs and Ponana in Bath!

...and Moles. I paid a tenner once for a lifetime membership to moles...

Classy...

Although Moles is a lot better since they moved the lavatories downstairs - the loos were directly over the stage, and always used to flood, leaking piss all over the act who were performing that night. Definitely a toilet venue.

[dave stew]

Driller said:

Is Nottingham Rock City still there?

Oh yes. I saw Big Audio Dynamite there last year.

(And I wasn't the oldest baldy there, either!)

Edited by dave stew on Saturday 2nd March 12:58

[MarshPhantom]

Wobble in Brum used to be great, as was The Dial in Derby. Both now long gone.

[Flat6er]

Flat6er said:

Birmingham late 90s, stoodi bakers, then on to Bakers on 5 ways. Tuesday nights was Jelly Baby and iirc, republic on a Saturday was Dave pearce and others.

Then at 4am, off to Wobble iirc near the Jewelry quarter with its suspended floor. And if the wheels had really fallen off the West End Bar under west mids police hq opened at 6 am. Very messy. And sundissential at pulse. On Sunday afternoon. Q club? Atomic jam?

MarshPhantom said:

Wobble in Brum used to be great, as was The Dial in Derby. Both now long gone.

Can you remember where wobble was? I seem to remember in arches somewhere out the Jewelry quarter, but memory of those days is very sketchy.

[Colonial]

Club Troppo at the Gosford Leagues Club.

You could tell who the underage girls were from the dirty knees on their white jeans...

Pure class.

[rumple]

Which nightclub in Blackburn or Burnley burnt down killing some clubbers?

[MarshPhantom]

Flat6er said:

Can you remember where wobble was? I seem to remember in arches somewhere out the Jewelry quarter, but memory of those days is very sketchy.

Branston St in Hockley. It was in what appeared to be an old factory of some kind IIRC, though my memories are sketchy.

Good times.

[Don1]

GuinnessMK said:

I too have a confession. I used to design nightclubs.

In fact I was on the original design team that brought Zanzibar to Newcastle under Lyme, where the OP met his wife.

I was early 20's, we did a lot of "research", we also attended every opening night within about 200 miles.

If it was st, tacky and OTT, it was probably one of ours!

That's just cool, in a tacky way. Nice thing to have on the CV!

[Bill]

I still go to the club I frequented in Poole twenty odd years ago. I can't remember what it was called then, but it's a kids' soft play now

ETA from just up the page:

CarlT said:

The Venue - happy times. Now a kids 'soft play area'.

Edited by Bill on Saturday 2nd March 16:18

[y2blade]

sjj84 said:

y2blade said:

BaaBaas/Works, Canterbury

Still there, renamed Club Chemistry. Think it's still owned by the same family as it was in the BaaBaas/Works and whatever the other floor was called.

Ah cool.
What happened to the club that was here? https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=nightclubs+canter...

[y2blade]

Bill said:

I still go to the club I frequented in Poole twenty odd years ago. I can't remember what it was called then, but it's a kids' soft play now

ETA from just up the page:

CarlT said:

The Venue - happy times. Now a kids 'soft play area'.

Edited by Bill on Saturday 2nd March 16:18

+1 for good times at the Venue Poole.

[Gene Simmons]

The Venue?

Was that the one at Tower park?

If so, I went there for my 18th which was 1997. I organised a minibus from Salisbury and was found passed out in a bush next to it at closing time

I vaguely recall wearing a black silk shirt with white polka dots..... Unsurprisingly I failed to pull at all

The shame

[y2blade]

Gene Simmons said:

The Venue?

Was that the one at Tower park?

If so, I went there for my 18th which was 1997. I organised a minibus from Salisbury and was found passed out in a bush next to it at closing time

I vaguely recall wearing a black silk shirt with white polka dots..... Unsurprisingly I failed to pull at all

The shame

The one I'm thinking of was the one at tower park, we used to get on the minibus from Salisbury too.

I probably pulled the girls you were after

[Gene Simmons]

y2blade said:

The one I'm thinking of was the one at tower park, we used to get on the minibus from Salisbury too.

I probably pulled the girls you were after

More than likely

At one stage I mooched over to a young lady that looked suitably desperate and inebriated, and as I opened my mouth to slur one of my less rapey chat up lines she simply looked at me and said........

"Don't bother"



Never has a put down been delivered to such devastating effect.