Night Clubs you frequented in your youth...

[dellzeqq]

The Babe was a clubber of some distinction. Always getting in to fights. Me, I was away as soon as I could get the dough together, so my clubbing was pretty much confined to the Sunset Strip. In that forgotten time zone known as 'soft rock'. You missed nothing....

 

[Dave5N]

Barq I think you might be right about subway city. I used to go there int he mid 90s, not to gay night (which was a Friday) but to the House of God, which was there on a Saturday night for a short period of time.

I was very into clubbing for a couple of years on the Birmingham dance scene which used to be really big. There was...

House of God (Dance Factory then subway city)
Ultimate Orange (Que club)
Atomic Jam (Que club)
Oscillate (Dance factory and que club)
Spacehopper (Que club)
Third Eye (Que club)

Before that there was an industrial/goth club which used to be called Death Culture, then became Contamination, which was good fun.

That's about all I can remember...

Kirstie, you forgot the coolest ones - Crunch, Wobble, Sundissential

Then there was Circo - not a club - but a good place to be, there was also Dusk till Dawn...

 

[ComedyPilot]

Pascha - Dortmund - New Wave
Hades - Dortmund - New Wave/disco
Powerpub - Dortmund - All Sorts
Memphis - Dortmund - Punk Gothic etc

 

[Sittingduck]

Cheese:
New York New York - Southampton
IKON/DIVA - Southampton
The Academy - Southampton

Proper:
Jolly's (aka the Purple Penguin) - Southampton
Rhinos - Southampton
The Oprah House - Boscombe (Bournemouth)
Camden Palace - London Town


The mid/late 90's on the South Coast... Happy Days indeed

 

[arranandy]

Rhapsody - Glasgow
Sub Club - Glasgow
Fury Murrys - Glasgow
Henry Afrikas - Glasgow
Strathclyde Uni - Glasgow
Bonkers - Glasgow

More happy memories I remember going to a Southern Comfort promotion night at Strathclyde Uni. I think it was a £1 a time, I was very ill the next day and I haven't drunk Southern Comfort since despite this incident being over 20 years ago

 

[Flying_Monkey]

OK, the fridge is better known, but the others are way too druggy for all the lentil powered pootlers that post here

That´s what you think. Of course I knew the Coven (and most of the other venues in the city - I even had a go at promoting some gigs and club nights (it was a miserable failure) - and the Oxford scene was pretty much powered on lentils, you would probably have to try very hard to find a more obvious bunch of hippies. Sorry to disappoint you!

Like Kirstie I occasionally used to frequent the House of God in Brum, although techno and gabba were not really my scene. My favourite clubs ever were (I am sorry to say) Club Dog (late Mega Dog), various events at the various squats that made up Cool Tan in Brixton, and (much less sorry to admit!) Jah Shaka´s nights at The Rocket. Awesome.

 

[Abitrary]

Trade @ Turnmills.
Heaven
Naughty but Nice, Crystal Rooms, Hereford.

hehe, I heard you

 

[zimzum42]

That´s what you think. Of course I knew the Coven (and most of the other venues in the city - I even had a go at promoting some gigs and club nights (it was a miserable failure) - and the Oxford scene was pretty much powered on lentils, you would probably have to try very hard to find a more obvious bunch of hippies. Sorry to disappoint you!

Like Kirstie I occasionally used to frequent the House of God in Brum, although techno and gabba were not really my scene. My favourite clubs ever were (I am sorry to say) Club Dog (late Mega Dog), various events at the various squats that made up Cool Tan in Brixton, and (much less sorry to admit!) Jah Shaka´s nights at The Rocket. Awesome.

As ever, lighten up! only having a giggle.

Starting to wonder if I recognize you for a reason what with some of the venues you frequent. If you start mentioning the SOAS bar (interestingly Nirvana's first UK gig was there, and it was also the old venue for Aba Shanti-I and Jah Shaka) I'll get really worried....

 

[iGaz]

Probably the best name for a nightclub I've ever heard.

And probably the best nightclub I ever went to as well! Best thing is, it's still going!!!! Bet it's still playing RamJam as well,,,,,,

 

[Kirstie]

Kirstie, you forgot the coolest ones - Crunch, Wobble, Sundissential

Then there was Circo - not a club - but a good place to be, there was also Dusk till Dawn...

They were the house clubs. Definitely NOT cool if you were a techno kid like me. No no no no no. Full of cocaine fuelled posers.

I've had a few good nights on the vodka in Circo, don't remember dusk till dawn. To my mind that's an over night mountain bike race in Thetford Forest every october..

 

[Dayvo]

Definitely NOT cool if you were a techno kid like me.

I thought you were a ska-star!

 

[Kirstie]

I thought you were a ska-star!

LOL My techno days were roughly 1994 - 2006 and I still like it. Since then I've branched out into other music genres because I listened to nothing but dance music for 12 years!
Now I listen to stuff with guitars and singing in and everything!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Did anyone else frequent Fox's, The Silver Web ("the Web") and Picasso's in Wolverhampton in the early '90s? Horrible dives, all of them (and the Web was actively dangerous, holding approximately 100 000 students in a third floor room designed to hold, ooooh, twelve people), but I had some fun there.

 

[topcat1]

lyceum strand
camden palais
hammersmith palais
cats whiskers
epping forest country club

 

[snorri]

I don't think they had night clubs when I was a youth.