[Closed] The clubs of your youth

The mighty JB's in King street Dudley.
The Powerhouse in Brum.
The Eclipse in Coventry.
Shellys in Stoke.
Quest in Wolvs.
Loads of different warehouses around Hockley...

the d(r)ug-out bristol

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The Banshee was good.

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And The Thunderdome was the Hacienda's even naughtier little brother.
Possibly the dodgiest place I've ever been.
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Can't find any pictures of The Kitchen on Barry Crescent in Hulme, but it was two flats knocked into one and stayed open all night.
Absolute chaos, idiots from all over the city.
Messy.

Wigan Pier. Wednesday night was Alternatve Night. Never missed it.
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It's been pulled down now and the site footprint where the club used to be is amazingly small!

#edit: Ooh! The Banshee in Manchester. Had some great nights in there once cloud 9 closed down. Didn't recognise it in daylight.

Expo in Kilmarnock.

Good times

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Royales in Manchester, Thursday night Student night, 50p a pint.

Coco Savannah in Stockport. Spangly 90's nightclub at the heart of the brand-spanking Grand Central leisure complex, now knocked down...

Anyone remember the 'Seafood y'aaaaaaall?' bloke in Manchester?

Loved him to bits, but I don't know if he sold many crabstick to wrecked Mancunian youth.
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EDIT - Very, very cool Junky.
We used to split into 'couples' to try and sneak big groups in.
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Manchester: Mid 80s to early 90s. But not all in the same week.
Monday – The Ritz
Thursday – The Hacienda
Saturday – De Villes, Brickhouse, 42nd Street, 5th Avenue, Banshee, The Granby (!) and that subterranean shit hole on Whitworth Street whose name escapes me.

A couple of away days to Wigan Pier and Shelly's in Stone too, but I didn't fit in with the drug culture so packed that in.

We used to split into 'couples' to try and sneak big groups in.

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Bar only sold 2 things, bottles of Bud and lots and lots of bottles of water. Gurners paradise. I'm sort of glad it's an office block now, or I might get all nostalgic and go back there - it would probably be fatal.

^ pffft 🙄

Kirklevington Country Club, commonly known as 'The Kirk',[1] was a club in the village of Kirklevington, Yarm, North Yorkshire, which saw many of the bands of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s appearing on its small stage. These included Eric Clapton (Cream), Jimi Hendrix, [b][u]Joe Cocker[/u][/b], Rod Stewart, Moody Blues, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, ... etc. many of whom went on to superstardom.

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Grew up in K'ford Black Country so it was
Christopher's American
Eve's
Summerhill hotel

Then got a job in construction so moved around a bit so it was

Top of the town - Northampton
Forty Bridge Street
Roxy's
Some hotel club night on a Thursday - Helensburgh
The Garth Hotel
Le Parisienne - Folkestone
Pipers
Mr Smiths - Warrington
Mississippi Showboat - 50p a drink on a Thursday

Thankfully left there for Sheffield and the Leadmill became my second home before Kids came along...

Buffers and 'the pit'. Not good.

I was all about the Indie nights at Portsmouth Tricorn. Grannies, then Basins.
Oh the girls, the music, the dancing, the cider. The driving home after the cider 😯
There used to be hardly any pics of it on the web, now there are 1000s!
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And this 🙁

Floral Hall Rock nights / Manhatten rock nights Southport
Got bored with these so headed out to the 'pool to sample -
Krazy house Liverpool, mid-nineties saw loads of great metal bands there - Napalm Death, GWAR, Pitchshifter etc. Used to be the dingiest club you ever saw with low level UV lighting and a floor you had to put effort in to unstick each foot every time you moved. Just looked for pics online now and it's turned into some kind of student club with neon signs everywhere :weeps:
147 snooker club round the corner for a wind down afterwards
Basement of the Royal Court theatre Liverpool for more doom and death metal - Cannibal corpse, Obituary, Anathema, Cradle of filth (where I bought a T shirt that got me thrown out of college).

and that subterranean shit hole on Whitworth Street whose name escapes me.

The Venue?
Yes, it was awful, everyone a bit pissed off they'd not been allowed in the Hac.

I hated the Brickhouse.
The dancefloor was about the size of a disabled bog.
It's the wrong way up, ffs.

Just found this, City Life, 1984:
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Quite a few I'd forgot, tbh.

Clouds Edinburgh [url= http://www.edinburghgigarchive.com/page7.htm ]Clouds -Coasters[/url]

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All of yours lunge.... ashamed to say I also went in millennium when it was a strip club (it was that dead/I was that drunk I ended up pole dancing for the strippers who had their coats on ready to go home)

Many more clubs in Brum and Wolves to add, also that one in Halesowen...42's? For college parties

Enzos at Highpost. Some good DJs back the day.

nd that subterranean shit hole on Whitworth Street whose name escapes me.

Cypress Tavern?? Or if you fancied dodgier there was the Conti, down the alleyway...

Soundshaft near Charing Cross Road. Great little venue that was home to The Drum Club and Sex, Love and Motion...
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Before that The Catacomb above the pub at Manor House (no pics to be found, thankfully).

Later Turnmills was my fave regular London venue for a variety of night...
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Ah, The Conti.

The fantasy - full of nurses.
The reality - full of firemen looking for the non existent nurses, who seemed to roam around the gay village just up the road.
In packs usually.
Stickiest carpets known to man.

Truly, the last resort of the desperate, apart from the Ritz at weekends, obviously.

We don't talk about it. It's the rules.

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The International, Roots, Cosmos and in this pic it's called the Phoenix Club - it burnt/was burnt down, but a "likka peyint" and it reopened a few weeks later smelling somewhat of smoke.

Attracted a friendly crowd of criminals, prostitutes, dealers, locals, a few brave students and the occasional young middle-class lad whose school friends lived round the corner. Music was excellent. Then across the back to Cliff's blues...

The fantasy - full of nurses.
The reality - full of firemen looking for the non existent nurses, who seemed to roam around the gay village just up the road.

oh shite, the Cypress Tavern - brain bleach needed

The Venue. That’s the one.

I hated it. The smell of sweat, alcopops and stale piss, the fact that the DJ booth needed safety glass, the scaffolding robot thing, the prospect of a hideous death if there was a fire but mostly the disappointment of being there in the first place with a pack of desperate mates who mostly didn’t want to be there either. If you went to The Granby/Cyprus Tavern you had already set your sights low so absolutely everything good that happened was a bonus, same with The Conti. Had some wild nights there 😯

We used to go to The Venue because one of my mates liked shagging but wasn’t fussed about quality or putting in any ground work. 8 cans or Red Stripe and a shag. That was his perfect night out. The easiest place for him to score was The Venue, and we’d go because he’d pull his face and whinge and moan if we went anywhere else. He used to hook up with the same girl, who looked like a midget female Bernard Manning, in there every time we went. To the extent that the place became known to the rest of us as “Little Bernard’s”. If he had asked her out or gone on a regular date with her then fair enough, but he had to drag all of us along and “accidently” bump into her.

I gave up on going out with them and formed a splinter group that used to hang about in Corbieres, dressed in our tweed jackets and black roll neck sweaters. Looking cool.

My mate eventually changed his ways after many, many years of bottom feeding and fell for an absolutely fantastic lady who he is now happily married to. But I’ll never forgive him for the Summer of The Venue, despite it being nearly 30 years ago.

Couldn’t be doing with The Boardwalk either.

Have to admit all my youth clubs were a bit hazy, lots of [b]E[/b]motion, happy care free days driving round the country looking for the all nighter after the club that may not even be there!!
Lived on the Wirral -
Atmosphere in Birkenhead 88-89ish when they had dance nights..Sasha even played there!
Pleasuredrome Birkenhead - good little local dance club late 80s early 90s
The Basement Birkenhead....now that was a health hazard but a great laugh
Moved to Stoke to Uni-
Entropy in Longton (S-on-T), loved the place, the music, the atmosphere
Shellys Stoke - was a great club but just not my cup of tea, not enough females (I always went tro Entropy if possible, bothe Shellys and Entropy within walking/floating distance of our student house.

QUADRANT PARK II......went to Quad Park most Saturday nights....those of you lucky enough to have experienced it on the right pills will realise I'll never be explain if properly! Was never to fussed on Quad I but quite often it was Quad I straight to Quad II...weekend over!!

oh they were the days!!

“Little Bernard’s”

...causing pain to my bruised ribs 😆

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A few more that have sprung to mind:
Liberties. For a while they did a £15 all you can drink night. As you can imagine, carnage ensued.
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And of course, the Dome II. Monday nights were student nights, and with the right token it was 50p a beer. Fridays were 70's night, horrific. Saturdays were dance night, the music was better, the clientele much worse.
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And finally, The Canal in Wolvo. Used o go to Miss Moneypenny nights there, cracking night out of memory serves,
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For the Brummy's amoungst us, [url= http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/65-birmingham-pubs-clubs-you-9410918 ]this[/url] article is worth a glance

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Hac
Quadrant Park Bootle
Shaboo
Hacketts
Oz
Shellys
Bowlers
Monroes Great harwood
Angles Burnley.
and lots and lots of warehouses around Blackburn / Sett End.

Pik n Mix

Knew one of the three lads who built the Republic, sadly not long after it opened two of them got ousted by the money man behind the project (local scrap dealer) and the rest was history, he ended up back in Ireland driving buses but it was fun whilst it lasted

The Neon Teepee

Youth? That would have to be Hollywoods (as it was then) in Ipswich with Liberty as a fallback if I didn't fancy the walk out of the centre of town.

Both are closed now thank gods, they were wretched places and I hated having to conform to a dress code.

When I lived in Hull this place when I was about 15:
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This place when I was a little older:
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The first one was truly awful. The latter is comedically awful; good music, very random drinks.

Sadly, both now long gone.

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Usually used to meet in a service station and end up in a field!

My God!

Spiders in Hull!

Did a year at BP up the road as part of my degree and visited Spiders a few times. Mostly went to the Student Union though.

The Que Club Birmingham was epic in the 90s.
Atomic Jam for Techno & Spacehopper for Psychedelic Trance. Words can't describe how awesome those nights were.
(I'm in this video!)

Spiders in Hull! Did a year at BP up the road as part of my degree and visited Spiders a few times. Mostly went to the Student Union though.

From the age of 16 we managed to get hold of SU ID for Hull Uni and used to go to the bar there if we were in that part of town for some reason. Everybody knew we were local kids not students but seemed to think we were from the rough end of town and as such didn't want any trouble; obviously we weren't.

Thursdays were trance night at the Coven, Oxford. Friday nights were Final Frontier at Club UK, Wandsworth (Jeff Mills, Dave Clarke, Coxy). Saturday and Sunday were for feeling quite fragile.

I lost some time in Bagley in my early 20's
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Interesting to see what it looks like after being abandoned:
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ChrisHeath - i was going to post both of those.

very fond memories of a under 18 hip hop event at the riverside, and sweat dripping from the ceiling at shindig. very vivid memories of the drop and the Rez at the mayfair.

both sadly missed

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The Blue Note in Derby.

Which if you google it you'd think would make the the hippest hipster in the world. Previous managers went onto manage the Hacienda in it's heyday, Robert Plant, New Order, Bo Didley, Soft Cell all played there.

But in the late 90's it was where you went to stick your feet to the floor and ruin any shoes that weren't matt black, the music was basically "student union alt-night, for everyone", lots of indie, D&B etc. The sign above the bar resd "Blue Note, where the staff are cheap and the drinks are easy".

I can't figure out if some of the reviews on the website are either from the 80's before I was born or it's latest incarnation as a upmarket hipster club, because it certainly isn't the club I went to!

Phono in Leeds, spent most of my youtful years lurking there and scaring shoppers in the Merrion Centre at 4pm on a Saturday afternoon and the goths emerged in a cloud of patchouli and dry ice.

Later in life the 1 in 12 in Bradford was always a good night.

franki - Member

The Que Club Birmingham was epic in the 90s.
Atomic Jam for Techno & Spacehopper for Psychedelic Trance. Words can't describe how awesome those nights were.
(I'm in this video!)

Colin Faver and Sven Vath must have been quite a night!

Buffers - Ulverston
Scorpios - Barrow
Martinis - Barrow
And the pièce de résistance - Princess Selandia - Barrow's finest. Only went about three times cos it was expensive to get in.

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Knew one of the three lads who built the Republic, sadly not long after it opened two of them got ousted by the money man behind the project (local scrap dealer) and the rest was history, he ended up back in Ireland driving buses but it was fun whilst it lasted

I owe them a lot, that club was my life! Every Saturday on the railings without fail.

I used to work there!

The Phono!

Just realising how extensive my knowledge of is of

- Leeds clubs from end 70s (Warehouse - actually used to go out with the aim of dancing, unbelievable),
- Manc clubs start of 80s (after the Hac opened but before it went dance),
- Shef clubs through early to mid 80s, Limit, Leadmill, Josephines, that place by the Market, shitty little blues down near the Hangover accessed through a domestic garage. All of them basically.
- Istanbul clubs through later 80s can't remember names but let me tell you about dodgy
- Hull clubs, I say clubs, the Welly and Spiders, latter good for chocolate milk with four shots of brandy and that's about it, and a fight with my girlfriend on the way home. Yes I had a girlfriend by then. Lost the fight, not remotely an even match. Now married.
- Liverpool clubs and dives of the later 80s - Cream when it was top two floors of some offices or whatever. Excellent jukebox. Also Peter Kavanaghs etc
- London clubs of the late 80s, hazier knowledge. Beat Route. Not v good. Anyone remember Sun of Redneck off lower oxford street? Total carnage, though not that big a deal to lad who'd who'd survived the Gaiety (Leeds, beers served through metal grill). Christ, the Labrynth, Hackney, round the corner from where we lived.

Then we had kids. The end.

At least I've some vague recollection of how I wasted my life. Thread's brought back memories. In 1979 this is where you'd go if given the ticket for a party. No jeans or trainers.

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Can't find any pictures but the Zoo Bar/Tramshed in Halifax was where I grew up in the early 90's.

2 adjoining clubs or 1 club split in half, 1 side (Zoo Bar) Rock Club the other side (Tramshed) dance club. It was great. Mosh for a bit then dance for a bit and repeat......

Brilliant thread.

My contribution: Remix Dance Club, Bournemouth 😯

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Right, now I've had a think...

Picture house, millennium, all the bars on the waterfront, the shed, 42's, the Dorch, baker, Stoody bakers .... Right that's all the crap ones ..

Progress, Sundissential, Gatecrasher, Miss Moneypennys (Bonds, The Church and Canal club) regular, Big industrial until off foxes lane in Wolves used to do Clockwork Orange there iirc. Wobble, erm I know there's more but can't think
Happy days!

I'd forgotten about Wobble used to go there after the Institute when there were no unlicensed party's going on in Hockley.
Little known fact Dirt had their launch party there.It was a bit shit.

Houns, if you were in sunnies enough there's a fair chance I'll have chatted complete shite to you at some point.

I still have my progress jacket as well.

Thursday nights at heaven under the arches

AWOL at that place near the angel on Saturdays

Those were the ones we kept going back to

A place called The Office in Cockermouth.
Newcasle Riverside & Sabresonic in London .
Happy days.

Manchester: Mid 80s to early 90s. But not all in the same week.
Monday – The Ritz
Thursday – The Hacienda
Saturday – De Villes, Brickhouse, 42nd Street, 5th Avenue, Banshee, The Granby (!) and that subterranean shit hole on Whitworth Street whose name escapes me.

A couple of away days to Wigan Pier and Shelly's in Stoke too, but I didn't fit in with the drug culture so packed that in.

Almost exactly the same as me but I'd add Konspiracy and Sankies Soap to the mix. Which was the one that 808 state dj'd on Saturdays? Was that the Venue? Downstairs, no regard to getting out if it went pear shaped, stupid hot, pipes all over the place?

Went to the Que Club a few times and remember it with genuine love - had just fantastic times. No idea who played there.

The Crypt - Hastings
OZ - Plymuff
Legends of the dark black - Dance Academy, Plymuff

The Mission and the Venue in Edinburgh. (back when the Mission was in Victoria Street- before it became Espionage- and the Venue existed). And the Attic and Sneeky Petes as backup plans.

This turned out to be pretty useful... my mum and dad did not approve of me going out a-drinking, but one day I was saying where I'd been the night before (the Mission) and she goes "Oh! The place on 3 levels? That used to be called the Place, I remember scoring purple hearts in the toilets there... Uh, forget I said that last bit..." Nope, don't believe I will.

Oh, and worked in the horrendous Jaffa Cake- but that had its upsides, got me in with a lot of deranged bouncers which is always useful, and I got to see a load of bands from the booth- Mogwai, Uresai Yatsura, Tindersticks, the Divine Comedy with Michael Nyman, the Wannadies... had fun trying to stop Faust burning the place to the ground... Midge ****ing Ure! Almost made up for trying to police the place on a "20p for a shot of tequila" night

Goldsmith's Dudley!! Best known for holding a Peter Andrex night and load turned up thinking it was going to be Peter Andre...lol

Jesters (Stourbridge) once was enough...strolled in in my chinos, sat down, some rocker used my leg to dry the bottom of his pint glass....time to leave! lol

Christophers American (kford)

42nd street (Halesowen) Best known for it's Student parties and fluorescent lighting, which meant get your white top on to stand out... had some proper great nights in there!

All the MerryHill Waterfront bars, in their hayday, up there was heavenly!

Picturehouse (Stourbridge) worked in there first 16 weeks it was open.

The shed in brettle lane.
Rothchilds in Stourbridge.
McCoy's in Stourbridge.
The fox at Stourton.

God, I really am old...

Leeds and Bradfordistan for me, although the memory is now a little hazey.

Dollars and Dimes, Mecca(which became something else), Phono and Top Cats in he Merrion centre. (actualy worked in all of them).
Batley Variety Club, Dewsbury.
Various shitholes in Bradford
Pheonix bar in Chapletown and two others in Harehills one Irish themed, one Black themed, that were open through Sundays when everywhere else was shut.
Upstairs Downstairs in Armley for the guaranteed nookey.

With hindsight they were all crap but pre internet seemed ok.

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Roxy's in Sheffield. And I'm pretty sure I fell out of most of these: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/ten-legendary-sheffield-bars-and-clubs-of-the-1990s-1-7513958

I'm also told by a mate that we saw Def Leppard in a dive bar called the Wopentake around the same time. I have very hazy memories of that, but that might have been the same night I discovered you could mix spirits and beer in the SAME GLASS 🙂

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Of course, if you weren't a **** you'd head to Thursdays or the Escape instead 8)

Was that the Venue? Downstairs, no regard to getting out if it went pear shaped, stupid hot, pipes all over the place?

Yep. Down a flight of steep stairs about 2ft 6 wide with a few 90° turns thrown in. Imagine a couple of hundred pissed teenagers in the dark escaping smoke and flames! It makes me shudder.

Of course, if you weren't a **** you'd head to Thursdays or the Escape instead

Nah.

It was all about Martine's, New Yorks/McCluskeys or the Pier!

I bounced at the Pier for a while, and picked up a barmaid from McCluskeys one night....That led to many an interesting tale...! 😀

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Bakers, top of Broad Street 😀 went to many others in Brum late 90s early 00s but can't rEmember much. Bakers was always the fallback for a good night.

Was in there one night and the lights went out, Marcella Woods came on stage with Matt Darey in the both, performed Beautiful live, the place went mental 😆

Happy times....

Wow, some happy Brummy memories here, I've almost certainly shared a room if not a conversation with a lot of you.
Sundissential at...Pulse, Que Club, DNA
Gods Kitchen at...The Institute, Air, Code
Poly Sexual at...Code (I think)
Various filthy nights at The Rainbow
Slag at...Steering Wheel
Moneypenny's at...Bonds, the Canal and Bobby Browns maybe
General Trance nights at...Bakers, Stoodi's, The Church
And the odd away fixture at Storm or Passion at...the Emporium at Coalville

Happy days.

Jesters? I remember the Uni girls used to come up and introduce themselves to you in there.

Plaza/hard times in Huddersfield.

Gemini club in Huddersfield. It was a gay club and did a cracking dance night once a week.

Hacienda? Yep. Picadilly21's - could be quite nasty in there on occasion.

New York's in Southampton (shudders).

My all-time fave though... Barfly/Monarch Camden 8)

Im too young to have a clue what any of you are on about

I spent most of my youth dancing in a field but I'm pretty sure I did go to some clubs in the Aldershot/Guildford area in the late 80's/early 90's but I just cant remember, either old age or I'm mentally suppressing something?

Samantha's - Exmouth

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