When and where were your clubbing days?

[Rollergirl11]

London based for me. Started off in places like SW1, Club UK, MOS, The Satellite Club, Cafe de Paris. Then progressed on to The End, Turnmills and Fabric via Bagleys and The Cross.

I have so much nostalgia for those carefree irresponsible days pre children. I have continued going to gigs and festivals but haven’t set foot in a club for a long long time. I think it would be a totally different vibe nowadays with everyone totally preoccupied with their phones.

What were your favourite venues/club nights?

North London, mid-to-late 90s.

Started off at indie nights, particularly at Highbury Garage. For a long time went to Full Tilt at the Electric Ballroom because I liked the dressing up but was waaay too part-time to be a goth.

Also did techno/trance nights like Escape from Samsara and Pendragon, the odd acid-techno squat party (did my last one of those when 5 months pg with DD!), breakbeat and house nights at Turnmills, the End and Mass. No particular night at which I was really a regular though, I was only out for a big night once or twice a month at most.

The original gatecrasher in Sheffield in 99/20 which led to road trips to Leeds sundissential, I think one in Birmingham (logo was little red & yellow stickmen type figures, held in an old theatre I think), Peach somewhere random. Did a couple in London in 02 but wasn't into the scene as much by then.

Was a Crasher Kid in the uv paint, pipe cleaners, shiny outfits my mum made me. Sparkly Buffalo trainers.

Such good weekends!

Always wanted to do to Ibiza but never had the money unfortunately.

oh, and paradise lost in Watford

Batchford Hall out near St Albans too

@PuppyMonkey I loved Leadmill when I was at uni, £1 for a double vodka mixer on a Monday I think

@BogRollBOGOF the Irish!!! Used to go every Friday night in 2005/04

Then we started going to cookie club or rock city.

Nottingham early 90's.
Rock City (Thurs-Student night)
Cookie Club
Hippo
The Irish (Sat night)
Venus once or twice but I was more of an Indie kid!
Just brilliant memories.

Oh Thurs was Dance night at Ritzy Bolton
Fr/Sat was either Manchester at Discotheque Royale or Hacienda or various places around NW Tokyo Joes In Preston or a place in Oldham can’t remember the name.
Then Tavern on the Hill Bolton Sunday.

Loved it.

@Lonelycrab

So many stairs!

Sigh, take me back there now

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Oh I love this thread!

I must have been clubbing around the same time as you, OP... ClubUK, Bagleys, The Cross, The Gardening Club (?)

I also remember one-off club nights I went to but can't remember the name of them... Boy George DJd at one.

I was an indie kid in the 90s in London. Collide-a-scope, Popscene, Club X. Gigs at the Astoria and club night after. Happy days.

1990's Reading. Utopia. Used to do 70's night on Fridays. It's an Ikea store now.
Further into Reading was Washington Heights. Now turned into flats. Brilliant, the best years of my life.

The Cross

Turnmills

Astoria

La Scala

Heaven

@AgadorSpartacus was the Oldham one Butterflies?

For me, Manchester late 80s - Hacienda, Brickhouse, 5th Avenue, student night at the Ritz, Boardwalk, Konspiracy, Devilles, with occasional trips out further afield to Quadrant Park in Liverpool or Shelley’s in Stoke. Happy days.

Helter skelter at sanctuary/rollers milton Keynes

Yes! I went to a few of these. Loved old skool d&b. Nicky Blackmarket, Hype, Brockie, etc.. So old now i can't even remember them all. But i kept my tape packs

I never realised The Sanctuary was knocked down..that's so sad .

Remember the dodgems and finding a lovely young man who kindly showed me the way to the cafe so i could have a nice cup of tea!

@Littlepond I remember hearing about Popscene. Did it have something to do with or did it become Trash with Erol Alkan?

@2020times - it was but apparently Fab is still going strong. Too old for clubbing now though!

Late 80s and early 90s Manchester, Hacienda, Ritz on a Wednesday, the Academy, the Venue, Brickhouse, 42nd Street, Fab Cafe. Those were the days !

@RedRec

Norwich, early 80s. Tudor Hall, Samson and Hercules, and the Jacquard Club if you were a bit edgy. Happy days.

Oh the jacquard!

Voodoo at Le Bateau in Liverpool, Cream occasionally. When I moved to Hull for uni, it was Eat Your Words and Enigma, with a trip to Morley every couple of months for The Orbit.

Newcastle. Maddison's night club. 1990 's maybe.
Then that awful floating boat later that decade..
Dobson's,the Big Market.

Mawbags yassss me too. great days x

Aaaaah memories.

At uni in Sheffield so Gatecrasher, the Arches, Niche, afters at Utopia, good times. Went to Birmingham a few times, House of God, Godskitchen, Sundissential, free parties, ending up round some random house at the end of the night

Slinky at Bournemouth

Age 16