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?

oh and Revenge in Brighton, although that was a reggae night, actually one of the best nights, love reggae.

@Rollergirl11 club uk

Zodiac?

@Jenasaurus

I did visit a couple of clubs in Oxford with my son and his friends when I visited him at Uni too, cant remember the names of them but they were different to the ones I used to go to, no slow dances at the end of the night which clubs seemed to do back in the day :)

Sorry, there was meant to be a quote there.

Zodiac, Fifth Avenue, Park End, the Dolly?

So many places I haven't thought about for ages on this thread!

Started at the Dome in Tufnell Park, to Camden - Underworld etc, then Leeds - so many clubs from indie to trance to techno but found my happy place at the Orbit (like @MsRinky) and Creamfields every year when it was one night only.

Back to London - G-A-Y, Popstarz at the Scala, Mass, Fridge, Egg, Mint, sometimes MOS. XOYO and some other random places later on.

I haven't really missed it since having children but reading this thread has brought back some brilliant, hazy memories.

Occasional trips to Kelly's in Portrush that cost a fortune were looked forward to for weeks and were such a disappointment*

I always preferred Traks. It's a factory shop now! I live in Portrush now and can see it from my living room window. Wish it was still a club!

@LolaLollypopl remember the Purple Turtle!

@stellabluesky totally!!

@Bearfrills yep l remember all of those!

Manchester mid-late 90's: 5th Ave, 42's, The Ritz, Academy, Boardwalk, The Venue and Fab Cafe. (More recently South)

Newcastle around 2000-2004: Foundation, Legends (scabby!), Baja Beach Club and World Head Quarters (30p for double vodka and coke 😝)

London 2004+: Electric Ballroom, The Gardening Club, Purple Turtle, Inferno's (l know!), The Church (more of a Sunday's drinking thing!) Koko and Underworld

Happy days! Fiancé finds it hard to believe l used to go clubbing so much

@msjuniper I can't believe someone else went to the dome in Tufnell Park! I loved that place, was just talking to my OH about it today!

Huckmuck exactly my haunts in the 80s ...we probably were friends 💕

Preston for me! If it was a Friday it would be warehouse or a Saturday squires, on a bad night it’d be lava ignite!

Ches moi in Tunbridge Wells,Tropicana and davichis..all in the 80s

Westgate run in Wakey in the late 90s.

The highlights 1988 to present:
Sterns
The Escape
Big Beat Boutique
The Manor
(Baby break)
The Manor Reunions
Clockwork Orange
We try to go once or twice a year now, love it.

Also London, mid 90’s, the Underworld, Electric Ballroom, loony tunes at the Dome, Heaven and KU bar.

Also remember the Gas Club when I was 16 and telling people the day after at school. Locally we had a BRITISH GAS social club and some kid was like “yes, I went there for my nans 70th”
Haaaaaa!!!

@LilyLocket the lea valley roller disco is such a good memory of mine, my dad took me when I was really little, I think his mate must have let me in. Glad someone else remembers it!

@zenasfuck Didn't someone get married on the stage at Peach? Or am I misremembering?

Btw, I’ve not stopped clubbing, Koko do a Guilty Pleasures night and the Ballroom have Ultimate Power and you do still get oldies like me.

Issadoras and Rock world in Manchester

But my favourite place was The crow bar in Montys in Bury .

Ex hard houser here. In London, I used to go to Bagleys, scala, Camden palace, se1, lightbox, fire, Heaven, 414, Telegraph, turnmills, George iv. Also lots of places round Sheffield eg Corporation etc and in Birmingham Sunndissential and arches.

Why are all of the SW Londoners on here pretending they never went to Caesars in a Streatham or Blue Orchid in Croydon? See also; Infernos Clapham. And The Grand. Come out, come out, wherever you are!!

Bristol in the mid 80's

R&J's
Misty's
Vadims
The Studio
Busby s
The Granary
The Tropic Club

Hahha some people on this thread went to the same uni at the same time as me...

Birmingham early 80s for me.

Faces was the best club in town. One room for the New Romantics and the other for fantastic soul tunes. DJ was Steve Dennis. Looked like a history teacher but was a fantastic dj. I think he went on to run Luminar Leisure!

Also enjoyed Liberty, Rum Runner, Barbarella’s and the famous Snobs.

I would go back in a heart beat.

I lived in Edgbaston at the time, so my friend and I would regularly walk home barefoot if we’d spent our taxi money on drinks and couldn’t cope with our heels a moment longer!

Cant believe I’m the first Dublin poster:

The Red Box
The Pod
The Funnel
Columbia Mills
The Temple
Switch

Late 90’s / Early noughties

Great days!!

Whirl-y-gig - famous for it’s parachute dance. Now the oldest club in London?
Return to the Source, the Fridge - wild trance
Cool Tan Brixton - grunge squat parties
Jah Shaka - dub, still going strong
Bagleys - many varied nights
Went to Mass once - did not like the crush on the stairwell at all.
Ministry of sound - more people posing than partying, a tourist attraction really.
Overall, great fun.