What was your local, shit club that you frequented in your youth?

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Nc for this one 😁

Mine was Langtrys in Beckenham. Absolute shit hole. We used to get in from 15 years old as the bouncers just asked for our date of birth and star sign! Would sneak bottles of wine in hidden in the lining of coats. Loads of weird, pervy men. Constant fights. I shudder to think of dd in that environment but 13yo me thought it was amazing.

Another on I remember late 90s was under the arches at London Bridge station in a club called Happy Jax.

The vibe was amphetamines and lager, and they played only nosebleed hardcore and happy hardcore. Full of Bermondsey boys and had proper gangsters on the door. Everyone gnashing their teeth and rather angry looking. Christ knows how we got out of there unscathed!

Ah Blackpool clubs of the 90's 😊❤️
Yes The Bizness, Main Street underneath it with double your money and lethal steps on the dance floor or down to the ladies 🙈
Nights used to be Yates', Counting House and then Main Street, The Bizness or my favourite The Palace! Loved it, including the foam parties getting covered then trying to get home all sticky from the foam with the nightclub beat still pounding in my ears 😆

Ritzy at the top of Liberty shopping centre in Romford. I think it was seen as a bit classier than Hollywood's. Remember the "walk of shame" down the stairs and past the queue for the underaged people being turned away 😂

My DH thanks you for this! He'd been desperately trying to remember the name of the club by Purley/Reedham which he frequented regularly!

And he mentions Easy Street in Croydon?

Exact same! The Counting House - completely forgotten about that.

Sometimes it used to be the Hogs Head and then Scrooges - I think it was Scrooges? - and then go hang out at West Coast Cafe where my brother worked until it closed, then onto the Palace.

I left Blackpool in ‘99 but there used to be a club that was where the Blue Room was? I think it was called that - right in the centre of town. And then that new massive club opened nearer the football ground.

We also used to go on Yo Mo Fo nights and you’d pick up dodgy tickets from that posh clothes shop that was on the corner as you came into the town centre on Church st.

@TwoRockSalmonAndAHaporthOfChips Golddiggers was brilliant back in the 80s when Branson owned it, and all the Virgin bands played there. Dancing at Diggers, and drinking at the Rosie and The Bit On The Side. Happy days.

@spenn not the one near Corsham?! 😱

Hollywoods in Romford on a Monday was fabulous! I still miss it. Huge range of alterntive/underground music and a real mix of people who were for the most part decent and respectful. They were very lax on ID - normal for the 90s though I think - I went from age 14.

@Feelingitnow the Leeds club of revolving dance hall fame was The News/Planet Earth/Baja Beach Club which was under the Queens Hotel

Leeds clubs of my youth -

Very young (as in 13 😂) Panama Joes that had a well deserved rep of letting anyone in. One of its later reincarnations was Yel Bar where Mel B of the Spice Girls used to work. Its USP was that it’d play certain songs (such as YMCA) and the staff would get up on the bar and dance. I think the female staff may have worn swimsuits too, although the men wore shorts and T-shirts😳

Still young (as in not strictly old enough to drink) Confettis that became a Ritzy, and has been incorporated into a bigger club called Pryzm by adding an old Barclays Bank building onto it

Mr Craigs which was all black and silver and dead sophis 😂 which also was reopened many times and still a bar now.

Maddisons, which had a bar underneath called Sunset and Vine. That was demolished and now an office block

Over 18 - Majestyk which was a massive old cinema and now the Channel 4 HQ, and Jumping Jacks next door

Warehouse, which was all about the acid house. I wore a smock and kicker boots with a whistle round my neck 🙈. I’d smuggle my clothes out as my dad wouldn’t have let me out of the house like that. Sensible man 😂

Fruit Cupboard. Loved it there!

Foxes which was out of the town centre so a lot easier to get home. It’s a Wetherspoons now.

Some real dive in Chapeltown which was a lot rougher then than now as it was a right light area back then. Again this was without my parent’s knowledge 😂 It was a massive converted house with an in and out drive where the taxis would pull up, and the bouncers would walk you to them . I can’t for the life of me remember it’s name but it was possibly on Francis Street if anyone remembers it?

@GorgeousLadyofWrestling Ah yes Scrooges!!! Where I think most of us all started our underage drinking 🤣 their strawberry wine was absolutely lethal and I recall the landlady was not to be messed with! Little booths and candles in wine bottles 😊❤️
And West Coast! I remember being fairly sober and falling down those stairs in my ridiculous platform heels 😆
I don't remember Blue Bar though... may have had my favourites by then.
I never went to Oz on the pier, I think it had a rough reputation (may not have been deserved, don't know), I did head to Rumours periodically (was it Rumours? Opposite where Yates' was)

The Stepney one was called Sorrels or Sorels. Thinking about it, it could have been part of Stepneys. I had to walk behind a pub to get in which was probably the George Inn so that fits. It's 40 years ago now so my memory is a bit sketchy.

We may or may not have known each other or even been friends!

Oh god the landlady at scrooges was absolutely terrifying.

Never went to Oz either - was just never on my radar.

Blackpool was such a funny place to grow up in.

@Ozgirl75 it's a cafe/restaurant/bar now. Haven't managed to get over there yet but by all accounts it's lovely. They've kept the staircase that everyone used to snog under 😆

Yes! I know it now. It was part of the George pub in Commercial Road at the junction of Jubilee Street. I lived a couple of streets along from there. Happy days! 😂

@ohfook you’re obviously younger than me as it was Bentleys (and Bentley Boppers for the under 18s) in my day. By age 17 we’d moved on to the Blue Monkey which was a complete shit hole.

I vividly remember falling over on the revolving dance floor on the Tuxedo Royal / Princess in the early 90s and not being able to get up.

Underage - Josephine's in Harrogate. 10p a pint night and bouncers who also thought "what's your star sign?" Was adequate ID check. It was basically only underage kids and got closed down pretty quickly, whereupon we relocated to Jimmys. I still miss that place.

And I can't believe noone has mentioned La Rocca in Bristol. Small, sweaty, smelly with mirrors and the cheesiest music known to man

God, I forgot about Manchester’s Press Club. Harder to get in than the Bank of England’s gold vault, and when you did, you were welcomed by sticky carpet, fairy lights and flock wallpaper. But the bar was open until 5am…

@frenella libertys then it became JFK on washway road. I totally forgot about that place!

I used to love
Royales & Piccadilly 21s in Manchester
Also The Brassiere in altrincham.
Ahhhh good times. I miss Royales.

Yup 😂 that one and also Golddiggers

@Suzysuz
I can't think where Easy Street was, possibly what become Bogarts/colosseum/walkabout?

I was at Langtrys too. But we used to
go out in Bromley - Jazzmins (jazzmingers) where legend has it Robbie Williams turned up once.
Bibas and also further out the Drop zone in biggin hill which was truly terrible and got burnt down I think ! I remember they played who let the dogs out there a lot ……

Forgot twilight's in Sydenham and Bon Bonne in Herne Hill - memory’s unlocked 🤣

Buckley Tiv?

@CourtneeLuv
The Yates bus from North Finchley!!! Remember it well!!

Used to go to Destiny in Watford (was also called Kudos at one point). Also Eros in Enfield. And if we were in central London, it had to be Roadhouse or Strawberry Moons, or sometimes Cheers where Pat sharp would DJ!! The good old days!

Oh and Hombres near a Oxford Street. What a dive.

serious question- do these kind of clubs still
exist?? In my 40s now so it’s been a while 😂