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

402 replies

ShitMumsClub · 27/11/2022 22:38

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.

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Costacoffeeplease · 28/11/2022 11:24

Blazes in Windsor?

MeMyBooksAndMyCats · 28/11/2022 11:25

Liquid. I loved it they never IDed me, was clubbing there from 16. Drinks were £1!Some very happy drunken memories there. If only the walls could talk. Grin

Clubs these days aren't the same!

C102 · 28/11/2022 11:31

Martines in East Grinstead! Thursday nights - the whole year group from school was there.

And there used to be a club that played 80s music in East Croydon...before it was Reflex - can't remember the name now!

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Armychefbethebest · 28/11/2022 11:31

mackthepony · 28/11/2022 01:28

Panama Joe's
Smackwaterjacks

A prize to who knows which shit town they were in!

Those were the days

Burnley haha Pànamas is long gone but smacks is still kicking haha

Youredaft · 28/11/2022 11:33

Far from shit but - Jillys in Manchester- I’d dance my arse off from 9pm-7am every all nighter from the age of 15, my angelic looking mate once got in with her school library card 😆

WHY DID THEY HAVE TO SHUT 😭

DialSquare · 28/11/2022 11:33

Unicorn2022 · 27/11/2022 23:49

So many! Charlie Chans in Chingford, Hollywoods Romford, Dukes in Chelmsford, Ritzy in Tottenham, Faces Ilford, Time and Envy Romford, Pzaz in Grays. Dozens more - I used to go clubbing at least three times a week.

Most of these plus The Epping Forest country club also previously mentioned. But before all of these in my actual youth it was Lipsticks in Limehouse, Guccis in Hackney and one in Stepney that I just can't remember the name of. It's driving me mad!

feejee · 28/11/2022 11:35

illbeinthegarden · 28/11/2022 07:52

The Garibaldi and Tiffany's!! If you know you know 😀

I was more The Brunswick of a Friday and Peggotys Saturday.

ByTheGrace · 28/11/2022 11:38

Peppermint Place in Blackburn (dress code - dress casual, but with style 🙈🤢) it was renamed Utopia and the Cats Whiskers in Burnley (saw Nick Kershaw there!)

jonnyjannoo · 28/11/2022 11:40

mrsfollowill · 28/11/2022 00:06

I'm not naming the one I went to (North West UK) but they had a 14-18's night every week and served alcohol to everyone! no ID checks ever- so I was 14 and hammered every week- this was mid 1980's- don't think they could get away with it these days- also it has shut down as a club - has been 'apartments' since the 2000's
I proper loved those nights out though Grin

Oooh I'm so curious about this one!

Alwaystired99 · 28/11/2022 11:42

@HairyMcLarie , ah pomaigne yes! I remember a drunken coach journey there once when at uni. It was terrible. There was also 50/50 night at RG1s wasn't there? 50p a shot/ pint.

Underage was Bondage Whorehouse (Bonding Warehouse), now flats in York. Was more a pub than club but I couldn't stand Ziggy's.

StrictlyCandelabra · 28/11/2022 11:44

In my Teens:
Harpers, Bojangles and Cinderellas in Guildford
Junction 45 and The Big Apple in Woking.

Uni days
The Theatre in Wandsworth
hippodrome and the other one in Leicester Square that’s name escapes me but think it started with E and was the other side of the z a haagan Daz shop.

when I was visiting my cousin we’d go to Kitty’s in Kircaldy

I loved clubbing. Lol

jonnyjannoo · 28/11/2022 11:44

WrongLife · 28/11/2022 06:35

Underage would have been Ziggys on Micklegate in York. All you can eat perverts and 14yo girls.

Uni years, one that has already come up, Kickers at Clifton Down. You could crunch across the broken glass. Lizard Lounge on the Triangle was marginally better, but there wasn't much in it

Ziggy's was one of my student haunts. It's recently been renamed back to being Ziggys again. Ah, memories!

FrazzledMCPremenopausalWoman · 28/11/2022 11:45

mackthepony · 28/11/2022 01:28

Panama Joe's
Smackwaterjacks

A prize to who knows which shit town they were in!

Those were the days

Buuurnleh 🤣

BloodAndFire · 28/11/2022 11:47

HuntingoftheSnark · 28/11/2022 07:16

Ruby's in Carnaby Street
Car Wash in London somewhere

Early 90s.

The only places I recognise here 😁apart from Heaven (which was not shit!)

I also went to the cabbage patch, borderline, feet first, looney toons, whirlygig, escape from samsara...

ladycardamom · 28/11/2022 11:47

Millionaires in Redhill. Cinatra's in Croydon. Sometimed Crystals after watching Wimbledon play at Selhurst park. Blue Orchid on Purley Way - my mum and dad met there when it was Cindarella Rockafellas in the 60's. Da Vinci's (was that Horley?), Martines, I think in East Grinstead. Liquid & Envy in Crawley. Vaults in Kingston. Used to go Thurs, Fri & Sat night.. how did we do it???

DialSquare · 28/11/2022 11:48

Sorrels! It just came to me!

PeloFondo · 28/11/2022 11:50

I virtually lived in Atlantis, was in there the night of the shooting
Ikon, jumping jax
Tokyo jos
Squires

Sure people will guess where it is!

pellythefamouspenguin · 28/11/2022 11:52

ByTheGrace · 28/11/2022 11:38

Peppermint Place in Blackburn (dress code - dress casual, but with style 🙈🤢) it was renamed Utopia and the Cats Whiskers in Burnley (saw Nick Kershaw there!)

Peppermint Place was ace! I got chucked out once for sneaking booze into the under 18s disco Grin.

For lowest of the absolute low of shit clubs, there was Sutty's in Mill Hill in Blackburn. I went there maximum twice and if was bloody awful and a little bit scary!

Lonelycrab · 28/11/2022 11:53

Brighton, early 90s.

Sister Rays, little indie place

Hungry Years, rock/metal place almost opposite the pier.

pellythefamouspenguin · 28/11/2022 11:54

PeloFondo · 28/11/2022 11:50

I virtually lived in Atlantis, was in there the night of the shooting
Ikon, jumping jax
Tokyo jos
Squires

Sure people will guess where it is!

Preston? I don't recall Atlantis or a shooting so i think you're quite a bit younger than me...

Crimbodrama · 28/11/2022 11:55

Eros in Enfield
Jumping Jaks in Ilford
Shannons in Seven Kings

All shocking shades of shite :D

Comedycook · 28/11/2022 11:55

Blue orchid in Croydon..

Zens in Dartford....went when I was 18 and felt like the oldest person in there!

Or we'd go 'up town' to Equinox in Leicester Square

AndrewGloubermanisaperv · 28/11/2022 11:58

JockTamsonsBairns · 28/11/2022 10:46

No "shit club" thread is complete without a mention of the Savoy Club in Glasgow, known locally as the Suave Savvy.
Could only be outdone on the shit stakes by my local nightclub the Sunset Boulevard (the Bully) in Clydebank. Fights every night, and plastic tumblers. Fun times.

The Savoy for me as well , but when we were under 16 if you defo wanted guaranteed entrance we also went to the Sun Club, we were also a fan of Clattie Pats.

camelfinger · 28/11/2022 12:02

Chuckling here at the idea of people willing to to go a place known as Shites for a night out. I love how the names were trying to sound exotic, but were generally known as something do to with fights/underage drinking/sexual acts/smells. Seems that every town had somewhere!

HeadacheEarthquake · 28/11/2022 12:04

Oh god, Inkerman Arms if you were underage, The Park or The Whitehouse if you weren't, then off to The Edge or Liquid. Name the town.

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