Nightclubs

Plaaayer said:

AFKABartram said:

NorthheathAddick said:

& the surviving ones I still like to partake as it were…😁,&  I’d also done most of the cheesy ones in Essex 

fuck that list brings back so many memories of the past & lost friends along the way…😢,& I know I’ve missed a few clubs of that list too

& this wkend as in Saturday was back in Fabric which I haven’t been to in 15yrs or around that for Peach & Strawberry Sundae…if was proper old school bangers from 1st to last & the djs & fellow ravers were on top form…n it’s back to MOS in a couple of weeks…🤪

thinking about it,how is it the fook that I’ve survived…🫣😜

Long may it continue…🤭🥳😎

What sort of age group there? It’s our season for celebrating 50ths and a club night that don’t make us feel like we’re stalking our kids would be ideal 

Went to a garage night at Ministry a couple kf years ago and that was more an older crowd. 

Epping Forest Country club was another I was talking to someone about over the weekend that was a good night when I was younger. 

Became a virgin gym in the early 2000's
was strange being a member there and seeing the old swimming pool etc

Croydon said:

One of the best clubs in London atm is in an old MOT garage on an industrial estate behind The Den. Another, Fold, is tucked away on an industrial estate in Canning Town. 

Fabric still draws great events but the crowd is too often aggy and security well OTT. 

I know the MOT place you mean, it's tiny! It's a decent venue but if that's now one of the best clubs in London the scene is well and truly dead.

Anyone go to the Hilltop....good soul and reggae nights back in the day.

Not so much nightclubs, but over the last couple of years been going to various Centreforce events, gotta say they are absolutely blinding, loads my age I would say 70%, but you are also getting a lot more youngsters. The last one I went to my sonand his mates came with me and loved it so we are doing another one on 27th December at outernet, and they have just announced one on good Friday in Dalston taking it back to the Echo's days in Bow. If you like house music, I fully recommend it

I remember going to a foam party at Amadeus when I was around 17... That was grim. 

Friend Or Defoe said:

Croydon said:

One of the best clubs in London atm is in an old MOT garage on an industrial estate behind The Den. Another, Fold, is tucked away on an industrial estate in Canning Town. 

Fabric still draws great events but the crowd is too often aggy and security well OTT. 

I know the MOT place you mean, it's tiny! It's a decent venue but if that's now one of the best clubs in London the scene is well and truly dead.

Depends what you think is good tbh mate. For me, you can't beat a small club and top sound system. The crowd is there for the music and they regularly book some of the best up and coming Djs/producers on the circuit, so the atmosphere is great. Shits all over what the mega clubs in the UK/Ibiza have become with people just there to show it on their social media imo

.RaplhMilne said:

AFKABartram said:

MrOneLung said:

AFKABartram said:

Loved all the local ones for different reasons, T’s, Zens, Bridewells, Deja Vu, Bon Bonnes, Marlowe Rooms, Venue and occasional forays elsewhere. 

Thursday nights to kick it off, then Friday and Saturday. Chuck in following Charlton home and away on the Saturday and an all dayer after Sunday morning football, you’d need about a grand a week to support all that now! 

Proper up town clubs, raves etc weren’t for my lot, occasional venture to places like Hippodrome, Fabric and bar clubs like Tiger Tiger and Buzz Bar, but that was it.

The City Bar / Clubs with dance floors were my specialism though; Mithras, Minories, Minsters / Agenda, Charlie’s, City Ale & Winehouse, Silk & Spice, Amber, Nylon….

good times 

Don't remember Mithras, but that was basically every Friday me from 1990-2006 

Mithras was a downstairs club couple of doors along from Deacons on Wallbrook, near Cannon St 

Mithras, was a wine bar in the basement / lower ground area of Bucklesbury House, on corner opposite Cannon Street station. I remember it well….. 

Sounds like the one where Del fell through the bar!

Same as everyone else,
up town: fabric, end, cable (jaded from 6am 😜) etc

 local: zens, venue etc 
add another to the mix, bar ice & various other names (like world war 3 on friday nights)

2121 said:

Same as everyone else,
up town: fabric, end, cable (jaded from 6am 😜) etc

 local: zens, venue etc 
add another to the mix, bar ice & various other names (like world war 3 on friday nights)

Where was Bar Ice? That name rings a bell 

Never really a club man - much more in to live music and The Marquee in the mid seventies was my haunt of choice.

ValleyGary said:

AFKABartram said:

2121 said:

Same as everyone else,
up town: fabric, end, cable (jaded from 6am 😜) etc

 local: zens, venue etc 
add another to the mix, bar ice & various other names (like world war 3 on friday nights)

Where was Bar Ice? That name rings a bell 

Polo bar. Become Bar Ice then The Drayman.

No wonder it rang a bell, I lived about 300yds away!

Amadeus brings back some memories,  starting out at bexleyheath at either Yates ,Lloyds or rat and parrot, they ran a bus from there to Amadeus.

Zens was alright, never did Ts despite living in erith, by time I was 18 it was called club Xtreme and had lots of problems so steered clear.

Dejavu was a bit of a dump but an easy night out, again think it was called something else, bumped into an old mate in there one night, was chatting and she was smoking, someone else got her attention so she spun around and caught her cigarette on my chin, I was known as 'Ciggy' for a while as I had a lovely scab for months.

Used to go litten tree for pre drinks until some jumped up bouncer wouldn't let me in for looking drunk when I was stone cold sober.

Venue was hit or miss for me, always quite liked sound in Leicester Square.

Then sunday morning still with alcohol in the system going to work at Morrisons, now just the thought makes me tired 

I never looked back since I joined a queue in Villiers Street one Monday in early to mid1988 for Spectrum at Heaven.

Don't get me wrong id been "clubbing" from about 85 to 88 but only Flicks and Stage 3 etc and only to get girls or just drunk. Me and my mates were into Hawkwind and Floyd and Genesis so the music had no appeal really. I even went to Caister Barry and Bognor soul festivals but again the music can piss off really, but THEN 88 happened, the music, the pills thrills and bellyaches. 

I spent decades on the dance floors, some of my highlights (most not nightclubs as such but club nights IN nightclubs if you get me):

Spectrum and Land of OZ on a Monday. Madness then 2 hours sleep and back to work.
Future at Soundshaft next to Heaven on a Thursday
Shoom  - never went to the fitness centre but was a member at Busbys on TCR   
Raid in 89 on a Friday at Limelight - My favourite club ever. Us early lot had grown up and ditched the kickers and baggy clothing and were dressed up and being adults. Oakie upstairs and Farley and Kevin Hurry downstairs.
Any Boys Own do - Especially the infamous East Grinstead marquee by the lake.
The Tunnel Club in Greenwich when it was still the Mitre. We were there every Friday and Saturday, the old jag outside, great music, great crowd. Loved it.
Downham Tavern xmas eve 88 and 89 - unbelieveable scenes for an all dayer
Bonnies on a Saturday in Southend Lane Catford. Tony Wilson on the 1s and 2s
Ibiza in 89 - Amnesia and Ku without the roofs. Getting thrown out of Pascha. Angels gay club  - the best opened at 6 am and there was a slide on to the dance floor - coo ee.

Then we decided England wasn't enough and I spent the next 4 years from 1990 in Goa for 6 months at a time. That would take me hours to explain. not a nightclub as such but my god!!!! 

From then on it was Naked Lunch, Deja Vu, Kazoo, etc

Last decade or more - Faith, Boys Own, ALFOS etc etc

I don't go out any more - haven't for years. I'm 60 next year but I've still got mates that do - their favourite right now is a space in Kings Cross like the old days, smoke strobe and acid. And a do called try outs for the human race.

Last time i went out i tried to dance and realised i couldnt be arsed      
 

R0TW said:

Greenhithe said:

I never looked back since I joined a queue in Villiers Street one Monday in early to mid1988 for Spectrum at Heaven.

Don't get me wrong id been "clubbing" from about 85 to 88 but only Flicks and Stage 3 etc and only to get girls or just drunk. Me and my mates were into Hawkwind and Floyd and Genesis so the music had no appeal really. I even went to Caister Barry and Bognor soul festivals but again the music can piss off really, but THEN 88 happened, the music, the pills thrills and bellyaches. 

I spent decades on the dance floors, some of my highlights (most not nightclubs as such but club nights IN nightclubs if you get me):

Spectrum and Land of OZ on a Monday. Madness then 2 hours sleep and back to work.
Future at Soundshaft next to Heaven on a Thursday
Shoom  - never went to the fitness centre but was a member at Busbys on TCR   
Raid in 89 on a Friday at Limelight - My favourite club ever. Us early lot had grown up and ditched the kickers and baggy clothing and were dressed up and being adults. Oakie upstairs and Farley and Kevin Hurry downstairs.
Any Boys Own do - Especially the infamous East Grinstead marquee by the lake.
The Tunnel Club in Greenwich when it was still the Mitre. We were there every Friday and Saturday, the old jag outside, great music, great crowd. Loved it.
Downham Tavern xmas eve 88 and 89 - unbelieveable scenes for an all dayer
Bonnies on a Saturday in Southend Lane Catford. Tony Wilson on the 1s and 2s
Ibiza in 89 - Amnesia and Ku without the roofs. Getting thrown out of Pascha. Angels gay club  - the best opened at 6 am and there was a slide on to the dance floor - coo ee.

Then we decided England wasn't enough and I spent the next 4 years from 1990 in Goa for 6 months at a time. That would take me hours to explain. not a nightclub as such but my god!!!! 

From then on it was Naked Lunch, Deja Vu, Kazoo, etc

Last decade or more - Faith, Boys Own, ALFOS etc etc

I don't go out any more - haven't for years. I'm 60 next year but I've still got mates that do - their favourite right now is a space in Kings Cross like the old days, smoke strobe and acid. And a do called try outs for the human race.

Last time i went out i tried to dance and realised i couldnt be arsed      
 

Excellent. Rather than Goa, mine was full moon parties in Koh Phangan around the same sort of early 90s spell.

yeah went to Thailand a few times after Goa once it got too hot. Always stayed in Had Rin.

Funny enough the year we had Man Utd in the 1/4 final i was in Phangan listening to it on the radio. Danny Rampling played the Vinyl Cafe and how good was the Backyard up the hill?