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Plastic Red. Widows and wankers night my mate called it.3
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May have been La Rascasse. French restaurant, the food was really good in there actually but they had a bar next door which shared the toilets to the restaurant. Remember being in there for a meal with my wife about 9-10 years ago now on a Saturday night. The first two courses were really good but then the bar turned the volume up next door. That was bloody loudKarim_myBagheri said:Remember going to the rasclat or something like tha?? Near Beckenham junction. Used to have a tapas meal there and after the kitchen stopped it then became a sort of a club. Main thing I remember as someone who's not the tallest I felt like a hobbit in there. Used to think everyone in Beckenham was some some how related to giants. I'm 5'8 btw.
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Had a good few Saturdays at Twilights, as I remember £20 or £22 drink all night inclusive and food if a party.Alicanteaddicks said:Sorry if I’ve missed it
but anyone remember Twilight’s
think it was up Sydenham Hill
used to be quite lively early 90’s
You could start off with those larger beer glasses and carry on regardless. One occasion found mate asleep on one of the sofas near the entrance, those were good old days!1 -
That was at the Marlowe Rooms wasn't it? A few of my Sidcup/Welling based mates went in there a few times, supposed to have had a worse reputation that in the Millers in Bexley Village.stop_shouting said:Plastic Red. Widows and wankers night my mate called it.2 -
Lucky HR didn’t find out.bobmunro said:Alicanteaddicks said:Sorry if I’ve missed it
but anyone remember Twilight’s
think it was up Sydenham Hill
used to be quite lively early 90’sIn the early-eighties I worked for Pearce Signs and a crowd of us went to Twilights for a night out. That night I had my first dance with a young lady who was a colleague at the company. Three years later said young lady had her hen do there a week or so before she made me the happiest, and luckiest, man in the world (will be 39 years next April).So you can imagine, I have very, very fond memories of Twilights3 -
Restaurant with club underneath in Blackheath Village many moons ago.Went regularly with my wife early 90s.
My mate Benny used to have quite an influence on who was allowed.
Straight in through front door of restaurant, then down a flight of stairs.
For the life of me, can’t remember the name of the place0 -
Cave Austin?4
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I’ve done most of the Brixton clubs,see my long listed post…forgot a few as mentioned but other peeps have been listing, missed Jamm visited fair few times & my 2nd home was the 414…😁Karim_myBagheri said:An area that hasn't been mentioned is Brixton. I didn't know many clubs there but went to the windmill and more cluby the Brixton jam. Have a few stories about the jam but none of them nice.1 -
Cinatra's Croydon - £10 to drink as much as you like and a buffet included too. Climbing over the bodies draped on the steps on the way out at the end of the night was always a bit of a challenge.1
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Sign of the times. Interesting article on how the world is now:
Tokyo Industries CEO – ‘Saturday afternoon is the new Friday night’, ‘traditional nightclub format less relevant now’: Tokyo Industries chief executive Aaron Mellor has said Saturday afternoons “are the new Friday nights”, and the traditional nightclub format is “less relevant now”. Tokyo Industries operates 47 mainly nightlife venues in the UK, and 19 internationally, but has started to explore different dayparts. “Saturday night has always been the busiest night, but the change we’ve seen recently is Saturday afternoon is our second biggest session, so we’ve had to retrain staff,” Mellor told the Propel Multi-Club Conference. “Saturday afternoon brunch was always seen as an inconvenience as you prepare for the big Saturday night session, but now Saturday afternoon is bigger than Friday night, so we’ve split Saturday into two, with a brunch session until 8pm and then a late-night session. Having a split shift is the only way to do it as Saturday afternoon is now such an important session – you’ve got 50-60 years olds thinking they’re still in The Hacienda in 1998! That generation is still partying like crazy, it’s a ritual for them, but Millennials and Generation Z are not going out so much, so you’ve got to create reasons for them to do so. We’ve got an ageing demographic, who are still partying like it’s 1990 but doing it at 4pm and then wanting to get to bed early.” Mellor previously told Propel that Tokyo Industries has been forced into the festival models as top DJs are now too expensive for nightclubs. Expanding on where the nightlife industry currently finds itself, he said: “I think the traditional form of large box nightclubs is probably less relevant now than it has been in the past – and trying to get that volume of people into a nightlife space is difficult. But there will always be demand for that music integrity, and I think there always be a need for that. Whether those people will go out every single weekend is a different matter, so you have to kind of refocus and pivot the operation week by week. The original nightclub model is flawed. You can no longer have a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night with a £300 DJ and expect people to flock in. If you stay true to music and culture you will always have an audience as there will always be people who want that. We’re in a very on-demand universe now where everything is on your TV or mobile phone, so you have to get people out of the house, and culture does that. I think that’s the only way we can get through late night. You’ve got to have some other thing than just going out and having a drink.”
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R0TW said:Restaurant with club underneath in Blackheath Village many moons ago.Went regularly with my wife early 90s.
My mate Benny used to have quite an influence on who was allowed.
Straight in through front door of restaurant, then down a flight of stairs.
For the life of me, can’t remember the name of the place
The Cactus Pit, mexican restaurant upstairs and ropey club downstairs. Fine for a late night drink, but that's about it.0 -
Got tix for a night at The carpet Shop, never been there, anyone been?0
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Karim_myBagheri said:Remember going to the rasclat or something like tha?? Near Beckenham junction. Used to have a tapas meal there and after the kitchen stopped it then became a sort of a club. Main thing I remember as someone who's not the tallest I felt like a hobbit in there. Used to think everyone in Beckenham was some some how related to giants. I'm 5'8 btw.
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Did you climb the ladder at Pearce signs?bobmunro said:Alicanteaddicks said:Sorry if I’ve missed it
but anyone remember Twilight’s
think it was up Sydenham Hill
used to be quite lively early 90’sIn the early-eighties I worked for Pearce Signs and a crowd of us went to Twilights for a night out. That night I had my first dance with a young lady who was a colleague at the company. Three years later said young lady had her hen do there a week or so before she made me the happiest, and luckiest, man in the world (will be 39 years next April).So you can imagine, I have very, very fond memories of Twilights0 -
You’ll love it, I always get laid when I goEugenesAxe said:Got tix for a night at The carpet Shop, never been there, anyone been?6 -
Never read this thread before - been to a lot of the clubs mentioned, including Happy Jax, Millwall fan. Remember walking home from there one night back to eltham, and loved every minute of it - poor mans marching powder - apart from the clubs, who did the raves where you only found out at the last minute where they were, listening to sunrise and centerforce for the info - ended up in some right old places - a huge warehouse in brixton one week and Leysdown beach the next. 1988 changed things from a beer and a pull to something quite different. Brilliant music, brilliant times but you had to get out of that scene at the right time before everything turned to mush.1
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London Bridge to Eltham? Jesus That’s a bit of a trek. We just used to hang around like a load of vagabonds waiting for the trains to start running again.DOUCHER said:Never read this thread before - been to a lot of the clubs mentioned, including Happy Jax, Millwall fan. Remember walking home from there one night back to eltham, and loved every minute of it - poor mans marching powder - apart from the clubs, who did the raves where you only found out at the last minute where they were, listening to sunrise and centerforce for the info - ended up in some right old places - a huge warehouse in brixton one week and Leysdown beach the next. 1988 changed things from a beer and a pull to something quite different. Brilliant music, brilliant times but you had to get out of that scene at the right time before everything turned to mush.0 -
it wasn't the norm, probably why i remember it - think we took a detour via greenwich park as well - lets just call it a magical mystery tour !!MillwallFan said:
London Bridge to Eltham? Jesus That’s a bit of a trek. We just used to hang around like a load of vagabonds waiting for the trains to start running again.DOUCHER said:Never read this thread before - been to a lot of the clubs mentioned, including Happy Jax, Millwall fan. Remember walking home from there one night back to eltham, and loved every minute of it - poor mans marching powder - apart from the clubs, who did the raves where you only found out at the last minute where they were, listening to sunrise and centerforce for the info - ended up in some right old places - a huge warehouse in brixton one week and Leysdown beach the next. 1988 changed things from a beer and a pull to something quite different. Brilliant music, brilliant times but you had to get out of that scene at the right time before everything turned to mush.1 -
One that hasn't been mentioned is the crypt under a church in deptford - anybody go there? Friday nights was a Zepplin / Hendrix type night, Saturdays was a house music night1
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Went to a few pukka raves in Heaven under Charing Cross. Later found out it was a gay club, that’s how out my nut I was.3
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Went there once to see The Troggs in the early 80’s. Loudest concert I’ve been to, it was painful and my ears were ringing for ages afterwards.DOUCHER said:One that hasn't been mentioned is the crypt under a church in deptford - anybody go there? Friday nights was a Zepplin / Hendrix type night, Saturdays was a house music night
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Some nights were just proper club nights and not particularly a gay vibe.ValleyGary said:Went to a few pukka raves in Heaven under Charing Cross. Later found out it was a gay club, that’s how out my nut I was.Used to go Bedrock (Sasha and Digweed) there which was awesome0 -
Walked to the City a couple of times when we lived in Well Hall Road....but not in the dark....lovely pub crawl starting at mid-day and getting to the city around 7.DOUCHER said:
it wasn't the norm, probably why i remember it - think we took a detour via greenwich park as well - lets just call it a magical mystery tour !!MillwallFan said:
London Bridge to Eltham? Jesus That’s a bit of a trek. We just used to hang around like a load of vagabonds waiting for the trains to start running again.DOUCHER said:Never read this thread before - been to a lot of the clubs mentioned, including Happy Jax, Millwall fan. Remember walking home from there one night back to eltham, and loved every minute of it - poor mans marching powder - apart from the clubs, who did the raves where you only found out at the last minute where they were, listening to sunrise and centerforce for the info - ended up in some right old places - a huge warehouse in brixton one week and Leysdown beach the next. 1988 changed things from a beer and a pull to something quite different. Brilliant music, brilliant times but you had to get out of that scene at the right time before everything turned to mush.0 -
Then they walk all over you.DaveMehmet said:
You’ll love it, I always get laid when I goEugenesAxe said:Got tix for a night at The carpet Shop, never been there, anyone been?0 -
It wasn't gay every night. Great place.ValleyGary said:Went to a few pukka raves in Heaven under Charing Cross. Later found out it was a gay club, that’s how out my nut I was.0 -
Boomshanka. My mates do. I loved it. Especially being refreshed stumbling around people’s gravesDOUCHER said:One that hasn't been mentioned is the crypt under a church in deptford - anybody go there? Friday nights was a Zepplin / Hendrix type night, Saturdays was a house music night0 -
munch some rug too?DaveMehmet said:
You’ll love it, I always get laid when I goEugenesAxe said:Got tix for a night at The carpet Shop, never been there, anyone been?1
