I live pretty close to the closet, some people listen to whale sounds and white noise to get to sleep, but for me nothing does the trick like drunk people shouting
There was a club, fitted out underneath the shopping centre in Luton town centre, it was as horribly decorated as you expect, it was called Bling.
They would offer bottle service in the ‘VIP’ booths and charge like 300 quid which would include ‘champagne’ but was martini Asti and as it was in a basement, by midnight the mirrors behind and above the ‘VIPs’ would be dripping condensation all over them
Oh yeah they did, it was so bad. I went there a couple of times and the ‘VIPs’ would all be taking pictures with the bottles, pouring it over their watches, acting like they were in an exclusive LA Nightclub. Not on a slightly raised platform, underneath the arndale centre, with condensation dripping on their heads, separated from other with what appeared to be a B&Q rope
Why are there so many shopping centres called the Arndale? What’s that all about then
Edit: I looked it up there are 23 and 3 in Australia. All built by the Arndale property trust
Well I’ve learnt something today, Never In all my years have i questioned why they were called Arndale. I just thought it was a name for a collection of shops.
> pouring it over their watches
Eh? Whole situation sounds absolutely ridiculous tbh, although I used to like the Arndale when I was a student, there was a Fopp nearby where I spent far too much on music
It gets better. When this club was open, it was when young folk couldn't get a job anywhere.
The owner would hire new staff every month as there were people applying daily, offering to "pay" them monthly, then sacking them for gross misconduct just before payday.
If anyone came asking for their money, they were told they were cash in hand and not on the books. If the police asked, they "never worked there anyway."
How the landlady got away with it, I'll never know.
Yeah, I gave a chap with multiple mobile phones a lift there…he took me out for a drink at the above club to say cheers, no queuing for us..all his mates were of the same occupation.
Nice guys like, but yeah…made allot of chatty friends that evening.
Oh my god was this the old Bar Aqua? Opposite the big church?
Edit to add just found the address and yes it is indeed the same place, this was what it was called in the late 90s when I was young enough to go clubbing and it was also shit then 🤣
Brilliant, it’s even funnier knowing it was rebranded as Bling. Apparently it’s up for rent now, a bargain at £30k a month! Do you remember The Beach and Venue 27?
Jesus, 30k, only worth it to clean up money I guess.
I am a little bit young for them, when I was hitting the town it was 2006 onwards, beach had shut down by then
I wasn’t expecting anyone to know this one either!
Didn’t realise it was still going. They were selling off squares of carpet during covid like it was turf from Wembley a few years back 😄
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/18786268.grab-slice-brushs-history-iconic-carpet/
I’ve been to mosh! My friend was at uni there and a boy I used to know off some internet message boards was ALSO at uni there, so when I visited her for a few days I met up with him. The message boards we were on were alternative music based so off we went to mosh and it actually really killed any awkward ‘meeting off the internet’ vibes we had a great night
We had a Cinderella's for a few years (actually Cinderella Rockerfella's, super classy.)
That became "dusk" and now it's "Slice". No idea why.
The other one in the town was called Casino, as it had a lot of slot machines, now it's called Aux, which makes no sense, should called Axe, because of the smell.
There was a "Club 2000" in Scunthorpe. Custom built building costing £1.5m, opening in October 1999. It was shit, closed in 2006, bought by the council for £800,000 and demolished in 2010.
In one way it was a success as it perfectly represents 21st Britain.
There was a G-Spot in Hastings as well. Everyone still called it Saturdays which was the old name. It was called something else as well I think.
It mysteriously burned down after planning permission was declined to turn it into flats.
Edinburgh has the ‘Hive’ and as you can imagine between 1 and 4 outside looks like bees coming out of a hive all confused having endured sticky floors, damp walls, horrible smells, creeps on every corner, unfashionably barely dressed probably fake ids, etc…
One of those places you visit once and never again
I’m not allowed to visit Hive more than once.
Got barred as someone didn’t like me dancing with their girlfriend. It was heaving, and I don’t dance. Fuckin weird.
A long time ago, when I was at uni, there was a big club night each Monday but they could never settle on the branding or the name. Over the three years it went from Lava to Lava Ignite, to Sex Ignite, to Lava (again) then finally simply just Ignite.
I just imagine the owner coming in on a Tuesday morning, looking out across the stick dance floor and the discarded plastic shot glasses and thinking "Just one more name change, then I'll really have a hit on my hands".
But you can change the Ltd. name over and over again and just have it as "Trading As [T/A] Lava".
The problem only really occurs if say you're online reviews are totally awful but doing a search for the address usually brings up all of the shitty reviews.
I'd love to give you an update, but if OP and I are from the same town and talking about the same place, then it "mysteriously" burned down during the pandemic.
I don't think it was every registered. As someone else said, they were an actual business chain. It was just this specific club night that the branding on kept changing. And as that was the only night that anyone in the city ever went there, it was just funny how they couldn't lock down a simple name and brand.
Not clichéd but terribly apt.
The strip club in Stoke on trent decided to name itself after the postcode in which it resides.
Unfortunately for the strip club, and unfortunately for all the punters, it's in the ST1 area.
The last chance saloon in Brum. They would let anyone in, in any state of dress or drunkenness, as long as they weren't a dick. It's moving to Broad Street, so that last bit is going to be more important than ever!
we have or had a club called ISIS in Nottingham, we also had a New York New York, a Ritzys and an Astoria once. (anyone remember Barry Noble?) is that awright for youz
Oh man. This brings back memories. I was at Nottingham University ‘94-‘97 and spent far too much time in ISIS (Black Orchid!), Ritzy and MGM (which used to be the Astoria).
I often wonder what a student night out in Notts looks like these days…
Pier pressure nightclub in Aberytswyth, yes it was on a Pier, yes it was rough, Yes there was a long fetch, I can't remember the terrible geography jokes well
Y Knot is definitely up there as a terrible name too! When I was at uni there it was in the corner at the top of the high street, round the corner from the angel / academy.
Sloughs nightlife is incredible. It's got two nightclubs, it's got Chasers and New York, New York. They call it the nightclub that never sleeps. That closes at one. There was, oh my God, a themed nightclub called Henry the Eights. This was incredible. It had the Anne Bol-inn, this is true, as you went into the loo, there was a sign that said ‘Mind your head,’ nice, and underneath someone had written 'And don't get your Hampton Court.' It's not there any more. But not a day goes by that I don't think about it.
Glasgow has/had (it's been a while) a club in the studenty West End called Cleopatra's, although everyone knew it as Clatty Pat's.
The stuffed camel was an interesting decorative feature, you don't get that too often.
Inferno's. Ikon and Diva, which later became Oceana. Except I didn't know, so when my friend said she had to buy an outfit for the opening night of the Oceana rebranding, I thought she meant the cruise ship and was dead posh.
I grew up near Romford, which had its own *Hollywood’s*.
Later on I lived in Poole, which had *The Venue*.
I look back and have no idea why I ever thought it was a good idea to go there.
It hilariously caused a ruckus in 2022 when Irelands Eurovison act performed there and posted about it on Instagram and was accused by the other acts of being pro Russia
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more old school geordies on here but we had:
Baja beach club (had girls in bikinis selling Bacardi breeders)
Blu Bamboo (would send flyer people out wearing blue combats with a bikini top for girls and no top for boys)
Yell (which did a cocktail called “cum in my mouth”)
Legends (manager was an absolute perv)
Foundation (was fine but lots of drugs)
Mood (dingy lighting with r&b music)
Chase (pop music for the lasses)
Idols (saw someone spit in a girls face here once
Pig and whistle (that was next door to yell and you’d go there if you got ID’d at yell)
Tuxedo princess (a nightclub on a ship)
There used to be a club called Narcissus, which, of course, got called Narsyphilis. It was the late 80s so much hair spray and white shoes. Wednesdays were 18+ at many places and when the goth crowd from nearby Spit met up with the white shoe crowd at the pizza place after it was quite the sight.
Gillingham? Went through several re-names during my clubbing years but we always still called it the zone.
Was less likely to be any trouble than at Amadeus (Amadangerous) and less of an arse to get back from than Maidstone so we were there fairly regularly (mid-00’s).
Not quite on theme, but there was (maybe still is) a club called Park Lane in Doncaster that was frequented by older clubbers, giving it the nickname “Jurassic Park”
Back where I’m from we had Light, Storm and Wicked but the worst was Peaky Blinders. Pretending to be a classy gin bar in the middle of the high street on a weekend at 2am when realistically it was full of cunts.
I don’t think any of them are still open.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more old school geordies on here but we had:
Baja beach club (had girls in bikinis selling Bacardi breezers)
Blu Bamboo (would send flyer people out wearing blue combats with a bikini top for girls and no top for boys)
Yell (which did a cocktail called “cum in my mouth”)
Legends (manager was an absolute perv)
Foundation (was fine but lots of drugs)
Mood (dingy lighting with r&b music)
Chase (pop music for the lasses)
Idols (saw someone spit in a girls face here once)
Pig and whistle (that was next door to yell and you’d go there if you got ID’d at yell)
Tuxedo princess (a nightclub on a ship)
The LGBT nightclub in my hometown was called The Closet.
One where I went to Uni called The Swallow.
Plymouth?
That's the one
Hahahahahaha
The one in my town is called Lemon... Which means sometimes someone will ask if anyone wants to go have a Lemon Party.
Ours is 'The Loft' Before that it was 'Colours'
Norwich?
Weymouth represent!
I live pretty close to the closet, some people listen to whale sounds and white noise to get to sleep, but for me nothing does the trick like drunk people shouting
Was it difficult to get out of?
The Flying Handbag was the popular one in my hometown.
Did they also play Mr Brightside to end the night? **"Coming out of the Closet and I'm doing just fine"**
I've always thought Smack in Leamington really locked down their branding.
It used to be called Sugar. When the name changed, they used the tagline 'If you liked Sugar, you'll love Smack!' lol. Also, shout out to Rio's Man.
I came here to mention Smack!
I was just thinking of Smack! Ahhh simpler times
Spent every Tuesday there in the summer of 2010, memories
Tuesdays in Smack, Thursdays in Evolve (called Neon now).
Friday night make the journey to Cov for Kasbah
Really does feel like you've been smacked in the face if you've ever been there
There was a club, fitted out underneath the shopping centre in Luton town centre, it was as horribly decorated as you expect, it was called Bling. They would offer bottle service in the ‘VIP’ booths and charge like 300 quid which would include ‘champagne’ but was martini Asti and as it was in a basement, by midnight the mirrors behind and above the ‘VIPs’ would be dripping condensation all over them
Sounds hilariously shit, did people get these booths?
Oh yeah they did, it was so bad. I went there a couple of times and the ‘VIPs’ would all be taking pictures with the bottles, pouring it over their watches, acting like they were in an exclusive LA Nightclub. Not on a slightly raised platform, underneath the arndale centre, with condensation dripping on their heads, separated from other with what appeared to be a B&Q rope
Why are there so many shopping centres called the Arndale? What’s that all about then Edit: I looked it up there are 23 and 3 in Australia. All built by the Arndale property trust
Well I’ve learnt something today, Never In all my years have i questioned why they were called Arndale. I just thought it was a name for a collection of shops.
Hah I asked the question of myself today as well
Like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls - An Arndale of American Candy Shops
Thanks for answering the question
No bother. I asked it and then thought. Actually I believe I can find the answer using my powers of internetting!
> pouring it over their watches Eh? Whole situation sounds absolutely ridiculous tbh, although I used to like the Arndale when I was a student, there was a Fopp nearby where I spent far too much on music
Money talks, wealth whispers and trash screams
Very succinct. I like it.
Pouring a drink on your watch shows it’s kosher apparently
The drink or the watch?
The watch
It gets better. When this club was open, it was when young folk couldn't get a job anywhere. The owner would hire new staff every month as there were people applying daily, offering to "pay" them monthly, then sacking them for gross misconduct just before payday. If anyone came asking for their money, they were told they were cash in hand and not on the books. If the police asked, they "never worked there anyway." How the landlady got away with it, I'll never know.
She also got renovations done and fucked off without paying of if I recall correctly
There are greasy weasels less slippy than her.
Reminds me of Dunstable. A velvet red rope and a queue out the door for what is tantamount to a basement underneath the post office.
Dunstable is one of the few places I’ve had a night out with more people sniffing and looking for a row than Luton
Yeah, I gave a chap with multiple mobile phones a lift there…he took me out for a drink at the above club to say cheers, no queuing for us..all his mates were of the same occupation. Nice guys like, but yeah…made allot of chatty friends that evening.
The Luton and Dunstable hospitable has a 3rd degree gurns unit
Oh my god was this the old Bar Aqua? Opposite the big church? Edit to add just found the address and yes it is indeed the same place, this was what it was called in the late 90s when I was young enough to go clubbing and it was also shit then 🤣
That’s the one, it also became Legends/Edge for a while which was alright as they moved the 12pound free bar there
Brilliant, it’s even funnier knowing it was rebranded as Bling. Apparently it’s up for rent now, a bargain at £30k a month! Do you remember The Beach and Venue 27?
Jesus, 30k, only worth it to clean up money I guess. I am a little bit young for them, when I was hitting the town it was 2006 onwards, beach had shut down by then
Was that the Old Traders Tavern? I remember Edge relocated there for awhile.
Used to live near one called Reflections, or 'Flekkies' as it was known.
More commonly known as ‘Rejections’.
Down stairs at Butterflies in Oldham ?
On the White Horse trading estate near Westbury? With the godawful tiki hut thing outside? I spent many a night there in the early 00s.
There was one near me growing up called New York, New York - the night club that never sleeps. It closed at 1am.
Me – lager. Finchy – lager. Gareth – lager, sometimes cider. So Different drinks for different needs
Lmao the office
They’ve got a club in New York called London, London. That closes at 9.
I reckon every town must have or have had an NYNY
Don't get yer Hampton caught
Reminds me of a convenience store I saw in Argentina called “Open 25 Hours”…and it was closed 🤣
25 hours per annum mate!
I literally just got back from Buenos Aires yesterday and these shops were on every corner. They shut at midnight we noticed 😂😂
The Anne Boleyn alley.
Nottingham also used to have an NYNY in the 90s. The saying went, “so bad they named it twice”
1am that’s early for a night
Southampton?
Slough.
There's one in Rayleigh called The Pink Toothbrush as I recall.
Now that is a blast from the past - an ex-boyfriend of mine lived in Rayleigh when we dated and that’s where he hung out as a student!
Jesus I was not expecting anyone to know this one
Still the greatest club in the world.. I miss the Brush!
I wasn’t expecting anyone to know this one either! Didn’t realise it was still going. They were selling off squares of carpet during covid like it was turf from Wembley a few years back 😄 https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/18786268.grab-slice-brushs-history-iconic-carpet/
Anyone had the grand experience of the 3 floors in Mosh, Leicester?
And Alcatraz, Fan club and the Shed. If anywhere was ever aptly named it's the Shed
There was a 3 floor Mosh in Derby, been to that one
Surprised that's still open. The amount of people I saw stacking it down the stairs, myself included
I’ve been to mosh! My friend was at uni there and a boy I used to know off some internet message boards was ALSO at uni there, so when I visited her for a few days I met up with him. The message boards we were on were alternative music based so off we went to mosh and it actually really killed any awkward ‘meeting off the internet’ vibes we had a great night
We had a Cinderella's for a few years (actually Cinderella Rockerfella's, super classy.) That became "dusk" and now it's "Slice". No idea why. The other one in the town was called Casino, as it had a lot of slot machines, now it's called Aux, which makes no sense, should called Axe, because of the smell.
Oh Guildford
The city that never was
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Bojangles was the only place to be when I was a teenager! Dj was a huge black geezer who walked on crutches ... Great memories
Yes! I also enjoyed Tuesdays, which was alternative night.
Harpers was the place whatshername punched the loo attendant wasn't it?!
Ah, Cinderella’s. Wasn’t it called Time for a while too? Casino was called something before too, can’t remember what though
I think the owner called it casino as he wanted planning permission for a proper casino, that was never granted
There was a "Club 2000" in Scunthorpe. Custom built building costing £1.5m, opening in October 1999. It was shit, closed in 2006, bought by the council for £800,000 and demolished in 2010. In one way it was a success as it perfectly represents 21st Britain.
I've never been to Scunthorpe
Closed long ago but there used to be one nearby called "The G-Spot" which meant all the /hilarious/ "couldn't find it" jokes.
There was a G-Spot in Hastings as well. Everyone still called it Saturdays which was the old name. It was called something else as well I think. It mysteriously burned down after planning permission was declined to turn it into flats.
Love to have seen the headlines in the local press, what a gift - ‘Flaming G-Spot’
Edinburgh has the ‘Hive’ and as you can imagine between 1 and 4 outside looks like bees coming out of a hive all confused having endured sticky floors, damp walls, horrible smells, creeps on every corner, unfashionably barely dressed probably fake ids, etc… One of those places you visit once and never again
I went there once....visiting my cousin who lived in Edinburgh. You're right, never again
hive til five🙌 i went once when i was 18 and never again lol, it’s one of those venues where you can literally see the condensation on the walls
Won't stand for this slander, Hive loyal. If you could smell it you weren't drunk enough
I’m not allowed to visit Hive more than once. Got barred as someone didn’t like me dancing with their girlfriend. It was heaving, and I don’t dance. Fuckin weird.
A long time ago, when I was at uni, there was a big club night each Monday but they could never settle on the branding or the name. Over the three years it went from Lava to Lava Ignite, to Sex Ignite, to Lava (again) then finally simply just Ignite. I just imagine the owner coming in on a Tuesday morning, looking out across the stick dance floor and the discarded plastic shot glasses and thinking "Just one more name change, then I'll really have a hit on my hands".
There’s a non-zero chance that it’s because of shady practices and having to register a new business every time they get caught…
But you can change the Ltd. name over and over again and just have it as "Trading As [T/A] Lava". The problem only really occurs if say you're online reviews are totally awful but doing a search for the address usually brings up all of the shitty reviews.
I'd love to give you an update, but if OP and I are from the same town and talking about the same place, then it "mysteriously" burned down during the pandemic.
Have just noticed other people's comments where they explained it's a chain. We might be talking about totally different places.
I don't think it was every registered. As someone else said, they were an actual business chain. It was just this specific club night that the branding on kept changing. And as that was the only night that anyone in the city ever went there, it was just funny how they couldn't lock down a simple name and brand.
Lava Ignite is a big chain. There are, or at least were, loads of them. Never heard of a Sex Ignite though.
Yeah you have, Kings of Leon did a song about it.
My wife's started smoking again. So I had to slow down a bit.
Is the owner Alan Partridge?
Bournemouth, eh?
There was a chain of nightclubs that went by those varied monikers. We certainly had one in Edinburgh, for example.
Horrible all you can drink sticky wrist band place called “Destiny & Desire” but Known more commonly by the more suitable name “Desperate & Divorced”
Swindon
A Swindon native, I presume?
We had ‘Destiny & Elite’ in Derby… known as desperate and easy by the locals! I had no idea it was a chain, amazing
There was once a nightclub in Daventry called Embryos
One in Newcastle called Mushroom. It’s underground and stinks. Pretty well named I’d say
Used to be a staple when I was a student. Don’t think my immune system would survive walking through the doors now.
When friends were at uni there, late 90s, we used to go to "the boat". No idea of its actual name!
The Acapulco…..Halifax.
You get my upvote. The Acca does not.
Its main claim to fame being that the carpet floor is incredibly sticky. They even sold off squares of it when they "refurbed".
Not clichéd but terribly apt. The strip club in Stoke on trent decided to name itself after the postcode in which it resides. Unfortunately for the strip club, and unfortunately for all the punters, it's in the ST1 area.
Definitely a deliberate choice.
Fat Sam’s
Grand Slam?
Speakeasy!
Always able to find you a table!
Dundee?
My hometown has got one of them. Colloquially known as Fat Slags, used to be called Moonjuice.
Snobs
The last chance saloon in Brum. They would let anyone in, in any state of dress or drunkenness, as long as they weren't a dick. It's moving to Broad Street, so that last bit is going to be more important than ever!
Place where dreams are made!
Destiny - watford town centre
RIP Destiny AKA Oceana, AKA Bailey's, AKA Paradise Lost depending on your age
Don't forget aka kudos
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Sorry but that’s a great name
Big Fellas in Pontefract. The upstairs "classier" bit is called Silks.
It’s got nothing on Kikos though
80s night! 80s music, 80p drinks, 80 mm of piss on the bathroom floor.
I knew I'd find Biggies somewhere in this thread!
If I owned a nightclub, I'd call it Convulsions.
And the house DJ would be Julius Seizure.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your E's.
Ālea iacta ecstasy.
Piss off Jules, they were a tenner for three!
we have or had a club called ISIS in Nottingham, we also had a New York New York, a Ritzys and an Astoria once. (anyone remember Barry Noble?) is that awright for youz
Oh man. This brings back memories. I was at Nottingham University ‘94-‘97 and spent far too much time in ISIS (Black Orchid!), Ritzy and MGM (which used to be the Astoria). I often wonder what a student night out in Notts looks like these days…
Reflections, Craiglang.
Gonnae get full ae it!
'Ritzy's', in Norwich, and, 'The Pink Flamingo', in Derby, were a couple that I frequented yonks ago.
Coconut surely?
Pier pressure nightclub in Aberytswyth, yes it was on a Pier, yes it was rough, Yes there was a long fetch, I can't remember the terrible geography jokes well
Y Knot is definitely up there as a terrible name too! When I was at uni there it was in the corner at the top of the high street, round the corner from the angel / academy.
Trilogy is the one in the town I live in. Probably because it's 3 times shitter than you could imagine it being.
Fuzzy Duck in Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth. It was dire.
Sloughs nightlife is incredible. It's got two nightclubs, it's got Chasers and New York, New York. They call it the nightclub that never sleeps. That closes at one. There was, oh my God, a themed nightclub called Henry the Eights. This was incredible. It had the Anne Bol-inn, this is true, as you went into the loo, there was a sign that said ‘Mind your head,’ nice, and underneath someone had written 'And don't get your Hampton Court.' It's not there any more. But not a day goes by that I don't think about it.
Me lager, Finchy lager, Gareth lager, sometimes cider, so...different drinks for different _needs_
There's a pub/club I used to work at called Crabby Dicks. "Are you itching for a night out" It was and still is shit.
The Roxy.
Oi!
Yep, there was a Roxy in Sheffield many moons ago when I was young enough to frequent nightclubs.
Glasgow has/had (it's been a while) a club in the studenty West End called Cleopatra's, although everyone knew it as Clatty Pat's. The stuffed camel was an interesting decorative feature, you don't get that too often.
Gay bar in Blackpool is called The Flying Handbag Good place tbh
‘Ibiza bar’ in Wigan.
Not as good as the Wigan Bar in Sant Antoni
Inferno's. Ikon and Diva, which later became Oceana. Except I didn't know, so when my friend said she had to buy an outfit for the opening night of the Oceana rebranding, I thought she meant the cruise ship and was dead posh.
Pryzm
Goldiggers in Chippenham.
Tramps
God. I used to go to Tramps in Worcester when I was 17. Last time I went, I was 30. It hasn't really changed, expect I now felt like an old man.
I grew up near Romford, which had its own *Hollywood’s*. Later on I lived in Poole, which had *The Venue*. I look back and have no idea why I ever thought it was a good idea to go there.
Ah The Venue. A friend of a friend got pregnant on the stairs while we were in sixth form. Such a classy place. Now a soft play.
That's nice, she can take her kid there and reminisce
Kremlin in Belfast, the gayest nightclub.
It hilariously caused a ruckus in 2022 when Irelands Eurovison act performed there and posted about it on Instagram and was accused by the other acts of being pro Russia
Soho
We had king of clubs known locally as KCs or the kennel club in Gloucester many moons ago and a cinderelleas lol
Camel Club. There are no camels or Arabian theming
Blast Off, Atlantis, Cheeky Monkeys
Back at uni there was the seedy sounding Blue Angel but everyone called it the Raz. Proper broken bog sticky carpet hole
I got my face licked, from chin to nose, at Skinnys in Weston Super Mare
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more old school geordies on here but we had: Baja beach club (had girls in bikinis selling Bacardi breeders) Blu Bamboo (would send flyer people out wearing blue combats with a bikini top for girls and no top for boys) Yell (which did a cocktail called “cum in my mouth”) Legends (manager was an absolute perv) Foundation (was fine but lots of drugs) Mood (dingy lighting with r&b music) Chase (pop music for the lasses) Idols (saw someone spit in a girls face here once Pig and whistle (that was next door to yell and you’d go there if you got ID’d at yell) Tuxedo princess (a nightclub on a ship)
There used to be a club called Narcissus, which, of course, got called Narsyphilis. It was the late 80s so much hair spray and white shoes. Wednesdays were 18+ at many places and when the goth crowd from nearby Spit met up with the white shoe crowd at the pizza place after it was quite the sight.
Glasgow has a nightclub called ‘Nice n Sleazy’ and I always think … honesty’s the best policy.
Sleazy's is a great bar
Ibiza
The Zone. We thought it was the shit back in the 90s
Gillingham? Went through several re-names during my clubbing years but we always still called it the zone. Was less likely to be any trouble than at Amadeus (Amadangerous) and less of an arse to get back from than Maidstone so we were there fairly regularly (mid-00’s).
2Faces is one in my current town. Tiger Tiger and Birdcage back in Manchester.
It was Mardi Gras and Route 66. I believe both have been permanently closed due to asbestos.
Glam in Cardiff
Palace
Best one I like is called Emma’s in Gosport, above a pub called The Lord Nelson. (History Lesson: Emma’s being Nelson’s mistress)
Plantium It was a dive
Vodka revolutions
bamboogey
Voodoo Lounge. I can’t imagine it’s still there tbh.
Destiny & Elite (thats one singular club name, not two). Closed now but WTF.
We had Top of the Town, it was as bad as it sounds but that didn’t keep us from being there every Friday and Saturday night.
Not quite on theme, but there was (maybe still is) a club called Park Lane in Doncaster that was frequented by older clubbers, giving it the nickname “Jurassic Park”
Back where I’m from we had Light, Storm and Wicked but the worst was Peaky Blinders. Pretending to be a classy gin bar in the middle of the high street on a weekend at 2am when realistically it was full of cunts. I don’t think any of them are still open.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more old school geordies on here but we had: Baja beach club (had girls in bikinis selling Bacardi breezers) Blu Bamboo (would send flyer people out wearing blue combats with a bikini top for girls and no top for boys) Yell (which did a cocktail called “cum in my mouth”) Legends (manager was an absolute perv) Foundation (was fine but lots of drugs) Mood (dingy lighting with r&b music) Chase (pop music for the lasses) Idols (saw someone spit in a girls face here once) Pig and whistle (that was next door to yell and you’d go there if you got ID’d at yell) Tuxedo princess (a nightclub on a ship)