Skanky, Kev filled nightclubs you used to go to as a youngun'

[maomao]

I've been to lots of clubs but I wanted to emphasise that I'm a cunt.

 

[citydreams]

oh the shame (which i share) !

lol... me too! but at least I wasn't the one that was shagging on the dance floor

 

[citydreams]

where was Bon Bonne in Herne Hill

It was on the end of Rosendale road, where it meets Brockwell Park.

*shudders*

*chunders*

 

[maomao]

Sadly I never went to Enfield's finest - Eros.

Strangely, whenever I hear people talking about it, it always seems to involve a fight (usually between girls)

I used to run a cab station in Enfield. Charged extra for eros just for putting up with having cunts in the car.

 

[Dan U]

It was on the end of Rosendale road, where it meets Brockwell Park.

*shudders*

*chunders*

what where the old print place is thats being developed? or where Brockwells is now?

i live off rosendale, i missed out

u sure that wasnt you on the dancefloor?

 

[Taxamo Welf]

well considering i spent my entire adolescence avoiding rudeboys, its not really much of a statement to say i never went to a rubbish kev club. I went to The Dome in tufnell park regularly which is equally as rubbish as any skanky cheese n house night in walthamstow, probably has even less tatty glamour, and it was an 'alternative' - ie idnie and metal and crap - club.

It were fucking rubbish, but it were fooking great too

Not ashamed of it all all. Thousands of little moshers fucked on drugs ruining their lives togther.

Funnily enough we were the last generation to go through the club (it had supported 20 years of tat) and it closed after we moved on. As did the more respectable (but equally teen scene) Feet First night at the camden palace.
The fact i can't hate a younger generation moving through the club pushes me toward nostalgia.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

To be fair i never really found myself in such places, a few occasions spring to mind like certain nights out at the Imperial Gardens and the like, but not too much else.

they were hardly cheese or pulling nights tho comrade!

having said that you have shown the bizarre ability to pull at squat parties so i guess its all the same to you.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

to the 'camden palais' creu - i'm fairly sure we called camden palACE wehn we went ot feet first in the early noughties, were we just being thick?

 

[In Bloom]

Probably the most embarrassing club I've ever been to was Stairways in Birkenhead. Used to be the place to go for whiney, teenage poseurs. Fun times

 

[Taxamo Welf]

my housemates from the wirral, i'll ask him.


...why are u awake?

 

[In Bloom]

my housemates from the wirral, i'll ask him.


...why are u awake?

Insomnia.

Might try watching Fight Club again, that usually works.

What are you doing up at this ungodly hour then?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Taxamo, can you really class indie/grungey type places in with the real wayne and sharon type clubs?

I used to go to the Dome, and the Feet First night, in the early 90s and that was seen as pretty alternative then. Not much drugs going on at those places though - it was more cheap cider.

Thinking about it though I have been to some real proper cheesy clubs in my time, especially the places in Leicester like Crystals and the Palais de Danse, which are a bit like that Volts place in Kingston.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Taxamo, can you really class indie/grungey type places in with the real wayne and sharon type clubs?

I used to go to the Dome, and the Feet First night, in the early 90s and that was seen as pretty alternative then.

yes i'd heard this... I think what changed was the perception of what indy/alternative was. Whilst in the early 90's it was popular but still cool and leftfield, by the mid 90's nu metal and related epiphenomena had taken over in the younger gen. They were immense fun but utterly uncool and worthless. an 'alternative' night has to define itself by what is popular but isn't quite pop/what has a powerful following. In musical coherence terms it was ridiculous mix, but then thats what the x fm play list is like

Whilst Indy proper remained nothing to do with nu metal and green day (whose popularity has now increased to a kind of post-genre, metallica style respect ), metal was what the kids wanted.

That was changing as we left and whatb they'd probs play now is loads of brit rock like the libs razorlight etc.

Compared to britpop and the current indie wave, nu metal was in some ways more genuine cos a lot of it never receieved any airplay (earlier on), whereas brit pop and brit retro rock are totally contrived NME fests.

Its cool to be uncool and hated by the NME. Go for it emo kids

Oh on the drugs front: it had nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the age of the kids, which was very low. Ectasy was reaching its all time highest levels of consumption (before falling and being well eclipsed by coke, way beyond our pocket money) and all time lowest ages consuming it at the time. Those in the know made a killing

'proper' rockers and people over 25 were always utterly disgusted by the teen scene clubs i describe when they turned up, if that illustrates the change.

 

[Wintermute]

Valentino's in Stoke

 

[Griff]

Some place over Leyton marshes which the name escapes me, and a place in Bow called The Tudor Lodge which had great 'grab-a-granny' Friday nights.

 

[chazegee]

Subway in Edinburgh

 

[Sweet FA]

Dukes, Chelmsford

 

[gaijingirl]

Langtree's (Beckenham) only once and the most hideous place EVER - was there when it got raided and we all got chucked out for being underage.

Hippodrome - again, just the once... was only 13, lots of middle aged men tried to get in my knickers...

Metros in Cardiff! (from time to time)

Camden Palais for Feet First (but that's not so bad!)

Spangles... I was also a regular at The Venue between the ages of 16-18 - every Friday and most Saturdays - you're a similar age to me, so we'd have been there at the same time I imagine! Saw TONS of bands who went on the make it very big (including Nirvana!). Also used to go to the Amersham Arms quite often on a Sunday night for their live band/comedy/cabaret night - that was when I was 18.

Mercifully got refused entry to some hideous place in Kingston upon Thames where the group I was with wanted to go (I think I let them down by having trainers on).

Some GODAWFUL place in Basingstoke a few years ago....

 

[Roadkill]

LA's and The Eclipse in Hull.

LA's was massive, glitzy and increibliy cheesy; very expensive on Friday night, but a good way of getting legless on the cheap on a Thursday. It closed suddenly earlier this year, though increasingly dog-eared Skool Daze banners still flap forlornly about its concrete walls...

The Eclipse was like a smaller, cheaper, tattier, nastier version of LA's. Since I used to go there - ten years ago - it's been through four or five different owners and name changes but it's always remained dismal.

 

[Cpatain Rbubish]

You knows you went there

I have been to Bojangles both and Cinerellas once under duress for peeps birthdays etc. Paid went to the bar bought a drink, downed it and left. Straight up.

 

[Termite Man]

I lived in a town with about 3 clubs ! 2 of them were utter shite and I never bothered going to them . The other one was quite good even if they did play a lot of indie bollocks !

 

[baldrick]

all the ones in leicester

zoo/palais and krystals (the name says it all i think), mosquito coast and that one on welford road whos name i can't remember. that was slightly less skanky, but it still had a full kev contingent.

 

[Belushi]

Under-18s night at Shanghai Sam's in Peterborough was the worse. Put me off clubs for years.

 

[milesy]

Some GODAWFUL place in Basingstoke a few years ago....

martines? (that would have been a while ago, it's been demolished since i lived in b'stoke)
chicago's?
yates's?

 

[Rollem]

er, hippodrome, yates in ealing, the gin palace that was once in acton the ritzy in norwich, equinox, camden palais (but i loved it there i did use to pride myself on never having stepped foot inside the hammersmith palais though ) used to go the complex in angel (but that was actually quite good i thought?) erm, and the venue in new cross

eta: the broadway boulevard in ealing

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Birmingham - The Dome, Dome II, The Ritzy

Manchester - Piccadilly 21, Discotheque Royale


I'd go anywhere that served till 3am back then

 

[boozybirdie]

Ra Ra's
Diva's
Bon Bonne
Equinox
Hippodrome
Benjy's
Vogue
The Works
Hollywoods
Time & Envy
Vivid & Elite
Charlie Chans
Tiffany's
Charlies
Vivos
Some well dodgy place in catford that had palm trees by the door iirc

So many, many more that I can't remember (or am choosing to forget ) and with the exception of Bon Bonne & The Works, I have frequented the rest on a regular basis.

I vaguely remember going to Club Extreme in Erith as well and from what I can remember, that was a shithole too.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

all the ones in leicester

zoo/palais and krystals (the name says it all i think), mosquito coast and that one on welford road whos name i can't remember. that was slightly less skanky, but it still had a full kev contingent.

You went to those too!

Mosquito coast wasn't so bad though IIRC. At least not for the student nights... I also liked Bar Gaudi.

 

[Reg in slippers]

too, too many over the last 25 years, depending on location, from the room at the top in ilford right up to the event II a few weeks ago...


why, oh why, oh why....

 

[Blagsta]

Actually an honourable mention has to go to Boogie Shoes at The Moseley Dance Centre, Birmingham