ratty Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Boring Thursday Muse.In my yoof between the ages of about 18 and 23 (so between the years of 1988 and 1994 I spent most of my time in an ecstatic haze in various nightclubs up and down the country. I wonder if we use to frequent the same ones??My little list contains:Sterns Worthing IN-TER-DANCE!!! (I was a total regular but know that many people used to come down regularly from London)Paradise Club AWOL - Islington (may now be called the Complex)VOX Club Brixton - had a night there called LOST and I usually was (Red and Yellows anyone?)VapourSpace at the Leisure Lounge (Brenda Russell, Colin Faver and Colin Dale)Fridge (Saturday nights) cannot remember what the night was called but ran between 1993 and 94Some Place in Bognor Regis the name of which escapes me. May have been Bentleys....Bagleys - Kings XWhat was that place in Wandsworth - huge place got closed down after some kid died there?I also went to some of the big out door do's including Vision (I think I had one) and a few of the Fantasia's, not to mention spending countless Saturday evenbings cicling the M25.Make some noise!!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Bagley's but not until about 95-6In the headier days I was based in the North Midlands and could be found int he likes of Shelley's, Golden, Entropy, Kinetic (various stoke towns)Swoon (Stafford)Voodoo (liverpool)Wobble (brum)Orbit (leeds) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawbs Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Sorry Im no help I was in Australia in my yoof.. sunning it up on the beach! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I'll let ya know when I'm outta me "yoof" :p Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 And though I prefer London to t'north for a number of reasons, it really is friendlier oop north, and clubbing was waaaaaaaaay better from what I experienced.Though coke and booze was heavily back in the london scene by the time I moved back south, ruining all that was good about the dance scene.These days I'm pushing it if I listen to Ladytron.Here are some memorieshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f91d_WooFM8&feature=related Ooh, cringeworthy, the eyes!! Human Traffic makes me cringe with embarrassment too these days.and this made me chuckle Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Minnies - YoughalGigis - YoughalSpiders - CorkLevel 3 - SwindonBoxes/Warehouse - ExeterBut to call them clubs in the sense that you probably mean ratty is probably wrong. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elipie Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Aah Boxes!! Although to be honest I spent most of my youth in Samantha's Nitespot in Exmouth :-$ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveR Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The place in Wandsworth was Club UK - legendary Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I seem to remember Warehouse in particular being mahoosive when I used to go - (95ish?) - Went back there a couple of years ago with Lady MacGabhann before it got turned into a lapdancing joint and it was absolutely tiny... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignumber5 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 it really is friendlier oop northIt's friendlier up North if you are from, or sound like you are from, up North - head to Yorkshire sounding a little more southern and prepare to be started on for a list of offenses ranging from "talkin' laaak a fookin' fairy" to "starin' at me pint"... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 errr Brendan.. have you HEARD Piers speak?? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdonline Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 When I started clubbing it wasFridays- The LA in Shoreditch which turned into 333Saturdays-Love Muscle at Fridge followed byTrade at Turnmills on Sunday morning and a while later Sherbert at the Soundshaft on Sunday afternoon- which lasted a couple of years- the best club ever!Sundays-FF at Turnmills, which was always a bit manic.Didn't really get to see much daylight at the weekends. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellenden Belle Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Hee hee - must say I agree about the North being friendlier .... I have connections with Northwich (just outside Manchester) and whenever I call them I love the fact that I'm called "duck".And plumbers and painters and the like are amazing up North - reliable and reasonable - even when they hear my poncey accent. I spent most of my yoof being terribly earnest about indie music and bands - The Town and Country and The Mean Fiddler were faves; and indie nights at the Dome (Camden? Tufnell Park?).I did "Wobble" in Brum - but spent most of my uni days being a fabulous fag hag in Subway and Nightingales (again Brum). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgia Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The Dome (Birmingham) and a club at Five Ways, Birmingham (think it was called Faces though so long ago I can't remember)As a student in Plymouth in late 80s / early 90s - The Warehouse, The Studio, Oscars, The Ritzy, Jesters (:-$), Sailing School, Sea Anglers...and many more besides Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 London:Some grotty club night called Loony Tunes (or maybe Toony Lunes) in Tufnell ParkAfter School Club on the StrandLeeds:HiFiMint ClubBrudenell Social Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Stamps (formerly the Post Office) - CannockThe Bowling Green (formerly Stamps and was opposite the local bowling green) - CannockSimons (formerly Stamps, formerly The Bowling Green, owned by Simon) - CannockFat Willy's Buzz Bar (formerly Stamps, formerly The Bowling Green, formerly Simons,the new owner apparently had a ....bar) - CannockCannock DIY and Decorating Centre (guess, its not hard) - CannockThe Alleyway (in an alley) - CannockChasers (near Cannock Chase) - CannockSnoopys (star regular guest was Ian "Sludge" Lees) - CannockSkys (on the top floor above Boots the Chemist) - CannockThe 5th - WalsallHungry Years - BrightonPink Coconut - BrightonZap Club - BrightonPalais - HammersmithGot tinatus, gave up. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I was never a massive clubber (in the sense of getting pilled up and reaching for the lasers), I could usually be found in dirty grungey rock clubs / bars.However, as a 16/17 year old I did the whole Ministry thing a few times, and in Liverpool I did Cream a few times. Both were shite beyond belief!18 - 23 I was in Liverpool, and really it's not a major clubby place, it's more about bar crawls in the city centre (or it was 96 - 01).Did lots of other places, but couldn't tell you the names, and like I say, it wasn't really my scene... Maybe if I'd been 5 years older ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 er....my yoof at this wonderful time was (mid 20s)! I did Land of Oz, Shoom (once), several Biology (?) raves round the M25, Planet Love at the Fridge, the Mud club as it suddenly discovered Aciiiied. Camberwell was well into it all then and the Grove would literally suddenly empty when the "go to Junction 17 of the M25" message went out..happy days*looks in wardrobe for illfitting smiley t-shirt and sweat stained bandana Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 By the way Ratty, my missus who is 'few' years younger than me and from Pompey raves about Sterns...us metroplitan types have never heard of it of courseB) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 I may know your missus if she is a sterns Pompey girl. Loads of Pompey used to go up to shoom in them days but I was a little too young then (baby crew and all that). Give your missus a wave for me. :) she probably knows big tony from the market who lives here in ed too. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Ratty - I will show my missus this later to find out.. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jim Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Club UKComplexGalleryFranticCheckpoint Charlie in ReadingAtomic Jam in BrumAnd various dodgy nights in London Bridge, Vauxhall and Brighton.Did Cream once and a bunch of Tribal Gatherings - very amusing. I still can't believe Club UK got away with it for so long. The 2nd bday party was mental - loads of pilled up loons wandering around in the shopping centre. It was all very George Romero.Anyway, must get back to the baby carrier research... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asset Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 In 89 - 94 I could be found at:Sunday nights Solaris, Grays Inn RdMonday nights (once a month) Tonka do at the Zap club and then on to the beachThe Milk BarTurnmillsVarious illegal warehouse dosIbiza every summer (still doing that)I went to a couple of the earlier biggies outside London, I think one was called Blast Off where we had to phone the number to get the address and join the convoy etc etcYes - arches at Vauxhaull and there was somewhere at London Bridge (memory a bit hazy, just jogged by BigJim)Good days Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Club UK - that was the one I was trying to think of! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I used to dream about having a youth........ but most of what I had was at Jimmy's, the St Jame's Hotel in Derby.Twas in the sixties, they were not nearly as swinging as the hype marketeers suggest.If you got pregnant out of wedlock you were shipped to a different town as often as not, some young ladies had an awful time of it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3513-in-your-yooooof/#findComment-109841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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