what are y'all favourite clubs?

The first club I went to in Boston was The Channel, which was a lot of fun. Of course, it closed within months of me discovering it. I then moved on to Venus De Milo, which promptly shut down. I took the hint and spent the rest of my time going to obscenely crowded popular places (Axis/Avalon/Manray/The Middle East). Recently, I've fallen out of the habit, although I went to Manray a couple of weeks ago and it was even more insane than I remembered (gay night is VERY different from goth night; much more eye candy for the missus, although none of them wanted to dance with her, hee hee). I've never actually seen that many muscle gods in spandex panties (not posing trunks: PANTIES) before. I heard they remodelled Axis so that it's not nearly as scummy.

Favorite club in NYC? Nell's.

LA clubs -- mixed to feh. Don't get me started on Spaceland, though I will be going there for the Frogs this Friday...

Sheffield wise, its Tuesday club, (OK so they let me play there), dropping science when it happens, Headcharge almost religiously during the winter, Switch at Ponanas. Also go and chase down interesting things in London and manchester. (OK so all this applies to like a year ago when I still lived in sheffield, but I live there again from tuesday next)

The best nights have been one offs or short runs like Rephlex Records at the end, WARP's 10th Birthday (I was barged by bjork whilst dancing), opening of Planet K Manchester (Free booze cos they had no licence and couldn't sell it)

Best DJ experience. Playing support and in between for Luke Vibert and BJ Cole, Mike Paradimas and Zan Lyons. Not only did Zan lyons wander over to complement my style and skillz and ask what a tune was, but i was the only DJ on that night drank most of the rider and ended up playing rave classix to an exceedingly pilled up crowd, ( I got jumoed and snogged when I walked out the box after doing that set)

Do like free parties around sheffield during the summer. london free parties are far too scary though.

New York: Oh my. Anything at Passerby Stop is fun; I liked Mars and Area and anyplace the pre-fame Moby was, he was part of my colege posse. Sound factory was brilliant. Haven't been to Twilo.

London: Smashing ruled. Acid house: Milk Bar, Luv Dup, Deja Vu. Rage at Heaven. The original Heavenly Sunday Social, Leisure Lounge, Indigo, Idler parties, Mute parties, Little Stabs At Happiness, Electronic Lounge, Dogstar, Scala, Paradise for jungle, Happiness Stan's, 333, It's On. Rooty. Fuck, where else have I gone? If there are gaps I had a great time.

Other NY faves: Eighties: Pyramid, Danceteria, Roxy, Save the Robots, the World. Ummm, the Mudd Club? Club 57? Yeah, I'm old, fuckers! And for relaxed West Village goofiness, I really liked the Monster. Early Nineties: Jackie 60 (anything Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Valenti are involved with is class) and Green Door (though it really went downhill after the first year.)

LA: Fuzzyland, nothing else has come close. Although Vaginal Davis' Sucker nights at the garage were fun.

That said, The Minds Eye in NYC was pretty classic. 60s Garage/Psych/Mod/Freak Beat.

Oh, and I probably have to say Strange Fruit or I'll be in trouble with him upstairs.

In Bournemouth there was only one good club, the hothouse, when they used to do Marshmallow moon with Glenn djing, that was probably my best ever clubbing experience, great music and I made some fantastic friends there too.

Since then in London I used to love the Heavenly social and then the heavenly Jukebox, only went to Smashing a couple of times and it was cool, maybe a bit too cool if you know what I mean. Now of course it's Strange Fruit, Track and Field and Tigermilk (which reminds me, I must make a phone call).

Nothing ever matches up to the ultimate Nightclub in my head which I'd describe now but I'm far too busy.

Hothouse Rocks (except it's not there anymore in its old state - it's a limp bizzzzzkit kinda place now)

Shelleys - Stoke (BEST!!) Angels - Burnley (Second) Orbit - Leeds (Third) Pleasuredome - Bolton (Fourth) Wigan Pier - Wigan (Fifth)

(Tomorrow night, 9-2, Woodside Social Club, Glasgow &c.)

I was very fond of Revival in Philadelphia, a club that closed probably at least ten years ago, or maybe more like 15. I've lost track. It tended to play underground/alertnative types of music: post-punk, early industrial dance, etc. It also had live shows. It somehow managed to be ultra-hip and decadent without being intimidating (to me anyway). I felt that for the most part the people who went there just didn't care what other people who went there did. The freaks who came to the club late in punk/goth regalia didn't mind the "imageless" people like me being there. I haven't really experienced anything that compared to it (but I haven't been to many clubs outside Philadelphia).

There is a very underground club here called the Fake House--used to be called the Kill Time (or sometimes still is?). It's basically a large, slightly run down building, connected to the living quarters of an artist (I think). I haven't been there for a long time and am not sure I'd still feel comfortable. I wasn't that taken with the bands I saw there, but I enjoyed the atmosphere.

I saw Pyshcic TV at the Pyramid and the Roxy in New York, and the 9:30 Club in DC, and I like all three clubs.

These days I go almost exclusively to clubs that offer Latin nights, rather tamer looking affairs than the clubs mentioned above. Mostly interested in what music gets played, the quality of the dance floor, the quality and friendliness of the dancers, etc. Favorites: Brasil's which is cozy, but has a bad dance floor and tends to be too smokey; the 8th Floor which is more of a dress-up kind of club; and Rock Lobster which has a great Latin night on Sundays during the summer (but is probably not my kind of place the rest of the time). None of these places will be remembered in history, but they satisfy me.

I know next to nothing of NYC clubs, but I really liked the Bowery Ballroom.

"Where are you going?"
"Out."

Although I probably should do more "steppin' out." Don't do that near enough.

(Kenan is drinking.)

In London, I really liked Track & Field because I have a crush on one of the DJs. Strange Fruit was fun because I could always count on Martin R to play Dressy Bessy. And the one Tigermilking I went to was pretty good except that I missed the first half as I was lying face down drunk on the couch.

Clubbing in Brighton depresses me profoundly.

Sheffield: The Tuesady Club (although I never saw Ed's classic rave set, but I did recognise him off the posters at my first FAP) and NY Sushi and that tiny house house night on a Thursday, the name of which I have forgotten. See also Gatecrasher as the whole late-nineties trance boom kicked off. If we couldn't blag list, then our mates N and J who worked there would sneak us in through the fire doors.

In my first year in London I went to Bedrock at Heaven every month and quite often Bugged Out at Fabric. Then I realised that prog house was boring and the door staff at Fabric were far too rude to contemplate going back there again.

Now it's generally Nag Nag Nag or random nights at Cargo or Catch 22 or 93 Feet East or other places out east. I wouldn't mind checking out Kashpoint and I enjoyed the first To Hell With Poverty at Cherry Jam.

My favourite club was the Kitchen here, it's closed now which is a shame. It was very small but also ultra comfy and had a really good soundsystem. I went for the first time about 2 years ago, it turned out the guy DJing was a friend of my brothers.

I ended up becoming very good friends with him myself and hence getting on the guestlist for all sorts of shit every week, then the Kitchen closed and his promotion company bought and did up a new superclub place, called Tivoli. There won't ever be a small club as cool as the Kitchen was though, in Dublin or maybe anywhere.

That's where I tend to go now, it's cool getting in free but musically it's also the place I'd be most into, the only place which gets my favourite DJs over, also I really like the place, miss it after a few weeks absence, know alot of the people who work and go there.

As far as promoter style "nights" are concerned then I like Bugged Out, Wall of Sound, etc etc.

Pete, I've not been to It Came From The Sea but it looks ok. The Hanbury are putting on the best nights these days, shame it's in buttfuck Egypt and I am too lazy to go out...

Reading some of the stuff at the toop i spent a massive amount of time at brighton beach in leeds, always in the back room as the main room was unbearable and the music was sooo good in the back - although it was a very cliquey area but my g/f at the time was pretty much in the centre of the clique so i was kinda absorbed - osmosis cool so to speak

The only thing I seem to go to any more with any regularity is Guinea Pig (Who's The Experiment?) - it's run by nice people, they always have very adventurous experimental music, and oh, the only place I've ever been randomly chatted up by a bloke who turned out to be a super-sweet and wonderful Keeper!

Detournement in brighton (at the joint) is quite good even though it thinks it's cooler than it probably is. There's also a new 'unpretentious electroclash' (yeah, they need to work on the tagline) night at the concorde called chaos rocks, although i haven't been yet. but I've heard it's good.

do you know them all then (do you know Thura, from newcastle)

Just read this, I used to go to brighton beach and swan around in a big brown fur coat too,

-- davel (davelightning7...), July 12th, 2002.

Just read this, I used to go to brighton beach and swan around in a big brown fur coat too

um, do i know you possibly?

-- gareth (garet...), July 12th, 2002.

Thura used to live with Davel and he and Tamara used to hang about together. avery interesting individual was Thura, haven't a clue what he's doing now.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/03/wetlands_preser_1.html

sounds pretty terrible

my uncle used to be a manager at wetlands

Director DEAN BUDNICK

uh

a young gabbneb saw members of spin doctors and blues traveler there, among many more lesser-knows, and later saw a hootie show shortly before the mega-platinum-ness

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