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Ello babies, here i am on the scrounge again. Me and my mate are about to start a new club nite in Oxford and we can't think of a name for it. It's going to be yer standard indie-schmindie-get-pished-and-dance-to-where's-me-jumper kind of affair (unless we let Ewing on the decks, in which case it'll be a daft punk/DC/britney kind of affair ;)), any suggestions will be GRATEfully received.

Also best/worst club nite names (rather than best/worst nites) ever?

― CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, it starts on the 21 June and is likely to be fortnightly, depending on how it goes, and it's at Club Latino for any (ex) oxonians out there :)

― CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dancing with beer in my eyes? Jumper Thumper? Indie Shmindie? Tongue & Groove? (I'm sure that's been used before, but I made it up myself)

― Nick, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rehab

― anthony, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's been my dream for some time now to have a club named: captain ahab's mondo rehab

― marianna maclean, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Since proving that indieclubs can rake in top bar takings is an issue here I think something with 'beer' in the title is a must. Or perhaps 'pint'. My pun glands are down today, though.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

worst club nite names: radio 4 - pandora's box - swirlgirls - britpoptillyoudrop - the pill

another idea i once had was T.E.M.P.O. I even had a logo designed. I can't even remember what the acronym was for now... something somthing modern pop outfit...

― marianna maclean, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

try and pick something that will attract a lot of writers. they may be broke, but boy do they all like to spend their money on drink ... ;)

― maura, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, call it 'Publishing Deal'

― Nick, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We did contemplate calling it "there's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand...." Well i think you get the idea :)

― CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to go to marshmallow moon in Bournemouth (crap name, great, fantastic club, best days of my life etc) and before that in Chesterfield the indie night was called the dropout (crap name, worse night)

if you call it private view you might get loads of arty types looking for free bouze? and then ... erm... having to pay for it...

hmmm I'll be off then

― cabbage, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Free booze connotations = bad. Implication of indie rutting though will pack them in. I say we call it Grope Suit.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never want to see the phrase 'indie rutting' again the rest of my life. Or 'Grope Suit'.

― Nick, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about "The Cunning Punt"?

― Geoff, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's really very good. Surely someone in Oxford (or Cambridge) has thought of that before though? It's very very clever, it really is. Makes me think of a really shit student pub.

― Nick, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best names:

Pop Tarts (Sheffield uni, mid 90s). Accurate, and at the time, topical (the UK got Pop Tarts quite late) Club Tropicana (Manchester Uni, early 90s). Also accurate, and came with the wizzy strapline "And no, the drinks aren't free"

Worst names:

Stomp: (Manchester Poly, early 90s). Accurate, because it was the thuddy stompy end of indie. Therefore bad. Or maybe it was even metal. I don't know - I never went.

Strange Fruit: (London, now). Doesn't play any Billie Holliday or even very many Peel Sessions . I don't like things with Strange in the title.

― Nick, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stomp at manchester?

we had one of them in leeds. then it changed its name to star. guess when britpop hit eh?

― gareth, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some suggestions 1 Cunting Kickoff 2 Sweat Crappo Joy 3 Nuclear Goo 4 Bobos Fancy Drinkery 5 Shifty Pigs 6 THe BLoated Rotter 7 Drip of the Vagina, Drop of the Penis

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

um, not that i ever went...

also bad name for club, hallelujah in leeds. which wouldn't be so bad, but they didn't play happy mondays. and it was a madchester club 9retro: this is is circa 96-99).

great name for club. Doncaster Warehouse. it was a warehouse, it was in doncaster. altern 8 and jumpin' jack frost and the like. 'arrdcore you know the score', 'easygroove on the ones and twos'. um, i'm getting a bit carried away now aren't i? sorry...

― gareth, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

worst club nite names: radio 4
Isn't this a reference to PIL? Just like the Poptones label? Think it's quite a good name myself. OF course Free Beer would be better.

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm standing by Grope Suit. As a name for *something*, anyway.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An exciting new entry into the home entertainment market?

― Josh, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/rockchick/gropesuit.html

Taken as a band name, alas.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best: "Second-Hand Cunt"

Worst: "Second-Hand Cunt"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about "Born 2 Boogie"? That should draw a cool crowd.

― , Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about the Bee-Hive. It's a concpet club my friend's 13 year old brother came up with whereby the walls are made of glass and there are bees visible behind it. People sip their drinks precociously until 12 midnight when suddenly the screens are lifted and the bees are free to unleash terror unto the clientele? Good eh?

― dog latin, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Cabbage Handling"

― alex in nyc, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Clientele are hardly going to agree to play every week if all that happens is they get bees set on them.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Carsmile Steve, i know you. if you want beer puns here are some: "Lager Than Life". "Beyond the Ale". "Beer Here Now" (though drunken Oasis fans should probably be put in the room with the bees). Indie Rutting (ugh) names: "The greasy shaft". um. Rick liked that one. How about "Some of us have work in the morning you know" - a horribly familiar phrase at the moment.

― katie, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A source who wishes to remain nameless suggests: "Rhythm And Booze"

― Tom, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Oxford Blues" - "Non-Fight Club" - "Indie-schmindie-get-pissed-and- dance"

― K-reg, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rhythm And Booze was the name of a Radio 1 documentary about alcohol abuse in young people. My God, I've just checked for any reference on the net and there's a 1989 Commons debate in which Derek Fatchett MP complains about the poor organisation of the Rhythm & Booze live debate - apparently there was lots of free alcohol on offer and the audience were getting pissed. 1989 though! I would have guessed it was 1995 at earliest. I'm losing track of everything.

― Nick, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More on Rhythm And Booze. It's also:

― Nick, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rythmn and Booze - just think - an offie / pub / record shop. A great place to put in the newly invented Time Operated Jukebox (instead of getting 7 tunes for two quid you get half an hour. Bonus props therefore for picking punchy short songs).

As for club nights a very sad character in a book I once wrote ran a club called Seratonin, so I suppose that has a soft spot in my heart. If its going to be in Club Latino though you should call it "How To Build A House Record" - merely because a DJ I used to know used to play it every time he DJ-ed (along with the same seven other records). Club Shatino's was what we always used to call it.

I note however the club is to exist during the University vacation, therefore to increase your selection of Townies something nice and student baiting would work (or In Your Cowley Slums). At least have a no scarf policy. Or beer related: How To Make A Hangover.

Whatever, I hope there is a slot for the Barnet Ape some time in July.

― The Barnet Ape, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rhythm and Booze would have been a Radio 1 Action Special, the first of which was about 10 years *before* 1989. Simon Bates saying "Hey kids, don't take drugs", etc. (to which John Walters memorably responded that, if he'd been a teenager, he'd instantly have taken drugs simply because Bates had told him it was Not Cool).

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

beyond the threshold (folowed by a long list of shite indie band names)

― jk, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dis Strange Fruit again and I will punch you, Nick. Yes, reach all the way through the internet and have your browser assault you. Humph.

That said, I saw more indie shagging in public at the last Strange Fruit (club night, that is) than I have ever seen in my LIFE before. Truly a scary thing.

It's only called Strange Fruit because of their names- Paul Strange and Matt Fruit. They can't help what they're called, can they?

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PUBLIC SHAGGING?? Jaysis! You didnt tell me about THAT aspect of indie nites, Carsmile! And if that's what these degenerates are like when the bloody Strokes are playing then god knows what'll happen when I put on Destiny's Child....

― Tom, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, Tom, it was actually Paul Bonham's set of Destiny's Child and Missy Elliot that got the hairclip set at it like rabbits... ;-P

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We had a Brit Pop club thing here in Toronto a few years ago called 'Popscene'--good because not many people in Toronto were britpoppers and it lent a sort of knowing wink type allure.

There's also a night held every once in a while (may or may not be only Toronto) called "The International Colouring Contest" and there was once a "Stars of Track and Field" -- both nights for Belle and Sebastian/Jeepster fans. Super snobby people, but I won a Belle and Sebastian shirt for listing ten girls' names in B&S songs.

As for a club? Hmm.. can't think of anything, but I just saw a Manics CD and for some reason "A Design For The Night" popped into my head. Cute, but a bit long.

― Alexis Dicks, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PERMAFROST - MUSIC TO OD TO

― Simon, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"idiotic tone".

― Andrew L, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So good news, the nite is definately happening. We spoke to the bloke who runs the place today, and we're on for Thursday 21 June, when myself, Mr Ewing and DJ Cabbage will be on the decks. Thanks for all yr suggestions, final name choice to be made tomorrow...

― carsmilesteve, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hell.

― ty@hotmail.com, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thursday 21 June is also the date we've got pencilled in for the relaunch of FT. Well, it is now.

What's it called then, Carsmile?

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Right then, for those of you who haven't heard yet (and believe me you are likely to hear again and again over the next three weeks ;)) the night is to be called SUSSED which I realise isn't the most excitingly original name in the world, but frankly it'll do for now.

Further details are here and probably on every third mail you get today ;)

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think you should call it Everybody Gets Laid, and then hope no one who comes saw PCU.

― Ally, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...
hiiiiiiiiiiiii for everyone

― paul nicolaos, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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