Provincial Discos: Classic or Dud?

Sigh.... nostalgia for Ritzy's in Dunstable. We saw Love City Groove there once as well.

Now I'm in London I can easily say classic. Provincial discos are often classic due to VERY VERY CHEAP DRINKS. They also create a certain amount of bonding ie mass rush OFF the dancefloor to NU-METAL mass run ONTO the dancefloor for New Order and the Pixies.

Fuck Strange Fruit! Fuck Track & Field! None of them live up to the middle floor at the Warehouse on Fridays - SAME SONGS PLAYED EACH WEEK IN SAME ORDER! Smells Like Teen Spirit so good it gets played SIX TIMES. If only they'd do THAT at SF eh wot?

I didn't go to "trendy dude" provincial clubs of course unless it was eighties night. Oh feck it. They are utterly classic.

Kiss in Lincoln, Tuesday night every week in 96. Five pound challenge can you do a night on a fiver. Usually preceeded by the 2litre challenge, drink a bottle of amiga cider. Minesweeping. Same songs same order. Higher State by Josh Wink played at least twice. Metal crew dancing for the "metal half hour". Someone putting vaseline on the dancefloor for the "metal half hour". Bored bouncers "your seat" and everyone to Ches Raswands the all night chipie which was Lincoln's only Demilitarized Zone. No fights between the townies and the students as they get their chips n cheese. Back to some chicks house "who doesn't do monogamy" and a walk home when the dawn comes up for a quiet smoke. Classis Classic Classic. But only for a short while

Gorgeous countryside from bus: classic.

Lush provincial suburban lanes: classic.

Real ale DJs: classic.

Cambodian chip shops: classic.

Kids going to other disco: dud.

Bad disco lager: dud.

Pop analysis with DJs: classic.

DJs playing Foxgloves: classic.

DJs playing Foxgloves before club has opened: dud.

DJs who don't take my requests: always dud.

DJs playing Morrissey solo ***HIT SINGLES***: classic.

DJ chemical response to bad lager: dud?

DJ sausages: classic.

Britney Spears / Daft Punk: desperately dire double dud. The truth is out.

Chance to see provincial cities: always classic.

Britney Spears / Daft Punk: SAME SONGS PLAYED EACH WEEK IN SAME ORDER! Therefore klassik.

Did I drunkenly forget to play Lloyd Cole, PF? I do apologise. I'll play him next time.

If they're playing Lonnie Gordon's "Happenin' All Over Again" (my childhood provincial disco experience) CLASSIC.

If they're playing Oasis's "Don't Look Back In Anger" (the reason I avoided them in my teens) DUD.