Stay strong lads and if you can make it to the coalface, do, every little helps -
Nightclubs closing
Is it really just covid though? social media has a lot to do with it along with the rebellion factor amongst the young I feel
Yeah, looks like the decline was pretty significant before lockdown - two thirds closed since 2005
Along_the_Wire Yeah, looks like the decline was pretty significant before lockdown - two thirds closed since 2005
Do you know what happened in 2005?
It was basically the year WRECKING BALL POWER PROG finally died.
I rest my case.
The advent of these “shows” and stage gigs have played their part. Clubs need to continue lest its all lost to Insta djs and big production imo.
Why I like Phonox, a small dark room with a kicking sound-system.
Cracking club.
More daytime clubbing for oldies needed. I’m not wanting to be stuck in london at 4am.
You should come to this Bens, 5hrs of the big man and you get to ledge it at the coalface with OLB, what an absolutely winner!
Is there anything OLB doesn’t go to?!?!?!
Rights idea
but 150 sovs for a ticket!!!
I am actually working Saturday night because we are so short of juniors I get to cover night shifts again.
Nick Muir is playing in Hitchin on the 10th September - 7pm to 1am - £8. All-in this end.
Hitchin sink?
The rise of the festival has also been a factor imo.
And even this has been saturated over the years
These things are all cyclical, give it a year or so and we’ll all be dancing to peak time wrecking ball POWER PROG like the late 90’s / early noughties never went away.
The best of times are coming back!
cancels ASOS tops order
CD1 or CD2? NEITHER
Lol
Along_the_Wire any more info on this? Just a few miles from my house (I had heard Nick Muir lived local)
gcw Club 85 7-1am on the 10th September. Star&Bolland supporting.
Along_the_Wire Decent. I’ll deffo be at that. Didn’t even know Hitchin had a club to be honest, it’s such a tiny place
Was in the local 2nd hand record shop the other week and saw Trisco Muzak about 6 times, to which I laughted out loud/shook head etc every time to the bemusement of the other crate diggers.
I should have bought the lot and used for year end JC awards
IndustryStandard proof if anyone needs it that prog is dead.
nicksneddon social media has a lot to do with it along with the rebellion factor amongst the young I feel
Imagine not wanting a piece of this. What’s wrong with them.
Think young kids in the UK still go out. If any of the “Police after dark” docs are anything to go by, bars and city centres are still packed with people wanting to get blasted. Whether thats smaller pockets of activity vs the 90s/00s not too sure. Agree with Nick that kids have a lot more to entertain them now. They dont really need to go out anymore to pull. Just go on an app. Social Media and Camera phones keep them on their guard . My niece is 19 and at Uni and here social life is a million miles away from what mine was at her age/at Uni.
In a way the climate makes the clubs that are left loads better. All the chaff is gone. There were some right shitters I went to back in the day. Underground will never die etc etc
The club scene in London isn’t particularly great at the moment.
Tonnes going on don’t get me wrong but no way near as strong as it was.
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Quadrant park is comfortably if not the worst club I’ve ever been to. Absolute cesspit full of horrible horrible violent cunts robbing punters of everything.
Went to see Dave Ralph and John Kelly there on the back of their Shelley’s gigs. Massive mistake. People getting relieved of everything from their clothes to their drugs and money. We left after about 2hrs. That’s why it will never be revered as legendary in anywhere else but Liverpool.
Was outside Turnmills yesterday.
Which was nice.
Cankles-McJeggings
Never made it that far up North. I did goto a good rave at the Aston villa center in Birmingham & one in Nottingham.
The scene did definitely turn for the worst in the early 90’s when a lot of gangs got into parties. I can remember we were at rave at the Slough center and my mate got surrounded by group of black guys who tried nicking his trainers. He was so out it. His girlfriend clocked what was going on and stepped in to save him.
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It got real nasty at the hac between rival Manchester gangs but to be fair you didn’t see any of the violence on the inside of the club.
In all my time going to clubs I’ve only ever seen two lots of proper out of control violence. One was at a club called high society in Chester late 80s and the other quadrant park early 90s. Both at the hands of scousers and both fucking mentally brutal. Manchester I never saw a single thing although I did hear a gun go off in a club called konspiracy also late 80s. No one was hurt as it was shot into the ceiling. At the time we were all on trips so luckily it was not reported til we were leaving hours later. 