London clubbing

alistair

This got me thinking. Snapshot of a typical week of clubbing in London in the mid 90’s which we took for granted and had choice on most nights This has to be considered its heyday. For three years (93-97) I had the best that Leeds had to offer (Basics, Ronson, Hard Times et al) and then London in the holidays and after

RichM

alistair some incredible mid week nights in London, happy days

Dan

alistair Loved Open All Hours with Billy Nasty, Darren Emerson and Jim Masters.

Mad_Cyril

Good times

alistair

Mad_Cyril its mad innit how good that week is for options

Along_the_Wire

What a time to be alive and all that. I’ve had to empty out our storage unit the past few weeks - it was £400 a fucking month and it was £180 a month when we first got it 7 years ago - found a load of fliers, an old picture disc 7” of Rock da House from The Gallery’s second birthday and my old memberships - great times.

nicksneddon

Along_the_Wire I have that disc as well i think - was that the night Oakenfold played?

benson

Alistair was in Leeds the same time as me as has not mentioned planet earth or uropa. The man knows nothing.

alistair

benson I also remember Monday nights at Ritzy’s unfortunately.

alistair

That Renaissance line up is class.

Heno

Living in Dublin I have to say I’d massive envy of the nights put on in London from then into the 00’s got over for some great nights, highlights like Turmills NYE around 02, Fabric’s 10 and 11 th birthday, The End closing and a good few Bedrock nights in Heaven, was a top place for a night out.

apyssjw

nicksneddon I wasn’t at the second birthday but he definitely played the third early on.

Along_the_Wire

nicksneddon Yup!

Hursty

Missed it all, Heaven Easter 2006 was my earliest, probably the best night I’ve had from what I remember

Wasily

Remember going to Milk Bar and seeing Nicky Holloway… early 90’s. Couldn’t put 2 tracks together to save his life, but was a great night as I recall.

bosstrabs

This was when I first started going out clubbing (I was 17). My cousin was 25 and living/working down in London and I visited him a few times. Saw Goldie at Blue Note and we did The Gallery @ Gurnmills quite often since he lived around Angel (in the days when it was affordable I suppose) and we could walk it back to his.

I used to have a stash of old Cream flyers from ’97-'99 which I collected, chucked them out in a house move which is a real shame, although it wasn’t London the line-ups were absolutely remarkable…

alistair

apyssjw Strokie always played 12-2 at the Gallery. Lightweight. Fair play to Judge Jules who always played 4-6 when I was spangled and everything sounded pretty good.

Cankles-McJeggings

I can’t even imagine having to listen to judge Jules. Absolute fucking garbage. Filed with Graham Gold.

alistair

Cankles-McJeggings The pills were strong back then!

Dan

alistair I’ve seen him once at Hollywoods (Judge Jules) and luckily for us that night he brought a record box full of decent strictly rhythm tracks. He then went full trance trousers and adopted a trumpet.

alistair

Room 2 was always good at the Gallery late on. Remember Mojo, Masiello and Fanciulli playing good sets in there not to mention Steve Lee and Lottie