Lads' holidays

[cloggypop]

27 minutes ago, John102 said:

What is it people hate about nightclubs? Ive always had great times in them. As long as you go to one that suits your musical tastes obviously.

 

All the girls are slags
And the beer tastes just like piss

[Paul]

37 minutes ago, John102 said:

What is it people hate about nightclubs? Ive always had great times in them. As long as you go to one that suits your musical tastes obviously.

 

Pretty much the only thing from my youth which I constantly miss. I’ve had countless incredible experiences when clubbing but I can’t see me ever setting foot in one again, despite the fact that I still love the music. 

[Paul]

13 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

All the girls are slags
And the beer tastes just like piss

You were going to the wrong clubs, mate. 

[Rico1304]

4 minutes ago, Paul said:

Pretty much the only thing from my youth which I constantly miss. I’ve had countless incredible experiences when clubbing but I can’t see me ever setting foot in one again, despite the fact that I still love the music. 

I can clearly remember the time I realised I was the oldest person in a club (42’s in Manchester). Horrific.  

[John102]

4 minutes ago, Paul said:

Pretty much the only thing from my youth which I constantly miss. I’ve had countless incredible experiences when clubbing but I can’t see me ever setting foot in one again, despite the fact that I still love the music. 

Im exactly the same. The last time i was was in a club was Fabric, wearing a wedding suit. 

 

I think the shame of looking round, seeing kids at least 10 years my junior staring at us, will stay with me for a while.

[Section_31]

I don't think clubs are around in the way they were are they? The young'uns are mainly into trendy bars designed to look like launderettes which you need a secret knock to get in and all that bollocks. The likes of Mr Smiths and Destiny and Elite and the likes got flattened years ago.

[John102]

1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

I can clearly remember the time I realised I was the oldest person in a club (42’s in Manchester). Horrific.  

Ha i just said the same. I couldnt even enjoy the drugs. I just wanted the world to swallow me up. I remember looking at people like me when i had started clubbing and thinking what sad people.

[Mook]

I knew my days of going to nightclubs were over the night I was dancing about like a fanny & bumped into my mate's Son.

 

I've had good nights in the nightclubs but have always been a pub person.

[Bruce Spanner]

Last time I was in a club was about 18 months ago, a young person club, not the normal sophisticated all night dive I usually frequent.

 

Anyway I was outside with a mate who was smoking and this thing approached me gesticulating and screaming, no idea why, he kept calling me 'Chad' and was very angry that I was on his 'patch'. So, yeah, I met a full blood incel who thinks an easily led dilettante* was a massive impediment to the sad, Monster guzzling fucknut finding a woman psychologically brittle enough to mate with it and wanted to fight over it...

 

I patted him on the head and asked for security to remove him, which they did, he was very angry.

 

*Married father of two who should have grown up by now.

 

 

[Shitty Arse]

I used to love going to clubs and raves, gigs festivals. I’m 45 now so way too old for clubs. You have to know when to hang your boots up.

The legacy of my partying days is that I now have bi-lateral hearing aids and tinnitus.

Turns out that ringing noise you’d get for a day or so afterwards can actually fuck your hearing up over time!

I’m guessing there are more people out there that slightly regret sticking their head in the tweeters at nightclubs when they were off their heads.

[Vincent Vega]

I went on “lads’” holidays from the age 18 to 31. They were halcyon days. The lads I went on holiday with were all school mates, mates for life. We’ve gone our separate ways since, but when we do meet up, those holidays we enjoyed together are still the main topic of conversation. The holidays were life affirming for us as a gang of mates.

[Paul]

20 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I don't think clubs are around in the way they were are they? The young'uns are mainly into trendy bars designed to look like launderettes which you need a secret knock to get in and all that bollocks. The likes of Mr Smiths and Destiny and Elite and the likes got flattened years ago.

I didn’t mean those kinds of Warehouse-type clubs (although I’ve had good nights at them too). I was thinking more of particular specialist club nights promoted at different venues. I think you’re right that clubbing is nothing like it was and I find it bizarre to see the way kids now treat a big name DJ playing like I would a gig; ie, all stood like a crowd watching the stage. Weird. 
 

However, there are (or were, pre-Covid) still some proper nights running all over the country where people go to dance. I still get a vicarious thrill watching nights at places like Deviation or Co-op on YouTube (which is the closest I’ll ever get now). 
 

I’ve been to legendary clubs like Soul II Soul, Fabric, Cream, Golden, Back To Basics, Renaissance, Metalheadz, That’s How It Is, etc and loved them all. However, there’s nothing like being a regular every week at an underground local club night like Make It Funky when I lived in Sheffield where you know everyone, or going to one-off parties like a Winston-Parrot modern soul night.
 

I absolutely fucking loved everything about clubbing and really miss it. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Paul said:

I didn’t mean those kinds of Warehouse-type clubs (although I’ve had good nights at them too). I was thinking more of particular specialist club nights promoted at different venues. I think you’re right that clubbing is nothing like it was and I find it bizarre to see the way kids now treat a big name DJ playing like I would a gig; ie, all stood like a crowd watching the stage. Weird. 
 

However, there are (or were, pre-Covid) still some proper nights running all over the country where people go to

dance. I still get a vicarious thrill watching nights at places like Deviation or Co-op on YouTube (which is the closest I’ll ever get now). 
 

I’ve been to legendary clubs like Soul II Soul, Fabric, Cream, Golden, Back To Basics, Renaissance, Metalheadz, That’s How It Is, etc and loved them all. However, there’s nothing like being a regular every week at an underground local

club night like Make It Funky when I lived in Sheffield where you know everyone or one-off parties like a Winston-Parrot modern soul night. I absolutely fucking loved everything about clubbing and really miss it. 

 

TL:DR The Kaz was great.

[Rico1304]

2 minutes ago, Paul said:

I didn’t mean those kinds of Warehouse-type clubs (although I’ve had good nights at them too). I was thinking more of particular specialist club nights promoted at different venues. I think you’re right that clubbing is nothing like it was and I find it bizarre to see the way kids now treat a big name DJ playing like I would a gig; ie, all stood like a crowd watching the stage. Weird. 
 

However, there are (or were, pre-Covid) still some proper nights running all over the country where people go to

dance. I still get a vicarious thrill watching nights at places like Deviation or Co-op on YouTube (which is the closest I’ll ever get now). 
 

I’ve been to legendary clubs like Soul II Soul, Fabric, Cream, Golden, Back To Basics, Renaissance, Metalheadz, That’s How It Is, etc and loved them all. However, there’s nothing like being a regular every week at an underground local

club night like Make It Funky when I lived in Sheffield where you know everyone or one-off parties like a Winston-Parrot modern soul night. I absolutely fucking loved everything about clubbing and really miss it. 

I’ve wanked on before about going to Paradise Factory from about 98-2001.  It was incredible, the music the people and drugs were all amazing.  Me and my mate would go out in the village, then queue to get in Paradise and then Manto’s for the after party. At some point someone must had had a word with the transvestite who controlled the door at Paradise that despite being straight we were ok and we were invited to become members. That led us into some fucking debauched situations, and 20 yrs later we still talk about it.  Seeing your mate leading 2 confirmed lesbians round a club by their nipple rings tends to stay with you. 

 

[Paul]

Ha, ha, ha!!! Fantastic!

[Bruce Spanner]

8 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

I’ve wanked on before about going to Paradise Factory from about 98-2001.  It was incredible, the music the people and drugs were all amazing.  Me and my mate would go out in the village, then queue to get in Paradise and then Manto’s for the after party. At some point someone must had had a word with the transvestite who controlled the door at Paradise that despite being straight we were ok and we were invited to become members. That led us into some fucking debauched situations, and 20 yrs later we still talk about it.  Seeing your mate leading 2 confirmed lesbians round a club by their nipple rings tends to stay with you. 

 

 

Then the mythical Press Club.

[Rico1304]

6 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Then the mythical Press Club.

What a shit hole.  Only went a few times, seem to remember a mate of mine nearly getting tuned in by a Bolton player.  
 

Edit: it was Kevin Davies in 2008.  I even started a thread about it. 

[Bruce Spanner]

7 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

What a shit hole.  Only went a few times, seem to remember a mate of mine nearly getting tuned in by a Bolton player.  

 

Odd, odd place, but you could leave a club and know that continuing drinking there was cheaper than getting a taxi home.

 

Positives, you'd meet some absolute fringe of society gold.

 

I used spend weekends haring around the NW and I miss it badly.

 

 

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Odd, odd place, but you could leave a club and know that continuing drinking there was cheaper than getting a taxi home.

 

Positives, you'd meet some absolute fringe of society gold.

 

I used spend weekends haring artound the NW and I miss it badly.

 

 

How’d you get in? We had a couple of teachers and one guy with a press card as he worked for MEN.  It went really dodgy later on before it shut.  I walked past on Wednesday and it’s some kind of members club now. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Rico1304 said:

How’d you get in? We had a couple of teachers and one guy with a press card as he worked for MEN.  It went really dodgy later on before it shut.  I walked past on Wednesday and it’s some kind of members club now. 

 

That'd be telling, Rico.

[tokyojoe]

Used to call them discos when I was a lad. Proper music and fit birds.

[Remmie]

2 hours ago, John102 said:

What is it people hate about nightclubs? Ive always had great times in them. As long as you go to one that suits your musical tastes obviously.

 

This is bang on. I am a staunch defender of Milton Keynes but you've got me absolutely bang to rights when it comes to criticising it's nightlife, though I can't say it was much better at uni in Preston. 

 

I really didn't/don't like dance, trance, rave or pop music and these seemed to be the main options. A rock club would be better music but weirdo clientèle and the women were usually rough. 

 

In Budapest I went to a couple open air nightclubs and they were fucking amazing with a huge variety of music and stunning women everywhere. That I could get behind. 

 

For someone who hates nightclubs I sure did go out in them a lot, the promise of getting rat arsed with mates and the beer goggles on was too compelling. But any good times usually seemed to be despite the club not because of it. 

 

My very rare forays into them in the past 10 years seem to suggest they aren't improving. Time to book a flight to Budapest. 

 

[mgw100]

I absolutely loved clubbing. Techno clubs, funk/soul clubs, indie clubs, had brilliant nights in all of them. Even mainstream music clubs can be a laugh. Sometimes dancing is a much more positive way to channel the effects of drink and/or drugs than just chatting pish. Although I like chatting pish too. 

 

It's right that it's a young man's game. On the very rare occasions I've done it in recent years, I just feel completely out of place and geriatric.

[Karl_b]

I've only been on a handful of "lad's holidays", and not of the typical sun and booze type, but I cherish them and wish I'd done more when I was younger. A lot of my mates when straight from school or college to work, but because I spent about 56 years at uni I didn't have the disposal income when they were at the peak of the lads holiday era, so missed out on a few. I've also always been more of a 'quiet pint in a real ale pub' kind of guy, so clubbing, etc was never my thing. 

 

The only "proper" one I did was to Benidorm about 10 years ago and, despite my hesitance, I loved it. Not because of the place, or the booze but because I was with my friends. Other than that there have been a handful of trips to Munich, Barcelona and Amsterdam which hold some of my fondest memories with my oldest friends. We still occasionally get to a music festival and as we all approach 40 we're starting to think about doing some trips again over the next few years.

[Section_31]

Spot on that last bit Karl, the quality of a lads' holidays depends entirely on who you're with. When we went to Magaluf we decided after the first night that pulling wasn't going to happen, this was early September and there was about 50 men to every woman, so we just decided to have a laugh instead. Didn't care what we were wearing, didn't care what we were dancing to, and it was class.