The latest from Fuel:

Over the few weeks we r @ at plug we r in the neutral room (opp kebab shop)! we r looking 4 new venues/nights for a permanent home, if u know of 1 let us know!

simply some local "joe" with a decent education putting together a measured case in point.:)

LOL - "a measured case in point" ?

Lets stop being mardy, the venue has gone but it lives on and to be honest Friday and Saturday are the busiest nights, most people dont even bother clubbing on a week night!

Well thats not true, I see quite a few in Dempseys on a Wednesday and Thursday night.

Get out on Saturday support the venue, support the company to ensure that Fuel can provide us with bigger and better facitilities and being the leader in attracting other Gay Venues to Sheffield City Centre.

Crikey where do I start with this one, they came to Sheffield and promised us the "bees knees" in best club in Sheffield, etc etc blah blah, it started off well, 7 days a week clubbing, they had a brilliant night on a Monday - Cabaret night which soon vanished, and where are they now with their "wow factor for gay scene in Sheffield" --> down to 2 nights and in another club Plug.

Not exactly providing us with something new.

I think I will stick to Dempseys/Xes, after all they are always going to be there no matter what comes along.

Rant over, back to my sandwich. :)

Oh just remembered they are open less hours now, used to be open from 9pm, then it went to 10pm so people couldnt get in free, and now in Plug its open from 10.30 :o:o

Well thats not true, I see quite a few in Dempseys on a Wednesday and Thursday night.


Crikey where do I start with this one, they came to Sheffield and promised us the "bees knees" in best club in Sheffield, etc etc blah blah, it started off well, 7 days a week clubbing, they had a brilliant night on a Monday - Cabaret night which soon vanished, and where are they now with their "wow factor for gay scene in Sheffield" --> down to 2 nights and in another club Plug.

Not exactly providing us with something new.

You have to look at each individual night and see wether its viable to open on that night , i suspect the caberet night wasn't working (even thought people like yourself liked it ).

The unit on eyre st is quite large , i can imagine it would cost a lot to run , where as in comparison dempseys /x's are a lot more smaller ,therefore their cost's will be lower.

A lot of clubs don't open on (poor turnout nights) because its not commercially viable , so you have to concentrate your resources
on the night's that do work .

You have to look at each individual night and see wether its viable to open on that night , i suspect the caberet night wasn't working (even thought people like yourself liked it ).

The unit on eyre st is quite large , i can imagine it would cost a lot to run , where as in comparison dempseys /x's are a lot more smaller ,therefore their cost's will be lower.

A lot of clubs don't open on (poor turnout nights) because its not commercially viable , so you have to concentrate your resources
on the night's that do work .

Spoken like a true manager...

Whenever I went to Fuel I found myself wading in ankle deep empty glasses while the bar staff danced on an alcohol soaked bar waving sparklers about. If you are paying over the odds to go in a club there are standards people expect to keep them coming back.

Sheffield's gay scene needs Fuel, but personally paying over the odds to dance on glass to the same songs every week isn't for me.

Climax is just the same - I went recently and it was still playing the same songs as the time I went two years previously....

Any nightclub only gets regulars by making sure it's presentation, music, prices and atmosphere are second to none....

I've been going to fuel Sheffield since it first opened.

Fuel did get worse as time went on. I still went to Fuel right up to last weekend. Since I herd about what happened on Thursday I got an email from a friend directing me to the forum. I read peoples comments about what they thought about fuels time at the last premises. And thought I would try to add some constructive comments.

I’ve been thinking back to what changes had occurred over the 2 years that could have well contributed to the downfall of that venue.

I noticed that after about 6 months after fuel started there was a general thinning of dancers. Dancers always were good for adding atmosphere to the club. I think the first to go was a guy called Bobby. Then they did away with things such as the drink dispenser thing, where they would strap it to a staff member, & get them to pump drink into unsuspecting punters.

I know that these few points seem quite small at this point. But now I’m going to mention the one & biggest mistakes fuel made THE REFERB

I’m not slating the look of the job. It’s just that the new layout didn’t work. I work as an interior designer.

I’ve worked on many nightclubs over the past 10 years.
First mistake was to do a re-feb whilst your club is partially open.
Also why get rid of the dance pods?
I thought that the stage area worked great as a layout.

Instead now all that dancers were given in place of the pods was a small white box about 1 x 2 meters. Then the only pod they had left [to the right hand side of main bar] didn’t even have access by the public. Let alone any dancers working on the thing.

I don’t think the other side was re-done too bad. But then again not much changed other than a curtain & extra sound system. I do understand that with any project money comes into it. But if I had had my chance I would have just simply re-decorated. The cheesy pop was ok up to 12pm. The only thing with segregating the building is that you will ultimately find one side that more people will migrate to. This will put the other out of bounds. Personally I preferred the main area. But as time went on I had to move permanently into the cheesy pop side. This was because the other side was empty.

I must say that I was upset to here the news about the shutdown, and hope that Fuel will continue to thrive in Plug.

These comments I hope have been seen as constructive criticism. Fuel needs its atmosphere back. We need to see a Gayam. We need to see more dancers. I think that Niel ought to contact all these people & get them back in position for 10:30pm Saturday 11th.
Fuel runs on a happy carefree attitude. If all the staff are bighting there nails, thinking they could get sacked for any small reason, then this is going to rub off on the people clubbing there

I will personally be there on Saturday to support the club. And Baywatch is still on.
Good luck Fuel.Xxx

You have to look at each individual night and see wether its viable to open on that night , i suspect the caberet night wasn't working (even thought people like yourself liked it ).

The unit on eyre st is quite large , i can imagine it would cost a lot to run , where as in comparison dempseys /x's are a lot more smaller ,therefore their cost's will be lower.

A lot of clubs don't open on (poor turnout nights) because its not commercially viable , so you have to concentrate your resources
on the night's that do work .

Must say words you expect form a Manager of a club, but can see your point as well, Xes did the same, they close now during the week on some nights and opened late, which is what Fuel did, I hope Xes doesnt go down the same route.

These comments I hope have been seen as constructive criticism. Fuel needs its atmosphere back. We need to see a Gayam. We need to see more dancers. I think that Niel ought to contact all these people & get them back in position for 10:30pm Saturday 11th.
Fuel runs on a happy carefree attitude. If all the staff are bighting there nails, thinking they could get sacked for any small reason, then this is going to rub off on the people clubbing there


Good points, but will never happen, I certainly missed Gayham and it lost something when he wasnt there.

Anyway time for me to go support the Gay Scene (Dempseys here I come :banana:)

we may as well just all call ourselves "queens"

Who dear, us dear? No, dear!!

Spoken like a true manager...

im NOT a manager , just someone trying to give a logical answer to a point which was raised ! :loopy:

I've been going to fuel Sheffield since it first opened.

Fuel did get worse as time went on. I still went to Fuel right up to last weekend. Since I herd about what happened on Thursday I got an email from a friend directing me to the forum. I read peoples comments about what they thought about fuels time at the last premises. And thought I would try to add some constructive comments.

I’ve been thinking back to what changes had occurred over the 2 years that could have well contributed to the downfall of that venue.

I noticed that after about 6 months after fuel started there was a general thinning of dancers. Dancers always were good for adding atmosphere to the club. I think the first to go was a guy called Bobby. Then they did away with things such as the drink dispenser thing, where they would strap it to a staff member, & get them to pump drink into unsuspecting punters.

I know that these few points seem quite small at this point. But now I’m going to mention the one & biggest mistakes fuel made THE REFERB

I’m not slating the look of the job. It’s just that the new layout didn’t work. I work as an interior designer.

I’ve worked on many nightclubs over the past 10 years.
First mistake was to do a re-feb whilst your club is partially open.
Also why get rid of the dance pods?
I thought that the stage area worked great as a layout.

Instead now all that dancers were given in place of the pods was a small white box about 1 x 2 meters. Then the only pod they had left [to the right hand side of main bar] didn’t even have access by the public. Let alone any dancers working on the thing.

I don’t think the other side was re-done too bad. But then again not much changed other than a curtain & extra sound system. I do understand that with any project money comes into it. But if I had had my chance I would have just simply re-decorated. The cheesy pop was ok up to 12pm. The only thing with segregating the building is that you will ultimately find one side that more people will migrate to. This will put the other out of bounds. Personally I preferred the main area. But as time went on I had to move permanently into the cheesy pop side. This was because the other side was empty.

I must say that I was upset to here the news about the shutdown, and hope that Fuel will continue to thrive in Plug.

These comments I hope have been seen as constructive criticism. Fuel needs its atmosphere back. We need to see a Gayam. We need to see more dancers. I think that Niel ought to contact all these people & get them back in position for 10:30pm Saturday 11th.
Fuel runs on a happy carefree attitude. If all the staff are bighting there nails, thinking they could get sacked for any small reason, then this is going to rub off on the people clubbing there

I will personally be there on Saturday to support the club. And Baywatch is still on.
Good luck Fuel.Xxx

fair comments there horneyguy , i hope they take some of the stuff on board for the future .:)

It was ok until they split the room into 2, although at first this sounded a good idea, it just didnt seem to work, hardly anywhere to sit down as well.

I remember ages ago someone posted on this thread saying Fuel was moving, and then the post got deleted, maybe they knew something we didnt at the time :huh:

I agree. It did not work splitting the club into two rooms. Although they did listen to requests and had two types of music on both Friday's and Saturday's, but what they ended up with, was always one room full and the other empty with one being a normal room and the other being the original chillout area with a very small dancefloor. It seemed to lose the magic and majority of its crowd after the first year.

I don't think anyone would argue that splitting the venue into two was, in the long run, detrimental to the place. Problem is once it's done it's done and there was no way back.

That is one of the things I certainly think will be a learning curve and a major consideration in the future.

On the good side my wallet is slightly lighter without the fuel card.

Just like to say big thank you to all the girls and guys that have said you and cant wait till tomorow anyone else that has slagged us off good luck to ya and I hope you find what your looking for any how u all know so much!! maybe you should open a club your self after 2 years of telling us how to do it, what we do wrong and how crap we are!!!!!!!. At the end of the day there are only a few of you who post here luckily most of the scene know this, and laugh!!!. Any how see you all soon, where all your dreams will come true, to all of u that have told me u read this **** but canonot be bothered replying to it good night, god bless lets party tomorrow xxx By the way FUEL is still going!!! and will see ya at PLUG (the enterance by Chicken Bar YES oh My GOD an enterance next to a kebab shop !!!!!!!) XXX

if you watn to have a moan or a bitch or help us out then come and talk to me face to face. I am at Lions Lair every day just ask for me my name is
Niall or you can email me @ niall@fuel-sheffield.co.uk or you can call me on my mobile 24/7 07955204315 xx

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Any nightclub only gets regulars by making sure it's presentation, music, prices and atmosphere are second to none....

exactly - climax has got it JUST right. :love:

Just like to say big thank you to all the girls and guys that have said you and cant wait till tomorow anyone else that has slagged us off good luck to ya and I hope you find what your looking for any how u all know so much!! maybe you should open a club your self after 2 years of telling us how to do it, what we do wrong and how crap we are!!!!!!!. At the end of the day there are only a few of you who post here luckily most of the scene know this, and laugh!!!. Any how see you all soon, where all your dreams will come true, to all of u that have told me u read this **** but canonot be bothered replying to it good night, god bless lets party tomorrow xxx By the way FUEL is still going!!! and will see ya at PLUG (the enterance by Chicken Bar YES oh My GOD an enterance next to a kebab shop !!!!!!!) XXX

what a lot of incomprehensible, nonsensical, babble.

are you off your head, dear?
:suspect:

my good god. oh how the tables have turned.

lets hope that fuel do the decent thing here, and move on out of sheffield.

james behind the bar was the downfall of the place. he clearly eats enough, why oh why didnt he munch his way through the partition wall?

whilst ever he is on board, fuel is guaranteed to be a sinking ship.

Just like to say big thank you to all the girls and guys that have said you and cant wait till tomorow anyone else that has slagged us off good luck to ya and I hope you find what your looking for any how u all know so much!! maybe you should open a club your self after 2 years of telling us how to do it, what we do wrong and how crap we are!!!!!!!. At the end of the day there are only a few of you who post here luckily most of the scene know this, and laugh!!!. Any how see you all soon, where all your dreams will come true, to all of u that have told me u read this **** but canonot be bothered replying to it good night, god bless lets party tomorrow xxx By the way FUEL is still going!!! and will see ya at PLUG (the enterance by Chicken Bar YES oh My GOD an enterance next to a kebab shop !!!!!!!) XXX

:suspect::suspect:oh shut up

Just like to say big thank you to all the girls and guys that have said you and cant wait till tomorow anyone else that has slagged us off good luck to ya and I hope you find what your looking for any how u all know so much!! maybe you should open a club your self after 2 years of telling us how to do it, what we do wrong and how crap we are!!!!!!!. At the end of the day there are only a few of you who post here luckily most of the scene know this, and laugh!!!. Any how see you all soon, where all your dreams will come true, to all of u that have told me u read this **** but canonot be bothered replying to it good night, god bless lets party tomorrow xxx By the way FUEL is still going!!! and will see ya at PLUG (the enterance by Chicken Bar YES oh My GOD an enterance next to a kebab shop !!!!!!!) XXX



This coming from the manager of the place? what a fantastic proffesional example to set??? :loopy:

When we bitch like we are doing on this thread is there any wonder why we dont have a decent gay scene, well i suppose it is marginally better than the scene in doncaster where i lived previously. i think this thread has answered the reason why sheffield doesnt have a gay pride as some people probably not support it and some people would bitch that it wasnt what they expected and not give a thought about the people who had spent months organising it, its easy to attend such an event but organising it requires dedication and hard work. before anyone starts i do go out on the scene when i can afford to and have been in fuel, dempseys, lions lair and xes. i stopped going to a fuel after a while as the people i go out with tend to go to dempseys or xes, but i dont come on here n voice the other reasons why i didnt go in fuel as much as it is personal choice and cant be bothered to join in with the constant bitching and slagging off. if me and my housemate go out tonight, then we will probably try fuel at plug and see what it is like.

Just like to say big thank you to all the girls and guys that have said you and cant wait till tomorow anyone else that has slagged us off good luck to ya and I hope you find what your looking for any how u all know so much!! maybe you should open a club your self after 2 years of telling us how to do it, what we do wrong and how crap we are!!!!!!!. At the end of the day there are only a few of you who post here luckily most of the scene know this, and laugh!!!. Any how see you all soon, where all your dreams will come true, to all of u that have told me u read this **** but canonot be bothered replying to it good night, god bless lets party tomorrow xxx By the way FUEL is still going!!! and will see ya at PLUG (the enterance by Chicken Bar YES oh My GOD an enterance next to a kebab shop !!!!!!!) XXX

:o:o:o I am sat here in amazement that a manager has typed this, were you drunk at the time ?

You wont win many people over with this incredible post will you, as far as the scene laughing at us, I feel now its the otherway round, they are laughing at YOU.

I can remember a while back you want to hear good and bad points, but obviously you dont want to hear the bad points anymore, yes a few ex-sacked bar staff/dj`s/entertainers are on this thread having a good old laugh, but you expect that from them basically.

Just lost for words, at least we wouldnt get this nonsense from Dempseys and Xes would we from their management, I bet they have a good old laugh when they find your post.

Well I'm certainly laughing! :hihi:

:o:o:o I am sat here in amazement that a manager has typed this, were you drunk at the time ?

You wont win many people over with this incredible post will you, as far as the scene laughing at us, I feel now its the otherway round, they are laughing at YOU.

I can remember a while back you want to hear good and bad points, but obviously you dont want to hear the bad points anymore, yes a few ex-sacked bar staff/dj`s/entertainers are on this thread having a good old laugh, but you expect that from them basically.

Just lost for words, at least we wouldnt get this nonsense from Dempseys and Xes would we from their management, I bet they have a good old laugh when they find your post.

peter, dear, i hope you are not implying my friend was sacked from anywhere...

im afraid, ever since he said NO to your advances... your attitude has become rotten. :loopy::gag:

in future, may i ask that you act your age please?

:rant:

peter, dear, i hope you are not implying my friend was sacked from anywhere...
im afraid, ever since he said NO to your advances... your attitude has become rotten. :loopy::gag:
in future, may i ask that you act your age please?
:rant:

I think you are living in dream land with your comments. But expected from you.

I think you are living in dream land with your comments. But expected from you.

no peter, you are not only making false claims about people, you are showing yourself to be completely ridiculous, as you do on maNy other websites ie. fitlads.

its a sad day when, a gent in their 60s has to behave in such a manner. :loopy::loopy: grow the hell up.

Mod Note

What is it with you people?

We ask that you keep the bitching off here. You clearly seem incapable of doing that.

Closing.