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Originally Posted by slimsid2000

What did you think to Isabellas?

It was very small. However at my age, I was just happy to find somewhere to get served.

They are a lot stricter now from what I see on West St.

Originally Posted by mrteabag

my first night club was club wow and i loved it wish it would re open

Was there every open night from start to finish. Good memories though.

[EdnaKrabappe]

Memories as a small child of going into Romeo and Juliets - all the red and blue velvet made it seem a very magical place.

Then Pop and crisps afternoon at Tiffanys! The silvery curtain to the dance floor made it seem a very special place to be!

I'd go to Harveys in Rotherham aged 16 and mainly remember getting off with men far too old to be getting off with 16 year old girls!

But the most amazing place i ever discovered was The Leadmill aged about 14. A place where i actually liked all the music they played! The toilets were seedy and you'd go down the stairs into this red cavern with grafitti all over the walls. I had a little cut out leadmill and used to make the barman travel along the wall and back....

Obviously i went through the Cairos and Josies phase like everyone did... never a big fan of Roxys though i did go to the hitman and her. It was too big.

I stopped going to nightclubs i hated aged about 23... i was in Europa once thought I don't like this music at all so thought right i'm going home!

I still have fond affection for the leadmill - although wish they still did more differentiated nights - but prefer DQ Threads these days and love going over to Manchester to visit South, which in my eyes is the perfect nightclub. A night at Corp on a Fri is a good laugh as well.

[mrteabag]

Originally Posted by *_ash_*

It was very small. However at my age, I was just happy to find somewhere to get served.

They are a lot stricter now from what I see on West St.

Was there every open night from start to finish. Good memories though.

thats what i mean ash it left good memories drunken ones but good all the same

[Grandad.Malky]

Crazy daisy, many years later I believe it changed to geisha bar, I can remember not being allowed it for wearing trainers.

The indignity of it I thought they dragged people into the Daisy, how times change.

[Mr_Squirrel]

Originally Posted by salster

My first nightclub was Rebels and the rest is history. No real impressions other than - ACE, where's the bar?

Ditto.........and a sad day when it closed, id love to see it re-open exactly as it was

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Originally Posted by mrteabag

thats what i mean ash it left good memories drunken ones but good all the same

Not quite what I meant but at least we [staff] created some enjoyment for a few others too.

[Hummybabe]

Club wow was the first one i went in and i loved it

[*_ash_*]

Originally Posted by Hummybabe

Club wow was the first one i went in and i loved it

woohoo!! another one

Did you ever get your drinks from the dance floor bar? It was the 2nd most popluar bar, bang opposite the DJ booth.

(and the best bar to get served in seconds, when the number one barman was working)

[nick2]

The first club I went to was The Limit on (or under) West Street, it was great.

[pleathwood]

Ah karisma in doncaster, how I love thee... let me count the steps. 4 floors of a spiral staircase and muchos dizzyness later your in. It sadly closed when they open that rubbish that is trilogy. Fond are the memories of mosh pits and windmills and hour long prodigy sessions, alas it is all gone now and my body just wont take the punishment it used to absorb

yes the floor was sticky and the beer was cheap and the girls (and boys) had pretty much every part of their body pierced. But ya know thats what I was into back then, great times.

[lyndix]

My first nightclub was Roxy`s. Them were the days!
I think the first time I went in I was taken aback with how loud and dark it was, but after getting bladdered it didn`t matter.
A few months ago I took my eldest to a club to pick up some money(the club was shut), when the owner arrived and we went in the place was in complete darkness, until he put the music on and the saturday night fever flashing dancefloor, to show my son how loud it was, and got a few lights going. My lad thought it was ace, the floor was vibrating it was so loud.

[KTHFB]

Originally Posted by EdnaKrabappe

Memories as a small child of going into Romeo and Juliets - all the red and blue velvet made it seem a very magical place.

Then Pop and crisps afternoon at Tiffanys! The silvery curtain to the dance floor made it seem a very special place to be!

I'd go to Harveys in Rotherham aged 16 and mainly remember getting off with men far too old to be getting off with 16 year old girls!

But the most amazing place i ever discovered was The Leadmill aged about 14. A place where i actually liked all the music they played! The toilets were seedy and you'd go down the stairs into this red cavern with grafitti all over the walls. I had a little cut out leadmill and used to make the barman travel along the wall and back....

Obviously i went through the Cairos and Josies phase like everyone did... never a big fan of Roxys though i did go to the hitman and her. It was too big.

I stopped going to nightclubs i hated aged about 23... i was in Europa once thought I don't like this music at all so thought right i'm going home!

I still have fond affection for the leadmill - although wish they still did more differentiated nights - but prefer DQ Threads these days and love going over to Manchester to visit South, which in my eyes is the perfect nightclub. A night at Corp on a Fri is a good laugh as well.

That was mine!!!! I remember thinking I was very grown up - though because I had braces, I thought everyone in the club could see me when the disco lights were on, so kept my mouth relatively shut for a few nights there, until I realised I had nothing to worry about.

[Ousetunes]

Nightclubs were only of any interest to me before I was old enough to venture into them. There was something 'grown up' about being in a club aged 16 or 17 but that novelty wore off the minute I turned 18. (Similarly I recall how disappointed I felt ordering my first legal pint; anti-climax of the century).

I wasn't awash with money back in the late-eighties and wasn't one for drinking huge amounts, so I rarely actually bought drinks once inside the club. (I thought they were taking the tiddle charging £1.10 a pint. I'd have my four pints beforehand and that would usually see me through - how times change....,)

I was always impressed with Isabella's. Maybe it was the neon lighting outside; it seemed quite sophisticated inside and there was the cocktail bar or cloakroom area if you wanted to speak to someone and be heard! I'd guess Isabella's, where all my friends seemed to have their 18th birthdays - was my favourite.

I quite liked Sinatra's although its clientel seemed more grown-up. Josephine's was THE place and getting past Jaws was a challenge in itself. The music was always lite-soul but the girls were certainly the best looking IMO. It too had the cocktail bar/restaurant with the piano. Sophisticated cool - I liked it.

Maximillion's was a bit like a Butlin's disco with the worst Budweiser I've ever tasted. The Roxy was a kennel where you wiped your feet on the way out (think Blackpool, think sticky carpets and people who should know better: 40 year old mums trying to be 17 year olds and wearing clothes ten sizes too small). Cairo Jax was okay but there was always a scrap in there.

There was also Al-E-Cats which seemed geared toward hip-hop. Its front bar was full of leering cab drivers IIRC.

It's safe to say, I was never too arsed about nightclubs and haven't been in one for probably ten years. Twas once a novelty; that novelty wore off and I'd prefer a day at the dentist's to a night in some club. Or if not the dentist's, some quiet little boozer with decent ale where you can hear yourself being heard.