Night Clubs in Galway

Squeeonline

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Pretty much everything you have said is the very reason another club could work with the right conditions. There are 5or6 clubs who play the chart music you and the others you are talking about want, but you fail to realise there are many people who dont want or like that, just go to The Roisin 7nights a week to see that. For me and my friends a proper selection of good beers is important, none of drink vodkas and similar drinks as your crowd would so for us thats a major selling point, again this can be seen from how busy the likes of Salt House and Bierhaus are most nights. There is room for a club that offers something different but not one offering more of the same boredom, chart music, bad beer etc.

I agree.

I would love to see a Cuba* 2.0 like the old top floor or 903. It would need less kids, more alt. music, better selection on tap.

ben.schlomo

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Pretty much everything you have said is the very reason another club could work with the right conditions. There are 5or6 clubs who play the chart music you and the others you are talking about want, but you fail to realise there are many people who dont want or like that, just go to The Roisin 7nights a week to see that. For me and my friends a proper selection of good beers is important, none of drink vodkas and similar drinks as your crowd would so for us thats a major selling point, again this can be seen from how busy the likes of Salt House and Bierhaus are most nights. There is room for a club that offers something different but not one offering more of the same boredom, chart music, bad beer etc.

I can see your point and I do know there are plenty of people out there who would like an alternative but is there enough people who would like the same alternative if you get what I mean.

On the beers, I can see how a good beer choice can be popular in a pub but if you look around any night club almost nobody is drinking pints maybe an odd person having a bottle. I think (like me) most people have a feed of pints in the pubs throughout the evening and by the time you hit the club its time for a change as you get full of beer and something a bit easier to get down the hatch is usually in order.

kayos

From my point of view a venue that offers alternative music to main stream would be welcome. I know there is Kelly's/Monroes etc and they do bring in some nice acts etc but to me they just are not great club spaces. De Burgos was better imho even if tiny but I think that had a better feel to the place. Maybe I'm just so far out of touch I dont know these places any more. And no going to gpo/carbon to see a big dj has not been my idea of a good night for many years (bring back the post van!).

Many moons ago Salthil would have had Vaggabonds, Promenade, what ever the office was previously known as, setanta, oasis/liquid, the warrick and of course the castle. Trends and Rumors(I think) as well but a bit before my time :P. Jesus nearly forgot CJ's. Ok not all of them were all open at the same time but at least 5/6 active at most times. But what the number of club's offered was a range in music. Sorry but main stream music and bars nick named "the cattle mart" is not everyone's idea of clubbing. Some want to break out the glow sticks, run around chasing little white pill's while listening to repetitive music. Other's want to stage dive off a piano in the most grubby of Metalica t-shirts and lose a doc martin along the way. Each knew where they could do any of the above on pretty much any night of the week.

ben.schlomo

Donovan Hot Pasteboard wrote: »

I can see your point and I do know there are plenty of people out there who would like an alternative but is there enough people who would like the same alternative if you get what I mean.

On the beers, I can see how a good beer choice can be popular in a pub but if you look around any night club almost nobody is drinking pints maybe an odd person having a bottle. I think (like me) most people have a feed of pints in the pubs throughout the evening and by the time you hit the club its time for a change as you get full of beer and something a bit easier to get down the hatch is usually in order.

Each to their own of course but for me i enjoy drinking proper beers, not just going out to get drunk on fizzy lager muck served in all but a few pubs. One reason i stopped going to the likes of Halo was that every 2nd pint you would get was 'off' and the choice was shocking, at least the majority of late bars have some mid point i.e Paulaner, Hooker etc.

ben.schlomo

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Each to their own of course but for me i enjoy drinking proper beers, not just going out to get drunk on fizzy lager muck served in all but a few pubs. One reason i stopped going to the likes of Halo was that every 2nd pint you would get was 'off' and the choice was shocking, at least the majority of late bars have some mid point i.e Paulaner, Hooker etc.

I'm not a larger fan myself either, Guinness or Smithwicks are my beers of choice (just not in a club),

MadYaker

I was downstairs in the cellar on paddys day and it was actually very good. I was fairly sloshed so i can't remember exactly what the music was but i think it was all cool electro/house and they gave out loads of free glowsticks! I would love a club that played slightly less mainstream stuff. Carbon on the odd thursday night have djs who play a lot of hard electro/techno which is really good but id love a club entirely dedicated to it. Upstairs in Cuba did the trick alright. The roisin strikes a good balance imo, if you want to sit down and have a pint you can, if you want dance your ass off you can.

empacher

Carbon play electro/house/drum and bass every Thursday. 3€ Jager Bombs can't complain.

Reason no nightclub do a heavy Alt night is that it doesn't fill a nightclub. Only places it can fill are the smaller places like downstairs in the cellar or De Brugos.

People complaining about not having enough of a beer selection is.

1. Extra Taps take up extra room on the bar counter. Which makes it harder to serve the more popular double vodka red bulls etc.

2. That beer is generally less none so drank less. So it wastes space in a eg room.

3. Because it's drank less people will complain it doesn't taste right because its being in the lines for a bit. Plus you'll waste some, more so then the other beers at the start testing the lines.

4. Most require a specialty glass, leading to more complaints about not having the glass.

5. As for specialty beers its space in the fridge that is already precious.

ben.schlomo

empacher wrote: »

Carbon play electro/house/drum and bass every Thursday. 3€ Jager Bombs can't complain.

Reason no nightclub do a heavy Alt night is that it doesn't fill a nightclub. Only places it can fill are the smaller places like downstairs in the cellar or De Brugos.

People complaining about not having enough of a beer selection is.

1. Extra Taps take up extra room on the bar counter. Which makes it harder to serve the more popular double vodka red bulls etc.

2. That beer is generally less none so drank less. So it wastes space in a eg room.

3. Because it's drank less people will complain it doesn't taste right because its being in the lines for a bit. Plus you'll waste some, more so then the other beers at the start testing the lines.

4. Most require a specialty glass, leading to more complaints about not having the glass.

5. As for specialty beers its space in the fridge that is already precious.

All of the above can be easily overcome if thats the ethos you open your business with. If you are going down the alternative music,drinks route then thats what you do. I watch and laugh every time someone orders Bud or Heineken in the Salt House and they are left clueless when they are told they dont have them.:p

paulhannon

Slightly off topic:

I hate that someone complains about a club playing music you don't know! Surely there was a time when you didn't know the songs you know now? Unless of course you were born pre-programmed with a selection of "hits".

Kinda think it's sad people can be so closed minded with music, it's almost like some people need permission from the radio before they can like a new song.

Galway was a great place for people that wanted to hear new/alternative stuff. Getting *****d drunk and listening to Katy Perry tell you about some Friday night out she once had is now the essential part to a "Grrraaaatttee nite" (Based on what my experience was 15/16 months ago).

lopppy

Tbh I really can't see room for another nightclub, and definitely not one with a capacity like CPs. I'm 21 and a student from Galway city, in the last maybe 2 years there's been a huge amount of price competition that never really existed before. It mainly started with Club K's tasty 4.50 double vodka red bulls.. now coyotes do all drinks 2 euro a few nights a week, CP are becoming very competitive, as is Carbon which is booming these days.

The front door with its late week long licence is taking a lot of the older college crowd the last few months, and has introduced a 21+ policy, gets a lot of final years/postgrads. Halo is doing well at weekends now I believe, they've either got a 4am licence or are just ignoring the law, wouldn't surprise me given their tax evading ways of the past.

Not sure if I can see CPs staying open unless Factory/Halo/Townhouse props them up. It seems like it takes them a year to adapt to the market; in terms of price, image, music, social networking etc.

ciano1

lopppy wrote: »

The front door with its late week long licence is taking a lot of the older college crowd the last few months, and has introduced a 21+ policy,

I dunno what the story is with that 21+ policy.
They introduced and got rid of it a few weeks later!

Doc Ruby

lis2 wrote: »

its just its the same thing every night and I guess people get tired of the same thing.

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Deleted User wrote: »

music that isn't too loud that you can't have a decent conversation

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What I'd like to see would be a decent theme bar or club, a blues bar would be great for example. Seems like everywhere you go these days the atmosphere and offerings are pretty similar.

Doc Ruby

bobbytables wrote: »

Imagine the **** the bouncers would have to deal with as the average amount of alcohol consumed on premesis would likely increase along with the fights associated with "that dickhead robbed my cans".

In theory it's a great idea though. I just don't think it would work here. Imagine around the time the bar closes the defence/attack the stashes drama that would occur.

How about if you could pre-order drinks online at a discount and use your club card to pay for them, that would be different.

ben.schlomo

Doc Ruby wrote: »

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What I'd like to see would be a decent theme bar or club, a blues bar would be great for example. Seems like everywhere you go these days the atmosphere and offerings are pretty similar.

Sure Muddy Mahers was exactly that and went down the pan quite quickly.

Doc Ruby

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Sure Muddy Mahers was exactly that and went down the pan quite quickly.

I guess Galway doesn't have the population for a specialist bar like that. I was reading in the paper today that 250 pubs have closed down countywide, which was 40%? The story wasn't too clear on the percentage, but its sad when a city of 100,000 people doesn't have at least one or two more unusual watering holes.