Old Niteclubs

melekalikimaka

fireworks, in the old firestation. El Mondo

SQ2

Any love for Club USI and The Kitchen?!

Thomas D

ongarboy wrote: »

That reminds me when I used to work at Spirals "see your face in dee place" disco in Tralee back in the early 90s. We had to serve curry and rice sometimes - there was some legal thing about it but I can't remember - granting of extension or something?

They had a dinner dancing licence which allowed them to stay open late. Depending on the local judge / cops they would enforce the dinner part of this. Utterly bizarre at times.

chopper6

SQ2 wrote: »

Any love for Club USI and The Kitchen?!

The Kitchen had its moments back in the late 90's.

Jumbo156

The Tube in the Ierne Ball Room, (alternative to the Apartment)
Casper and Gambinis , with the phones on the tables so you could ring your future wife, from a distance
Blinkers,
Joys
Sloopys
Rios

neamhspleachi

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

The castle,jets,the ormond and Colombia mills i used to frequent.a poster mentioned that the castle was "scummy" but that's not entirely true,the clientele was made up some very "colourful" characters it has to be said but it was a very rare occasion when trouble happened,the bouncers were headcases. i ventured into the blue banana in clondalkin one night,that was scummy.Nothing untoward happened me,but it made the castle look like an upmarket Manhattan cocktail bar.

I worked the door of both these particular venues as well as The Asylum & the Temple theatre, happy days, fond memories, mental scars

gugleguy

Heaven in Blanchardstown Shopping Complex, near the Gym. Later called Wings.

Sunnyisland

Back in the day I frequented quite regularly

Steers, red cow.
Blue banana ,clondalkin.
Rumours, o Connell st.
And on Monday nights there was one at the harp bar at o Connell bridge ??
Not forgetting them wine bars/clubs on lesson st.

Go anywhere for a late drink them days lol

Big Nasty

Major Toms used to be great for a go of a nurse of a Monday night.

gugleguy

realies wrote: »

Back in the day I frequented quite regularly


Not forgetting them wine bars/clubs on lesson st.

Go anywhere for a late drink them days lol

and buy a bottle of awful quality stuff for £ 15 which would cost easily a third of that in Tesco/Dunnes. Leeson Street you mean (me being the spelling nazi again )

chopper6

Anybody remember Sinner's on parlaiment st?

Not an nightclub as such but a Lebabnese restaurant that served wine til 6am.

They lost thier licence a couple of times and the wine was served in china1 teapots to be consumed from dainty little cups.

eisenberg1

gugleguy wrote: »

and buy a bottle of awful quality stuff for £ 15 which would cost easily a third of that in Tesco/Dunnes. Leeson Street you mean (me being the spelling nazi again )

Dubonnet and coke anyone?:D

Skill Magill

Still have my apartment membership card. I'd say I was about 15 judging by the picture, is it closed now?

Gyalist

chopper6 wrote: »

Anybody remember Sinner's on parlaiment st?

Not an nightclub as such but a Lebabnese restaurant that served wine til 6am.

They lost thier licence a couple of times and the wine was served in china1 teapots to be consumed from dainty little cups.

Jerry, the guy who owned Sinners, used to own Styx on Leeson Street before he opened Sinners. So no real surprise at the way the wine was served.

gugleguy

The Buddabar in Blanchardstown shopping mall close to the McDonald's drivethru. 2000 ish to 2005 ish. There was a large budda sculpture inside. It had an interesting mix of customers from Joe cool to Sid vicious. I remember going into the men's restroom and there was an 'argument' going on inside.

The Princess Bride

deelite wrote: »

Any chance that it was called Heartbreakers before it was called The End - or was there two night clubs there?

Definitely The End in late 80s/early 90s,then it closed down,I think.

Remember Gigis & Chichis(sp??) on Harcourt Street,early 90s?
Memories of heading to Lesson Street for sparkling wine before breakfast in the Manhattan.

Crazy nights/mornings!

The Wild Bunch

Bensons downstairs in the Parnell Mooney

Proper kip

melekalikimaka

gugleguy wrote: »

and buy a bottle of awful quality stuff for £ 15 which would cost easily a third of that in Tesco/Dunnes. Leeson Street you mean (me being the spelling nazi again )

cats and leggs and bucks, bucks now opens up into cats and has full bar, leggs, its 30 lids a bottle of plonk

Pinch Flat

Garda club.
Night owls in ranelagh
Itchy feet, terenure
The pink elephant

fleet_admiral

The Garda club is still there

I dont think anyone has mentioned the notorious Sachs yet

eisenberg1

Anyone remember Lord Johns?

Alf Veedersane

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Night owls in ranelagh

A classy spot.

Scrumpy Jack on tap.

Pinch Flat

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The Garda club is still there

Ok, was sold recently. Is it still open?

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/around-the-block-sale-of-garda-club-signals-end-of-an-era-1.1739117

Attended a 40th there a few years ago. Early 90s was one place to go for a bogger pre-coppers.

What was the place in templeogue at the roundabout?

Also mr pussys, nights at the gaiety were good for a late bar and salsa.

Sunnyisland

The Garda club, I forgot about that one...

Because they never let me in lol

SQ2

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The Garda club is still there

I dont think anyone has mentioned the notorious Sachs yet

Sachs! Brilliant! Wasn't a scene in the movie "Intermission" based on that place?

krankykitty

SQ2 wrote: »

Sachs! Brilliant! Wasn't a scene in the movie "Intermission" based on that place?

It was known as "Jurassic Park"

IRE60

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The Garda club is still there

I dont think anyone has mentioned the notorious Sachs yet

Sacks aka "jurassic park"

I also saw mention of itchy feet a serious - OMG.

If anyone is from that parish, what was the pub/club/disco bar where Blades is now - nearly sure the bar/club was owned by the late Paddy Belton?

IRE60

And and and...I frequented a club off St Ann street - up the lane opp Keoghs - Risk. A great place, very lively and a fire hazzard!

fleet_admiral

SQ2 wrote: »

Sachs! Brilliant! Wasn't a scene in the movie "Intermission" based on that place?

There was

krankykitty wrote: »

It was known as "Jurassic Park"

The front bar in the george is called jurassic park

Dublinflyer

realies wrote: »

The Garda club, I forgot about that one...

I met my wife in there, but neither of us will admit to that in public.

harry Bailey esq

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Bensons downstairs in the Parnell Mooney

Proper kip

i dunno,Bensons had its charms.especially if you were into ska.The door policy was quite 'loose' in fairness,i started to go there when i was 16,and i looked 16 too i might add

Dick Turnip

Someone mentioned The Kitchen earlier. I know it had its heyday in the 90s and was closed for years. I have a vague memory of it reopening 4/5 years back and I drunkenly ended up there one night. Is it closed now? I presume that The Liquor Rooms has taken the space occupied by The Kitchen just with the entraces switched from Essex St to the quays?

The Princess Bride

realies wrote: »

The Garda club, I forgot about that one...

Because they never let me in lol

Hated that place- too many nurses plus it was so big,it felt like a barn.

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Gyalist wrote: »

The strangest thing about old Dublin nightclubs was the slop that they called "curry" that they served at the end of the night.

Ha ha, it was something to do with the licence. Very weird.

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xzanti wrote: »

Anyone remember the name of the disco bar in Temple bar, I think it was on Crow Street? It had 2 entrances from different streets? Very pokey and the roof was really low but it was always pretty lively iirc..

I think you're talking about Danger Doyles with Switch underneath it in the basement, now known as The Mezz.

Remember Bodytonic had nights in the Tivoli? I can remember leaving the place at 6am a couple of times, one of them being after a huge warehouse rave down by The Point had been shut down earlier the same night.

Good times.

Johnwayne98

gugleguy wrote: »

Nightowls in Ranelagh? In it's heyday the Southside niteclub place to be.
Club Sarah in Rathfarnham village itself was notable up to the early '90s

Ahhh tamangos,manys a broken heart I left there

Johnwayne98

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Garda club.
Night owls in ranelagh
Itchy feet, terenure
The pink elephant

The grove in clontarf, are there any cureheads around?

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D2 was known as The Court
And Krystal was The Vatican

Johnwayne98

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Garda club.
Night owls in ranelagh
Itchy feet, terenure
The pink elephant

The grove in clontarf, are there any cureheads around?

gugleguy wrote: »

Nightowls in Ranelagh? In it's heyday the Southside niteclub place to be.
Club Sarah in Rathfarnham village itself was notable up to the early '90s

Ahhh tamangos,manys a broken heart I left there

branners69

Johnwayne98 wrote: »

Ahhh tamangos,manys a broken heart I left there

Johnwayne98 wrote: »

The grove in clontarf, are there any cureheads around?

Johnwayne98 wrote: »

Mimes nightclub at the seven oaks hotel in Carlow town, I've great memories of that place.

suicide_circus

Zanzibar
Parnell Mooney
Fireworks
Eamonn Dorans

Johnwayne98

nm wrote: »

Ha ha, it was something to do with the licence. Very weird.

At the end of the night the house lights would come on and the place wouldn't look half as good.

Johnwayne98 wrote: »

At the end of the night the house lights would come on and the place wouldn't look half as good.

The effect of the house lights coming on would make your Marilyn Monroe look like Marilyn Manson.

I remember the apartment nightclub because they used to play a dance version of the theme song to the children's programme'rainbow',at the time I thought it was the business.

Hootanany

Keyboard stuck ehh Johhny

eviltwin

Johnwayne98 wrote: »

The grove in clontarf, are there any cureheads around?

Spent a lot of time there as a teenager, graduated to Fibbers which is still around although I haven't been in there in years. Always preferred Fibbers to Bruxelles.

Spent a lot of time in the Back Gate just off Cathal Brugha St and the Parnell Mooney and a club on Leeson St called Velvet I think, it would have been in the mid 90's.

tricky D

branners69 wrote: »

Hootanany wrote: »

Keyboard stuck ehh Johhny

Please just use the Report post function, cheers.

OT and duplicate posts cleaned up

chopper6

Peg Woofingtons nassau st

Club M in Blooms Hotel

Some utter kip under the powerscourt centre whose name eludes me.

Tomato...very uncool

Dominion..a goth club upstairs in O'Connel st

Cerveja69

"The Mission", on Eustace st, used to go all the time, it was awful but the bouncers would let me in when I was 17.

chopper6

Cerveja69 wrote: »

"The Mission", on Eustace st, used to go all the time, it was awful but the bouncers would let me in when I was 17.

I thought the music in there was great..everybody was off thier faces though...acid and booze!

The Master

Walking down Tara St a few days ago and noticed the sign is still up for Fireworks

anncoates

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Night owls in ranelagh
Itchy feet, terenuret

Jaysus.