What's everyones favourite club / night that no longer exists. Showing my age I'm gonna say La Discotheque and UK/DT. And yes I realise that these venues aren't strictly speaking 'old school' but you know...

The Site (across from the Roxy ... err the Arena)

this was the best venue - but no money was ever spent on upgrading it and then it was bought out by the chinese.

UK/DT - M25 - OUT. I don't care what anyone thinks but I have always loved this venue. Such a waste.

Malaria - the side room of the tube. Saw a wicked D'nB set from Matt Kitshon there years ago. And 2 females (can't recall their name) did a fantastic live set in there. They were stark bollock naked apart from yellow and orange bodypaint. The vibe was electric (not cras!) and they were fucking great!

Sunnyside up! Was another great place.

The Site
The Tube
Out (old heaven)

The Site
The Living Room @ The Tube
UK/DT - i agree a huge waste, and currently up for sale (mikolaj, could this be why the thread has started ? are your employers up to something?i hope so!)

Ja Ja's was my fave.

oh the memories.

someone pls bring it back...pls....wake me from this horrible nightmare

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Originally posted by JayP
UK/DT - i agree a huge waste, and currently up for sale (mikolaj, could this be why the thread has started ? are your employers up to something?i hope so!)

Nah, nothing like that, just courious. Anyone remember the double decker bus at UK/DT and things people used to get up to in there

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Originally posted by dre00
Ja Ja's was my fave.

oh the memories.

someone pls bring it back...pls....wake me from this horrible nightmare

what's was ja's ja's like?

what sorta muzik?

i went there once at its near end and it was pretty bare but had an awesome setup...

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Originally posted by dre00
Ja Ja's was my fave.

oh the memories.

Agreed!

Grand Orbit
La Discoteque


8-)

The Capitol

i thought La Discotheque was pretty cool


cheesy glowing art, nice and dark.... they had these really really fucken hilarious drink coasters and posters once... saying that they were bringing out Chemical Brothers and others...

best April Fools prank ever... my girlfriend of the time got all excited for days and i was too mean to burst her bubble.

that was a fair while ago though. i guess i can only span back like 10 years here... some of you guys go back 20... thats wild

interesting to hear some 2 decade ago stories.... heh

I remember seeing similar April Fools flyers in Melbourne in about '97/'98 dri... entry to said event - "your first born son"

mine were universal ( before it became the strip club) and underground big wog venues ha ha ha ha

Babble On

The Pit (downstairs Embassy)

the site (100%!!!)
van gough's earlobe (aka capitol)
babble-on (with the pool tables)
metropolis (myer centre!! my first rave adrenalin ...)
velvet beetroot, euphoria (81 elizabeth st ... muahaha)

fezz did you know that sunnyside up had a couple of reunions lately at the empire ... viva pablo and ravi!

The Empire Corner Bar (pre Pokies)

That place used to ROCK ! I have met some of my fave "clubbing buddies" there & we still kick it 2 this day.

I also Loved The Site & The Tube. I remember scaling the fence @ The Site 2 get in coz I was a little underage, but that was back in the dayz b4 Card 18+ & every other w/e u could get in no worries.

aahhh the lovely memories - can u believe that was 10 years ago ?

The Chelsea/Out...whatever you wanna call it rocked.
Rosa St......house parties galore
La Discoteque...oh baby, the sweat box!!!

*cue Babs Streisand voice*

Memories light the corner of my mind.
Misty water color memories
Of the way we were.

Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind,
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were.

Can it be that it was all so simple then,
Or has time rewritten every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again,
Tell me? would we? could we?
Memories may be beautiful and yet,
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget.
So it's the laughter
We will remember,
Whenever we remember

Sugar, I didn't relaise they had these reunions - pray do tell!!
The way we were;
The way we were.

Im only 20....but Id have to say JaJa's...

....my first 33 and 1/3 was there with Freq. Nasty....they had awseome DnB nights on Wed....

also seeing Ricemeister do a semi-prog set was wll wicked

oh this is easy...

Babbleon and maybe the Embassy if i was bored of that
umm... mebbe Lands Office Hotel too.
and La Discoteque of course.
Van Gough's Ear Lobe was a interstinf venue ... thought not really a club per se


MSG ends

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Originally posted by custaro
I remember seeing similar April Fools flyers in Melbourne in about '97/'98 dri... entry to said event - "your first born son"

whoa

thats a pretty exclusive entry policy


wonder what u had to do to get on the door?

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Originally posted by fezzwah
[BSugar, I didn't relaise they had these reunions - pray do tell!!
The way we were;
The way we were. [/b]

about once every three months fezz, in the middle bar....

i was a bit of a sunnyside up regular back in the day too.....

ahhhhh joints on the balcony listening to ravi.....gees it was a bit of a different looking venue back then though !

The Capitol was very cool - getting away from electronic music, i saw Bikini Kill there when I was very underage..

ARGH amazing.

- specimen

fezz, the 10 year reunion was in late december 02 ... i think they had anotherie in january?? or will styles at least played at the empire late january ... yeh jayp ... back in the day ... hehe.

The Site
Metropolis - can someone remember the name because i couldnt!

Grand Orbit, what an immense venue, my favourite by far!

heheh i saw Jeremy Healy play at Grand Orbit


......and Base-X!!! Now who could forget them

Went to a Vibes on a Summer's Day at Grand Orbit. Jestofunk, and some Ninja Tune DJs. Can't remeber anyone else. But it WAS damn good!!!

Yeh Jesus - those old Vibes lineups were awesome!!!!
I remember they had like giles peterson, propellerheads, dj Krush, pretty much all the wall of sound artists, and plenty of ninja dj's in the past also! Pity the parties werent always packed out tho..

Nga, you got it all wrong

It'd be nice to see Mr Hannay (is that how it's spelt) re-open heaven and technomad and really make a fist of things but the scene ain't quite ready for it yet I guess.

Mikolaj, is this a conspiracy thread, to find out about which was brissie's favourite night spot of old so it can be bought by someone who is rather cashed up? (wouldn't that be nice)

Who's your daddy Mikolaj?

as mentioned in a similar thread...

- transformers! loved the industrial look!
- sybils.. i swear family was modelled on this club
- out - the idea of having a dance club in a church sounded like the biggest piece of blasphemy at the time! lol

Cloudland
Knights
Hollywood's
Swizzles (strip club where the Myer Centre is now).
Silver Dollar
The Beat (oh - hang on - that's still there)

And my first Vibes at The Waterloo Hotel.

Ja-Ja's

Living Room @ The Tube (espec Rouseys sets!)

System 6 when it was Friday AND Saturday EVERY weekend

Eurobar (the Trade event was great..)

and the old corner bar of Empire on wednesday nights was soo fun!

The Eurobar - wasn't that a side room at the Roxy? Kinda billed as Brisbane's first Supa-Club

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Originally posted by specimen
The Capitol was very cool - getting away from electronic music, i saw Bikini Kill there when I was very underage..

ARGH amazing.

- specimen

The first time I went to Van Gough's Earlobe was to see Grin'n'Tonic's production of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream"!

Then there were a couple of Feelin' Freaky Discotheques, a Psy-Harmonics label night & a Mad Professor gig! And all within walking distance on my place!

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Originally posted by Mikolaj


Nah, nothing like that, just courious. Anyone remember the double decker bus at UK/DT and things people used to get up to in there

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How could i forget?!?!?!

got gum all over the ass of my brand new suede hipster flares up on the dang bus!

I would have to say :

Alarm (81 Elizabeth St. - anyone remember the weird chick used to stand in the corner all night with a backpack, never talking to anyone or dancing???? *grin*)

Magic Roundabout

I wouldn't say the Site because apart from The Prodigy, I don't have too many 'fond' memories of that place

Probably also the place on Elizabeth St. where Pip n Kazu used to spin on Thursday nights for $5 (never paid to get in tho')

Mebbe System 6 back in the good old days

pe4s

d

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Originally posted by tim-e
Grand Orbit

Hehehehehehehe...

Will never forget the night Bexta played whilst MC Sureshock/NO3 and Dj Hurricane danced for her

Mmmmmm...

*grin*

ok ok, anyone here remember Monkey Business @ the Brunswick hotel on Thursday nights? This was back in like 97/98 I think. Best club ever in Brisbane, Finlandia Red Vodka Pulp and a totally messed up crowd, cheap pool, dudes on skateboards, me locking myself out of car and asking the bar staff for a coat hanger...which they gave me?!?! Ahhh memories.

Technomadiscotech (or howeva u spel discotech)
JaJa's
The Beat when Jen-E was resident

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Originally posted by DjElemance
Technomadiscotech (or howeva u spel discotech)
JaJa's
The Beat when Jen-E was resident

yeah neva been the same without her there...hangon the beat?? not the same...??? lol

dunno y they've neva really had guest dj's and maybe changed the residents ohhhh lets say at least once in the last 20 years..

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Originally posted by the_pezman
as mentioned in a similar thread...

- transformers! loved the industrial look!
- sybils.. i swear family was modelled on this club
- out - the idea of having a dance club in a church sounded like the biggest piece of blasphemy at the time! lol

haha sybils i remember that place where santa fe gold used 2 b wasnt it??
wasnt it underage too...
that also sounds all too familiar did i hear family mentioned?

ohhh...too many to list...
Metropolis
The Site
La Discoteque
Out
Transformers (mainly for rock gigs)
Channel 13 (Thanks Bec, wherever you are...gotta give props to the people who gave you the first chance to DJ and put a night on, even if they were a little odd)

That bar on the corner of George St where Mass used to be. (When they had the upstairs/downstairs thing going it was great. Small, hot, and full of pissed Goths, but fun )

Ja Ja's for sure. The best venue that died a too-early death in Brisbane.
Ric's Upstairs
Grand Orbit (only went the MoWax night though, but it was nice)

ok, well not TOO many. I've had good nights in many others, but these were the ones to stick out.

The pre-Family landscape...how things have changed.

Viva la Tube! :blush:

babble on (when i was *really* underage!)
the chelsea
technomad
crash n burn
superdeluxe (when i was totally clueless, i just thought ppl loved to dance! :p )

Yes, I used to frequent Superdeluxe!:blush:

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Originally posted by Mikolaj
ok ok, anyone here remember Monkey Business @ the Brunswick hotel on Thursday nights? This was back in like 97/98 I think. Best club ever in Brisbane, Finlandia Red Vodka Pulp and a totally messed up crowd, cheap pool, dudes on skateboards, me locking myself out of car and asking the bar staff for a coat hanger...which they gave me?!?! Ahhh memories.

FARK YEAH!!! Monkey Business...with that filthy genre..chemical beats - resident dj's Matt Kitshon and im pretty sure Shade N Shredlock!! :offchops:


Damn Shade N Shredlock were a wicked duo

Anyone remember Sacrificial Virgins, next to what was then the Roxy - a dirty industrial goth/freak basement hangout.
Backstage at the Alliance? Morticia's?
Funk Yard and Volcanic Bass in the era of grunge - not to mention the good ol treasury for your punk injection.
Metropolis in the Myer centre basement.
Sherwood Aussie Rules Club metal nights - grrrroouuuwwwwllllll!!
St Pauls Tavern
The Buffulo Club in Paddo
Ahhh, the memories....
Anyone remember B.U.M.S (brisbane underground music scene) magazine?