I went clubbing last week against my better 'sober' judgement, I add at this point I hadn't been for about four years and I totally enjoyed myself, I think as a sober idea, it's crap, but once your in there, you just go with it, and it's not until you come out desire a kebab, and see the taxi queue, that it was a bad idea, and you wish you were back home, and I'm not even going to go into the next morning!!!!

I'd like to go to a real club some time, the places where I go are all well and good. But they're very small and tacky, which can be nice and quaint, but the same old place with the same old DJ (literally ) can get a bit boring after a while. Wouldn't call it clubbing really, and it really annoys me when people call it that for some reason (if you knew the places i was talking about, you'd know why). I'm getting kind of sick of it all really, it's never as good as it should be and a lot of people I know love it so much it's all they talk about, so I'm just BORED now.
On the rare occasion I actually go out for live music, I'll go to the Park (Club With No Name) in Peterborough or the Charlotte in Leicester, because they're nearby and kinda cool.

Every time I go to the bierkeller I swear that it is the last time I'm ever going there.

I haven't likeed the music that they play since about 1998
but I still end up there on Friday nights.

I used to say that it was to talk to the people in there, but I've only talked to the people I went with for at least the last 2 years, so It can,t be that

Being of an age that means I first started going out on the tiles when white indie kids were first learning to dance consequently means I love clubing. Growing up with Acid House, Baggy and Rave how could I be anything different?

And as I'm heading into cumudgeonly old git territory, it also means I don't think clubs are as good as they were 'in my day'. Again, spoiled by the choice of going to Indie classic 'Chocolate Factory' and bouncing to Public Enemy, Ministry and Nirvana one week, then going to Back To Basics, Up Yer Ronson, Kaos or Soak and getting loved up another. Getting on a crowded dance floor and loosing yourself in the music surrounded by people dancing to the rhythm with smiles on their faces. No one looking for a fight or having lost motor control thanks to booze. Just everyone with their hands in the air.

It's why I love Human Traffic. It's why I love The Streets. It's why I miss the likes of Flowered Up, Inspiral Carpets, Jesus Jones and the mighty Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.

And the clubs in Reading aren't all that, but I still go when I can muster enough like minded people. Sometimes I just feel like dancing...

dancings the best, i find myself getting excited hours earlier about going out and being able to dance!
thats why i dislike bars, i'd much rather go to a club than a bar crawl

i go to a couple of alternative places and occasionally to different dance nights at various places

Never been a club person. Give me a pub, a great group of people, great conversation and cheap beer anytime.

When i was younger i was a regular visitor to the Mayfair nightclub(a rock club)in Newcastle and this is where i met Ray 15 years ago. It's gone now, but i had some great times there.

I don't much like clubs these days (must be my age ), like Whistler, i prefer the pub and some good friends and i'm happy, not that i get the chance to go out socially much these days having the kids

I go to Slimelight, Perversion and Full Tilt, goth/industrial/ebm clubs in London and i really enjoy them, there nothing like townie cattle markets where your only there to serve as eye candy for the middle aged learing men standing on the edge of the dancefloor.
Ive only been to a 'big name ' club once and it was pretentious twoddle! much prefer the alternative clubs better atmosphere, better clubbers!

I hate most clubs here, but clubbing is ok if its good music like in London and stuff, but here in Stevenage they all suck and play awful stuff and is full of idiotic townies looking for fights. Pubs and bars are much better cuz I liek to chill out and chat with my mates rather than be stuck in a really loud club where you cna't talk and as I don't dance I just stand about eying up women for a few hours.

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by Whistler
Never been a club person. Give me a pub, a great group of people, great conversation and cheap beer anytime.

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Completley agree with that, I like to talk to the people i socailise with

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by Keenangel
When i was younger i was a regular visitor to the Mayfair nightclub(a rock club)in Newcastle and this is where i met Ray 15 years ago. It's gone now, but i had some great times there.

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The Mayfair's gone!?! Another regular haunt of mine disappears. As well as clubbing there in the early nineties, it was also where I saw Nirvana live. There was another club I used to go to loads, down the road from Ritzis, up some stairs, but I can't rememer the name for the life of me. Tell me that's still there?

As for this pub vs club business, I've never seen it as an either or. Sometimes you go pubbing, sometimes clubbing, more often pubbing then clubbing. I mean, I like going to the cinema, and I like having a few mates round to watch a video. I don't just do one all the time; me and my mates will do which ever we feel like doing that night.

And so, as yet another saturday night in with the gin and computer crawls by, I am moved to ask - what does one do when all the mates you used to go clubbing with become smug marrieds and want to stay in of an evening with a book and a cuddle? Everyone, and I mean *everyone* I used to go out with is now happily coupled, and I can't go out anymore Vicious circle really - I don't feel I can go out on my own, so I don't meet new people, so I have no-one with whom to go out... etc etc. Anyone else out there been through this? and how did y'all break through it?

My gin bottle gets emptier...

Erm, well after last night never again, god damn warrington police and their new policy, it caused more trouble than it stopped, all the bars went psycho with the ID'ing so with us being in a big group with loads without ID we couldn,t get in anywhere!!! We got into Flares later on though hehe, its like disneyland, I love that place!

The only places in Widnes are Club Essential (a pint a fight, and usually somekind of stab wound)and Top of the town (Toppers) the social gathering point for most of year 11

I like to dance though so I dont care where I am as long as I'm dancing! (except WA1, last night there was us and 4 other people in the whole place....and it was house night)

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by Bee
I am moved to ask - what does one do when all the mates you used to go clubbing with become smug marrieds and want to stay in of an evening with a book and a cuddle?

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Five years ago, I'm living in Leeds, just broken up with my long term girlfriend and I look around and I see the same thing. All my friends are mid-twenties going on fifty. They're all in couples, with their own place and a steady job. All anyone talks about is mortgages and 'Friends' - or whatever TV show is the current fave. No one wants to go out, and certainly doesn't want to go clubbing. And seem to have no desire to do anything new or meet anyone new. They're all settled. I'm bored. So I move to the opposite end of the country where I know absolutely no one. I move into a house with six other people and make an effort to get to know them and all their friends. Same goes for work. when anyone said 'we're off out tonight, wanna come?' I said yes whether I was too tired or didn't like where they were going. Did that for about six months solid until I had a reasonable sized social crowd, and then allowed myself to be a bit more choosey - although I still have a reputation for the guy who never says no...

I love those friends in Leeds, and are still in contact with most of them, but even five years later I'm not ready to settle down. There'll be time for me to settle down later, for now I 'want to be free to do what we want to do; And we want to get loaded; And we want to have a good time'

I enjoy clubbing a lot. Though when I say clubbing I'm staying away from the dancey/ravey/drum & bassey type of clubs. I go to indie and rock clubs mostly. Though I have room for cheesy pop and 80's type music clubs. Jilly's Rock World in Manchester is *the* coolest club in the world ever (that I've been to anyway)!

As for the pub/club, sometimes I don't feel like clubbing, just going to a pub and chatting and drinking. When I do go clubbing it's usually preceded by a trip to a pub to get 'warmed up'.

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by Bee
And so, as yet another saturday night in with the gin and computer crawls by, I am moved to ask - what does one do when all the mates you used to go clubbing with become smug marrieds and want to stay in of an evening with a book and a cuddle?

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You come down to London and go out with us!

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by Jayjay
'want to be free to do what we want to do; And we want to get loaded; And we want to have a good time'

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So that's what we're gonna do!

Keenangel Jay Jay

Come to Cuba Cuba in Newcastle, heard about the Mayfair, its under the new Cinema and Bar complex, (as in demolished).

I *love* clubbing, but much like Bee, all my friends are happily married off/moved/skint and I don't have anyone to play with.

We used to go round manchester a few years ago until the scene changed quite alot and we went through a phase of thinking it was too 'common' for us. LOL. I love the dancing - although it was better when I was being paid for it! And JayJay...

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going to Back To Basics, Up Yer Ronson, Kaos or Soak and getting loved up another. Getting on a crowded dance floor and loosing yourself in the music surrounded by people dancing to the rhythm with smiles on their faces. No one looking for a fight or having lost motor control thanks to booze. Just everyone with their hands in the air.

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Soooooo true I love it!!

I don't really club. Though like Barbara, I tend to go to my local "alternative" where there is great live music, and a nice atmosphere.
Though give me a real disco with disco music, a mirrorball and the funky multicoloured lights floor any day