Dublins Best Ever Club (Updated)

Táck

seeing as its been 3 years since the last poll, and the last poll was more aimed the older crowds clubs, i thought i'd update the list and give it a go again.

please tick the club that you think was or is the best in dublin. not just a flash in the pan good night, but a club that has or had delivered an unforgettable nights or days to you, more then enough times to remember.

i think i've got them all, no doubt someone will pick one or two that i missed. i could only pick 25!

ive included a few before and afters as well, like the tbmc and button factory. imo, they are different. you can leave the walls but once you change the decor, you change the ambiance and once you change that, the night changes. sometimes for the best, sometimes not.

maybe as well, count up how many you've been to. only since i've looked at the poll before i post made me think of so many good nights ive had out!

oh and seeing as over the last 3 years, The Waterfront/Columbia Mills, Olympic Ballroom, The System and Shaft have totalled 2 votes, i think its safe to say they won't be challenging this time round

g5fd6ow0hseima

McGruders - I was in it once. It was brilliant, best pub ive ever been in. Hopefully they might open it for paddys day next year, like they did this year gone.

Executive Steve

Switch for the nostalgia vote, Twisted Pepper for being very objectively the best club in Dublin over the past year, Traffic for some of the best nights we ever put on, McGruders for anarchic fun...

jonny68

Wheres the Olympic Ballroom and The Waterfront and The Funnel:eek: some of the clubs mentioned shouldn't even be included in that list IMO!!!

ANYWAY Sides DC was undodubtely Ireland's greatest ever club, Sides along with Sir Henrys was the first ever club to play dance music in Ireland and was the catalyst for the dance scene, week in, week out Sides DC was the place to be, unlike other clubs they rarely ever had International guests, instead thye just had resident DJ's.

The Ormond Multimedia Centre woul run Sides a close second.

petrochemical

The problem with Sides and The Ormond Multimedia Centre is that they were full of working-class scum.

Ddisco

petrochemical wrote: »

The problem with Sides and The Ormond Multimedia Centre is that they were full of working-class scum.

Is this knobjockey for real?

Nolanger

How come none of these 'best' clubs ever produced a world-class DJ? :rolleyes:

jonny68

Ddisco wrote: »

Is this knobjockey for real?

just a troll ignore i say...

jonny68

Nolanger wrote: »

How come none of these 'best' clubs ever produced a world-class DJ? :rolleyes:

what a bizzare post:eek:

stomprockin

petrochemical wrote: »

The problem with Sides and The Ormond Multimedia Centre is that they were full of working-class scum.

Even more Bizarre!! :eek:

Sides gets my vote

jonny68

Sides DC Video taken December 1993, chances are i was there that night as i used to go pretty much every weekend back then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTTdxj5Q5eE

dubsbhoy

petrochemical wrote: »

The problem with Sides and The Ormond Multimedia Centre is that they were full of working-class scum.

there is no such thing as working class scum

anyway Sides DC gets my vote

The Waterfront & The beat club not in the poll but deserve a mention

FensterDJ

Switch was amazing, Bassbin on a friday, techno on a saturday, house on a sunday, never had a bad night in there, great crowd, great atmosphere, great music consistently, bit of a kip though but that didn't seem to bother people too much

Táck

jonny68 wrote: »

Wheres the Olympic Ballroom and The Waterfront and The Funnel:eek: some of the clubs mentioned shouldn't even be included in that list IMO!!!

oh and seeing as over the last 3 years, The Waterfront/Columbia Mills, Olympic Ballroom, The System and Shaft have totalled 2 votes, i think its safe to say they won't be challenging this time round

you were the originator of the original poll, 3 years ago and im pretty sure the majority of the board hadnt been to more of 2 the clubs, as per the comments in the thread.

Executive Steve

Nolanger wrote: »

How come none of these 'best' clubs ever produced a world-class DJ? :rolleyes:

Rubbish tbh, Bassbin alone produced four world class DJ's; granted only Zero T is still in the game fulltime on the global DnB circuit, but he's as big a name as any in modern DnB... Rohan was a very highly regarded dj in DnB circles...

Executive Steve

Táck wrote: »

you were the originator of the original poll, 3 years ago and im pretty sure the majority of the board hadnt been to more of 2 the clubs, as per the comments in the thread.

The Funnel deserves a mention though.. Had some proper mental nights in there...

Táck

Well vote for it in posts then, if it's the clear winner people will still see it. If you and Johnny Are the only voters it looks like the pod and or tripod was and is better! Ha!

jtsuited

i remember when i was 17 going to bassbin in switch with a load of people i had just met in college. much as i'm not a fan of dnb, the bassbin guys certainly knew how to do it in there. Had a great night.

Zascar

I'm too young to remember most of the really old skool clubs - but I do wish I could have experienced what so many people talk about nearly years on. I voted for the RedBox. It was the first proper club I went to when i was 18 - I still to this day remember how excited was walking up those metal steps and walking into the main room and feeling the bass of that fantastic Turbosound system. For a good few years afterwards it was my staple – I went there all the time. I also went to plenty of others like POD, Mono, Switch, Kitchen, Temple, etc etc – but none have lasting memories like the RedBox. Whether it be big name superstar DJ’s or even just the residents, we always had a great time there. I didn’t even drink back in those days I’d be driving and just have a couple of redbulls, but still danced almost every minute I was in the place.

Executive Steve

Voted for Switch, after much soul searching...

The only club I ever came across that you could go literally go to 7 nights a week and it would always be great, and definitely the place where i probably lost more braincells than any other club ever...

djhaxman

Glad to see a few votes for the Temple of Sound. Being from the sticks originally I didn't get to Sides or the Asylum but heard great things about them. I had my 21st birthday in the Temple of Sound though, Stuart McMillan from Slam played a great set that night (what I can remember of it ) so that place will always be one of my favourites.

Tripod isn't anywhere near as good as the old Red Box, the sound in there used to be unreal, it was the best rig in the country imo.

djhaxman

Oh, and I want to give a mention to the Metropolitan, they used to get some really big names in there and we had some great times, the first night Speedy J played he took up nearly half the club with all his equipment! He played Krekc too so that was me happy out.

Some great nights in there and the atmosphere was class for such a small venue. When Electric City moved to Wax it wasn't the same, I hated that place.

D Audio Tripper

The Temple Theatre for me, it shaped a generation. Had some of the best nights of my life in there and met some of the coolest people, 1500+ people every wkend going nuts with an atmosphere second to none at the time

The old Redbox deserves a mention, it was so packed one night it was like a sauna inside, like it was pissing rain with everyone's condensation and sweat dripping from the roof.. pretty sick, but at the time no one cared, made for a better vibe if anything - I'll never forget that night!! Savage sound system as well

Also Club Mono, widened my musical tastes - always a nice relaxed vibe in there too

Last but not least, McGrudders definitely deserves a mention.. well 'Mixed Salad' to be precise. Anyone who's been will understand

dubsbhoy

Then there was the Irne ( i think thats the spelling, what a dump)

The Mansion House - (Great venue, great system - crap music)

Does anyone remember the owenr of the olympic ? he used to go around in a tux? looked like something of the munsters.......scard the fucck outta me

jonny68

dubsbhoy wrote: »

Then there was the Irne ( i think thats the spelling, what a dump)

The Mansion House - (Great venue, great system - crap music)

Does anyone remember the owenr of the olympic ? he used to go around in a tux? looked like something of the munsters.......scard the fucck outta me

i dunno what nite you went to at The Mansion House mate but the msic there was amazing, one of the very few places to play Rave/Hardcore at that time at one of their few Raves until the Lord Mayor at that time copped onto exactly what these nites really were

dubsbhoy

jonny68 wrote: »

i dunno what nite you went to at The Mansion House mate but the msic there was amazing, one of the very few places to play Rave/Hardcore at that time at one of their few Raves until the Lord Mayor at that time copped onto exactly what these nites really were

If you were into rave and happy hardcore then you were in the right place, remember the bomb scare there when 2 unlimited played? - that freaked a lot of people out

a147pro

Switch for the debauchery. Was anyone there the night Underworld played the Point? Jesus they absolutely rammed the place that night, Fire regulations burnt up. Everyone was doing drugs everywhere, they served till around 4.30 and then did take out. I came home about a week later.

Kitchen on a Tuesday was when I first got properly into techno. Vodka promotion, you could literally have a full night out for around £15, without drugs. £3 in with a flyer, which included a free curry (!) followed by 2 quadruple vodkas. Nightlink home. Jesus. Great music. Pretty sure I p*ssed in the river a few times. Sorry if that ruins it for anyone.

But the best was the Red Box, simply for the venue. When full with the right person playing it was just unbelievable, perfect setting for a DJ in a club (the only place I've ever been better was the End in London), amazing sound system. I remember being there one night, Johnny Moy warming up. Had been in since early enough but the place was just starting to ram and I was walking accross the floor looking for people during the night, I remember him playing tracks like Da Funk and Rollin and Scratching, people loving them, then walking through the crowd as the bass kicked in in It Doesn't Matter by the Chemical Brothers, the connection between the bass and the crowd was mad. Think Digweed played later and finished up with Kym Mazelle, Was that all it was, from the second Renaissance CD, which more or less got me in to proper dance music and it was amazing to hear it then. Being up in the balcony for a live PA by Laurent Garnier, watching him play the breakdown in crispy bacon twice and seeing it literally tear up the floor below me...

Like someone above, I'll always remember the bass passing through you as you walked on the stairs outside, unbelieveable.

Táck

tis interesting to see everyones opinion about the best clubs and everyone is indeed entitled to their opinion. but its funny to see pod and or tripod winning it but yet nobody mentioning any good particular night there. apart from the voting, the redbox, switch the temple and the kitchen seem to be the leaders.

maybe the younger members of the board are keeping quiet becasue after they look thru the list they realise that the pod and or tripod is probably the only club they could vote for.

francois

dubsbhoy wrote: »

Then there was the Irne ( i think thats the spelling, what a dump)

The Mansion House - (Great venue, great system - crap music)

Does anyone remember the owenr of the olympic ? he used to go around in a tux? looked like something of the munsters.......scard the fucck outta me

his name was Liam Ryan-odd chap, his background was in the old showband promotion thing

geuro

i voted for the Kitchen - a great club - but I would have voted for the Funnel if it was on the list..

dubsbhoy

Táck wrote: »

tis interesting to see everyones opinion about the best clubs and everyone is indeed entitled to their opinion. but its funny to see pod and or tripod winning it but yet nobody mentioning any good particular night there. apart from the voting, the redbox, switch the temple and the kitchen seem to be the leaders.

maybe the younger members of the board are keeping quiet becasue after they look thru the list they realise that the pod and or tripod is probably the only club they could vote for.

I got asked to leave the pod one night for........."Dangerous Dancing"

Hated the place after that, it's not like i was waving around two shotguns, didn't even touch off another clubber........I hate bouncers with a passion.

es-cee

Temple Theatre gets my vote, wasn't old enough 2 go 2 the oldser raves but lived in the Temple. used 2 go in every week 4 about 6 years, great memories of the place, always a great atmosphere.

i also had a few good nights in the SFX, very rare that i'd go in there but never the less when i did i always had a good 1.

Is mise le key

How in the name of god can you put in the Legal Eagle & not the OLYMPIC!!:eek:

ASYLUM was the most cutting edge Rave ever to run i have to say,

No rules, all night, total freedom.

Carl Cox was quoted as saying it was the best underground Rave experience he ever had......

It wasnt a nightclub it was a one off experience that you had to have been there to understand.........nightclubs will come & go but you will never match the experience of any of the Raves that opened back 1992 1993 1994 without a doubt.

OLYMPIC, ASYLUM, SIDES, WATERFRONT, ORMOND.

D Audio Tripper

Táck wrote: »

but its funny to see pod and or tripod winning it but yet nobody mentioning any good particular night there

The night you were thrown out - best night ever :D:D

joker77

a147pro wrote: »

Kitchen on a Tuesday was when I first got properly into techno. Vodka promotion, you could literally have a full night out for around £15, without drugs. £3 in with a flyer, which included a free curry (!) followed by 2 quadruple vodkas. Nightlink home. Jesus. Great music. Pretty sure I p*ssed in the river a few times. Sorry if that ruins it for anyone.

Ah those were the days!

We never really had a regular club apart from the Kitchen, when we eventually could get in. We got in everywhere in town from 16 on I'd say, starting going to raves about 15, but the Kitchen never let us in till we were 18. Great place though, good vibes and some great nights were had. Honourable mentions go to the Ormonde - remember the 'Cream of Dublin' nights? System was a great spot -saw Cox and Emerson there for I think my 19th birthday, remember very little of the later on of that night. Also had some good nights in the RedBox, but by that stage it just wasn't the same - I suppose the old school days of the SFX/raves with everyone mashed and tops off were never to go fly in most clubs around town!

SEANYBOY1

Nolanger wrote: »

How come none of these 'best' clubs ever produced a world-class DJ? :rolleyes:

So what, them "World Class DJ's" are usually dick heads. What world class dj's were around in 93/4

Where is The Olympic:eek:
Me thinks a club that hosted 1500 Clubbers every week for 4-5 years warrants an entry;)

Daroxtar

Hope i'm not being too pedantic here but shouldn't "POD and or Tripod" be "POD and or Crawdaddy", and Tripod be in with Redbox? Or just seperate the choices altogether..?

Táck

theasylumkey wrote: »

How in the name of god can you put in the Legal Eagle & not the OLYMPIC!!:eek:

SEANYBOY1 wrote: »

Where is The Olympic
Me thinks a club that hosted 1500 Clubbers every week for 4-5 years warrants an entry

ok just to say it again, for the third time...this is the second poll that has been on the subject. the last poll was done THREE YEARS AGO. in the space of the last THREE YEARS The Olympia gathered a total of ZERO VOTES. In three years of a Poll, NOBODY VOTED FOR IT Not once. have a look yourselves. http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054959286&highlight=club

How can i justify putting in the legal eagle, well i had some good nights there. and possibly some of the more regular visitors to the 12ten nights may think it warrants a vote. if not then so be it, it will remain with as many votes as the olympic got over the last three years.

Daroxtar wrote: »

Hope i'm not being too pedantic here but shouldn't "POD and or Tripod" be "POD and or Crawdaddy", and Tripod be in with Redbox? Or just seperate the choices altogether..?

well to be honest crawdaddy didnt even cross my mind. not a bad little club but to be honest i would just include it in the pod as 80% of the time i've been to the pod, crawdaddy has been open to walk into so, to me, its part of pod.

Imo, and judging by most of the comments, tripod and redbox should most definetly be seperate. since the revamp they've been two completely different clubs, albeit on the same piece of land. there seem to be lots of super storys about the redbox but not so many about tripod. but tripods winning the votes...hmmm...

theoldalfer

sides d.c by a long way, then the ormond (tarnished by club fm gettng their hands on it for its last 6 months) the u.f.o, temple of sound, grouchos, the kitchen, the music centre, had good nights in them all but not a patch on sides;).

Cray92

Sides circa 92,93 with liam dollard,scurry and moy,then temple of sound in 94.The Asylum aswell for the unique anything goes atmosphere was hard to match.

Scubadevils

Definitely the Temple of Sound for me with the UFO being a close second.

The Temple of Sound had an amazing atmosphere and pretty much every week you were certain of an excellent guest DJ playing the best in music, be they local or international along with the resident DJs. Rarely any trouble, excellent music, good crowd, no scum (see rarely any trouble!), relaxed enough bouncers, nice size - not too big or small - then you could look forward to exceptional nights (New Years Eve etc) where they opened the hotel lobby and various function rooms to facilitate more DJs, chill out room etc... was always a bit strange passing tourists checking-in in the lobby - your eyes rolling and jaw sticking out, must have been some sight for them to see checking into a hotel!

Then Club FM came along and destroyed it...

A Disgrace

The Kitchen. It had a moat for a start. And Wipeout on the Playstation. And the Vodka thing. And easy access to the VIP area. And loads of drunken Aussie chicks looking for Bono..

D Audio Tripper

I wonder does the "The Asylum/Oldskool thread" have anything to do with the new leader!!

Táck

im hoping my upload of mauro picotto live @ the temple 2002 should (in the mixes thread) get a few nostaligic voters voting

Is mise le key

Táck wrote: »

How can i justify putting in the legal eagle, it will remain with as many votes as the olympic got over the last three years.

Surley the logic here then would be that if the OLYMPIC has received no votes in the past & the Legal eagle appears to be the same now then it should be at least acknowledged here that the OLYMPIC does deserve the status of being included on the Poll????

D Audio Tripper wrote: »

I wonder does the "The Asylum/Oldskool thread" have anything to do with the new leader!!

MMMMM.....i would hazard a guess that your right seeing as it has the most posts & views of any thread in the Dance music section because it was the most impressionable mind blowing Rave to ever hit this country.

stomprockin

the List is a joke:D

No Olympic ??? The Dogs on the Street no this was the 'D' Place

Davei141

theasylumkey wrote: »

Your Rave Needs you



Votes needed here to get the ASYLUM up over Tripod & Pod!!!!:eek:
Dont mind if its beaten by SIDES, TEMPLE of SOUND, TEMPLE THEATRE or the ORMOND but by jaysus none of the rest........

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055754386

Cast your badly needed vote on the link above:rolleyes:

Really trying to hang onto your youth eh.

Is mise le key

Davei141 wrote: »

Really trying to hang onto your youth eh.

I fail to see your point??

Is there some unwritten rule that regulars from any of the Raves mentioned in the poll that post on this forum cannot be pointed in the direction of the poll to make it actually a comprehensive result??.....added to the fact that the ASYLUM/OLDSKOOL thread has plenty of Ravers on it that would not vote for the ASYLUM it seems the best & most transparent way to get a proper definitive result.

Anyone that went to any of the Raves mentioned should be notified of the opportunity to cast a vote of their favorite Rave, that, i thought was the entire point of the poll?

As for hanging onto my youth you are mistaken.......living in the past is a waste of time & your life but to ignore what shaped you into the person you are & consign something you feel was so important to you in your life to history never to be mentioned again would be unhealthy.

The whole reason you & i and everyone else are even posting here is the fact of the existence of these Raves, the effect they had on everyone & how much interset there is still in the history of the Rave in this country.

Memorys are always good to have & to share & by no means does it imply that you are trying to hang onto your youth or living in the past but that you are entirley happy with your life & past & get pleasure out of discussing it with the very people you shared the experience with & that your view on the culture as a whole is evolving with time;)

80 other people who have cast their vote seem to agree also:):D;)

gawoo1012

Scubadevils wrote: »

Definitely the Temple of Sound for me with the UFO being a close second.

The Temple of Sound had an amazing atmosphere and pretty much every week you were certain of an excellent guest DJ playing the best in music, be they local or international along with the resident DJs. Rarely any trouble, excellent music, good crowd, no scum (see rarely any trouble!), relaxed enough bouncers, nice size - not too big or small - then you could look forward to exceptional nights (New Years Eve etc) where they opened the hotel lobby and various function rooms to facilitate more DJs, chill out room etc... was always a bit strange passing tourists checking-in in the lobby - your eyes rolling and jaw sticking out, must have been some sight for them to see checking into a hotel!

Then Club FM came along and destroyed it...

Glad to see people mention UFO in Columbia Mills. Some great nights there but it did get pretty rough before it was raided and shut down. Remember leaving there one night and ending up at a party in a Squat near Bargaintown on the Quays. Don't know how we made it home in 1 piece.
But for me Sides and the Temple of Sound stick out. Sides was such an experience. You couldn't go to the toilets on your own as it was safety in numbers. The toilets were always flooded & acted as a defacto chill out room. The strip of no-man's land at the DJ box between the "heads" and the rest of the main body of people on the dancefloor, the sirens....it was insane and so underground for Ireland at that time when discos still had slow sets ffs.
I had the best clubbing nights of my life in the TOS. Do you remember when they used to bring out the platters of fruit thru the dancefloor at the height of the revelry...special times. Billy Nasty and Stuart McMillen in particular stand out from the TOS