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Waterford's Nightlife megathread

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    #1172
    MitchKoobski
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    AdMMM wrote: »
    The shill is strong in this one.
    I laughed at this, and then started to worry about myself....


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    #1173
    dayshah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭dayshah


    gscully wrote: »
    A group of us ended up in The Foundry last night. We only went just to see what it was like and because we had free passes. We didn't even put our coats in the cloakroom, so they made no money from us there either. Including us, I'd say about 60 people were there. They can't keep going at that rate.

    Some good music played though - plenty of old skool :)

    About what time did you go in?


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    #1174
    gscully
    Registered Users Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭gscully


    dayshah wrote: »
    About what time did you go in?

    I reckon between 11:30 and midnight, but even that much is sketchy ;)


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    #1175
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    gscully wrote: »
    I reckon between 11:30 and midnight, but even that much is sketchy ;)

    It only opens around then, and most nightclubs seem to get busy towards the end of the night. :)


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    #1176
    STIG83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    Word on the street is that The Foundry is closed Monday to Wednesday now, looks like their sign will have to be changed again!!


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    #1177
    ziedth
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    If true they really should have started that way but it makes allot of sense to be fair to not bother opening in the summer when the students are gone.


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    #1178
    Elbows22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Elbows22


    STIG83 wrote: »
    Word on the street is that The Foundry is closed Monday to Wednesday now, looks like their sign will have to be changed again!!

    Yep - open thursday to sunday this week!
    Look s like that sign was an awful waste of money :)


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    #1179
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I firmly believe that they got transition year students to market that place.


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    #1180
    STIG83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    Elbows22 wrote: »
    Yep - open thursday to sunday this week!
    Look s like that sign was an awful waste of money :)

    The smiley face above says it all!!
    "I told you so!!"


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    #1181
    honeybadger
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭honeybadger


    was wondering why there fancy little foundry sign hasnt been on most nights when i pass by there on me nightly spin around town,,reality has taken hold i say for the owners


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    #1182
    Elbows22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Elbows22


    STIG83 wrote: »
    The smiley face above says it all!!
    "I told you so!!"

    Too right :D
    I think they just went the wrong way about everything - kinda gave the impression that there was absolutely no nightlife what so ever before they arrived on the scene and so they could just charge whatever they like when they came and expect it to work :)

    The reason for there charge? Oh sure people are going to pay to go to a professionally run nightclub........bet they wished they could change there stance on it now :)


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    #1183
    dayshah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭dayshah


    Elbows22 wrote: »
    The reason for there charge? Oh sure people are going to pay to go to a professionally run nightclub........bet they wished they could change there stance on it now :)

    They can change it now if they want.

    They can scrap the cover charge (at least mid-week) and charge cool people like me €7 to go in as all the ladies will follow me in to see my sexy dance moves.

    I hope it will be successful, after they cut their prices.


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    #1184
    gscully
    Registered Users Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭gscully


    Sully wrote: »
    It only opens around then, and most nightclubs seem to get busy towards the end of the night. :)

    Well this one didn't...


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    #1185
    Joey leBlanc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Joey leBlanc


    Yawn, yawn... "Told ya d'Foundry would'nt succeed"etc. etc. ...how can a nightclub generate so much negative sentiment?? ... "drove past it last nite, lights werent on boy, musta been closed" ..."told ya so, told ya so"...ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
    :o


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    #1186
    ziedth
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    One thing that is sad out of this is the staff. They started there (I assume) with full time hours now it stands to reason that they have dropped by 10/15 hours a week at the very least to part time.


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    #1187
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Pretty much the same in alot of pubs down the middle of the town regarding the hours being cut


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    #1188
    kkdela6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭kkdela6


    Maybe its just me, but i have heard mainly positive things about the foundry from people, in fact the only place i have really heard be slated is here on boards?

    I haven't been there yet so i cant say much about it myself. I do hope it does well though. I don't see why there is such uproar about a door charge though, in every other city in Ireland you'd never see a nightclub without a door charge. Having said that, a door charge should be justified by having reduced prices on drink. Even maybe a free drink token would make it worthwhile.

    Have a friend working in the cloakroom there, and she seems to love it.


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    #1189
    savic04
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭savic04


    I have read some bad reports from Facebook aswell... so its not just on here.

    Not that i am backing up the claims here, i like to judge a place myself first


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    #1190
    Musicman2000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭Musicman2000


    kkdela6 wrote: »
    Maybe its just me, but i have heard mainly positive things about the foundry from people, in fact the only place i have really heard be slated is here on boards?

    I haven't been there yet so i cant say much about it myself. I do hope it does well though. I don't see why there is such uproar about a door charge though, in every other city in Ireland you'd never see a nightclub without a door charge. Having said that, a door charge should be justified by having reduced prices on drink. Even maybe a free drink token would make it worthwhile.

    Have a friend working in the cloakroom there, and she seems to love it.

    Judging by their facebook, there has being a lot of negative comments, but what did they do? Delete them and didn’t take the feed back on board, which is very childish and armature for a company to do, even if they had the courtesy and said thank you for the feed back we will take in on board.

    Its easy to impress the 17 and 18 year old kids going in there, they are young and gullible and its some where new, as soon as something better comes along the place will be quiet, for example Masons drinks offer during the week, the Foundry was very quiet and what did the foundry do close their doors. Its about getting customers in to your premises give them a reason to come to your premises not screw them and piss them off. What happens if masons do half price drinks on a Thursday or Friday, will the foundry just close their doors again?

    There is lot of good feedback here on boards about the running of pubs and clubs, maybe the owners of the foundry should have read this thread before opening in Waterford they might not be in the mess they are in now.
    This thing about every other town having a door charge makes me laugh, A lot of the door charges in small towns and city’s around the country are ridiculous €10 is not justified. I was in the UK the weekend and the max door charge was €5 and this was in a small town with a few drink promos. This is a fair deal.

    Waterford dose not have to be the same as every other city in the country regarding door charges, if people are silly enough to pay a big charge the price will not be dropped simple as that.


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    #1191
    kkdela6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭kkdela6


    Musicman2000 wrote: »
    Judging by their facebook, there has being a lot of negative comments, but what did they do? Delete them and didn’t take the feed back on board, which is very childish and armature for a company to do, even if they had the courtesy and said thank you for the feed back we will take in on board.

    if thats the case then there is really no excuse. I dont really use facebook but from what i can see from this thread they seem to have the attitude of 'we know whats right and we'll do it our way' rather than listening to what the people want and trying to capitalize on it.

    Musicman2000 wrote: »
    Waterford dose not have to be the same as every other city in the country regarding door charges, if people are silly enough to pay a big charge the price will not be dropped simple as that.

    Im living in dublin at the moment and there is not a single club i have been to that didnt have a door charge (not including late bars etc.), but these clubs had some sort of incentive, i.e it would be 5/6/7 quid to get in but all pints 3 euro or it would be an 80s themed night or uv light party or something like that. If the foundry are charging seven quid in, then 4.50 a pint with essentially the latest edition of 'now thats what i call music' playing then this is where the problem lies.

    like you said, the 17/18 year olds are easily impressed (true enough, sure didnt we all love rubies when we were 16 :P ), so maybe this is their target market.

    Look at the forum. they charge money in and full price pints but no one really minds because they give you your moneys worth in good music and bands etc.


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    #1192
    Grindylow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Grindylow


    kkdela6 wrote: »
    if thats the case then there is really no excuse. I dont really use facebook but from what i can see from this thread they seem to have the attitude of 'we know whats right and we'll do it our way' rather than listening to what the people want and trying to capitalize on it.




    Im living in dublin at the moment and there is not a single club i have been to that didnt have a door charge (not including late bars etc.), but these clubs had some sort of incentive, i.e it would be 5/6/7 quid to get in but all pints 3 euro or it would be an 80s themed night or uv light party or something like that. If the foundry are charging seven quid in, then 4.50 a pint with essentially the latest edition of 'now thats what i call music' playing then this is where the problem lies.

    like you said, the 17/18 year olds are easily impressed (true enough, sure didnt we all love rubies when we were 16 :P ), so maybe this is their target market.

    Look at the forum. they charge money in and full price pints but no one really minds because they give you your moneys worth in good music and bands etc.

    To be fair it's not 17/18 year olds who are keeping The Foundry in business. If you look through their photos from any given night its ~25-30 year olds who form the majority of the crowd who go there. Young people aren't as stupid as everyone thinks..


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    #1193
    kkdela6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭kkdela6


    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    Young people aren't as stupid as everyone thinks..

    your dead right. If it wasn't for the younger crowd there wouldn't be a nightlife at all. The younger crowd dont bitch and moan about what the clubs are doing wrong, they just go out and have a damn good time! :pac:


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    #1194
    ziedth
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    To be fair it's not 17/18 year olds who are keeping The Foundry in business. If you look through their photos from any given night its ~25-30 year olds who form the majority of the crowd who go there. Young people aren't as stupid as everyone thinks..

    I would disagree,

    from what I have seen of people going in the majority is infact the 17-19 year old demographic. Of course there are exceptions and i'm sure your right and there are a good few people up around the 30 mark but I would be simply be amazed if the majority in there are in there mid 20's.


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    #1195
    dayshah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭dayshah


    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    To be fair it's not 17/18 year olds who are keeping The Foundry in business. If you look through their photos from any given night its ~25-30 year olds who form the majority of the crowd who go there. Young people aren't as stupid as everyone thinks..

    That's true about the photos. But when do they take the photos? The place always looks empty in the background.

    I think they take the photos early on, before the place fills up. Maybe its us old fogeys who go in earlier, we have to be in bed by 2 :)


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    #1196
    Grindylow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Grindylow


    ziedth wrote: »
    I would disagree,

    from what I have seen of people going in the majority is infact the 17-19 year old demographic. Of course there are exceptions and i'm sure your right and there are a good few people up around the 30 mark but I would be simply be amazed if the majority in there are in there mid 20's.

    The one night I was in there it was a majority of people over 20. Either that or the 17/18 year olds look exceptionally old, which I seriously doubt. It appears the over 20s feel as if The Foundry will provide a place where the teenagers won't be. Even from the comments on The Foundry's photos, it becomes obvious that the people who do go there rarely see young people in there, ie: "Oh they let anyone in nowadays.. They look about 18", etc.
    dayshah wrote: »
    That's true about the photos. But when do they take the photos? The place always looks empty in the background.

    I think they take the photos early on, before the place fills up. Maybe its us old fogeys who go in earlier, we have to be in bed by 2 :)

    They take them throughout the night! I'm 18, and I only went in once, and I probably never would again. The drink is a rip off, as is the door charge. I don't think anyone from school has gone in anytime bar once either. There's just no comparison between there and Mason's really.


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    #1197
    STIG83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    ziedth wrote: »
    One thing that is sad out of this is the staff. They started there (I assume) with full time hours now it stands to reason that they have dropped by 10/15 hours a week at the very least to part time.

    Yeah the staff are suffering now.


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    #1198
    DunmoreRode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭DunmoreRode


    STIG83 wrote: »
    Yeah the staff are suffering now.

    Yeah true the staff have less ours and hence less money so they are suffering, sad.


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    #1199
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    The Foundry looked closed this week, including last night around half 11. What's the craic there?


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    #1200
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I think it's only open Thursday - Sunday now.


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    #1201
    savic04
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭savic04


    This thread should be renamed ''THE FOUNDRY THREAD''


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