Barcode ; Closed

msg11

Yes folks of boards, I bring the news.

It is now officially closed...

One of Dublin's/Ireland's first Super-clubs down the ****ter ..

Celly Smunt

well thank god for that.

alwaysadub

Was never there, so no skin off my nose

FreudianSlippers

What a ****hole... Glad to see it gone. I was glad to see Redz gone too tbh.

Dancor

This must be the 10th time its ''closed''

Max Power1

Is that just the bar/club thats closed, or does that include the Bram Stoker part too?

karlog

That club has always been in the sh*tter. Someone has finally flushed the toilet.

MrStuffins

First the football pitches, then the parks, now Barcode?

What the hell are the 15-16 year olds of Dublin supposed to do for run now?

Hank_Jones

Was it even a night club?

Wouldn't class it as one, was more like a really large pub than a night club.

Doesn't bother me if it's closed, I had my fun.

Pauleta

OisinT wrote: »

What a ****hole... Glad to see it gone. I was glad to see Redz gone too tbh.

I loved Redz

Sgt. Bilko 09

It was good until the point were it started letting in kids but other than that im sure it'll be open again

daveyboy_1ie

Never been, never wanted to go either.

Its a shame on people who work there, never nice to see that happen to people.

msg11

Max Power1 wrote: »

Is that just the bar/club thats closed, or does that include the Bram Stoker part too?

I say the Bram Stoker thing will be left open. On another site one of the DJ's said it is the end. The license was for a members only bar (GAA license) and that the nightclub was not ment to be .

Ahhh, it might have been a **** hole and full of under ages people. Go down with 10 of your mates, the space to move and you can actually get a drink in a reasonable amount of time.

Is that Dusk nightclub any good I ain't travelling out to swords too the wrong venue.

And for those interested last song on the night;

Vitiamn C - Friends Forever

bonerm

pmcmahon wrote: »

well thank god for that.

OisinT wrote: »

What a ****hole... Glad to see it gone. I was glad to see Redz gone too tbh.

karlog wrote: »

That club has always been in the sh*tter. Someone has finally flushed the toilet.

People taking swipes at a Barcode.

dcr22B

msg11 wrote: »

Is that Dusk nightclub any good I ain't travelling out to swords too the wrong venue.

The Blacker, are you mad?

Tallaght Saint

Next to close club XXI

msg11

bonerm wrote: »

People taking swipes at a Barcode.

Drop the a on that and your onto a winner.

MrStuffins

bonerm wrote: »

People taking swipes at a Barcode.

Well spotted

Archeron

Now where will I go to be able to drink a pint while watching some fat lass in skin tight lycra wobbling up a climbing wall while looking very nervous?

WHERE????

General Zod

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

It was good until the point were it started letting in kids but other than that im sure it'll be open again

Must have been a great first opening 5 minutes then.

msg11

dcr22B wrote: »

The Blacker, are you mad?

I though it had changed since the revamp and the flashing lights on the building

I read about this a few months ago. Apparently it's closed because they never got planning permission to build it in the first place. The gym is to remain but with a strict condition that they can't serve alcohol on the premesis. The Bram Stoker Museum is also meant to be going too.

marcsignal

pity it wasn't 'Tram Co' in Rathmines, a melting pot of scumbags indeed...

FreudianSlippers

marcsignal wrote: »

pity it wasn't 'Tram Co' in Rathmines, a melting pot of scumbags indeed...

I went there once when I was doing my undergrad, place was full of idiots.

marcsignal

OisinT wrote: »

I went there once when I was doing my undergrad, place was full of idiots.

+1

what can i say, if you play 'coolio' you get slack jawed proles :pac:

Echospace

The clientele will just go somewhere else on a saturday night, I for one welcome the teenagers of clontarf, coolock, santry and howth to our dublin city nightclubs.

biko

Source? A quick google show mostly old Dublin threads and other links with no link to actual news.

General Zod

General Zod wrote: »

Must have been a great first opening 5 minutes then.

It first opened its doors for the 2002 World Cup. They filled the tennis courts with tables and chairs and there were 300+ people going mental, dancing on tables, singing "put 'em under pressure" when Robbie Keane scored against Germany. It was one of the best days of my life (was my birthday as well )

In the following weeks/months, word got around that it was a pretty good place with the pool tables, cheap gargle, bowling machines etc. so all sorts from East Wall and surrounding areas started going there. This made them make their door policy really strict, up to the point of ridiculousness. They'd let people in on a saturday afternoon to watch the match, then throw out anybody wearing a football jersey after 7pm.


People got a pain in their hole getting taxis there, getting refused, then having to get a taxi into town 'cos there aren't any similar places around locally, so most decided to just go into town in the first instance. Numbers dropped, takings were down, they loosened the door policy, a higher % of scumbags started going, then it just went downhill pretty fast.

Ironically, the clontarf/swords/malahide crowd who originally frequented the place didn't use to hang around for long afterwards. It was only when more locals started taking over that the fights/broken glass/pissing in peoples' gardens started happening, which is indirectly responsible for getting them shut down.

Nobody knew they never had permission for a bar, it was only when all the vandalism took hold that the residents looked into it.

Mr. Manager

No one can argue that when Barcode first opened it was amazing.

€3 a drink all night every night.

Thems were the days...

GL to all staffing, sorry for your troubles.

Greyfox

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

It was good until the point were it started letting in kids but other than that im sure it'll be open again

True, haven't went their in about 3 years because the place started to gradually become like redz. It was a great spot if you were on the pull as it had two big seating areas as well as the smoking area meaning it was easy to chat women up in the place and it was always free in, the last time I was in their I was 25 and felt like an old man though!

biko

biko wrote: »

Source? A quick google show mostly old Dublin threads and other links with no link to actual news.

I know this was in 2008, but its only been enforced recently...

it appears to the Board that the proposed development relates to a site, the use of which is unauthorised for use as a licensed premises, Bar Code, for the sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor.

http://www.pleanala.ie/documents/orders/228/D228142.pdf

seanbmc

msg11 wrote: »

Yes folks of boards, I bring the news.

It is now officially closed...

One of Dublin's/Ireland's first Super-clubs down the ****ter ..

Where it belongs tbh

Pace2008

LOL at the people lauding the Barcode golden days.

It didn't go downhill, you just got older.

Had its place as an introduction to clubbing, though. I had some good times there.

sdanseo

Pace2008 wrote: »

LOL at the people lauding the Barcode golden days.

It didn't go downhill, you just got older.

Had its place as an introduction to clubbing, though. I had some good times there.

Agree, the club was a great place tbh, it had food, smoking area, huge bar, pool + slots if you weren't in the mood for a bop, evrything you could want in one place. One of the better clubs of my 18-20 days, I think, and certainly one of the most frequented.

The problem was its reputation for being full of youngsters - they needed to appeal to an older crowd and didn't (an over 21 rule some nights would have sorted that) and also the fights that kept happening outside afterwards - after which one guy got killed a while back.

Sgt. Bilko 09

Greyfox wrote: »

True, haven't went their in about 3 years because the place started to gradually become like redz. It was a great spot if you were on the pull as it had two big seating areas as well as the smoking area meaning it was easy to chat women up in the place and it was always free in, the last time I was in their I was 25 and felt like an old man though!

I was 20 when i was last there and would never go back smell off fake tan and sweat together like a bad curry.
I know thats exactly the way i thought of it like redz.
The place to go now is Bondi or Buskers not a kid in any of them places not that i've seen anyway.

foxinsox

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

The place to go now is Bondi or Buskers not a kid in any of them places not that i've seen anyway.

Tamangos..

Where the gang goes..

msg11

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

I was 20 when i was last there and would never go back smell off fake tan and sweat together like a bad curry.
I know thats exactly the way i thought of it like redz.
The place to go now is Bondi or Buskers not a kid in any of them places not that i've seen anyway.

Bondi boxing club is closed down..

TBH honest, I don't get how people can say every club in Ireland doesn't have it's problems. I think people have a chip on there shoulder about the place because of the door staff. Which is not the point of this topic.

It was just an all rounder club food inside, good bar, good bar-staff, seats everywhere , big dance floor, big toilets, games, good music too.. Maybe if they had have changed the door policy to over 21s and uppted the dress code. Would they have pulled an older crowd ? I doubt it..

One other question are most clubs free in ?

I say HillBillys will be next on the close down list along with that K-Klub place.

Pace2008

msg11 wrote: »

It was just an all rounder club food inside, good bar, good bar-staff, seats everywhere , big dance floor, big toilets, games, good music too

Ah here now. The music was commercial rubbish, and the sound quality was appalling.

Barcode did almost everything right, but there are basically two things I look for in a nightclub: good sounds and a good crowd. It had neither.

MrStuffins

Pace2008 wrote: »

Barcode did almost everything right

Except get a license

Pace2008

MrStuffins wrote: »

Except get a license

There was that.

My brother worked in Bord Pleanála two summers ago, and said their final appeal for a nightclub license was rejected back then.

curlzy

Never went but driving past on a Saturday night was a nightmare, like seriously people would just wander across the road or even stand on it chatting, simply dealt with by driving 5 mph but I'm surprised loads weren't killed on the road outside.

Walsh

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

The place to go now is Bondi or Buskers not a kid in any of them places not that i've seen anyway.

Where have you been the last 8 months, Bondi is long gone and it was an awful kip! Barcode, it was just like a free gaff, quality place! I'll miss it!

starbelgrade

Why is this thread in AH?

Pub closes in Dublin. Big swing.

themandan6611

msg11 wrote: »

I say HillBillys will be next on the close down list along with that K-Klub place.

:eek::eek::eek: WTF where will the ballybough & east-wall heads go for a romantic meal ?????

alwaysadub

starbelgrade wrote: »

Why is this thread in AH?

Pub closes in Dublin. Big swing.

Ah,you're just jealous.
Just cos pubs haven't been invented down your way yet.:P

Delancey

Delighted to hear that shytehole has closed.

Is that other shytehole on the Quays ( Club Bondi / Bondi Beach ) still going ?

Atlantic Dawn

Ah the good Mr Ivor Callely of Fianna Fail will likely shed a tear today after he acknowledged the good work of Templeville Developments in 1998....

Mr. Callely: I want to acknowledge also the work of Philip Smith of Templeville Developments who entered into negotiations with Dublin Corporation two or three years ago and purchased a site in Fairview for the Westwood Swimming and Leisure Club. Templeville Developments are building what will be the largest club in Dublin, over 13,000 sq. feet, involving massive investment. The club will cater for all age groups, including children.


Acting Chairman (Mr. Browne, Carlow-Kilkenny): The Deputy's time has concluded.

Mr. Callely: There will be a separate gym, indoor five-a-side football, basketball, tennis and a swimming pool. I argued the case with Philip Smith, and was successful, for a 50 metre swimming pool. He is the only person who currently has planning permission to build such a pool and it is possible that this could be turned into a millennium project.

Acting Chairman: The Deputy is out of his depth and over time. I ask him to conclude.

Mr. Callely: That private investor came up with this project long before the tender process for a 50 metre pool. He is prepared to invest enormous sums of money in the project. This club is ideally situated in the heart of Dublin and a 50 metre pool would be used by many people in the area. I ask the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation to give favourable consideration to the proposal for a 50 metre pool as a millennium project.

http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0495/D.0495.199810220004.html

msg11

starbelgrade wrote: »

Why is this thread in AH?

Pub closes in Dublin. Big swing.

I think you might find it was unofficially Ireland's first super club.

Bondi boxing club is closed down a while now. The bouncers on that door are ****ing weird. What bus serves your area... Eh about 10.

Standard Toaster

Sun nite was the last nite. Bro was there. Lads smashing glasses on the ground once word started to spread. In their boxers in the fountain.


An beautiful end to a classy joint.

God...

pmcmahon wrote: »

well thank god for that.

Your welcome.

artanevilla

It didn't go down the ****ter finacially. They were trading illegaly with the wrong license. Their years of appealing finally ran out.