Clubs in Ireland

spiralism

Anyone else think that clubs in Ireland dont get it? Compared to the rest of Europe they close very early and almost always play very generic, mostly chart music....anywhere else in europe it's much more dance based and they often close later (mind you i know that's upto the late licences but still i dont get why places close at 2am in some parts but 4am in Dublin).

Maybe im being snobby but when you go to nightclubs abroad the bouncers are very reasonable, the clubs finish up late, there's often a better vibe about the place and there's dance music playing (which largely ties in with the point of them imo unless they're going for a different image) instead of thrift shop and the likes for the 8th millionth time.

Thoughts anyone?

Pudsy33

You're dead right. Most of them are pretty much the same, especially with regards the music. Pretty bored of most Dublin clubs. I'd much prefer a pub tbh.

job seeker

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job seeker

Pudsy33 wrote: »

You're dead right. Most of them are pretty much the same, especially with regards the music. Pretty bored of most Dublin clubs. I'd much prefer a pub tbh.

Pubs are way better with a live band. I havn't been to a night club since about 16. But each to there own..

errlloyd

spiralism wrote: »

instead of thrift shop and the likes for the 8th millionth time.

Thoughts anyone?

You've been in some fancy clubs, I'd kill to hear thrift shop, all I seem to get us cotton eye Joe and the national anthem.

Willbbz

There are some places that are open from 23:00 until 07:00 in the city centre.

But clubs get boring after 03:00 imo

Its All Wright

The dj's in the majority of clubs in Ireland are rubbish, they have no idea how to mix or blend music and the selection of music they play is always the same old chart crap from the last 5 years or so. I find the clubs abroad have more skilled dj's because in Ireland it seems to be its Johnny from down the road who decided to take up djing to earn an extra few quid but doesnt actually know what hes doing. Im not saying its all Irish dj's because i know There is good dj's in Ireland, just not enough though

hansfrei

If you haven't scored by 2.00am its because you're ugly, or gay or both.

Joking...... Only joking.

spiralism

Willbbz wrote: »

There are some places that are open from 23:00 until 07:00 in the city centre.

But clubs get boring after 03:00 imo

Not in the rest of the country though, 3 am is the absolute latest you'll have them closed. Hence why in Galway you'd regularly see 200 people in or outside supermacs at 2am- they're bored and not ready to go home yet.

Personal opinion of course but i love to stay out a bit later, 2-2.30 is still too early in my books. Also, from experience, later closing times means people just go home when they're tired, rather than getting herded out onto the street

hansfrei

Not being able to get a pint after nightshift. Or a bottle of wine in the supermarket.


Shame.

Willbbz

spiralism wrote: »

Not in the rest of the country though, 3 am is the absolute latest you'll have them closed. Hence why in Galway you'd regularly see 200 people in or outside supermacs at 2am- they're bored and not ready to go home yet.

Personal opinion of course but i love to stay out a bit later, 2-2.30 is still too early in my books. Also, from experience, later closing times means people just go home when they're tired, rather than getting herded out onto the street

Good point. When I was in Galway last year I noticed the club Carbon closed pretty early compared to what's here in Dublin.

Before I went to a club that closes in the early morning I was actually hoping to find a place that closed as late as possible.

However after going to a place that closes around 6 - 7, one of the things I can say thats bad about it is stepping outside into natural light haha.

Galwayguy35

job seeker wrote: »

Pubs are way better with a live band. I havn't been to a night club since about 16. But each to there own..

So you stopped going to nightclubs when you were 16?

How were you getting in in the first place...

spiralism

Willbbz wrote: »

Good point. When I was in Galway last year I noticed the club Carbon closed pretty early compared to what's here in Dublin.

Before I went to a club that closes in the early morning I was actually hoping to find a place that closed as late as possible.

However after going to a place that closes around 6 - 7, one of the things I can say thats bad about it is stepping outside into natural light haha.

It's all the same in Galway too, goes no further than half 2 on a saturday which is a bit ridiculous imo. A year and a half ago the guards actually started cracking down on the clubs and had them finishing at 1.30 or even earlier for a time. Yet at the same time the Guards and many locals would complain about bollox acting outside Supermacs but the only reason they're out there is because the clubs are finished early and people don't want to go home.

Yeah, i have that mindset now, has to be said, and i know it'll change but later opening hours would help a lot. Living abroad this past summer i noticed that the clubs closing at 5 am often meant that people went in their own time and instead of 500 drunk people getting ran out of the club at half two, people trickled off and only a small fraction would stay to the end.

MaroonAndGreen

Pretty annoying that 2.30am is closing time for clubs alright..

Ive no complaints about playing chart music though, seems to do the trick for getting the crowd going anyway doesnt it?

diograis

Willbbz wrote: »

There are some places that are open from 23:00 until 07:00 in the city centre.

But clubs get boring after 03:00 imo

are you talking about those sort of "underground" places? Ive heard talk of that sort of craic, even my mother when she was young remembers a place in donnybrook that you could buy bottles of wine on the sly at five in the morning!

job seeker

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

So you stopped going to nightclubs when you were 16?

How were you getting in in the first place...

14 - 16

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The Backwards Man

Nightclubs are sh!te full stop.

spiralism

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Pretty annoying that 2.30am is closing time for clubs alright..

Ive no complaints about playing chart music though, seems to do the trick for getting the crowd going anyway doesnt it?

It is in fairness but there's a lot of people who would be just as happy to hear dance music, lot of heads around there who are into it...after all a lot of what clubs are for is dancing so why no dance music? Even a lot of pretty mainstream trance and house would go down a storm as opposed to a playlist hacked nearly straight off iradio.

Imo chart music is more for the radio and the late bars but it'll always be what you hear in the clubs here. It'd be nice if a few of them stuck to a theme though instead of the same in nearly every place bar the odd designated night.

Galwayguy35

Isn't the reason for closing at 2am or so partly because of complaints from people who live nearby and have to be up early in the morning, this was given as one reason here in Galway anyway.

I suppose you can see their point.

Galwayguy35

job seeker wrote: »

14 - 16

Fake I.D.

You must have had an ould head on ya at 14 if you're a fella even with the fake ID :pac:

job seeker

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

You must have had an ould head on ya at 14 if you're a fella even with the fake ID :pac:

Ya, well I was very small like the bouncers thought I was a dwarf.. 5foot 2. But at 14 my cousin was 18 then. I really looked similar..

spiralism

Mr.S wrote: »

The likes of nights in Twisted Pepper, Hidden Agenda, Bruce Willis, Trainwreck etc never play chart.

Chart clubs play chart because thats what people want. They want to dance to the latest Katy Perry song with their mates and then go home. If you want trance, house etc then go to a different club!

Easy statement to make in Dublin though, outside of there the variety isnt there most of the time, nearly all chart clubs. Galway for example has 6/7 nightclubs (depending on whether its weekend or not), all of which are chart bar the odd night here and there. Imo it's not sunk in beyond the pale that they don't all have to play the top 40 night in and out and if one or two went with more of a dance music vibe they'd be pleasantly surprised.

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Isn't the reason for closing at 2am or so partly because of complaints from people who live nearby and have to be up early in the morning, this was given as one reason here in Galway anyway.

I suppose you can see their point.

Comes part in parcel with living in the city centre imo, and those same people would also whinge about the hordes of people outside supermacs instead. Dont see why this doesnt apply to Dublin in terms of closing times but does to everywhere else. People just love to give out but if the people stay in the clubs its less acting the prick outside supermacs and you can bet there'd be a lot less complaints about students.

ardle1

NO, I have to disagree with you, there is a few clubs in Ireland exactly like the ones you speak about................. Now they may be a few miles outside town and another couple off miles up a dark lane and possibly in an abandoned mansion! but if you look hard enough you'll find them!!

gungun

Have to agree with the complaints about chart music, I really don't understand why stuff like nervo, afrojack, benny benassi and the like aren't played ahead of one direction etc. boggles the mind really I'm in Galway by the way

spiralism

ardle1 wrote: »

NO, I have to disagree with you, there is a few clubs in Ireland exactly like the ones you speak about................. Now they may be a few miles outside town and another couple off miles up a dark lane and possibly in an abandoned mansion! but if you look hard enough you'll find them!!

That's the thing though, why cant any auld place do it? It's not like im talking about some crazy dubstep/dnb night that would have a real cult following, just a club that would do standard enough house and trance that half the people going into the clubs to hear chart music would just have been listening to while predrinking anyways!

Willbbz

ardle1 wrote: »

NO, I have to disagree with you, there is a few clubs in Ireland exactly like the ones you speak about................. Now they may be a few miles outside town and another couple off miles up a dark lane and possibly in an abandoned mansion! but if you look hard enough you'll find them!!

Or you know... Log into Facebook and click on the events tab.

Some places will be plastered on Facebook, while more secretive ones you'll be told about by sometimes the people who organise the smaller events in nightclubs when you get there or are leaving.

RDM_83 again

gungun wrote: »

Have to agree with the complaints about chart music, I really don't understand why stuff like nervo, afrojack, benny benassi and the like aren't played ahead of one direction etc. boggles the mind really I'm in Galway by the way

Aren't people like Afrojack and Benny Benassi chart music too

Is there actually any Legal Clubs operating in Dublin from 3.30/4.00am to 7am? Its not really equivalent to say that there is clubs open till 7am if its, Now you have to go into the back room of this Chinese Restaurant on Parnel Street after asking for Paddy!

gungun

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Aren't people like Afrojack and Benny Benassi chart music too

Occasionally I guess they are, but they're still a hell of a lot more suitable for clubs than Katy Perry or Robin Thicke:pac:

square ball

Music is pretty cack in 99% of Irish clubs. It's just whatever is played on Spin SW or iRadio all day. Bit of variety would not go a miss. Most DJ's have a set list of 50/60 chart songs and have no interest in trying something different. Most are there for the pay check rather than actually passionate about music. Good few underground DJ's would be worth a chance in the cities. Think any of the Galway clubs could make a killing doing house/trance/electro nights on a Monday or Tuesday while giving a chance to a real DJ.

spiralism

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Aren't people like Afrojack and Benny Benassi chart music too

Is there actually any Legal Clubs operating in Dublin from 3.30/4.00am to 7am? Its not really equivalent to say that there is clubs open till 7am if its, Now you have to go into the back room of this Chinese Restaurant on Parnel Street after asking for Paddy!

Occasionally, some of their best known songs may get an airing. Probably early in the night or somewhere in between blurred lines and thrift shop...

Yeah i couldnt agree more, some underground thing in an old building isnt quite the same as a good nightclub either

jd1594

I think it's reasonable, everyone's pretty smashed and dead by 3 anyways

J_E

Agree, I just won't go out to nightclubs, the one here in Portlaoise is nothing short of dire, awful crowd, the most generic sh¡te ever, my idea of hell basically. I've got a wide taste when it comes to electronic and hip-hop but it's very rare there are nights here that cater to that. To be honest there's much better music going on in some of the trendier pubs in Dublin.

spiralism

square ball wrote: »

Music is pretty cack in 99% of Irish clubs. It's just whatever is played on Spin SW or iRadio all day. Bit of variety would not go a miss. Most DJ's have a set list of 50/60 chart songs and have no interest in trying something different. Most are there for the pay check rather than actually passionate about music. Good few underground DJ's would be worth a chance in the cities. Think any of the Galway clubs could make a killing doing house/trance/electro nights on a Monday or Tuesday while giving a chance to a real DJ.

Couldn't agree more, it's like listening to one of those stations for the night... yeah it wouldn't exactly be an insane idea and people would really go for it i think!