Old Niteclubs

chopper6

Anybody remember the following dives..Abraxis(off O'Connel st),Sardis(St lawrence Hotel) and the Apartment club?

Abraxis turned into the Asylum,Sardis became Saints then Goodtime Charlies and i think the Apartment just closed

Tamangos in prtmarnock is apparantly still open but i havnt heard anybody talk about it in many years.

tricky D

Sardis was in the Portmarnock Country Club.

Saints was always Saints until it became Good Time Charlies.

There was also the Asgard Hotel niteclub in the 70's until it burned down spectacularly one night.

Also Zeniths, later K2 was a nightclub in the Summit Inn.

chopper6

tricky D wrote: »

Sardis was in the Portmarnock Country Club.

Saints was always Saints until it became Good Time Charlies.

Ah you might well be right..they were before my time.

Zeniths was good though(based on the twice i was there)

gugleguy

Nightowls in Ranelagh? In it's heyday the Southside niteclub place to be.
Club Sarah in Rathfarnham village itself was notable up to the early '90s

craigfoster

not very old but i member Bondi Beach and just closed. would be a great building for a bar are something instead it is just sitting there empty.

miamee

I used to frequent McGraths in O'Connell Street and the Back Gate on Cathal Brugha Street. Both long gone! (Well McGraths is now Fraziers I think). A pair of sweatboxes, both of them but great fun at the time!

gugleguy

miamee wrote: »

A pair of sweatboxes, both of them but great fun at the time!

Choosing between a sweatbox and a fire - deathtrap, like one notable venue I'd choose sweatbox myself. Sometimes ofcourse ther was'nt much of a difference between the two.

ongarboy

craigfoster wrote: »

not very old but i member Bondi Beach and just closed. would be a great building for a bar are something instead it is just sitting there empty.

It was Zanzibar prior to that - was the in spot for a while in town in the late 90s! It's so non descript and unassuming when you pass it now all roller shuttered that you don't even notice it. Definitely a wasted space.

I remember when Dragon was Sosume.

Who remembers Columbia Mills on the south docks when there were no office buildings around there? - used to be great for the house music!!

eisenberg1

Jets.....

gugleguy

The gigs place in Richmon Hill beside also long closed Caroline Records.

eisenberg1

Sloopy's, Fleet street
Celebrity club, Jervis St
Jets, was in Cloghran ( The Boot Inn, I think)
McGonagles, South Anne St

The term Niteclub would be pushing it for the above....................

Jude13

The Mean Fiddler

miamee

Jude13 wrote: »

The Mean Fiddler

Wasn't that called Tomato or something for a while as well? After TMF and before The Village?

wil

Aldi in Rathmines - different kind of meat market when it was Savannah.
Tramco - never recovered after a very expensive slow refit - could be NAMACo now

Sunnyisland

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

IRE60

and.....

chopper6

Wasnt the Iveagh Rooms where Fibbers is now?

eisenberg1

realies wrote: »

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

Aw Jaysus....The National...............no alcohol of any sort!!:D

anncoates

Spent a lot of time in McGonagles, Sides and the Olympic Ballroom.

Used to be 2 great nights in the late 80s in McGonagles called Voodoo and Soul on Ice. They got some great DJs over that went on to be very well known: Coldcut, Mike Pickering, Jay Strongman, Pete Tong, Dave Dorrell, Norman Jay etc.

Apartment. Jaysus. Blast fro he past.

Also a little later was the Rock Garden in Crown Alley. Used to be a good night there called UFO.

BowWow

"Ace of Clubs"

Rutland Place...........

eisenberg1

BowWow wrote: »

"Ace of Clubs"

Rutland Place...........

That rings a bell..............was it a disco or live music? year(s)?

krankykitty

Shaft in Ely Place (Now Ely Wine Bar, I think). Was so posh upstairs with the couches and roaring fire

Hootanany

The Afro I met Bono in there back in the early 80's Virgin Prunes were regulars

chopper6

The Pink Elephant off Dawson st...had two coctails for a fiver back in the 90's.

nudger

Hootanany wrote: »

The Afro I met Bono in there back in the early 80's Virgin Prunes were regulars

The Afro was on Friday nights as far as I remember, used to go when it was Bubbles.

The Wild Bunch

The Temple Theatre

GraphicGaming

Barcode what a place that was im not sure why it closed but weekends have not been the same since. Also Bondi beach and heaven / light night clubs I thibk it's down to late bar's why they closed but im not sure

The Wild Bunch

Is Club92 in Leopardstown still open?

eisenberg1

realies wrote: »

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

Henry St.........was that Tiffany's?

Lovely Bloke

Jets nightclub, somewhere in The Naul or similar, between Swords, Kinsealy and the Airport. What a place that was, a bit like a mix between Charlies and Tamangos.

Switch was a great place, and The Mezz is laid out almost exactly the same.

deelite

I think Jets was at the back of the Old Boot Inn...

What about Flamingos (Stillorgan), Heartbreakers (Phoenix Park Race Course), Bubbles (behind the Apartments) and the Tara Club.....

chopper6

A shortlived "alternative" club was Gotham City on the south Quays...the was also The Source in Clare St and the Olympic Ballroom which later went on to become Dublin's premier rave venue.

Flippyfloppy

Spirih on abbey streee!

Delta2113

Club Diva - Red Cow!

Kablamo!

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Is Club92 in Leopardstown still open?

It is indeed and it's totally caught in a time warp!

pablo128

Sides - Dame Street.
Waterfront - Sir John Rogersons Quay.
System - South Annes Street.
Red Box - Harcourt Street.
Ormonde Multi-media Centre - Ormonde Quay.
Olympic Theatre - can't remember the name of the road.

All early to late '90s raves. Some of the best nights of my life were spent within the hallowed walls of these fine establishments.
Along with others of course, and much better before the commercialisation crept in. Fcuk you drinks companies with your drinks promotions.
And fcuk all of you pissheads who went raving buckled drunk and batin' sh1te out of each other at the end of the night. The total opposite of what raves were about.

Gyalist

anncoates wrote: »

Spent a lot of time in McGonagles, Sides and the Olympic Ballroom.

Used to be 2 great nights in the late 80s in McGonagles called Voodoo and Soul on Ice. They got some great DJs over that went on to be very well known: Coldcut, Mike Pickering, Jay Strongman, Pete Tong, Dave Dorrell, Norman Jay etc.

Apartment. Jaysus. Blast fro he past.

Also a little later was the Rock Garden in Crown Alley. Used to be a good night there called UFO.

Club Sandino at McGonagles was by far the best night out!

kikidelvin

realies wrote: »

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

I think it was called The Attic,

Frynge

Bogarts, rosslare strand.
Mimes, carlow town.

anncoates

Gyalist wrote: »

Club Sandino at McGonagles was by far the best night out!

That was just after the nights I mentioned IIRC but same era.

Some great nights in that place.

Forgot the Waterfront and Funnell too. Both on quays .

GerardKeating

IRE60 wrote: »

and.....

And Barbarella's, down the lane beside Zhivago's

miamee

deelite wrote: »

I think Jets was at the back of the Old Boot Inn...

What about Flamingos (Stillorgan), Heartbreakers (Phoenix Park Race Course), Bubbles (behind the Apartments) and the Tara Club.....

It was called The End when we used to go there (1994-95ish I think)

greenbicycle

Nobody has mentioned the Palace on Camden street, and I mean the way it was back in the early 2000's was there every thursday night with my VIP card to skip the queue. Pop music downstairs and then you could go upstairs to the Green Lasers and the dance music.

Never a place like it!

Also frequented Zanzibar, the Red Box and Tramco in my time too! None were as good as the old Palace!

groom

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Jets.....

...everything I hate about Niteclubs. As would Tomangos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JFmkB3CSE

Also The Castle at Finglas M50. Scummy

BowWow

eisenberg1 wrote: »

That rings a bell..............was it a disco or live music? year(s)?

Disco I think - mid 1970's.

Was another place at the end of the lane - The Revolution?

gugleguy

All niteclubs when they get too old become 'scummy' or 'manky' really tbh. Can anybody on this thread name a Dublin niteclub that was closed down 'in it's prime'? :rolleyes:

gugleguy

Pravda niteclub beside where the bronze sculptures are of shoppers. Gone about 6 months to a year?

harry Bailey esq

The castle,jets,the ormond and Colombia mills i used to frequent.a poster mentioned that the castle was "scummy" but that's not entirely true,the clientele was made up some very "colourful" characters it has to be said but it was a very rare occasion when trouble happened,the bouncers were headcases. i ventured into the blue banana in clondalkin one night,that was scummy.Nothing untoward happened me,but it made the castle look like an upmarket Manhattan cocktail bar.

chopper6

The Asylum was always scummy...you were searched for weapons on the way in and if you hadnt got one they'd give you one!

Snoddy

Ahh the palace ! I worked there and in flannerys when the palace first opened , good times on a Thursday night !

not yet

Can't believe nobody mentioned Rumours on O'connell st yet and Magnums beside it....ahhh the 80s.