GRACKEA wrote: » I wholeheartedly second this. And Izakaya on George's Street. Good mix of music, different DJs regularly and the crowds aren't as writhing and sloppy as Harcourt Street.
beertons wrote: » Most memorable day out I ever had. March 16th, a 12-12 gig in McGruders, followed by I think Timo Maas in Tripod. We got to Tripod around 930. Back of the queue, lit a fag, and saw a gap. In I go. The lads followed. Straight up the front, showed yer man my wallet and said box office. Up the left hand stairs. Wouldn't have the balls to do it these days, the others were shocked at my bravery. Savage night.
Stephen15 wrote: » As a younger person in my early twenties I do enjoy going to a nightclub but only occasionally and may of my friends are the same. I think they may be part of the reason nightclubs are dying. Many young people are only interested in going now and again but not every weekend or every second weekend even and instead only go once every couple of months or so.
phantom_lord wrote: » Find this so different to the people my age. What are the nighttime weekend activities for people in their early twenties?
expectationlost wrote: » and now wrights has been reoponed on bodytonic as a replacement for district 8
L1011 wrote: » There's two separate parts there Its reopened, operated by Bodytonic, as Jam Park District 8 are renting it out as they did with the Tivoli.
Mr.S wrote: » Bit of an odd spot you would think but they are selling out their events + putting on shuttle busses each night to / from the city centre.
jr86 wrote: » Yep - I'm in my 30s now and still go out basically every weekend (plenty both Friday and sat nights). Most of my peers are the same and I meet loads I know that are the same Have less than zero interest in cinema but even at that I can do all that stuff during the week. Nothing beats a good night out to unwind after a tough week imo. I would be driven demented sitting at home on a Fri/sat night
RasTa wrote: » Sin E is a good spot
expectationlost wrote: » so jampark closed bodytonic won't be opreating from there, will the wright family reopen it with less of a focus on good djs? although they say they couldn't run it due to insurance costs https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/it-wasnt-our-fault-wright-group-on-defending-customers-broken-ankle-claim-and-how-insurance-closed-well-known-nightclub-38282515.html could they turn it into a conference centre? wheres the largest dancefloor in Dublin now? the Opium Rooms, Button factory, Lost Lane? Index, my list is getting to very small dancefloors. theres nowhere thats solely operated as a nightclub, , why doesn't that academy do clubs nights as it used to, whats the ambassdor being used for now? nothing, if they terraced the floor it might be ok,it was difficult to dance on a slope.
Was in Dublin last night, Harcourt street, first time there in ages, seems to be the only place left now in Dublin for genuine nightclubs. The vibe has completely changed now though, I was surprised at the number of young men compared to women in there, Id say it was 70/30 ratio, I think the refugee influx is definitely noticeable here. However there was no trouble or anything but there was a bit of an edgy atmosphere as the club filled up . You are not going to hear about this element on RTE talkshows , there could be more aggression in nightclubs and bars as the natural balance and vibe has changed
Wait until you hear about the gay clubs with 100% men. Pure carnage 😐️
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I don't think refugees are spending their 38.80 a week in Harcourt Street nightclubs.
Are you making a massive assumption that the large number of students and workers from South America that frequent Diceys are refugees because they look a bit different to you?
Our birthrate peaked in late 70s and early 80s and people stopped emigrating, so by the early 00s there was loads of young people of drinking age.
Also internet wasn't big yet and smartphones didn't exist.
Apparently even the suburbs like Dun Laoighre, BlackRock, Stillorgan, Leopardstown, Rathmines all had a nightclub each.
Rural towns all had a couple of clubs, now they probably have one late bar.
There's not even a late bar in the whole of South Dublin now.
Times change quickly.
Yeah. As well as the above, young people are more health conscious now too and less likely to binge drink. Also, since everything gets recorded and put up on social media now, people are less likely to want to get messy in public. That KPMG girl episode was a bit of a light bulb moment for me. You'd have seen stuff like that every night of the week when I was a student in the early 00's, but the worst you could wake up to was a bad hangover and the usual cringe feeling trying to remember what the hell happened the night before. Now it could all be uploaded for everyone to see for ever more!
Most of those nightclubs had been there since the 70s or 80s though, and started closing in the early 00s (or late 90s even) so it is not entirely down to age profiles.
But birth rates have dropped in UK and Europe and we have had big inward migration mostly of 20 somethings so our overall population of young people has been rising therefore the huge drop off in nightclubs cannot be explained by fall in birth rates. When we had high birth rates in the 80s we also had high emigration rates of young people leaving here (the opposite of now) yet still had loads of nightclubs.
The fall in nightclubs is an irish specific issue resulting from compo culture and inability to get insurance ( swing gate and Maria Bailey case being a prime example) and the licensing laws, too expensive to get a late night dance licence and not worth getting as not allowed to stay open much later than pubs anyway with this licence so not worth getting
I’d love to do an experiment where you had a no phone club. You would be required to leave your phone in a locker to get into the club. I’d say a lot of people would be freaked out at the thought of it, but there’d be quite a few that would enjoy knowing they can let off steam on the dance floor properly.
The queue to retrieve phones on leaving would make cloakroom queues look small - but there are companies that will do it for you. The most recent Bob Dylan show in the point was no phone.
Sticker over the camera and booted out if you take it off (and the sticker tears like gig wristband adhesive) is done at, ahem, 'specialist' club nights all over; which prevents some of the posing twattery and reduces the risk of becoming KPMG Girl 2.0.
Sunil Sharpe: ‘We have to get up early to stay out late’ – The Irish Times
Well the Give Us The Night has been a success.
I think the days of younger people going to Harcourt Street cattle markets is long over. I think a Berlin based model of dancing all night on stimulants to excellent tunes will be the prevailing zeitgeist of the next few years.
That said Dublin needs a decent venue and fast. The Demise of the Twisted Pepper and the original District 8 in the Liberties were big blows.
It's just one of many factors.
It's a different world now. Most people only had a couple of TV channels and a radio to entertain themselves not so long ago.
You went to the pub just for something to do as well as to socialize.
So many options to do now and you can catch up with friends by digital means.
Is no one going to mention that modern music is also rubbish?
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The last time I was in a nightclub I was still hard on the bag.
Mass-market nightclub music tastes of the past 30 years have generally been rubbish also. Going back to the curry-chips-to-meet-the-rules era and you'd have slow sets, country'n'irish etc being played to audiences that wanted pop primarily.
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