Nightclubs and Gigs..

Of the various different industries that have been closed for the pandemic, niteclubs have really had it the worst - with no relaxation at all in the past year and a half. But when you compare the public clamour for pubs, restaurants, cinemas, gyms and live events to come back open, that's has been practically nothing about niteclubs. The only ones advocating for their return is themselves and the general public appears quite disinterested tbh.

The tide was turning against clubs before covid with dating apps and late bars filling the market that they had once cornered. While I'm no longer in the target market for these places, no one I know ever really liked them - they were just a place to meet people and continue drinking into the night and we only went there because "everyone else" was there.

So am I just another old fogey that's out of touch or has this sector been irreparably damaged by the virus?

Yeah, Ireland's never really done nightclubs, coppers doesn't count.....

Missing late bars with live music more

That you Tony?

Property development, stupid puritan licencing hours and no doubt insurance/claims culture largely killed them off.

The were never all that good outside of Dublin, cheap black painted plywood, a few mirrors, a bitta strip lighting and off you went.

What was the one at the square? I can't remember. Also you forgot fables lol

I'm sure the STD clinics are enjoying their reduced workload

If there had been more late bars when I was a kid then that is where I would have been, we went to nightclubs because that was the option if we wanted to stay out late.

Queues, bouncers, rip off drinks in plastic glasses, we certainly weren't going to niteclubs out of any intrinsic enjoyment of them, we went because that was the option and because accordingly that was where everybody else was going.

Better options from the pubs killed niteclubs, and good riddance.

Coopers, Krystle, everleigh and the like would be closer to the traditional European "discobar", nothing particularly wrong with it, but it wouldn't be my style.

A proper nightclub has it's own identity, and everything from the music to the clientele to the drugs just fits that identity. Dublin had a few places that fit that motif, but they never really lasted.

now that im in my mid 30s and have a love for all types of music , recently really got into 80s alternatve music like morrisey, depeche mode etc. i think we always wre behind britain in catering for all types of music /comedy /arts in general. like in UK most average cities had lots of music 'clubs' , like small bars and even ran down places that had a bar but it was music was the selling point. just looking at music documentaries from late 60s to mid 90s these were breeding grounds for everyone from the Beatles to David Bowie to Boy George to Elton John to Queen, like in this new Ireland where on earth can anyone say you would wander in off the street to a dingy bar/venue and hear a new band of youngsters like many music moguls and agents did in the 70s and 80s Britain, no wonder we may never see bands or musicans like that again and just get made on TV boybands and girlbands. this is a serious thing for irish life, like its probabaly the reason we dont have any more U2s or the like of phil Lynnott. Surely teenagers still want to be musicans and rock stars? but where would they ever get the chance again ? what of DJs in the dance music scene, maybe theres a case for smaller type nightclubs , it dosent need to be 400 capacity does it? A friend of mine has just taken over his uncles pub in a decent sized town 35k population near dublin and has definitley gone for alternative ideas such as chess competitions in beer garden and table football games, hes looking to comedy nights midweek for people to get up and have a go, i think its a great idea but would have thought with the rise of the hipster in Ireland we would have lots of these type of places , seems not or do we? i think its a great chance now in post pandemic time were entering.