spirit niteclub

I am MAN · 11-04-2005 02:33PM

Plenty of toffy nose comments (Full of knackers etc)

It's a good spot and you wont get trouble unless you are looking for it. The top floor is usually brilliant.

Suaimhneach · 11-04-2005 04:55PM

I didn't enjoy it the one time I went with people from my secondary school about a year, if not more, ago.

But then I don't like clubing.

I thought it was too big, too loud, too many weirdos.

But thats just apposed to too small/bad music system/ and not enough weirdos.

*shurg*

Go see for yourself.

Captain Trips · 11-04-2005 07:07PM

xzanti wrote:

I thought spirit was very good the 1st time I went, wasnt like other nightclubs in Dublin at the time in that it had male and female dancers and "holistic therapy rooms" etc and it originally opened till 4 or 5 am but after going a few times it all became very repetitive and boring same dance routines, same music, same mile long que to get ur coat, and they only open till 3 now for some reason... Also a lot of dodgy looking characters inquiring about the availability of "yokes".....

Yes, it used to be very good. The lower basement floor was non-alcohol and no smoking quite a long while before the ban came in.

The second floor was like standard dance/pop and has since become RnB central for the people with too much bling for The Vaults.

The third floor used to play good trance and dance. A side effect was that there was very little drinking and lots of drugs. Currently, it's a bunch of drunk yobs and the atmosphere of the place is nothing c/t what it used to be.

It used to have a theatre license for 4am and closing by 5am. It went past that on occasion.

However, the drugs led the gardai to object to it's theatre license. They had that basically by having the stage show - the trapeze artists, etc., . Last few times I was there there was none of this at all. It seems to be just a regular club now (or at least, it's much less of an event that it used to be).

I think that and Gaiety had the only theatre licenses but I may be wrong.

mozak · 11-04-2005 08:16PM

ok .
Loooking .

Tha Gopher · 12-04-2005 10:24AM

Im with Zane, the bouncers are the worst i ever saw. Fair enough, i tried gettin in just after i turned 18 completely locked and they turned me away, and remembered the very minor insult id hurled when i went next night

But the third time was outrageous. Twas after Snoops concert and we had been given free passes at the point so said feck it lets head up. I go in the door, the guy in the lobby asks to see my pass. A girl behind me had already paid in and, seein as i was havin trouble finding my pass, i moved a foot forward to let her through

Bouncer fcuks me out and tells me Im barred for a half hour. Unbelieveable

Anyway, got back in after the half hour. Place is overrated as fcuk. For a start i dont even think its that big. Maybe it was just my intoxicated drugged state but it felt very small and cramped. I love my rap, but the tunes playing in the rap area were for the most part terrible. Such as Akons Locked Up. Good tune, but its as much of a clubanger as N.Y State of Mind. And they were playing the radio edit of In Da Club! The DJs down in The Vaults and Redbox know their rap, remixes, bootlegs the whole shabang. Spirits rap tunage was youth disco standard

In conclusion, very average place. Glad they wouldnt let me in those nights-id be a pointless 20 or 40 euro short right now. The place and many of its customers suffer delusions as to its importance, with both groups thinking the place is as important as the Hacienda to Manchester or Studio 58 (or 54, or 57, whichever it was) to New York

Bollix is it

cormie · 12-04-2005 10:45AM

I like the place. We got refused one time because my friend had a rugby jersey on. The bouncer explained very politely saying come back again without it and you'll have no problem etc. That was fine so we walked away. It's a pitty it's not open till 5 any more.

Thursday (student) nights are terrible there, just like any other nightclub really. I think the real nights are Fri/Sat. Again, I haven't been there in a while.

There is a mixed crowd which is great, never had any trouble with anyone there.

As I remember it, it's definitely worth double the price of a normal club as it's more than twice as good. That's from what I remember now, I haven't been there in a year or two on a proper night.

Captain Trips · 13-04-2005 12:09PM

cormie wrote:

As I remember it, it's definitely worth double the price of a normal club as it's more than twice as good. That's from what I remember now, I haven't been there in a year or two on a proper night.

Twice as good? As soon as I found the Wally World remix of Just a Little More Love *online* and it was identical to the one the "DJ" plays or "mixes" in Spirit, I was done with the place. Might as well have my own nightclub if they can do that!

Peteee · 13-04-2005 02:54PM

Lenny wrote:

Its who your with, not where yea are

Too true, and I wish more people would realise it

Scruff101 · 13-04-2005 03:49PM

Scum...try Traffic next door.....not as much scum but unfort more posers!! D3 around the corner can be good fun though!!

Zascar · 13-04-2005 09:14PM

I haven't been to Spirit in about a year (I've been in Oz) but before that I used to go about once or twice a month and loved it. Usually went friday nights as saturdays were totally jammed. I thought the bouncers there were some of the best around. Very well presented, extremely polite and quick to deal with anyone causing trouble. A couple of times I went there at about 2 or 3am to find a big crowd of scumbags trying to get in cause most other places were closed. The bouncers were telling them it was full and they were not letting anyone in, but I politely asked them if there was any chance, and when he looked at us and saw were were respectible and let us in no problem!

There was actually a thread in here a few years ago where one of the managers in Spirit asked for feedback on the club, but got mostly a lot of idiotic replies and grief. I sent him an email saying he should ignore the stupid comments, and I gave him my honest opinion of the club and a few suggestions for improvement etc. He wrote back the next day thanking me for my input, and from then on he put me on the guest list any time I wanted! He even let me bring a load of my friends up to vip for my going away party! Sound Guy, i should see if he is still around...

I liked the place cause there was generally a good crowd (even the scumbags were friendly while yolked out of it) and the music on fridays and saturdays was good qualtiy house. I like the added touches they have like stage shows etc (Are they now gone?) and the fact that their are 3 levels with something different for whatever mood your in.

I haven't been clubbing much since I've been back, went to the 'SweatBox' to see Groove Armada a few weeks ago and it just reminded me how it has 'lost it's Spirit' since the refurb. Pitty its used to be such a good club...

I'll have to go back to Spirit soon and see how it has changed. Basically, if your not into dance music or not used to a druggy crowd, don't bother I'm sure you'll hate it. But if you're looking for a club that has a bit of variety and some decent music, you could do a lot worse...

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