After hours house party: cover charge and open late. Would you go?

AARRRGH · 22-11-2005 02:59AM #1

Hello,

I'd like your opinions on this!

We all know having to go home at 3am sucks. Sometimes the night is just getting started and all you want to do is keep drinking... (etc etc.)

If there was a large house/apartment in the City Centre which opened at 1 AM, had a cover charge to get in (€10 - includes 3 cans of beer?) and was full of decent non-scumbag people, would you go?

It would stay open until 7 AM.

There is a DJ.

(I don't even know if this is legal.)

Opinions??

Laguna · 22-11-2005 03:03AM

I can't imagine why it'd be illegal unless you sold alcohol to people (without a license etc.)

I'd go to the after hours house party... if I lived in Dublin! lol

^CwAzY^ · 22-11-2005 03:04AM

Take away the free drink (when advertising anyway) and it might be legal.. I'd go anyway! :v: :v: :v:

Nightwish · 22-11-2005 03:06AM

doubt the drink thing would be legal. But have you considered the neighbours opinions on the matter? or how would you propose only allowing "non-scumbaggy" people in? would you have a bouncer?

and to answer your question, No I wouldnt pay for a house party

^CwAzY^ · 22-11-2005 03:07AM

LOL I can imagine it now saying to ppl in a club 'Do u wanna go to a house party afterwards.. it's ehh €10 in..' :v:

AARRRGH · 22-11-2005 03:10AM

Yes, I'm not saying it's a great idea, but I'm trying to think of some kind of "legal" way to stay out late.

There must be a solution to our wretched drinking laws!!

Laguna · 22-11-2005 03:15AM

Well, I think it's a good idea, the only problem is the filtering out of the 'scumbag' element and if a fight broke out or whatever... I doubt it'd entice randomers on the way home from clubs if they were old there's a house party on, €10 in... but maybe it could be a Boards users thing?, that might work?, like if all the boardsies texted each other when on a night out to see if there could be a houseparty arranged in someones gaff that night?.. ah I dunno

Tar.Aldarion · 22-11-2005 03:16AM

boards hostel. mucho booze \o/

billy the squid · 22-11-2005 03:17AM

make the party BYOB and have no cover charge. if you asked me for 10 euro to visit your house i would tell you where to go. but that is just me.

AARRRGH · 22-11-2005 03:20AM

billy the squid wrote:

make the party BYOB and have no cover charge. if you asked me for 10 euro to visit your house i would tell you where to go. but that is just me.

There needs to be a motivator for the organisers though. And a lot of the time it's too late to go get your cans...

Maybe they could sell beer there? You know, have a little bar, making a euro on each drink...

billy the squid · 22-11-2005 03:23AM

dublindude wrote:

There needs to be a motivator for the organisers though. And a lot of the time it's too late to go get your cans...

Maybe they could sell beer there? You know, have a little bar, making a euro on each drink...

you have to have a licence to sell beer though.

your only option is to meet up before you go out, or decide who is going before you go out, buy the booze before hand, leave it in the house and then go back after the night out

if it were to be an after hours house party, the person offering the free house would ahve to start the thread seeking expressions of interest, then arranging to meet up somewhere central during the day. before finally heading out together.

funk-you · 22-11-2005 03:26AM

well if you all want to come to my place after whatever you all are up to this saturday night i usually have parties every saturday when we get back from clubs or gigs. all of us play instruments, have huge cd collections and aren't scumbaggy(but if you did something out of order you would know about it). we have the party anyway so if anyone from boards wants to come along sure why not. just dont turn it into a sausage fest.

i'd go to your party also and the E10 cover charge is a good idea, mates of mine used to do this and got kegs. any money left over was a sort of kick in for rent etc...

we could make an unofficial meet up in a venue in the city and have an unofficial beers with a view to some late partyin maybe? its early in the week and i get paid tomorrow so partyin is def what the doctor ordered this weekend.

oh and make it byobb(bring your own bin bag). when you leave throw some emty cans etc... in your bag. saves a lot of clean up the next day.

AARRRGH · 22-11-2005 03:32AM

funk-you wrote:

just dont turn it into a sausage fest.

LOL, you better post this invitation on fashion.ie quick!!!

funk-you · 22-11-2005 03:35AM

im not lookin to sleaze onto girls or anything(i have a gf) but nobody wants to go to a complete pudding party.

AARRRGH · 22-11-2005 03:37AM

funk-you wrote:

im not lookin to sleaze onto girls or anything(i have a gf) but nobody wants to go to a complete pudding party.

Of course! Couldn't agree more.

My house party idea is based on your not knowing the people who run the party. So it's kind of like an unofficial party, like those ones in the abbatoir on Dorset Street sometimes...

funk-you · 22-11-2005 03:38AM

if you build it, they will come.

The Gnome · 22-11-2005 03:48AM

This should... nay MUST be done.

As long as no one goes metal and jumps out a window or drinks a bottle of vintage brandy and trys to jump through a wall it could be quite successful.

John R · 22-11-2005 03:48AM

Unless you have no neighbours within earshot you are not going to get away with this on a regular basis, you will end up with much Garda attention, particularly if you try selling booze.

If you are that desperate to drink all night and most of the next day then your best bet is to move to culchie-land and avail yourself of the local lock-in.

Laguna · 22-11-2005 04:01AM

John R wrote:

If you are that desperate to drink all night and most of the next day then your best bet is to move to culchie-land and avail yourself of the local lock-in.

Culchie-land?. Mate, do you think Dublin is a great place and the rest of Ireland is full of culchies?, Dublin is a big town to me.

funk-you · 22-11-2005 04:01AM

Right does someone want to suggest a meeting point and a day and i'm sure people who are online durin the day can give their opinions too. garda wont be a problem if you alternate gafs often enough(thats what myself and my mates do anyway and we've had some major parties throughout the year). if we can decide on a meeting point and there is enough interest this week we could get something together. just trying to push this along a bit dublindude. if there is no available place for you to host this weekend i'll throw mine up for destruction but if peope come to the party have high spirits and open minds and dont just turn it into groups of depressed students sitting around trying to get three out of enough for a jib and looking down on other partygoers who arent bothering anyone and arent doing gear or crack or some **** like that etc......

Laguna · 22-11-2005 04:03AM

Ahh, if people start doing gear and other **** count me out thanks..

funk-you · 22-11-2005 04:21AM

no not at all, definitely not but dont give out to someone for rolling a jib and smoking it outside if someone doesnt want it around them is what i meant. not people actually doin gear, i was saying that its NOT like they're doin that sh1t if they are havin a jib or the like.
just to reitterate: NO GEAR

just a party with nice non scumbaggy people and NO GEAR.

The Gnome · 22-11-2005 04:34AM

Gear AND jib? Let's not go mad...

Seriously though, I'd use my place but could be a bit small if a big crowd turns up. Wouldn't bother neighbour either, bástards are always partying away like the busy little beavers they are.

funk-you · 22-11-2005 04:36AM

so anyone wanna suggest a meeting point and a day?

Endurance Man · 22-11-2005 04:37AM

Sounds like a good idea, your always getting those threads asking what to do after 3 when everything closes up. We would usually just all go chill on the beach but not really an option here

. Perhaps make it 5 euro if the people dont want any more beers, but rather a little banter with some friendly folk.

Tusky · 22-11-2005 09:47AM

Really really good idea BUT you would have to inforce the no scumbag rule as im such alot fo them do be looking for a place to go after club M...

joe_chicken · 22-11-2005 10:13AM

Just get a t-shirt with:

PARTY IN MINE: 123 FAKE STREET, 10 euro in, with maybe the chance of getting some free beer

and walk around every club in town....

or better yet get some models to do it for you!

sorted!

WhiteWashMan · 22-11-2005 10:26AM

[QUOTE=dublindude]full of decent non-scumbag people, ?[/QUOTE]

then im guessing you wont be there?

BobTheBeat · 22-11-2005 10:28AM

TBH, i'd stay away from the idea DublinDude. Its cool to just hang out with some good friends,back at someones flat or house after the club.
I reckon a proper house party with people you dont know could be very messy. You really have no idea what some people are like with drink taken. If it were your house and someone got really f***ed up,be it because of drugs or booze, you'd be in right trouble. They'd become your responsibility

!
Just stick to a few mates hangin out, everyone stays over, drink till whatever time in the morning, and use everyones spare change to go to the shop the following and rustle up a savage breakfast for all. Best night you'll ever have :v:

joe_chicken · 22-11-2005 10:39AM

bobmeaney wrote:

TBH, i'd stay away from the idea DublinDude. Its cool to just hang out with some good friends,back at someones flat or house after the club.
I reckon a proper house party with people you dont know could be very messy. You really have no idea what some people are like with drink taken. If it were your house and someone got really f***ed up,be it because of drugs or booze, you'd be in right trouble. They'd become your responsibility !
Just stick to a few mates hangin out, everyone stays over, drink till whatever time in the morning, and use everyones spare change to go to the shop the following and rustle up a savage breakfast for all. Best night you'll ever have :v:

agreed!
it could be good... but it only takes one stood on toe or spilt drink to end the night quickly

rubadub · 22-11-2005 10:40AM

Yes you are better with mates. You will get lads pissed looking to get their "€10 worth" back off you, be it robbing booze from the fridge - leading to a fight/argument, taking a cd (especially copies, I have lost lots of copies, people look at them like they are worthless since they are so cheap, so a person who would never rob a "real cd" may nick a copy as it is only a few pence), or just general disrespect- puking on carpet, pissing out front in view of neighbours.

Serving booze is illegal and I think even charging in would be, if it was a blatant afterhour club. I am sure there could be some loophole though. Call it a bible meeting and the money is going to charity, your own beer fund. We all meet first thing sunday morning officer, for prayers and jesus juice

After hours house party: cover charge and open late. Would you go?

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