thurs night entertainment in town, anyone interested at all?

It sounds good, where would you be thinking of putting it on? It'd be nice to have a few good club nights during the week, I work most weekends so although now I can afford to go out I miss all the good stuff.

Not sure if you'll get a crowd, hope i'm wrong though. i've seen the cellar bring over a big name and ended up paying him out of their own pocket.

you won't like this suggestion but I think you should aim to get some students in.

I don't think you can afford to be fussy.

have you talked to the groups who run nights in the cellar, de Burgos etc?

you'd be wise to do so. they're friendly lads and well connected, they'd help.

there's a core following already, you won't invent a new core imo

Yusuf Damaged Seal wrote: »

Put it in Deburgos and it's be class.. Play some Leftfield and it would be unreal.

didnt gigantic get removed from deburgos due to the the fire marsel deeming it having to much people in the place. and also that tenat above giving out about the noise?

Yusuf Damaged Seal wrote: »

A few weeks before the fire marshall, a lot of stuff got hurled at the apartments opposite the smoking area.. So fair enough for them to complain.
Altho I just read that part on a thread on here.

Aye I heard of that as well, but aside from that, every night gigantic was on there, there was a tenat complaining to the gardai, was happening for 3-5 months befor the fire marshel was actualy called in.

And if i recall they were quite strict with not letting any glass out in the smoking area

Sorry to waffle off topic here, but as someone who worked there for 3 years until the place was unjustifiably shut down, I feel I should intervene

The complaints came from the top floor of the building, about 6 flights up if my memory serves me correctly. There was never one complaint from the floors between the the pub and that apartment. It was owned by an old couple who didn't live there for years, just their son who never complained once, it was only when they started using it at weekends that they started to give out about noise of people smoking out the back, but it didn't stop there. They would complain about the littlest thing, even 30th birthday parties who had dj's who weren't half as loud as Gigantic, and they still complained after moving the smoking area to the front door instead, ironically causing an even worse fire and general safety hazard.

The fire marshalls and health and safety call to the building with a week of each other, this old couple rang each of them and sent them to De Burgo's in an attempt to have the place shut down.

They then found out about the license held by the place they went to Galway property management and issued a complaint, saying how illegal a lot of the nights were (they were in fairness, but wasn't doing anybody any harm - legally the building could only be used for private parties, so everything that was run in the place had to be disguised as one). They would never once meet the manager or any staff face to face in a meeting despite them causing about 15 people to lose their jobs, they were happy enough to hide behind solicitors.

The real kicker came when we found out that their apartment was for sale the whole time! They just wanted to up the value of it by not having a smoking area downstairs, and they went to great lengths to do so.

As far as I know it's still operating as a private club, I think the guards are more involved with it than they used to be. There was a glimmer of hope of it re-opening to it's full extent but the word had gone around town and the damage was done. I don't even want to hazard a guess at how much money the place lost in those couple of weeks.

Back on topic: I'd defo be interested in heading to a club night on Thursdays, especially one of good taste electronica. Good luck with it anyways.