What happened to the slow set?

veryangryman · 04-02-2013 11:24PM #1

Something I recall from clubs back in 90s and early noughties. Wondering why they got rid of them. Yes they were God awful but so is a lot of stuff that they keep doing there.

Was there a commercial reason for it being dropped?

Mint Sauce · 04-02-2013 11:25PM

veryangryman wrote: »

Something I recall from clubs back in 90s and early noughties. Wondering why they got rid of them. Yes they were God awful but so is a lot of stuff that they keep doing there.

Was there a commercial reason for it being dropped?

You watching Intermission?

TeddyTedson · 04-02-2013 11:26PM

Clubs want you to be going mental and spend a fortune on drink.

Ihatecuddles-old · 04-02-2013 11:26PM

They didn't have enough wet floor signs

Ruudi_Mentari · 04-02-2013 11:28PM

What, like a chill out version of Kate Bush song when you're comin down off yokes?

Daveysil15 · 04-02-2013 11:31PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Do want you to be going mental and spend a fortune on drink.

This, and people don't dance now either; they just point at the ceiling.

irish bloke · 04-02-2013 11:33PM

veryangryman wrote: »

Something I recall from clubs back in 90s and early noughties. Wondering why they got rid of them. Yes they were God awful but so is a lot of stuff that they keep doing there.

Was there a commercial reason for it being dropped?

Strip clubs......

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:34PM

If you had your hand on a woman's arse at the start of Total Eclipse of the Heart and it was still there at the end you were landed boy.:)

greenflash · 04-02-2013 11:34PM

AKA the erection section

Kichote · 04-02-2013 11:35PM

Hang on till I finish this tea with brownsauce and I'll give you an answer

mad m · 04-02-2013 11:50PM

I want Enigma!

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:53PM

And who can forget this 'classic'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roF9B_rJKhs

Son Of A Vidic · 04-02-2013 11:54PM

mad m wrote: »

I want Enigma!

And many an arrest was made because of it.

Madam_X · 04-02-2013 11:55PM

Aren't they just a teenage disco thing? Didn't think they'd feature in nightclubs.

Where To · 04-02-2013 11:57PM

Madam_X wrote: »

Aren't they just a teenage disco thing? Didn't think they'd feature in nightclubs.

They were a staple of every nightclub up until the early 90s at least. If the DJ didn't turn down the lights and play three slow songs, there would be a riot, no joke.

Fox_In_Socks · 04-02-2013 11:58PM

An ole bit of Dickie Rock, boy!

Quazzie · 04-02-2013 11:59PM

Many a ride was got because of the slow set.

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-02-2013 12:00AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo

Son Of A Vidic · 05-02-2013 12:02AM

Where To wrote: »

They were a staple of every nightclub up until the early 90s at least. If the DJ didn't turn down the lights and play three slow songs, there would be a riot, no joke.

A riot is probably an understatement.

Queen-Mise · 05-02-2013 12:02AM

Where To wrote: »

They were a staple of every nightclub up until the early 90s at least. If the DJ didn't turn down the lights and play three slow songs, there would be a riot, no joke.

Oh they were horrible - I hated them with a vengeance. They were three slow songs every hour as far as I can remember - so you would have three slow sets each night.

Going from jumping around the place like a looper to shuffling in a circle being pawed up by drunk creepy men. Thank fcuk I got out of Ireland when I was 17:rolleyes:

When I came back 10 years later - they were gone.

Kettleson · 05-02-2013 12:06AM

The slow set or AKA "the erection section" by all funky DJ's.

foxinsox · 05-02-2013 12:07AM

This was the one that I would let the boy put his hand on my arse!

Everytime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9LSOshOYY

Kettleson · 05-02-2013 12:10AM

foxinsox wrote: »

This was the one that I would let the boy put his hand on my arse!

Everytime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9LSOshOYY

http://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

plannerscanner · 05-02-2013 12:15AM

Never remember the slow sets but do remember Macy Grays 'I try' was a good number to lob the gob to....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQ0l_m3Xm0

Kichote · 05-02-2013 12:17AM

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Oh they were horrible - I hated them with a vengeance. They were three slow songs every hour as far as I can remember - so you would have three slow sets each night.

Going from jumping around the place like a looper to shuffling in a circle being pawed up by drunk creepy men. Thank fcuk I got out of Ireland when I was 17:rolleyes:

When I came back 10 years later - they were gone.

Yeah yeah feck those inferior Irish and their slow sets. Drinking coffee and snorting coke late at night in posh upmarket cafe's is so much more sophisticated and with the times

jaffacakesyum · 05-02-2013 12:19AM

Did this happen in Dublin clubs as well or was it more of a country thing? I thought it was just at teenage discos as well.

razorgil · 05-02-2013 12:26AM

aahhhh, the old parochial hall disco. girls on one side, boys on the other. slow set comes on, scan the opposite side of the hall. the beads of sweat rolling down the back of your neck through fear, as you bravely stride across the empty floor to ask one of the girls if they would like to dance. time stood still, as she decided whether or not to accept your invitation. with a smile, she accepts, and you're the man, hand in hand out onto the floor, her hands slip up behind and around your neck, yours around her waist, time stood still for those few songs. all going well, small talk going well, then you lean in for the kiss ....when suddenly, and without warning,.... "its a crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy night",.... kiss blast out through the speakers. ahhhh ****, chance lost, she slips back to her buddies, you go moshing with the boys, pretending you don't care , but, well, theres always the next slow set!!

Mint Sauce · 05-02-2013 12:27AM

foxinsox wrote: »

This was the one that I would let the boy put his hand on my arse!

Everytime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9LSOshOYY

Put my hand on many an arse to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWHZc8s2I

And oddly November Rain by G'n'R.

mad m · 05-02-2013 12:29AM

Three burds in corner of smokey club.....go to first one "yeah getting up?" No she replies....turn to her mate and the domino effect happens,total disaster!:D

mad m · 05-02-2013 12:37AM

Up in Mary's disco back in the day! Used to hate walking into the grounds, they shone a bloody halogen light towards the entrance, if you have beer on you it was over, it was zig zag all the way up to the bouncers to tell you, go home!

Classic slow set...

Alter-Ego · 05-02-2013 12:57AM

The kids are too yoked out of their heads these days to slow dance to Wicked Game.

What happened to the slow set?

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