thewolf_1980 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Tiger Tim at the Hamilton Palace on a Thursday night... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only One Stop Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Just remembered Berties Bar just off Greyfriars street, first boozer open late during the week. Had a massive mirror that folk got caught out a lot. And the second worst toilets in Edinburgh, downstairs in Negotiants wins the first prize. Smelt like every person in the bar had shat themselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 For the size of the place Kilmarnock had some amount of clubs on the go when I started going out there, all open til 4am at the time. Parkers, Vickys, Charlie Browns, Box 2, Nelsons....there must be others I can't recall... Mid-80s was a really good night out in Killie. Was never overly fussed with Parkers but I thought Charlie Browns was brilliant. As you said, all open until 4 at the weekend. Used to be a bit disorienting falling out onto John Finnie St in the summer when it was light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Tiger Tim at the Hamilton Palace on a Thursday night... I once took a roll and sausage in the face that was aimed for Tiger Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) In Aberdeen in the 80s as a callow youth: The Hawthorn Bar Ferryhill House Ma Cameron's The Dutch Mill The Machar Cafe Ici - popular in the 80s Gabriel's - ditto Ritzy Henry J Beans - specialised in smelling of vomit In the 90s and after: Ferryhill House The Bond Bar Cocky Hunters Cafe Society Smart Alex Oh Henry's The Globe Under the Hammer The Blue Lamp The Howff O'Donoghue's O'Neill's The College Babylon In Edinburgh: The Melville Bert's Bar Teuchters Star Bar The Baillie The Antiquary Barony Bar The Wally Dug The Cumberland Fibber Magees The Guildford Arms Milne's Harry's Bar Fingers Piano Bar Nowadays: Still Ferryhill House/The Globe but very rarely... Edited December 9, 2015 by neilser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourname Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Edinburgh - about 7-10 years ago: Liquid rooms on a Wednesday used to be class, went here about a year ago at 1am and there were about 15 people in there. we used to queue for 30-45 mins to get in. Cav (actually called lava/ignite) - upstairs cheesy floor. Havent been back since I developed a taste in music, beer and women. Stereo/whatever it was called after - a solid option on a Tuesday night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Man Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Never went to many clubs as a customer but worked in lots of them. Good times. Went to the Velvet a Rooms a few times when I was at college and apart from getting lost every time I came back from the toilets I liked it. Can't remember what type of music it was though. Nowadays I like Club Noir nights at O2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Tiger Tim at the Hamilton Palace on a Thursday night... Used to be buses from Ayrshire that would do trips to the Hamilton Palace (seem to recall once a month from Saltcoats train station there would be a bus that would take you through and back for that.) Ended up in 'the moon' once when I moved to Glasgow. What a place Always mind the guy on sauchiehall street shouting 'come to the moon' That's a blast from that past! When used to go out in Glasgow with mates there was one guy who would always pull a right huffy if we did not go there. I remember kid Creole and the coconuts and also Marie Wilson, i used to drink Schlitz lager in there thinking i was the bees knees! Big Country apparently played it also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddersfield Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I doubt many here will know the place but Ricky's Bar (ex-Waggon & Horses) near the Huddersfield ground closed down last week. I've been drinking pre-match in there for 35 years, bought my lad his first pre-match pop, shandy, underage & legal pints in there. In fact I bought some of my own first underage pints in there. It was, shall we say, not one of the town's more salubrious establishments as a quick Google Street View will show, but I'm devastated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Ended up in 'the moon' once when I moved to Glasgow. What a place Always mind the guy on sauchiehall street shouting 'come to the moon' Honourable mention to Strathclyde Union and there 12 hour Tuesday's where it was 99p all drinks. Usually couldn't remember the second half of champions league football in there I met a really drunk Aberdeen player in there once. Was blootered with his shirt all ripped and bouncing off the walls. Can mind his name for the life of me though. Had really hairy hands and might have played for Raith or Falkirk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow jock Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Member all those boozers Glasgow Jock. Fit age are you? The dancing was more Henry Afrikas, Panama Jax or the Cotton Club and the Warehouuse. 50 this year ( ) although been told I don't look my age ( ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilly71 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Cueball in Coplaw St.great wee place, occasionally, The Plaza, dancing wis on after all the old yins had stopped their ballroom dancing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only One Stop Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I doubt many here will know the place but Ricky's Bar (ex-Waggon & Horses) near the Huddersfield ground closed down last week. I've been drinking pre-match in there for 35 years, bought my lad his first pre-match pop, shandy, underage & legal pints in there. In fact I bought some of my own first underage pints in there. It was, shall we say, not one of the town's more salubrious establishments as a quick Google Street View will show, but I'm devastated Was in Ricky's earlier this year. Ricky a large slightly camp fellow. Roughest looking strippers I seen for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee- Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Late 70s Glasgow was Alhambra bar and then Savoy dancing. I worked on the theory that with so many females I could play the numbers game.. Hardest bouncers to pass when pished though, they lined up on both sides as we walked towards entrance. Mention also for Doune Castle in Shawlands and Shawlands hotel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 My curiosity was aroused - http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/ricky-park-renowned-rickys-bar-10394536 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddersfield Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Was in Ricky's earlier this year. Ricky a large slightly camp fellow. Roughest looking strippers I seen for a while. That would have been the perfect TripAdvisor review! Ricky was actually the first openly gay man I ever knew; quite brave really running a pub (along with his partner) in that part of town in the early 1980s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Late 70s Glasgow was Alhambra bar and then Savoy dancing. I worked on the theory that with so many females I could play the numbers game.. Hardest bouncers to pass when pished though, they lined up on both sides as we walked towards entrance. Mention also for Doune Castle in Shawlands and Shawlands hotel. Did the Doune Castle eventually become an O'Neill's (then Stube - no idea what it's called now)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) Tiger Tim at the Hamilton Palace on a Thursday night...Most of 5th and 6th year at our school went there on a Thursday night. In fact everyone I ever spoke to in there on a Thursday night was still at school, or facing a mid-life crisis. ( I should add, I was too, I wasn't 30 or anything! ) We would also go to Bar Yava in Hamilton, was always shooty in to pull in there, the clientele was even younger in there! In Glasgow. The shack and trash that both burned down. Loved the shack, was there Thursday and Saturday through uni, was a bit classier than the garage. Tuesday's in Trash was an interesting night, as it was a mix of students, footballers and wannabe WAGS. (Bizarrely got turned away from there once as it was "students only", but the guy interrupted his student only patter to let Bobo Balde in. ) Archaos was some place, so loud! late 90s it was quite cool, but then went quite neddy, I like my dance music, so always liked it. Been in the place across the road under about 10 different guises, think it was Planet peach when we first went, always a bit of a last resort. Went through a spell early 2000s where everyone was into Rnb and wanted to be black, there was a place up at Charing Cross end of sauchiehall street, velvet rooms I'm sure it was called. Only other one I can think of that's no longer there was Destiny, it sounded like a great idea, but was full of neds, again, I liked dance music, but it attracts the neds. Edited December 9, 2015 by sbcmfc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee- Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Did the Doune Castle eventually become an O'Neill's (then Stube - no idea what it's called now)? You would know it as The Village, now The James Tassie. Another favourite was The Newlands Hotel which became flats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khana Lagur Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 The Hoochie in Edinburgh was always the biz but the best 'club' by far that Edinburgh or any other city anywhere in the world has ever seen was the Gassedallweekendo. The name speaks for itself hence why the Sun newspaper tried to get a reporter inside every week and why a certain high court judge tried to have it banned. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaejapan Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Surprised nobody has mentioned the legendary 'Bonkers' in Glasgow yet! Friday evening/night 'big office parties' with 50p drinks were magic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) You would know it as The Village, now The James Tassie. Another favourite was The Newlands Hotel which became flats. Ta - was reading that it was a Stakis place and it was a cellar-type pub (?), which made me think O'Neill's / Stube as you walked down a set of stairs when entering from Kilmarnock Road. Once spent a pleasant Saturday afternoon in TJT with Mod Admin Flure and Wolfie (think Grumpy Auld Git was a chef in there for a while). Spent a few Friday / Saturday nights in the Newlands Hotel - there was also Rosco's (think it was latterly Magenta - now a gym?). I'm getting all nostalgic for Shawlands in the 1990s now - some good times. Edited December 9, 2015 by Charlie Endell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 there was also Rosco's (think it was latterly Magenta - now a gym?). Cheers! I was trying to remember the name of that gaff - Roscos of course. I think you've got the wrong colour though, it became Indigo. You could also take your life in your hands in the Marlborough before it became the Shed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) Cheers! I was trying to remember the name of that gaff - Roscos of course. I think you've got the wrong colour though, it became Indigo. You could also take your life in your hands in the Marlborough before it became the Shed.... I only went to the Marlborough once - it was almost empty and they had some lassie dancing in a cage. Edited December 9, 2015 by Charlie Endell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow jock Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 You would know it as The Village, now The James Tassie. Another favourite was The Newlands Hotel which became flats. Aye Shawlands was always a good alternative to the town. Loved the Village & it's basement bar which was called Rosie O'Grady's i think And i'm sure the Newlands hotel was also known as J J Booths ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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