Nightclubs

[TANGODANCER]

Last decent club I went to was Taskers on Manchester Road (yeah, that long ago). Used to be okay at one time. Probably closed down years ago now.

I was around at the dawn of invention in night clubs; when they first started hanging fake fishing nets, with their catch of Chianti bottles, on walls and using red bulbs to disguise the grot, then those flashing blue strobe things that made everybody look suntanned with dazzling white teeth and shirts. Trouble was they highlighted the dandruff on anybody with a jacket on. Must have had a deaf DJ too because suddenly nobody could talk and you had to shout to ask a girl important questions like: "Do you live local, have you got your own house and do you have a washing machine? Three "yes's" and you'd pulled. You look back now and sigh.."Ah, happy days" then admit they were sheer crap. Still went back for more though because the herd syndrome and the meeting of the beautiful people existed even then. After that it went downhill in a hurry.

Worse club ever was a biker hangout in Mawdsley Street. You walked in over a pile of helmets and leathers thrown on the deck, the decor was non-existent, the lighting was a couple of 60 watt bulbs dangling from the ceiling and "dancing" was a bunch of the great unwashed head-butting each other in the middle to the howls of Black Sabbath, Guns and Roses and Kiss. There are some benefits to old age after all.

Best clubs: The old Empress Hall in town. You could get a meal, dance and watch some top-class entrtainment there. The Platters (although not a big success by then) Jimmy Crawford Four etc etc, and of course Trevals on Halliwell. Great venue for adult music lovers and guest artists used to appear there for free because the keyboard player and drummer (Fred Shawcross) were so good.

[walkingdownthemannyroad]

Nice one Tango,do you mean The Bus Inn, which was behind Mawsdley St?

I think you and I are of a similar age. Do you remember "Playmate" on Bank St?

God, if there had been a fire in there..........

Also what was that place opposite the old police station,near the town hall, at the top of a load of steps?

When the bouncer threw you out, it was straight down the steps, ( a fate I never suffered!)

[Batman]

Tokyo Joes

[TANGODANCER]

Nice one Tango,do you mean The Bus Inn, which was behind Mawsdley St?

I think you and I are of a similar age. Do you remember "Playmate" on Bank St?

God, if there had been a fire in there..........

Also what was that place opposite the old police station,near the town hall, at the top of a load of steps?
When the bouncer threw you out, it was straight down the steps, ( a fate I never suffered!)

That was the beloved "Aspin Hall" Manny, and the man mountain bouncer was Bob Greenhalgh. I remember pre-Playmate when it was the Beachcomber (hence the fishing nets) and Bolton's first Indian restaurant, The Kismet, was across the road. I worked on the door at the Blue Lagoon next to the Wryton Stadium for a while and that wasn't for the faint-hearted..

Ref fires, a lot of my mates died in the old Top Story Club in Bolton. Nice to find someone who remembers those days.

[communistworkethic]

Tokyo Joes

GOD.
NO.

[Batman]

A shocker fer sure.


It's a scandalous place.

[LeeRoyBrown]

Isn't Toks where a Mr Ricky Gardner frequents?

[Batman]

Where a lot of the lads used to go.

Used to see Deano in there of a midweek, and even a young Nolan was in there..........now you just get tosspot Dingleburn players in there

[walkingdownthemannyroad]

Isn't Toks where a Mr Ricky Gardner frequents?

Not been in town for a good few years now.

Sounds like Tokyo Joes is a place to avoid, where is it?

[Batman]

No longer so called.

Lava and Ignite

A shower of shite. Just up the main high street.

Go to Roper Hall instead

[Batman]

or the Warehouse

[Athers]

One thing's for sure, Bolton has an absolute dearth of anywhere decent to go out.

[Batman]

Best place to go out in Bolton is Manchester

[walkingdownthemannyroad]

Nice one Tango,do you mean The Bus Inn, which was behind Mawsdley St?

I think you and I are of a similar age. Do you remember "Playmate" on Bank St?

God, if there had been a fire in there..........

Also what was that place opposite the old police station,near the town hall, at the top of a load of steps?
When the bouncer threw you out, it was straight down the steps, ( a fate I never suffered!)

That was the beloved "Aspin Hall" Manny, and the man mountain bouncer was Bob Greenhalgh. I remember pre-Playmate when it was the Beachcomber (hence the fishing nets) and Bolton's first Indian restaurant, The Kismet, was across the road. I worked on the door at the Blue Lagoon next to the Wryton Stadium for a while and that wasn't for the faint-hearted..

Ref fires, a lot of my mates died in the old Top Story Club in Bolton. Nice to find someone who remembers those days.

Only ever got in the Beachcomber once, Tango,memory a bit hazy, but got fond memories of the Kismet. I knew a friend who used to go in there every weekend p!ssed,eat his meal,then do a runner, but went back the night after and pay for his meal. Then he would order another meal,eat that,then do another runner!!!!!!!!!!!!! Honest!!! You could'nt write it!

One Saturday he went in, and while he was eating, they loosened the door handle. As usual, he jumps up,gets to the door, the handle comes of in his hand and he ends up flat on his back, and the whole restaurant is p!ssing their sides.....Priceless.

Went in The Blue Lagoon once or twice,very young lad. As you say,not for the faint hearted..........

[Batman]

[TANGODANCER]

Only ever got in the Beachcomber once, Tango,memory a bit hazy, but got fond memories of the Kismet. I knew a friend who used to go in there every weekend p!ssed,eat his meal,then do a runner, but went back the night after and pay for his meal. Then he would order another meal,eat that,then do another runner!!!!!!!!!!!!! Honest!!! You could'nt write it!

One Saturday he went in, and while he was eating, they loosened the door handle. As usual, he jumps up,gets to the door, the handle comes of in his hand and he ends up flat on his back, and the whole restaurant is p!ssing their sides.....Priceless.

Went in The Blue Lagoon once or twice,very young lad. As you say,not for the faint hearted..........

Made me laugh Manny. Doing a runner was quite commonplace then. Do you remember the little Chines place opposite St Pat's church on Great Moor Street? (Tai-Tung?) That was a favourite runner hang out. Got so bad at one time they had two guys on the door to catch em. Another was House of Orange on Bradshawgate. The Kismet served brilliant curries though.

My brother was home on leave once with three of his mates from the Paras. One dxxkhead kicked off in the Great Moor St place and my brothers mate, a big Geordie, finished up wrapping the guy's tie round a table leg. Twas quite funny then to see four Chinese guys hanging off him to prevent him strangling the plonker.

[Lennon]

or the Warehouse

Good call. I was in there on my own on Saturday night because I couldn't get in Squires with my mates due to having no collar. Absolutely wrecked from matchday drinking. Had a cracking time as usual. A night out is what you make of it.

[Marshall]

No longer so called.

Lava and Ignite

A shower of shite. Just up the main high street.

Go to Roper Hall instead

I heard that Lava was meant to be good. Apparently Ikon is being turned into 1 soon. Which is just as well, seeing as it is the second worst club in Bolton, after j2.

Warehouse is good, had a great night out there a few weeks back.

Bolton will be packed tonight though, A-Level results and all that, can't be arsed with the compulsory exam celebrations.

[officer_dibble]

funny things, clubs. prefer late bars myself although dont ask me to define the difference!!
they served there purpose back at uni and school though, wouldnt swop any of my nights out for anything now, although it was usually the journeys home where the real fun was to be had!

[Harry Genshaw]

Always hated clubs. Not been in one since I went in Peppermint Place in Blackburn in the early 1990s. Some lad barges into me and gives me a shedload of abuse. Me being full of ale bravely says "Have a pop then mate, if you fancy yer chances"

He only bloody did didnt he?

Cue Mr G on his arse with a fat lip