Old Adelaide nightclubs

Lightning McQueen · Post by **Lightning McQueen** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:23 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Dogwatcher wrote:No mention of the 90s scene can be made without The Village rearing its ugly head.
Now there was a joint.

The Spillage?

It was carved in stone in our early 20's:
Wednesday night : The Old Spot.
Thursday night: Village
Friday night: Village
Saturday night: McMahons
Sunday night: The Grand

We'd rotate Saturday nights with town though, usually started at a low budget place called pump that had the best drink specials to get the night started.

Dogwatcher · Post by **Dogwatcher** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:50 am

Nice routine.

I had five rounds that I used to do - depended if I was out with my Mrs DW and her uni mates, footy mates, school mates, Fasta Pasta mates or uni mates.
Five different crowds and all coming from different locations meant my Wed nights to Sunday arvos were very diverse.

test · Post by **test** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:27 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:We always felt a bit classy when we went to the Ambassadors.

We'd always end up at Jules or Rio's though by 6am. I went straight to footy or cricket many times from one of them.

Went straight to cricket once from Rio's and left our other opening batsman there, he'd found some new friends and didn't come home for 4 days. Telling the team we needed another player and his missus that he wouldn't be coming wasn't easy!

Lightning McQueen · Post by **Lightning McQueen** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:29 am

test wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:We always felt a bit classy when we went to the Ambassadors.

We'd always end up at Jules or Rio's though by 6am. I went straight to footy or cricket many times from one of them.

Went straight to cricket once from Rio's and left our other opening batsman there, he'd found some new friends and didn't come home for 4 days. Telling the team we needed another player and his missus that he wouldn't be coming wasn't easy!

I think that place claimed a few cricketers, 4 days is a fair Friday evening though.

test · Post by **test** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:38 am

They were family members that he hadn't seen for years over a family dispute, he could of got a phone number and played cricket, he was a bit notorious for it

Lightning McQueen · Post by **Lightning McQueen** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:43 am

test wrote:They were family members that he hadn't seen for years over a family dispute, he could of got a phone number and played cricket, he was a bit notorious for it

Wasley days?

Pseudo · Post by **Pseudo** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:53 am

Footy Chick wrote:
Stumps wrote:Sloppy Joppies still number 1 for me
planet 50c beers, used to have some midori deal going too
Barbarella at time warp yes please

Same era for me - Upstairs Joppies. We probably knew each other

In the biblical sense?

test · Post by **test** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:17 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
test wrote:They were family members that he hadn't seen for years over a family dispute, he could of got a phone number and played cricket, he was a bit notorious for it

Wasley days?

Yep, I'd just got my Ps so I reckon it was just before we'd joined Para Districts

Lightning McQueen · Post by **Lightning McQueen** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:32 am

test wrote:Yep, I'd just got my Ps so I reckon it was just before we'd joined Para Districts

Don't ya just love those players who continually done the random no-shows, you just can't win, you'd put someone else's name in and they'd rock up right on the death knock.

They were usually too valuable to discipline them.

Post by **Footy Chick** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:35 am

Pseudo wrote:
Footy Chick wrote:
Stumps wrote:Sloppy Joppies still number 1 for me
planet 50c beers, used to have some midori deal going too
Barbarella at time warp yes please

Same era for me - Upstairs Joppies. We probably knew each other

In the biblical sense?

No, it was code for " we probably slept together" :lol:

wristwatcher · Post by **wristwatcher** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:03 pm

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:how about that dodgy gothic club between hindley st and nth tce

Haha that's gold. When I was 17 I had a fake ID and I was a dancer at that club when it was a techno club. Nicki Visser was one of my fellow dancers.

Dogwatcher · Post by **Dogwatcher** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:05 pm

That dodgy club was Proscenium. I loved it there.

Post by **Footy Chick** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:10 pm

wristwatcher wrote:
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:how about that dodgy gothic club between hindley st and nth tce

Haha that's gold. When I was 17 I had a fake ID and I was a dancer at that club when it was a techno club. Nicki Visser was one of my fellow dancers.

Nicky also worked with us on Krystal Koach - I worked at Jules with Irene Valli (the former Mrs Sodestrom) and they shared a house together.

Lightning McQueen · Post by **Lightning McQueen** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:16 pm

Footy Chick wrote:
Nicky also worked with us on Krystal Koach - I worked at Jules with Irene Valli (the former Mrs Sodestrom) and they shared a house together.

Pretty sure that she worked the bar at the Newmarket too.

wristwatcher · Post by **wristwatcher** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:29 pm

I have just read through 7 pages and am mystified that the greatest night club ever has not been mentioned. Transformers at the Bridgeway on a Friday was the greatest thing ever. If you didn't time it right you were lining up for an hour. $1 vodkas at two seperate one hour time slots. Free before 10. I'm pretty sure I conceived about 4 or 5 illegitimate children on the hill behind the club. That place pumped from 9pm until 3am every Friday for about 3 or 4 years and for a period of probably 1-2 years was bigger than either McMahons.

Still one of the funniest moments of my life occurred on that hill when I was having a quiet discussion with a lovely lass from Salisbury that may have led to a mouth hug and my mate came round the back looking for me. He stood at the top of the hill and yelled loudly (the music was pumping through the walls and down said hill ) "Oi, are you out here mate". About 6 blokes all with friends for the evening all replied simultaneously from within a 50 metre radius. All the blokes and even some of the girls then broke into hysterics. The best man at my wedding had planned to tell the Transformers "dirty knees story" but I had to edit his speech.

Others I really enjoyed included ;
Le Rox -Saturdays
Big Ticket - 60c beers
Jules and Burkley
Synagogue
Discovery-Thursdays
Heaven
Hell
Time warp - Wednesdays
Synagogue
Luna Bar/Recovery
Oxford- Wednesdays
PJs

Stumps · Post by **Stumps** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:17 pm

not exactly a night club but the old east end exchange with barby going in the beer garden??
Used to go very well

As did the royal in my underage days

MatteeG · Post by **MatteeG** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:30 pm

Stumps wrote:Barbarella at time warp yes please

LOL- one particular Wednesday night I was clearly the most paro on the dance floor, she pulled me up on stage and gave me the mic. Managed to belt out "I'm your man" by Wham to the amusement of all and sundry.

Got a kiss too which made it all worth it- more action than I got all night...

Standard week was TimeWarp Wednesday. $2 spirits 8-10
$15 Meal Deal (Schnitty and all you could drink beer for 2 hours) at the Royal Thursday
Friday- dirty Vic. Hip flask a standard accessory.
Saturday- Lennies. Stage Rage or the mosh when Blister in the Sun/Come Out and Play/Smells like teen spirit got a run. Free entry before $8.30, halves in a bottle in the carpark from 9-10, then $1 beers 10-11.
Sunday on long weekends or public holidays the next day- Lennies again.

As for getting kicked out- Once at timewarp for throwing straws (!). Threw up in Lennies once at the couches up the back, my mate grabbed me and carried me out to the dance floor and busted moves with me 'Weekend at Bernies' style til I regained consciousness! Managed to stay in!

wristwatcher · Post by **wristwatcher** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:37 pm

MatteeG wrote:
Stumps wrote:Barbarella at time warp yes please

LOL- one particular Wednesday night I was clearly the most paro on the dance floor, she pulled me up on stage and gave me the mic. Managed to belt out "I'm your man" by Wham to the amusement of all and sundry.

Got a kiss too which made it all worth it- more action than I got all night...

Standard week was TimeWarp Wednesday. $2 spirits 8-10
$15 Meal Deal (Schnitty and all you could drink beer for 2 hours) at the Royal Thursday
Friday- dirty Vic. Hip flask a standard accessory.
Saturday- Lennies. Stage Rage or the mosh when Blister in the Sun/Come Out and Play/Smells like teen spirit got a run. Free entry before $8.30, halves in a bottle in the carpark from 9-10, then $1 beers 10-11.
Sunday on long weekends or public holidays the next day- Lennies again.

As for getting kicked out- Once at timewarp for throwing straws (!). Threw up in Lennies once at the couches up the back, my mate grabbed me and carried me out to the dance floor and busted moves with me 'Weekend at Bernies' style til I regained consciousness! Managed to stay in!

Haha life used to be so much simpler didn't it. Binge drinking was actually promoted to get you in the venues. I remember the uproar at Discovery on Light square when the 60 cent beers went up to 80 cents. Inevitably I would drop one every single week.

Sometimes you have to work through a spew until you get your second wind. That's Gold!

MatteeG · Post by **MatteeG** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:44 pm

wristwatcher wrote:
Sometimes you have to work through a spew until you get your second wind. That's Gold!

And that first razor blade beer post ralph. Then all good...

Dogwatcher · Post by **Dogwatcher** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 5:16 pm

Here's a photo of myself and Mrs DW at Timewarp circa 1997.
I think it was my final Wednesday night out as a uni student - we had 50c beers at some dodgy venue that looks like it's now called Live on Light Square, just up from the Colonel Light.
The photo was taken by Maynard, who was the Timewarp DJ at the time and had been the breakfast announcer on JJJ in the early 90s.