Puppet Master
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- Aug 14, 2012
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God I miss Event 2.
What's happened to the Pav Tav? Once a bastion of indieness. They played Five, Backstreet Boys and One Direction on a Saturday when I went there a month ago.
All that said, Audio was quality on Saturday night, absolutely rammed and James Zabelia smashed it
Its the kids I feel sorry for. Where can than go if they want to get off there tits until 6am and/or pull some Doris.
What's happened to the Pav Tav? Once a bastion of indieness. They played Five, Backstreet Boys and One Direction on a Saturday when I went there a month ago.
Coasters was a great place for late teens/early20's to get into clubbing, dance and dance music at the time. Played a lot of music I doubt hardly anywhere else in the UK played. Great days.
Top Rank Suite was OK, but you had to be very drunk to endure Phil Leppard's naff mainstream music.
the Suite was NOT for music, it was solely to provide a European meeting place for 20 year old local lads & 18 year old Scandinavian stunnas.
Must remember to thank Phil next time I see him in WSL
Without quoting all of [MENTION=15906]Colossal Squid[/MENTION] 's post, I'd say that's pretty much the same as my situation. [MENTION=19107]wakeytom[/MENTION] looks like he's in a similar boat as well as probably a few others. Now in my early 30s and as much as I still love it I can't justify doing what I used to do.
I'm out once or twice (in summer) a month now rather than twice a weekend and when you're doing that you have to pick and choose your nights. I tend to go DJ chasing a bit and generally do the bigger nights and as [MENTION=15906]Colossal Squid[/MENTION] said it's the local nights at the Zap, Honey, Ocean Rooms, Concorde, Volks that missed out on my money.
I think you're spot on when you say the youth of today just aren't into it as much, nobody has stepped in to take our place in the same kind of numbers.
It seems like it's youth culture in general so it might not even be just the club scene, where are all the bands these days and when was the last time an album went massive? Are there still as many up and coming bands playing in Brighton these days?
I do wonder if social media and reality TV has alot to answer for in all this. Have we just produced the most generically boring group of teenagers who are now 18-21, an age when they should be experimenting and developing their own style and tastes, but have only managed to copy what they've seen on towie or copy what their mates are doing on facebook (who copied that off of towie)
Is that why all these awful clubs like shoosh are springing up, because people want to go to clone of the pissing suga hut What a sad horrible pissing waste
The youngsters of today are very much into music IMHO, but more live gigs and hanging around in pubs as opposed to the club nights described in this thread. I don't think they're boring; just doing different stuff to what we did.
Without quoting all of [MENTION=15906]Colossal Squid[/MENTION] 's post, I'd say that's pretty much the same as my situation. [MENTION=19107]wakeytom[/MENTION] looks like he's in a similar boat as well as probably a few others. Now in my early 30s and as much as I still love it I can't justify doing what I used to do.
I'm out once or twice (in summer) a month now rather than twice a weekend and when you're doing that you have to pick and choose your nights. I tend to go DJ chasing a bit and generally do the bigger nights and as [MENTION=15906]Colossal Squid[/MENTION] said it's the local nights at the Zap, Honey, Ocean Rooms, Concorde, Volks that missed out on my money.
I think you're spot on when you say the youth of today just aren't into it as much, nobody has stepped in to take our place in the same kind of numbers.
It seems like it's youth culture in general so it might not even be just the club scene, where are all the bands these days and when was the last time an album went massive? Are there still as many up and coming bands playing in Brighton these days?
I do wonder if social media and reality TV has alot to answer for in all this. Have we just produced the most generically boring group of teenagers who are now 18-21, an age when they should be experimenting and developing their own style and tastes, but have only managed to copy what they've seen on towie or copy what their mates are doing on facebook (who copied that off of towie)
Is that why all these awful clubs like shoosh are springing up, because people want to go to clone of the pissing suga hut What a sad horrible pissing waste
but as always Goldie et all reminded me of what I love, and as I sat with a group of newly made friends at 6am in a park waiting for the first train I smiled and thought the feeling once more, at least for me is there
Quality, those moments really are what it's all about (and the music obviously)
I still miss Coasters and the Top Rank Suite