Clubbed to death?
The club scene is big business, so the real business for the serious clubber is to stay one step ahead of the game.
ores: Thom Dibdin
(7 lrrbbrng rs dead lrke punk, rock ’n' roll, 60s flower power and Monty Python's parrot, c‘lubbrng has shuffled off this rrrortal corl Of course as many people go clubbrng every year as they ever drd And there's enough of what passes for clubbrng for The List to be able to produce thrs rssue's spec ral Club (jurde
tut the only reason clubs remarn as busy as ever rs that clubbrng, lrke the parrot, has been narled to rts perch Unlrke the parrot, however, rt rs the narlrng to the perch what krllecl rt
(_|ubbrng's colourful cadaver has been stuffed by the brewerres lf ecstasy gave clubbing lrfe, or was at least a contrrbutory factor rn house music's rise, then alcohol rrrust be rrnplrcated rn the creatron of the ster'rle and mockrng carrcature of rts former self that passes for the early 21st century clubbrng expc-.>rrencc-‘.
Before alcohol was actrvely pushed at clubs, they were run by fly guys wrth rnobrle phones and dodgy mates. Of course they were put on to make money, only at the very begrnnrng was the ‘free party’ anythrng lrke a regular realrty And of course the dodgy mates were attracted by the possrbrlrty of knoc krng out a few prllsr
But the drscotheuues, the meat-markets set up to grve the punter a place for the rrnbrbrng of enough bevy to secure a sordid encounter before therr kebab on the way home, fought shy of all ’rave musrc'. Remember repetrtrve beats7 Well, they were not welcome on the drsco floor
loclay, the clubs are run by the brewerres Scottrsh & Newcastle rs the biggest club runner rn Scotland. It strll puts on clubs rn order to sell alcohol, Just as rt always drd. The cirfference rs that house rnusrc and all rts attendant genres, are now not only known to the managers, but have been ossrfred rntc) place as the ostensrble reason for people to attend.
And the best club rn the country? llrat would be Eros and Elrte accordrng to a recent poll Whrch, I'm sorry to have to rnforrn you, arn’t clubbrnc; It's lrc.ensed lechery and lrc‘entrousness on a level that would have sated even Casanova's rapacrous appetrte or make a Norwegian blue. Great stuff, and to be applauded rn rts own way, but rt strll arn’t cilubbrng.
No, the real club runners, the purveyors of the lrkes of Slam, Pure, Tr'rbal Funktron, Colours and even the much-malrgnecl
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The best club in the country is Eros and Elite; great stuff, but it ain't clubbing.
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