FabSwingers.com forum: night clubs are dying!!!

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Just read that half of night clubs have shut down since 2005.

Local authorities silly licensing rules, rising house prices, rising alcohol prices and the booming culture of social media/ dating apps are said to be the cause of this!!!

Could the popularity of swinger clubs also be a factor?? Aren't they on the increase??

Also do swinging club owners have to go through same shit as commercial night clubs?? Example when someone died at Radlett the police never shut it down n blamed it on their policy of searching drugs!!!!This how ether happens to night clubs!! Swinger clubs don't put us through passport security either!!

Does anyone think this is a sad predicament for British night culture

Interested for people's opinions, especially young people as their missing out on a once golden era

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Where did you read that?

Ad it seems very unlikley to be true, are you sure its not 50% in a specific area?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Google it.. even on BBC website. In London I would say it's definitely true. Only Newcastle it's still thriving

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By *ommenhimCouple
over a year ago

wigan

Prevalence of late night bars now open to 2 and 3 am is probably the biggest impact!

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

I'd say it's because they're mostly shit and full of 16yr olds.

(as was ever the way)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Prevalence of late night bars now open to 2 and 3 am is probably the biggest impact!"

It's obvious that it's this! Before the changes to licensing laws in (you guessed it) 2005, if you wanted to stay out past 11 you had to go to a club. Now you don't. A 50% reduction sounds about right tbh.

I wouldn't have thought swingers clubs have anything to do with it whatsoever...this is still quite a niche pastime.

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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago

birmingham

"Prevalence of late night bars now open to 2 and 3 am is probably the biggest impact!

I wouldn't have thought swingers clubs have anything to do with it whatsoever...this is still quite a niche pastime."
spot on because pubs are closing people not meeting in them before moving on to a club lot more choice for late bar drinkers .and years ago you had to go out and mingle to get a partener .now we plan our meets round fab type sites .

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

They're shit anyway. Years ago you had to go to a club if you wanted to stay out, they'd charge you a door fee and extra for drinks and you went hoping to kop off.

Times have changed, I'm older now but I sure wouldn't miss clubs.

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach

More of a problem (in my eyes at least), is the loss of live music venues.

Not the big ones, but the pubs etc. that used to be the training ground for young musicians.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"More of a problem (in my eyes at least), is the loss of live music venues.

Not the big ones, but the pubs etc. that used to be the training ground for young musicians.

100% agree.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"They're shit anyway. Years ago you had to go to a club if you wanted to stay out, they'd charge you a door fee and extra for drinks and you went hoping to kop off.

Times have changed, I'm older now but I sure wouldn't miss clubs. "

Yep me too.

I'd miss swinger clubs though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never ever liked night clubs. They were full of smoke and creepy old blokes on the edge of the dance floor.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Prevalence of late night bars now open to 2 and 3 am is probably the biggest impact!"

Spot on

Bars have dance areas too so unless you're going to a club for a specific night / DJ / band, they're simply not the late night venue they once were.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wouldnt go to clubs as i dont like the music they play...not everyone is young,id only go if it was a specific music genre night as this dancey crap gives me a headache.x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was a sad day when my favourite nightclub, escape in Swansea closed it's doors for the last time 2 years ago. I met the father of my child there in 2000!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Clubs aren't what they used to be. Ee by eck.

The club scene in Blackpool will always be busy. We have had a new club open and it's always busy. We're lucky to have a high turnover of visitors and healthy stag and hen numbers to sustain the scene. Elsewhere though the decline has been sad and rapid. I cut my clubbing teeth in Blackburn. The last time I went we couldn't find a club. At all. They'd all disappeared.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"More of a problem (in my eyes at least), is the loss of live music venues.

Not the big ones, but the pubs etc. that used to be the training ground for young musicians.

Exactly this! I miss these places more than night clubs! Other posters are spot on in respect of it being largely down to extended licensing hours for pubs. Seen it decline over the last 12 - 15 years

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

I'm too old for clubs now lol,couldnt tell you the last time I went to one

Miss

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Clubs aren't what they used to be. Ee by eck.

Wasn't that called the Cavendish club in Blackburn?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Clubs aren't what they used to be. Ee by eck.

Wasn't that called the Cavendish club in Blackburn?"

It was. I have fond memories of going up Cav to pull a 10 to 2.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"More of a problem (in my eyes at least), is the loss of live music venues.

Not the big ones, but the pubs etc. that used to be the training ground for young musicians.

100% agree.

ditto..

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By *uperock99Man
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Couldn't give a shit if the club scene is dying out, it's had it's days when I was younger

swinger clubs are more suited.At least there is no hassle of queuing up outside in the cold for an hour just to be told by a low IQ bouncer that you can't come in, and fighting d*unks everywhere.

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

"Just read that half of night clubs have shut down since 2005.

Local authorities silly licensing rules, rising house prices, rising alcohol prices and the booming culture of social media/ dating apps are said to be the cause of this!!!

Could the popularity of swinger clubs also be a factor?? Aren't they on the increase??

Does anyone think this is a sad predicament for British night culture

Interested for people's opinions, especially young people as their missing out on a once golden era"
i blame it on the music these days being so shit, no one wants to go out and listen or dance to it..

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

The credit crunch and recession is also a factor. Also social media makes it easy to interact with people without having to leave the house.

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By *eachPreacherMan
over a year ago

Kent/London

As a young person who hates night clubs and drinking, I couldn't care less. Might even make my late night walks safer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They are closing because they don't provide what customers want. As mentioned late night bars are often full, So customers are out there, we constantly get told of the problem d*unks, so they are buying booze. If they are not choosing to go to the club's then the club's are not selling what they want.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"More of a problem (in my eyes at least), is the loss of live music venues.

Not the big ones, but the pubs etc. that used to be the training ground for young musicians.

100% agree.

ditto..

There's still a couple of pubs in Derby that regularly have live bands on. I sometimes attend, and would sooner go there these days than some massive arena or festival that costs a fortune for entry and you need a pair of binoculars to see the stage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tried to go to a club just before Christmas and the bouncer wouldnt let me in !

Think I'll stick to pubs and chams lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks for your responses. I don't drink but have always enjoyed clubs and pulling girls at them. It's a shame they have gone downhill and external factors have halted people from going..

Pubs that open till 3 am?? I don't know any??

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

i think the music is a big factor ..when i used to go clubing the music played was an important facttor in where to go .

nowadays the music is mostly shit and all u get is the same tedious beat all nite . ..also nites that just play one type of music get very boring quite quickly . fragmenting dance music into so many different pigeonholes hasnt helped the dance music/club scene thrive .. nor has the influx of and ketamine

the people i meet at swinging clubs are not the same the people i meet at night clubs ..tho i dont go to them often nowadays as im too old

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Also clubs are closing down due to rising property/land prices, gentrification and development.

Places like The Cross, The Key and Canvas went due to the redevelopment of Kings Cross and Ministry of Sound was threatened by a proposed apartment block being built opposite it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thanks for your responses. I don't drink but have always enjoyed clubs and pulling girls at them. It's a shame they have gone downhill and external factors have halted people from going..

Pubs that open till 3 am?? I don't know any??"

Are you kidding? Where on earth do you live? I can think of 20 bars open till 3 in Newcastle. I'd imagine the same is true of most cities.

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

Pubs that open till 3 am?? I don't know any??"

bournemouth's full of them them to.tho the line between nightclub and bar isnt clear..u used to have to get signed in to a club ..thats no longer the case

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can come out of bars in Leeds about 5am so no need to go into a night club and pay stupid money and it be full of 17 - 21yr olds who can't hold their drink and just wanna cause hassle.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Well my clubbing days were cut in Wolverhampton at uni....

There was enough bars and clubs for a different place each night

Nowadays I hate to say I am not sure if that I style case. I suppose now I am older, I want to go out enjoy the music (I love dance music). But no 18/20 year old is going to like a 35 year old dancing like I am 18 again.

When I was younger I loved glow sticks, coloured hair and was a right raver...settled down now

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I've been to Bournemouth, Kingston, Windsor, Watford n London. None are as busy as they use to be. I'm comparing to 10 years ago.

Went to Clapham last Friday n was turned away by 2 clubs coz I was on my own.. stupid regulations have put me off going again, think I'll just stick to Eureka n Abfabs even if the clientelle is old for my liking

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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago

birmingham

well we hope that the young people still have places to go to .because most of us fabers are not in our teens or early 20s we prob dont know where its hapin eh .see you at chams at the weekend .got new disco area open lots room so bring you handbag to dance round naked .live the dream

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