Clubbing questions

[Susie]

Hey all

I'm writing a few clubby articles and thought you lot could help me out by answering one or all of these questions:

1. What would you consider essential to pack to take summer clubbing, say to Ibiza?

2. How have you found foreign bouncers? Any anecdotes good or bad...

3. Clubber stereotypes...go on reel off a few

Cheers my dears
Susie :)

[Susie]

Cheersage...keep them coming...oh and while I've got your attention...any of you who'd like your clubbing wisdom to appear in our summer clubbing special - take a look here (http://www.thesite.org/magazine/specials_summer_clubbing/the_basics/clubbing_wisdom.html) and if you think you can add a decent mini list, send it to me susie@thesite.org...if it makes the grade I'll add it in.

Ta
Susie :)

[Smeaky]

Don't forget the dadhousers! Back in the day they had ponytails, wore aceeiid t-shirts and drove for hours round the M25 looking for a field full of pilled up ravers/police (depending on their luck)

Now they occasionally get a babysitter in and head out to a "proper house" club, wear Evisu jeans, directional trainers and a t-shirt with a record label logo, take more pills than they can handle and sweat profusely all over the dancefloor. Bless em!

[Dom]

Originally posted by RNT
(just to add....)

oh my god just noticed this page (http://www.thesite.org/magazine/specials_summer_clubbing/the_basics/banging_links.html), very surprised to see Rupe's Pad on the links....I've met rupert and he's a very nice bloke - I'm also a member of submaniac which is a club he promotes. I'm on the photo page of that site as well :o

A couple of the guys who started Submaniac have been tech-heads on TheSite - Matt, and Reggie Reg (AKA Ken).

Which is why some of the clubbing pictures on our site are from Rup.

[Skive]

Originally posted by Susie
3. Clubber stereotypes...go on reel off a few [/B]

to follow on from RNT's sterotypes...

Junglists - Grab you hoody and 'rinse' it out! Always ready to impress you with their highly unoriginal lyrical skills copied straight from a Stevie Hyper D tape!

Happy Hardcore ravers - with their white gloves, fluro workman jacket or boiler suit (with dust mask to match) and constantly blowing on their whistles or horns. Sound as fuck though rarely over 19!

Techno Heads - usually found listening to Rotterdam Terror Corps and other such dutch madness. With their skinheads and shirtless body's often decorated with similar tattoo's they can be found in the Technodrome with there ear right against the 12ft speakers. Crazy people!

[budda]

RNT; your first person on the board apart from me who has mentioned the idea of testing your pills, well done! No where near enough people do it.

[budda]

I've never had any huge problems with foreign bouncers but;

When in Motreal the door monkeys made us all stand in a semi cicle and then just picked who they liked the look of most! Very annoying.

In J'burg we had a very strange experaince, not really with the bouncers but in general. A friend and I traveled accross J'burg to go to this night on a sunday night and when we got there realised that the area was preaty bad but the club seemed ok.
Rememer we were a bit nervous J'burg is the murder capital of the world.
Anyway we got in and started talking to the dealer, got a couple of pills and then when we gave him a big note he got change from the bar!
Then he told us that there was going to be an under cover cop there that night so we should keep ourselves subtle. Hmmm I wonder if they were corrupt?
Anyway we cained the pills as us brits normally do and when the club finished at 4.30 we sat outside for our cab ride at 5. We're sitting there preaty twisted and this bloke walks up;
"Are you guys ok?"
"Errr, yeah sure, we're just waiting for our cab"
"Oh dont worry, I work for the club"
"oh ok"
"what did you think of the pills?"
"Err, well the mitzis were ok but the butterflies were a bit dirty"
"Well the reason I'm checking is that I've been following you around because you looked a bit fucked"
We were a bit taken aback by this!
"We're fine, we do this all the time, we're from London"
Whats funny was he seemed to understand once we'd told him that!