The crap they're teaching your kids!

[Peter Wolf]

Bloody hippies. )[/quote]No seriously, that was pretty much the exact title. And yes he was wankered most of the time as it happens, but then he was a philosophy student.[/quote]

That must have been when it was an arts venue before it changed ownership and became just another club.I never went there after that happened and the interior with its brick vaulted arches were all ripped out to create an open space and it was ruined.I did help someone paint a mural in there just before it re opened outside the washrooms.

[House of Usher]

That must have been when it was an arts venue before it changed ownership and became just another club.I never went there after that happened and the interior with its brick vaulted arches were all ripped out to create an open space and it was ruined.I did help someone paint a mural in there just before it re opened outside the washrooms.

That can't be the case. I first saw Frazier Chorus there in 1987 before it was knocked through and ruined, and the second time I saw them there was June 1989, by which time the redevelopment had occurred and it was all a greyish white and smelt of damp plaster. Kerrin's the same age as me, so he couldn't have been at university before October 1989, which was after the ghastly changes to the interior of which you speak.

(For the curious - I give you: Frazier Chorus. Watch out - the Chart Show intro fanfare at the beginning may startle!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XI-Mf3t ... re=related

[House of Usher]

Actually, forget that link. To really get the most out of Frazier Chorus, check out this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg5jm6Zj6II

[Kerrin]

Kerrin's the same age as me, so he couldn't have been at university before October 1989, which was after the ghastly changes to the interior of which you speak.

Yep, you're quite right Ush. I started at Sussex in '91. The Zap had been hollowed out and turned into a sweaty nightclub by then. I do however remember the venue before that event and agree wholeheartedly that it was architecturally preferable. But when you're a youngster and up for loud banging music and half naked girls dancing like dervishes you couldn't find a better place for miles around. I don't think it's a club anymore, but then I haven't actually taken a wander down that part of the seafront for years now. Mind you I haven't been in a nightclub for years either, not enough seats, music too loud and far too many young people. BAH!

[Peter Wolf]

Kerrin's the same age as me, so he couldn't have been at university before October 1989, which was after the ghastly changes to the interior of which you speak.

Yep, you're quite right Ush. I started at Sussex in '91. The Zap had been hollowed out and turned into a sweaty nightclub by then. I do however remember the venue before that event and agree wholeheartedly that it was architecturally preferable. But when you're a youngster and up for loud banging music and half naked girls dancing like dervishes you couldn't find a better place for miles around. I don't think it's a club anymore, but then I haven't actually taken a wander down that part of the seafront for years now. Mind you I haven't been in a nightclub for years either, not enough seats, music too loud and far too many young people. BAH!

Its still a nightclub but its name is written in braille for some reason and i cant read it.I dont go to nightclubs anymore as i dont like dance music and thats all you ever get in Brighton.

[House of Usher]

when you're a youngster and up for loud banging music and half naked girls dancing like dervishes you couldn't find a better place for miles around.

Unfortunately there weren't many half naked girls on the indie/goth/heavy rock scene I was into when I was a youngster, c.1987-1992. Fortunately, there are a lot on the goth/heavy rock scene I'm into now!
 

(thinks: we're a long way from Shakespeare on this thread now...)

[Dandontdare]

when you're a youngster and up for loud banging music and half naked girls dancing like dervishes you couldn't find a better place for miles around.

Unfortunately there weren't many half naked girls on the indie/goth/heavy rock scene I was into when I was a youngster. Fortunately, there are a lot on the goth/heavy rock scene I'm into now!

I remember I used to wonder about the balck T-shirted and paunched older geezers who never seemed to leave the bar area of various gigs I went to - Why bother coming if you don't want to get down there and ROCK? - nowadays I appreciate this as the best place to watch gigs from. I have become them.

I'm sad to report that unlike House of Usher, there are significantly less half naked girls in my gigging/clubbing life than in years past, as my years past involved Manchester rave clubs in the 90s, when two tank-girlesque X 's of black tape seemed to suffice as a 'top' *sigh*

[House of Usher]

I'm sad to report that unlike House of Usher, there are significantly less half naked girls in my gigging/clubbing life than in years past, as my years past involved Manchester rave clubs in the 90s, when two tank-girlesque X 's of black tape seemed to suffice as a 'top' *sigh*

Hmm. Well, it's like that on the goth scene now, largely as a result of there being a great deal of rave-goth crossover in the past 10 years. The downside is we have to put up with a lot of 'industrial' house and gabber. I think it's a price worth paying. Without it there'd be no goth scene at all, let alone partial nudity.

[Dandontdare]

Without it there'd be no goth scene at all, let alone partial nudity.

"the youth" will always find a reason and a method to freak out their elders, dress in BAD clothes and get their bits out.

The problem is keeping connected with "the youth" without trolling around clubs looking like a perv!

[House of Usher]

Without it there'd be no goth scene at all, let alone partial nudity.

"the youth" will always find a reason and a method to freak out their elders, dress in BAD clothes and get their bits out.

As if any reason were even needed! And it's not just the youth... it's anyone who looks good partially clothed. Or doesn't. Me, I'm wearing something baggy that gives no hint of my shape underneath. But the missus can get away with almost anything.
 

[Jim_Campbell]

The downside is we have to put up with a lot of 'industrial' house and gabber.

I'm depressed to admit that I am now so old, I have no idea what that even means ...

Bah.

Jim

[TordelBack]

I have no idea what that even means ...

"Now my friends are gone
And my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play".

[Paul faplad Finch]

The official definition as laid down by the Official Board of Musical Terminology for Great Britain  of  "industrial house" is "NOISE".

That's the Gods Honest.

[Paul faplad Finch]

I actually have a serious point to make about education but I was waiting so someone else could be the killjoy who cuts off the talk of young girls flashing their jigglies but no-one else seems to want to.
    My nephew is 5yrs old and can't recognise the letter k. Why you ask? Well his teacher very helpfully gave the kids in her clas a set of homemade primer cards-one for each letter of the alphabet- to keep in their take home wallets.She'd printed them off from a compter. However, she'd taken a marker pen and changed all the k's by hand. She'd joined the top of the k to the end of the top leg. She'd turned it into an R. Now, when he sees an R he thinks it's a k and when he ses a k he doesn't recognise it at all. Whats that about? Didn't the fact that she'd had to change them by hand-presumably because she couldn't find a font willing to write a k as an R- give her a clue that maybe this wasn't the best idea.
    I'm assuming now, from earlier posts on this thread, that it's something to do with teaching writing instead of printing but in a country where we are churning out a generation of illiterate chavs, why are we doing something that's seemingly designed to be confusing. It certainly confused me and I flatter myself that on a good day I can recognise almost every letter of the alphabet

[House of Usher]

There's gabber for you.
//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8E4GPdu4k&feature=related
And some industrial techno - possibly not work safe. 'Hardcore M*****f*****' by Ultraviolence.
//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utNoKNQL_DU