Things that make you go What the F**k?

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tbrick18

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 09:04:44 PM
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Did any of you students stay the weekends? Vico's was the spot on a Saturday and the limelight on a Friday night early to mid 90's, cracking tunes and the staff didn't annoy anyone.

The Duke of York upstairs on a Friday was decent too

Where was vicos? I remember the name but can't remember if I was in it.
Stayed up the odd time just as had a job back home.
Shine the odd time. Was in Duke of York one weekend and it was rough so didn't go back.
The weekend nightlife round home was good so I generally always went home.


The back of Robinsons Vico's had 3/4 floors with different tunes going on in each floor, with a guy serving free pizza downstairs, quality set up. Brunswick street

Ah yes. Was it renamed La-Lea at some point? Had a few good nights in there to be fair.
Think i remember a toilet cubicle with no lights in the corner of a dance floor. Or I could be imagining it.

tbrick18

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Never drank at college (90-94) so was able to go out every night, had a weekly routine, think the Chaplency was a Monday night for the Irish night, great craic. The crescent was a regular spot but never felt safe in it, the Union ran a great night (might have been Weds?), actually had my stag night in it (got married the week after my finals, think i was the only student in Belfast that was engaged at college, this partly explains why I didn't drink. The best spot was I think called The Elms, it was just before you came to Lavery's, some great bands in it, think it may have been the Thursday night spot. Lavery's was a complete no no then days, full of the Village gentlemen, Hatfield also a definite no no then, was locals only. Bishops on a Sunday evening was the great food wise, beside that was a constant diet of spuds, beans and sausages and penguin biscuits that I shared with the mice in my bedroom, except my final year I lived in Stranmillis when Sphinx and the Chinese beside it were my local chefs. Have two children up there now, really feel for them as covid has wrecked a year and a half of their college life, holy lands is full of Romanians now.
I was around the same era, Blackthorn in the Elms on.a Thursday was a big draw back then , the Fly on a Tuesday night was popular too,as were   The Bot,& Renshaws , , we would have been in the middle bar in laverys  regularly enough back then and never had any hassle to be honest . ,Spuds or Bishops being the late night eating houses

Thought the Elms was a good spot and had good times in the Bot and the Egg too. The Students Union was also hard to beat back in the mid 90's at £1 a pint.
Could never warm to Renshaws though.

Unions went to shite around 2000, drink wasn't that cheap. I was in Jordanstown halls in first year and only hit the union up there a handful of times and never really warmed to Queens Union. Brother was in Queens late 80s and they lived in the unions. Said houses were cold and shit and the union was cheaper than off licenses.

UUJ union had a fry and tea for £1 in first year but it got done up after that and it went up to about £3 after that.
Getting a pint and a (very small) pizza in the empire for £1 was hard to beat,  in my 
fresher year it was £0.95 a pint  out at the poly union.

£6.50 being quoted in the papers for a pint in Belfast, ......and 2 pints, 2 toastie with chips £37, in Belfast.....wtf

Where is that? That is ridiculous, I know the pubs have had extra costs and lower numbers but if those prices are maintained its hard to see trade returning to pre Covid levels.

Any of you guys frequent the Lavery's £10 "drink all you want (can? ;)) nights in the late 90s? We ended up at a couple of them and we knew one of thebarmen well. Absolute carnage and by far the worst hangover I have ever had. My mate is convinced it was nt the volume of drink but the "quality" of some of the spirits being doled out.

Yup. They were messy. There was some amount of bokin went on at them!
Remember my now Mrs, got her bag stole in it. Not wan f**k did any of us give we were that smashed! lol.

tbrick18

Anyone remember the traffic light discos in the pizza pie factory (I think) behind the cinema on the dublin road?

trueblue1234

Aye!! Traffic light disco ffs!! Some craic all the same.

Larry's piano bar used to be the spot for the later drinks. Think that was before Thompson's garage days.
Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit

johnnycool

Quote from: trueblue1234 on May 07, 2021, 11:39:20 AM
Aye!! Traffic light disco ffs!! Some craic all the same.

Larry's piano bar used to be the spot for the later drinks. Think that was before Thompson's garage days.

And BCB is accused of being a snob for eating Fajitas...

GetOverTheBar

Quote from: tbrick18 on May 07, 2021, 11:15:48 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 09:04:44 PM
Quote from: tbrick18 on May 06, 2021, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 07:56:28 PM
Did any of you students stay the weekends? Vico's was the spot on a Saturday and the limelight on a Friday night early to mid 90's, cracking tunes and the staff didn't annoy anyone.

The Duke of York upstairs on a Friday was decent too

Where was vicos? I remember the name but can't remember if I was in it.
Stayed up the odd time just as had a job back home.
Shine the odd time. Was in Duke of York one weekend and it was rough so didn't go back.
The weekend nightlife round home was good so I generally always went home.


The back of Robinsons Vico's had 3/4 floors with different tunes going on in each floor, with a guy serving free pizza downstairs, quality set up. Brunswick street

Ah yes. Was it renamed La-Lea at some point? Had a few good nights in there to be fair.
Think i remember a toilet cubicle with no lights in the corner of a dance floor. Or I could be imagining it.

It was, the foreign students loved it....I tended to make the odd trip in  ;)

imtommygunn

Quote from: johnnycool on May 07, 2021, 11:52:43 AM
Quote from: trueblue1234 on May 07, 2021, 11:39:20 AM
Aye!! Traffic light disco ffs!! Some craic all the same.

Larry's piano bar used to be the spot for the later drinks. Think that was before Thompson's garage days.

And BCB is accused of being a snob for eating Fajitas...

I think the name is deceptive there lol. A boy in our class fell asleep in the toilets and they closed for the night. He woke up in the middle of the night and set the alarms off. Traffic light disco used to be Tuesday Bob Cratchett's in my time.

Tony Baloney

Quote from: tbrick18 on May 07, 2021, 11:15:48 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 09:04:44 PM
Quote from: tbrick18 on May 06, 2021, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 07:56:28 PM
Did any of you students stay the weekends? Vico's was the spot on a Saturday and the limelight on a Friday night early to mid 90's, cracking tunes and the staff didn't annoy anyone.

The Duke of York upstairs on a Friday was decent too

Where was vicos? I remember the name but can't remember if I was in it.
Stayed up the odd time just as had a job back home.
Shine the odd time. Was in Duke of York one weekend and it was rough so didn't go back.
The weekend nightlife round home was good so I generally always went home.


The back of Robinsons Vico's had 3/4 floors with different tunes going on in each floor, with a guy serving free pizza downstairs, quality set up. Brunswick street

Ah yes. Was it renamed La-Lea at some point? Had a few good nights in there to be fair.
Think i remember a toilet cubicle with no lights in the corner of a dance floor. Or I could be imagining it.
No I think La Lea started off as Franklin's Gate or something. Vico's I think was round the back of Fibber Magee's where the Joxer etc. used to be.

Anyone remember the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory. Probably the first time I had seen a cocktail!

trueblue1234

Quote from: johnnycool on May 07, 2021, 11:52:43 AM
Quote from: trueblue1234 on May 07, 2021, 11:39:20 AM
Aye!! Traffic light disco ffs!! Some craic all the same.

Larry's piano bar used to be the spot for the later drinks. Think that was before Thompson's garage days.

And BCB is accused of being a snob for eating Fajitas...

Lol I think you have wrong image of a Piano bar. Marbella it was not!!  ;D
Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit

tbrick18

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Quote from: tbrick18 on May 07, 2021, 11:15:48 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 09:04:44 PM
Quote from: tbrick18 on May 06, 2021, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 06, 2021, 07:56:28 PM
Did any of you students stay the weekends? Vico's was the spot on a Saturday and the limelight on a Friday night early to mid 90's, cracking tunes and the staff didn't annoy anyone.

The Duke of York upstairs on a Friday was decent too

Where was vicos? I remember the name but can't remember if I was in it.
Stayed up the odd time just as had a job back home.
Shine the odd time. Was in Duke of York one weekend and it was rough so didn't go back.
The weekend nightlife round home was good so I generally always went home.


The back of Robinsons Vico's had 3/4 floors with different tunes going on in each floor, with a guy serving free pizza downstairs, quality set up. Brunswick street

Ah yes. Was it renamed La-Lea at some point? Had a few good nights in there to be fair.
Think i remember a toilet cubicle with no lights in the corner of a dance floor. Or I could be imagining it.
No I think La Lea started off as Franklin's Gate or something. Vico's I think was round the back of Fibber Magee's where the Joxer etc. used to be.

Anyone remember the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory. Probably the first time I had seen a cocktail!

I have all these hazy memories of nights out in places without really knowing where it was at.
I know i was in Vicos and La-Lea and in my head it was the same place, but I did spend about 7 drunken years around Belfast and can't remember the half of it!
Don't remember Franklin's gate.

quit yo jibbajabba

Have a decent recollection of most the pub names i was in in Belfast oer the years, worked in Dublin for 18mths a good while back and im fcuked if i can remember any of the pub names. With Copperface Jacks being the honourable exception 😉😃

Jeepers Creepers

Vicos now James street south restaurant
La Lea then Franklin Gate is now Rita's Bars downstairs and 'The Perch' upstairs.

brokencrossbar1

Quote from: trueblue1234 on May 07, 2021, 12:55:54 PM
Quote from: johnnycool on May 07, 2021, 11:52:43 AM
Quote from: trueblue1234 on May 07, 2021, 11:39:20 AM
Aye!! Traffic light disco ffs!! Some craic all the same.

Larry's piano bar used to be the spot for the later drinks. Think that was before Thompson's garage days.

And BCB is accused of being a snob for eating Fajitas...

Lol I think you have wrong image of a Piano bar. Marbella it was not!!  ;D

Only went to Larrys when I was allowed to wear long trousers...and then for a boozy lunch!


tbrick18

Quote from: tiempo on May 07, 2021, 04:55:35 PM
Aaaaaah... The Menagerie  ;D ;D ;D

Some spot.

http://www.ship-of-fools.com/mystery/2004/855.html

It was some dive!
I remember being in the gents and the electricity went off. We were all left standing in a delicate position in pitch black darkness. No emergency lights at all.
Try to retrace your steps out of a toilet without feeling your way out when you're pissed! lol