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Classic Nottingham nightclubs we miss from the 80s and 90s
Jan 4, 2025
Essance, Faces, Lost Weekend and many more
A while ago we published a list of some of the best-known (and most fondly-remembered) Nottingham nightclubs of the 1980s and 90s.
The article featured the likes of The Cookie Club, Astoria, The Garage, Madisons, Venus, Zhivagos and others.
But at the time there were a few favourite spots we were unable to pin down - largely because our memories aren't quite what they used to be, frankly.
However, we've since been trawling through the depths of our brain cells to come up with a fresh list of more clubs which we have loved and lost from the era.
So if you've ever spent a Saturday night crammed into Lost Weekend or dancing into the early hours at a Detonate event, have a look at the list below and see how many you remember.
AD-LIB in St Mary's Gate (also The Garage, Kool Kat, Lizard Lounge)
Before this venue became a mecca for indie and dance kids, it was a reggae club called Ad-Lib. It had originally been opened in the 1960s by Keith Symons, who was also famous for attracting the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Rod Stewart, Elton John and Eric Clapton to the Nottingham Boat Club.
DJ Graeme Park, who was a key figure at The Garage which later opened on the site, previously told the Post: "It used to a have a reggae sound system and it was the only place in Nottingham that wasn’t like a Ritzy or full of idiots. It was dead seedy."
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