In the explosion of gay clubbing during the 1990s, a few really stand out for me. HOT, for Honey Organ Tribe, was one of the first gay clubs I went to. AFAIK Tonie Walsh started it up around 1992 in the Rock Garden. I also have a rather lovely flyer advertising a Thursday night in … Continue reading HOT, TOS and The Kitchen
Category: Club flyers
I have a different relationship with getOUT to the other clubs as I was involved in running it. It was a weekly club operated as a fundraiser for outhouse. Initially in the IFC, it moved to The Furnace, a club venue owned by USI. The flyers were designed by Kevin Sexton.
H.A.M. was a long-running gay Friday-nighter at the P.O.D. (The acronyms stood for Homo Action Moves and for House of Dance, respectively). In its initial 1993 incarnation, the P.O.D. was a lovely, if smallish, venue. AFAIK it didn't have any specifically queer nights until sometime around 1996 when H.A.M. started. For a few years, H.A.M. … Continue reading H.A.M.
Elevator took place in the Ormond Multimedia Centre, an old printing works, demolished in the late 90s to make way for the Morrisson Hotel. Elevator was my first ever big club night and I loved it. It was a mix of straight and queer punters, the spacious venue had an edgy post-industrial vibe and there … Continue reading Elevator
For about a decade from 1993 I collected flyers for nightclubs. It was a decade which started with decriminalisation of homosexuality and ended with the Celtic Tiger at almost the height of its hubris. Before the internet, events were routinely advertised by distributing printed adverts. Nightclub promoters went around the bars handing out flyers intended … Continue reading Dublin’s club history captured in 1990s flyers
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