Nights out in Newcastle
Undercovercarrot has summed up one highlight of Newcastle nightlife pretty accurately. The Boat was indeed hideous and about the only thing it's revolving dance floor ever did for us was giving my mate Dave a near Fear and Loathing-style mental breakdown on his 20th. Copious amounts of booze, herbal products and a few pills led to him sitting in the middle hugging his knees and sobbing quietly to himself as it went round and round and round.


However, The Boat was not a patch on the epitome of high class Newcastle nightlife that was Blue Bambu. Highlights of this place included:

My football captain getting a handjob from a 48 yr old grandmother on the dancefloor. How did we know she was a grandmother? She was out with her daughters at the time. ("Mum, nooo!")

Chemistry Dave pulling one of the dinner ladies from the halls canteen. Wouldn't have been too bad but her (admittedly quite attractive in a skanky way) daughter also worked there. You might be noticing a pattern here.

Big Mike downing 3 pints of snakebite and black to prove that he could and then promptly refilling 2 and a half of them without leaving the table. Bar staff were non-plussed when they came to clear them away.

Getting sworn at by the twat of a DJ every time we asked him to play The Smiths. This culminated in Ally getting chucked out after swearing at said DJ because he wouldn't play the Undertones on the day John Peel died.

Queuing behind a girl/38 yr old woman who calmly dropped her keks and had a piss in the street at 10:30 on a Tuesday night right in front of the bouncers. Once she'd finished they let her in anyway ("Don't do that inside pet.")

Getting chucked out for vomiting in a sink. Fair enough but the reason I couldn't get in a cubicle was because all 5 were taken by couples either shagging or doing nose candy.


As with many places mentioned here the music was shite, the dancefloor was sticky, the clientele were aggressive chavs who were either in their mid to late teens or mid to late 40s. Why did we go there? Well it was only £1.50 a pint/shot/bottle on student nights and we were all very very poor/shallow.
(Milo Minderbinder, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 10:34, 3 replies)

I lived next door to that place
Absolute hole. I was in the flats "Sunlight Chambers" next to the Rupali. Was there 2002-2005! Loving all the Toon related posts actually. Good show sir!
(Super Oaf Petit filous?, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:52, closed)

It's still
an absolute fucking dive. Accounts for a good proportion of our work on a Fri/Sat night.

And the Rupali (or Curry Capital) as tis now known has rapidly gone downhill.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:16, closed)

Blu Bambu
Wiggle.



Is all.
(TheColonel, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 10:31, closed)