Have you had a night out to a pub/nightclub that stands out as the best night ever, never to be repeated?
If so, where, when, etc.

Alt: What is your radio station of choice / what radio station are you forced to listen to during work?
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:47, 40 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Every night's the best night ever
When Psychochomp's in town!
(PsychoChomp, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:49, Reply)

I have had some excellent nights out
but I always hope that there will be more and better. I'm 35 next week, so I suppose this is not true.

alt: radio 6music. Radio 3 in the car (if not my ipod), no radio at work
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:51, Reply)

I'm a few months away from 35 myself
but I still hope for some great nights out. I guess the goalposts tend to change a bit. My best night out was driving to Birmingham with a couple of mates to a club night called Wobble, excellent night of dancing till we were kicked out at 6am fresh as a daisy. I tried something similar earlier in the year and I needed a few days to recover.

A nice night of beer, chat and quiz machines is probably more my speed now.

/oldfart
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:58, Reply)

I'm 23, and that's the type of nights I like now!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:00, Reply)

I think I'm more like a 23 year old
I like rock clubs and dancing. Unfortunately most of my friends take a lot of convincing nowadays. There's a lot of 'nah, shall we just stay in...'
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:02, Reply)

I'm geographically challenged when it comes to clubs that'd play music I'd..
..feel remotely comfortable dancing to. I miss it quite a bit actually. I've never been thinner than when I was in my late teens going out clubbing four or five nights a week.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Fri 20 May 2011, 22:01, Reply)

My 21st was fantastic
We did pub golf round town, I ended up having loads of drinks bought for me, there was zero drama, and I woke up without a hangover. Win!

Alt: I don't have radio, but the bureau varies between Radio 1, Silk Radio and Real Radio. All shite.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:52, Reply)

I haven't heard of pub golf, what're the rules?
My eldest son and I are due in the capital later in the year for a concert and we were toying with the idea of trying the Monopoly pub crawl. Due to funds and stamina I was thinking of changing it to doing a cheap barely alcoholic shot of something in Monopoly streets crawl.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:02, Reply)

why wouldn't you want to have the best night ever over again?
I don't know, I've had a lot of good times but nothing stands out as the best night ever, because it's never actually been that spectacular.

alt: satelite radio
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:53, Reply)

in fact I dread the day i get married
Something always goes bad when I have high hopes and big plans, I will be the bride that finds her groom shagging the maid of honor
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:12, Reply)

I missed out on the whole BIG WEDDING thing
the missus had already done the whistles and bells on her first marriage and I detest being the centre of attention so our wedding was a quick simple affair. My only regret is I didn't get to wear a kilt with the family tartan. If we ever get around to renewing our vows in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator then I'll rectify that.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Fri 20 May 2011, 22:05, Reply)

Oh god no.
I'm not a big fan of clubs, and pubs are good for a place to go for a few beers with friends and maybe see people you've not seen for a while or meet new folk. All my best nights have been gigs, dinner parties or gatherings at people's houses where I don't have to listen to a fucking jukebox, a cheesy DJ or generic shit house music, put up with unreasonable, drunk cunts fighting and puking, people who love themselves, women who glow orange and corrupt cabbies.

I think I've just always been old.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:59, Reply)

but..but..
skanky rock/indie clubs ftw
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:02, Reply)

Oh ok, I really used to like Bar Central in MK, full of proper, mostly-normal people dressed like they'd covered themselves in superglue and rampaged through a series of progressively more-unusual charity shops
and I learned a lot about music at those nights, and people. Like the huge guy with a face full of shrapnel, leather from top to toe who spoke like Joe Pasquale.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:07, Reply)

now that place sounds cool

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:08, Reply)

It closed a few years back unfortunately, it's also where
this story started.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:11, Reply)

I've had plenty of good nights out
but not a definitive one.

Alt: I listen occasionally to Radio 3, Radio 4 when at home and BBC7 or the World Service when in bed
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:18, Reply)

BBC7 is Radio 4 Extra now, isn't it?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:25, Reply)

yeah, they rap
all the plays
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:27, Reply)

I'm afraid that best ever nights out equate to getting completely rat arsed.
So I can't remember them very well.

Radio 4 is my station of choice, but I'm forced to listen to a huge bunch of shite that is Time 106.6 in the office. All day long. I've had a go about this before, so I'll stop.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:24, Reply)

I only forget bits of a night
if I drink rum. Unfortunately at the last b4sh I drank rum.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:50, Reply)

Rawkus' 10th birthday a year ago was particularly stunning
as was my mate Leigh's stag do, whereupon we ended up in a lapdancing club and I talked to a stripper about hair straighteners.

/not doing myself any favours
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 20 May 2011, 18:40, Reply)

LOLMAO
eternal-earthbound-pets.com/
The guy who runs it is quoted as saying "these guys are going to get two shocks tomorrow, the first when the rapture doesn't happen, and the second when they find I don't give refunds."
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 20 May 2011, 18:55, Reply)

Best night ever
Couldn't be sure but it probably happened within the last 25 years, somewhere in the Northern hemisphere. Sorry, can't be more specific.

Radio - 6 Music all the time now. When I worked for a living I was subjected to a god-awful commercial station called "The Pulse." Quite what this was the pulse OF I never quite got my head round - possibly a fossil or a frozen wooly mammoth.

Eight songs on constant repeat, adverts for cheap carpets and DJ's who thought that TALKING VERY LOUDLY AT ALL TIMES made whatever they said sound funny.

I despise commercial radio with a vehement passion.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 20 May 2011, 19:35, Reply)

I hear you brother. Amen to the demise of crap commercial radio.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 20 May 2011, 19:44, Reply)

"Hey hey! Here's a great new song by Lady Gaga"
This great new song is neither great, nor new, nor, strictly speaking, a song.

It was written many years ago by a very wealthy fat anonymous Belgian who is extremely grateful for local radio the world over.

It is "performed" - perhaps more appropriately sponsored - by a fame-crazed halfwit who has been lucky enough to bump into some uberpimps who call themselves promoters. Uberpimps realise that they can manipulate the halfwit through hoops.

Backing singers/musicians perform the dirge through an autotuner and dull technicians slap it into radio friendly shape.

Commercial radio stations are paid good money to put it on heavy rotation - uberpimps make their money out of downloads and merchandise.

Exploitative wank - the whole lot of it. And that's our fucking culture.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 20 May 2011, 19:59, Reply)

CHERRY CHERRY BOOM BOOM

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:01, Reply)

Nation Radio
round here is one of those that plays good - OK music, but feels the need to have terrible DJs who think they are hilarious and a disproportionate number of annoying adverts for garage doors. Seriously, how big is the market in South Wales for garage doors? especially amongst people who like rock music?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:21, Reply)

Things may have changed recently
But the BBC used to pay huge amounts of money for any half good DJ and put them on at 03.00 on Radio Penzance, just to keep them in the fold.

That's why commercial DJ's are shite.

I could actually do with a new garage door though.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:29, Reply)

this sounds like conspiracy talk!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:33, Reply)

Not sure what my best night out was
I'm sure there were some awesome nights when I was younger, but the only one that springs to mind these days was my 40th, where about 10 of us went to Bank in Birmingham and had fabulous meals bracketed before and after by cocktails out front in the last of the sun.

I wake up to Radio 4; no radio at work and my car radio is busted. In the evenings I usually have www.thesixtyone.com on in a tab - it's currently playing Caned Unable, which is an excellent name for a band (or pub quiz team).

I just had an excellent dinner, and if my brother and his missus wake up before 9 - they flew back from Portugal today - I'll probably go down the pub for a few with them. That's not a bad night either.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 20 May 2011, 19:46, Reply)

My birthday is in November
I'd quite like a warm weather birthday.

Maybe I could have an unofficial August birthday - if the Queen can have two birthdays why can't I?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:17, Reply)

I have two bithdays
Just change jobs, and lie about when your birthday is. That's how to do it.
(Catomiagi is in with a chance, Sat 21 May 2011, 18:04, Reply)

there was one night in a tiny bar off the Reeperbahn in Hamburg
we were hopped up on Gummi Bear vodka and danced like loons. Nobody else did but we didn't care. It was great fun and unrepeatable because there's very little chance of getting that group of people back together.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 20 May 2011, 19:46, Reply)

At work it's Capital FM in the lab, formerly Galaxy Yorkshire.
Cons: a bit like Radio 1, but more knackered and rubbish in that it plays the same limited playlist over and over again at exactly the same times each day.
Pros: no smug indie bollocks apart from The Script; a genuinely amusing and enjoyable breakfast show; overblown, unintentionally hilarious macho voiceovers which sadly disappeared when the rebrand took place.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:15, Reply)

Fuck's sake, lad, that's worse than The Pulse
Has it still only got one shouty DJ who keeps talking about Doncaster?

I used to be subjected to that in the crane bays on the job before last.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:23, Reply)

It goes through the awfulness barrier and emerges in the ridiculous zone.
I don't have it on for entertainment, it's good for unintentional laughs and mocking the songs in a mong voice.

There's a few DJs on it, most of them interchangable. One of them is called The Bassman. "The Bassman", for fuck's sake! It's brillant in an awful kind of way.

Also, the full name of The Pulse (formerly Pennine Radio) is The Pulse of West Yorkshire. Allegedly.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 20 May 2011, 20:48, Reply)

I rememeber Pennine Radio
and the late night phone-in run by Alex someone or other


Utter shite - only beaten for shiteness by BCR - now sunrise radio

ninja edit for spelling
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( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 May 2011, 22:38, Reply)