Hello to all dreamers of the 90s!
This is my introductory post to the Nineties Friday community.
I was born in 1974, so I was in my 20s during most of the 90s.
It may sound like a cliché, but when you are so young, your blood runs hot all the time, and you find it very difficult to control yourself, especially when there are nightclubs like the Discotheque Royale around, where you can spend countless nights dancing and having incredible fun and entertainment.
Back then, nightlife was very different from what it is now.
I am sure you have heard many people comparing today’s nightlife and clubbing with that of the 90s, sadly concluding that today everything is dead.
There have been some attempts and efforts to revive the past glory of night entertainment venues, but I don’t think they will be successful.
The young people of today are so different from us back then.
Of course, every generation has its positive and negative sides that make it unique.
I don’t want to say that everything was rosy in the 1990s, because it wasn’t.
The nightlife of the 90s is definitely something that I miss, and I don’t think the world will ever see anything similar, at least in the near future.
The Discotheque Royale had one of the strictest doors, with security staff consisting of men, and women, with huge necks, arms, and legs like tree trunks.
I saw myself bouncers lifting troublemakers by their trouser belts, one in each hand, and throwing them away like garbage bags.
It was all part of the infamous Madchester culture, or subculture, if you know what I mean.
I used to be a regular at the Discotheque Royale, when I was a student at the University of Salford.
Student nights were insanely popular with the student population of the Greater Manchester area, because of the low entrance fee upon that you had to pay after showing your student union card, and drinks were also cheaper for students on those nights.
I think student night was Thursday, without being 100% sure, but for most students, like myself, student night was only a warm-up for going clubbing on the weekend.
I don’t know how we managed to find time to study, but we somehow did.
It was perhaps dancing and moving that oxygenated our brains, rather than leading a sedentary routine life.
Tears come to my eyes (!LOL), when I remember the reaction of club-goers to listening certain songs that have become dance anthems.
“I’ve got the key, I’ve got the secret” by the Urban Cookie Collective band is such a song.
When young girls listened to this song while dancing, they immediately started moving their hands as if they got the key and the secret to the heart of their potential lovers!