I'm assuming it involves ruddy chaps without chins braying like donkeys while trying to get into the pants of horse faced birds with names of three or more syllables and ending in "a"?
Not recently. Still got the Gatecrasher poster I nabbed from the Sanctuary...first superclub I ever went to. Saw Armin van Buuren and Judge Jules that night...
used to go to pamblewood balls back in the day. basically they were a scam to let 16 year olds get into harpers and get spangled and get off with 20 or 30 people in a night. great days.
Sails, it was from the original Gatecrasher in Sheffield that subsequently burned down. May have got the name mixed up with a Birmingham venue, we used to just call it Crasher, obviously. Definitely was pre-balls...we used to get the coach from Newcastle...ah, fun times....
is this prompted by the fact that it has been alleged that the charming eddie d was running the "park lane new years eve sex party" outside which a bouncer was stabbed to death?
he's an unmitigated ahole of the highest order. the story of how he acquired his (now sold) Portland Place gaff is extraordinary and very ugly, everything about him is ugly.
in time honoured fashion he's made an amazing recovery from the illness which got him out of chokey early.... saw him on bond street a few weeks before xmas, hot young oriental bird on one arm, bundle of fortnum & mason bags on other arm - he didn't look great but happy enough.
Republic was the home of Gatecrasher for many years until it burned down... We'd have to empty out all the drinks fridges of booze and fill them with water bottles. I also found out some time after I'd left that everyone else behind the bar was on drugs. I did wonder why I seemed to be the only one falling asleep...
He's an unmitigated ahole of the highest order. the story of how he acquired his (now sold) Portland Place gaff is extraordinary and very ugly, everything about him is ugly.
Sorry Dusty yes Gatecrasher was Sheffield. Could just remember it was a bit of a drive from Nottingham when I was at law school. Didn't realise you were a fellow Newcastle student.
The Gatecrasher balls on this thread ended in 1990 so well before I was going to Gatecrasher the club in 1998 and believe it's just chance that they share a name.
the wiki version is neutered - he conned the african embassy owners of the long leasehold interest (or bribed them) into entering into a "refurbishment contract" which contained an option for him to buy the long leasehold for peanuts, which he duly did. he then acquired the freehold under enfranchisement legislation. the individual african diplomat that eddie conned/bribed was later found murdered in a ditch back in his home country - not long after the attempt to overturn the "refurbishment contract" failed in court.
I went to a public school in the '90s and never heard of this nonsense. The the totty looks ok, but other than that the whole thing seems incredibly lame.
Stix I only went to Gatecrasher once and it was 20 years ago so think I can be forgiven for forgetting where it was. Dusty was clearly at Newcastle after I was and in my day there were no coach trips to clubs in far flung cities and we drove ourselves to places such as Tall Trees, Lakota and Back to Basics.
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Too young for them and as a rural kid we went to Hedge Hopper balls instead.
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Nope. But I used to work at Gatecrasher.
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Is this a posh person's thing? It sounds like it.
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wtf is a gatecrasher ball?
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here are some pics: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/vdx8pm/eddie-davenport-gatecrasher-b…
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I'm assuming it involves ruddy chaps without chins braying like donkeys while trying to get into the pants of horse faced birds with names of three or more syllables and ending in "a"?
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Exactly that
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Not recently. Still got the Gatecrasher poster I nabbed from the Sanctuary...first superclub I ever went to. Saw Armin van Buuren and Judge Jules that night...
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Dusty that's a totally unrelated Gatecrasher that opened about ten years after the balls ended due to issues with the Revenue.
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I was also imagining Judo gurning and reaching for the lazers for a moment there, I'd never heard of the smart-set version until now.
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how could you have been at school in the 80s/90s and not have heard of them?
a chap in my year ran a sort of local version.
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used to go to pamblewood balls back in the day. basically they were a scam to let 16 year olds get into harpers and get spangled and get off with 20 or 30 people in a night. great days.
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Sails, it was from the original Gatecrasher in Sheffield that subsequently burned down. May have got the name mixed up with a Birmingham venue, we used to just call it Crasher, obviously. Definitely was pre-balls...we used to get the coach from Newcastle...ah, fun times....
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Ps just checked the poster, it says @Republic on it so definitely pre-rebrand
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"how could you have been at school in the 80s/90s and not have heard of them?"
It depends what kind of school Clubbers. They were def. not a thing at my comp.
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"how could you have been at school in the 80s/90s and not have heard of them?"
Maybe they didn't make it to Norn Iron.
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norn iron would be ready for them in about 30 years time i guess
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is this prompted by the fact that it has been alleged that the charming eddie d was running the "park lane new years eve sex party" outside which a bouncer was stabbed to death?
he's an unmitigated ahole of the highest order. the story of how he acquired his (now sold) Portland Place gaff is extraordinary and very ugly, everything about him is ugly.
in time honoured fashion he's made an amazing recovery from the illness which got him out of chokey early.... saw him on bond street a few weeks before xmas, hot young oriental bird on one arm, bundle of fortnum & mason bags on other arm - he didn't look great but happy enough.
killing kittens fan judo?
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sex parties are not my thing at all.
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Republic was the home of Gatecrasher for many years until it burned down... We'd have to empty out all the drinks fridges of booze and fill them with water bottles. I also found out some time after I'd left that everyone else behind the bar was on drugs. I did wonder why I seemed to be the only one falling asleep...
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He's an unmitigated ahole of the highest order. the story of how he acquired his (now sold) Portland Place gaff is extraordinary and very ugly, everything about him is ugly.
How did he get it?
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Sorry Dusty yes Gatecrasher was Sheffield. Could just remember it was a bit of a drive from Nottingham when I was at law school. Didn't realise you were a fellow Newcastle student.
The Gatecrasher balls on this thread ended in 1990 so well before I was going to Gatecrasher the club in 1998 and believe it's just chance that they share a name.
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Ah i see. I wasn’t at Newcastle, I went to Durham. The coaches used to leave from outside the station....
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the wiki version is neutered - he conned the african embassy owners of the long leasehold interest (or bribed them) into entering into a "refurbishment contract" which contained an option for him to buy the long leasehold for peanuts, which he duly did. he then acquired the freehold under enfranchisement legislation. the individual african diplomat that eddie conned/bribed was later found murdered in a ditch back in his home country - not long after the attempt to overturn the "refurbishment contract" failed in court.
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Poor the Sebs and Tobes
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Heh@Meh- did you realise everyone else in the club was also on drugs?
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Feathers Ball, Beagle Ball. Social awkwardness. Grim days long gone.
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I went to a public school in the '90s and never heard of this nonsense. The the totty looks ok, but other than that the whole thing seems incredibly lame.
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Guilty.
In mitigation, in was a very long time ago and I was a teenager gagging for it...
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I think Dusty just handed you your arse, Saillaw.
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Never made it north, but I have some super Gatecrasher CDs (which glow beautifully under black lights).
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Stix I only went to Gatecrasher once and it was 20 years ago so think I can be forgiven for forgetting where it was. Dusty was clearly at Newcastle after I was and in my day there were no coach trips to clubs in far flung cities and we drove ourselves to places such as Tall Trees, Lakota and Back to Basics.
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yes I went to one aged about 15 or 16 I think
got v drunk and didn't get off with anyone
which bearing in mind my drunkness and acne wasn't really very surprising
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I have to say it wasn't remotely like those pictures
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yes, lots :)
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