LOST Nightclubs of AUCKLAND (with DJ Sir-vere)

The Manhattan Dominion Rd, remember the phones and the tokens to get a drink.

The bar top from bar ontop of Code,the met bar? the green jade looking bar top was moved to a bar in grey lynn which was named back then as radarz bar. Now known as The greylynn tavern.

Shakers towards the end was a nite of awful guaranteed violence, gang fights, saw some awful stuff. Saw Jurassic 5 at the Powerstation, what a treat.

OMG I grew up in Papakura and had a VERY misspent youth at the Forge.
I got hit over the head by a bouncer who thought I was breaking into my own car when I was just trying to fix it in the parking lot.
I got asked for ID on my way out of the club and responded…"Bloody hell Lincoln what are you gonna do…throw me back in?"
The floor exploding to house of pains Jump around.
The cage infront of the dance floor usually filled with either drunk 16yro girls or pissed 18yro rugby players.
Thursday night hat night…

I could go on.

I remember The Globe as my local when I was a student in the mid 90s.

Id always get denied from Float by the same particular bouncer 🙄😄

[47:38] Leftfield

Is there a nightclub scene nowadays? I just dont see it anymore

I don’t know if I can remember all the names but I can remember working in a lot of places around there and you could actually do a loop up high street and down queen street. Met and code on Shortland st then deschlers on high street was a great dive bar then and above that was rakinos then heading up high street there was a hip hop club on the right I can’t remember the name of it for the life of me and then up the very top was Asta.

I remember when I worked in code and they tried to open up that alley as a smoking area. Think it lasted 6 weeks before council shut it down but we still used it as staff smoko area.

I used to live above B bar on commerce street in the dodgy old apartments with lots of dodgy old DJs hahaha.

But yeh it’s cool what you guys are showing because half the names I don’t recognise even at age 33 but I guess there’s a generation after me that won’t know, carpark, Lennin, supper, forte, flight, hitch, pony, spy etc.

I wonder if he ever went to Ink lol

u should get a couple of DJ's of that era, and do a club walk through, and the bouncers

Forge was good in the 90s..Club Poly, DJ Fly at Roma, crowbar, keelys, Glue Pot etc

Wow… The Powerstation used to be a restaurant called Dirty Dick's. Me and a mate saw a RUN DMC concert here when the restaurant closed and became The Galaxie. Cool history watch.

I remember the Army Boys use to drink there Wednesday to Friday nights as did a lot of Premier Rugby League players, a nice spot to drink back in the days, I remember George Mann saving my ass from getting a hiding 😂😂😂😂

I remember Saia(spelling?) fondly! Such a funny dude and was big on boom sounds

Love this series bro, cool af to hear all the stories from the real ones

I remember all these nightclubs, but some had different names. I haven’t been out to one in ages and I do believe Boogie Wonderland was the last one I went to. Awesome place and we dressed up as a night out to Wonderland required it.

Correct me if I’m wrong…but wasn’t Club Roma originally Aladdin’s and Club 21 on the corner of Queens Street back in the day. John Tabla – I might be spelling his name wrong, was the owner/operator. This was the place I was able to get into without too much trouble. The guys on the door knew me and I knew – back in the day – the guys in the band, Rock Candy. A US singer by the name of Margaret Love would sing there between sets on some nights. Those were the days when I lived out in Mangere and I would catch a bus into town – with a stop in either Onehunga or Otahuhu…no car back then🤦🏻‍♀️ Funny how far 40 bucks would get you. If you stayed all night long, you had to hitch a ride to as close as possible to home and then catch the last bus or a taxi. I never told my parent where I was going but I’m sure they knew…Aladdin’s use to have fancy dress nights. Can’t remember what for but who cares when you’re having fun. I went as a Playboy Bunny only because my mother had a white rabbit fur coat and I had a white swim suit…with my bunny ears and tail tucked nicely under my coat…off I trotted to the bus stop around the corner from my house. Two things about wearing white…never wear it to a wedding – didn’t know that at 18/19 years old and a white swim suit is see through under lights🤷🏻‍♀️…who would have known. Not me!

The was a nightclub upstairs on Customs or Quay Street, my memory is a little dodgy on this one as I didn’t go to it all that often – maybe twice. It was called Drasco’s. My spelling could be off on this one as well. This place was huge and there was a huge set of windows looking out across the harbour.

Manhattan’s was a place I really liked because of the telephones. Definitely a head of the times in that department. As you walked in the main doors after getting your hand stamped the booth styled seats and tables were on the right up against the windows which were ‘blacked’ out or frosted. The seating/booths had height backs so you felt enclosed. One other thing that has never left my memory was the time our car died at the traffic lights and the policeman behind us pushed us through a red light. Thank goodness it was later and there wasn’t any other traffic at that time. We laughed and the so did the cop. Fun times had by all…there were so many nightclubs in Auckland City. I do believe there was a place on Fort Street called the Forge.
So many fun times were had way back in the day in the late 70’s and early 80’s…super cool!

This brings back memories, the Forge was the 1st Niteclub i went to in late 80's. Bouncer I new from Broncos go so drunk there he shit his pants standing at the bar. Later the best club in Manukau was the Colosseum.

Awesome video, good memories…im from the Drasco era…hearty. Cheers for this channel.