Dave who ?
Martin Jo & Paul had a very succesful few years with TOS when a lot of people including myself were returning to the scene, small club great atmosphere getting so pissed you could hardly stand but still managed to dance great happy days
When we started Soul in the City as a one off Xmas do intitially I think we had about 50 in for the 1st 2 or 3. After moving to Old Blue Last numbers were up & down, sometimes appalling sometimes good usually somewhere in between, a couple of well attended all dayers on Bank Holidays plus a very good one at St Alyosis (ok wrong spelling) but towards the end numbers were very low & for our last night when if memory serves me well Arthur Fenn & Maria spun some tunes Nige Brown was down & apart from the 4 of us who ran sitc very few others. Probably Stubbsy Geoff Green Audra Thomson, think there were 8 who weren't DJing.
We moved to Nylon (Famous for the tv show with the likes of sam fox running a bar in a competition) & things just took off. Helped along by some piss taking suits we were getting 100/150 for a wednesday night & were the highlight of some more depressing nights but at the same time meeting what have become good friends. Out of the blue Nylon just dumped us & went bust soon after i believe, though i doubt the 2 were connected. Next stop was Vivos where healthy numbers continued for a while but gradually started going downhill. We did start having guests which made absolutely no difference so soon knocked that on the head & numbers were depressingly low on some nights plus we were fighting against the tide of suits down for a late night drink demanding to hear "something that they know" like britney, abba etc & not believing that we couldn't produce these artists records out of our 100/150 count boxes
One quite irate chap got laid out for his troubles not by one of the DJs of course but he's still about .....or so I'm told.
One night the old bill turned up flashed their warrant cards barked police & strode into the club, bloody hell it's a raid i thought but it turned out they were friends of the owner & too tight to pay 3 quid entrance fee for a late drink.
Another night I was DJing & talking to Mac who made up the 4 of us who ran it & this pretty stunning young lady came & asked for something that i definately didn't have & I was trying to be the nice bloke chit chat chit chat (didn't work) when all of a sudden this horrific smell just about overpowered me. As she walked away I slated mac for farting right next to me while I was trying to chat up girlie, I thought it was you he said, it had been this dirty little bitch could have been marking her territory I suppose Anyway sorry drifted off subject slightly.
Vivos closed for refurbishment so again we moved on, this time to the ditch bar in Shoreditch, by now numbers were pretty low although again attracting a few new people while close friends still attended & so even tho numbers were low, the music was good, & a lot of fun was had. Eventually it all came to a halt, no one was really interested in attending (outside our little group)& to be honest I don't see that anything has changed in the years since.
Oh & yes we started more or less straight after work, 6.30 I think it was
Sorry it's been more of a memory trip than anything constructive You'll only find out by giving it a go but money is tight & I for one rarely go out for a beer midweek anymore.
Dave err GreenHILL Mikey pay attention