Here's an excerpt from a hilarious 2007 article on the current state of clubbing from the Guardian blogger, Charlie Brooker:
Clubs are despicable. Cramped, overpriced furnaces with sticky walls and the latest idiot theme tunes thumping through the humid air so loud you can't hold a conversation, just bellow inanities at megaphone-level. And since the smoking ban, the masking aroma of cigarette smoke has been replaced by the overbearing stench of crotch sweat and hair wax. Clubs are such insufferable dungeons of misery, the inmates have to take mood-altering substances to make their ordeal seem halfway tolerable. This leads them to believe they "enjoy" clubbing. They don't. No one does. They just enjoy drugs. Drugs render location meaningless. Neck enough ketamine and you could have the best night of your life squatting in a shed rolling corks across the floor. And no one's going to search you on the way in. Why bother with clubs?
Wy bother with clubs? Maybe because clubs are (often) fun.
Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots? [Guardian]
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