100 life@bowlers memories!

[oldskoolkidder]

Just like 100 best wigan pier memories but for bowlers

Seen as though i was too young to go , would like to hear your best moments and memories from your times there!

What were the best memories for you about this legendary club!?

 

[Jiglo]

Memories?

Dunne - 'Espiral' (last tune on many occasion)
The bouncers kicking the toilet door in when I was taking a dump
The lovely Julie
Always being dragged back to Paula's sports car every week "You're coming back with me". Me "Err.... ok"

 

[RiskyLady]

I lived for every saturday night to come around and have the best memories of my life from every single night i went to Life@bowlers . I met loads of great people there. I danced on one of the stages every week and there were the same faces there every week too you felt like you knew everyone there. Those days were some of the best days of my life i wish i could re-live every one of them. It did'nt just stop at 2am when the club closed most of the people there went onto sale water park to do some more it was ace.

 

[beaker]

everybody smiled hugged an generally big'd ya up
brews
the floor shook when ya walked on to the dance floor.
chillout room were freezing.
young mc were spun always.
the cheesy vending machines that sold everything .
the carpark at closing time were deafening phones:

 

[CANO ...]

Ill do a few like . .

Fantazia night in 94 (quailty)

Getting on car park early doors , loved doin this , watchin all cars arrive , wandering round from car to car proper got you up for the night like

The ultimate revival nights (nuff said)

Absolute,s battle of the dj set in 96 phones:

Getting to dj there 97 & 98

3 stripe trackys

Sitting in the cafe with a brew (ace)

The basilica night in 94 with kenny grogan

The archive night in 99 with sl2 , so enjoyed this night

The chillout room , lol fckin madness (some right sights in there lol)

I could go on lol , but yeah the place played a massive part in my LIFE had loads of friends in there 4 of which im still very good friends with today ..

Happy days - you better belive it - whats ya name where ya from what ya had My only down point is not being there before 93 but too young an all that

 

[RetroAndy]

I never got chance to go to a bowlers mainly cause i had no idea about it at all. I suppose the launch of the internet has made it much more well known but came to late for the likes of me and many others

Recently watched one of pixies bowlers tapes and the hitman and here video and they really opened my eyes as to wat i could have expected.

The atmosphere on the tapes looked spot on and as i have got more into oldskool over the last few years i knew or even owned most of the tracks heard in the background.

Some of the best parts of the vid were the service station antics that peeps got upto lol.

I even missed bens life reunion night he did at the cornmill which i am sure would have opened my eyes even further

Andy

 

[DAMO 72]

ha ha,loads i can remember but fookin loads i cannot .the one that stands out though is being filmed for the hitman & her,then watching it on the telly a couple of week later when we had come back from some other club,n all my mates sayin i was talkin shit n then them having to eat their words.
DAMO

 

[old_skool_daze(Phil)]

I danced on one of the stages every week and there were the same faces there every week too you felt like you knew everyone there.

Me too them railings round the platforms used to wreck my legs hanging on :S

Gettin on the main stage @ Bowlers when Matt Bell played there....

And chatting to the doormen / women as we used to see them after @ Monroes

Getting there late and still getting in when chocca

And talking total bollox in the chillout rooms with god knows who

 

[Dj M Jaxx]

Only ever went there once, and was tottaly off it so i dont remember that much. One thing i do remember though was that you had to walk through this pub part of it before you enterd the place, like a sort of sports bar, and i remember thinking what the fook....is this it, then walking out of the door at the other end, and it opening up into the biggest playtime paradice i could ever dream of seeing...wow it blew me away. Never went untill 94, but was still a fecking amazing night

Top thread idea m8
Jaxxy

 

[RiskyLady]

Me too them railings round the platforms used to wreck my legs hanging on :S

Gettin on the main stage @ Bowlers when Matt Bell played there....

And chatting to the doormen / women as we used to see them after @ Monroes

Getting there late and still getting in when chocca

And talking total bollox in the chillout rooms with god knows who

When me and my mates first started to go we used to catch a taxi from ashton-u-lyne just going down there used to be ace chatting bollocks to the taxi driver Then when my mates boyfreind passed his driving test we used to be one of the first cars in the carpark. We used to get there before the bouncers and used to remember them arriving couple of huge black guys and a woman with long blond hair they were ace really friendly.

 

[Dj Ben Fisher]

lol right well i could 100 just on my own , as im sure everyone else could . . lol

my top few would be . . .

gettin there saturday afternoon 3pm . lol footy out in the summer sun kickin it round the car park and chilling till bout 6pm then it would start to fill up and the stereos would come on , get changed , walk round chat to ppl , get sorted . . then get in the queue and drop while waiting so the mo i got in id be coming up , lol used to be able to time it just right most of the time too . . . lol

Goin to See Dj Absolute week in week out

No matter what night it was , youd always be guarenteed to come out of there with more friend than when you went in . . lol

Dancing on the right hand stage in the main room ( which was always full of the halifax lot )

them mad magican guys that walked round doin close up magic to ya off ya box !!!

The LIFELINE stall . . lol were youd fill in them qestionaires bout drug takin while yo were off ya box on xtc . . lol and get them mad fookin comics and cards ( i still ave them all too ) . . . lol

Goin hartsead services then to burton wood services after that were i big lorry would pull in and some decks and lights on the back and the rave would continue till the early hours right in the middle of the car park !!

ill stop there cos theres tooooooo many . . . lol

 

[beaker]

Happy days - you better belive it - whats ya name where ya from what ya had My only down point is not being there before 93 but too young an all that

oh jear seems like yesterday

 

[scotti]

life at bowlers was THE BEST no question-

sittin in chill out room leaning against them string wall things
people tryin to make u sniff vicks sticks for a rush lol
thinkin ice pops were a good idea then ur belly goes proper cold n u feel ill
chattin to random people from miles away
joinin conversations with " u avin a good nite-where ya from etc lol
screamin to the dj to play 1 more n thinkin he can actually hear u
walkin through the cafe bit n thinkin ewwww wtf
cuein up for an hour in the freezin cold (worth it tho)
campin in the car in the car park n moochin round the car boot int mornin
peekin in the st johns ambulance room to see whos in a worse way than u

so many memories was a top venue,atmospere,djs -doubt it wil eva b equalled

 

[oldskoolkidder]

anymore memories from those magical days of old!

 

[oldskoolfukwit]

life@bowlers

I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I EVER WENT THERE ,STU ALLAN WAS DJ AS WELL AS OTHERS AND IT WAS ONLY £7.50 TO GET IN !! WAT A BARGIN

 

[oldskoolfukwit]

Life@bowlers

DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THE CURTAIN OF MIST AT THE BACK OF THE MAIN ARENA NEXT TO THE THE GYRO BALL AND I THINK THEY HAD WALTZES THERE ONCE

 

[nowthen]

Memory no.1 : Where's the bar?

Memory no.2 : I'm off

 

[Lozzie]

walkin through the cafe bit n thinkin ewwww wtf


so many memories was a top venue,atmospere,djs -doubt it wil eva b equalled

HA HAAAAA !!!!!!I'm off me head, I think I'll have some "Hot-pot!!" I remember that!Some right randomers were always sat in there!

I only ever went to "Compulsion @ Bowlers". But it was ace as. The best rave ive ever been to. Although Raindance wasn't better only coz it didn't have the northern charm!!!!

 

[silocybe]

the carboot was good , i picked up Kraftwerk "tour de france" for 50p

 

[Dannie Kavanagh]

I was'nt as big a regular as some of you guys but what I do recall of this unique place was:

Going to the place for the first time, seeing a huuuuuge bloke walk up to me built like a brick shit-house, and me being the Life virgin thinking I'm going to get my head smashed in, life flashing before my eyes etc..

Then the guy grabs me by the hand, nearly shakes me to death and introduces me to his equally massive mates..

Moments later, I'm in a Tennis Court chill-out room, chatting to these people who seemed to have an awful habit of pulling funny faces whilst wondering where the nets have gone...