Oh look, its another club space on the "closed before I got to write them up" list. That's a surprise...
But there is a surprise here - this place is still licenced; and externally seems to be intact. But there's never been the vaguest hint of it reopening. The registered owner is Nolan Transport, the trucking firm familar to any long distance driver; and has been for as long as I have records.
The setup here was a more 'normal' bar - originally The Isaac Butt - upstairs, and a basement club - called Radio City downstairs; although in its final incarnation it was The Good Bits upstairs and down. The venue opened at some point in 1999 or possibly late 1998 - event listings start in September '99, but there is a reference to the bar being there in February.
The club space was used for anything and everything, genre-wise - there are lots of writeups of metal gigs there, a promotional piece by the supplier of the sound system showing a very stereotypical mid 00s indie band playing (I have no idea if they are, they just look like one) through to the trance events I was there for.
Even though I was actually sober (driving) for some of those events, I don't remember much about it - nightclub interiors, at night, are never the most easy to differentiate I guess. I also don't really know when it closed - it only became The Good Bits in late 2009 or so, and I think it may have closed by 2011 - the last event reference I can find anywhere is October 2011.
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