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  • Spirit turns 57

    October 26, 2007 @ 2:21 pm | by Jim Carroll

    It’s all change on Dublin’s Middle Abbey Street with the Spirit nightclub about to adopt a new moniker and, by the sound of things, a new direction too.

    The Dublin venue will be known as Spirit 57 from November 1 with former Olympia Theatre boss Brian Whitehead taking over the reins at the Denis Desmond-owned venue. The club’s New York outpost has been closed for some time.

    One of the first changes will see electrohouse club night Dirty Fridays ceding way to Brutus Gold’s Love Train, a UK club night which bills itself as “a fantasy recreation of the disco years”.

    • 7 Comments »

    1.
    October 26, 2007
    3:08 pm

    “One of the first changes will see electrohouse club night Dirty Fridays ceding way to Brutus Gold’s Love Train, a UK club night which bills itself as “a fantasy recreation of the disco years”.

    It’s like Midnight at the Olympia circa 1997.

    MCD are so daring these days aren’t they?

    Comment by Hot Lunch
    2.
    October 26, 2007
    8:29 pm

    I don’t blame them in a way. Anything dance they try to do there that’s aimed at middle class clubbers is doomed as the place has such a bad reputation that nobody will go there.

    Not sure who that’s an indictment of really.

    Once people feel negatively about a venue it doesn’t matter what you put on there. Probably the same once people feel really positively about it.

    Comment by Ronan
    3.
    October 27, 2007
    1:53 pm

    does fantasty recreation mean it won’t actually happen?

    Comment by UnaRocks
    4.
    October 27, 2007
    4:25 pm

    Lunch - at least Midnight at the Olympia had the Fleadh Cowboys. And Mary Margaret O’Hara.

    Ronan - but how does a place get a bad rep in the first place? What causes that? With Spirit, the club nights seemed pitched at a certain audience and this naturally put off everyone else. I still think it has the makings of a very fine venue - I remember seeing The Notwist there and they were amazing. I also seem to think that Sigur Ros played there too?

    una - heh, heh

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    5.
    October 27, 2007
    11:06 pm

    Thank god someone has some balls in the city to put something on again thats cool
    hurrah for Brutus and the Train ….welcome home !!!

    Comment by rosanna violetta
    6.
    October 30, 2007
    5:28 pm

    are you a crackhead?

    Comment by Ronan
    7.
    November 23, 2007
    10:50 am

    see they pulled it already and have replaced with LOVETRAIN sponsored by Q102 - oh dear..

    Comment by murt

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