Comments on: ANOTHER CLUB BITES THE DUST https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5180 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5180 In reply to New Project.

dont waste your time. hi there i think the heartlands where it is is like an old ageing show girl.

what is needed is some where where we can be ourselfs and not to be just a after thought

]]> By: DUCKIE https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5085 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5085 Thanks Mamba. Thanks to Mamba for a more balanced article on the demise of the Heartlands.

]]> By: koko https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5084 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5084 clubs here suck. This was quite a loong conversation I had with a group of friends a month or two ago. Clubs in Gauteng suck. One of the last clubs that really had potential was Senate, but it turned terribly dreary since last season. Can someone open a great club as described in the review? It would pay off, no doubt…

]]> By: Clivo https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5083 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5083 South African Gay Sick and Tired. Darlings….look at yourselves… the “white” gay community in this country – old and young – are the most racist lot I have ever come across. Remember the axim…..”people in glass houses should not throw stones”! In South Africa, the “white” gay community throw rocks not stones!!!!
….and as for the gays of “colour” ….because an older white gay guy might go to a club like “Simply Blue” …it does not mean that he is after some “easy” sex with a black guy……!
Come on South African gays…. grow up, you are really a SAD lot!!!

]]> By: Sick and Tired https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5081 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5081 Arrogance. There is only one real reason that lead to the closure of heartlands … arrogance of the people that ran it… rediculous drinks overcharging…. bully bouncers…. bad service for ‘booked ticket holders’… and poor customer relations in general
quite frankly, as much as it is one less venue to go to, it hopefully will be a lesson in stupidity that any new venture will carefully consider before trying the same stunt again!

]]> By: NubianPrince https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5080 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5080 Club in Newtown. The newtown area is HOT and safe- a club there would make money. Great management would make sure it lasts. Anybody up for pooling the investment to build “an outstanding venue with brilliantly modern interior design, heavenly clean bathrooms, space aplenty, phenomenal bar service and awesome music” that caters for all races?

]]> By: OK https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5078 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5078 ABOUT TIME. Please can a decent operator, not Bruce, open a club in heartlands again. the venue is great and with a little care and knowhow it could really work.

]]> By: fairy well dance https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5071 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5071 In reply to The Big Lebowski.

Senate. agree. went once and o.m.g(!) felt like a matric farewell dance venue…which became my farewell dance at gay clubs in gauteng.

]]> By: laisser faire https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5069 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5069 In reply to laisser faire.

oh! and ….. and Christo, is an outstanding venue with brilliantly modern interior design, heavenly clean bathrooms, space aplenty, phenomenal bar service and awesome music really the solution to the lack of longevity of Gauteng clubs?

i think you touched a bit upon the real solution … Gauteng needs a club that breaks the racial polarisation so typical of the SA gay community because after all, it is cover charges & drink purchases that keep the till ringing, regardless of the colour of the money.

it’s a numbers game, part of Simply Blue’s success is that it is the only venue catering to gay clubbers of colour (and those who appreciate them) thus has a large community – at least larger than that catered to by the other gay clubs – to cater to as one would imagine that since people of colour are approx 90% of SA’s demographics and that generally, 5% of the population orients gay; gay clubbers of colour would make up a larger percentage of the gay clubbing community.

]]> By: laisser faire https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5068 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/09/13/another-club-bites-the-dust/#comment-5068 kommen divas. it was veeeery kommen yes, but my one & only night at Ramps was one of my best nights out in Jozi – it was only once because of the distance & also cos i think as a regular party spot, it’s got potential to get very old, very quick.

simply blue as also had its moments.

and as for safety in Braamfontein, i’d been a heartlands regular since the days of Purple Fly and Therapy and not even once had i felt unsafe. parking guards were friendly & attentive so nothing ever happened to my car.

i see no mention made of Oh! and B!tch, what’s happened to them?

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