I dont get Sankeys man. Its a good club n that but its just like bein back up the road.
It felt to me like the clubbing equivalent of going to The Cockney Rebel or Big Bens british pubs.
Think am too stingey to pay aw the money to fly to Ibiza to walk thru a door and feel like am down a back lane in Glasgow
Plus WTF nobody bothered wif a toga.
See where your coming from mate. Defo think Sankeys is fillin a gap that was needed.Fancy clubs and ice cannons are all very well for a big extravaganza of a night but there are times you just want somewhere dark and simple where the people and the music are all it's about. Viva Warriors here last year (and Neon Nights in its own way) developed into some of the most energy fuelled quality clubbing experiences I've had in recent years - free of mobile phones being waved at the DJ booth and full of people in the sort of mood you just don't see back home bar once in a blue moon.
I go to Ibiza for the island in the daytime more than anything else... and it's handy to have clubs on the doorstep for a bit of decent music as it's so much easier to tap into than making an effort back home to what is so often such a huge disappointment. That big club thing is fine too depending on the mood you're after and if you want big room stuff, but being a natural car park, basement and factory-dweller I generally enjoy the music much better when the surroundings are stripped back to dark & sweaty, the place is free of paid podium dancers and anything beyond minimal paraphenalia distractions. It's how it all began after all. Especially when it's not over-full and there's a high % of proper dancers in there with space to move. Sankeys is the largest Ibiza venue providing this sort of setting.
But I've been in (briefly) during August with Heidi boring for Britain and a lifeless ket crowd and lasted about 1/2 an hour... also with 20 people on a Gary Beck night which was like a private party but sad to see all the same. On a good (decent) night the mood is 'island', full of great people, the rooftop warm & balmy, the dancefloor focused on the music and the venue a perfect compliment to a rather more serious kind of fun. Which you could trawl London or Manchester all Summer and only find on a handful of occasions. If at all. Regardless of the setting !