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= The Monastery = The Monastery was a crazy dance club on Torwood Street in Torquay, located in an actual converted church. It was unlicensed and sold only soft drinks, however, it was open from 12 midnight until 7am every Saturday night. This also meant that the minimum age was only 17. Strangely, everybody kept going right through until 7am and Red Bull wasn't the only thing on the cards! The atmosphere was incredible - as a members only club with a tiny capacity (600 I think) it was intimate and very, very(!) friendly. A cracking sound system and unique layout which used the natural advantages that a church offered, meant that every week the place was rammed right till 7am, with clubbers coming from as far as London and the North to be involved in the Monastery experience. The main reason people visited the club however, was due to its music policy. Hard house, and later some hard trance was the main choice. Big name DJ's such as: Judge Jules, The Tidy boys, Lisa Lashes, Lisa Pinup, Anne Savage, BK, Steve Thomas played regularly. Local heroes such as Kev Walters, Ben McGowan, Chase and Moon also held their own. Later in the club's life, legendary sets from Mark E.G and M-Zone characterised the shifting tastes in hard dance music. At its height, The Monastery was voted the 3rd best nightclub in the world by the Independent Magazine. The club was closed due to Drug raids; although the quantities of drugs actually found during the raids were negligible, the council and the police held a grudge against somewhere which didn't provide the council revenue through licensing fees. They had also had enough of 600 space cadets wandering through Torquay stealing milk and papers at 7am. |
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