Newcastle, part of the north of England known for rusting iron angels, white aged goose pimpled legs, and bad shopping, is home to bars and clubs in which at least 30 percent of its patrons' cheeks are stuck to the floor by midnight on Saturdays. But...
Newcastle, part of the north of England known for rusting iron angels, white aged goose pimpled legs, and bad shopping, is home to bars and clubs in which at least 30 percent of its patrons' cheeks are stuck to the floor by midnight on Saturdays. But Tuesdays are when it's nuts; the night at one club is called "Trashed" and has "one simple aim": a wholehearted dedication to getting revellers "bolloxed, twatted, smashed, nailed, battered, done-in and, well, proper fucking trashed." The club night boasts that "If you're legal to drive at 3 AM, we'll refund your entry money." Not surprisingly, the local authorities have taken a a proactive stance against this and the wondrous eve has been banned. The shot-down big-league promoter tells us about it.
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Vice: So what would i encounter if I visited Trashed, "a night that is dedicated to getting you absolutely, completely, unashamedly and ultimately totally trashed"? Promoter Guy Who Wants to Be Anonymous: We were offering a money-back guareentee if you were under the legal limit to drive at 3 AM. We would test our customers at the end of the night and if they were under the legal limit, they get their cash back! Also the drunkest cretin gets free entry in the following week. But the media got wind and banned our night. Another one, called Debauchery, was banned too.Because of its name? Yeah, he is not allowed to use the expression, "The most amount of fun you can have with your clothes on" and a few other key phrases, assuming that it promotes casual sex, but it doesn't really. This is born out of the PC promo wars!Have you two formed an allegiance? I would say we are friends and equally annoyed.What are you so annoyed about? Just that these two have only verbalized the essences of British student culture. Lots of nights are a exactly the same as of both of Trashed and Debauchery but decide to dress it up in a package that appears more friendly, even though they are recieved by its audience in the same way and have the same drinks deals, sometimes in the same club but on a different night of the week. What also annoys me is that the media makes out that these nights are causing social problems and the truth is I don't think I have ever seen a fight at a student night. Only maybe once have I seen someone hosipitalized. The social problems these night seem to create is a few stolen road signs, traffic cones, and the occasionally joyous song at 3 AM on the way back from a kebab house
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Oh, how I miss kebabs. How would the drunkest person even remember if they got in free the next week? Honestly, the idea behind the concept was that on a midweek night as a student your objective is too get as drunk as possible as quickly as possible. As I was saying earlier, a lot of promoters play this up too, but no one seems to fully admit that this is how theese nights work. So we decided why not stop pretending we are trying to entertain people with silly gimicks and shit music, and give people a midweek night that they really want.While on a mission to get slaughtered. One where it is about getting as drunk as possible and your fellow man is on the exact same mission as you. So if your aim is to get as drunk as possible, you should be able to gauge how drunk you actually are… hence the breathalyzer.How would you have reacted if one of your partyers had driven drunk and crashed? I would've been extremely disappointed in them. Drinking and driving is stupid, especially when you can gauge that you are actually over the limit. It's irresponsible and stupid--I would just hope no one got hurt.What happens if you guys were too drunk to register how drunk everyone else was? The thing about the most drunk getting in free the next week was a bit of joke between the promoters, but the closer we got the launch and they feedback we recieved for potential punters, the more serious it got. But the breathalyzer is very simple to use: You blow into it and it gives you a score between 0 and 0.400. Zero is obviously sober and 0.400 is about the medical score for being in an alchol-induced comma.So you were aiming for around a 3.5, right? It depends how much you want free entry, really.Students are pretty desperate.
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