View Full Version : the best London clubs/bars at the moment?
partygurlEmma
02-18-2008, 10:44 AM
i have tried ebay... there isnt alot to be honest... there was one exotic dancewear shop on there i tried but she said it takes a week or 2 as they have to order the dresses in first grrrrrrrrr
i have been on the net for 2 days solid near enuff... my eyes are gonna turn square soon
just want to relax knowing i got it sorted .... ahhhh
Kabukicho
02-18-2008, 10:55 AM
Oh, Walthamstow! Though it's a bit far for you
21stcenturyfox
02-18-2008, 11:00 AM
ebay is a good bet
partygurlEmma
02-18-2008, 11:04 AM
walthamstow?? i could possibly do a de-tour... is it close to tube station??
Kabukicho
02-18-2008, 11:17 AM
A friend told me about Walthamstow, haven't been myself but I guess if you just wander down the street when you get out of the station. I think there is a market there. She used to get her shoes and two piece sets from there so I am not 100% sure about gowns. It's worth a try though.
I have decided to go to the FYEO opening on Thursday Emma so I may well see you there, when is your audition at the WH ?
Tyke
Hillbilly junk
02-19-2008, 09:06 AM
I always buy my gowns from Harmony on Oxford St. They don't offer a great deal of choice, but the ones they do have are brilliant quality.
21stcenturyfox
02-19-2008, 09:25 AM
Some nice gowns on Ebay here hun: http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=exotic+dancer+gown
babystripper
02-19-2008, 10:25 AM
hey. i currently work for fyeo. my friends are starting up in the city road one on weds. One of the girls, Paris, blonde, tall bombshell is one of the models used for the advertising billboards and posters. spoken to current and ex managers (one of which has left my current club to go and co manage city road) and its gonne be a high volume high hustle club. something like 100-150 girls a night, but gonna be worth it. also they currently have no power, so no lights or sound, with opening only 24 hours away! lol! great!!
partygurlEmma
02-19-2008, 12:02 PM
. spoken to current and ex managers (one of which has left my current club to go and co manage city road) and its gonne be a high volume high hustle club. something like 100-150 girls a night
hmm thats strange ... they told me something completly different when i went for the audition ... they said they dont want it to be high hussle where its hard for girls to make money n that they will only have about 80-90 girls on on the busiest nights.
so i wonder which one it actually true.... i guess all will be revealed in the nexy couple of days.
yea it was still half finished when i went down there.... i wonder what is gonna happen if there is no light or sound .. LOL should be interestin
partygurlEmma
02-19-2008, 12:04 PM
I have decided to go to the FYEO opening on Thursday Emma so I may well see you there, when is your audition at the WH ?
Tyke
ummm its supposed to be 2moro... may cancell though and leave till next week as im babysitting for someone in morning then its gonna be a mad rush to city road in evening. will see what time i have 2moro
will prob see yuo thurs.. make sure you come n say hi if you see me
partygurlEmma
02-21-2008, 08:13 AM
LOL have i got a story for you guys.....
i been sacked from FYEO...
it was soooo dead in there last nite (wednesday) ... it was only a soft opening which means friends and family of the people involved etc.
there was sooo many more girls then there were guys... alot of girls were sitting round not doing much. id say there was not more then 40 guys in there.. and at least 60 girls (i could be wrong though)
i sort of felt gutted from the start really when they said it was only going to be a soft opening and that put me on a downer...
the guys i did talk to either said they had just been invited to the opening but were not there to spend any money on dances... or else they were asking if they could touch me during the dance .. NO FKN WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! all the other guys had been taxed by the other girls for the night .... my lesson in that is .. dont wait around thinking the club is going to get a bit fuller later.. grab a decent guy the minute he walks in the door coz other guys may not show up later.
i really thought it was going to be busier then it was so at the very start i spent a bit of time getting to know some of the other girls, thinking a few more guys would come in later... when they didnt i kinda wished i hadnt bothered talking to the girls at the beggining
so many girls i spoke to said they didnt know if they wanted to go back there and hey hadnt made any money .. even the girls i spoke to that had made money only had done 2 or 3 dances
so anyway... by about 11.30 i was pissed off that i had wasted a shit load of money in expenses (£65 for a long dress coz i didnt have one, £15 on the train and £4.50 on a glass of wine at the start of the night) and was not going to be making much of it (if any) back so i asked if could leave before the tubes stopped running at midnight so i could get home on my travel card rather then having to fork out 30-40 quid for a cab home.
they said it was ok but i could tell the guy wasnt very happy with me when he let me out.
anyway they ring me up today and tell me not to bother going back coz last night showed i obviously wasnt cut out for the job.
GRRRRRRRRR... how can they judge me on last night when the club was dead??
so many girls i spoke to said it was shit and i guess i was the one who took it to the next step and told them it was shit in there n that i wanted to leave so it didnt cost me an extra 30-40 quid to get home.
so they ask me not to go back
it so funny coz a friend of mine said it would be dead on wednesday, thats why she didnt want to do wednesday with me... and it just proved her right.
partygurlEmma
02-21-2008, 08:32 AM
oohh yea.. i forgot... i went to the white horse and didnt get in..
i made a total mess of my dance and i knew i wouldnt get accepted... about 30 seconds into the dance my shoe came undone and i spent the whole rest of the dance trying to stop it from flying off... plus i was sooo nervous from the big build up of knowing that sue is quite particular of who she takes on.
so i knew that i did the crappest dance i had ever done and when i went to the office after this is what she said....
yuo didnt get the job darlin, i dont feel your dance flowed enough which is a shame coz you look the part. go away and have a little practise and then come back and try again.
ahhhhhhhh well.. will try again soon... or maybe browns when i have lost about 6 more pounds
PS- thanks for the ebay things 21stcenturyfox.... by the time i had seen it it would have been too late for me to order as wouldnt have arrived in time for yesterday so i had to buy one off the dress maker in there which was 65quid.
thanks very much anyway.. it was sweet of u to take the time to do that for me
21stcenturyfox
02-21-2008, 10:16 AM
hey emma, no problem, im sorry about the crap you got from FYEO, i still dont understand why we have to aks to leave in this country, surely if im paying them to work there i should be able to show up and leave whenever i want. there are enough girls in the clubs already for them to make money without having to decide when we can arrive or leave!
i got sacked from my last club because i showed up and left when i wanted, apparently that was no good!
21stcenturyfox
02-21-2008, 10:24 AM
ps: I spoke to a good friend of mine who does a couple nights a week at Strings 2 and she says she is still managing to make around £400 a week or so. She says London is very quiet at the moment and that Hustler in Croydon is a dirty club. My boyfriend just got back from a few days in London staying with a friend of his near Croydon who said that its a pretty seedy club too.
So, we will have to see! I go up on the 29th and if I dont like it, I wont stay the full two weeks. Im not prepared to deal with guys going in there looking for a finger fuck for 20 bucks!
partygurlEmma
02-21-2008, 10:56 AM
hmmm i was thinkin about at least trying hustler for myself... was considering going there this friday and workign a shift coz my mate said that her mate made 300 in there other nite.... but she also said the girls in there are well bitchy and now what yuo have jsut told me about it being dirty and seedy puts me off a bit ...... argh.. dont know if i should or not. i deff dont want to lose more money becuase i dont let the guys touch me and other girls do
21stcenturyfox
02-21-2008, 12:36 PM
at the end of the day, it could all be rumours started by the girls themselves to keep other girls from working there
i have been booked through thebestdancers.com who come recommended by SW girls so im guessing she wont book her girls at dodgy clubs so i am going to go up and see for myself.
I went to FYEO on Thursday night and it was totally packed. There were a lot of girls on and a lot of the blokes like me had been invited so were not going mad on dances. I went with Sue from the WH, I mentioned you Emma and she said you looked good but she had enough good girls at the moment and would only take on girls who could put on a really good stage show,ther girls who must have auditoned there in the past came up to chat to her. I never saw Pamela Anderson, Sue left about 9.45 and by 10 I was starving so went to the Indian across the road. When I came out there was a Rolls Royce Phantom and a big pile of photgraphers at the front so I must have left too early.
The clubs is impressive but they are talking about opening at 12 and staying open to 5am with 2 shifts of girls,I can see the afternoons being very quiet.
Good luck with Browns, as I said originally Browns are fussier on looks, Sue on acts.
Tyke
partygurlEmma
02-23-2008, 01:39 PM
so many girls are not making money in fyeo at all.... i know a few who didnt make any or not alot on thursday or friday.. the most anyone i know did was 7 dances, thats jsut shit ... WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!???!!!
do u think it'l pick up in there??? or do u think its gonna be jsut like every other dead club in london from the start????
i didnt go hustler in the end.. did some promotional work in a nighclub on friday instead which wasnt all that.... so i guess i gotta keep on my weight losing flex until i feel i am ready to go back to browns
As for white horse ... i may try again there in a lil while .. i liked Sue.. thought she was a really nice honest lady. alot of strip clubs could do with someone liek that running the place instead of making girls false promises etc
katerina29
02-23-2008, 06:05 PM
I hate the way SC's run in the uk. I used to dance in Canada where they pay you to go onstage (though not much). If you don't want to go onstage you pay a small house fee to freelance and you arrive and leave when you want. The clubs also put money into advertising. I've inquired in London and you have to go on stage and pay them ridiculous house fees to clubs who don't even advertise and often have more girls then custys. I may try somewhere else in Europe for a short trip but don't know where ...
You are right about most of the London lap dance clubs, that's why I always advise Browns and the White Horse. I've had an e mail from Glenn of FYEO who tells me that Pamela A did turn up after I left and stayed for a couple of hours but spent the whole time in a private lounge surrounded by her security !
Tyke
21stcenturyfox
02-24-2008, 08:14 AM
I hate the way SC's run in the uk. I used to dance in Canada where they pay you to go onstage (though not much). If you don't want to go onstage you pay a small house fee to freelance and you arrive and leave when you want. The clubs also put money into advertising. I've inquired in London and you have to go on stage and pay them ridiculous house fees to clubs who don't even advertise and often have more girls then custys. I may try somewhere else in Europe for a short trip but don't know where ...
that is so true! strip clubs in the uk are run badly and not worth working at, thats why i want to travel and strip - first stop melbourne may 08!
AussieMiranda
02-25-2008, 04:15 AM
Don't bother with the White Horse. I found managment HORRIBLE and they give you like one shift every week or two weeks. I would make abut 80 pounds. Browns were horrible too....I had the whoe photo thing and was turned down. I personally wouldn't bother with London. I found the experience horrible. Now i'm back in australia.....pulling in 3500 a week. Try out of London like Newcastle....a friend of mine work there at the moment and makes 3000 pounds there during summer.
21stcenturyfox
03-01-2008, 07:42 AM
hey, so update on hustler, croydon.
i dont personally like it and found last night to be torturous!
beautiful club, can fit a lot of people in but last night was a friday night and it was 50% full between 1 and 3, thats it. the stage is dirty and gritty which cut my knees open, and has a series of poles at the front like a barrier of cage which you can dance thru but it just looks weird. they hav a smoke machine also which means you cant see out into the crowd.
the worst thing is that they have this stupid topless teaser thing where you hav to run up to the nearest guy and get your tits out for ten seconds and straight after that is a 2 for 1 or a 3 for 1 and yu get fined £5 if you dont do it. and you DO get fined. the staff are rude and treat you like children, but then, this is london. they dont let you go early or sit in the dressing room even tho its past 3am and the very few custys left hav girls with them.
that topless teaser is rediculous! you hav to run up to the guys and then offer them a 2 for 1. no hello, no intro, just shove your tits in their face and offer a two for one. that is just not good business.
they take £8 off the private lapdance which takes place in these three rooms, two of which are behind high walls and there are no bouncers in there. we were told we would see girls doing things they shouldnt and thats its not encouraged to also do these things. in other words - they dont really care what you do.
half an hour sit down in a not so private area is £120. and obviously they take a cut out of that i expect. they do encourage selling champagne.
i am not looking forward to going back tonight, but ive paid for the hotel but i think im going to go up to leeds instead, i cant be fucked with londoner's stuck up attitudes and bullshit.
Phil-W
03-01-2008, 08:31 AM
hey, so update on hustler, croydon...i dont personally like it and found last night to be torturous!
I'd not heard good things from girls who've worked in Croydon's strip pubs, so was not 100% surprised by your comments. The place has a bit of a reputation for p*ssed up idiots getting into fights.
Sorry 'bout your wasted eveing.
i cant be fucked with londoner's stuck up attitudes and bullshit.
Hey, some of us who live in London are civillised!
Phil.
21stcenturyfox
03-01-2008, 08:45 AM
To be honest, i did see a couple girls who had made money, i mean like, im guessing over £300, but not more than 5 girls did that well and there were about 30 girls working.
90/10 rule isnt it...
you also hav to wear a gown until 1am and i fucking hate wearing long dresses, i dont feel sexy or confident in them.
sorry, im not in a good mood. i felt like i got less for what i put in. i know my sales skills need brushing up, one guy even said he wanted him to sell it to him more and i was just too exhausted from spending the entire day travelling to the club.
i got a lot of maybe laters and a lot of time wasters and ended up doing four dances. ok, i could have approached more custys, but it was my first night back to dancing in six months. also, the guys werent buying repeat dances from me even tho i was using my fabulous SW hustle hut skills :(
so, im going to giv it another go tonight, approach more custys, and push more. i ws told a lot that i was the nicest girl in the club because i was so friendly.
i found a lot of the custys were fucked up on coke also. and me being sober didnt help. i liked that i was sober since i never used to be doing this job, i also found it hard to relax, however it helped a great deal in remembering guys names which impressed a lot of them.
i felt like i was standing around waiting for more quality customers to come in. and then i wondered if everyone could be a customer if i was good enough at sales.
i never sat down and kept smiling for the first few hours, my stage show was good and i smiled and winked. the second stage show was at the end of the night when i had given up and it was hard to smile but i tried.
anyway, tonight will be better. tonight i will push myself harder and make at least £100.
im putting it down to first night back on the heels jitters, so tonight will be better. tonight i will hav a glass of good red wine before i go in to relax me and stay sober and smiling, ill be damned if i hav another crap night.
SydneyII
03-09-2008, 07:17 AM
Hiya,
so how has it been going in Croydon ? I went to work after a few months and didn't do great... but at least made SOME money that I wouldn't have had if I hadn't worked....
From what I've heard, it's been quiet everywhere and some clubs don't even hire new girls as they have too many working for them already...
I kind of hope that perhaps some of the clubs will shut down soon so that there is less competition ... :-\
21stcenturyfox
03-09-2008, 07:22 AM
hey, i left on the sunday. it cost me £558 to get back into stripper mode and get to london and back. i made £140 at hustler. so i lost £400. im not happy.
the agency has also filed our complaints about the club with hustler in america.
tbh, i think the strip industry is closing down and us girls need to find something else to do.
SydneyII
03-09-2008, 12:40 PM
OH MY GOD ! I'm so sorry it went that bad for you. Can't believe you actually LOST money :O
Yes I agree it's very tough now so anyone thinking about going to London.... think at least three times !!!
xx