Review: A Wicked Night Out At Club Rub

What a wicked night out at Club Rub last night. Club Rub is a monthly fetish club held at various venues. Generally the rule is to dress fetish, leather, rubber, PVC etc but last night the theme was Military and everyone entered into the theme spirit whole heartedly. I went as a Soldier girl with micro mini camo skirt matching bra and fetish boots and a plastic bullet belt that barely lasted 5 minutes before it fell apart and was dumped in the bin.

The new venue Basing House seemed small to start with and possibly the Dungeon area was too small for some people but as I am only into dancing and the dance floor was big enough for the amount of people on it, it didn’t affect me! The venue Basing House is a large Pub in Shoreditch it seemed very dark at first and you were walking very cautiously in case you tripped up but after a few minutes your eyes accustomed to the darkness. Lots of people were in the uniform theme, fetish style along with the usual mix of glam and other fetish get up’s. All Club Rubbers are easy going friendly people no attitudes, and there are never any problems at these club nights unlike your usual night club.

The organiser is Kim, we have known her for many years and she always makes every attempt to make the night what you expect it to be and always adds some little innovative touch. Last night it was a close up Magician who was mingling in the crowd producing very good card tricks. Some friends of ours were watching the card tricks – close up and when the magician produced the card they had been thinking off and unexpectedly the guy produced a previously removed pair of his wifes knickers from behind the magicians head – top trick!

There were two separate areas upstairs which Kim had turned into a dungeon area with all the necessary equipment and a couples/chill out room lots of soft seating in a quiet area. Downstairs was a large socialising area, the bar and dance floor.

Resident DJ’s Rob Parish and Irish Pete put on excellent music sets, they must have pulled out all the stops to have such great tunes all through with no warm up rubbish music, they seemed to jam in all the old floor fillers with stuff like Encore Une Fois and Sandstorm which fills the floor without fail every time.

People we spoke to were loving the music in fact I managed to stay on the dance floor for a full 3 hours but I am paying for it today with aching knees and feet! One guy on the dance floor said to me “The music is excellent isn’t it” I said, “yea it’s like the old days” - that always makes you sound ancient when you come out with that one! He agreed and said whilst bending down to rub his knees “My knees are killing me though” He had been out on the floor longer than me and was quite a slim, young-looking bloke so I said to him. “how old are you then? ” he said “42″ I told him my age and he said, “gosh you don’t look anything like that in fact I have seen you at Rub lots of times and you’ve always looked the same – (we have been going for about 15 years now) I will always lap up a compliment though! I said “oh it’s all down to exercise, healthy eating and good surgery, by the way I have some Ibuprofen gel in my bag if you want some for your knees” he said, “it’s OK I am on diclofenac and a few other prescription drugs for joint pain and swellings” ( not the recreational kind). The whole conversation was quite bizarre and amusing with the over 40′s talking about their aching bits on the dance floor and the only likely drugs to get used was ibuprofen gel!!

The venue reminded many people of the first Club Rubs that we attended at Florentine’s wine bar ( a similar pub type setting) and with the music being of an excellent standard it really made for a night to remember, everyone we spoke to were enjoying themselves and having an excellent time.

Next month Club Rub is on the 19th of February and the theme is Tartan and Steampunk so time to dig out the tartan mini skirt and fishnets or maybe a tartan bikini decisions decisions – oh what to wear!