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A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark.Nightclubs are always associated with music and have a dance floor, however small: a drinking establishment without music is a saloon or bar, pub or tavern. Though a nightclub may have a floor show or other entertainment unsuitable for minors, the music, dancing and socializing of a nightclub are secondary in a "strip joint." Music may be live or mixed by a DJ, and can range from country, jazz, blues, to electronic music styles such as drum and bass, house, trance or techno.
Gatherings in nightclubs that primarily involve music mixed by a DJ involve dancing and in most cases alcoholIn general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-khwl , or al-ghawl ) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage . This sense underlies the term alcoholism ( addiction to a. Illegal use of recreational drugs such as ecstasyThis article is about the synthetic drug. For more traditional meanings of the term, see ecstasy and religious ecstasy''. MDMA more commonly known today by the street name ecstasy is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is commonplace in many modern clubs featuring electronic dance music. Clubs are often advertised by the handing out of flyersA flyer is a single page leaflet advertising a nightclub or event, handed out on the street or at other related events. Flyer is also the name shared by various airplane designs built and flown by the Wright Brothers. on the street, in record shops, and at other clubs and events, they are often highly decorative and eye-catching.
Nightclubs often feature lightingModern stage lighting is a flexible tool in the production of theatre, dance, opera and other performance arts. Several different types of lighting instrument are used in the pursuit of the various principles or goals of lighting. These Principles of Ligh and other effects: flashing lights of many colors, moving light beams and smoke machine s. One common item is a disco ballA disco ball mirror ball or ball mirror is a roughly spherical structure that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complicated and hard-to-anticipate display. Its surface consists of hundreds or thousands of facets, nearly all of: a rotating football-sized ball at the ceiling, covered with many small flat mirrorThis article is about the reflective surfaces. A mirror is a reflective surface that is smooth enough to be able to form an image. The best known example is the plane mirror that most people have at home. In it, a parallel beam of light changes its directs, with a light beam directed on it; the reflections form a multitude of moving light spots on the floor and on the people.
1 History
In the U.S., the repeal of Prohibition in February 1933 sparked the revival of nightclubs, which had gone underground as speakeasies. In New York City, three famous Midtown nightclubs from the "Golden Age" were the Stork Club , El Morocco and the Copacabana, while uptown in Harlem the Cotton Club was king.
The first Rock and Roll generation did not favor nightclubs, but the club returned in the 1970s as the " disco," from the French discothèque (although by the early 2000s, the term "disco" had largely fallen out of favor). Two early discos in New York were "Le Club" and "Regine's." Today in Europe, nightclubs play techno and trance music for the most part. Some nightclubs in the U.S. play trance and techno, but it is still not as popular.
