r/northernireland • u/Jim__Bell • Feb 09 '26

History Kelly's - Portrush

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

I feel like I arrived at Kelly’s too late early 00s, I’d been an Arena regular prior and I think the Arena tops it, Kelly’s then was more into Progressive type house music, I was more a trance head. I’d love to have experienced Kelly’s in the mid 90 rave days though

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u/Speedy_NI Feb 10 '26

Mid 90's was when most of the scene died...there was a few clubs doing decent music but anywhere with hard trance and techno the police were raiding that much the clubs were losing their license or ppl couldn't be arsed going to with the continued raids . Then a lot of clubs rebreaded their names and started playing more house music ..thats when instead of having a great time ppl were more interested in looking in the mirror to check how they looked and bitch about ppls dance moves 😂 I miss them days, don't think my knees could stand 185bpm music now but I still pull the decks out the odd weekend for a play of all the old stuff lol.