I'm someone who has seen both the highs and the lows of consumer life... Starting a new life in Not...
I'm someone who has seen both the highs and the lows of consumer life... Starting a new life in Nottingham with Shushy, my fiancee.
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Napoleons is one of the oldest, if not THE oldest, gay club in the village. And it's this element that causes problems.
Of a Wednesday and the weekend the place becomes a club for transvestites, and while I have no problem with gender benders it seems to attract a lot of the worse element of the village. But more on that later.
As you enter the club you'll be accosted by a 'bouncer' called Ernie. This guy is looks pretty harmless, and you'll wonder would he be able to keep order if there was trouble. I've been told he would. Once you've paid the £2 for entry (free if you're a tranny or real girl) you're actually in the main bar area.
The club itself is dingy and the main bar area downstairs is the only place there are seats and even then there aren't that many. The music is supplied by a video recording from MTV or VH1 and played on about 3 TV (no pun intended) screens. As the night wears on the music starts to get terrible and goes from chart stuff to gay music from the early 80 and late 70s. The toilet downstairs is best avoided as it's filthy and claustrophobic.
The clientelle are bitchy, rude, obnoxious and thats just the trannies. The blokes are even worse, and it seems that Napoleons is a magnet for every over 40, fat and bald bloke who fancies hairy blokes in a dress.
Go upstairs via a steep narrow staircase and you're on the dancefloor more or less. The walls are covered with mirrors and I guess this is why it's popular with the trannies. They tend to dance staring at the mirrors and if any one approaches them, major bitching usually ensues. The toilets on this floor aren't anything special either, but at least they're cleaner than the downstairs ones.
Drinks prices in Naps are pretty expensive, and in some cases more expensive than clubs such as Paradise Factory and Essential.
The main problem will come when you're leaving Naps as it's more or less opposite where the Chorlton St coach station used to be and it's right next to the Village Cabs taxi rank. Leaving Naps any time after midnight will involve you being accosted by hookers, thugs, Big Issue vendors and the other assorted Village detritus. Not what you want as many are off their face on drink and/or drugs and often threatening.
Naps is best avoided unless you really are desperate to see some ugly guys in dresses and the older, grotty side of the village. I'm sorry I can't be positive about it, but I have been a few times and this has been my experience every time.
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