The Manchester nightclub filled with ciggie smoke and heavy metal where you could order a Pot Noodle at the bar
manchestereveningnews.co.ukNext year will be 15 years since we lost one of Manchester's most missed nightclubs. With rock and metal music mostly absent from the mainstream music charts these days, the '70s, '80s and '90s - and even the early '00s - are fondly remembered eras for heavy music fans.
In those decades, piercing vocals and crunching guitar riffs were commonplace in the UK top 40. In the 1990s, speed metal thrashers Megadeth and mainstream rock bands like Bon Jovi and Whitesnake rubbed shoulders with Oasis and Take That - vying for the top of the music charts. 'Grunge' bands like Nirvana were repeatedly in the top 10, while into the Noughties, nu metallers Limp Bizkit topped the UK singles chart with their their heavy dancefloor anthem, Rollin'. Try MEN Premium now with our amazing New Year offer...
just click here to give it a go. Although Indie and dance music still dominated much of the cultural conversation and dancefloors around Manchester during this era, the popularity of alternative and rock and metal music meant thousands of fans needed somewhere to go.
For many, that place was Jilly's. Jilly's Rockworld - or Jilly's as it was more commonly known - was for years an institution in Manchester.
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