If you're something of a dance-floor demon who likes to reminisce then this piece is for you.
We posted an appeal on Facebook and asked for your recommendations.
Here's what you had to say.
1. The Arch, Kings Road
This was formerly Zap which earned mentions from Mike Ashworth, Ruth Parsons, Justine Reade, Catherine Jane and Amanda Soutter. The club became famous for its cultural, art and music events, particularly its dance and acid house nights held throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. It has been described as an "influential club which pulled together many of the underground strands of visual art, fashion, music, design, comedy, cabaret and theatre which were circling at the time". The Zap closed in 2005, and after a number of attempts at rebranding was sold and rebranded as The Arch in 2014. Photo: Third party
2. The Gloucester, Gloucester Road, Brighton
Anna Berry chose the Gloucester. The club was rebranded to the Barfly, before becoming home to the North Laine brewery. Photo: Third party
3. Pryzm, former Top Rank Suite, West Street, Brighton
Donella Preisler Trickey said:
Top Rank suite Saturday mornings in the early 70s; then Sloopys/aka Charlies late 70s then The Escape Club mid 80s. Mark Joyce echoed her fervour for Top Rank Suite. The Top Rank Suite opened in 1965 as part of a nationwide chain. Big band jazz was still in the mainstream, with Syd Dean and his band backing solo singers. From the late 1970s the Top Rank Suite entered its heyday, drawing the country's biggest names to its stage including acts like the Undertones, Public Image Ltd, Joy Division and Killing Joke, to the reggae music of Aswad and Toots and the Maytalls, to Eighties chart-toppers Adam and the Ants, UltraVox, Culture Club, Annie Lennox, Kid Creole and Level 42. The venue had its first refurbishment in 1990 and was renamed the Event. After another refit in 1996 it was renamed the Event II. The club moved with the times as it approached the millennium. It changed to Oceana for a couple of years before coming Pryzm in 2011. Photo: Third party
4. Sherrys, West Street, Brighton
The club got the thumbs up from David Jacobs and Manda Curry who also mentioned Pink Coconut / Buzbys / Bentleys. It opened on November 11 1919 and the height of the club’s popularity as the Mecca of dancing on the south coast came during the Second World War. A decline in Brighton’s passion for dancing saw Sherry’s close in September 1948. It re-opened briefly after this, but eventually succumbed to being a roller-skating rink, then bingo hall until it was demolished in 1969 and remodelled as a night-club and amusement arcade. The club was most recently known as Hedkandi and – in the intervening years – as the Pink Coconut, Paradox, Creation, Tru and Project. Photo: Third party
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