The Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh High Street has thrown a night hailed as one of its best in recent memory, a new day-disco event last Sunday that aimed to bring regulars and former lovers of the club together in a celebration of the “original brush” in the 90s. Partygoers were treated to a night of old-school alternative club classics, from Oasis to the Prodigy with the event running from 3-7pm to allow older guests the chance to avoid a difficult Monday morning. With nightclubs around the UK and in south Essex facing constant threat of closure, promoter Stu Whiffen believes the club has “adapted to survive” yet also “always done the same.
” He said: “It is about adapting to survive, but it is what we have always done, look at many Essex clubs that have sadly gone, most of them were generally playing around with the same genres of music and they have tried to follow fashion. “We are dreadfully unfashionable, we don’t follow the mainstream and while we aren’t that we are stylish, and style outlives fashion. “If something is stylish that is forever, we have that and that is what people love and that is why they are still going to our events.
” Stu added that the event on Sunday was one of the best in his 32 years as a promoter. He said: “I have never buzzed like that; it was unbelievable it was ridiculous. “Everyone was beaming, it was so lovely to see, and we literally did not know if it would work, we didn’t expect a sell-out show.
“We are thrill.
