ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to codify the differences between mainstream and underground club spaces, and to use these divisions as a theoretical tool in investigating style, taste, choice and sexualities. It explores the differences between mainstreams and undergrounds by outlining two 'typical' club nights. The chapter focuses on issues surrounding why female clubbers are attracted to and participate in specific types of club spaces. It discusses the significance for women clubbers of the range of club spaces to be found in Manchester. The first account is of what could be termed an underground club night. The identities and meanings that female clubbers construct within club spaces, challenges the view that they are passive. The second type of club experience described is not as friendly and is a space that has a different atmosphere. This impression is given on entering the club and being in the space itself as there is none of the communal atmosphere described in the previous account.
