Mods, Chelsea Girls and Go Go Dancers! Sassy Sue's Go Go Inevitable is in the Sugar Club every Friday night

IN the Sugar Club on Fridays you'll find tight-suited mod boys in boots and helmet-like haircuts dancing with girls in Mary Quant-style clothes to garage rock and motown from the 1960s. At Sassy Sue's Go Go Inevitable the swinging '60s never ended and the Who are still in the charts. DJ and club visionary Dandelion explains what it's all about. "We're trying to bring the underground over-ground. Ten years ago I had a vision that I was going to make everything bigger . . . open it up. I don't see why cool cult music has to be in a backroom with a bad sound system. There's an audience for it. People need to know that on a Friday night they don't have to go and stand in a cramped pub and get drunk. They can get dressed up and go out and dance. Dublin has really moved on so much in the ten years!" "In my own head I see it as a go-go club, and that's why it's called Sassy Sue's Go Go Inevitable . . . it's meant to be this big mountain top of music. When a band is onstage you shouldn't be standing looking at the band you should be losing yourself in the music. I love that scene in Blow Up [classic 1960s movie by Anonioni] where the band is on stage and they're breaking everything up and there's a few hipsters not even staring . . . they're just dancing. That's my idea of a perfect club! The important thing is that people are dancing together.

When you see 50 mods on a dance floor together they're together but alone at the same time. For people walking into the place it must be so weird initially. The crowd are like comrades in arms . . . people who feel that this music is vital and important. It's a great thing. "I think that subcultures are definitely back. This is a community but it's also an umbrella for a load of different scenes.

The hardcore regulars at Sassy Sues would be mods, but the fifties scene, the '60s scene, even the punk scene, it's all mixed up together now. Everybody respects each other, whereas years ago everyone was standing in their different corners thinking they were better than each other. But the music was always connected. If you listen to northern soul it's like '50s r'n'b, and that's like 1960s garage musicf which went on to influence punk. People are very musically open-minded nowadays. "Everyone just wants a night where they can go out and dress up. And the Sugar Club accommodates that. You can walk in and your clothes aren't going to get messed up. Whether you're into glam, or punk or '50s or mod, you're there to be seen at the end of the day! At our birthday party we had people dressed as zombies, people dressed like Scarlett O'Hara, we had the booted and suited mods, and we also had people who just came in off the street.

Everyone is important and everyone has their place on the night."