February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
By Andrew Bushe
DUBLIN — London nightclub impresario Peter Stringfellow is planning to spread his operations to Dublin and provide topless "table-side" dancing as an attraction during weeknights – but he says it will all be done with the best possible taste.
A previous club that included the attractions of "lap-dancing" for patrons shut down after it failed to catch on in Dublin.
Stringfellow said last week he is in "very serious" negotiations with a Dublin businessman for a joint venture club.
"It all seems its all go. If it is we hope to be open about June," he told RTE.
He said lap-dancing was a bad phrase with terrible connotations and his concept was table-side dancing where there was no touching between dancer and customer.
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Stringfellow said he was looking at two possible locations in Dublin, one that will hold 600 and the other 500. He said he favors the smaller venue.
He will need a pool of about 50 dancers and initially intends to bring 10 women from London and then audition for women in Dublin.