The Jolly Sailor

Even the quietest village needs to have a venue that can pull in the heavy drinkers and party goers on a Saturday night and the Jolly sailor is just one such venue. Looking like an innocent country pub from a distance, the lower ceiling bar area turns busy pretty early on with [...]

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The Chameleon Bar

Walking through the various fields of Glastonbury one comes across a whole spice of different bars and drinking holes. The Chameleon bar was one of the most lively additions to the scene in the first few days of the festival that we found. Inside, a DJ played popular tunes including big band and [...]

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The Cuban Club

Latin clubs in London seem to be cropping up at a pace as salsa lessons and dance classes release their grautes into the wild. Early in the evening, the cuban club is pretty busy, its a long, thin, brick-walled venue with a high ceiling which extends backward into a private garden in the [...]

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Pod Club

Literally wandering the streets near our hotel in Dublin and with the groom of our stag party lying in bed at around 2am, the rest of the group and I reach a large brickwork building which appears to have drinkers and smokers crowding in what is serving as a beer garden behind a metal [...]

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Whelans Club

Needless to say that based on the way Whelan’s looks from the outside, none of expected it to be quite so elaborate inside, in fact this has been one of the best cases of Tardis syndrome I have ever seen from a pub. Passing the bouncers, we enter a rather dark busy wooden room [...]

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Black Dog Ballroom

Attending a social event at the black dog ballroom featuring some hundred or so guests, our group eventually stumbled upon this place after scouring the streets of Manchester in the pouring rain. The black dog ballroom, equipped with its bouncers is a basement establishment with an array of seating and booths in the [...]

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Groovy Wonderland - Sway Club

Sway is one of the premier clubs of Holborn, and with such a short walk from the tube station its not hard to see why it fills up so quickly. The 2011 million pound renovation certainly left me wide eyed as I entered the all-too familiar club to quite the surprise. [...]

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Troy Bar and Club

If you asked me to find this venue again I don’t think i would be unable to, although it is somewhere on Hanway Street near tottenham court road station. It’s possible that my desire to find this venue again has been diminished. Troy Bar and club is another one of these venues [...]

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Ain’t Nothing but Blues bar and Kitchen

Camden is not exactly teeming with late night bars to drink in so although ain’t nothing but blues bar and kitchen may seem quiet in the day and early evening, at night it gets packed. There is a normally a door entry fee at this all-purpose bar nearer the [...]

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The Corner Shop 

On the corner of old street and shoreditch high streets sits the corner stop - although I think it used to be called “jam”. It looks a little un inviting In the shadow of the bridge that’s runs overhead yet still seems like a safe haven compared with these streets. Within, the corner store [...]

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