Advantages: Cheap drink, No trouble, Friendly crowd, Ocassionally good music Disadvantages: Watered down cheap drink, Trouble outside, Generally poor music, bad food, uncompromisingly stubborn DJ, cleanliness, toilets, no disabled access, underage drinking, young crowd
The Venue off Bruce Street may well be the only dedicated Rock club in Belfast but alas because of the lack of competition in this respect there is very little or no effort made to make the place somewhere you would actually choose to go if an alternative was offered, listed below are my main gripes. The floors are so sticky that you literally must peel your feet of the floor with each step you take, the drinks token system means a trip down stairs ... ...close early (and is among the worst I have eaten anywhere in Belfast), there is no wheelchair access, the toilets are foul, the DJ only varies from the "set list" (as it is a standard MP3 disc that plays the same songs in the same order each and every week) for attractive women or £3-4 tips (and even then you're lucky), the drink is watered down and the variety at the bar is incredibly limiting.
The club tends to open two nights a week, Friday and ...
Ragnarok96 17.08.2004
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Advantages: Wide selection of tunes, diverse crowd, friendly Disadvantages: Need to get their early to avoid paying in
The Venue is a rock club, situated about five minutes walk from the City Centre of Belfast, on Bruce Street.
The Venue runs a nightclub on both a Friday and Saturday night. The Friday night plays mostly eighties style cock-rock like Motley Crue, Iron Maiden and son on, where as the Saturday night plays more recent, nu-metal type bands. Having said that, the DJ Kenny Hawkins will play pretty much anything you ask him to before 11pm each night. It ... ...get down fairly early.
The club is quite dark, with quite sparse lighting. The bar is fairly small, but still has a moderate selection of beers and spirits, and there is usually at least one drinks promotion each club night (recent example, double vodka and red Bull for £4!). It usually doesn’t take too long to get served, even if the bar is pretty busy.
The Venue attracts a fairly diverse crowd, ranging in age from 18 to 50 (no lie!). You’ll ...
Ryan-Simpson 03.07.2001
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Advantages: The Music Disadvantages: Everything else . GO WITH FRIENDS ALOT OF FRIENDS AND YOU MIGHT LAST THE NIGHT
AH the Venue, a flashback from yesteryear. How many nights have we ended up in this place expecting a nice time with friends and then remembered why he havent been there in so long. Okay lets review this night club.
Music - on the whole it isnt that bad , yeah the Djs are a major fascists and you will generally hear the same songs again and again but considering some belfast clubs have been using the same play list for three years it isnt so bad. ... ...this is mainly due to the fact the place is licensed as a resturant so that you buy "DRINKS TICKETS" it means the owner dosent have to pay for a night club drinks license. Added to this i would make the point that only drink things out of bottles in that place. The plastic cups are reused and washed. Thats why they taste so bad.
Prices- Once you get in through the door the prices arent that bad. You can drink cheap drink if you want to stick to ...
hailthenewdawn 19.10.2009
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Advantages: cheap alcohol, good craic Disadvantages: smoke, crowds
well, i dont know when the last time the other guy was at the v, but some of his "opinions", are slightly inaccurate. lol. the sticky carpet has been replaced, so you can safely wear your good boots without being paranoid about losing them, if you buy all your drink tokens in one go, you can save yourself a trip downstairs, the food is actually pretty good, chili or curry and chips, what else could you ask for on a night out? lol. i actually know ... ...are carried up and down the stairs. there are regulars that fall into both these catagories.
i would agree with his comments about the music though. the djs reasons are that he "plays to the crowds". so depending on whos there that night, hell play their tpe of music.
now, as for the friday night scenario, its advertised as "under 18s". so i mean, if you want to be like the last reviewer, and actually go, thats up to you. lol
and there are plenty ...
gfa2f 15.09.2006
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