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Going Out in Salisbury, Wiltshire*

Salisbury, Wiltshire Clubs, Music Venues, Cinemas

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• Chapel.. if u can afford the £10 entry fee on Saturday night, price is reduced on weekdays, they have some good theme nights. Dirty Boots.. for the more indie person. Level 2 (formerly N&N) good for dancing the night away, just recently been refurbished.
• Enzo“s closed in 2003. It was definitely the best dance music club in the area. There aren“t any others worth mentioning.
• The chapel has a really fun under 18s night from 7 till 10.30.
• spirit bar-they sometimes have rock bands play there!!xx
• Everyone would normally say the chapel but for people who are over 25/30 the N & N on cathrine Street would be a better Scene. After visiting the Esco bar a few doors down from macdonalds (off the market square)
• City Hall Salisbury is good for live shows (www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk) The chapel in Milford Street (www.salisburynightclubs.co.uk) The Chicargo Rock in Fisherton Street (www.chicago-rock-cafe.co.uk)
• tremors just opened up. might be good but doubt it though. heard it closing soon anyway
• A club near the skate park in Alderbury.
• It doesn't play dance music, but Nighthouse up at the Wilton on Wilton road, plays Goth, metal, industrial, punk etc every Friday night.
• Enzo's at the highpost is probaly the best in the area but it'll cost you about a tenner to get there by taxi, alright most fridays & saturdays, espically if they've got something on... Mark E-G, Mickey Finn e.t.c. Not much in town clubs wise, I think C & B scene is supposed to be club but really I think its a creche..not to bad though if you're stuck for something to do. Obviously there is the Chapel but its definatley for people who are into like charty kinda dance music.
• Chapel - rubbish N&N - very good, but very cosy Poo Na Na - as with any chain, quite common and dull Enzos - not actually in Salisbury, 5 miles north, but worth a Friday night once a month for Cheeky Little Monkey (Hard House, Anthems and Drum n Bass.
• N&N is good and cheaper than chapel. punana is an awful replecement for rhytmicon.
• The Chapel is good if you are dressed up in smart clothes.
• Churchills closed down about 3 years ago. Rythmicon followed it, it closed down in January. It was as bad as churchills, now thew building sites and, well, rots probably.
• Gallery!
• Rhythmicon is the latest club to openup in Salisbury (replacing what was Churchills, which was closed down after my school had a fight there one night at a alcohol free night and the police came and arrested the owner and revoked his license) But apparently "Nightclub Of The year 2000" - THE CHAPEL on Milford Hill is the place to be in Salisbury come Saturday night, however their £10 entrance is pricey. Not reallly worth it , but its very nice inside though. There is also the N & N Bar on Catherine St which is free to get in, but the boncers are a bit wary, even asking for i.d. off my mum! (she's bloody 40!) Out of town heading towards Amesbury you have Enzo's, which is a bit dodgy, because its usually full of Squaddies from the local army camps, a lot of fighting goes on there usually .... steer well clear if I were you.
• The Chapel (once a church) is a good place. Has a ghost.
• well the only club there is the chapel and its cool plays a wide variety of music for most age groups but they do have a dress code that is upheld
• Kalidescope,Churchills and the Chapel
• Exzo's (most definately)
• Salisbury Arts Centre do little concert things, which are sometimes quite good
• Enzo's
• School mate and all round top bloke Colin O'Keefe owns the hotteset spot in town the Vodka Bar
• Churchills is the epitome of class and style The Chapel is slightly more credible.
• The Chapel - Milford St : Opened just before Xmas 1997 - a converted chapel (not that you'd have guessed..) housing two rooms of approx 1000 max. capacity. Pretty forgettable during the week, but gets reasonable Friday and Saturday with occasional big names showing up. Churchills - Endless Street. AVOID AVOID AVOID. That's all there is to say.

Live Music Venues

• Ale House, Salisbury Arts Centre, Old Coach House, Dirty Boots - signed bands would normally play in venues such as the BIC in Bournemouth & Southampton/Portsmouth Guildhall.
• The old church place can't remember what its called!! Behind the bus station, has live bands on quite abit!!
• guild hall ,chapel(thats rite the chapel,over 18s tho)xx
• Scruffs 70s disco/Kareoke Salisbury Arms Endless St (just down from the bus station.
• arts centre's just closed down for 18 months for a refit. hopefully they'll refit the staff.
• For up to date information on Salisbury's biggest music venue - check out www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk
• some times at the Alderbury village hall.
• Salisbury arts centre for moshers goths and sk8ters. no townies or jippos should go and the alternative rock scene is radical.
• The Art Centre if you're feeling kind of suicidal(ie its full of moshers, trying to kill each other!) Not much else on really, City Hall does some nights but few and far between.
• Has anyone seen the Greencroft one which was in aid of the homeless? :)
• Venue wise - There's the City Hall for all the conservative rubbish, like Japanese people banging drums and stuff A new club called "THE BLACK PIG" has opened up giving Salisbury's thriving rock community a chance finally to get out there! And also Salisbury Arts Centre is very supportive of local bands and international talent having just let Terrovision and ASH play there (dec 2000)
• Salisbury Arts Centre for an excellent range of world music, some folk , and rock / punk etc.. etc.. )of all descriptions from the local bands to more well known ones).
• Cafe Prague has recently changed management, for those who enjoy an atmosphere that is relaxed and freindly, this is the place to go for a pint. Cafe Prague centers around good music [ BREAK BEAT TO FUNK TO MELLOW JAZZ AND CHILLED HIP HOP AND BEATS,] D.J'S thurs to sunday and often at other times aswell. You will leave the Cafe Prague wanting to go back soon, a very rare thing it is to experience tunes this good, while lounging on sofas and enjoying winding down with your freinds.'{or up!}. Winter Chill are in the Prague on Sundays, the atmosphere is totally chilled out and with candles on every table and loads of irish coffee, it feels like you should of bought a duvet too!
• City Hall The Playhouse Our farm in Teffont
• Anything by the Festival
• Skate and Mosh and The nearest vennue is the BIC in bornemouth
• City Hall (because it has a ghost)
• Salisbury Arts Centre
• Guildhall?
• Guildhall has nice bands but not very often
• If you are 40 + then you are alright. More Classical music goes on in Salisbury than anything else.
• Arts Centre

Cinemas

• Odeon is grate!
• 1 in the center of this village, sorry I mean town, sorry it's a city cos it has a cathedral bless em.
• Odeon Cinema
• The Odeon...... would rather see a film there than any other cinema...rather like watching a very big TV in your sitting room ....but with popcorn.
• Old cinema your way better off going to the amazing Ster Century in Basingstoke.
• The Odeon is abit small and abit expensive and also the only one in salisbury. I would rather go to the Bourmouth Odeon
• yea odeon is decent screen 1 is tha biggest (its huge!!)xx
• The cinema in the middle of town is a very old but authentic type cinema but shows all the latest films. 20 miles away you have ocean village and lesuire world in Southampton.
• The Odeon (www.Odeon.co.uk). Big building used to belong to a sheepmerchant who was four times Mayor before he was killed in the war of the roses. Dark inside with orange lights. Has five screens, no facilities for the disabled.
• Cinemas in the middle of town which is good but it can get quite cold (old building) and the seats make your ass go numb! There is a bowling alley called Strikers which is definatley a good laugh, five minutes walk from town, its got a bar and that as well.
• Odeon in New Canal - by Taxi rank - not like any other - very old listed building, screens and seating not quite as good as the newer odeons - don't have cup holders for example, but it's all we've got!
• strikers, bowling in salisbury. also with clown about, kids ball park thing.
• The odeon dates from the 15th century and was the home of a sheep merchant called John Hall. Is the only cinema with open fireplaces, five screens, and NO HELP FOR THE DISABLED!
• Only 1 cinema and thats the Odeon. Although I challenge you to find another cinema with such charm as it has.. it is a converted wool factory, supposedly haunted by labourers who died there! And there's the Bowling Alley just out of Town on Tollgate Road.
• The Odeon which dates from 15th century, has the only surviving banqueting hall. Once the building of a rich sheep merchant, has original armour of the English Civil war on the wall had anyone bothered to look up.
• The Odeon, lower the prices. Would travel miles if it was a really decent film. Has a spook, not spooken to as yet (har har!)
• Odeon we don't have a bowling place or anything like that
• The Odeon. Dates from the 15th Century, and it is the only surviving building which has all its original timber and not all this modern stuff. It will prpbably be the only old fashioned building left when everything else is modernised
• Theres the Odeon. Cause its the closest we go there (+ its a well cool building, much nicer than the one at Tower Park). No Bowling things, well not that I know of
• Odeon Virgin cinemas
• There are virtually no leisure facilities but the buildings that house the Arts Centre and the Cinema are rather pretty!
• The Odeon. 4 or 5 screens, cant remember. Main screen has 1920's interior. Others are a bit small. Entrance through mediaval hall. Still going despite many attempts to close it.
• Salisbury must have the only Tudor cinema in the world! It's a smashing building and worth sitting through any old film just to have a closer look at it.

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