The Knowhere Guide

The Local Music Scene in Carlisle, Cumbria*

Carlisle, Cumbria Record Shops and Venues

Record Shops

• Music Box - Second hand vinyls.
• The music box still remains a good spot to buy records
• pink panther or the music box on botchergate
• hmv and virgin
• hmv, virgin etc
• hmv, virgin, music zone
• Only Music Box on Botchergate. For second hand.
• Real Recordz, Music Zone, HMV, Virgin, Pink Panther (when it was there!)
• pink panther!!!!!!!!!!!
• Pink Panther off Lowther Street THE original record shop in Carlisle where you can still buy vinyls.
• Vimtos, sells all the zone and new monkey crap.
• Pink Panther's is now gone - now a bridal wear shop
• Real records. HARDCORE TILL I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Music Zone, Virgin, HMV, Woolworths, WH Smiths, Tesco, Music Box, www.motivesounds.co.uk - for all your local music needs
• Pink panther until it closed down, virgin has a pretty good selection as does music zone
• Fat Plastic, THE coolest independent record shop in carlisle!!!! Non pretencious,up front music. House All styles, hip hop and r&b. Situated beside THE coolest bar in carlisle FATS. He also has a wide selection of used vinyl and , get this you can record a demmo there if you want..... and also have your old vinyl or tapes cleaned up and put onto c.d. this guy knows how a record shop should be,but hey don't take my word for it have a look in yourself!!!!!!!
• pink panther, the box
• Has to be Pink Panther - got most of my record collection from there - bought one album there almost every saturday!
• Pink Panther Resound
• Virgin HMV
• Pink panthers quite decent used ta be good for the dance and rave classics such as Bonkers. Now HMV's better than Virgin for decent stuff like R&B and Hip Hop.
• most record shops in luguvalium are over priced and full of rubbish.
• Pink Panther was always great. Is it still there?
• Past Times - this interesting shop sells amongst other goodies, a wide selection of accordion classics and you may even find the odd banjo jam thrown in there for good measure.
• Pink Panther near Iceland is great for records
• Pink Panther - just behind Iceland and Farmfoods. New HMV good but small. Virgin just been refursbished, quite nice. The Music Zone looks crap but is nice and cheap. Apart from that all the usual places - Smiths, Woolies...etc. etc. etc.
• avoid virgin and that shite, go to pink panther
• Music Box, full of the things you had forgotton about
• Only Virgin isn't it *sigh*
• PINKIES! best record shop, but stinks of feet
• Where the fuck has our price gone. We should have an HMV coz im constantly getting vouchers for xmas
• Carlisle has a range of specialist record shops as broad as the minds of its citizens.
• Carlisle has a range of specialist record shops as broad as the minds of its citizens.
• pink panthers probabply shut
• Pink Panther s'not bad! all round musical tastes catered for. Patti Irwin,
• JB books down botch has a great selection of second hand records/cds's, you can also buy bongs and porn
• Pink Panther records,loads of indie,dance rook imports
• Pink Panther records,lots of indie,dance imports ect
• A great place is pink panther where u can get zone merchandise
• Pink Panther , sadly missed!
• musice box
• Pink Panther is pretty cool
• music box on Botchergate
• Music box on botchergate has some cool punk stuff in some times Pink panther has the best selection of alternative shit
• We really need a HMV. Virgin is ok and much better than the days wen all we had was that shitty little our price
• The Pink Panther
• Small house records - the place to hang out. & not buy anything.
• Pink Panther records rools the roost. Find down the back next to that Farmfoods supermarket
• the rinky Pink Panther
• Virgin
• rhythm xpress records are now on the web!!!! not bad for a small independant shop in the middle of knowhere www.rhythmxpress.co.uk
• pink panther records just off lowther st
• Bookends, Castle Street
• 'The Pink Panther'- my childhood introduction to the fast world of rock n roll and immortal home of 'Keefs Hotrod Disco'(now to be seen taking his wisdom on tour of Israel)
• Our Price Sin City Sound Company - good for bootlegs
• Ryhthm Xpress where you walk in and buy the best US House and Garage available.
• Pink Panthers - This is where you can get a good selection of music (particularly Vinyl) and is where you get concert tickets and travel arrangements for all the major concerts in Britain- Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Dodgy you name it... they've got tickets for it... if you're quick!!
• Virgin has every thing you will ever need from all sorts or videos, cool magazines and posters to all the best latest and yet to be released music releases... Why go anywhere else?

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• Fats - Bar with Extreme Sports on TV continuesly. Acoustic nights on Mondays, other nights are mostly dance/house music. Pool table, popular place. Never any trouble.
• Hi all to the oweners or management of any club in Carlisle myself and few friends went to Dontinoes @ Hexham little bit of an out dated club. But we have to say the Dj was fantastic he has this well dont know what to call it an ability to naturally please any crowd had the best time we all wish we could get a dj in Carlisle as he would surlely have the punters coming back week after week he is fantastic. There is loads of comments about him on knowhere guide for Hexham he has left an e-mail for people wanting a particular song it is Martin.a.Taylor@mtagt56.plus.com me and my friends are now going to Dontinoes once a month on the last Saturday this guy is the bollocks excellent. Love ya Matt from the Carlisle girls
• Mood has a good age mix. If you are over 30 you dont feel like you should be home in your slippers. Good music. Gets very busy at weekends.
• mood, the lizard
• Fats, early week before they play dance music. The Wheel at XS, mON, wEDS, fRI. And Goth nites wherever they are....
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• On Buskers upstairs dancefloor
• well theres lloyds bar, jumping jacks but the best place in town for a propa groove is xs!!!!!!!!
• xs - x press, the cresh, egg n cress. a feel enough sed from the thurd statment !¬
• the lovely front page- pre facelift- that slimy pole in the middle of the downstairs dancefloor and the nice dj with the crazy curly hair! Also the twisted wheel- scruffy but cool!
• The Front Page was the place to be till it closed down. It had alternative music n a bit of rnb down stairs. It was 50p vodka on thursdays. There was nothin bad bout this place. Was dingy and mingin tho but that was all part of the charm
• The Village (used to be Buskers) is new, same management as Robertsons and a couple of others. Gone for the same look as Robertsons, but a calmer atmosphere earlier in the evenings. Wouldnt recommend for much more than just a plain night though. XS has gone downhill, the old Wheel is dirt cheap - where Legends used to be. Jumpin Jaks down Botchergate not been yet, wife beat us to it on my stag night so I was steered to the Village. Concrete under the solicitors on Lowther St, meant to be a good spot, not great though.
• The Wheel is now open on Wednesdays and Fridays, at the Lizard Lounge part of'XS'. Alternative music, and rather good.
• I know everyone hates the Purple Lizard Lounge but other then the Brickyard it's the only half decent place to go at the mo and its just a substitute while the Wheel is getting sorted. Ok, so the DJ plays the same songs in the same order every week...but the drinks are cheap and as it's free entry you can get pissed off a tenner and i can go in there and bump into loads of people i know! Everyone who keeps slagging it off should shut up and find somewhere else to go!
• Moods, Botchergate. Club Excess West Walls, Jumping Jacks, Botchergate.
• club xs & mood r spot on
• the origional buskers before the fire, when you could walk right round the bar.
• XS IZ DA PLACE 2 BE ON WEST WALLS
• guild kicks ass, good place to pull but it never works, you can play the air guitar on your back on the dance floor and no one gives a fuck
• The Wheel was one of the few places where the alternative crowd can go. Never seen ANYONE under 17 in there. Self-mutilators are in short supply, and if someone wants to do that that's their business. And speaking as the honorary student, they ought to re-open the Cumberland 'Studentland' Bar on Botchergate. The Upstairs bit. Students only, they'd play at least one track on any CD bought in (time allowing), and cheap drinks. And no old farts except the weird one who was 34 , and quite, quite, mad. That was me.
• Carlisle is pure bangin´ man!! XS is our hottest clubbin´ sensation so divn´t diss it man like eh??? It maybe doesn´t compare to gud old Camping La Siesta´s pub in Spain, cos it hasn´t got a gud bit of spanish and argentinian buttifara de pais!! but its da next best fing!! aiiiii bo selcta banzai! so all u dat diss XS wisht man hoiny and shut ur mouth cos ur breath stinks of cheese!!!!
• Duh... The Twisted Wheel!! Sposed 2 b closin soon - DAMMIT, save THE WHEEL. Go soon n check it out. Not if yer a trendy tho....
• Pagoda - as it was then and the Front Page! brilliant especially when you sneak in with half a bottle of vodka, not the next morning though!
• Jacksons Club XS
• All shie, XS is hell.
• The front page is always a laugh thanks to its youthfull regulars it's just like a sixth form party and the bottles are only a quid on student night so can't be bad. Try Monday's "drink the bar dry" supposedly every drinks a quid. XS is a better club but it's either a belta or pure crap.
• legends and the wheel went down hill when John Prat took over and Emma left (was there a link,i think so.).the page is run by a man you wouldn`t let run a girls school.buskers smells of piss but a good place to pick up a teenager(boy or girl).Moods has the dumbest doormen and worst clientel.the Whitehouse is just rough (ladies included)
• ok dere is a new club n its fukin mint excess on west walls. n as 4 buskers i think its spot on and dont foget fats dats also da place to be.
• Mood (on Botchergate) was quite an amusing place to visit as an ex-pat! Why? Because it has got to be the one place in the whole world (apart from Caracus Venezuela) where the male population is outnumbered by the female by about 5 to 1! That doesn't necessarily make a good night though. Some of the things you see in there would be better exhibited in a glass case! Still worth a visit just to make yourself feel good!Or if the idea of venereal disease appeals to your warped mind.
• Freedom, formerly Pagoda, is now shut after the owner spat his dummy after he was on the receiving end of an attack from one of the many retards his club happily admits. Funny how he never gave a sh*t when anyone else got hurt.
• BUSKERS IS SHITE THE BOUNCERS THINK THEY R ALL IN AND AS FOR THAT STEVE CROOKS HE IS THE INSTIGATOR THEN HIDES BEHIND EVERY ONE I WOULDNT RECOMMEND NE1 GOIN TO THAT SHIT HOLE
• there is a night club in carlisle called XS but me and my mates can never fined it on the net there was meant to be a web page on it it has be up and running for a bit now it used to be legegens
• Go to Freedom if you want young girls and lollipop flavour pussy.
• Carlisle must have the worst nightlife in the country so don't bother going out. If you must Buskers has great dance music but its small and full of inbred people who go every week.
• List... The Page (OK, The Front Page, Jacksons, whatever. Clientele EXTREMELY young - i.e. young enough to be on David Jacksons hard drive) Buskers (if you are v. sad/scally) Club XS (new and rather cool) A few others.
• How about adding some info on well known d.j.'s from around the clubs of Carlisle....I was one once, D.J. TRICKY (BUSKERS ABOUT 5 YEARS BACK)Now i'm running a club in the Middle-east since 1998.
• Well what can i say! iv lived in this dump for about 13 yrs, and its become torture now, Carlisle is just full of sheep! first Buskers night club, yeh it was a good club until Mood opened then Buskers went down hill and ended up being an Ibiza night!, iv gotto say Mood will always have its good customers. but as soon as Freedom opened, yeh it was a top club, but people got bored and went back to Buskers. But as soon Club xs opened now, Buskers has gone down hill again and is only open for little tini boppers!, but im telling you this now people, club xs will rub off on you and you'll get bored, like with the rest of the places, every one knows Buskers will always be the place to be!
• Freezed at The Page http://www.freezed.co.uk
• The wheel is the only decent place, mood is ok, both of these copntain legal customers, which is always good, freedom and buskers are full of 13 year olds
• The twisted wheel!! U guys knock it? But have u been? I've once seen a 16 year old in there, normally less than 17 is rare. I'm 18 and have been id-ed there a few times, tho now they know me. It's good music, good dance floor, good people. Okay so they don't dress mainstream, but so?? And skinheads????? There's about....2. Some ppl are wannabies but mostly it's rocking. They even played Soundgarden on Saturday :):D. It's better than anywhere else. Page is a sweathole... Buskers makes me laugh. Went to freedom and got kebab thrown in my face and started on cos I have long hair..... I'll stick to my rock thankyou very much.
• legends is great if u like the thrill of MDMA, buskers if u are brave, the page if u wear masive cords and say dude a lot
• Yeah, like Freedom. Many a night I have broken the law in there, not to mention a few young girls in half!
• rock night at the pagoda is no more
• Club Scene, diabolical. Talking from experience of having to Dj there. Wake up Carlisle, scene's are passsing you by!
• Legends has been revamped downstairs - it now has an amazing jbl system and wooden floor throughout, it's also nice and dark, I would say that this club has excellent potential, currently they only have the odd good night on and the rest of the time it's dead
• MOODS,over 21's thank god and they're quite strict aswell.Good range of music 70's,80's,90's,dance, pop and rock.Good atmosphere not much bother no kappa'slapper's tolerated or 10-men charva's. FREEDOM,Full of school kids and young lads who think they're hard with their mates but shit themselves on their own.Dance,trance guest DJ's Carlisle's biggest club but no atmosphere £6.00 to get in for f***s sake!!!!!!!!! C.A.1,Small but good atmosphere mostly over 30's, a bit of a shag palace at times.older women on the pull and old [35+]desperate men hanging around the dance floor hopeing for that one last shag before rigor mortis sets in but not half as bad as the...... MALT SHOVEL!!!,Legendary!!! for those too old,sad,ugly to pull.Popular with gypo's and Raffleites because its the only place they can get in. Allways bother most nights but good entertanment to watch two old slappers trying to pull the same saddo in the addidas top with no teeth,shit tatoos[mum+dad, a swallow ect]and a pock-marked face.It's good to walk into a club and say to a friend "CHRIST WE'ER THE BEST LOOKING LADS IN HERE!!".And mean it!!!
• Although the clubs are crap - I have to admit that once you live away you appreciate the fact that you are likely to know people in the clubs at Carlisle - so therefore when I get completely @rseholed, I am picked up and carried home (as people usually know where you live too - yes its that type of place) whereas in the big citys, I am left in the gutter!
• Moods,alround entertainment nightclub caters for over 21's.Large dancefloor,80's/90's music mostly dancemusic also live bands on some nigths.Has upstairs chillout zone and resteraunt also. Freedom,huge nightclub popular with younger clubbers two huge dancefloors plays chartbased dancemusic also has guest DJs but nobody too famous.Has had Carl cox though and sasha.
• buskars We have the biggest niteclub in cumbria FREEDOM
• The Wheel for a bit of rock very cheap on Wednesdays(that's the one with remarkably young patrons though), The Page (now called Jacksons) for a good, cheap night out on tues +thurs. Not Freedom, whatever happens!
• I agree with alot of the points made above ALL THE CLUBS IN CARLISLE SUCK and that's the final worrd. However if you were to go to Jacksons or now Legends on A LUCID club night you would be amazed real DJ's like SEB FONTAINE, YOUSEF, FUTURESHOCK and loads more play all the time and it's a proprer super club atmosphere great music and fantastic DJ's, next ones JULY 20th 2001 and is gonna rock.
• Pagoda has closed and is now called "FREEDOM" which is the new in place. Being 38 my niece told me that. Pagoda was good though in the eighties.
• Shoom 1989, sorry nobody else from Carlisle was there! I maybe saw a couple of you at the Hac! Maybe!!!
• Go to the Wheel or the Page/Jacksons. Only places for students, intelligent people etc. All other clubs are full of fat-necked checked-shirt-wearing divvies who are currently failing their car maintenance course at carlisle tech and have never left the town in their lives. The woman in said clubs are all atrocious, 18, bring down the reputation of Pedigree Chum, and have bucko boyfriends call Dazza who give them a slap. Remember, you can call me biased, but you'll never call me wrong.
• Jacksons for a good night out, or the wheel. But for your own sanity AVOID BUSKERS AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!
• All the main clubs in carlisle are where the trendies and fags hang out generally, the main spot at the moment for punks, skaters, mettlers and so on is 'the coach house' in heads nook just outside of carlisle, they sometimes have bands playing there aswell.
• this summer it was buskers on monday (occaisionally) , wednesday (student nite after 5 a side footy at the sands with the boys) the occaisional Friday, and evry saturday. The page on thursday for student nite and most tuesdays, and, now i am 18 and not 16, the wheel NEVER. We only used to go coz it was the only place we could get in! I swear i can still smell 'fresh n funky' in my nostrils now! I came home from college one weeked and went in freedom and i wasnt impressed...u cant meet up with your mates in there like you could in buskers. If they played music from the page in buskers that would be the best combinaton.
• The Front Page/ Jacksons on Fisher Street on a Thursday night - 50p vodka!!
• go to buskers for fights the malt for sex legacy for drugs
• Mick's Club
• The front page will be blessed with my pressence evey thursday. me & my crew are always there, making complete tits of ourselves but hey, who gives a damn. the front page is home to a gaggle of pissed up loons causing mayhem. Jacko pulling very young girls.
• the wheel is brilliant! not quite full of mutilating 12yr olds, but close, anyway its a lot better now that emma is in charge! and can i say NEVER EVER GO TO BUSKERS, THE PAGODA, CATS or any of the other dodgy clubs full of idiotic charvers who think they are 'greebos' cos they like nirvana's teen spirit! the kings head is great bit of a dive but still cool!
• Buskers for the kiddies / those with little musical discernement but out to dance to lame house the Front Page for a better night, but a fairly limited repartee
• buskers is shite!!!!lets face facts here and its the malt not the mault
• wheel.....erm...if u r a skin head,have a wallet chain and loads of piercings then you'll feel right at home in the wheel......legends if u r over 50 and otherwise just go to buskers....or Penrith!! even better believe it or not, but its true....carlisle clubs are just shoddy!!!
• The Twisted Wheel is no more full of narrow-minded people than anywhere else, and its indie/rock music policy caters for its audience so you can't really criticise itjust because you're not its audience.
• WELL, BUSKERS MAY BE THE CRAPPEST PLACE ON EARTH WHEN YOU SPEND 24/7 AT THE PLACE, BUT BELIEVE ME, IT IS POSSIBLE TO MISS THE SAD OLD PLACE. AND AS FOR THE MUSEUM-I WONDER WHICH ONE OF THE SAD INDIVIDUALS FROM NEWTOWN ROAD, BELLE VUE/SANDSFIELD PARK CAME TO THIS CONCLUSION!!!!! ALTHOUGH IT HAS TO BE SAID, IT IS QUITE A NICE PUB.
• Generally prehistoric or living in the eighties - plenty of scope for improvement particularly Buskers. If the management could sort themselves out this club could compete with top clubs like Cream or Gatecrasher - they are expanding but need better DJs to bring in the punters. There are virtually no promotions run by Carlisle clubs ie the have no creativity. The Twisted Wheel is full of twisted narrow minded people - and yes some are only 14 and yes some do cut themselves - I have seen these people. The page is where most students do, generally safer but Buskers is the best decorated - it has more comfortable chairs a better range of drinks and is about the biggest coherent club. Buskers is good but you're most likely to get beaten up there - carlisle is full of too many psychos
• Buskers upstiars holds residency to Neil and Patty - both nutters but can play some good tunes!
• hello first i would like to say that i thought your carlisle knollage was very good and presented in a funny atractive way, but i have to argew that the twisted wheel is a very bad night club......and i have been goin for twice a week for two years and i have never seen a forteen year old or someone who mutilates themselves.....it is just becouse the wheel is the only place in our great city that has broken away from the norm and decided to play allternative music.......much the same as the Front page. They also play great indie, rock, metal and hip hop. to think that all the people who read this are into dance music is silly asumption. If people in carlisle were not as narrow minded to think that becouse someone has a pair of combat pants and a black t shirt makes them wierd and antisocal, who cut themselves is plain ludicras......it is almost like saying every one who goes to a football match is a huligan...obviously wrong. i have lived in carlisle all my life and i love the place but it needs to jump forward to the 90s cos it aint even there yet. thanks for listning....... e mail me with a response to toad29982@yahoo.com
• The nightlife in Carlisle has to be the worst in the country, the place is stuck in a time warp- those people from Carlisle City Council should visit cities like Leeds and Manchester to see what will bring in visitors, students etc. Buskers, Jacksons, Legends and the Wheel are not what people call a good night out.
• Good night at Legends called Perfect. Very popular with House clubbers. On about once a month and cost varies depending on DJ. Past DJ's include Farely Jackmaster Funk, Tom Wainwright and Greame Park. Membership available which entitles you to discount on entrance and newsletters. Buskers is good but it is the same most nights now - it needs to do something new to liven the place up. New DJ downstairs on a Friday and he is really good. He doesn't talk as much as the others, but he blasts some blindin' tunes. Club to avoid - never go to Mault Shovel unless you are over 35 or looking for an easy 'pull'! Full of old slappers and pervy old men or 13 - 14 year olds ahving their first taste of clubbing - enough to put them off for life! A complete dump. A club with curtains - well need i say any more!
• The Twisted Wheel very bad - the home of 14 year old freaks into self mutilation
• The Front Page is now renamed Jacksons after the renovation. Downstairs is now more than double the size and there is now toilets which won't kill you with the smell. A very good improvement. Still good value on Thursday night with vodka at 50p a shot.
• Indie Scene- There are two true Indie places where any student in their right mind should be: 1. The Twisted Wheel- Excellent in every way. Cheap, can lounge about anywhere (most people lie on the ground), very good music and good dance floor (often too much fake smoke), security is non existant and there are too many young drinkers adding and spoiling the fun! Be warned, it is very hot, so dress very cool!!! 2. The Front Page- Also excellent (except on Friday nights) all other nights are student nights. Has the best music (live local indie bands etc), has a good DJ - not a lot of dance floor space. Often gets a bit cramped (however, news has come to me that they are actually rennovating it - gasp!), excellent quiz and arcade machines. Upstairs is a technically different establishment called Jacksons. This is very, very good. You can hang about here all day drinking coffee and eating the fine homemade food... and then at night... you can do exactly the same - or get drunk... it's brilliant!! Also extremely hot - temperature wise, and that's no joke!!
• Dance scene: 1. Buskers- New floor opened, good dance music, good DJ, Well bouncered so less underagers, pay to get in - won't break the bank. 2. Legends- The popular second (upper) half to The Twisted Wheel. Don't have to pay or reduced pay if you have savers pass. Expensive drink, good dance floor, good music and good DJ. Bouncers present..very relaxed and security is not too good.
  The middle floor of Legends is called Fresh and Funky for your info. 3.Pagoda- 100% chance of `Pulling' here. Expensive (5) to get in, drinks are expensive. Security and bouncers is often too strict, no jeans or trainers allowed. Be careful of local gangs who hang around!

Live Music Venues

• The Brickyard
• The Brick Yard
• the brick yard
• The Brickyard is Carlisle's premier and only full time live music venue and has hosted some of the biggest names in music today. We are ideally situated only nine mile south of the Scottish border, and an ideal stepping stone venue for any act on the way to, or from Scotland being ideally situated between Manchester and Glasgow or Edinburgh. In the summer of 2002, The Brickyard was born out of a desire to revitalise Carlisle's flagging live music scene, which at that time depended upon tribute acts, the occasional local band gigging in local pubs and a few sporadic gigs aimed at an ageing audience. On New Years Eve 2002, Andrew McCormack and Garry Kerr opened the doors for the first gig... The Brickyard is a venue that caters for a wide variety of musical tastes, we promote a wide range of bands and Dj's from Folk through Heavy Metal, Blues, Jazz, Funk, Drum 'n' Bass and Hip Hop. The Brickyard is the only venue of it's kind in Carlisle and we are definitely unique in Cumbria if not the North of England in that we only promote local and touring "ORIGINAL ARTISTS", we prefer "NEW MUSIC" and there are no cover or tribute bands allowed. Bands that have played at The Brickyard include everything from DJ's to 11 piece Drum 'n' Bass bands to and Jazz Orchestra's to Heavy Metal, so in no particular order: Arctic Monkeys, The Little Flames, Hell is for Heroes, The Subways, Kasabian, The Zutons, The Cosmic Rough Riders, Ari Up (The Slits), Biffy Clyro, The Fall, Tom Hingley, Winnebago Deal, Chikinki, Octave Pussy, Splitters, Tom McRae, DJ Yoda, Nick Harper, 10,000 Things, Jah Wobble, The Scratch Perverts, Hondo Maclean, Tom Hingley's The Lovers, Reuben, The Selecter, Funeral For A Friend, THE*GA*GA*S, Brigade, Degrassi, The UK Subs, Psydoll, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland, The Verra Cruz, Aziz Ibrahim & Dalbir Singh Rattan, Albert Lee and Hogans Heroes, Josh Rouse, Dreadzone, Your Codename Is Milo, AMEN, Keiretsu, Tom Hingley, The James Taylor Quartet and Stiff Little Fingers to name but a few. The list is nowhere near complete... As you can see our music policy is about as diverse as it gets... www.brick-yard.com for full listings
• brickyard
• The Brickyard.Acoustic nites at Fats and the Source
• Brickyard
• The Brickyard has some bands. However can I say that Jah Wobble was a pile of unmitigated donkey excrament. There is also the Sands Centre that does the occasional 'chart' act, plus a few times a year there are gigs at the Tithe Barn.
• Sands centre
• What about the Legendary Stars and Stripes, is "Big Les" Griffiths still around. How many bands played here in the 80's (Punk bands, Psychobilly bands, Ska bands, and even Chart stuff, Dr And The Medics played there the week "spirit in the sky" went to NO 1 in the charts,and, Sigue Sigue Sputnik played one of their first live shows there, the list is massive, and i was there for all of 'em) we could sure do with a few more like that around the country
• The Brickyard, fisher st.
• brickyard - they had tom mcrae, thats about the only good band for the next 7 years
• the brickyard, all ages, jacksons
• The Brickyard obv
• Well the market hall was always the place, my first gig was Motorhead there - sure I was deaf for 3 days afterwards.
• The Brickyard
• Brickyard pretty crap.
• The coach house has the whole folk music stuff. But a few young local bands show up sometimes. It's class for parties for the more babyfaced of us.
• The Sands centre is all i can think of, but even they get hardly any decent bands. Newcastle or Manchester is the nearest option to see a decent band.
• The Sands Centre Bitts Park The Bandstand (am I getting desperate or what!!!)
• the richmond, the wheel (sometimes), the page (sometimes),
• I don't really know what Fat Fingers is classed as but I love it there all the same.
• Richmond is good if you like that sort of thing
• the sands claims to support top act, but the only ones i can see are the receptionists tits
• Wheel tends to have good bands. The page has a nice variety to musical performances.
• Bitts Park - they make good music there of a Sunday night! Hello sailor!
• The Sands Centre PAH, more acoustics in a cows arse!
• Don't you just love it when you're walking through town on a saturday, rough as fuck from the night before and they are there with their brass bands, bagpipes quick get me to mcdonalds where i can que for 15 minuites and grab a microwazzled burger
• Jacksons,Popular with students and goths.Local bands and some well known bands play and not a bad club either if you don't mind sawdust and candles everywhere,cheep drinks aswell.
• Front Page,mostly indie bands and local bads,occasionaly has bigger well known bands such as Paul weller.Popular with students due to cheep drinks and moody atmosphear.Also a nightclub.
• the sands it's fuckin shit
• sands? The Richmond
• The coach house The mecury lounge The twisted wheel (Rock night)
• u 'avin a laff? The richmond & that's it
• WODERZ TUNEZ ROCK
• The Blues Club (1979-88)
• there is one or two but no bands play here Biddies is bollocks
• The Richmond is currently being refurbished and will re-open in september with a larger stage and a 1 am license. Hopefully they'll book more, better bands too.
• The Sands Centre
• The Richmond. Next to the Front Page/Jacksons. Used to be a poole hall. Bought up by the management of the Page and turned into a decent music venue. If you wan't to hear Carlisle's wannnabe bands as well as smaller established artists go there.

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Last updated: 2007-11-05