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Going Out in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear*

Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear Clubs, Music Venues, Cinemas

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• Got to be YIdols in whitley! or Beach (but its the same place really) from www.yidols.co.uk website
• ritteee wellalot of u think whitleys a dive full of pissheads... fair anuff! but ppl come frm all 2 go clubbin in whitley n lets face it thers not a lot else whitley offers (not 2 mention how out of date sum things on this site is) but ppl think whitley is full onf snobs coz once upon a time it wer posh n ur jus provin tht ppl ere r up thm selves which tbh isnt tru so seriously get off whitley :)
• best club in whitley has gotta b idols or deep. havana is good shaggies is the worst place ever!! so is the firestation it is so borin. vi's is canny nowt spesh tho!
• Stay away from Whitley unless you want twats from Yorkshire and Scotland on hen nights and stag parties showing just why Whitley deserves to be on shows like Booze Britain. Head down the coast to Tynemouth to stay away from the total morons or ideally head into Newcastle - its really not far and theres loads of bars and clubs, some of which arent full of jokers.
• Y-idols in whitley bay is the place 2 be on a thur fri and sat night it is the hottest night club in town and has women and men dancers and the women dress in hot pants and on a sat night there are free burgers and chips 4 all
• THE HAIRY LEMON!
• Pier 39 is kool and the black DJ is one hot f*c*er and he is not a shit DJ and He is not a twat. anyone who says he is is just an ugly themselves and need a life.
• whitley is just a good night out for a laugh even if the music not ur fave u cant fail but dance to the cheese played in idols and the 70s style in deep on ladies night!
• DEEP
• Blue its alreet cant quite rememba though its the last place i go on a night doon whitley!
• best ones..Prague, havana, blue, 42nd street and easy street! worst...shaggies and rio's! just dont go there unless u like crap music, ugly people and people who have no personality!
• i would not really know about dance music dont like it. however if you are after a good time there are nice pubs.and if you arnt into dance and are under age stage door in newcastle is great.
• Mrs. Buist's lunchtime netball club
• Go To TOWN the clubs in whitley are for charvers all in their little Burrbery and Ben Shermen checky shirts (Classy) not to mention the average age seems to be about 12 when your wandering through whitley on a night between pubs full of great conversation like What the f*uck are you looking? at and Can you go into the offy and bye me sum tabs Like! The answers are a chava and no go home your parents will be worried!
• On the seafront
• Bank Holidays are bizzeeeeeee in Whitley but be sure to take your water wings and inflatables if you expext to be caught short in Deep. The Lazeee Pig just reopened with a new face its now called the Beach and is V. expensive, Sylvesters is much better, prices are reasonable and its a cool place but its due a refurbishment.
• Spent Xmas Eve in Deep. Had a great time until midnight when the music went seriously downhill. Records by Black Lace don't even get played at wedding discos anymore, so why did the DJ stick them on? As usual, the place was packed but there was no atmosphere that I could tell... I'm glad to be out of Whitley bay now :-)
• down market for the less intellectual. desperate for recognition to boost tourism and profit, but all clubs and pubs aiming at the wrong markets.
• again, no where good in whitley bay so head for newcastle
• Deep has gone as bad as everywhere else now - the DJ used to be so nice to people all the time but now he just takes the p*** out of everyone on his microphone just like all the other whitley djs. I was totally offended when he said he'd only play robbie williams if i gave him a blow job, before saying he wouldn't let my dirty mouth anywhere near his c*ck anyway, so no dice. that ruined my night. Other people might be able to take it but not me. whitley bay is shite and full of ignorant p*ssheads who couldnt care about having a good time. drinking capital of the north east indeed. fecking shoite.
• WHO HUNG THE MONKEY????GEORDIE CHARVERS
• scotts, bar oz, 42nd street, deep, hairy lemon, prague, idols, jimmy'z, rios, time, loadz!!!!!the dome
• Rockshots on Friday for Indie/Alternative Night
• How, how, goin' down Whitley is a WICKED thing to do, liiiiike....
• pier 39
• dance musinc clubs suck
• The shieling
• Sly-vestas for random generations of degenerates. head to Baja in the toon on a monday night for large numbers of fit and loose, highly generate young girls.
• Pier 39 is the best in Whitley Bay, Not every one can get in deep as it is over 21s only. Scotts is full over old charvas beginning to relize that they should have actually went to school and everywhere else it full of slappers, hen/stag nights and old people. If you want to have a decent night out go to PIER 39
• Deep Club in Rex Hotel .seafront. bit pricy to get in but well worth it. bar staff are a bit of ok, glass collectors have nice bums, doormen always at the ready for any propersition
• the places to visit in whitley bay on a thursday night cause of the extremely sexy 70's dancers in particular SIMON PICKERELL is DEEP!!!if you prefer mixing with children from nursery and coffin dodgers then we recommend..."PRAGUE" this dump provides good entertainment...the dancers HA HA HA HA!! now the most fantastic place to visit when you really want a decent night out in whitley bay is..."SCOTTS" this..um..classy venue offers the punters a taste of chava life mixed with minging men who oggle at anything with breasts!!
• The report I've seen here is rubbish! The Royal is a dive full of slappers and is known throughout the region as such. Deep is ok for both clientele and music. The whole area is much better than described for a good "party" night out. The bar not to go to, as described, is probably Rio's and is accurate. LOTS of others to choose from.
• Deep Club is the only one worth considering. Sylvester's (now the only other club open til the 'late' hour of 1 am) is too bad to even contemplate. It's quite cheap to get p*ssed in Deep these days (£3.50 for double Smirnoff & Solstis!!). Music in Deep is mainly housey though trance fans will be disappointed with the music policy. NO TRANCE! Personally I thought it was really good to hear new house SONGS as well as older anthems from the 90s. One thing is their end of the night song "that's amore" by dean martin - WHY? I don't know what's going on there. Time to call a halt on that. Time bar next door does it too so maybe it's a company policy :-(
• Yes used to be the good 'ol Rex drinks dungeon, complete with shellsuit tracka bottoms and ellesse shirt dress code situation. Grab a granny night at the Royal and thats it i'm afraid. Reports of Whitley being a cultural drinking mecca are well wide of the mark.
• Deep is prob da best
• There is one bar that I advise u not to go in. It is between Pier 39 and 42nd Street!!!!!!!
• nowhere cool, although the Royal hotel has an excellent grab a granny night every friday.
• Rockliffe Rugby club where the bar staff are of high quality and are always there to help in any way as long as you are polite and aren't underage (to drink)
• The Royal, guaranteed a top quality night out with plenty of 1st class totty.
• Fast Eddies has now closed down and turn into a music venue. Drinks are now more expensive and the atmosphere is definatly not as good.
• Common misconception: the North East (eg. Whitley or Newcastle) has a wicked nightlife. Bollocks to that!!!!
• new place called DEEP should really be called CRAP. Dance music does not really exist in a backward shithole. The kittiwake is the only place with at least a decent juke box and a quality atmosphere avoiding the scum that venture into the heart of the town.
• Whitley was a poo place concerning clubs as Sly's just played the odd Ibiza hit and then it was back to good old Billie and Steps!! Now there is Time bar and Deep, which are brand new and look kany class. Pier 39 is good but the black DJ who is constantley whipping his kit off, is a right ugly twat and loves himself too much. His dancers are so thin it is unbelievable and should get some food down them!! The dancer with the brown shortish hair dances the smae thing over and over again and I'm sure she's on drugs or something coz she looks like she's having an eppilectic fit when 'struttin' her stuff'
• Quite a few good ones but usually people end up whiteying in the streets
• You will have to go to The frontier (Batley) Club Barcelona (Birstall)or Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield All on your doorstep.
• Bogart's is no more , it has now been refurbished and has gone up market , it is now Jimmy's Bar Open to 12am , There is another bar under the same ownership about to open and a Night club to follow shortly ( with a 2am licence )
• Go to Newcastle (or even further maybe?) Whitley Bay is good for -slappers -cheap beer -fights
• Light House Club, it is on the whitley bay Caravan Park. Cool compares, good bands, excellent bar staff. Decent prices for drinks etc.
• All terrible - Infested with charvers trying to look hard/cool but failing miserably - People in the know leave em to it and head for the clubs of Newcastle ten minutes up the road
• "Sylvesters-gotta'dance" calls itself a club, about the best of the bunch, more like "Sylvesters-gotta'be stottin'"!
• Not much to choose from at the moment but Bogarts (underneath the Rex Hotel) and Sylvesters are about as good as you're going to get!

Live Music Venues

• Porters at Tynemouth Metro Station, look out for GOACA, Excellent
• avalon w/bay fat-ox w/bay berkly tavern w/bay
• The Bedroom Above, right next door to The Firestation, live new music is back in Whitley Bay. Fresh all genre music, friendly atmosphere, the place to be to see the next breakthrough acts. Every other Thursday
• In Whitley? Dont make me laugh. Head to Toon mate.
• ERRRm the Band stand?
• that ymca thing had one ages ago i remember, some perform on the links every year too.
• DEEP
• Whitley Bay High School (Twixt) They even played @ the fish quay festival the other day WOW!!!
• none in whitley im afraid. black friars is the nearest.
• wHITLEY BAY HIGH SCHOOL HALL
• radio 1 raod show about every 10 years, its on the links, it pisses off the the charves becasuse they cant get mortal there
• the dome, whitley bay playhouse, monkseaton high school has lots of music concerts too
• The Tyne Bar occasionaly
• The dome have a rock night every sat. £2 entry, great pits
• The Dome is good for "serious" music, plus it has a bar and also Prague has occasional music as well as the Tap and Spile pub.
• The Dome - not as bad as it sounds. Cheap beer, and no connections to the Millenium Dome.
• Deep is the only one I know of - they have Sticky fingers there on the last Sunday of every month aswell as live acts every wednesday night.
• Played my first gig in ye old Surfers,,lord what a dive that shed was. Still good for gangster related stories and the like, we saw fatal disease play there one week and they were the purest indication of how lame whitley's music scene was. Jonah - now there's a thought...anyone remember them??
• The dome! The best queen and T-Rex 'tribute' bands u will ever hear 8not at all what i expected of the conversion*
• The Dome gets a few bands in, Deep regularly has them in on a weekend
• Newcastle student union is da best
• spanna dome - but it's over 25's so they can f*ck right off
• Le Dome (not mr homers heed)
• Fast Eddies a very small venue with crap bands.
• The Riverside in Newcastle has just closed. Taken over by some cheese corp.
• there are none but you can catch the odd twat attempting to dj steps and a dance mix of boyzone. The other end of the scale is sad wankers doing rock covers...badly!
• The Frontier has Live bands like Shiwaddywaddy Black Lace and the Muldoon Brothers
• Dunes bar - owned by Sting's brother plays good stuff
• Apart from Fast Eddies gaff, pubs such as Kitty O'Shea's, Tap & Spile sometimes have the "odd" band or artiste(hahahaha) on!
• Fast Eddies sometimes has bands and has someone on decks most nights.
• Zoo bar, Station Hotel sometimes, skatepark every Saturday night.

Cinemas

• The Playhouse show some, but the seats aren't too comfortable. They're not bad mind, and it is cheap! ^_^
• Playhouse? doubt it mate, get on the bus to the UCI at Silverlink.
• playhouse and the UCI in silverlink
• Theres used 2 b a good 1 (with rats) till they knocked it into flats but mayb if u go an ask nicely 2 the residents they might let u pick a film in their house!!
• the ICU cinema in the silverlink, full of gorgeous lads and ur guaranteed 2 pull! especally on a wednesday night when its cheapas chips to get in!
• there is the playhouse on marine avenue if you want to see something you have probably already seen in a seat that is less than comfortable. however i recomend you get on the 308 and go to the uci silverlink.
• If only...
• There was an ABC Cinema but now they are flats. You have to go to UCI in the Silverlink now!
• WHITLEY BAY PLAYHOUSE
• UCI like @ the sliverlink, that fucking rocks!
• em, no, haven't seen one
• HAHAHAHAA no
• only the Playhouse, the closests UCI on the Silverlink business park, theres plenty in Newcastle
• Silverlink (UCI cinema) is now the nearest cinema to Whitley Bay. Very nice facility which has returned to the older style 'banked seating'.
• tHE uci cos i work there
• the UCI at silverlink co i work there
• THERE'S NONE, now the ABC in monkseaton has closed down. Except from the playhouse but all the films shown there are all crackly, poor colour and the sound and picture quality is poor.
• Whitley Bay Playhouse is a theatre and occasional cinema. Cheap, but not all that comfortable.
• THE COLLISEUM,,THE REGAL ,,,THE ESSOLDO ,,, OHHHHHHH OK THEN GO TO THE SILVERLINK
• The canon/classic/old peoples flats
• Silverlink
• not a chance- they've all closed down
• The Playhouse is the only cinema type thing left as the ABC closed down. The nearest proper one is at the silverlink 5 miles away.
• A.B.C monkseaton. Canny for a cheap film with a few mates. Much cheaper than other cinemas in Newcastle. Although it's only got 2 screens it still seems to show all the major blockbusters. Has a kids morning on Saturdays.
• There's the Playhouse for films that are already out on video now, its cheap, and you get what you pay for. There's the ABC in Monkseaton aswell - that's along the same lines but the films are more up-to-date
• Showcase (Opposite Club Barcelona)
• ABC Cinema, Monkseaton. Fucking Shite
• Theatre (The Playhouse) that is also a basic cinema
• The playhouse next to the Spanish city is more like something out of the fifties - Good for the oldies who can get a pint whilst the adverts are on (Yes a bar). All helped along by a nice little old lady who tinkles a bell to tell you the movie is about to start. Don't go looking to see new releases or expect great quality - High tech it aint!
• The Whitley Bay Playhouse is an excellent venue for flicks, theatre, shows or gigs. None of your Warner Multiplex Village marketing type crap here. Quite simply an amazingly comfortable, loads of atmosphere, trad., back to the good old days, type of venue. Better than the restPurple
• ABC cinema in Monkseaton is good for the Hollywood tat. Otherwise Whitley Bay Playhouse occasionally shows films.

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