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The Local Music Scene in Rochdale, Greater Manchester*

Rochdale, Greater Manchester Record Shops and Venues

Record Shops

• It has to be HMV, the best thing to hit roch-e-vegas, then there is Music Zone where you can get your cheap-ish tunes from, I kid thee not
• Manchester! Manchester! manchester! wot a selection hmv, virgin megastores, music zone and loads of underground shops!
• MUSIC ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Rocks off is the best! great prices and great range of music, you can find some really obscure stuff, dirt cheap!
• Bonecats Formely Dr Rocks dont buy from him , mended my amp gave me a price for a job over the phone then doubled it, when i went to pick it up and pretended he didnt give me a price Being a Liar isnt good for business.
• Just got a new HMV..however Music Zone is loads cheaper
• HMV simple as
• dont bother wit rochdale go mani theres a far bigger selection
• hmv sounds shit but i've got some good buys
• Rocks Off on drake street have a good backlog and some rare bootlegs. Always worth selling your CD's there when you're short on a few quid.
• MUSIC ZONE on Yorkshire street. thats it!
• well there is only 1 record shop in rochdale now that specializes in music, videos, dvd's etc n thats called music zone, it is really cheap so get yourslef there
• Where'd Andy's Records go??? And what happened to Our Price Guess that leaves Music zone!
• Bradleys music in Rochdale was the place to go in the 60/70s. There was a little record shop up Yorkshire street, above another with music booths in to listen to the latest 45s anyone rember the name?
• BLACK SEDDAN(FLEECE ST}

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• Pacific wot a place gr8 4 a surfer chick like me
• Shout
• Liquid Rock is really good now!! top night out there £5 to get in. Old Skool also played on a Friday and Saturday..Honeyz is ok but dont go if your chlostraphobic! Dali Bar is really cheap..however not as good as Litten Tree
• Bar Mystique. it's above the flying horse. fridays tend to be lots of motown / northern soul and saturdays tends to be a mix of current dance tunes mixed with 80's
• I am overflowing with Rochdale nostalgia. Xanadu's was clearly THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!
• Does anyone still miss Xanadu's? Those were good days.
• having visited fraggle(liquid rock) these past few months i have noticed these last two weeks a new dj (come back old dj all is forgiven). if you like someone waffling over your fav dance tunes this is the place for you if not i recommend else where (but not chicago rock (cheesy)) places i recemmend are sol viva (bury) or visit halifax many good clubs there.
• Rochdale club scene is toss methinks. Xanadus burnt down thank God and the little munchkins migrated to the nile and nemesis when they could sneak in. There are no house, hip-hop or trance clubs. get over to Manchester.
• The club scene in Rochdale has really gone up! The Nile is a really good night,( VK vodka 2 4 1!) however it doesnt really get busy until 11-12. Theres also Sinclairs, Chocolate (chocolate monkeys, mmm! youve got to have 1 of them!) mangos, litten tree, flying horse, the regal moon (really cheap drinks in here, 1.09 for a bottle!) Thers also funnies, if you like the gay scene, thats a funny pub aswel. Chicago rock is for the older type, and then you have Liquid Rock which is for over 21's. Theres a bus that runs from near Yates on a friday up to nemesis, it runs every 30 mins and even brings you back when your wrecked out of your head! despite what people say, you canhave a really buzzin nite and the nemesis, aswel as a really bad 1! Thursdays and Fridays are usually really good. the most you wil pay to get in is 6 quid
• Wouldn't bother! Hit the Sheaf in Newhey!! Kareoke on a Friday night! Wicked!
• I just wanna say Xanadus R.I.P, I think I speak for everyone when I say god bless that club, complete tradegy that it was ever shut down!Will never let anyone say anything bad about that club!! Imagine velvet walls, sticky floors, toilets with no locks on, people walking about with like 6 bottles of vodka source before 11 cause they were only a quid, people who looked like 13, ahhh those were the days! Nemesis, ok but over rated. Nile, boring as but maybe Iam biased cause a ex bf of mine works there, Liquid Rock for old people and people trying to pull old people. Cant think of anywhere else even worth mentioning.
• Hamer Non Working Mens Club.
• Tiffanys dissapeared about 15 years ago..........and Nell Rackers Burnt Down over 20 years ago!!!
• Xanadu's ... baby-faced clientelle and a really dodgy selection of music. Nemesis - excellent. Massive building with great decor. Top live performances from leading dance artists (recent performances inclue Yomanda and Alice DJ) Best on a friday or saturday. A tip for the wise, get a coach in from Oldham or Ashton as it only costs a fiver which includes a coach there and back and entry into the club whereas normal entry is £6.
• TIFFANYS,NELL RACKERS

Live Music Venues

• Transport Club for all your new wave of old scool AC-CD
• rochdale? decent bands? ha! nah oj the backdoor project is on near the bus station on some fridays its really good for meeting up with new people. the music range is from metal, alternative rock to emo. its well woth £2.50.
• transport club- drake street, liquid rock and drakes on a tuesday, night and day-manc, academies- manc, jilly's-manc, MEN-manc, appollo- manc, roadhouse- manc
• Transport club for sweaty long haired old man music and oulderhill school for punk at the backdoor
• Bruce Spiringsteen man - where did he go when the £1 cinema got shut down then turned into a bingo hall then a Wetherspoons?
• there's the backdoor project at oulder hill college, and the dog and partridge in whitworth, not forgetting the mucky duck on drake street
• Academy and mani uni
• The Backdoor in rochdale is a decent venue but the owners will screw you if you don't have backing. They claim to be a local project but use local bands to provide the audience for outside bands who headline and get paid worthwhile money. Kick Out the Jams was a great night while it lasted and sometimes the Transport Club has a mixed band night.
• Chocolate, Pacific, Mango's, Litten Tree, Cicago Rock, Nile (same as above really)
• Go into Manchester! Unless you like the Meatloaf wannabe in The Fish
• Pineapple, Howard Street.
• Mucky Duck Pub, Drake St Rochdale transport Club on Fridays, Baron St Liquid Rock, off drake St

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