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Going Out in East Dereham, Norfolk*

East Dereham, Norfolk Clubs, Music Venues, Cinemas

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• if you dont like the fragrant and frankly to pissed to care "pit" dont go and leave room for us peeps who actually thrive on the place! (namely young parents who cant afford to go out much, and when we, do WE LAP UP EVERY DRUNKEN MINUTE OF IT! DEREHAM IS GREAT WHEN YOUR DESPERATE FOR A SOCIAL LIFE AWAY FROM THE POXY TWEENIES! LONG LIVE BEERHAM!
• the upstairs downstairs.....the most crappest place in the world!!!!full of remarkably young squaddy lovin mother fu@#kers!!!once experienced you will feel dirty both mentally and physicly.AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!
• splitz nightclub in Dereham is just one of those places where you have to go and visit. Thursday nights upstairs is good with the happy hour at only £1 a drink, time to have a few then. The DJ is good as well. Then friday and saturday nights downstairs, what can i say.....its quite good. The music downstairs on a saturday night is the best tho with a variety of tunes hosted by DJT, check him out, he's cute and plays good tunes. Give it a try anyway.
• tee hee hee the downstairs is still going tho so its probably worth looking in for the nostalgia value. After reading this it seems it has changed not a t all.
• Want to get beaten up, go to the downstairs, some of 'OUR' boys(squaddies) will happily facilitate you.
• The upstairs downstairs, and Chameleon aboce the bowling alley Strikes.
• New place, above the Strikes bowling called Chameleon. The guys are currently offering 1.50 pints between 9 and 10 30pm. Open til 1 at the moment. Very small, but nicely decorated. Good call, give them your support. It's the only good late night bar in town. DJ's are good too. Forget the downstairs people. Go here!
• Again the "pit" is the ONLY club in dreary Dereham where you will find young men adn old women, or should that be the other way around?
• The pit is a gud place 4 a laff and meetin them lush squadies, wich i do...well cum on its sumfin 2 do if u cant get sumwhere...plus its the m8s that make it a laff not the sticky carpets is it...stop ur complainin!
• The pit is great, especially wen it cums 2 meetin sum lush squadies...well cum on its sumfin 2 do init. Thn the plough of course.
• Ah! Norfolk's finest. The Downstairs, The Shit Pit, The PIT, Upstairs Downstairs, The Ninth Circle of Hell, once The Aurora Boreallis? (why), Splits - you may have thought the name implies a venue for private dances in exchange for a tenner. Rest assured - none of the 'ladies' down Splits will charge you a penny. A place where you can hold polite conversation with men and women of our special forces and occasionaly induge in the partaking of some physical banter. The chance to listern in on a mix of multi-national dialects. Oh the carpets, what more can one say but as the night goes on your ability to move becomes less and less to the point you piss where you stand! Warm glasses, no ice and the underbar heaters, the charm of the butch barstaff (female only) and the one, the ONLY, thank god, DJ Sparky contribute to an experince many can never forget. They try but once you've experienced it you have to go back just to make sure entrance to the Devil's Karzi does exsists. I challenge anyone. ps The fact it's open 'till 2 is great. Entrance criteria - TO BE AS PISSED AS POSSIBLE.
• Downstairs??? Upstairs??? Can I see a club here
• will ever1 stop dissin the downstairs, its the best place to go in dereham at that time. it mite not be brilliant but its a laugh, somwhere 2 dance and pull!
• The upstairs downstairs are they the stickiest carpets in history.The music is pre fred flintstone.
• Well it would be stereotypical answer of Downstairs (i'm taking my boyfriwnd from Edinburgh there, luckjy chap), But to be honest you can not beat me beatboxing outside the Florin
• smelly carpet club.
• Oh you mean the shit pit (upstairs/downstairs) the worst place you could ever go to, don't do it!
• isn't there only one? Downstairs will always be downstairs
• Upstairs-Downstairs was the old name - just is NOT worth it - you want clubs? Go to Norwich
• Good place to find the local tallent and pull!! you know what i mean !! THE DOWN STAIRS IS THE PLACE TO BE !!! WICKED !!!!!
• Well upstairs,downstairs is the only thing & i would not pay to go there it's to hot & cramped.
• Only Splits (used to be called upstairs downstairs) The only thing that can be said for it is that it's a late drink. (If you are despererate!
• the plough and splitz
• splitz , plough
• DownStairs, Horrific meat market, full of vile diseases
• Forget dance music, for a real wild night, join Dereham YFC. See local posters for details. of meetings, discos & nights out.
• Enterprise Hall has closed down. Downstairs, under the cinema, is fine for the pre-pubescent party goer.
• Upstairs Downstairs is the one
• Enterprise Hall (Friday nights). Excellent night out can be had at Churchills club in Market Place, membership free, pints of Caffreys £1.70 followed by a cheap curry, ideal for non skateboarders and people too old for the Enterprise hall. Good place to go to to hear RAF stories is the Wellington wine bar.

Live Music Venues

• Cherrytree rocks it out on a saturday nite,best pub in town, the football team aint half bad too!(know what i mean girls!)
• memorial hall used to be great years ago, Cherry tree now
• Norwich, waterfront UEA, etc. Janels have gigs, and when there are small bands playing, you'll no doubt see the flyers.
• The Phoenix have good nites, no battle of the bands venues as of late. I suppose the pub next to teh Cherry Tree has an edgier music scene which has much nicer people in it.
• The Cherry Tree is very friendly despite its reputation as bein a bit of a rockers retreat. Pheonix also has good bands sometimes.
• Dereham Jazz Society at Aldiss Park every Wednesday please note change of e-mail address rvnelson@freedon255.com
• precint, dnt no who he is but all the grunges sit in a circle and sing happy sing songs??
• Please delete Jazz on Thursdays at the Millwrights Arms. this finished over a year ago. The club has reformed as the Dereham Jazz Society and has live mainstream jazz every Wednesda at 8.30pm at Aldiss Park (football club) Norwich Road, East Dereham. e-mail rvnelson@bluecarrots.com for a gig list
• THE CHERRY TREE???
• For jAzz it would ahve to be the Millwright sin Toftwood every Thursaday night. Blues is every Friday night in the Kings Head and The Phoenix in the middle of town has bands such as The Lee Vasey Band and others that nobody has really heard of. The best place for contemporary music would ahve to be the Waterfront, UEA and Fat Paulys in Norwich which is about 30 mins by bus.
• Dereham Folk Club, 3rd Wednesday every monthe in the George Hotel. Good beer, good singing and good music.
• the labour club has gone no where left
• The Toftwood Millright has good music events sometimes.
• Cherry Tree pub has great bands on. Recently had Cellar Blues band - fabulous!
• just the 2 clubs
• pheonix
• Travel a little and try the Fox & Hounds at Lyng (abt 6 miles)... they have everything from Rock to Jazz... most Saturday nights and often on a Wednesday. Food's good as well..... 6 real ales on pump all kept great.
• The local band D.R.Y. are always looking for gigs contact Paul Godfrey in Swanton Morley
• The Pheonix occationally

Cinemas

• Are you people who say that Dereham cinema is useless and that you prefer to go to Norwich for films, happily spending money on petrol, parking and an increased admission fee, the same people who will complain that "Dereham is s!@# and there's nothing to do here" when said cinema is forced to close because of lack of support? Thought so.
• Prince William travelled miles to see a film here - Belinda Aldiss must be gutted she missed her finest hour.
• In recent years Dereham Cinema's most famous claim is that it is good enough for Prince William. Belinda Aldous must be gutted.
• Icemina at the EcoTech Centre in Swaffham. Every Friday night 7.30pm nice friendly cinema in a beautiful building situated behind Waitrose supermarket Swaffham also a Licensed bar.
• Now 4.90 adults & 2.90 kids!!! My telly is almost as big as the screen - I could make a fortune!!
• hollywood cinema :-its ok if you can stand the bass from the pub underneath
• Its a shame the fleapit is no more , that was a place of memories. Havn't been to the new one
• Dereham Hollywood Cinema, nice little quiet place...emphasis on small, probably better to go to Ster Century or somewhere in Norwich.
• Well the cinema here is intersting - Prince William went there don;t you know made huge news in teh papers for like a month. Wouldn't go there, has no student discount and is much better in Norwich
• Hollywood is the cheapest you will ever find, £3 anytime with a goldcard!
• I went there once to see "Star Wars"... fell asleep.
• dereham cinema is a rip off tiny screens and way too expensive, sh#t refreshments
• I never go to dereham cinema, i always go to norwich to see films
• my house is bigger than this place, iv lived in dereham all my life and iv only been there TWICE
• Hollywood Cinema has been done up + has three screens - at the mo, rumoured to be after freak accident with falling bits of building coming into contact with pedestrians, cinema is covered in scaffolding
• We have a three screen cinema called Hollywood cinemas. It has recently been refurbished therefore it seems quite new. It usually receives films a couple of weeks after their preview date.
• the back row is the place to have a snog!!!! and maybe a quickie! all the time i have never ended up watching the film!
• Don't bother hard seats make your bum numb, honest
• Park outside the door for free....don't waste time and effort going to Norwich where you have to pay more to see the same films! Be grateful you have a cinema on your doorstep.
• The old flea pit has gone & been replaced by Holy-wood, 3 screen but two the size of your average living room.
• dereham cinema? hahaha. very poor. dont go there, try norwich
• hollywood. costs £4.60 crap
• One, the odeon - playing some trash, to pile upon the existing misery!
• Just having a cinema is dood for a place like this. After all, where else can you hear the soundtrack to three films all at once. It's fun!
• Hey! Dereham cinema isn't *that* bad! Okay, it isn't the latest in 20 screen multiplexes, but at least a little market town in the middle of Norfolk *has* a cinema! If it wasn't there it would be missed! Speaking as a local who has a young son - Dereham cinema can be a great venue on a wet Sunday afternoon in the middle of Winter!
• Again, just go to Norwich!
• We USED to have a rollerskating rink but that was taken away, oh and the cinema is not worth the £4:50
• There will always be somewhere better than Dereham cinema
• Hollywood Cinema - recently rebuilt - 3 screens - small - CHEAPER THAN NORWICH. BOWLERS, a bowling place (surprise, surprise) is near the police station. There is a boxing club on the main car park.
• not for £4, or has it gone up?avoid it like the plague!

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