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Going Out in Ashford, Kent*

Ashford, Kent Clubs, Music Venues, Cinemas

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• LIQUID! and if you aint old enough use someonmes ID that looks nothing like u! every1 else does.
• Bar three zero is always good, source bar as well and bar 27 can be a good bet if you're that end of town (personally I don't rate Undecided). Proper club wise, Liquid is still the only place really work going to at the mo but with Remix opening who knows! M20 was good but isn't so much now-biggest problem always has been and will be it's location. Plenty of pubs open late hours so there's always choice or head out to the villages for a decent atmosphere..PS really if you're over 21 you shouldn't be going to the fat fidler over the weekend..ever.
• Theres a new club opening up in ashford kent. the old kudos nightclub, its under new ownership and managment and will be opening up as a funky house venue called The reMIX. most of their djs are from london so this should be one hell of a venue. Personally i think its well over due we need a club for proper clubbers. Does sound to be quite promising from what i hear so far.
• The Source Bar and Three Zero are the places to go. Good music and OK atmospheres(esp 3 0). Undecided is hetting better and the Man of Kent is so much better than the County,nearly as cheap, and plays music!!!! Always a bonus. But lets just say, Liquid on a thursday is great, but just don't bother going there on a saturday. You queue for hours, pay a rediculous amount to get it, and it is a shit end to the night. Just stay away!!!!!
• THE PRINCE ALBERT-ASHFORD- I HEAR IS TO BE TAKEN OVER BY NEW OWNER ...I HEAR ITS GONNA KICK WITH GOOD FOOD DRINK AND ATMOSPHERE, GOT TO BE SEEN
• the fat fiddlers karaoke on a saturday nite iz alwayz pumpin!
• M2O IS OK
• Ashford Town Football Club Rock Nights for a proper night out.
• All pants. full of pikey birds. They wear earings that look like dolphins jump through them/parrots hang in them/they could stick their arms up and through them. Pubs stay open late! Prince Albet has Live music late and Oranges (IS NOT A GAY BAR CONTRARY TO PIKEY RUMOURS it is frequented by people who appreciate REAL music listned to in its rawest form NOT THROUGH 2 15 WATT SPEAKERS AND A 500 WATT SUB IN THE BACK OF A CRAP NOVA!!!!!!
• Liquid & Life Night Club Ashford Kent - Very Classy still maintaining an edge, but for how long??? Club Kudos is opening in ashford and despite popular gossip is not going to be a strip club! (Damm it!) Suppose to be what NV was in the beginning... M20 Nightclub - Seriously going down hill and will be interesting to see when Ashford has 2 town centre clubs again...
• M20 in ASHFORD Has to be the worst nightclub to visit full of Pikes and the staff aren't much better they are rude, arrogant and think their GOD. Liquid is much better classier, cheaper and generally nicer atmosphere. If anyone is to visit ashford avoid m20 at all cost and try some of the new funky bars in town then down to liquid to finish the night of. FANTASTIC!!!!!
• Yeah right.....some good free parties in the area sometimes (usually in fields in the summer)
• wel i gota say the unda 18's thing @ liquid life is a good laugh, it gives us all summit to do n a chance to meet up wit sum peeps. but wen u got all the chavs that come along dripping in gold....wel actualy it puts a downa on things but one plus point is u can rip the piss outta em. dus make me wonder how the rude girls r there wuda thought they should be at home with their kids after all most of em have at least 1!
• There was three. There's now two. NV is no more. It's Liquid/Life or M20. Hope NV reopens as it was a really good building for a club (4 floors). Ashford can support 3 clubs with 60,000+ people.
• the best club in ashford is chess club aftr skool!!! cos liquid and M20 and all the rest r just bein taken over by ruud B's!!! sup' fenna!!!
• Liquid Life is the best in Ashford if you dont mind getting there early and your over 18 if not you can always go to M20 or NV theyre always desperate for people these days, oh when will they learn the Flour Mills is the ONLY place to house a venue in Ashford, as for The Trap is it still open????? think not! I dont know maybe Liquid is a bit to classy for the yobs of Ashford
• if your into gold clad young pikey girls, then by all means ashford's clubs are the way to go. If they dont like you they will beat you round the head with their diamond set gold clowns or maybe just slap you with one of their dirty loafers. on the other hand, if their ring road racing boyfriends catch you trying it on with one of their "birds" (or trouts), then it a fist full of sov's in ya face boyeee.
• Liquid, tho it is bad i seem to pick up free tickets so i go. NV they all seem to be 14, yet as a 19 year old who doesnt look young, i still get ided, but the music is better on thursdays. no rock places.... at all.
• Just for info, we now have 3 nightclubs!!
• M20 - the complete and utter biggest shithole i've eva been too!!! The lager is shit and the drinks too over priced. The best place too go and get drunk and have a top nite out is Liquid. Drinks are betta, the music is up2date and the birds are much,muuch fitter, as well as the bar staff! Oh baby!!!!!!!
• Cales has recently reopened after refurbishment as Liquid. Still as crap as Cales though.
• hhmm..im gonna have to mention m20 nightclub nxt to cinweorld. has to be the best club in ashford,playin decent music but ridiculous prices 4 drinks. full of pikeys!!but isn't everywhere in this dump town AKA TRASHFORD. Go in the county before for cheap drinks and dont bother goin early coz thats shite.Oh yer....go to liquid!!
• THE TRAP UNIT 1 COBBS WOOD IND EST BEHIND BONJOUR PARIE.THE ONLY PROPER DANCE VENUE IN ASHFORD WITH NO COMMERCIAL POP TUNES IN SIGHT,ALSO NO TROUBLE THERE JUST A GREAT VIBE WITH GOOD PARTY PEOPLE SO DONT BELIEVE THE LIES TRY IT YOU WILL LIKE IT
• new club the trap proper dance venue exellent music cobbs wood ind est brunswick rd ashford great atmosphere no trouble dont believe the lies
• any1 gets into the old flatties oh it gona be liquid lounge by the way
• hmm NV next to the station.. over 21's.. M20, but like the cinema a fekkin long treck. oh yeah.. and the cales that was.. gona be opening a new one.. cant rememeber the name?!
• No Style or class. The management seem to get confused about what night is the under 16s disco!
• M20 is a great night out. With a show stopper at midnight and the cage dancing you'll never notice the time pass you by. Drinks extremely expensive but that is the only bummer!! NV is also a great night out. Very well decorated and very classy but again too expensive. Why do these clubs insist on charging £3.50 for a bottle of alcopop??????
• The M20 night club os defenetly the only place to go clubing i ashford it has a wide range of misic,great djs and superb decore, the lighting must of cost millions. due to the bad standard of the other clubs in ashford they all seem to be closing down due to the bussyness of the M20 night club thefore reining supreame in ashford!!!!
• 1 cattle market (M20), 1 piggery (Cales), 1 for tossers (NV)
• either Cales, with Flatfoot Sams (full of really little chavs with big gold earrings and tiny tops), or the 2 new ones - NV and M20. I've not been to either of them yet though...
• M20 Nightclub an absolute corker
• Squarefoot Flaps, and Cales are a chavvy mecca. Someone was kicked to death outside there once.
• IT'S OFFICIAL CALES IS DEAD!!!!! Yep thats right Cales closed its doors for the last time on Sat night (26th May'01) After 14 Years as Ashfords only nightclub. As an ex-employee and a regular (and not a CHAV!!!) im going to miss those long nights of cheap drinks and distorted music, despite all its short comings one thing Cales did have in abundance was a great atmosphere and its a great loss to the town. Their are rumours that Cales is going have a refit but no ones too sure about that one. Hopefully someone will see the potential and buy it up and spend a bit of money on it and once again Cales can be a Great CLUB.
• dont go to cales or flatfoots they are both shit.
• cales post exams, thr best place to celebrate in style. NV full of over dressed image concious muppets.
• M20 Nightclub the best in kent!! Ne1 who don't like clubbin go there now then u will!!!
• M20 (its the shit)
• Well i cant stand dance music,but there is cales which is crap,NV will be open soon aswell as the m20 music stop
• THERE ARE NO CLUBS IN TRASHFORD STARLEYS BEDROOM IS BETTER THAN CALES MA BEAR..FAIR ONE
• Can't we have an alternative scene??
• That new club at the cinema is still a pile of bricks on the ground-obviously anyone who lives in Ashford would prefer that Cales was that way.
• Introducing the new Cales (and Flatfoot's) sport 'Clown Spotting'. It's easy and anyone can play. Simply arrive at Flatfoots/Cales when all the other Pubs Kickout (especialy The 'Chav' of Kent and The Country) and sit back. Those jewel encrusted Golden Clowns can be easily spotted around many a young Chav Girls neck. This (along with very large golden hoops through the ears) is the princable method of distingish gender amongst the Chav's of Ashford. The ladies can play a similar game which I like to call 'Sovs Ahoy'.
• Cales, Flatfoots and 2 new ones, one is being built out by the new cinema and one has opened by the inernational station (dont no there names tho!)
• I grew up in Ashford and its good to know that you can always rely on Cales for an 'entertaining' night out!!!
• Ha ha. Cales. Just look at the outside
• Cales - Avoid.
• Cales attracts very young looking girls who invariably get in,boys aren't so lucky,wonder why. Some dirty old men can be witnessed leering at the young girls once inside. Often violent incidents at closing time with people requiring hospitalisation.
• there are no clubs..cales doesn't count, it plays music but so does my granny. If you want proper music then e-mail tengocrew@hotmail.com for info on parties in the area and up and coming nights
• Some of my best nights out have been at Cales. Yes alot of people hate it, but if you`re looking for a real dance club then go to bloody London. If you`re going out with lots of mates for a good drink then go here.
• Cales is the only chice, but I'd rather set my hair alight and beat the flames ot with a sledgehammer! Get a video from blockbusters, and stay in, you'll thank me in the long run
• kemton manor 1980
• BROOKFIELD HALL ON BROOKFIELD RD
• Cales is bad, true, but if you go along with a lot of mates it can be bearable.
• There is Cales in Ashford which has undergone severe improvments in the last two years, trouble is no longer a problem and the service and politeness is second to none. They've also maxed the sound system and lights too! A great night out.
• The is only one club in Ashford and despite customer related problems in the past it has had new management and the service and quality has improved dramatically in the last two years and it is much better than local competition. A lot of changes lately (Including a maxed sound system!).
• Don't even bother with trying Cales, 'cos it's not worth it.....for info on the thriving underground party scene in the Ashford area e-mail neenjah@hotmail.com
• Cales. Bloody awful. Had a complete makeover from "Dusty's" as it was when I were a lad. Only thing that it kept was the fights in the car park.
• Agree with the person about Cales! It's rumored that another club is to be built soon on the site of 'Second Time Around' next to the station - maybe there is some hope after all! Cales OK if the backroom is open for trance/garage/house on Friday nights.
• Well, there is Cales, but it's more of a "Fight" club than a night club. Proper Cattle market, anyway. Lotsa under-age drinking. Hoped there would be competition from a new club by the station, but it seems the owners of Cales (Kingfisher Leisure) successfully lodged an objection at the planning stage.
• Just one bad (as in terrible) one: Cales (East Hill off Mace Lane)

Live Music Venues

• Homelands football ground
• Oranges is by far the best for live music- folk, indie, classic...check out the notices in.outside the pub for what's coming up. Prince Albet's OK and a few of the other pubs do one offs..best place to start if you want a deck free zone and a decent atmosphere is oranges though.
• most pubs have bands. then again there is always the worship band and youth band at my church, ashford christian fellowship. they are a well good band who play contemporary christian rock and worship.
• ORANGES have great live music every thurs and some concert-type nites with top class Americans, Australians and others. Great Blues and country. Occasional open mic nites for would-be superstars.
• downtown diner
• Three Zero on a sunday is a nice bar. When the owner's serving, the view in there can't get any better!!!!!
• THE PRINCE ALBERT-ASHFORD- I HEAR IS TO BE TAKEN OVER BY NEW OWNER ...I HEAR ITS GONNA KICK WITH GOOD FOOD DRINK AND ATMOSPHERE, GOT TO BE SEEN...I HEAR THE NEW OWNERS KNOW HOW TO PARTY AND HAVE ALOT OF EXPERIENCE
• Is ther anywhere where skater/grunger bois go ????...Like stripes in Folkestone. Ashford is just full of pubs and clubs wot about 16+ ppl //??
• the albions live bands on a sunday evening r toxic
• ThreeZero....have hosted nights with DJ luminaries such as (in no particular order): MYNC project (played on 6 decks, 2 mixers), Phil Charnock (Chibuku Shake Shake - Liverpool), DVJ Kriel (Radio 1), Natalie C (Pulse Radio), Nick Louisas (Silver Planet) and have accommodated fine local DJs on a regular basis such as JK, ReadyBreak and end.theory from the uber-phat Tengo Collective. As a venue, this place has done more for the dance scene in Ashford in 1 year than any crappy PAs by the latest flash-in-the-pan artist that the "big clubs" seem to. Emphasis firmly on music and a no-nonsense approach mean that attitudes are left at the door. Anyone who likes quality dance music could do far worse than checking this place out. Live music from bands on Sundays too.
• Ashford Rocks at Ashford Town Football Club.
• Who ever said that the Ashford scene doesn't supply any live music, can't be looking very hard. All around town you will find live music, whatever you're into. If you're into rock or alternative music, the best place at the moment is Homelands in Ashford. However, there are plentiful pubs and venues such as The Star; which provide music on a friday and the Down Town Diner which hosts gigs that are organised by small recording labels, or indeed the bands themselves. Geez.
• Prince Albert. Oranges. Used to be The castle and the Vic gone now tho.
• Live Bands at Oranges Pub always a good laugh
• ORANGES, ORANGES, ORANGES have great live music every Thursday - check out their 'listening nights' (usually a small charge on the door) when they have world-class musicians you won't hear anywhere else around and nowhere as cheaply! Stop moaning about no live music. Check it out.
• ino theres one at victoria park aka the rubbish dump. but for a family thing ive herd it aint all that gud, especially wen u got bands suddenly bursting into shouts of 'im gona die' n other death related shouts - supposedly singin. hmmm i think not
• in victoria park u can play ya own music in the corner of the field!!! thats a sorta venue!!
• Oranges.... the prince albert but no idea where else.
• Prince Of Wales Fri night. Has a DJ who starts off with the usual cheesly crap but ends with some banging drum and bass! Yeah, there are a few pikeys there but they're the friendly sort. You'll loved it boi!
• try the Prince Albert on the site where O Briens used to be - huge inside now that its been done up. even has a stage for bands and have some great gigs with big bands like Live 'n Kickin to. live music every weekend i think
• zero, wish there were more, i wana go rock
• COOL TUNES AT THE QUEENS HEAD IN CHARING, LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
• The Star! gigs most friday night.. try it
• I have heard that the Swan is still a good pub for music as they have their own jukebox. However, I have also heard that Oranges is a good music venue. I tend to go elsewhere for music.
• Hardly any... Ashford isn't completely overrun by Trevs, so a proper music venue (or two) wouldn't go amiss. It would give the place a bit more colour for starters!!!
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• My toilet bowl has some wicked sounds resonating in it. Since the Vic closed that's you're best bet. Though the Vic was hardly Brixton Academy. Hey fancy that! The singer has a mullet and they're playing Radar Love!
• well that as to be my tunes in my mini, in the carpark each sat... see ya there.... near the bowling alley
• ORANGES - where's that? find it and check out folk, blues, jazz. The only pub puttin on real music in this godawful town
• we need some
• there did use to be the county
• kingshead, kingsnorth
• again, rather lacking to say the least. try the swan opposite courts (the furniture shop).
• there isnt any,we need some please council,the vic was ok before they shut it, and the swan occasionally have bands but i would hardly call them venues
• The VIC's been closed for some time now. Try ORANGES in Apsley Street (near the Bank Street car parks). Mainly folk, jazz, blues live every Thursday and some other days too.
• Try O'Briens on saturday nights, it's full of old irishmen.
• Create Music Festival - Vicky park, every summer
• forum. further away astoria, underground, arena in london
• Oranges on Apsley Street every Thursday evening. For you modern young people Ennio and Moses are good. Tea and coffee served without anyone thinking it's a bit weird. He's just got a real music licence, so there'll be bands on this year.
• Cales once had a funny fortnight in the early 1990s weeks when they had 2-Unlimited and Undercover back to back.
• Not really anwhere in Ashford, go to the forum in tonbridge wells for a good gig, anyone going to earth tone 9?
• The swan and the working mens club
• What music venues?
• Very sore point! There are none!!!
• The County Hotel.
• flatfoot sam's
• stour center some good ban's played their hot choclate etc 1980
• Only the Vic. pub now, which is excellent....again the free party scene is the only real alternative
• Canterbury, Maidstone or London. Nothing in Ashford itself.
• The Vic, where else?
• The Stour Centre is putting on more and more gigs

Cinemas

• go on cheapy tuesdy
• Don't conmplain so much-at least we've got one at last! [You can walk from town it isn't that far really..if you don't it's not a cheap night with the taxi fares...not that I'm complaining you understand :)]
• expensive, too far out of town, no bus service, so if you come to ashford by train (and the government want you to use more public transport) you will have to take a taxi both ways, thats more expensive for the night
• thank god for cineworld
• cineworld nice and dark
• CINEWORLD
• The cinema complex is ok but couldn''t they have built the M20 somewhere else. The middle of said motorway preferably.
• Just plays Blockbuster shite mostly. MORE INDEPENDANT CINEMA PLEASE!!!
• Loads of screens, could do with less mainstreem pap on them though
• the cinema is alrite to go with ur m8s, its sumthing else to do. but sumtimes its jus so packed.
• cineworld!!! but talk bout pikey village!
• cineworld
• Yeh good cinema..... i thought that much untill i realised its just large and the cheapest cinema ive ever been to yet charges high prices compared to the 2.95 i have to pay elseware for a student ticket.
• cineworld, its average
• only 1, by the motorway called cineworld, got 12 screens
• Nice new cinema, but not enough car parking! Typical small minded Ashford planners!
• Wicked cinema!! And it was about time eh???!!! 8 years waiting for the thing without any other cinema near enough, and they couldn't even put on a bus service for the youngsters to journey to this one until it was almost a year in to its being!! We love the cinema as it is a cheap, affordable, great night out!!
• The cinema is so shit its unbelievable. theres not evern a bus from town so u either have to walk along the motorway bit or dowm unlit sideroads.
• Only the one that's subsiding because some prat built it on a swamp
• Cineworld, after 10 years with out a cinema anything would be welcome although this realy is good.Food usual cinema rip off, mortgage application with each hot dog!
• The new one is Non THX, surround sound is typically unfocused, but EQ is well chosen. Screens are good, seats aren't to painful. Slides advertising South Kent College are highly amusing.
• the best 1 got squashed and a road built over the top!
• Cineworld 10 screen
• now the cinema in ashford is pretty good. its got 12 screens i think so you can usually just turn up at any time and go and see something no probs. but dont bother buying food or drink there - its appalingly over priced!
• I WORK THERE WOO HOO!!!!!!!! SO I GET IN FREE,ITS A BITCH TO GET TOO BUT WORTH THE MONEY SO GO THERE!!!!!!!!
• CORRUPT EX EMPLOYEE OF THE MUNKSTER CINEWORLD .
• Cineworld, not bad, cheap on Tuesdays (so bring a big stick to swipe all the chavs outa the way)
• Bowling u can do in the bowling centre on the ring road, and the cinema is out on its own somewhere! cant b bothered to explain we it is tho!
• 10 screen multiplex
• Cinema is the only good thing, fat 12 screen mutherfucker but unless you've got a car its a long way to skate or walk
• tips: If you cannea get into an 18 by a u ticket and walk into an 18 screen! wow that was fun
• It's very mainstream, but quite good.
• Cinema is wondeful! Very much welcomed and frequented
• The new Cineworld cinema is really good - so's the ice cream !
• we have a cinema that is a bit pricey, a bowling and thats about it
• there is a new cinema, cineworld, its has about 12 screens and is only a half an hour walk from the town centre. ashford also has a new bowling centre, ashford bowling, but stoopidly they don't allow 16 and under to enter after 6:00pm without an adult.
• 12 screens, but you have to own a car, or take you life in your hands across the motorway. I almost preferred the flea pit next to B&Q
• Quite good, food csts a bomb
• Yes, Yes, yes!!! Update now! Big, 12 screen Cineworld, near western M20 junction. Tuesdays it only cost £3 a ticket at anytime. Otherwise, £5 in evening or tenner for delux screen. Really quick turnocer of latest stuff, comfy enough, but the food and drink is incredibly expensive. And you need to get a car or taxi. No bus service and if you walk you risk your life crossing motorway slip roads.
• NEW CINEMA BY M20 J9, HAVEN'T BEEN THERE YET THOUGH, EXPENSIVE
• Finally a Twelve screen cinema!!!! YAY!!!
• DONT COME HERE TO SEE A FILM AS WE DON'T HAVE A CINEMA!!! It used to be next to B+Q on Beaver Road - now it's a roundabout for Ashford International Station.... Ashford Bowling is OK but a bit expensive.

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