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• Hotsteppers - an under 18s dance event, also NRG which is held in Jumpin Jaks which is also under 18s
• Jumpin Jaks is a good night out for a laugh, has plenty of drinks offers and has always got some sort of Entertainment on the go
• globe 9pm sunday night just off golden square, is open mike night, its relatively mature clietale, but they have some old geezers that are really pretty good..one guy always plays ghostrider...loves it
• BudZ bar is the place to be in aberdeen now! WAY too many Clubs stick to one kind of music and thats it! :( Budz shows em how its done! Student night on wednesday, Boogie night on Thursday, Friday / Saturday good dance and pop muisc and on Sunday a wicked Pop rock and Cheese night! :) Drinks are damn good too! £1 a bottle, 59p Vodka mixers and 79p pints!!!!! FANTASTIC!!!! :)

• Snafu for awesome guests and underground dancing.
• kef on belmont street !
• The Blue Lamp, on the gallowgate has all the music you will ever need. Folk, Salsa, Rock, Blues, Ceilidh, the lot!
• when out on the town the good places to start off are revolution, vodka bar and anywher on belmont street. there are also, soul, charlies, blu bar and paramount. I usually head to tiger tiger to finish off but espionage is a good change, been to priory and liquid a few times and there also ok for a change or a first timer to aberdeen.
• There are no good dance clubs in Aberdeen at the moment, all the big ones (Liquid, Priory, Jumpin Jaks, Espionage etc) stick with the same cheesy nonsense every weekend (come on, surely there comes a time when hearing Chesney Hawks twice every Friday and Saturday stops being funny). Exodus is good as a very trendy little place playing the latest in Indie & Alternative but get there early because it fills to capacity by eleven most nights. Ministry plays good dance music but the clientele are generally coucil housing estate types - the stench of Cool Water and Joop could kill a man. Snafu is cool as a fuckny little house venue, but it's tiny. Kef must surely be in the running for most ridiculously dull night club in the world. It used to be good until they had the makeover done, which has just completely ruined the place, these days it has less atmoshpere than the moon. Moshulu is OK if you are a goth, the best part about going there is watching all the goths trade childish insults with all the neds from Drum across the road as they all spill out onto the street come closing time. Club Tropicana for over 40s dancing to Rick Astley, Charlies, Jam, Yates and Bex Bar are best avoided unless you went to end the night in A&E picking bits of broken beer bottle out of your face. O'Neill's is full of Rugby types bragging about how much they can drink. That pretty much covers everything!
• VODKA ISLAND Every Mad Monday £4 before 11 / £4.50 after 11 @Tiger Tiger The Shiprow, Aberdeen ‘All hail to the Island, the sexist night in town’ OH YES Party People, your favourite weekly club night returns to Aberdeen for its fabulous fourth year at the infamously trendy Tiger Tiger. Vodka Island is BACK, attracting the city’s most notorious party boys and girls and living up to its reputation as the sexiest night in town. Swimming in a sea of dazzlingly gorgeous guys and girls, this night is every party goer’s vodka-sodden dream come true, with fantastic drinks promotions including £1.55 for vodka and mixer and £7 for delicious cocktail pitchers. This truly is THE undisputed social event on the weekly calendar as last years party animals Embrace can testify. Resident survivors on the island include Djs John Muir and David Craig and expect special guest appearances from the Rough Hill Band. You’re sure to find something to suit every musical taste as you strut your stuff to a raucous mix of dance and party anthems in the main room, then get on down to the sounds of the best commercial R&B and hip hop in the lounge, all topped off with a uniquely vodkatastic flavour to be enjoyed in any of the bars Tiger Tiger has to offer. Last year was rammed to the rafters so get there early to avoid disappointment and don’t forget your queue jump card which is available from The Bobbin and Vodka Island for a quick entrance. For guestlist text ABERDEEN + your name + group size to 87202 before 9pm each Monday. Dress to impress, dance till you drop, do what you dare - if you’re up for a little Vodka-inspired fun then come on down to the Island! Info: 07779001184/www.roughhill.co.uk
• Jumping Jaks, if your wanting a cheesy night out away from dance music and laser lights, defiently a good venue for staff nights out, Liquid, Tiger and Ministry being the only respectably night clubs in aberdeen

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• Moorings Bar, down by the harbour, for good rock music.
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• lol aberdeen has NO i repeat NO clubs all are pulling venues for the croud we havnt had a decent dj here since the palace now "liquid" had love child once a month that is untill they became greedy and had it every week. Oh and let all the fighting piss heads in who cant get drunk without "starting" on someone who is having a good night.
• Been to Liquid a lot, the problem with first year students is they seem to be goggle eyed when it comes to going out, so i've been dragged to liquid a lot. The good thing about it is you can meet in with a lot of people you know here. Didn't like downstairs much, i preferred upstairs, although i found the music quite crap. Downsides of Liquid, long queues in the freezing cold, sticky floor, the crowds - you can get separated from your group of mates really easily, the music sucks, loads of sleazy men. Wednesday nights are always busy. Exodus - upstairs at Triple Kirks- is brilliant, rock music, casual dress code, good headbang, good talent, need i say anymore. Espionage, only been on the top floor, didn't like it much, can't stand rap music so i didn't enjoy myself much.
• the Ministry is the best place to go! and SOUL is good too also Tiger Tiger though you need a dress code basically no trainers i think.
• THE VAULT NOT RECOMMENDED
• Liquid, if you are under 21, a beach cruiser or basically in mourning from Amadeus.!!!!! Just like Amadeus same people, same music, same banter only difference is different location and different coloured carpet. Ministry full of wannabees, Blu bar for wankers and snotty nosed cows
• TASTE nightclub (upstairs from SALS) used to be a gay club but changed ownership two months ago they are a rocking hard house venue that puts drum to shame (it is not as dark and dingy either) they have a lot of good djs coming most from the Tidytrax label - by the way amadeus is closed down now as it was s**t and nobody went - dj egg and dj combo rule aberdeen in taste
• ABERDEEN Club scene is in need of SERIOUS help.I'm so glad there were the likes of "FEVER" and "HOOCHI" when i was 16-18yrs old.Thats when going to a club was for REAL.ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!
• O'neill's - Ah, home from home! (+ i work there) great atmophere, good booze, people who are out to get drunk, dance on the tables and sing irish songs. Asks for deals at the bar, always happy to help. Oh and we're getting refurbished at the mo so comfy seating. Upstair open till 2 (3 weekends) and i can vouch for the lovely staff. Lots of irish talent too. Triplekirks/exodus - good atmophere, mixed crowd, good drinks promos esp if your a student. Bar always too busy though. V. good music Kef (formally lava) - great bouncers, hav a laugh. low tables and cushions place, very turkish, mellow music, mellow staff, table service, chip vending machine!!!!!!! genius! place to go to drink and chat. estaminet - poncy, everyone wearing scarfs and pretending to be french. If poetry and cider is your thing...... Oh but wed is £1.50 a drink so not bad, and during the day they do food which is v.good, if a bit pricy for what ya get. nice decor espinage - souless place where everyone is too busy posing to have a good time. do not even attempt to have a good nite here, full of neds. liquid - see espinage Priory - had a few good nites here, good music, tendency to be full of old men who stand round the dance floor and leer. Young girls, short skirts, old men, steep prices! Mosulu - wear lots of black or snobby goths may look down on you, mostly good crowd though. Ironic that people who claim to be so individual dont tolerate anyone who doesn't look like them. They dont seem to understant they are jus conforming to another set of standards. Rant over. Drink the green/red death, gets ya fucked. Also poles so oppertunity to strut stuff. Very young people about. metal club, but the dj wont play soundgarden. cotton club - r'nb everytime i've been there, great to shake your ass, and pick up a lovely big black guy. Chances you will get into a fight, or possibly die though, can be rough!
• The Priory is alright... full of common-ass people though. Try espionage. Damn cool. Moshulu for a more rock scene.
• Liquid (where the Palace used to be on Bridge Place), Ministry in Dee Street, Espionage on Union Street (Cheesy), Priory on Belmont Street (expensive but, oh!, the ladies...ding dong!)
• Liquid is the best club to go to at the moment. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights are well cheap. A bit more expensive at the weekend but worth it for the good music and great atmosphere. Better than Amadeus ever was. Also cute bouncers! Avoid the Priory - full of "I love me, who do you love" posers.
• The Mudd club on bridge street was the only decent place..RIP and now the have turned Oh Henry's into a gay bar!! That's not the problem with it now..it's just that it still does play some terrible tunes...when will they learn
• Liquid is the new AMADEUS. Its exactly the same, same people go there, same music, same atmosphere the only difference is Amadeus interior was RED and Liquid is BLUE! Charlies is a great bar but ur shoes stick to the floor
• Liquid in Aberdeen is SHITE with the same crowd every week. Ministry is good down the stairs on a Saturday but there are too many pill popping neds up the stairs. Avoid Drum at all costs as it is a scumbags heaven although they do not realise that they are neds/junkies/minks/thick cunts etc and will probably take offence to this!
• bud bar rox!!it's got such a good atmosphere and stadia to start the weekend of is always a good idea.
• Estaminet has the most laid back attitude of all the clubs/bars in Aberdeen. It's a great place to go for coffee or a drink during the day and at night the music can't be matched. Mellow vibes followed by frantic funkiness. Aberdeen's 'Granite Rocks' breakdance crew often show their outstanding floor skills. Be on the lookout for The Soulcialists, Static and Sabroso. You can expect hip hop, funk, reggae, soul, house and even the occasional mad samba tune for good measure.
• Belmont street is the place for any goodness. fact. unless your a high roller and you go up to Ricky Simpsons place on Queens road with fine bitches and finer powder.
• KEF its the best
• The Priory is a wonderfully cultured place to visit on a friday evening. Get your camera at the ready for the rarely-spotted 50ft turbanator who sometimes disguises himself as the dj. Many a sweaty girlies can be found 'hanging out' in the toilets dousing themselevs in 'charlie' perfume supplied by the scary perfume wifey who charges a tenner a squirt. The music is a delight, you can purchase the pre-recorded priory 'every bloody night its the same songs' album from our price for $4.99.
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• If you want to go somewhere where absolutley no one will remember your face no matter how much of a regular u are try DRUM, windmill Brae, egveryone is so off their face, no matter how sozzled u get they won't remember u from Adam. And the musics pretty good too.
• The Vaults in carnegie Brae (under marks and sparks) opened up just before christmas but is only just starting to pick up now. Fri and Sat it has some pretty good dance DJ's coming in aside from the resident Neil Anthony they've had K-Class from the ministry and Carl Cox is coming soon. Sundessential is also coming up on a monthly basis. And aberdeens own Deep Iain and Mikey (from kia aura) have played there a number of times. Week nights are a mix off commercial and cheese with occasional live bands except for wed and thur which have live country and jazz respectively catering for the older(?) crowd. Drinks prices are overall mostly pretty cheap for aberdeen though not as cheap as the union and usually they have some pretty decent promos on.
• This is it FUNION is coming. The most ELECTRIFYING monthly event to hit Aberdeen for some time. FUNION can be found @ LAVA on belmont street 8th Feb. it's got to be seen to be believed Breakdance battling on the floor / 4 DJ's 4 decks - MR MAN, TEZ, GILES WALKER,TIM FRANCY and the kitchen sink!
• Aberdeen is just crap for clubbing, firstly the music is for the under 15 generation, secondly if you can be arsed going along to listen to Lasgo or Kylie you wont get in due to Aberdeen's phucking wierd No Jeans and No trainers rule. For phucks sake the rest of the UK lets you into clubs with jeans and trainers but in Aberdeen you need to be wearing an untucked Ben Sherman shirt with shiny black shoes with that silver bit across the top to even get a look in!
• over from New Zealand and aso called 'mate' took me into the Metro - what a dive - and caught the manageress knicking my mates smokes - when I challenged her the bouncers threw me out...what the hell is that all about!!!
• Drum is the best place to go if you like chewing your cheeks
• THE PRIORY - IF UR WILLING TO JOIN THE LONG Q AND BUD BAR RECENTLY HAS GOT A FACE LIFT AND IS REALLY BUSY. AVOID BEX BAR/AMADEUS - IF U R NOT A BLEECHED BLONDE SLAPPER, HAVE A FAKE TAN, OR UNDER 18
• Lava in Belmont St: Thursdays are Boogie Nights (house). Saturdays vary, Jungle Nation is the only night i really go to, its dark and banging with bass booster thingys under the floor. Regression (old skool) and Audio Assalt (techno) are also worth a look. The Subway, downstairs from Hotel Metro (used to be Pelican): Fridays are either Airtight (underground house) or Kia Aura (electrofunkdiscoteque) which is a super friendly nite which a good and varied music policy. Saturdays have a monthly nite called Therapy which really lives up its name with lots of stomping techno. The subway also get in lots of great special guests, recent once have included Andrew Weatherall and Justin Robertson. Dave clark is booked for october.
• The Palace and Lava (formerly Glow 303) are the best places for rock/alternative/metal/industrial..Lava also plays lotsa drunm n bass, hard house, jungle, chillout, etc..
• Lava on Belmont - excellent little club that shows lots of excellent little rock acts from Lost prophets,to Biffy Clyro to Defenestration and gives loads of local bands, a lot of whom are actually worth seeing, a chance aswell. Also does DJ and disco nights.
• Dont Go to AMADESPERATE. Thats for NEDS and TARTS
• Amadeus full of fake ppl - and young female SLAPPERS The Sophisticated clubber is found in the Priory or Po Na Na, AVOID ESKO UNLESS U R A DEALER
• Lava has REMARKABLY young patrons in the toilets but who would definately not be served. Tap water for that lot.
• Amadeus is frequented by Ben Sherman shirt wearing neds and very young looking slappers in belts (for skirts) - if your idea of dance music is 'remix' of Leigh-anne Rimes 'how do I live' then this is the place for you. The Ministry is full of pretentious ass-holes, Priory is full of arrogant rich kids and much older men perving on them, Wodka Bar is fun if you ignore all the clientele and just focus on the vodka. Mudd Club is the haven for baggy-trousered skaters/ goths/ stoners/ whatever - self-mutilation is the fashion here, tattoos and piercings are passe - the new 'black' is scars on the wrist/ body to prove the wearer's 'alternative' status. Drum is full of ex-private school kids - basically tossers.
• The worst possible night club scence anywhere in the world!!!! unless you're one of the typical "lets get as pissed as possible, get into a fight and pull anything that moves" people around here. So drastic is the scene here, we never go out in aberdeen and go off to other parts of the country for some decent clubbing instead!
• Lava on Belmont Street is good for metal, I also recommend getting a membership for Rileys pool hall opposite the palace or on chapel street, nice and quiet and good pool tables. Bugsy Browns, cheapest lap-dancing joint in town, and despite the low prices some of the girls are incredibly hot, and leave NOTHING to th imagination!
• eKspulsion @ the Ministry - Every Friday from 7pm - 10pm ~ Mainstream Chart / Dance / Trance & Happy Hardcore with Northsounds DJ Andy James & Stewart Wilson.
• The Priory has just opened on Little Belmont Street, currently the Place to be along with Revolution Vodka Bar next door. Amadeus currently has a YOUNGER CLIENTELLE at present and not where you want to end up unless ur BLONDE/SINGLE AND DESPERATE OR AN ALL ROUND SAD GIT.
• The Palace. If you can tolrerate having your band new trainers stuck to the floor if you stand in one place too long The Palace offers several really good alternative scene nights as well as some cheap pints. Monday night MUDD CLUB is apparently the longest running rock night and plays a mix of commercial rock/punk/light alternative whereas Fridays BOND-AGE plays slightly less well know alternative music. On saturday nights there is a smaller room opened for the really really underground music Rock Nite. In all of the above the patrons vary from confused and scared looking townies to the scariest of Goths. If your a guy your going to get ID'd but some of the female clientel can be accused of still having bedtimes. Also for a good alternative night check out the uber-cool Lava Club on Belmont Street on tuesday nights.
• HA! FORGET ABOUT ALL THE SHITEY CLUBS IN TOON , JUST JUMP ON A No 17 BUS TO WOODSIDE (FERRIERS IS A NICE SPOT) ARMED WITH A BOTTLE OF FINEST WHITE LIGHTENING CIDER AND AN AIR RIFLE TO SHOOT STUDENTS/ TRAINS ETC. THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT!!
• Moshulu (formerly known as Zu) has been all refurbished and is a good night out, particularly Saturdays. And its situated right beside a lap-dancing club. Well, don't ya just hate that! Mmm Mmm!
• Amadeus - not that it's anything special, but it's the only semi-decent club that Aberdeen has to offer. Aberdeen isn't a clubbing city, as the people aren't really 'up-for-it'.
• mmm.. not a lot of quality clubbing to be had in Aberdeen either! The Pelican is hit or miss and a good time can be had upstairs in the Triple Kirks.
• The "PALACE" is the best club Aberdeen has got going for it ! "MUDD CLUB" on a monday night "DISCO 2000" on a thursday and "BOND*age" on a Friday the best indie nites in scotland !
• My reccomended route is - Slains, Oscars, Flares, Bex........
• IF YOUR AFTER A POP/DANCE ATMOSPHERE WITH A GAURANTEED LAUGH ID RECCOMEND AMADEUS! BRILLIANT THAT GOES FOR BEX AND FLARES - EASY LISTENING - GAURANTEED GOOD TIME - AMADEUS HAS A DOOR FEE, FLARES AND BEX DONT.
• IF U ARE LOOKING FOR A GR8T NIGHT OUT I SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING. Head to Slains or Oscars for 9.30. Slains have brilliaint 12 deadly sin cocktails. Oscars is a cocktail bar host of thousands of cocktails, I reccomend the "OSCAR" & "SEAN CONNERY", It also has a brill range of music, plenty of dancing rooom, and extremely big, with a varied age group, from OAPS/PARENTS/20'S,30'S/AND YOUNG PPL! AND ITS FREE ENTRY AND OPEN TILL 2AM. THEN I RECCOMEND MOVING TO FLARES - NOW CALLED BOOGIE, its a 70's revival bar - and you are gauranteed a brilliant time!. It closes at 12 so i reccomend moving back to OSCARS, OR BEX BAR, Where again a varied range of DANCE/POP/70S/80S/90S KIND OF MUSIC, Also a fairly mixed age group. Or AMADEUS - Open till 3am! (BE WARNED FRIDAYS ARE SHITE)
• There is nae ones in Aberdeen that are nae full o casuals - I say hook up wi a student and try and wangle in tae the Aberdeen Uni Student Union
• Glow and the Pelican if you don't suffer from a sore head easily. The Metro if your are unphazed by female dinosaurs trying to tongue your brain out from through your earhole. The Ministry if you think it's important to be seen mingling with AFC "stars. Bex Bar is one place where you will be struggling if you do not have precision control of your bladder.Toilet trips can take around half an hour. O'Donoghues is where we normally end up,due to my mates having an unhealthy obsession with the place.I'm not too keen on it myself,but half decent retro bands are to be found upstairs in The Loft.
• Mudd Club!!! Every monday night at the palace - fab club to go if you hate dancing because you can just sit on the floor in the entrance hall and chat away. £2.50 entry.. and all pints a pound : )
• Aberdeen has an extremely wide selection of clubs, many of which suck. Zuu and Berlins (really a pub) have now closed. YAY. One of my mates was in Zuu a couple of years ago, and he went to walk away from the bar and his shoe came off of his foot. truth. talk about sticky carpets, euch. I used to be a regular at the Ministry, but now the bouncers have changed, and what with my darn passport (mistakenly, honest(!)) saying that i'm only 17, i can't get past them as often as i did. still, it's no great loss, as the place is shite. Hope it picks up soon, though! Bex bar, only been once, and i can't really remember what it was like, but i don't think it was too great. the bouncers were pretty surly when they told me to take my cap off, even more so when i had the nerve to ask if there was somewhere to put it! God forbid anyone should actually NEED their help, eh! Amadeus is pretty good, don't go on Saturday's though, because you caould pay the debt of a small 3rd world country for the price of a Smirnoff Ice. Thursdays and Fridays aren't too bad, drink is very reasonable then and the music's a good laugh. On Thursdays they play a song from each year over the last couple of decades, (although trying to stop the bloody Albyn fifth years from shouting as they played 83/84 was a bit of a nightmare). Glow used to have some VERY good acts, Quannum, Vadim, Goldie, Grooverider, etc. etc., but the promoter left a while ago and they haven't been the same since. Still, they're closing for refurbishment soon and hopefully things'll blast off big style when they re-open. That's, unfortunately, about the extent of my experiences clubbing in Aberdeen. Counting down to the eighteenth of may, 2001, though, when for some BIZZARE reason, things are gonna get a whole lot better! Oh, another thought regarding the Ministry has just entered my head. Recently, they have given very little publicity to massive name DJ's playing there, which have subsequently been cancelled at the last minute, namely Fergie and Afrika Bammbatta. When people have asked for a refund on the night at the door, they've been told that that isn't possible, and that they can get in free on that night, and get in for nothing the next time said big-name DJ is playing. Suspicious? One thing's for sure, i wouldn't mess with their new bouncers. If anyone from the Ministry happens to read this, could they please post an explanation? I'm sure i'm not the only person who'd appreciate one. Oh, and a tip for the "less experienced";-) surfers trying to go to Amadeus. A bus leaves from outside Yates's wine lodge at about midnight, upon which there are two skinny blokes selling tickets. A much better bet than 6 or so heavy-set bouncers, who are then less inclined to ask for ID because you don't queue, and have already spent your car-washing money on a ticket. Good luck!
• Pretty bad all round, smart clubs with crap commercial shit full of posing w@nkers (Ministry, Mr Gs, Zuu, etc), dark, sticky clubs with really good music full of torry quines (fish workers) and scabby neds oot their heads (Pelican, Drum, Joy, etc) and Amadeus (shit hole all round except when Cream is in town but I still have to work on Monday.)
• Zuu is very sad but a good laugh when you're drunk. The trouble with Windmill Brae is it's very violent, and never more so than on a Sunday night. The absolute worst night to go out in Aberdeen. Bar FM is depressing, with it's miles of empty seats and a totally rubbish "2 for the price of 1" rip off that's actually "buy two and get two more pints of beered down water with it"
• If you want sharons and Tracys then Amadeus is the place. However, big kev will try to destroy you b4 the night is through. Go to my house. It's good. Palace has a sticky carpet. Because the bouncers wank upon it in the hope that their crusty spunk will father a child. Whores sit on the floor. And are costly. Fuck concrete. Its the best. if you want to get off your tits on Monkeyjabbles, Cake, Bodgerstew and Scabbywarhols your best bet is Glow and/or the Pelican. It is full of Spanquacks and Webspinners who are off their tits on some kind of fucking Macdaddy monkeymoonjuice. SCABS. If your a NED then fucking kill yourself. Please. Die. No, really. Fucking die. Die you fuck. Sorry.
• First off, the Palace (Mudd Clubb and Disco 2000) is rank, we went there for years and it did used to be great, but DJ PAUL (may he rest in peace, eventually) is a Jessie who might as well record his set one week and then not turn up for the next 2 years. I kid you not, the playlist is the same as it was three years ago... For the most chilled, informed tunes the only place to go nowadays is ESTAMINET, where Smarties used to be on Littlejohn Street. Bound to be a great student place since term started, this new bar boasts FREE ENTRY, gorgeous TAPAS, good BEER, and the barmaids are absolute HONEYS. Keep your eyes peeled for THE SOULCIALISTS, the best DJ crew in toon. Regular HipHop nights on Wednesdays at ESTAMINET, monthly Saturdays, little monkeys... Follow their movements on www.soulcialism.com - "Why Pay To Get In To A Club When You Can Soulcialise For Free?" Best night in town, though, must be LifeStyle at the Lemon Tree. Once a month with the best special guests to ever come North of Dundee. All the best people there, in fact, you often wonder where the hell they go the rest of the time. Example - after the September 2000 Bob Dylan gig, we all grooved the nicht awa' to a three hour reggae set by none other than Jerry Dammers of the Specials. Classic, min, pure classic.
• All utter shite I am afraid. Minisrty is weak as filled with posers and Aberdeen FC "superstars". Some very fit women though. However, you need to be a good looking bastard like myself to get anywhere, so stay away if you are from Torry.
• Pricate Eyes - you won't be disappointed - unless you are female....
• 3 best clubs are Palace(Mondays and Fridays for Goths etc), Glow 303 (Goths and chill out people on drugs) and The Metro (No goths, just crazy Aberdeen minks!)
• All the good places have shut down. They even facelifted the Sloe club and it came back as a student shop. Personally I have no need to buy bog roll and a packet of pencil erasers on Saturday night. The best place was closed in 1989, it was called the Venue. My mate still has one of the toilet seats from it. Club 2000 is a gay bar now, and you'll probably have more fun there than anywhere else regardless of your sexual preference. Ten years ago it was called Clouds, and was the place that people who were too common to get into the Metro went to dance on blood and broken glass. Later it became Buskers, and the only thing that changed was the music whioch turned into rock. I met my wife there during a lockin that turned into a bar brawl at 4am. I think it change to Club 2000 the next day. The Metro is the best of all the crap places. In the gents toilet the piss is 3" deep on the floor. There's nothing funnier than watching a fish market worker in a white suit having a 'surfing wipeout'. If you want to get a shag, this is the place to go, but disguise all signs of intelligence. Most of the women who come here expect to go home pregnant with a black eye. Everywhere advertising DJ so and so is bound to be shit. If you locked me in a room with Myra Hindley, Adolf Hitler, and a local DJ, armed with a revolver and only 2 bullets, then next day you'd find the DJ beaten to death. All the real places in Aberdeen are located down the harbour, between Fitie and the station. The best are: Neptune Bar, Peep Peeps, Cutters Warf, Crown & Anchor, and of course the Moorings. Wear steel toecaps and full body armour if you plan on dancing in the Moorings though. There used to be a place called Radar's, or more specifically the Satelite Bar. Every year they held a Christmas party for all the amatuer pharamcutical resellers. It's been renamed the Vodka Bar now, but it's just as sleezy. The gents toilets is the place to go for a BJ (£5 apparently) and the Ladies is where all the gents go for a smoke. If you want a piss just go in your beer bottle.
• The Mud Club at the palace is not bad, the place is a bit minky though. Upstairs in O'Neills sometimes has 80s music nights, they are a good laff. The place is also a bit minky though Amadeus is good now and again, Monday Nights are good, and the 70's night are good too, best avoided on Dance nights though, its bollox and incredibly expensive
• Mudd Club @ The Palace - off Bridge Street follow the hoardes of Skaters, punks, goths etc on a Monday night also Disco 2000 and Bondage on Thurs and Fri respectively same directions apply. Music is of the highest calibre.
• there aint newhere too good, just check around. belmont st and justice mill lane have good places though
• If you're a metal head or a Goth then get to Elyzium (above triple kirks), Glow 303, or sometimes the Pelican.
• Although I agree that the floor is a little bit on the sticky side, I still think that the ministry is the only place to go in Aberdeen on a Saturday night!! Just don't drink the vodka cause it really tastes like cat piss!! Amadeus is usually good on a Sunday night - if you like to dance that is. It has its bad points too though. I am only 20 and I feel like an OAP sometimes, and there always seems to be an awful lot of fat girls in short skirts and cropped tops (I don't know, maybe thats your 'thing')
• Club 2000 - the worst gay club in the country. Think mid-eighties living room with overtones of a piss poor wedding reception - I defy anyone to find somewhere more shamefully decorated...
• Beside the dance clubs mentioned, the Irish bars have nightclubs upstairs (O'Neill's and O'Donoghues. Please avoid Amadeus if you despise paedophilia or Argos workers
• Glow 303 kicks ass, and has done much to kickstart Aberdeens frankly piss poor night life. Gets in some of the best DJ's and hip hop acts in the world! The Pelican is a sad shadow of its former 'underground' self and is now full of sad poseurs and wannabe it girls. The Palace holds a place in the heart of every anti mainstream Aberdonian. Unfortunately its now a bit of an ego bashing due to the fact that most people there now, went to school with your little sister!
• Hail the Metro.....I can back up the salty sailor theory....my ex got banged in some doorway and ended up prego by one...and yes ...picked up in the metro....what a slapper.....
• If it's underground hardcore your after then SKANK is the NO1 in Aberdeen with Aberdeen's NO1 DJ Dave Begg,plus special guests like MRS Wood,the Laundrete,Michael Kilkie and last but not least Andy Begg.It is every second saturday at JOY NIGHT CLUB.If you want your dance music without the cheese and without commercialised dross then SKANK is the night for you.
• Palace Nightclub - Great Music, Cheap Drink, and the coolest bar staff.
• AMADEUS is probably my favourite for making a complete ass of myself on the dance floor. THE MINISTRY is a dark and dingy whole, but their music is okay accept that you cant dance when your feet are stuck to the floor. BEX BAR is just shit, its way too easy to pull a complete minger in their. DENIROS is supposed to be pretty good.
• Pelican Club for Jungle Nation on fortnightly thursdays starting 2nd of march Also check out Robert Gordens University for Warhead starting on 26th Feb AKA More shit hot jungle from Aberdeens original junglists.
• Poo Na Na opened up last year damn fine place with funky tunes Go early though as it is the size of a hamster cage
• Ki-aura has moved it's night from Drum club to fortnightly at the Pelican. See http://kia-aura.tripod.com for up an to date listing of forthcoming events etc...
• I have read the listings for Aberdeen clubs and I can't believe that Lovechild did not get a mention. Lovechild is held once a month at the Palace nightclub. Well large tunes played by residents Garbo and Kidzer who are probably two of the best DJ's in town! Guest DJ's appear every month, these range from Tall Paul to Seb Fontaine, something for everyone. Booze is well too dear, so tank up prior to entry. Door men are snarly. Talent is pretty good (depends how brightly lit and how well tanked of course) but overall Lovechild is the place to be for a majorly good night off your trolly. Have fun and see you in the dark place the next morning!
• BEDLAM is now the FACTORY and pish as ever unless someone good comes to play which hasent happened in recent centuries Robert Gordons student union has just been refitted and may be worth a look? AMADEUS is aberdeens and scotlands largest niteclub down at the beach front every night is a different music style mostly crowd pleasing crap like 70s nite and other such shit Great place to loose all your mates in crowds of over 2000 people GLOW 303 aberdeens best new dance club, hosting PURE monthly saturdays and other saturdays an unparallelled in aberdeen selection of the worlds best techno and jungle DJs the venue for glow303 on belmont street is badly designed but the club has knocked the PELICAN off the top spot for guest DJs of the same ilk GLOW also has 3am licence on certain nites almost unheard of in aberdeen with its church going licence comitee
• (amendments) KIA AURA is no longer at JOY it is every FRIDAY @DRUM which used to be called BAR FM it is also worthy of top billing as a brilliant club to hear your favourite electrofunkdiscotek tunes with DJs MARCO, DICKIE,and IONE as regulars and Guests such as silicon soul from time to time
• De Niro's is probably one of my favourites.
• Every Monday and Thursday people flock to the Palace to the Mudd Club. Much Cheapness and lots of people, with a sizeable dance floor. Great. Once Monthly, on a thursday you should check out Kia Aura at Joy, near the harbour. Staying away from De Niros on underage night, is definatly recommended; unless you're into that sort of 15 yr old slapper in a mini skirt type thang. Urrgh.
• Franklyns at the top of Justice Mill Lane is the business. Where else can you go and jump about lie an idiot to some lounge lizard playing a piano! It It is truly a surreal experience and well worth a fiver.
• If your a salty sailor just off the supply boats, why not go to the Metro (upper part - not the pelican) and get yourself a divorced woman or a woman of easy virtue. Plenty going.
• "Exodus" is no longer and is now a naff student bar/club! The Lemon Tree also has another monthly night called "Juice" which hosts up and coming as was as established indie and big beat artists (Dust Junkies, Hurricane #1, Dub Pistols, Annie Christian etc.). "The Works" on Belmont St. has a different club each Sat. from Drum N' Bass, Hip Hop, Techno, House and just about everything else. Fridays at Glow are Indie/dance, Thursdays are Soul, Funk and Jazz, Wednesdays are retro and Sundays are chill out stuff.
• Ministry - great music & wall to wall talent, lots of sad poseurs though and very unhappy bouncers!
• Franklyn's - what can I say!!
• Bex Bar - The saddest bar in town, fake tans on fake people out looking for a shag.
• O'Donoughes - A pub/Club for the older generation, good if you want a night out with a laugh at seventies Scotland Football Team hairdos. Can actually be a good night out though depends on the night.
• Well, there are basically five "happening" clubs at the moment in Aberdeen...
  • Pelican -- Progressive house/verging on techno with specialist DJ's - eg. Billy Nasty
  • Bedlam (ahem) - DJ REV (me) and Miz & Jonny J playing all the latest dance (, funk and hip hop) sounds.. Fridays - DJ REV & MIZ - Commercial dance night Sats - DJ Jonny J - Hardhouse night...
  • Zuu - Good dancey tunes - mix of everything quite a few promo material getting playeed
  • Ministry of Sin - bit like Zuu except more hyped (voted best club in Scotland by some magazine or other)
  • BarFM - where you go for your bangin' 'aardcore you know the score pish....
  That's basically it really... But we all know that Bedlam is the best... (cough)
• There's a relatively new club in Aberdeen called Franklin's - not too bad, dancey tunes mixed with some silly old fav's - brilliant fun! So I'm told. There are various different "Bars" within the club for different types of nights - live music, dancing, etc, don't know all of them 'cause I haven't been in them all.
  Part of the same place is the Bexs Bar, a superb bar with live DJ - brill music, current dancey toons mixed with old fav's like Wham, YMCA, and they always finish with "New York". The most mobbed place in Aberdeen just now. Our typical nights are Bexs Bar then Ministry of Sin.
• Bellissima, happens at Cellar 35 occasionally with DJ's Nigel Grasham and Fuzzy. Also organise one off house parties and special Hogmany parties. Email u03ec@aberdeen.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list or for further info.
• Exodus is along the same lines as The Pelican but newer and cleaner. They are trying to make it a membership only club but if you go early enough you will get in, forms for membership are available at the door, God I sound like I work there. The pub "The "Wild Bore" also has DJs Friday/Saturday worth a look in by. Dance at the weekends and Easy listening, or is that cheesy listening, on Thursday. The Lemon Tree has an Acid Jazz/Funk night about once a month with DJs and a couple of bands. They're called "Life Style", for more info. on dates and people playing or other things going on, check the Lemon Tree web page.
• Very select info!!! What about the "Mudd Club"?!! Great place for "Brit Pop" and slightly more "alternative" music!! Monday nights: students, cheap pints and decent music!! Aberdeen bands need a mention as well!! "The Loreli", "The Dawntreaders" etc etc!! Usually play Drummonds and The Lemon Tree. Check out "One Up": like "Fopp" but better. AND AVOID "ZUU"!!!!!!
• Best club is the Pelican Club, intelligent techno & epic house. The club which is situated in the basment of the Hotel Metro has a brilliant atmosphere with no attitude; seating area is candle lit definitely for people WHO enjoy dancing more than posing. Pussygalores is also a good club but full of posers. Exodus is full of weirdos looking for trouble.
• From what I can see, the information was mostly provided by a certain naff student DJ. Let's put it this way, most of the pubs and clubs in the listing are frequented by women who wear white stilettos and dance around their handbags.
• The entry for Kia-Aura, the Monthly club night at Joy, Aberdeen is no more. Th collective now have a fantastic Friday night residency at Drum, Windmill Brae, Aberdeen with residents Ione, Dicky, Mikey & Marco delivering the freshest electrofunk in the Granite City. It costs £4/£5 B4 12 & £5/£6 thereafter. They also guest DJs & live-sets on a regular basis. Always a mad night with the most beautiful, up-for-it folk in the area.
• Berlins is the most dodgy place in town - full of 12 year olds and tossers.
• Amadeus Night Club on the Beach Esplanade is the newest spot for clubbing. For old timers Thursday is 70s night so be cool dude.

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