Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

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• asda 24 hourse and has more food, alcohol and attractive women than any cambridge club
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• Just to let you about this unique new club night for Cambridge which is already generating a lot of interest SALON ROUGE Saturday 29th October 8pm - Midnight, at NUSHA, Cambridge Leisure Park, Cambridge CB1 7DY (opposite The Junction) Saturday 29th October sees the opening of a unique new club night in Cambridge, when NUSHA will be transformed into the sensuous Salon Rouge. Taking its inspiration from the costumes of Moulin Rouge and the burgeoning burlesque scene, Salon Rouge will feature an eclectic mix of music rarely heard in traditional clubs, whilst high camp, masquerading characters mingle and cocktails are served. All are welcome, though invited to dress to a high standard of sartorial elegance to reflect their salubrious surroundings; can-can girls, ringmasters, saloon girls, suited and elegantly wasted gentlemen are all welcome! Tickets: £3 (including £3 discount off entry to Dot Cotton at The Junction the same night). Available from NUSHA (Tel 01223 247777). Tickets also available on door. www.salonrouge.org.uk email salonrouge@salonrouge.org.uk
• Soul Tree is a brand new live music venue, Nightclub and Soul Kitchen. Its an amazing 720 capacity venue with four floors including a dance floor, purpose built stage for live performances, balcony bar, penthouse and Soul Kitchen serving food until 2am. check out www.soultree.co.uk
• Boomslang - Once a month at The Junction is a fantastic new breaks night by Streetwise. Great crowd and atmosphere.
• Junction is refurbished, and is a wicked night out - the only place to go - shame the uni suns it!
• Alternation at Kambar

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• When we were at Uni is was always 5th Avenue, especially their Foam Parties and 60's/70's/80's Nights.
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• Rawganics at the Junction for some Hip Hop. Good UK acts Monthly. Rest of Clubs are wack. Not much breakbeat, and Warning is full of twats. Devonshire has some cool nights off Mill road, good for reggea an all that ting.
• JUNCTION - Get mashed up to hardhouse at Whippy always a cracking night, get in fights down Warning listening to D&B with da wide boys another classic night, Boogie Wonderland on Fridays is full of students being cool but worth the occaisional trip, Good Times is another good mash-up with funky/progressive house etc. FIFTH - Would rather stay in and watch eurotrash. LIFE - Good mix of music attracts all ages, students, a few pikeys and occaisonally my mum. FEZ - Is OK but is often 1 in 1 out so you can find yourself queing for ages.
• Got to admit, I miss hustle on a monday night, havent been up there recently, but sure it aint as good as it used to be!!
• The cow, pretty cool place

• 5th Avenue - Big and Crap, Toxic - OK, man to woman ratio is not good if you're a bloke, Life and Sophbeck are probably the best of a bad bunch when it comes to clubs.
• Face it the nightlife in Cambridge renowed for being crap. The largest capacity being the Junction of around 1000 people suggests how small the venues are for starters. Fifth is crap fullstop. Expect to pay £3 for any drink even a bottle of water! The music is cheese, everynight...lets get ready to rumble on a friday night says it all to be honest. Who would have thought Ant and Dec lives on!! Not to mention that if you get in the wrong end of the bouncers they will throw you down the flight of brick steps. I knew of a person who broke both his legs and several ribs, so be careful! But there are plenty of slags....well cambridge is full of posh slags to be perefectly honest. For fights i would recommend the Junction, you can call it fightclub. Invested with drugs and bad attitude, problems always spill over into the car park where most things are 'settled'. However, the Junction does play different music, such as 'Warning' pure Drum and Bass. Rarely found anywhere else. Though its location leaves a lot to be desired, situated on Hills Road 35 minute walk away from the town centre.
• hustle at Filth on Monday night, absolute Dive.
• 'Trackside' the rap/b-boying night at Kambar is no longer running.
• One thing to say... "CLUELESS SYSTEM!!" It was so awesome. I was there at nearly all of them, they also did some amazing free parties by the river in the meadows, 12am -12pm usually. Crazy. Seeing the sun come up over the river with mist and swans lazing around while dancing to acid house was summat else. DEEP INSIDE YOUR BRAIIIIN!!! (Their MC was slightly tapped) I think other crews are still at it, so ask around.
• Why not golf clubs? ;) honestly though, the Q.
• Boogie is hilarious for a girly night out- not the ideal place to pull though. Warning at junction is high! and at the fez..andy c was there last week-its got to be good, especially when you are with charlie!
• footlights, suave and very cool.
• Q Club (Hills Road, Station Road corner) plays some good alternative music on Mondays (Panic, Wake Up Screaming) and on Tuuesdays alternately has Goth Night (The Calling) and Metal Night. These nights they do doubles and mixer for £2, but they can be very quiet some weeks. Alternation is on at the Cambar (near the market) usually every month on a Saturady night, very expensive drinks, I find out the dates by word-of-mouth, but maybe there is a more reliable way.
• Two new clubs have opened up in Cambridge. One is Toxic 8, small dance floors, and lots of very young Kevin and Perrys running around with Glow Sticks!!!. The other is definitely worth a visit, not technically new just a re-fit and a new name - LIFE, the old Chicagos. Slightly cheesy music, but a definitely over 18/21 crowd. Excellent for a girls night out on the town, blaring dance music, and popular chart boppers, reasonably priced drinks and a bit of a laugh!!!
• Mission - Best! - NEW!
• Kambar (used to be Route 66) is about two buildings on the right of the Corn Exchange, just next to some yellow telephone building. Once a month it does one of the best rap nights outside London. B-boyin', open-mic sessions, it's all done there. The night used to be called 'The Bridge', now it's called 'Trackside'.
• Fifth Avenue - Just don't bother Toxic8 - A four floor version of Fifth Avenue Fez - Good if you're up your own arse KamBar - Some nights can be good Q - Do not miss Mr. Whippy every month - best night in Cambridge for Nu NRG and Hard House Junction - Good Times, Mr Whippy (every Christmas), but why oh why is "Boogie Wonderland" on every friday? Man on the Moon - Check out the DNA night if you can CC's - Not very popular yet but they've got some wicked nights!
• Poo Na Na - great Salsa nights
• Q Club, Station Road - Good sound, nice and cosy. Mondays - Indie/Punk/Grunge/Pop etc... Tuesdays - alternates between Rock & Goth. Rest of the week is yer usual mixture of dance stuff.
• Fez Club is worth a visit, (but not on student night, the DJ is a tosser). Steer clear of 5th Avenue (known as Filth by us locals, for obvious reasons!)
• There's supposed to be a new, bigger one on 4 floors opening in May or June. It's about time there was some decent nightlife in this place
• We have a few, usually constantly changing. "Cindies" although it has been officially called 5th Avenue for several years now, is the biggest and most long standing, above the Lion Yard. Definitely a student club. The Fez Club and Po-Na-Na's are run by the same people. Po-na-na's in underneath 7A Jesus Lane, and kicks out at 12. The Fez Club is round where the arts cinema is, and currently the haagen dazs cafe, and is open later. The Junction, over near the railway station, has some club nights, but is mostly a concert venue.
• Club Fez is pretty cool for both its excellent location and pretty damn bizarre interior.
• The Junction in Clifton Road is the best place to hang out in Cambridge, it has some great clubs, (Supersonic, Clueless, and Good times being the best clubs).
• Clueless at the Junction has finished. It was amazing, attracting clubbers from all over the place. But it had died a death. If anyone from the Junction is listening - why, why? bring back Clueless.

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