Live Music Venues in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

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• the junction is best for mainstream stuff, its popular with youngsters on friday ngihts cos its the friday fiver. also the man on the moon on norfolk street is good for indie or metal bands, as well as the portland arms on milton road.
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• Corn Exchange wins!
• Junction (big venue, all sorts of music, check listings) Fez Club (cheesy rubbish, can sometimes be quite fun on a monday if your pissed) Bellares (cheesy rubbish) Life (chesy rubbish) Soul Tree (generally crap bt sometimes has good nights, look out for SMB nights which have good live hip hop, reggae, dub step, ragga jungle) Man on the Moon (Local bands, sometimes reggae/jungle, bit of everything) Portland arms(generally bands, sometimes some really good electronic stuff, venetian snares, bogdan raczynski etc.) Granchester Meadows (illegal raves a gwan in the summer months, Life 4 land, Deeper Understanding, some house crews. All night parties kicking off at about 2am on saturday nights every now and then)
• Portland Arms have regular live music, Soul Tree, The Junction,Cellar Bar8 & Corn Exchange of course. Red Pages are helpful to look up what bands playing where too.
• clowns acoustic night
• haymakers, portland arms, man on the moon

• Soul Tree has live bands upto 3 times a week, including Arctic Monkeys, Yeti,Metis, Quantic Soul orchestra, Fat freddys drop, Jocelyn Brown!! La Raza has Live music Mon-Wed Mondays The J.T. live Collective with vocals from Sara Mitra (Moody Nu-Jazz, Funk, R&B & Soul) Tuesdays Booga's Electric Sauce - Live Jaming Funk Wednesdays The Rhythmatisim Jam - Live Jazz,
• Wheatsheaf, Eaton Socon
• Junction
• Man on the Moon is worth visiting any time but especially when Dude on a Mission are playing. BTW, the answer to, 'Who do we love?' is 'Alex's dad!'
• Corn Exchange, Junction, Man on the Moon, Portland Arms, Boat Race used to.
• the boatrace has closed methinks
• 'The Junction' was great for live bands. Remember seeing Space just before they became famous with everyone going mad to 'Me and You Vs The World!!' Also the Cambridge Corn Exchange where some great bands played including Blur, The Levellers and The Pogues!

• BOAT RACE
• Life 4 Land All Night Raves
• Boat race has some good electronica now and again. Kid 606b played other night 24/6/03.
• Portland Arms is a good little venue, and you get some good up-and-coming bands at the boat race, and even rarely at the man on the moon
• the junction usaully captures the bands that are on their way to being famous-u can say u knew them B4 they were famous!has had the vines recently, the corn exchange theatre for the already famous-has featured craig david and atomic kitten-soon to feature Sophie ellis-bexter-woowoo!!!
• corn exchange, the junction
• Man on the moon pub - live bands, v.kool
• The Portland Arms has recently installed an awesome new soundsytem. Top place to see the best local bands, and a few national ones...
• Portland Arms (Mitcham's corner) and the Man on the Moon (Norfolk street) pubs both do some good local gigs, including Trip Hazard, The Positives, etc
• Man on Moon has good venue, tho security started being crappy. Portland usually full of boring old farts, but the occasional gig gets people moving - look out for the Positives and Fell Thru. Aparrently the boat race is good too.. Junctin is great but overpriced
• Junction if you're under 10 years old, otherwise there's Portland Arms, Corn Exchange, loads of pubs
• Portland Arms, Mitchams Corner - Tiny shoebox of a venue, but the only place even vaguely worth playing or going to see decent underground bands. Fresher & Firkin, Mitchams Corner - Started doing gigs again. Great sound, good room, indie/goth/punk DJs or bands every friday night.
• The Junction and The Corn Exchange occassionally have decent bands.
• The Junction (also a club) over near the railway station and Cambridge Corn Exchange (also a theatre) have the big name popular groups. The Boat Race has live music (and some to-be-famous groups) every night too.
• A few music venues, the top being The Corn Exchange. The Junction is okay, but really heaving. The Portland Arms hosts wacky little bands in the back room. The Fleur De Lys (sp?) has an Elvis impersonator regularly. BTW, if you like live rock music - you're bang out of luck in Cambridge.
• Boat Race, Burleigh Street
• The Boatrace
• Corn Exchange
• The Junction, Clifton Road. (01223 412600)

• The Corn Exchange and the Junction are both on National Circuits so you can get pretty good names up (PJ Harvey, Elastica etc recently) which isn't bad for a relatively small place.
• The Corn Exchange and The Junction may be on the national gig circuit, but so's the Boat Race: smaller scale but one of the best thigs to happen to the gig circuit in England over the last few years. Seven nights a week, really good sound, run as a co-operative, not 'arf bad, even if the people who run it take everything so seriously that they're all a bit sad, the end result is a good venue. The Junction has shit sound - really shit, even your tone deaf mates would notice, but for most gigs (not clubs) you can get in for a quid with a dole card if they've not sold out.
• The Cambridge Folk Festival ( end of July, 3 days, ~45 quid ) and Strawberry Fair ( start of June, 1 day, free ) are both very good.
• The Arena Tavern showcases some pretty coll local bands, but other than that, not much else around.
• The Boat Race is great. Its even free on Sunday afternoon, with free food and everything. And ANYONE can get up and play. TBR has even got it's own set of Sunday classics, like 'Walking the Dog'.
• The Corn exchange is the only sizeable option, apart from the Junction. Faith No More, Pulp, PJ Harvey have I seen there, and very fine they were too.
• The junction also hosts cambridge underground every 2 months or so as well for anybody who likes mellow USA type soul,and jazz funk. they have name dj's flown in from the states.nice!

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