Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars in Lancaster, Lancashire*

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• AS said, Liquid's new Friday is awesome, bringing a quality night out, the Subways futureheads and the Holloways, no where else is doing anything like it and it's not expensive, only £2.50 drinks! The Monday and Wednesday Student nights are awesome, and on Satudays they've stopped letting all the Chavs in, they all go to Brooks, Lounge and Walkabout!   
• The Sugarhouse, The Yorkshire house, Liquid and all the gay ones like that, The John 'O Gaunt, Fibber McGee's if your an irish gambleing wife beater, Rileys for pool (members only) LAONE, Kampus if you're a puff, The Lounge, H2O, Varsity, Hussle for 60's shizzle, The blob shop, 3 Wetherspoons, Reds cafe/bar, Walkabout, look and you'll find quite a few!   
• The carlton in Morecambe. easily the best student night. Cheap drinks, a clientel who want to have fun rather than stand around complaining about uni in a 'keaneplay' esk mummy and daddy won't give me any more money manner. Good at what it does and delivers if your up for it! Sugar house very boring full of generic i'm in the JCR oh yeah,Gap year bores! Music policy is abit of everything therefore caters for no one. Bar takes half an hour to get a drink. Sort it out guys. Until then you'll see me at the Carlton!   
• walkabout near dalton square the sugarhouse and brooks   
• Elemental is gone, and replaced by Toast. Toast caters for the classier Lancasrian, with an ever growing back bar for 'proper' cocktails, none of that gunk-poor-excuse-for-an-alcoholic drink with an umberella in it! Toast hs two rooms each with a DJ and bar and own style of music which changes nightly, and every last Sunday in the month, the club side (as opposed to the bar side) hosts a Comedy Night (book ahead if you want a table). When able, Toast staff wait on people in the bar area, so you never need to leave the booth you bagged as the doors opened. Toast is open 7 days a week, from 7pm. It's free entry before 10pm (free all day regular Sundays) and fills the void that Lancaster had previously. If that doesn't do you (and Lancaster's other 'clubs' won't) Blackpool is round the corner, it's a brilliant night out when you're in need of a change and a bigger yet still fairly cheap place to explore. Stay over in one of the many quiant and lovingly sea-side tacky guest houses for something round £20 with a decent breakfast in the morning. A taxi home from Blackpool at 3am in the morning on double time is £40.   
• it has to be said, lancaster is generally a good night out !one of the 2 ( yes, its has 2!!!) wetherspoons 1st of..... cheap drink, gotta love it !then on 2 walkabout, BOGOF offer applies till 10.... but tends 2 go on longer, just to get you reked b4 11!!then i do beliebe its back to wetherspoons for a few more cheap ones before you hit liquid or toast. make sure your reked before liquig........ extortionate is an understatement!!!   
• Sugarhouse- untidy student dive Brooks- Untidy dive. Toast/liquid young dancey type clubs.   
• unfortunately THE Alex is no more thanks to the f*@k wits from Jennings brewery!!!I miss that place more than most as it was not only the cheapest, the best and coolest drinking hole in lancaster it was also my home for a while. R.I.P. the alex. we will remember you well   
• haha thats a good one! no such thing as a good club in lancaster...   
• the alex (goth/rock club) closed down and so did warehouse but the alex lives on but lives on at hounsy potery there is a bus on a saturday to the dark place (actually it apinted white) from the bobbin   
• With the Alex and the Warehouse now both closed down, there are no clubs in lancaster for the local friendly neighbourhood Goth's, But check out the sugarhouse on a Thursday and the Crypt (Opposite the Merchants Pub) on Tuesday for the best if not the only Indie nights in town   
• Best place is liquid (mind you, I'm in there so often, the doorstaff know me by name). Brooks is good for cheesy nights out, but take a large group of mates with you as the clientele is either geriatric or very baby faced... I went in the warehouse once...never again.   
• "Thursday Night Sacrifice" at the Warehouse rocks, I'm there every week, but the clientely does seem pretty young. The Alex on a Saturday's a laugh (even better if your hammered). "Indie-Go" at H20 is good, but it's only 7:30-11, and drinks are quite pricey. Popscene at Sugarhouse is ok, but there are rumors that they water down the Fosters. For midweek raving, there's the Carleton, but I take my hat off to anyone who can stand it when sober.   
• After it's recent and scandalous raid, I have to put in the Warehouse. It's OK, I spose, and does a rock night and a gay night, but go there anyway if/when it reopens, because nobody was doing anything wrong in there. The Alex does rock nights, if you're not into the mainstream, and the Albert is a sort of pubclub hybrid which specialises in very camp trad gay nights   
• ELEMENTAL IS THE BEST!!! Now I have been to every club in Lancaster and the region, and I have to say that Elemental is a cut above the rest. Firstly there is the music, the purest most banging house, occasionally mixed in with some classic tunes. Then there is the cheapness of it. Friday night is free before 11pm. Then there are the cheap drinks - Wednesday, £1 double vodka and cokes and bottled beer, Friday - 2-4-1 on beers and spirits. And finally there is the atomsphere - a cool and sophisticated clientelle. As for Liquid...well, I have never been to such a dump. In theory it should be the greatest in Lancashire but the combination of poor music, extortionate drinks and rough clientele give it a poor reputation among true clubbers. The Sugar House is a great student venue and hosts gigs for bands like Starsailor, Shed Seven and Wheatus (great!).   
• Oh good grief. I guess it has to be the Alex, grimey though it is. The sugarhouse has had it's moments, but it's a bit too student. Never quite got to grips with the warehouse.   
• The Warehouse was recently raided by sixty plods in combat gear. Most of the staff as well as four patrons were arrested for posession/supply of certain substances. Shame.   
• Springs, lots of hot 50 somethings.   
• Busted! 'Warehouse' is now a safer place to drink.   
• The Sugarhouse on a Thursday night is pretty cool. It's called 'pop scene' and its indie 2 punk   
• The Alex has changed hands, and is still the top rock/alternative venue in Lancaster friday and Saturday nights, it now has a new P.A., stage and has been redecorated, open friday and saturday 10 til 2! www.thealex.com   
• just like to say your opinions on liquid are totally out of character, how can you say liquid is the best night out?,its full of badly dressed woman,townies,with their checked ben shermen shirts,rockports, and tacky jeans who sit in the corner and just stare at people who walk past,looking for fights. ok at first liquid was fresh,clean and a change of scenery,but the place has detioriated to another ageing brooks!, how can you give Liquid two paragraphs and Elemental two lines,by the looks of things your a student,Shag tag night?, Have you ever been on saturday night?,quality night,friendly atmosphere, trendy people. classy funky house tunes,friendly people, NO TOWNIES and two for one any drinks before 11, what more do want?.As for the other clubs in Lancaster,Sugar house and warehouse carnt comment because i've never been. and for BROOKS INTERNATIONAL DISCOTEQUE, what can you say!,Although i can see the resemblance between Tacky Tokes. I hope you take my opions to acount. M.Pickavant   
• HAs brookes shut? Is the Alex still going and has anyone else not been beat up there? Is Liquid still the place to be? And how is the New Empire Complex (or the NEC) in Morecambe doing? Has Lancaster changed? No   
• THE ALEX!!! on a saturday night, the sugarhouse on a thursday/friday/saturday. liquid on student night is ok, but the dance floor looks like an ice rink and its really dancy, elemental is made of concrete....its weird and scary, brooks is scary and is full of mirrors !?!? its weird.   
• University atmostphere is wicked - especially in County College. Don't come here for big name DJ's or Dance music. The thing is, I'm into both, and I'm having a wicked time. Just Don't mention the suicide rate... :)   
• Sugar House student Club in Sugar House Alley, down the side of the Yorkshire House Pub.   
• Liquid, is, quite undoubtedly, the best. Thursday nights afnrastic. £2/3 entry, £1.50 bottle. Most popular dance tunes - everything from Fragma to Britney Spears. Good membership scheme too. Very varied crowd, but quite youthful. No goths really.   
• Liquid- new and undoubtedly the best in Lancaster (worth the cue!) Sugarhouse- student onlt (usually) very good has varioius nights to cater for different tastes, cheap and cheerful always as good laugh Warehouse- goth, avoid at all costs, (unless you like that type of thing) Elemental- small, but has a good student night (including shag tags) good for dance music with dj's from Manchester a regular feature. Brooks- like Tokyo Jo's in Preston but smaller, full of school kids or drunk undesirables.   
• The Sugarhouse Lancaster University's nightclub in town. Good once a month dance nights.   
• The only decent club is the Sugar House in the centre, run by the student union, and even then you have to fight to get to the door for the locals going "can you sign us in?"   
• "Essence" at the Sugarhouse (Fridays during term time) run by Feel and Dance Factory in Preston - some excellent DJs and some cheesy (get your hands in the air...) best night was the first, with Rocky and Diesel, and Luvdup.   
• Check out the "Love Lounge" for some seriously fucked up funky trip-hop grooves and weird acid lines!   
• "Sounds-Up" (at the Park Hotel or Sugarhouse, depending on which fortnight) seriously good night for psychoactive substances - a mad sound system which lurches tripping its perfect face off between deep dubs and tribal trances, amazing ambiences and seriously evil house. Full respect to Neil, Tim and the crew   
• "The Monday Solution" in Brooks nightclub. not a bad night, but they've just limited the pa output on the speakers, so it just ain't as fun anymore. Music ranges from the seriously anthem/euro-cheese house to killer tunes. Could be a top night, but it's on a Monday (which always makes life difficult), and its promoter is trying to be too many things at once.(Still, I can't slag it off too much - I do the lights... which are nice!)   
• Gregson Centre, Moor Lane, Lancaster. Regular Live music from around the world plus cool reggae nights and much much more.   
• The Alex at the top of town is excellent on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays - music policy GRIP (Goth, Rock, Indie, Pop). Also check out the Warehouse near the bus station, newly opened by the guys who run the Alex, but with a better PA.   
• It's a sorry fact that many students feel it necessary to go to Morecambe for a night-club. 'Nough said. Should try out the Crypt, basically the basement of the King's Arms Hotel, opposite the Merchants.   

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