Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars in Loughborough, Leicestershire*

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• Passion@Emporium Not quite Loughborough but well worth the short trip up the road to Coalville as it is one of the most fantastic club nights ever, but be warned its like a tardis so easy to loose one another
• Been to Vice-Versa 3 Fridays in a row now & the atmoshpere is great, the honeys are sweet, music is good, the staff are polite and pleasant. Drinks are very reasonably priced. Overall a great night out. Will try a Saturday as soon as time allows. Check it out. You'll love it.
• VICE VERSA is the best place to go, friday nights are the best nights, good selection of music, nice friendly people, also the dj takes pics and post them on his site. Checkout www.djstulong.f9.co.uk for the pics.
• Echos on a friday for rock music and a bit of drum and bas thrown in, good offers on drinks, and security staff who turn a blind eye to the odd bit of toot or X. vice versa is played out, after you go there a while you get bored. used to like it now i don't
• Teca has been bought and is re-opening as 'Rapture' in September, lots of new nights planned and a total refit i hear. Lets hope so!
• The Union is the only place you need to go!
• VICE VERSA, Vice really isn't that bad and i resent that comment about underage drinking and pub brawls, Vice is a great place to go but people tend to forget that vice isn't strictly a night club, they open 7 nights a week and open every day but sunday too, Monday Wednesday and Fridays are the best nights in there as that is when the best DJ is in, but the other nights aren't too bad, they have a seperate bar downstairs with a seperate DJ and he's pretty good too, IF YOUR EVER IN LOUGHBOROUGH THEN HEAD STRAIGHT TO VICE!!!!!
• it seems to me door staff in loughborough should calm it!! a suit and tie dont make you the top dog! vice versa bouncers are particually predgergist to who they let in if they dont like the look of you every one knows! Bar Zero on the other hand may look small but it is big in atmosphere and music,its a really friendly place to go and in all the time of going there i have only seen trouble once (and belive me i go at least three times a week} tuesday is gay night and even if you aint gay its worth a visit at only two pound a srink on certain nights you cant go wrong. allso hayleys bar which has a bad repritation but not from the owners now the people who tarnished the repritation weas the previous owners when it was blue bannana for a brief time and matts bar before that in which it was a dive but give it a go even just for one drink you got nothing to lose have fun!!!!!!!!!!!
• Rain - at last, a club in Loughborough that isn't utterly shite.
• discoteca beta that it was, bit cold in winter tho with windows open! pulse now know as wild is popular and used to be packed, so did busters and peggys, now known as vice and beauchief
• Yep loughborough is a shit hole grow up there had a good night at pulse last night but u know what ive been places like birmingham for night life no probs but loughboroughs just full of f**king bad boy and girl wanabees f**king twats
• NOPE! Not in Lufbra unless you want sick on ya shoes and ya bag nicked, The beauchief is alrite...I work there on saturday nights
• echos sucks ass ! bouncers are feeble pathetic men and the talent are all students gross!! no high light s there but if u wanted fun i guess theres a f**king kebab van lol
• Having read a plethora of varied reports – most branding Echos a hell-hole I felt compelled to write and put the record straight! Yes the floor is sticky – consider this a bonus as it prevents sliding-induced accidents when enjoying Baywatch or performing any slightly un-hinged dance routine. Yes, at times the music might go off course, but from midnight you can predict the tunes thus building a sense of great anticipation and excitement. The toilets are always blocked, it’s sometimes hard to get to the bar due to the ego-aura surrounding the rugby union crowd, it’s empty during the holidays… But the drinks are cheap, everyone's there for a laugh, no dancing style will ever be frowned upon. Like an aged aunt, you have to get involved to love it. You have to understand Echos. Fond memories burst out of the doors of the place – diss it at your peril!
• 2005 Discoteca is the place to go, check out www.discotecauk.com for the latest info but lately DJs gracing the PURE FILTH nights have been, Danny Rampling, Jeremy Healy, MYNC Project, Graeme Park... the club is getting a refit shortly and caters for everone Young and Old. All the problems spots are the other end of town and scutters tend to head for Vice Versa (under age drinking and pub brawls essential) Pulse (would need no pulse to get me in this place)
• Get yourself down Echos on a Saturday night. The resurrection of the old Poptastic night has been going down a storm with students and locals alike. Expect queues if you go down after 11 though. Tip - the echos dj's also dj in the phantom scream pub beforehand if you want passes...
• As a 'young looking' 18 year old i would advise that u avoid 12 degrees (although it is pretty awesome) and bar euuropa. DONT FORGET-'YOUNG LOOKING' 18 YEAR OLDS KEEP THESE PLACES OPEN WHEN THE STUDENTS GO HOME
• DOES ANY ONE REMEMBER ECHOS BAR...IF YOU DO YOU HAVNT BEEN!!!
• Loughborough is the worst place i have ever been to, DO NOT GO OUT. The only place i would recommend is the union on a monday night - its called champagne and there are always more women than men there. legendary night.
• Check out Loughborough Acoustic Club. They meet every thursday and have a mix of music in Open Mike form or Guest Nights.It's a chance to still get a beer inside you but in a laid back way!!! I know they have a website if you're interested www.LoughboroughAcoustic.org
• pulse has *the* sticky floor, not nice. echos cheap drinks...cheap girls....expensive contraception. vice is ok providing it's not saturday night. except thursday night with the 'fresh faced' youth population of loughborough....
• Theres a once a year punk festival in Loughborough called Beefest, theres always some decent bands playing there if your into Punk Rock.
• if you like sticky floors, being ripped off, dense townies, drunken brawls, butt ugly women slags, arrogant thick people, illegal bouncers, cheesey crap music, low life scum, an abundance of 12 year olds, and venues that smell like a combination of piss and sick then Loughborough is for you
• Vice on fridays, Echoes on saturdays and whatever you do stay AWAY from Pulse
• Yikes nowhere decnt in Loughborough which is a shame as theres plenty of money to be made from student. If I win the lottery things may change...
• We're a group of lads who visit loughie for 2 weeks every 2 weeks. we love the nights out. You rarely pay more than a quid a pint get wrecked for less than 20 quid everyones a winner. True there are a few inbreds lurking in the dark corners of the rooms but avoid these urine smelling nomads and your laughing. Our nights consist of mondays- unicorn, come and watch the old ledgend break dancing like a crazy mofo. Get kicked out around 11 and pop into vice-versa till you drop. By the way our man b@#$$y f*x is lookin for a bit of dj work if the right people are reading this! Thursday is our other regular night out. Get ruined in amber room, turbo shandies for less than 3 dollar. good night mate! The gallery puts up with us for an hour or so belting out some tunes on the kareoke then finish off in pulse or vice-versa which then is the most expensive part of the week. If you fancy joining us come along to one of the venues above and look for 10 rowdy good lookin men singin dancin and gambling(busted). See ya round!!!
• i enjoy the company that appears in vicaversa it is a remarkably turned out place for loughborough. i met a lovely albanian fellow there and we conversed for simply hours about the lovely place that is albania. (i also met a right willy called graeme told you that he is a willy look how he spells his name) also met a simply lovely chappy called Pooter from nigeria. vice is wonderbar (see what i did there?!) if you want to meet people from all walks of life. come to vice ill see you there tally ho old fruit!
• PULSE has improved! Yes really. The place has been redecorated (no more huge sperm on the walls!), the carpet is new, and the sound system has been repaired. Thursday night is RnB / garage in small room, 80s/ 90s large room. the oldies night DJ is VERY stroppy (talk to his mates who are much more friendly) but he throws the odd club or grunge classic in to catch out the unsuspecting. Feb 2005
• Vice Versa commonly known as vice - Its lovely full of High School girls smoke and scary old guys. Nicest place in loughborough at the moment is Lloyds - The Amber Rooms (also one of the only place sin loughborough where you need to at least look 18)
• pulse = puke hole echoes = student tottie discotecca = dansing till yer drop
• pulse, echoes and discoteca are all shit, unless u want some fat slags trying get off with u, then u might like it.
• discoteca loughborough is a wicked night club, plenty of house music and top dj's. Stay away from cheesy night clubs such as pulse and echoes they are really shite.MBC , THE RUSHES, LOUGHBOROUGH, EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT, DJ STEVE G, 8PM TIL 1PM TOP HOUSE TUNES, FREE ENTRY, LOADS OF DRINKS OFFERS.
• The nicest club in Loughborough is definitely Vice-Versa. Its very tastefully turned out and they've sacked the DJ who used to get pissed and play hard house all night then pass out. AVOID Discoteca aka 'Tekka' at all costs. Its FULL of scallies and its not a nice place to be in. Equally as dodgy is Pulse. STICKY STICKY floor and the only club i've ever been in which is CARPETED! The music is crap and full of old old men!
• There is a under 16 or 18's club called magic. Never been but my friends have, they say it's safe and fun.
• Whoever said vice versa was Cheap do not believe them, Yeah its pretty good in there but £3 Quid a pint, and two pound summat for sambuca your having a giraffe, I cant be bothered with the clubs anymore, just go out to pub, and make sure youve got a couple of crates of lager back home then have a party, but if i had to reccomend a club its probably pulse, Always Full But not to full, I mean echoes goes from one extreme to the other on a friday Noone is there on a saturday you cant move, and discoteca, man i used to go there when i was 15, for the quid tequila slammers, got accused of drug dealing once when all i was doing was trying to buy drugs HOWS THAT DEALING, that got me banned for a couple of months
• All clubs are crap in loughborough!!!
• Jesus, the clubs in Loughborough are shite. I know nightclubs in general are pretty poor, but Loughborough has some of the finest examples of crap clubs. If you value your life, avoid Loughborough at night - there's more stabbings in this town than in downtown New York.
• my god where do i start? echos is an over priced dive only popular with people so far up there own arse its unbeleivable. the place plays noise not even recognizable as music (unless sweet child of mine comes on). pulse is a good laugh as it doesnt take itself as seriously as echos. you might find this hard to beleive but echos claims to be a nightclub!!!!!!!!!! pulse smells of sick but thats a bonus as it disguises your own BO!! the union is full of rich boy students who get pissed on 2 'nasties' and find being sick a form of entertainment. if you like queing and standing next to blokes who think the world owes them a favour then lboro is for you.
• I'm writting in response to the post where someone mentioned that all the people in discotea loughborough are under the age of 18 Well....... your actually wrong. on Fridays now Discoteca holds KAHUA which is one of the best house nights in Loughborough, There are DJ's such as Nick Correlli from The MYNC project, Strakes from passion, and in the coming weeks the homegrown boys from Manchester will be there keeping it loud. Alot of people attend this night and they are all over the age of 21. Once a month there is also a night called Pure Filth which has recently been graced with the appearance of Farley Jack Master Funk. The tunes were Jackin and the club was to full capacity. Visit www.kahua.co.uk
• Fuck you all discoteca is the place to be on a saturday night,its a great atmophere and you know every one up there, it is not full of underage drinkers and the music is grrreaaat, baricuda bar is another great pub because of the music and the people around you, its also a good place to be on a thursday night when it is only a pound a pint.
• pulse is SHIT. so is teca da whatton shed is the best
• Timmo in Teca. Dirt.
• for a small town it really ain't that bad.... honest! Simply follow this basic guide: Mondays at Echos. Tuesdays at ViceVersa. Wednesday either Echos, or Hey Ewe at the union, Thursday... dodgy, but if you must go out, brave Pulse. Fridays aren't complete without a trip to FND at the uni... Saturdays are townie days - play spot-the-chavva or just stay in! Sundays... pound a pint at the Phantom til midnight... sorted. Tip: the Griffin has pub2club discount cards at weekends for Echos... go late for cheap entry and minimum queuing!
• The Union is the only place in town worth going, although that's rapidly going downhill as they let anyone in these days...
• Echo's white room on a saturday night is chilling! it kills pulse or vice, the uk garage and rnb is sick! head to techa after echo's white room about 2ish til 5!
• baracuda
• i'm afraid to say but echoes and the union
• no clubs in loughborough are worht it, Pulse has a sticky floor, my mate trod in glass there cos her shoe had stuck to the ground! try Vice Versa for a smoother drink and a nice dance
• vice versa
• Freedom every Thursday at the EHB - Free Entry featuring Loughborough's Premier DJ - 'Smelly Ash'
• Well L'boro has no good clubs! Bars would be Barracuda and maybe Vice Versa. Head 2 Leicester or Notts 4 good clubs
• vica versa is bad good tunes cheap drinks and a freindly up 4it environment, 4get discotecha the spice girls went out a long time ago!!!
• The Famed Discoteca, Sadly Ive been Banned, I think they got fed up of having to carry me out all the time after i had a shitload of £1 Shots of tequila
• pulse-smells of cheesy feet echos-smells of vomit both play cheesy crap
• Pulse, Discoteca, X Treme - h8 clubbin myself
• The clubs in this towm are crap full of underaged drinkers - its sooo obvious and crap music. Best to go to the pubs like Llodys, unicorn and Gallery they all have a good atomosphere and music you and your mates can have a good boogie to.
• best places now are orange tree, vice versa, baracuda bar and moon and bell. Sadly the only good place to dance is thurs at pulse - if you're into 60's/70's
• Vice Versa is absoulutly gorgeous!!!!!! and definatly the BEST place in Loughborough!! and only £2 entry! discoteca is just full of 15yr olds from the high school, grammer school and convent and a few others!! and the other clubs arent up to much either! go to Vice Versa!!
• It used to be next door to the Curzon!!!!!!!!!!! Cant remember the managers name who made our life hell (or so we thought!!!!!! how innocent!!!!!!) but he did pass away at an early age
• This Summer (2001) XS has had a refit and is now being called Echoes once again!!! Apparently most of the money spent on doing the club up has gone on the loos! Crystals is the place to be though on a Tuesday nite,and Vice Versa is good too, straying away from cheesy music which seems to infiltrate all of the bars and (3) clubs Lufbra hosts!!!
• Pulse is crap and it smells funny. Rather like the caretakers cupboard at schools.
• Pulse, well there will always be a fight that you can spectate, or go and harrass a barman called Martin. that's always fun! Club XS has cheap drinks on a saturday nights, and poles so u can poledance, and toilets with no doors. there is no need to have privacy from your friends let alone the rest of lufbra apparently.
• pulse. Does under 18 nights too for teenybopping townies.
• CLUB XS IS ONE OF THE BEST CLUBS IN LOUGHBOROUGH NOW. IT MAY NOT HAVE IMPROVED AS SUCH. BUT LETS FACE IT PULSE IS A SHIT HOLE NOW DAYS. YOU STICK TO THE FLOOR AND IT STINKS TO HIGH HEVEN IN THE CLUB AND THE TOILETS. AND AS FOR DISCOTECA I HAVE ONLY EVER BEEN THERE ONCE AND I WALKED IN SEEN HOW CRAP IT WAS AND WALKED STRAIGHT OUT.
• Pulse nite club, with its spunky walls! YOU GOTTA LOVE IT !
• Pulse Nitghtclub in Loughborough is wicked (don't care what anyone says, you've gotta have a bit of tackiness sometime!) and even better if you are an underage clubber, cos they let most people in, especially girls in very low cut tops- flirt with the bouncer and your in. DOn't forget to check out the interior, most people don't realise this but the walls in Pulse are adorned with giant blue sperm. I've had some wicked nights in Pulse....
• pub - Beauchief Hotel (formerly Peggy's Bar) - loadsa local bands playing
• Diabolical! Never ever, ever, ever go to Pulse.
• The Pulse is shite awful and a spawning ground for amoebas in stilletoes! The staff are ignorant and look like they'd club you if you met them down a dark alley! Steer well clear....V/Verca is a reburbished Busters, the clientele are as tacky as ever
• Pulse is in loughborough next to argos on the main street i love it i go every week, in the big room the music is shite seventees and eightees music which is allright for a wile but it soon pisses you off but the small room is banging hard house and trance played on friday and saturday nights. it does have more of a yunger crowd than most of the clubs in loughborough except(clubxs) which a youth club would be better named. i hate it in clubxs the music is shite and the clientel is much to be desired. Discotecca is quite good the music can get a little crap but its fun and the beers cheap. Iv'e only been in vice versa once it's over 21 but the club it's self is clean and cool the music is good and it's always full of the opposite sex.
• Pulse, well what can i say, it's ok, in moderation.... All the little kiddies go to the one near the halifax...
• Pulse, everybodies nightmare. Unless youre balding in cowboy boots and Adam Sielbles dad; A.K.A Mr. Wonderful. Plays cheesy chart crap in one room, and cheesy chart dance crap in the other. Go if you want to get bottled, pelted down the stairs by the illeagal bouncers and pursued by girls in sovereign rings and white peddle pushers wanting to know why you were "looking at her boyfriend". Dont even bother with the truth, "Because he's dancing like an ape on speed" cause it will only result in her immitation gold jewellry leaving a nasty gold stain on your gob. Club XS, the old echoes. Always empty, but for the token few that do turn up, its cheap you can wear your trainers and hoods without any hassle. we even got past without paying pretty easily, but dont everybody do it. thats our trick. Barely any white peddle pushers. More students than Shelthorpe chippy workers. Reflected occasionally in the music. But dont break dance, the bouncers dont like it, however comedy you manage to make it. Discotecca, wouldnt with yours. Except on the occasional studenty type night, but even still you get all the stereotyped student anthems. Leave it out Damon Albarn. Just for one week. Recognised DJ's? If thats referring to local dropouts; Ashley Turner, fat, freckly, ex performing arts student=loud and annoying, V'S Dj Scrawney on the decks, an ex school heart throb turned cradle snatcher. Possibly got off with the majority of the 12 year old girls who fancied him at Harry Carlton. If you miss their stint at 'tecca' then you might possibly be able to catch them handing out their own flyers beforehand. showbiz.
• AVOID LOUGHBOROUGH LIKE THE PLAGUE IF YOU WANT TO GO OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME AFTER 11PM. I just moved down to bournemouth to goto uni, comparing bournemouth and in particular, Slinky (Slinky just rox man, i spent 2 weeks in to have 1 good night there ffs) is like comparing a sunday dinner to the contents of a babys nappy! the Zone, which no longer runs since mr walsh and mr schofield (hello donna chaz)decided to turn it into a posh place for over 20's. or basically theyre saying no under 18's. either way we all get in, whether thats because the guys on the door know us as one of my best mates gfs dads is mr schofield or whether we actually ARE over 18 and still stupid enough to go out. Go nottingham, i went there for my 18th and spent £100, twas fantastic, although ive promised myself im going to check out Slinky @ Industria on the friday before xmas.
• "No true Lufbronian [sic] would have a bad word to say about (krystals) pulse!" What the fuck is that all about???? Despite the fact I'm only guessing that I qualify as a 'Lufbronian' (whatever that is), I have to take issue with this point. Pulse always has been, and ever shall be, a complete and utter shit-hole.
• No true Lufbronian would have a bad word to say about (krystals) pulse! Ive had some great nights there! though the bouncers can get ruff if they spot you in the wrong loos!!! be warned! Pulse rocks man!
• Pulse, Loughborough's answer to the Ministry Of Sound is a saddly pathetic little place with a remarkably varied age group among it's clientelle. Music is on the Stilton side of cheesey and the DJ's could be charitably described as ropey. If you want to spend a mint and wake up the next morning wishing that you'd stayed at home listening to Grandma talking about the war, don't miss out on pulse, the premier nitespot in town.
• The Zone has really banging music these days (but it's joined to Busters with the Maestro of Cheese himself DJing every night - where did they find that guy?) If you like hard house/trance, the Zone is cool.
• The club.....(which was by all accounts shite) has now been replaced by Discotecca- which although it has the crappiest name by far is by far the best club in Luffbra. it has the nicest interior, and ought to be given a chance- at the moment it is populated by a large group of remarkably young 18 year olds and the odd student with taste- give the place a chance- it beats pulse hands down.
• Echos is now "Club XS" (same shit,diffrent name) Fri/Sats have legal drinkers who could be mistaken for 16 year olds. Anything at the Union is shit,with Rugger me Bugger me boys.
• Club XS (formerly Echo's). Just like when they changed 'Marathon' bars into 'Snickers' bars, the differences between old and new are miniscule.
• Shock horror! Echo's has been bought by XS Leisure, and the Snooker bit is being turned into an American Pool Hall. What will happen to the club?
• Echo's, on Monday nights, just to see if Jim manages to stay awake in the DJ box all night.
• Busters has a dance room called The Zone and the girls in there are alot cheaper than your average prostitute.
• The three clubs in town are; Echoes, moshy punk night on mondays, student night wednesdays, friday and saturday are townie nights. Capacity around 500. The Club, Monday hosts an R&B and Hip Hop night, tuesday is a cheap drink night, Friday night the club hosts some well known DJs. Capacity around 250. Pulse, Tuesday is student night, Thursday is student/seventies night, friday and saturday are townie nights. Capacity around 700. It only costs £8 to get a taxi to the Emporium in Coalville where top night Passion is held every saturday, best DJs in the area and guaranteed a good night.
• A top place to go is the PULSE. They have just had a half million pound re-fit and its ace. Allthough the music will deften you for the following day. Entrace is cheaper b4 11.
• 'The Club' is a new club in town - it used to be called TJs. Don't take any drugs in or you will take a beating.
• NOT MUCH THEY'RE ALL A BIT CRAP. VENTURE INTO NOTTINGHAM AND LEICSTER. THERE MUCH BETTER.
• There are no clubs of note in the town unless you count Echo's, whose one claim to fame is that Bianca from Eastenders once threw up in the ladies.
  I am one of the Doormen at Echo's, as well as a Uni Student, and we have had more celebrities down there than Patsy Palmer and the subsequent river of vomit!! We have had Vicky from Coronation Street twice, Melanie Williams ( c/o Pure Filth 1995. ) Mel B. and Nigel Benn ( at a do c/o Loughborough Uni. ) We also have famous top talented DJ's on a monthly basis at 7th.Heaven, such as Seb Fontaine, Chris & James + the Mixmag tour, John Digweed and Daniele Davoli. Numerous extras also participate on 7th. Heaven nights as well, adding to the atmosphere.
• The Pulse, in town. It's shite though, with a very young crowd.
  Pulse and if you like youngsters go to Echos which is shite.
  What used to be 'Krystals' (above Barnados and Argos...ha, ha, ha) is now called 'Pulse' - more of the same I should think.
  The Pulse is the best of the three nightclubs in Loughborough, and can get quite busy at weekends and on student night. However, there are still far more blokes around than girls, regardless of age.
• Labour Club (free live bands every Saturday)

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