Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire*

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• The dance music scene in MK is officially DEAD!! 10/10/2010
• Bite - Every Monday at the Revolution Bar in Xscape (snowdome) - It plays alternative tunes from Sigur ros to Sepultura and has a really good atmosphere. Check out bitenight.co.uk for up to date info
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Club - Indie/alternative night. Every Wednesday at Opus and first Friday of the month at Revolution. Put bands on from time to time. So far these have included Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Johnny Foreigner, Battle, New Cassettes, Sukie, Sympathy State, Trailing Laces, Lightspeed Champion, Situationists, William and many more. DJ all the cool indie thats about.
• Right, a great indie club on Weds nights at Opus in Theatre District. They showcase a new band every other week so far putting on Battle, Shapes, Left.Right+Centre, New Cassettes, Johnny Foreigner and Sympathy State with Trailing Laces, Dylan James, Winterkids and Sukie all coming up! Only £2 to get in every week with the club going on til 3am. Doors open 9.30pm every week and drink offers start at £1.50. KKBB also do the first Friday of every month at Revolution in XScape. This is £2 to get in before 11pm and £3 after. Runs from 10pm til 2am and they spin all the best indie/alternative music. Drink offers start from £2. Check out www.kisskissbangbangclub.com and www.myspace.com/kisskissbangbangclub.
• Shout, Sabotage (bus station) CMK
• On the Sabotage front I think thats a bit of overkill ;-) I promote the night and can vouch that the DJ's have played everything from prokoviev via the flaming lips all the way through to Orange Goblin. If you want to get hold of me my e-mail is scotty@sabotageme.co.uk. As for cliquey I chat to anyone who talks to me and I can't think of many other venues that let the clubbers have DJ spots. Also we've just paid £2000 out of our own money to put local live bands on :-) (starting June 1st), as for Indie kids they get everywhere.. we've tried enforcing smiling at the club but it doesn't change them ;-)
• DONT GO TO sabotage held on a monday at SHOUT! im milton keynes by the train station!!! seriously its filled with wannabe indie kids. The DJs are utter shite!! and the birds who go are all fucking ugly!! If you want to somewhere that plays alternative music DONT come to milton keyens there is no scene here apart from the one run by cliquey self obsessed Sabotage crowed who dont like outsiders. And think fucking Green day ia alternative!!!!
• Mood - this place has very aggressive bouncers so make sure you drink up before it shuts at 2am! Otherwise they'll remove your drink and throw you out. Drinking up time or not.
• Bar Central - everything from indie (The Smiths through to the Strokes) to Nu-Metal, to rock, sixties stuff and pop and dance.
• YATES, OCEANA, MOOD theyr all good
• The Empire, Flamingo's, Oceana hav a remarkably young patrons as do the Empire!
• chemical warfare raves 07855626569 ring at about 11 o clock to 12pm phat raves drum and bass techno and hard house all night
• the empire
• don't knock glof clubs we go up the driving range sometimes its a laugh not to seroius but music wise the pitz if your under age and bar centrel if your over
• Oceana - simply the best place to dance for miles around! a whole variety of rooms, however the Disco room is superb!
• Oceana
• chicagos has got real great its got deals now friday its a tenner to get in and drinks are free 14 quid on fridays and 16 quid on sats music is excellent and suits all ages. the empire has now shut down.
• oceania
• Jumpin Jak's is fantastic, if a little expensive on Fri's and Sats. Sunday nights when it's a £ a drink are cool ,especially when Club 18-30 are in town. Ethos and Visage on a Thursday night, you can't go wrong.
• Oceana a new club opened in 2002 really nice place lots of dance floors lots of bars lots of seating lots of high quality girls, its a nice place over 21 except monday and thursday. the bouncers are quite friendly and polite to which always takes me by suprise. The only problem theres about 60% guys on a good day and the pint glasses tend to run out
• Changes as of 11/05/02: 1) Bletchley night club is now a gay and lesbian estabishment. 2) Zaks is now located downstairs @ the Vic following refurbishment (200+ capacity). 3) Oceana @ Ski Slope boasts 7 rooms (2,000+ capacity). 4) Thirteen promotions in MK offer alternative late night to Friday nights @ Bar Central, regular events usually held on a Thursday @ Zaks in Wolverton.
• Empire --- awful horrible place, you are never sure if the girl is 15 or 14. thats on the over 21's night!!
• Check out Bar Med [Midsummer Blvd] on Saturdays, rammed every week, with the Lashkateers spinning the best in UK Garage and RnB, guest MC Glimma from Radio 1's Dreem Teem. Join the mailing list at lashkateers.co.uk!
• The clubs around the MK are great, there is alot of variety for al ages.
• Chicago rock cafe plays amixture of 60's 70's and 80' music and usually has some sort of special drink offer on a friday night.
• The Empire now has Ultra Vegas every Friday night until End of December!!! Spice room (upstarirs Empire) has Casino every Friday nigth aswell. (Ultra Vegas- house/trance, Casino - garage) If Empire is too packed go to Toad, which will be nearly as busy - but sometimes has Ministry of Sound DJs.
• Clubs are a bit crap round here. Empire's the only real club but that has not changed at all since it were put there. If you go before 9pm on a Friday and Saturday Casa in the Theatre District is a pretty good place and it also has a 2 o'clock licence.
• Bletchley Night Club- garage music, reggae, charts Empire- spice room= garage,other= house, dance, charts Q-bar= garage
• Club desert - new investors needed - just a First Lesiure package deal from Empire
• Major update: delete all references to the Winter Gardens, The Loft, Ultra Vagas etc - the venue has closed and is going to be redeveloped as a Livingwell Health Club!
• Ultra Vegas in the Winter Gardens. Great nights, very friendly. Room 2 in Empire plays surprisingly good tunes on a Friday night.
• ultra vagus empire
• The Sanctuary.
• Golden Flamingo at the Leisure Plaza near to the central rail station. Very popular and expensive, but is very flashy (apparently).
• Flamingos was renamed in March 1998 it's now the Empire, and on Thursday's it's just £1.50 to get in. My personal fave. is Fat Tuesdays at the Winter Gardens, though they've started charging admission.
• Also... indi fans should check out Wednesday nights at the winter gardens... It was called Happy Wednesdays but has now changed its name. It's cool though...
• Flamingos is now the 'Empire' and it has over 25s nights, over 18s and under 18s! Very cool
• * Empire (Used to be Flamingos), located to the right if standing in front of train station (Infamous Ritzy type music, marginally better though). * Winter Gardens, Top place on Friday and Saturday nights has all the DJs and most of the tours. Best times are when the whole place is opened and they allow you to leave and enter any of the other little pubs inside the complex. * Directors, in front of train station, has a reputation for being a very rough place. More of a pub than a club. Some Fridays they play drum & bass tunes.
• Happy Wednesdays is no more, may it rest in peace. A great nite out sadly missed. But then again there is Bar Central on a Friday nite, picking up the pieces where 'Wednesdays' left off.
• Chicago's used to do some excellent events with the local cable TV operator!
• The Golden Flamingo closed last year and has since reopened as The Empire. It's advertising itself now as a dance club, but is still a fairly tacky chart dance type place.
• Empire (nee Flamingoes). The best in uplifting, bangin' house, man. So good, they had to close. Bar Central. Above Waitrose, sells beer to indie kids. Who go there a lot.

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