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Straight during week, but every
Saturday is Sundissential Night. Gay / Lesbian / Straight /
Australian! - Anything goes. If you are a cyber kid, who likes the sound of banging hard house, then this is the club for you!
If the rave is too much for you, then, you can go up stairs and chill in the
'funkissential room' which consists of Kylie, Madonna, Michael
Jackson remixes etc. If you are the sort of person who likes a buzz, then chill into it in the
'funkissential room', then as you come up, go down to the rave and jump onto the
podium to reach your euphoric state!
Everyone is extremely chatty so be prepared for people with verbal
diahorea!
There isn't really a dress code, but they ask you to make an effort.
They will turn away 'Kevs', 'Sharons' etc, and sometimes can get funny so it is best to shy away from jeans /
trainers. Although, if you dress "normally", you will stick out like a sore thumb! girls, wear your knee boot covers and short skirts, boys, get some UV spray and get down
'Oasis' for some florescent clubbing gear! Might be an idea to spray your hair silver too! lol!
Rubber spikes go down well and get yourself a dummy! Buy your glow sticks in there and
dance till the early hours of the morning!
This is a real MUST HAVE experience!
The guest DJ's will wow you with their talent to keep you high as a kite all night! There is a glass cube over the
dance floor, which you can walk into off the balcony. Here you are dancing on a sheet of glass above the audience and in the lighting statements and air
conditioning, you feel as though you are floating above the croud!
Don't worry about what people are thinking when you are on the
dance floor coz they aren't thinking ANYTHING! They are just there for a good time!
Everyone is SOO friendly and are very respectful. As big as the venue is, it feels almost as though it
isn't big enough for the party (and I don't mean squashed in by that.
Very spacious in-fact!). The DJ's can ALWAYS read the crowd and keep you sweating and
screaming for more!
A FABULOUS night all in all, although, with the energy of the rave, be sure to drink plenty of water as you may dehydrate.
Although don't over do it or you will wake up with a head ache.
Just sip half a pint to a pint of water an hour. other than that. BRACE YOURSELF!
This event ISN'T for amateurs!
Ben, Birmingham
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| The
Jester
Horsefair, Holloway Circus,
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| Kudos
28 Horse Fair,
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The Breakfast Bar. This club is roughly £5 on the door, depending on when you go, and will keep you dancing from 3am till dawn!
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| The
Medicine Bar
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Gay friendly club, £2 on door (excluding events. very dark /
'studenty' / 'warehousy', but plays the banging heavy tracks.
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| Missing
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Cabaret Bar and restaurant. small gay bar with
dance floor and drag acts, stripper, karaoke etc, DJ most nights.
Themed cocktails with kinky names. All pints and bottles before 7:30pm=£1.50. wide variety of music on the
play list, ranging from trance, hard house, happy hardcore, chart, gay anthems, old school. SOME drum and bass, but very little (as it's
s****! lol!)
I love it here. I'm here whenever I have got the money really.
Even if I don't have much money, I like to go and have a dance and a laugh.
All the bar staff know me (mainly coz I get drunk and flirt!). When the DJ spots me going in he ALWAYS plays my song (True love never dies - flip and fill featuring kelly
llorenna). Ben, Birmingham
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| The
Nightingale
Essex House,
Kent Street, B5 6RD
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Popular 'Scene Queen' club. Play list
consists of the likes of S club 7 / Hearsay, along with R&B,
Trance, Garage etc. Ok. Ben, Birmingham
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| Route
2
Hurst Street
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Cheap and tacky club (filthy dusty
s*** hole) with cheap drag acts and rubbish sound system. Be prepared for black fingers and filthy nails.
Enough said! Ben, Birmingham
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City
27 Water Street, Old Snow Hill,
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| Basils
9 The Strand
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| Chaps
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96 Topping Street
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| Flamingos
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176 Talbot Road
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| Flying
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170 Talbot Road
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| Funny
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Queen Street
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| Hello
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Cookson Street
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Talbot Square
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| Mardi
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114 Talbot Road
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94 Talbot Road
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| Charlie's
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73-75 Seagate,
DD12EH
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| Libertys
124 Seagate,
DD12HB
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CC Blooms
23/24 Greenside
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Claremont
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& Restaurant
133-135 East
Claremont Street, EH7 4JA
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| Taste
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Niddry Street
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Delmonicas
68 Virginia
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Admiral Duncan
54 Old Compton
Street, Soho, W1V5PD
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Bar Aquda
13-14 Maiden Lane,
Covent Garden, WC2E 7NE
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Comptons of Soho
51-53 Old Compton Street, W1D 6HN
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The Edge
11 Soho Square,
London, W1D3QE
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| Fiction
King's Cross Freight Depot, off
Goods Way, NW1 1UR
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| G-A-Y
157 Charing Cross Road, WC2H0EL
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Heaven
The Arches,
Villiers Street, WC2 6NG
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Ku Bar
75 Charing Cross
Road, WC1H 0NE
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Kudos
10 Adelaide
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The Phoenix
Cavendish Square,
W1
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Popstarz
The Scala, 275-277
Pentonville Road, N19NL
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The Quebec
12 Old Quebec
Street, London, W1H7AF
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Shadow Lounge
5 Brewer Street,
Soho, W1F 0SD
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West Central
29-30 Lisle
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Manchester
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Bar 38
Canal Street
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Outdated and outnumbered This
3-floor bar was once one of the trend setting bars of Canal
Street, with its modern and stylish décor, setting a high
standard based on a suave, sophisticated look which today’s gay
community seem to adore. Although it still retains its stylish
streak, the bar feels somewhat dated now, and perhaps due to the
lack of customers, it’s not one of the “must be at” bars any
more. The food (provided on the top floor) is adequate, but
nothing to scream and shout about. I guess it’s worth a look
though, if only for the cool fountain downstairs. Oh yeah, and
it’s also earned a reputation as bar thirty-straight for reasons
I surely don’t need to spell out, for those of you that care! Rating:
** Joe, Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Bar
Med
Princess
Street (round the corner from Canal Street)
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Adequately
amiable - This bar (just around the corner from Canal
Street on Princess Street) screams out bright colours, which, at
least in my mind, means it has something to live up to! To be
fair, it’s not a bad place at all. It may not be totally gay, it
may not be classed as unique, and it may not be the most
beat-popping, heart-thumping, body-twistin bar you could go to,
but it’s friendly and nice and just generally quite, well, cool!
And the food is nice too! Rating: ***
Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Cruz 101
101 Princess
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Essential
Bloom Street, M1
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Fab
Café
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Funky
retro time-warp
- Ok, so the fab café may not be one of those “gay” bars we
all know and uh, love, but due to it’s amazingly funky
atmosphere, with all-inclusive viewing of shows like Thunderbirds
and Dr. Who, it’s just THE place to be if you’re up for
something a little different. It’s also happily devoid of
screaming queens and pushy poofs, and harbours some of the most
scrumptious bar staff in Manchester. Go see for yourself!
Rating:
*****
Joe, Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Gaia
46
Sackville Street
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Inner
city tranquillity - Right, Gaia. Very hard to categorise this one, because
(like the fab café) it’s something quite different to the other
run-of-the-mill bars in the gay village. It’s quite serious I
suppose, definitely for chilling after one to many JDs than for
pumping yourself up for a big night at essential. Lots of sitting
down opportunity needless to say, which makes a refreshing change!
Be warned however, it is over 21’s and although you’re likely
to slip by on a Wednesday afternoon, have your fake id’s at the
ready on a Saturday night!
Rating:
**** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Hollywood
Show Bar
Bloom
Street, M1 3LY
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Camp mega-scene - Now the Hollywood Showbar is going to be
a tricky one to rate as it is likely to very strongly appeal to
some, and equally will disgust others. It’s incredibly camp and
loud and blessed with a whole heavenly host of drag queens in all
their colours. It’s fun, lively and has a great atmosphere.
Cynics would insult it as having all the negative gay attributes
all thrown into one glory hole to fester. Decide for yourself! Rating:
*** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Manhattan
Show Bar
100
Bloom Street, M1 6HZ
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Camp
mega-scene + hetero! - The sister bar to the Hollywood showbar, these two are
really pretty much the same *gasp aaaaghh!* when it comes down to
it, although this one doesn’t have the “gay only” door
policy of Hollywood. So all your hetero friends can come in, and
come out 10,000 times camper! Yeah, so that’s that really! Rating: *** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Manto
46
Canal Street
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Cutting
edge - One of the founding fathers of the gay village in
Manchester, Manto is a great central bar with a nice friendly
atmosphere. At present it is closed for renovation (we can only
wonder!) but you can still enjoy the other members of the Manto
group which started off because of this bar.
à Gaia, Paradise Factory,
Manto, Generation X, Manto at the Trafford Centre, and Manto 2 in
London Rating: **** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Metz
Canal
Street, M1 3EZ
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Pleasantly
diverse - Bizarrely situated on the other side of the canal (look out
for the little bridge!), Bar Metz makes a lovely addition to the
gay village. It’s not pushy, it’s not camp, it’s not loud
(well, not often!), it’s not bright and whizzy. It’s just
lovely! The décor is distinctly affluent ethnic, mirrored only by
Prague V (to an extent at least). It also boasts a canal barge to
sit on during those lovely warm summer months with your friends.
It’s just nice! The food is also scrummy, and like the décor,
leans strongly to eastern European flavours. Top marks on every
front here!
Rating:
***** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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New
Union
111
Princess Street (end of Canal Street), M1 6JB
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Scrub
haven - My friends constantly nag me to go to the New Union on
our frequent nights out. They say it’s the focus of the gay
village. They say it’s attitude free. They say it’s loud, camp
and fun. I say balderdash. The New Union is a great place to go
and cruise for 16- boys and 65+ men, who between them have an IQ
less than my shoe size and less style than Pat Butcher. At least
she makes an effort with her makeup! Well anyway, yeah, it also
offers karaoke on a Thursday for people who love disgracing
themselves. It’s great if you’re into this kind of night
apparently, I’m just not. Rating:
* Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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New
York
98
Bloom Street, M1 3LY
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All
talk? - Another bar of the Hollywood/Manhattan strain, New York is
just as loud, camp and fun. Historically located in the centre of
the village, the focus has now moved away from this area somewhat
leaving it feeling slightly off the beaten track. But still,
it’s well worth the crawl around the corner from the New Union,
even if only to escape from that place! Fun and colourful, with
more drag queens than you could shake a stick at. Rating: ** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Paradise
Factory
112 Princess
Street, M1 6DD
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Poptastic
The Mutz Nutz,
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Prague
V
Canal
Street
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Eastern
flavour - I don’t know who was the consultant on interior design
for this trendy bar, but I like what I see! A nice blend of
industrial steel, wood, leather and generally all things chunky.
It’s great! As for atmosphere and all that, Prague V is a nice
place to enjoy some bangin pre-club beats at night, and opts for
the more mellow feel during the day. It’s also blissfully cool
in the summer, making it the perfect retreat after spending
several thousand on Prada! It’s quite a mixed crowd, but I
always feel a little of “what I can’t get my hands on” is
quite refreshing on Canal Street. I like! Rating: **** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Rembrandt
33
Sackville Street (in the Gay Village), M1 3LZ
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Rubber
ducky - A nice bit of sleaze on the corner, the Rembrandt is one
of the “historical” pubs of the Village apparently. Pah! If
old men, leather, rubber, skinheads, sleaze etc etc is your thing,
great! It’s the place to be (if you’re not already at
Sub101!). Otherwise, if you feel you have at least a margin of
style, attitude, or whatever you’d like to call it, may I
suggest somewhere else? Rating: * Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Slug
and Lettuce
Canal
Street
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Bland
trend - Nothing very special here I’m afraid. Yes, the
furniture is nice, the floor is lovely too. But the bar staff are
a bit up themselves. And it’s also probably the most
gay-unfriendly bar of the gay village, if that makes sense. Well,
it’s ok for a quick one (if you’re prepared to fork out for
your pint) but hardly the place you’d like to spend any time. Rating: ** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Spirit
Canal
Street
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Pure
enjoyment - One of the hallmarks of the Village, Spirit has it all.
It’s a great place to impress first-timers, with it’s lovely
smooth look with a hint of 70’s retro in places. During the day
it’s nice and quiet, and has a very pleasant atmosphere. In the
evenings things get a bit busier and louder, thanks to the DJ
that’s resident most nights. Ok, so the music could be better
– it does try to be more hardcore than it can handle sometimes.
But still, that’s just a minor quibble. What makes this place
extra special is the fantastic beer garden on the roof, with
lovely views. You can even enjoy it in the cooler months now
thanks to the heaters they’ve put up there! They also do a range
of food, all of which is delicious. A great nice out! Rating: ***** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Thompson’s
Arms
Sackville
Street
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Not one for the kiddies! - I don’t like this place. Like the Union, it has that
level of sleaze that just tips over my tolerance from being mildly
flattered to just plain scared. Lots of older clientele, which
means it does seem to scare off the young studenty types. Like me
that is! But is often worth a look-see, go on, surprise yourself! Rating: ** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Tribeca
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Chilling,
not thrilling - This place is just plain nice. It’s a totally
non-threatening atmosphere, with lovely interior design (lots of
copper!) and really is just a great place to unwind. You can even
enjoy views of that lovely little park! How quaint. What’s
probably one of the nicest things about this place is that there
is quite a remarkable age range and nice distribution across it.
And because being the place it is (and also as it’s quite mixed)
people don’t seem to go looking for one thing so much. Like a
shag. Or a fight. That’s so refreshing! Rating: **** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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Via
Fossa 28-30
Canal Street, M1 3EZ
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A
little bit of that - Apart from being a little scared of lighting up in this
place (you feel it could burn to the ground in less than five
minutes!) it’s just great. There really is something in here to
please everyone. There’s the window seats to watch the pretty
people walk past. There’s the tasty barmen, no, VERY tasty
barmen! There’s a disco style dancefloor downstairs. There’s a
lovely restaurant with yummy food. And there’s a minstrel’s
gallery (no, not the chocolate) from which to cruise, if that
tickles your todger. All in all a really superb place! No quibbles
here!
Rating:
***** Joe,
Manchester, www.stardotboy.tk
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The Club
14 Hillcrest Street
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Stoke's best GAY
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Monique
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