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Monday through to Sunday we cover the best clubs and events to visit on what day! In Newcastle for a day, scroll down and check out the best places to be! Here all week? All week bender it is then! Living here? Lucky bastard! Student here? PERFECTION! Enjoy!
Be sure to also check out our Top Ten Clubs In Newcastle post!
Article Contents:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
With this in mind it seems like
1.
Club: Perdu
Event: Social Butterfly
Info: Perdu takes the no.1 on Monday night spot with its event Social Butterfly. Great sized venue, even better sound track for the night (a blend of chart, hip hop and monster DJ mixes) it also boasts a healthy guys to girl ratio…neither a sausage factory nor a hormonal fish shop.
Music: Commercial mixes/RnB/Hiphop/Electro/DJ Mashups
Music: Commercial mixes/RnB/Hiphop/Electro/DJ Mashups
Best Drink Offers: £2.10 Double Vodka + Draught Mixer (add 40p extra for Redbull)
£1.55 Shots (Tequila, Sambuca & Flavoured Sours)
Entry Fee: Free entry before 10pm (doors open at 8pm). £5 Standard Entry / £4 Guestlist
2.
Club: Floritas & Baby Lynch
Event: Club Tropicana
Info: My personal favourite club doesn’t quite make the top spot for a Monday night; mainly through its own success…it gets rammed! Yet I could easily give it the no.1 spot for that same reason! Anyway! Musically, Club Tropicana describes their beats as; ‘A mix of all things commercial/RnB/Electro with some disco classics in there for good measure!’
Music: Commercial/RnB/Electro/Disco Classics
Best Drink Offers: £1 Tequila/Sambuca Shots£1.50 Jagerbombs£1.50 Bottles£2.00 Single Spirit & Mixer inc RedBull£2.50 Double Spirit & Mixer inc RedBull
Entry Fee: £6 Standard entry / £5 Guestlist (or with mojo card)
3.
Club: Digital
Event: B.I.T.E (Born in the Eighties) aka Digital Mondays
Info: It maybe in third place but its no.1 for a cheap night out (especially on a Monday but especially NOT on a Saturday). Not only is entry fee a measly 80 pennies, drinks are £1…well… before midnight…and the drinks are VK knockoffs or 3.8% Carlsberg…but still! You can’t knock that!?(Maximum purchase of 5 per person per time, so get there well before midnight as the prices of said drinks sky rocket…to £2).
Music: Indie and ‘just the daftest records and the sickest rave in the 12th best club in the whole god-dam world.’
Best Drink Offer: £1 VK Knockoffs
Entry Fee: 80p entry before midnight!
Tuesday, Tuesday, Koosday! This night makes a huge splash in the Newcastle week! With most student having sweet F.A to do the day after but survive through the resultant hangover it is a night out not to miss (and my personal favourite!)
1.
Club: Floritas & Madame Koo
Event: Waikiki
Info: DA BOMB!! If I were to make a recommendation to someone who knew nothing about Newcastle, this would be it! From a Northumbria Uni Students perspective this is the night where if you don’t go to Waikiki you’ll know all about it and the masses that went. Music: Commercial/RnB/HipHop/Mixes & Mashups by the house DJ’s David Barratt, DOC JNR & Phill Bennison
Best Drink Offer:£2.00 Bottles £2.50 Doubles + Mixer (inc Vodka/Amaretto/Archers/Jack Daniels/Bacardi/Sailor Jerry/Southern Comfort)
Entry Fee: £5 Standard entry / £4 Guestlist
2.
Event: Koosday
Info: A big club (boasting 3 floors) on a big night; TigerTiger is a must. It misses out on the top spot simply because I feel Waikiki has a better vibe about it with music that’s more to my taste…but it’s all about preference! And this place not only has one of the best VIP areas in any club it also has a whole bunch of rooms to cater for everyone’s music taste (unless you’re a Waikiki guy or gal). The most popular room is on the top floor called the ‘White Room’ and is always sure to get very busy! Overall awesome on fresher’s week, awesome on any bar crawl (Carnage, Poly Vs Posh etc, etc) and awesome on a Tuesday!
Music: White room – Modern club & dance music. Commercial throughout the rest of the club with a vast variety of music from live samba bands playing along to club classics to karaoke on the second floor!
Best Drink Offer: 50% off all drinks until midnight (i.e. £1.25 Doubles)
1.
Club: Bambu
Event: Game|Over
Info: The BIGGEST place to be on a Wednesday and if you’re wondering why check out the drink offers (see below). Bambu holds Game|Over which is the official of Team Northumbria (not a place for the ‘posh’ kids) and sees over 1500’s students each Wednesday night. The only downside…there’s a lot of dudes. But it’s a top lad’s night out or for any ladies looking for a lad or two (or 1500) and has hilarious pissed up stage games! It also has its own official pre bar City Vaults which is across the road where you can get your free entry to Game|Over with a BUCS card. The main reason to hit up City Vaults before though…£1 Bottles, Shots and Jagerbombs! (I even put it in bold for you!)
Music: Anthems/Chart/Cheese/RnB/Indie/Electro/Classics
Best Drink Offer:£1.25 Teqila/Sambuca£1.25 VS Flavours£1.25 Carlsberg Bottles£1.75 VK’s£1.75 Jagerbombs£2 Doubles (inc Mixer)£2.50 Doubles (inc Energy)
Entry Fee: £5 Standard Entry / £4 Guestlist. Free with BUCS Card before 12AM (£2 after).
2.
Event: Deluge
Info: ‘Newcastle biggest, best, and longest running student night’ and also an event that stays open until 4am! On the grand scheme of things that’s not mind blowing but in tha toon 4am is pretty impressive! So you’re probably wondering why I gave it the second spot…me too…so consider it joint first! Everyone’s a winner! Unless you have just one Wednesday in Newcastle, then that’s just silly and now you have to choose between the two!
Music: Commercial/Club/Electro
Best Drink Offers: £1 VK’s
Entry Fee: £5 Standard entry / £4 Guestlist
Thursday is your day to choose your favourite, everyone’s choice seems to differ, but I’ve selected 3 that are nicely varied and can spice up your week!
Info: Numero uno on Thursday is ‘Rebel Thursdays’ at Digital. It’s a chance to switch it up and get out of the standard club scene. The main difference here is that Rebel plays just classic-indie-rock-anthems, you know the type of stuff; Blur, Arctic Monkeys, Fratellis…all the tunes that will make you want to get on your mates shoulders and get your sweat on! Rebel describe themselves as; ‘About the music, about the dancing wildly to tunes that we love, sick of blandness’.
Music: Indie/Rock/Anthems/Classics
Best Drink Offers: £1 drinks before 12. £2.00 after
Info: Coming in second is Perdu with their House Party event, if indie and rock isn’t your thing at digital and house and hip-hop is then House Party is for you. Hi energy music with a great atmosphere. IAMVIP photographers present too to snap all your snaps!
Music: House, RnB, & Hip-Hop
Best Drink Offers: Drinks start from £1.50…if anyone know specific drinks and prices and any good deals please let me know!
Entry Fee: £4 NUS before 12 (£6 after) £6 Standard Entry / £5 Guestlist
3.
Club: TupTup Palace
Info: If you’re looking for a classy night out with a club that has an indoor waterfalls and privately serviced tables then look no further, TupTup Palace is your place! Since 2009 the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Ne-Yo, N-Dubz, Taio Cruz and Trevor Nelson, Subfocus have all visited and even Kayne West made a scene there in a cheeky punch up! Yet is has to be said that for all the glitz and glamour it gives off a very pretentious feel both with its staff and the crowd it attracts. Also be prepared to enter one of the smallest nightclub in Newcastle which means it gets very, very crowded. A frustrating crowded that is. Not a buzzing & atmospheric crowded. So that’s why I ranked it third.
Music: ‘Cross-genre dancefloor napalm’
Best Drink Offers: Water…it’s free! Everything is gonna require you to dig deep!
Entry Fee: £6 Standard Entry / £5 Guestlist
Friday
1.
Club: O2 Academy
Event: DirtyPOP
Info: One of the best nights out in Newcastle! I’d go so far to say its tied as the best event in Newcastle with Waikiki. It has crazy stage games from couples doing as many sex positions as they can to guys n girls swapping clothes as fast as possible. Added to that is the angle grinding, fire breathing DirtyPOP girls and the DJ who get the crowd going with crowd sing offs and amazing song selections. One massive room, three huge bars! Oh and there’s a free bouncy castle! Say whaaa!?!
Music: Anthems, Chart, Cheese, Indie, Dance, Sing-a-long…the whole shhhBANG!
Best Drink Offers: £1.75 VK or 3 For £5
Entry Fee: £5 Standard entry (before 12*, £6 after) / £4 Guestlist (before 12*, £6 after). Free entry for specific fancy dress**
Info: If you’re looking for a more of a dance and ‘club’ club on a Friday night then Riverside is a large venue with two floors that can do just that! From chart to dupstep it’s a great alternative surrounded by loads of great prebars around the Quayside area!
Music: Chart/Hip Hop/House/Dubstep/Drum & Bass
Best Drink Offers: £1 Tequilla, £1 Sambuca, £1.50 VS & Carlsberg, £2 Double & Mixer, £6 3xJagerbombs
Entry Fee: £6 Standard entry* / £5 Guestlist*
3.
Club: The Den
Event: Club Feral
Info: Making the top three list because of its awesome variety of music, with three different genres in three separate rooms: Dance, Swing and Student DJ’s. Warning! It gets hot inside!
Music: Main Room: Chart/Dance/Rnb/Classics
Best Drink Offers: £1.00 Selected Shots, £1.50 VKs, £1.50 Selected bottle beers, £1.50 Single Vodka Mixer, £2.00 Double & Mixer
Entry Fee: £5 Guestlist/ £7 Standard entry (or with mojo card)
Saturday
Info: The undisputed King of a big Saturday night out! One HUGE club rated;The World’s 12th best club (DJMag, 2011) and The UK’S No.1 Large Club (DJMag, 2010). Asides from the ranks the vibe inside in second to none and the sound system is immense. A raised DJ in the main stage with two downstairs bar’s makes the main room the pinnacle of a nightout. Upstairs are two more floors, and all in all 4 rooms of music. 2 VIP Rooms and a shisha smoking area sum up this place! Warning! Queues get HUGE, so get down early! Doors open at 10pm
Music: To sum all the music up, here’s I’ll let what they say on their Facebook page speak:
Best Drink Offers: £2 Drinks all night
Entry Fee: £5 Guestlist / £7 Standard Entry (Free Entry VIP Cards Before 12 / Free Entry Before 12 Festival Band* / Free Entry Before 11.30pm with MM White Card £5 After)
Info: Riverside is always a banker on a Friday, but Saturday is definitely their biggest night! Probably the second largest club in Newcastle with the crowd and soundtrack to match making it popular choice with both students and local’s.
Music: Chart/Hip Hop/House/Dubstep/Drum & Bass
Best Drink Offers: £1 Tequilla, £1 Sambuca, £1.50 VS & Carlsberg, £2 Double & Mixer, £6 3xJagerbombs
Entry Fee: £6 Standard entry* / £5 Guestlist*
(Unless it’s freshers week) the best plan of action is always Nancys Bordello for a Sunday Lunch! Kick back have a beauty Sunday Lunch in the most chilled bordello in the country!
