The Knowhere Guide

The Local Music Scene in Penzance, Cornwall*

Penzance, Cornwall Record Shops and Venues

Record Shops

• Music Evolution - Chapel Street great
• Hard to find records catalog some of the best records you will ever find from english hip hop to trance music.
• Days Gone By in Bread St - see Simon for loads of second hand stuff. Oh ---- Woolworths!!!!!
• Second Hand Record Shop in Bread Street nr. Breadline.Tiny but interesting.
• MVC(THE BEST ONE)AND OUR PRICE
• Nothing

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• When i say 2K u say OK Baaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnn! Bosuns (its actually good)
• Bosuns has good bands rarely, when they do they rock. 2k people has a very fresh faced crowd!! but also some v.good DYNAMITE nights. Barn can be manly be crawling with jocks! which i dont think is fun at all. thats it i think.
• 3 clubs in the Town - The Barn (Friendly enough slighty seedy),Club 2K (Full of people off their face), and The Bosuns (sometimes great sometimes underage hell)
• CCLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUBBBBB 2k! all the way on friday quid a drink but somtimes gets rowdy, sat about once a month massive english hip hop artists come down to play and i tell you from personal experiance they are really good. you get the likes of Klashnekof(terrafirma),Karl hinds, jehst, Rodney p and skitz,Phi life cypher and many more.
• Ahhhh, tooooooooooooooooooooo old!! Club 2K ? - bring back the Wints & The Zero!!!
• the barn club. go boppin. cheesy music, or trance crap, or just sit back and relax in the chillout room. dont bother with the bosuns unless u like music that is just sum one hit tins and pulling strings also shouting random death things into a microphone so loud that noone can make out what they are saying. 2k is cheesy and crap
• the bosuns
• The Barn Club. Many a night spent there in my youth!
• Although it's private members only (unless you have someone to get you in), the Penzance Arts Club is one of the most surreally wonderful places in Penzance.. from exiles from the Imperial Raj, to the photographers of the Swinging Sixties, to models and designers, to artists, to poets, to actors.. All artistic life is represented here! There is sometimes good music (that is: when its on, its superb), but due to licensing restrictions, this is only about once a month.
• The Barn - a small, usually friendly club with two rooms playing chart stuff/dance music. Watch this space- new club opening soon (old Venue). Expensive sound system.
• The Penmare is the only night club but it is a bit boring.

Live Music Venues

• The Penmare no longer exists and The Old Smithy is called something else now, forget what. Bound to be something fairly pretentious tho.
• Lamp and Whistle - Leskinnick Place Flanagans - East Terrace
• 2K for the hip hop and drum and bass
• Bosuns have good bands, loads of local stuff but some other band which are rising also venture to this dark place!!
• Pirate Inn, 15mins walk from centre of PZ - music on Sat nights, sometimes real oldie stuff, sometimes excellent real music
• The Acorn Theatre has the occasional good band, nearest big Venue PLYMOUTH
• Acorn
• Longboat, Smithy, Club 2K, Benbow for jam nights (Sundays), Coco's, Blue Snappa. Closet place where the bigger guys play is probably Plymouth Pavillions.
• ONLY A FEW I CAN THINK OF. THE ACORN THEATRE HAS LIVE BANDS PLAYING OFTEN. THE BOSUNS IS THE PLACE TO GO TO IF YOU LIKE ANYTHING DOWN TO FUNK, HIP HOP AND ROCK THE OLD SMITHY IS PROBABLY THE SMALLEST MUSIC VENUE THERE IS( AS BIG AS MY LIVING ROOM)
• The Acorn Theatre - used to be a chapel - lovely feel to the building -great venue for music.
• The Acorn Theatre. Never the same without David White(Shaw) and Uffy.
• 'The Old Smithy' Parade Street near town centre is a bar with live music most nights. Mainly Rock but also a diversity of other stuff is included, generally loud.

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Last updated: 2007-10-29