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Going Out in Redhill, Surrey*

Redhill, Surrey Clubs, Music Venues, Cinemas

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• L & E apparently. shit if you ask me. Never been though. Ha Ha
• Riley's Redhill, above the Sun, late licence at the weekend and a wicked Dj on Friday night's. Redhill's best kept secret
• The Embassy - If you don't like it, don't go. A night out is what you make of it. As a London resident I can safely say The Embassy is devoid of the pretention, ego's and expense of London clubs. It offers a night of cheap and innocent fun in the company of normal, down to earth people, which is why I frequent it whenever I return to Redhill to see my family. Go if you fancy a giggle, 'Buy One Get One Free' on a Thursday and a cheap cab home.
• Only the Embassy, the local dump.
• well, its gotta be...Embassy. Nowhere else like it. Fights, high prices, and some young slags. All you need on a night out, and when i say young....! but they are SLAGS, so every cloud eh?!
• well theres the embassy if it is still caled that occasionaly called millionares and the chanmged to british embassy or the embassy rock bar its right by the station its a dive but you are guarenteed to get laid if you have more than £8 in ya pocket.pint for her pint for you and then £2 taxi from road runners.warning maybe full of little boys who think they are men known as kevs.
• Redhill has one 'club'. This is of course the Embassy Rock Bar. This monstrosity is not 'rock' by any definition of the word and is barely a bar. Frequented by a wide range of patrons (from imbeciles to cretins) the embassy is filled each weekend by both boring office workers and brainless thugs alike who have no idea what going to a club usually entails as they rarely venture further than croydon. Fights outside the venue are an integral part of the embassy experience, and if bad sub-dance music is your thing, you're onto a winner with this one! Why not spend the price of a beer or two on a train to a town with decent night life? (and the least said about those who actually travel INTO redhill for this place the better...)
• Redhill...embassy rock bar. i was surprised how many people slagged it off, since its full most sat nites. yes, its a meat market..aren't all clubs?!yes there are people in the toilets handing out aftershave, there are in most clubs?!but go with your mates and go out for a laugh, not a fight and you'll have a great time. Yes iv had crap nights in there, but I've had crap nights in Crawley and Croydon too. Maybe its your attitude when you go out, not where you go....
• embassy by the station
• Redhill has only one "club" - the Embassy. Words fail me. After a week of cow like drifting through life, Redhill youth lets its greasy pre-pubescent hair down in the Embo. The music is dire, the DJ needs to be executed.. its Jive Bunny, american Pie, and the worst mixture of chart/garage. All the "men" are rosy cheeked 17 year olds, wearing Ben shermans shirts and all sporting the SAME pop idol induced haircut. The girls and ugly bastads and rarely over 16. This place is hell on earth.
• Embasy!!!!!!!! It's the only one in Redhill, wik'ed.
• The Embassy - Used by Redhillian plebs who never leave a seven mile radius of the town and don't know what a real club is like.
• No good one's! If you want a night out, my advice is hop on the 405 bus and go to Croydon.
• Bath under the warm glow of the Rock Bar whilst waiting to meet the scariest bouncers in the country.
• The British Embassy rock bar. Well it sounds as crap as it is. It is more like a meat market then a "club" i dont think you can even call it a club. Many a nights i have found my slef in there, having a dance round my hand bag when, young "men" try to get in your knickers! It is sick. All the sweat and hormanoes fyling around that place. God, it makes you laugh, But you have to see it for your self!
• The embassy is a meat market which plays the most god awful mix of garage, latest chart music/kiddie boybands and the worst 70s music like abba. I think its quite funny. theyve got west indian guys in the toilets to wash your hands, spray you with aftershave and give you a lillipop all for a small tip. Beware of the bouncers though, these little Hitlers seem to answer to no one.
• I am from Australia and lived in Redhill for 9 months. I managed the Sun and after knock off we sometimes headed down to the "Embassy." Afterwards we always thought we should have just stayed in the Sun for a lock in and drunk our own piss.
• Ahhhh!....The Embassy [or 'Mares' to those who are old-skool] Everybody slags it off, but everybody still goes there!
• The only club is the mythical Embassy (Mares). Loads of people dancing away to the Jive Bunny Megamix. Its a meatmarket. Recently though theres been an african guy in each of the mens toilets who wash and wipe your hands for you, you give them a small tip and you get a lollypop!? Very surreal.
• the abbot - if you can find a chair then grab it before it is being thrown round someones head...and stay in it. do not even attempt the toilets for fear of girls in warpaint 'dancing' to garage throwing random elbows at your face screeching 'WHAT YER LOOKIN AT??? YOU CHATTIN UP MY WAYNE?'
• The Embassy "rock bar". Home to many a munter, ankle deep in lager every thurs, fri and saturday night. You too can hear Chicane next to Emma Bunton and the golden not-so-great YMCA. why oh why must we suffer... The Dj sucks more than Pat Sharps mullet. He has an inability to breathe life into this dead club and the punters love it? The age range is very young and over the hill. The dress code is nothing much for the Munters and Ben Sherman for the boys. If your looking for a good time go to London or Brighton or a field on your own with two dead matches. If however you fancy taking your chances with the Big Gorrilas on the door and Kevin and Dave asking you if you want some then this venue is right up your street. However don't say we didn't warn you...
• The Embo is the only place to go, their biggest let down is the shoes and collar policy, I know for a fact they would do more business if they allowed t-shirt and trainers.
• The Embassey with its highly intelligent and caring bouncers, oh and its youthfull looking clientele. Where young pretty girls will chat you up outside to help them to get in to the venue, then disappear when you get inside. Musical taste varies widely. Plays all the usual crap, Come On Eileen, Twist and Shout, American Pie, ABBA all of which were al around before most of the clientele were born. EEEEKKK!!! Sounds good when your drunk though.........doesn't it?
• This will make you Laugh, I`m going to enter the Embassy `Rock Bar` under the club section. Age group of your average Embassy goer 12-15 then miss a few years 40+ The Best night out in Redhill!! If your into Fighting. If you are unfortunate and end up having a quiet night, go over to the Road Runners taxi rank and I`m sure some drunken idiot will start on you! Though if you fancy a weekend in bed! (Wayhey) then visit the car park behind the Abbott Pub and sample a `cat` Kebab! If you are sensible you will give it a miss and visit Crawley
• Obviously the Embassy. Also greatest pickup spot.
• Don't go to the Embassy Rock Bar, forerly Millionaires. (All you need to know)
• The only night club is the Embassy (cattle market) next to Redhill Station.

Live Music Venues

• the harelequin in redhill has bandnight sometimes. the closest one is 9th feb 2008. tis pretty good
• The Harlequin put on some good rock nights. The Greyhound is good too.
• some good gigs on at the harlequinn (near Sainsburys).
• The Greyhound.
• Greyhound, The band called `Stash~ was excellent when they played there.
• The greyhound Pub, excellent place to see live bands.
• The Greyhound used to have a lot of great gigs in the back room but these have mostly disapeared since the place was gradually killed off by various owners since dave left.
• harliquin, st bedes and warwick schools. bands like fony and shizzle.
• Marquis of Grandby sometimes has live bands, as does the Greyhound.
• The Greyhound........live music every Friday. Sometimes that grunge crap, but normally good!
• The Embassy Rock Bar has started having Metal Night on the first wednesday of every month, good music, cool people and its not full of Kevs trying to steal your phone. The scary bouncers are still there in force.
• The Greyhound. Many a good band has appeared. The locals are friendly and the landlord scares away the townie trouble makers. Although it is a pub you need to know about the back room. In this little room you will be exposed to ear splitting alternative music. It's the best place for an alternative person to hang out in Redhill.
• The Greyhound pub. Used to have a few gone on to be big bands passing through. The Sex Pistols once played there.
• O'Neills
• The back room at the Greyhound continues to Rock regularly. Ageing Goths, Hippies and Rockers alike rub shoulders with a younger crowd and the Duke box has some sensible material unlike all the other pubs in town that cater for the under dressed, under educated and over-funded townies that we know and love. Mine's a Stella and a Chelsea Smile..........
• The Greyhound pub used to hold rock nights occasionally, but I don't know if Spider (the DJ) eventually left for Brighton... or if anyone else took over. Normally pretty cool, lots of familar faces from the White Lion on a Wednesday.
• The Harlequin Theatre holds regular band nights for local and professional bands.
• South East Music Alliance, have helped many of bands to achieve success, & use various venues. http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/sema/index.html
• The Harlequin Theatre in Warwick Quadrant does excellent band nights and other music events! Check out the website www.harlequin-theatre.co.uk
• The what what? Unless you can call the Greyhound music? And most look like Willie Nelson.
• Harlequin is really the only place rock nights (7th July) , Adam temple used to play in the Firkin (now closed for O'Neils makeover).
• Well, there's the Harlequin Theatre if you like that sort of thing... overpriced for what it is and mostly used for bad pantomimes rather than live music, but surpisingly good on occasions. Or the Greyhound. Dark and nasty and full of angry looking people. Don't go there unless you are accompanied by professional bodyguards.
• Are there any in the Hill of Red? Busker bill on a saturday morning in the town centre?
• there is no music venues but i hear the wombles visit the harlequin once a year
• The Harlequin used to hold band nights every few months which were great! Do they still do this?
• The Harlequin sometimes has a band night- the only opportunity to see something half decent.
• The Embassy. Or walking down Queensway listening to car radios thumping as their owners drive past.
• My car- a peugeot 305 with two 300 watt bass tubes with 10 inch subs. The best sound on wheels.
• The Firkin in Redhill; people sing to drum machines, usually G&R, John Cougar Mellencamp or Aqua. Sometimes a medley of all three.

Cinemas

• Best to go to Crawley where they have a big cinema with a good sweet/popcorn shop and it's usually clean. (avoid Reigate).
• Redhill has the Harlequin cinema, but it's VERY small - about 9 or 10 seats across the auditorium. Worthwile if there's a film you want to see that's out-of-cinema - I saw Star Wars III there a week after it finished showing, and in the evening too!
• The Screen at Reigate.
• There is a cinema with 2 screens at the Harlequin (near station). Also pantos etc.
• Harlequin, dont come here to see film unless desperate, the screen is tiny and there arent many seats and the range of films is very poor.
• Harlaquin. Only really foe locals. Has one screen and shows movies that everywhereelse had years ago. Go to Crawley.
• Crawley UGC
• HAHA the harliquine which shows like one flim every 6 months and is never a hit film.
• Ahh there is NO cinema! Go to Croydon the new Grants is there!
• The Screen in Reigate, not terribly great.
• The Harlequin Cinema in the town centre next to the library screens current blockbusters and classic re-releases.
• the Harelquin is inexpensive & does the job, do not bother with the Crawley megaplex, it's filthy, the staff arrogant, management indifferent,
• The Harlequin has a lovely cosy ickkle cinema! It's great for watching films, like being in someone's front room only with a massive screen and Dolby surround sound, and it's only £4.50 to get in(you have to pay £6 in Crawley).
• The Harlequin....YUM!
• Cute little cinema in Harlequin Centre (Screen 2) shows films about 6 months after everone else & really comfortable seats
• harlequin also has a cinema, shame the films are about 6 months after release but hey its cheap and you are guaranteed to almost have a completely empty house!!
• Nothing much here I'm afraid. Occasional showings at a small dark room at the Harlequin Theatre several months after everyone else has already seen the film and usually they don't show the good ones anyway. Don't bother. Go to Croydon or Crawley instead.
• In the harlequinn centre. Nearest other is in Reigate or a Multiplex in Crawley West Sussex 10 miles down the A23
• the harlequin shows all the latest films, last week i saw that lovely young lad charlie chaplin in his newest film
• Go to Crawley!!!
• Redhill has had 4 cinemas in it's history, the odeon (now the Embassy) being the most recent. They should convert it back I feel, my arguments are: 1. The cost would be minimal since it is an Odeon building. 2. Its literally 20 paces from the station which provides access from London, Brighton, Gatwick, Tonbridge and Guildford. 3. It's on the roundabout which is where the A25 meets the A23 (the only place in fact and there are only 22 more important roads in the country). 4. It's 60 paces from the bus station and the town centre. 5. It's 60 paces from Mcdonalds. 6. Its 400 yards from my house
• The screen at Reigate - 20 mins walk from Redhill town centre, (I'f your not a lazy so and so). Alternatively, there's the newly opened Harlequin Cinema. It shows recent films, and older, artier stuff, as well as the usual low-common denominator dross. Occasionally some real gems, though.

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