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The Local Music Scene in Falmouth, Cornwall*

Falmouth, Cornwall Record Shops and Venues

Record Shops

• JAM SINCE COMPACT RECORDS DISCOPEERD
• There's a cool newish record shop in falmouth called dubwise. also 2nd hand shops have good selections, try dig n delve (no record player though, hahaha)
• Dubwise. Dubwise. Dubwise. There is also an Our Price/Sanity (says it all), solo down by the Quayside pub, and there's a second-hand place in the St Georges Arcade.
• Compact records and tapes, is the only record shop in town, but has a good selection of different musics
• At the end of town there is a nice little second hand selling cd shop. HMV is in centre of town. Falmouth centre is small, but very friendly.
• Compact records is a must. Friendly staff and cool stock. Otherwise the only place to have a better CD collection is probably my house.
• There are 2 good music shops in Falmouth, 'Sounds Ok' and ' Compact Records' both have a variety of old, new, mainstream and alternative
• compact records, and another one i dont know the name of rite thru town near tragos...seconbd hand tho
• there are 2 good independant record shops: One is on the highstreet called Compact records they sell virtually everytihng quite cheaply. The other im not sure of the name but it is across and up a bit from Trago Mills, sells hard to find stuff cheaply
• Rosies records do good alturnative tunes and compact records rock!

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• If a cheesy night out with friends, is your "thing", then head on down to Club I: with more cheese than a delicatessen. Nose pegs are not compulsory, (although highly recommended)but who cares if you're so pissed, you've lost your sense of smell. And surely the sticky carpet pays homage to the lager-swillingly-good times we all have in this dump. Unless you have a phobia of cheap drinks and middle-aged-men sporting over-sized baby-grows (and various other fancy dress faux pas)then i see no reason why you SHOULDN'T visit! Club I? ... Woop! Woop!, I say...
• NOT SHADES OR THE CLUB INTERNATIONAL. TRY CHAIN LOCKER AND SAVOUR THE VIEW ON A STILL FRIDAY NIGHT. HARDLY EVER WET OR WINDY IN FALMOUTH FRI EVE.
• The usual studenty hang-outs.. but something good's imminent at The Princess Pavilion.. big and well equipped enough to get a good sound for bands and djs.
• club i thursdays, remedogs, rarely but sometimes shades. gylly beach cafe. if your young go to oddfellows pub off new street
• - the pirate has well and truely gone now... it is no more the cool funky place it was - remedies has a two floors, the downstairs bar is good during the week. try out sunday nights karoke!! good fun - try club i on a thursday night, cheesy music and drinks are a POUND!! just remember your feet WILL stick to the floor, they havn't changed the carpet in decades!! - new bar the kasbah is very cool and phil mitchel was in their last night. One of the best places and has recently got a late license to 1.00am. Good dj music and a lovely atmosphere, very popular.
• Remedies... some very fine remarkably young patrons! Good atmosphere and a good night out. Club International... shit hole. Don't go there unless you want to get your feet stuck to the carpet. "Club I" is also inhabited by mindless rugby players who have never left cornwall. Nice one guys!
• Rem-dogs, Shadaes, Club International, Rumours, and the war memorial in Kimberly Park. Just go to Bristol.
• Remedies (with REMARKABLY YOUNG PATRONS)is always good pickings. Club I is a shit hole full of sad middle aged people trying to be 18 again and failing miserably. Don't even go near Shades. That place is a DIVE!
• Dont go to Remdies! Its terrible during the week if you're into chart music as you just get the choice of hiphop / cock rock / regae etc. Its ok on the weekends but v. expensive. Club I is a laugh but only attept to go in there if you're already hammered. Shades is alright with fairly good music most of the time - a little bit of everything, but dont go there if you ahve issues with space as it gets very very crowded and very very hot due to the fact its underground and full of mirrors which reflect the heat.
• The Pirate use to be good years ago, but the art students ruined it, so did changing the layout, i think its shut now which tells its own story Remedies nightclub mainly full of wankers, falmouth needs more places to go to spread out the wanker population you bound to see a fight with about 10-15 people involed outside every club, the inbread population normally go to club I
• There is one nasty club at the end of town (apparantly owned by Phil Mitchel from Enders - who lives locally) but dont go, its cheese, its nasty. Instead get the boozer cruzer to Newquay straight to 'Tall Trees,' a club with three floors; something for every1.
• the pirate really did rock, ok i am biased but its my favourate place in teh country, cool people, cool music and i like the way the air contains somthing that makes you feel all happy clappy! club international, oh my goodness, just dont even bother, unless your passion is old women in mini skirts three sizes to small, and a bunch of lonely twats after failing to hold 12 pints. shades, hahaha, worth a visit for comedy value. oh yeah and that one that used to be paradox, go there during the week, it good but too crowded on a friday or saturday.
• the pirate has excellent bands and a good trendy life, rememdies on the moor is a new wel furnished club and there r plenty of pubs, the oustanding ones bein nancys and the waterfront
• The pirate and Remedies(newly opened) are the best, the pirate is v good, with live acts, a variety of music, and a friendly young persons atmosphere
• remedies bar just openned aint bin yet luks nice
• new club opened called Remedies but is over 21's we're soon to have a wetherspoons next yr in the old market on the moor Shades, Club I (above st georges arcade)
• The Pirate funky student pub, burly bouncers to stop the trendy people coming in! Club international is the place where the 'young' trendy guys and gals go. theres shade but dont even think about it (its the only place in falmouth that makes the papers for violence)

Live Music Venues

• The Tap Room, High Street, in the Old Brewery Yard. Fri and Sat I think.
• The Waterfront has some good local stuff sometimes, but generally its just a lot of folking folk music
• EDEN. 30 mile away. Busses available. Great gigs every year in the summer. Pulp, Editors, Supergrass, Basement Jaxx played recently. Best venue on the planet! Princess Pavilions. Getting better bands all the time. Gyllinvase beach cafe. We DJ there sometimes. Good live music. Nice atmosphere. The star and garter pub - regular Jazz nights if thats your bag baby.
• At least half a dozen pubs.. and the Pavilion. Bigger bands come to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro - 8 miles away.
• Jacob's Ladder Inn has live music several nights a week. Folk & Blues tuesday, Open stage Wednesday, Booked artist on Saturday and songwriters' sundae on Sunday eve. And it's NOT spit and sawdust!
• - prince of wales have good local young bands. Look out for ROSWELL playing at the watermans... superb
• The Jacobs Ladder (mind the steps!) has a lot of good talent several nights of the week, with songwriter's nights and local musicians playing their stuff. The Waterfront (near Trago) and the Prince of Wales (next to Burger King, Moor end) also have some good local bands on.
• Used to be the pirate, but that closed. So maybe go to the Jacobs Ladder. Lotsa people crooning away there.
• Pirate was the best place to have an expensive dirty pint and be spat on by retards. Now the best place is probably Jacob's Ladder. Nice, if you don't mind all that hippy pretense. Damn fine Guiness though....... where's my tamil drum gone?.......
• The Pirate club/pub is the local venue for live music, small and slightly dively but friendly enuf, you'll get anytthing from drum n bass to hard rock here.
• pirate all the way baby.
• Pirate might like to think it was but they advertised Samurai Seven and it was two guys in their fifties and a twelve year old drummer shouting in Liam & Noel voices "..I'VE BEEN AROUND THE WORLLLLLLLLLD.....I'VE BEEN AROUND THE......" Try Falmouth Arts Centre for anything half decent. Great cinema there too.
• the pirate - simple as that
• pirate for live myusic is aboutt he best
• The Pirate: Club/pub. Live music every wk, well worth taking a look
• Princess Pavilion has folk bands etc
• any rock venues? any rocking bands in falmouth? Or is the nearest falmouth gets to rock a stick of that pink stuff with lettering through the middle?

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