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Going Out in Walsall, West Midlands*

Walsall, West Midlands Clubs, Music Venues, Cinemas

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• WS1 is one of the most popular, there is also Colosseum, Insomnia, Yatesys, R1 bar, Wharf Bar, Sport Bar, Chicago Rock and a few others, Studio 45 was the main one for the young'uns, but shut some time ago due to violence.
• FILTHY FUNKY has been around for about a year now. usually at the stein bar on sunday bank holidays and is one of the busiest house music/electro events in walsall. if you can wait for the next bank holiday then watch out for the filthy djs on the first saturday of the month at the stein bar. the stein bar has stood out as one of the best summer venues with its outdoor bar plus intimate basement venue for that underground feel. organisers fly promotions and timco have also took their events to Birmingham's Dragon Eye in partnership with Mud Club and Plastic events and seem to be going from strength to strength. Resident DJ's include: Flurr (aka fletcher dervish), Ade Robinson(miss meneypenny's), Jem Atkins, Shef, and Funky Nath........Don't miss this party whatever ya do ;-)
• Dance the night away at WS1 and then get turned over by the drug dealing doorstaff. Come on boys, shere & shere.
• Bar NV is the new and coolest place to be seen in Walsall... Rachel Stevens was there last week... For Fuck sake! This premier champagne bar is the new don of this small town...
• ws1, ARUBA
• the green dragon has been taken over and done up.. with live music and rock disco on a friday,dance music on saturdays well worth a revisit when in walsall
• drum and bass..and breakz ...sat 26th feb 2005 at quality hotel (formally the boundary) b'ham road walsall) dont miss it
• HEY how long is it since u updated this page cuz walsall has got sum good clubs now for imnstance WS1 (fukin wiked) aruba heat revolution the steimbar is shit lmao wot was that geezer on about we all srufs or woteva he sed jus bcuz hes sum dirty geek whos gonna b a virgin all his life lmao
• Studio 45 or 54???? Its like the bar scene out of star wars. Well, more like the set of Dr Who. And that was meant to be an improvement???
• ws1 all the way babay
• WS1!!!! ITS COWIN FANTASTIC!!
• ws1-crap night out and not cheap!!
• WS1 IS THE COOLEST NIGHTCLUB TO BE AND THE COLLUSUEUM, ALONG WITH YATES AND THE SPORTS BAR WHAT A PUB CRAWL
• All pretty shit now New worl'd no longer their. WS1 is over-rated and pricey, Heat is wank, and sofa sofa is more oppressive than Stalin's communist dictatorship. Avoid all clubs in walsall if you like having testicles, guys!
• ARUBA!!!! woo
• WS1 is the best thing to happen to Walsall for ages much better than Settee, Settee!I just Can't see the point of queuing up for hours to get into "Revo".
• WS1 is the best place at the moment.Thursday nights are a must! A pound a drink all nite and they're now open till 3AM kids!! Can't understand why people queue up all the down past Bar Sports to get in "Revo" though....... The Lost Lounge is a groovy little place.It's above the fruit and veg shop in the arcade - opposite Chipmasters in Lower Hall Lane. Sofa Sofa is full of scum - and it's too god damn small! Aruba is ok for a few pre-club drinks - just don't drink the draft beer it's crap!
• Yeah,no one under 18 is allowed in the premises.But if you're a lady,and that eventually your flesh is noticeable,you may enter the pubs and share some interests with other people You guys,never forget your nice shoes;They don't care if you're wasted as long as you've got nice shoes...He man,it's Walsall...but everytime i enter a pub or a club in Walsall I feel like I am the one,I feel really important,like some part of an elite.
• Harley's is such a shithole. Don't go there.
• sports bar up bye the libery
• Go to the Planet in Wolverhampton.
• WS1 IS THE ONLY PLACE TO BE IN WALSALL NOW GASP HAS CLOSED!
• Quite a few new places in Walsall now. Aruba is rammed on a weekend (used to be Milligans), Revolution Vodka Bar (used to be Baileys/GASP), and of course the meglomaniacs that own Heat (Harleys) have opened a new club opposite Revolution called WS1. Not too bad in there but it's mostly the same music and staff from Heat. Probably a better night in there now Scott has gone.....
• pheasey youth projcet anybody who was anybody was a memeber untill they got banned
• walsall is gr8..theres sofa sofa,yates,gasp,chicagos!!!THERE IS NO MORE DREAM!! where the hell is the new world??? cause i think that prob another 1 that closed down yrs ago.xx
• i got 2 yates every week and enjoy myself every time there are 2 bouncers that are really nice jay and andy.dont go on a saturday as there's loads of old men unless you like that kind of thing!!!!!!!!!
• dream was good for picking up certain purple hills but now its gone yates is ok if u know some of the people and sofa sofas good for a bit of a smoke
• None that are any good...erm Sofa Sofa because it doesn't attract as many Coalpool slags and morons(because they only know one kind of music...>bwad boy)
• Tha Shed, Shuanz Yard, Palfrey Park Sessionz Nah Mean!
• sofa sofa is a great place to go on a weekend. loads of fit lads girlies as I have found my dream man there. The music is great and is a lashing after Yates's. Who are all you ppl dissing Harleys. It aint that bad but then again it aint no Ministry. See u around
• HARLEYS AND SOFA ARE GREAT! START OFF IN THE VARSITY OR YATSES AND FALL INTO ONE OF THEM PISSED! GUARENTEED GOOD NITE!
• Harleys - 'go wheeler go'
• erm courthouse, yates, then gasp to finish the night off!!!!
• HARLEYSSSS!!!!!!!!! urr... yep thats it lol
• no clubs just pubs but they all have beers and remarkably young patrons
• Harleys and Chicago Rock cafe. Avoid Samara its a dive, sorry guys.
• Harleys night club in Bradford place. How many blury images of that place do I have!!!
• At the momen, gotta be yatses (cheap drinks - have a kangaroo!!!!), court house on a wednesday (a cheap piss up), chicagos (dont pull then end up in the loos when ya pissed, cuz you'll end up gettin kicked out like moi)
• Gasp probably the best, yates rules, have a kangaroo!
• The best is 2toes out of a crap lot... Harley's is definitely the worst though they are trying an advertising ploy with free drinks some nights. But definitely do your drinking before 2toes as it is a rip-off once you get in.
• harleys always stinks ov sweaty feet, there probably vinnys! girls should drink free all night and the sluts in the cages should dance properly there crap
• well not golf clubs then thats a bit upsetting dream is always a good night out
• NO DECENT CLUBS AT ALL IN WALSALL BUT MANY PUBS THAT STAY OPEN LATE WITH MANY OF THEM DOING £1 A PINT NIGHTS, COOL ESPECIALLY IF ONE OF THE WONDERFUL WALSALL WOMEN WHO ENJOY TH EODD PINT OR THREE, EVEN THE UNFORGETABLE DREAM IS CLOSED AT THE MOMENT WITH RUMOUR SAYING THAT IT WILL STAY CLOSED THE OMLY PLACE LEFT LATE AT NIGHT NOW BEING HARLEYS THE PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE TO BE DRUNK TO EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING THERE, HOWEVER DONT KNOCK IT TILL YOUVE TRIED IT ITS AN EXPERIENCE NOT TO BE MISSED. IVE HAD PLENTY OF GOOD NIGHTS THERE MANY UNMEMORABLE AND MANY MORE I WISH I COULDNT REMEMBER.
• They are expanding by the week. Theres now Gasp, and a few new bars, like bar sports.
• New World.....How I miss those nights of being totally off my rocker, and nobody giving a toss.......Let's all hound Fred down Bridge records to open shop again..and ban everyone from Beechdale and Coalpool so there'll be no scrapping!
• FERRET BREADERS CLUB ON SAT.
• Walsall is absolute shite,all the people there are scum. never venture out there at night time.
• harleys- kev and shaz breeding ground...YUK
• GASP, or Baileys as it's known to most people is not bad on a Friday and Saturday night.Better than Harley's anyway.Only prob is, not matter what DJ it is they ALWAYS play Westlife Uptown Slut.Which has got to be the most annoyingly cheesiest song to be released ever!
• GASP nightclub next to baileys bar is by far the best place on a wednesday,friday, saturday and sunday. because i work there!!!!!!!!!!!
• HARLEY'S SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• HARLEYS LMFAO ENUFF SAID!
• Colleseum in Caldmore or Samras2 in Caldmore are ok if you're hard enough. Harleys is a meat market controlled by two power mad meglomaniac brothers and Dream is too hard to pull in. Nice music though.
• Harleys seems to attract masses of QM Boys and Girls every weekend, and one particular Barr Beacon Girl (no names mentioned Henny) who has a weee bit of fun
• Harleys is the closest Walsall has to a club! Everyone hates it yet everyone has still been there.
• Harley's is the only one worth visiting but go to gods kitchen instead!
• Non at all if you know the score. Harleys has it's moments but you really should avoid all Walsall nightclubs like the plague.
• AAaaahhh-New world was the place to be-does anyone know if it is re-opening? Walsall does not seem to have anywhere decent (indecent) for us indie kids anymore. If you're an old slappa or you like old slappa's then Harley's is for you!!
• Alantis - Wolverhampton
• i can't believe these people are recommending Dream, Harleys and New World even though they are the only places in Walsall. Uglies was the best and god damn the council for taking it away from us!!!!!
• Clubs?? nah, not really. Usual destinations post 11pm Fri / Sat : (1) Fight (2) Curry, followed by a fight (3) Hospital, after the fight.
• Walsall isn't great for clubs, New World is scarey and life Threatening. Harleys is slightly dodgy although quite good and cheapish. Dream is the best but quite dear and out of town - Go to Wolvo
• New World is OK for a beer and a smoke (wink wink nudge nudge) after the pubs have shut - though if we're honest about it it's more a corridor than a club
• Go to Birmingham's Que club if you like your jungle / tecno etc.... loads of housey places there too but they're not worth mentioning. Oh yeah, Walsall does have the New World - at 300 capacity it's more a corridor than a club but it has the occaisional jungle or tecno - usually put on by my main man Ed Yates or some other local layabout. Also, remarkably lax attitude to smokers!
• There are none unless you call Harleys, New World and Dream clubs. Zone and Ethos shut down about a couple of years ago.
• Man, New World is the only one worth it, unless you like getting glassed, it is the ultimate den of iniquty.
• Dream, walsall wood.
• Go to Wolverhampton. Walsall is dead for clubs.
• new world is pretty good. cheap beer, decxent music, indie kids. but like walsall, limited and a bit of a low-qaulity nite oot. harleys is ok if you are really pissed and fancy dancing to pop/dance with a load of stripey shirts from the beechdale. still can be fun.
• Harleys - Opposite the bus station (frankly its awful)
• DREAMS (FORMERLY HARPERS) WALSALL WOOD
• the zone.... ethos both bently millway, walsall
• New World is fun if you're into indie, it's nice and dingy and there are good band nights there
• harleys night club there was a really cool club called new world order, the altimate rock scene but now closed.... wolverhampton is the best for the clubs
• J10 M6 near cinema. The 'Zone' and 'Ethos'. One for under 25's and the other for 25+

Live Music Venues

• You can see bands in The Pink Trout, a new "alternative " bar. Next to the Brown Butt.
• the Littleton has now been shut down by our council to run a bypass through it, shame coz it was a great venue run by great people, lots of live bands of all types played there.
• Birmingham Academy and Wolves Civic are my favourites. But there's usually some local gigs going on in Walsall itself.
• Littleton Arms do jam nights on every 1st wednesday of each month!!!
• The Astor Room at the Royal Hotel where Pete Miles hosts Realgigs once a month to give up and coming school age rock bands the chance to perform.Good atmosphere and new emerging talent.Worth a visit-4 bands for a fiver!!!
• Watch out for the following bands and artistes @ Chicago Rock Cafe Walsall: Wednesday 26th January - Dire Straits Tribute 'Money For Nothing' Wednesday 2nd February - Anastasia Tribute Wednesday 9th February - The Jam Tribute 'The Jamm' Wednesday 16th February - U.S. Halfpipes, playing West Coast Pumk abd Skate Rock covering hits from Alien ant Farm, Wheatus, Blink 182, Offspring,Greenday and many more. Wednesday 23rd February - The Pretenders Tribute 'Pretend Pretenders' Keep Rocking
• Er... 'scuse me if I'm boring all you with a mental age of nearly 10 and who are drunk enough to think that R 'n B, hiphop and garage qualify as music... but is there ANYWHERE in Walsall that caters for LIVE music that doesn't involve electricity? You know, like people do outside the area sometimes. I'm not that fussy about what type of music - I mean there must be somewhere that has folk, jazz, classical, country, trad., opera, ballet(?), baroque, piano, .... brass band even... isn't there?
• May 2004 - Wheatsheaf (behind Blue Coat School) - Massive Rock disco every Friday night, live rock/indie bands many Saturdays. The landlord is a loud-shirt wearing loony who loves his smoke machines and disco lights, and his staff are fun too. Cheap booze offers on many nights: Mine's a pint of Stella!
• Three men in the boat
• The courthouse will hire their upstairs venue for free.You take the door they take the bar.(see jason) Organise your own gig. Check out the vaults up by the market
• the wharf
• ws1!!!!
• There's only the wharf now, dead small and intimate so you feel like you're seeing something special. Chicago's used to have sad eightie's bands on but there haven't been any since Bad Manners
• The Orangery is nice for the Music Venues,innit?
• The Rising Sun allows some bands on but it gets too rammed. Have they ever heard of fire regulations? I always get short changed as well. I have observed a lot of other people holding their change out to get back that £1 after being shortchanged
• no where, birmingham deals with good stuff, walsall deals with the scum
• Walsall needs some seriour music venue for bands and HIPHOP but the warf bar by the art gallerys the most chilled out.
• THEY ALL SUCK BIG STYLE. GO TO WOLVES OR BRUM. OR HOME.(BEST BET)
• none exist they shud bring back the dance tent by the wharf
• None except the Vaults which is shit anyway
• The Rising Sun now hosts a jam night on Thursday evenings between 8.30 and 11.30. Everyone can either join in or just listen.
• Passion and Pain - Still going after a thousand years. Still the same man with the same record collection but we love it just the same.
• we need some more,the best place locally is in wolverhampton! and walsall has some wicked young musicians.shame they have nowhere to show off their talent,and the college does that popular music course thing,some of the people on that are ace!!
• pleckfest but if lucys drowing are there then i reccomend you leave lucys drowning sucks ass especially rich, there remarkably untalented drummer BRiSQ rule!!!
• Harley, Sports Bar, Baileys, Varsity, Old Court House, Millagans, Rising Sun.... Should I go on... I could, for a long long time, Walsall has loads of new clubs & bars.
• You should definitely try the Stein Bar - music is good (to suit all), there is an outside bar when it gets too hot and there is hardly ever any trouble (unlike most places in Walsall.
• Go for the Vaults and my favourite 'The Rising Sun' where you get the best alternative and rock sounds... Vaults is good for general live music though Rising Sun has good stuff on Friday nights...
• chacargo rock cafe
• The Vaults was the one and only really and that now seems to have stopped allowing local bands to play there, probably because of the small numbers of people who used to go there.
• The Trough aka Rising Sun is good if you like smelly rockers, crap music, rotten cider and vomit on your shoes - Reg the landlord resembles Grizzly Adams from Gentle Ben.....
• BEING PARTIALLY DEAF I ENJOY WHAT WALSALL HAS TO OFFER
• The Vaults gives lots of younger artists a chance and has mucho top totty.
• Hogs Head has some very OLD music once and a while if your desperate
• The Vaults is the best for local talent!
• The Rising Sun - Ablewell Street (Formerley The Watering Trough or 'The Troff' to us locals). Bands playing on Sunday afternoon's. Excellent on Friday night's too. Rocker's paradise!
• The Vaults plays a good range of local bands and they have good drinks offers. Other than that the "other" clubs were never there or have gone. Not a particuarly healthy live music scene.
• did anyone see a band called 'The Fridge magnets' at the vaultz a few weeks ago they were fantastic if you get the chance catch em if you can slightly older i grant you that but they give ya what you wanna hear!!
• the flock is worth a giggle at the moment for the battle of the bands.
• Flock & Firkin, formerly The Wheatshef, Birmingham Road. Battle of the Bands Thursday, Saturday & Sunday. Comedy last Friday of the month.
• The Boundary hotel, the Vaults, Wolverhampton.
• What about the Vaults, got to be the best place to go in town if you want to see a live band. A crackin night out, dark and atmospheric downstairs, but thats basically because it's a cellar.
• how I lament the passing of the Wheatsheaf. Reckon there's only New World now
• not really. a couple of places do folk/tribute bands.
• none, they closed the watering trough and the starting gate, where alternative music was always played......

Cinemas

• Showcase is the nearest i believe, you'll need to catch a bus to it from the town centre, not a bad cinema to be honest.
• Any would be welcome. Fancy putting one 3 miles from the town centre with no public transport. Well done walsall planers.
• showcase cinema is neerest its neer the hole pub or the cematery
• Showcase Cinema. The only place to go really.
• the showcase
• The guy who said Walsall doesn't have a cinema is wrong-the cinema's in Bentley, in the borough of, u guessed it, Walsall.
• out of the way!
• Cineworld at Wednesfield! It's worth the drive / bus ride
• WHY NOT TRY THE WARNER VILLAGE, IT HAS NOW GOT A CASINO AND CLUBS SHOPS AND A BOWLING ALLEY FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY, THE SEATS IN THE CINEMA ARE SO COMFORTABLE HEADRESTS AND CUPHOLDERS WHAT A LUXURY
• Showcase is wank. Miles from anywhere, unless you're unfortunate enough to live in Bentley. Buses are irregular and taxi's don't like going there. bring back the £1 Canon, and knock down woolie's. Start a petition. cheap films in fleapit atmospheres!!!
• Don't bother with the Showcase (expensive sweets, pop and very sticky floors) - I always go to Wednesfield Bentley Bridge - much better seats and view.
• Ahhhhhhhhhh the Showcase...it's poor as hell now. Get off your ass and travel to Star City. Much better.
• i reccomend goin to brum for that
• i love going to the showcase cinimas in bentley and when you have watched the movie that you brought you can go over the pizza hut or casino thats if you have any pennys left after the cinimas finished robbing you for a bag of skittles
• The one down the road from me. The Showcase.....I mean.
• Great Showcase cinema bit out of town @ junction 10 M6
• i think they should nock down that crap art gallery and put a big massive cinema there instead like Star City with the v.i.p gold class where they have armchairs for your seats and you can cuddle up and watch the film cool! And they would get a lot of buiness and get benifits back despite the art gallery which lets you in for free.i WANT A STAR CITY IN WALSALL
• The showcase is pretty rank, try the one in wolvo, much nicer :)
• the cinemas are too expensive ,the showcase has put up its prices to compete with starcity i think.walsall had a cinemas when i was little,then it was the mad house or something,bring it back i say.
• Showcase is cool. Jump on 529 and short walk, ask driver. Still a little pricy not as good a sthe old ABC but still worth while.
• 12 screen Showcase... I used to work there !
• The Canon for a £1.00 a film was better than the crappy Showcase which is all the way out of town. Takes 15 minutes to get there on the 529 (stop at Bentley Mill) and it's about £3.50 a film. Some eating venues around like Pizza-hut and Fatty Arbuckles plus this one club which is slap bang next to the cinema.
• i would say in walsall the cinimas is tacky the sound is dredfull and the screen is very small
• IF YOU DONT EVER WANT TO SEE YOUR CAR AGAIN THE SHOWCASE CINEMA IS THE PLACE TO GO YOUR ALMOST GUARANTEED NEVER TO SEE AGAIN IF YOU LEAVE IT OUTSIDE FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES EVEN THE TAXIS DONT WAIT OUTSIDE THERE FOR LONG, AND EVEN IF YOU DO MANAGE TO GET A LIFT THERE YOU NEED A MORGAE TO HAVE A GOOD NIGHT OUT BY THE TIME YOUVE PAID FOR THE TICKETS AND HAD SOME GOODIES YOUR MONTHS WAGES SEEMS TO BE GONE
• @J10 THERE IS A MULTIPLEX, BUT DONT PARK HERE YOUR CAR WILL LEAVE BEFORE YOU.
• Bring back the Cannon for a £1 a film!
• Cinema in Bentley is overpriced.
• What i want to know is why the H£ll we have to travel miles to get to the theatre, surely someone could make heaps by putting one in town!?!
• Bring back the Canon!!!!!!
• Technically, Walsall does not have a Cinema. You have to get the 529 buz from the town centre's luvvly new alien landing site buz station, then get off somewhere past junction 10. Ask the buz driver he's sure not to tell you where to get off!! Then there is a good ten minute walk to the showcase cinema. There is ample parking because no one dares to leave there car outside!!
• Showcase Expensive And Cold Juction 10 Bentley Mill Way
• The cinema got knocked down... They built a Woolworths.
• Hell hole it may have been, but bring back the cannon
• Showcase Cinema is great coz you can get in without paying. Method Walk past the staff and say you are going to the toilet - easy peasey!
• The showcase cinima at junction 10 of the m6 walsall is a big multiscreen venue and one of the best in the region.
• junction 10. souless, expensive and not a patch on the old town centre one which was only a quid a go ! but, its all there is.
• There is now a 10 screen cinema complex at J10 M6(1 mile) down A454 towards Wolverhampton from Walsall town centre. It has a pub and two restaurants(pizza and American Diner style) next to it.
• SHOWCASE MULTI-PLEX OUT OF TOWN - NOW A DIRECT BUS SERVICE, PLENTY OF PARKING BUT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
• The cinema complex at J10 of the M6, has 12 screens, all the latest movies, pub and eateries close by. Near the end of the Walsall end of the 'Black Country Route'.

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