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Wakefield
Nightclubs
Wakefield city centre boasts a busy nightlife and party atmosphere over the weekends, with clubs and music venues to suit most dispositions. Westgate, home of the famous ‘Westgate Run’ pub crawl, hosts a number of clubs and club nights, and will always be busy on Friday and Saturday nights.
Mustang Sally’s is a bar, club and live music venue on Westgate, popular with students – as evidenced by the free buses laid on to ferry students between the club and the Wakefield, Lodge and Bretton Hall campuses nearby. Music tends to be cheesy pop and commercial dance. Entry is cheap and drinks offers are plentiful.
Club Ikon is also located on Westgate, and offers trance and hard house. Many big name DJs have performed at the club, including those from MTV and Gatecrasher, and the club also hosts a Ministry of Sound night. There are nights for 14-18 year olds, the 18+ crowd, and a night for those aged 21+, though the bulk of the events are kept for the over eighteens.
Despite relatively high tickets prices for the area, and expensive drinks, the club is rapidly building a reputation by word of mouth as one of the better clubs in the city.
Westgate is also home to branches of the Flares and Reflex chains, offering 70s and 80s classics (respectively) with cheap entry and drinks. Also on Westgate are Quest Nightlife and the Buzz and Metro Nightclub.
Just off Westgate is Bank Street, home to ICE nightclub, with a chic and modern interior. ICE presents a mixture of techno, techtrance, hardstyle and house music, and on other nights, R’n’B, hip-hop and funk. The club is a favourite haunt of many of the Bretton Hall campus students, especially on a Thursday night, and free buses are laid on to ferry them to the club and back.
Club Havana, formally Foundation, is located on Market Street, a little further along Westgate. With a capacity of 1400, is one of the largest club, bar and lounge complexes in Wakefield. It is open seven nights a week, and the club itself holds 800 people in a relaxed, stylish seating area and dancefloors with state of the art lighting and sound systems. The complex itself is relatively new, but already building an important name for itself around the city.
Music includes 70s and 80s retro, soul and funk, and there are regular comedy events in the bar. Entry is free on Mondays, and there are student drinks offers. The bar and lounge are available to hire for private functions.
A ten-minute stroll across town would take you to Lower Warrengate, and Zeus, the biggest and most popular gay club in Wakefield. Appearing from the outside to be a traditional pub, nights at Zeus present DJs spinning chart music and singalong classics. Entry is free and drinks are very cheap. Zeus is also another student-friendly bar.
Mustang Sally’s is a bar, club and live music venue on Westgate, popular with students – as evidenced by the free buses laid on to ferry students between the club and the Wakefield, Lodge and Bretton Hall campuses nearby. Music tends to be cheesy pop and commercial dance. Entry is cheap and drinks offers are plentiful.
Club Ikon is also located on Westgate, and offers trance and hard house. Many big name DJs have performed at the club, including those from MTV and Gatecrasher, and the club also hosts a Ministry of Sound night. There are nights for 14-18 year olds, the 18+ crowd, and a night for those aged 21+, though the bulk of the events are kept for the over eighteens.
Despite relatively high tickets prices for the area, and expensive drinks, the club is rapidly building a reputation by word of mouth as one of the better clubs in the city.
Westgate is also home to branches of the Flares and Reflex chains, offering 70s and 80s classics (respectively) with cheap entry and drinks. Also on Westgate are Quest Nightlife and the Buzz and Metro Nightclub.
Just off Westgate is Bank Street, home to ICE nightclub, with a chic and modern interior. ICE presents a mixture of techno, techtrance, hardstyle and house music, and on other nights, R’n’B, hip-hop and funk. The club is a favourite haunt of many of the Bretton Hall campus students, especially on a Thursday night, and free buses are laid on to ferry them to the club and back.
Club Havana, formally Foundation, is located on Market Street, a little further along Westgate. With a capacity of 1400, is one of the largest club, bar and lounge complexes in Wakefield. It is open seven nights a week, and the club itself holds 800 people in a relaxed, stylish seating area and dancefloors with state of the art lighting and sound systems. The complex itself is relatively new, but already building an important name for itself around the city.
Music includes 70s and 80s retro, soul and funk, and there are regular comedy events in the bar. Entry is free on Mondays, and there are student drinks offers. The bar and lounge are available to hire for private functions.
A ten-minute stroll across town would take you to Lower Warrengate, and Zeus, the biggest and most popular gay club in Wakefield. Appearing from the outside to be a traditional pub, nights at Zeus present DJs spinning chart music and singalong classics. Entry is free and drinks are very cheap. Zeus is also another student-friendly bar.
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