Rock & Metal Pubs and Clubs

Babalugats · 08-10-2016 9:12am

What's this new metal night in Bruxelles of a Thursday? Thought metal was finished with?

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Passenger · 08-10-2016 12:29pm

Babalugats wrote: »

What's this new metal night in Bruxelles of a Thursday? Thought metal was finished with?

facebook.com/events/763101660495927/

Just a DJ playing some Rock/Metal does not a rock bar make.

Grahamer666 · 10-10-2016 10:52am

Passenger wrote: »

Just a DJ playing some Rock/Metal does not a rock bar make.

They really are getting desperate now.

Grayditch · 10-10-2016 11:11am

Babalugats wrote: »

facebook.com/events/763101660495927/

Not to knock a new metal club, but "Nocturnal Nights". I think all nights are nocturnal.

Also "playing everything from Metallica to Iron Maiden" doesn't seem like a huge scope, but having more option for rock/Metal music in Dublin isn't a bad thing, I guess. We're pretty flush with options, on Thursdays alone.

Between the pubs/ clubs, DME putting on huge names, we have a decent scene here.

Grahamer666 · 10-10-2016 2:36pm

I just can't understand midweek club things. A lot of people including myself work and need to be up early during the week.
Might be ok if yer in college or whatever but doesn't work for me at all.

Grayditch · 10-10-2016 2:55pm

It all depends on what Bruxelles are happy with. If they think they can just have a rock crowd back just like that, they could be in for a disappointment.

If this night doesn't plan on catering for students, which involves playing must after 2005, Kerrang T.V hits and NEW METALLICA, as well as dropping drink prices, then the best they can hope for is post-gig groups looking for a drink after a show.

They're possibly the furthest "metal night" from Voodoo/On The Rox, Academy, Three Arena, geographically, so... they'll need some amount of promotion, I guess.

Babalugats · 11-10-2016 3:12pm

Where are all the old Bruxelles metal heads drinking now?

Passenger · 11-10-2016 6:23pm

Babalugats wrote: »

Where are all the old Bruxelles metal heads drinking now?

At home.

Grayditch · 11-10-2016 6:26pm

When their kids go to bed.

RebelButtMunch · 11-10-2016 7:45pm

Passenger wrote: »

At home.

Probably in their 50s

Grahamer666 · 12-10-2016 8:15am

Babalugats wrote: »

Where are all the old Bruxelles metal heads drinking now?

I used be one of them. Indeed i do drink at home and at gigs and various other pubs but Bruxelles can do one.

Babalugats · 12-10-2016 8:31am

There was still a late 20's/early 30's contingent in Bruxelles up until a few years ago

Grahamer666 · 12-10-2016 8:38am

When they started dictating to the DJ's what they could and couldn't play and hiked the price of their disgusting pints that's when i called time on it. I started drinking there when i was a teenager and used love the place. (I'm in my mid forties now).

Liberty Valance · 27-11-2016 9:35am

Will the halcyon days of downstairs in Bruxelles ever be re-created?

Passenger · 27-11-2016 4:51pm

Liberty Valance wrote: »

Will the halcyon days of downstairs in Bruxelles ever be re-created?

Nope.

Grayditch · 28-11-2016 2:38am

Possibly only with reunion nights.

Passenger · 07-12-2016 9:56pm

McGonagles Reunion

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Furious-Red · 19-12-2016 11:42am

Grayditch · 19-12-2016 1:27pm

Savage.

Furious-Red · 20-12-2016 12:35pm

Only realised i put that in the wrong thread

O. K. Corral · 18-01-2017 10:36am

Is metal back in Bruxelles?

Passenger · 18-01-2017 2:34pm

O. K. Corral wrote: »

Is metal back in Bruxelles?

No.

Grayditch · 18-01-2017 3:41pm

I thought it never left...

Passenger · 18-01-2017 3:47pm

Grayditch wrote: »

I thought it never left...

It left alright. After the redecoration a couple years ago. Jukebox was removed and resident DJ's departed.

Wrongway1985 · 18-01-2017 3:56pm

Passenger wrote: »

It left alright. After the redecoration a couple years ago. Jukebox was removed and resident DJ's departed.

It was an insult to have Phil statue outside the door

Haven't been in quite some time but saw various social media posts, GnR press conference, fans drinking with Disturbed etc and it being referred to as Dublins #1 rock bar either they want to try appease that tag or just bluffin'.

Grayditch · 18-01-2017 3:57pm

Hard to keep up with the thread sometimes. It's on, it's off, it never left etc..

Pyr0 · 18-01-2017 5:08pm

I've been twice in recent months and both nights being a friday and there was a metal DJ all night, took requests and played them pretty much straight away, it was deadly!

Grayditch · 18-01-2017 5:30pm

I know that practically all the bars and clubs are doing a Black Sabbath "aftershow" on Friday including Bruxies. The DJ on there that night is very friendly.

SirLemonhead · 19-01-2017 1:50pm

Grayditch wrote: »

Hard to keep up with the thread sometimes. It's on, it's off, it never left etc..

Yer man just likes to be especially negative and dismissive of the place!

evad_lhorg · 03-11-2017 3:39pm

Apart from Fibbers, Gypsy Rose and O'Reillys.... is that it for rock bars really? I suppose Cassidys, Pmacs and Blackbird play good tunes too(bonus stinger bars)... But has anywhere new popped up?

Passenger · 03-11-2017 3:49pm

Sin é usually has a decent mix of Rock/Metal/Alternative on Saturday nights after the live bands.

RebelButtMunch · 03-11-2017 5:04pm

evad_lhorg wrote: »

Apart from Fibbers, Gypsy Rose and O'Reillys.... is that it for rock bars really? I suppose Cassidys, Pmacs and Blackbird play good tunes too(bonus stinger bars)... But has anywhere new popped up?

There's a place near liberty hall too on the north quays

Passenger · 03-11-2017 5:10pm

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

There's a place near liberty hall too on the north quays

You mean The Pint? That's long gone.

Wrongway1985 · 03-11-2017 6:34pm

On the Rox,Bruxelles has odd nights now only I think

Grayditch · 03-11-2017 6:42pm

Lafayette's on D'Olier st has Thursday and Saturday rock/metal clubs. O'Reilly's is Saturday only and some speciality night, after shows etc.
The Gypsy Rose isn't um... an option anymore.

Passenger · 03-11-2017 6:49pm

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

On the Rox,Bruxelles has odd nights now only I think

On The Rox is long gone too.

Grayditch · 03-11-2017 6:54pm

On The Rox still has a few planned gigs with DME and others, anyway. https://www.facebook.com/pg/On-The-Rox-1452952008340978/events/?ref=page_internal

No club nights I don't think, though.

Passenger · 03-11-2017 6:59pm

They still do the odd small gig but as far as it being a Rock Bar, that is long gone.

Wrongway1985 · 03-11-2017 7:41pm

Passenger wrote: »

They still do the odd small gig but as far as it being a Rock Bar, that is long gone.

Ah, oh well

The Gypo is awful these days, I noticed they did up the basement in Fibbers recently or at least since I was last down there.

Lafayette is grand even times its not a particular night as such kinda has indie/mainstream rock playing which is imo more tolerable than your run of the mill boozer. Cassidys only a stones throw away too.

Big Nasty · 04-11-2017 10:45am

Grayditch wrote: »

The Gypsy Rose isn't um... an option anymore.

Why? What happened?

PurplePoodle · 05-11-2017 2:03pm

Big Nasty wrote: »

Why? What happened?

They posted on Facebook that they’re closed for refurbishment for a few weeks...

Big Nasty · 05-11-2017 2:45pm

Did they not refurb a couple years back?

Grayditch · 05-11-2017 2:52pm

I'm just saying closing for renovations a week before Halloween, the 'Christmas' of the rock scene, with bands booked in is not a good sign.

I could be wrong.

PurplePoodle · 11-11-2017 5:02pm

Grayditch wrote: »

I'm just saying closing for renovations a week before Halloween, the 'Christmas' of the rock scene, with bands booked in is not a good sign.

I could be wrong.

Yeah, you were right. Seems it has been sold and will be reopening as something else.

Grayditch · 11-11-2017 8:26pm

Shame all the same. A Cassidys style spot to come, I'd imagine.

Always Be Closing · 15-11-2017 4:21pm

So is Bruxelles gone as a rock/metal bar as we know it?

Lived out of that place on Thursdays and Saturdays over the years

Passenger · 15-11-2017 4:24pm

Always Be Closing wrote: »

So is Bruxelles gone as a rock/metal bar as we know it?

Lived out of that place on Thursdays and Saturdays over the years

How many times does this have to be asked? Yes! Go and check it out for yourself for confirmation.

Always Be Closing · 15-11-2017 4:27pm

Passenger wrote: »

How many times does this have to be asked? Yes! Go and check it out for yourself for confirmation.

No that's fair enough

However 5 or 6 times a year a random metal night is advertised there with a random DJ leading people to believe it's gone rock/metal again

Passenger · 15-11-2017 4:30pm

Always Be Closing wrote: »

No that's fair enough

However 5 or 6 times a year a random metal night is advertised there with a random DJ leading people to believe it's gone rock/metal again

Only one way to find out for sure - forget what people say and go have a gander for yourself.

Grayditch · 15-11-2017 5:04pm

I went in for the first time in years last month on a Saturday and they were playing Slayer on the jukebox anyway.

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