- Barfly (club)
Barfly is a chain of
nightclubs in the UK. It has venues inBirmingham ,Brighton ,Cambridge ,Glasgow ,Cardiff ,Liverpool ,London ,York andAberdeen . They regularly feature live music. Their club nights tend to feature rock, alternative and independent music. Barfly began as one club (originally at The Falcon pub before moving to The Monarch in 2000 which was then renamed The Barfly) inCamden Town ,London in 1996. A second venue was opened in Cardiff in 2001 and others followed.The Birmingham venue is situated in
Digbeth , with the entrance just off Digbeth High Street. Although the venue is a part of the larger "Sanctuary" it still holds regular independent nights. The Cardiff venue is in the heart of the city besidesCardiff Castle . The Liverpool Barfly on Seel Street is housed in a two hundred years old building reputed to be haunted.Fact|date=February 2007 In2007 , new Barfly clubs opened inBrighton , in the Gloucester Nightclub in Gloucester Place, andCambridge , in pub The Graduate.Until 2003 Barfly ran a venue in
Sheffield in the now defunctNational Centre for Popular Music . The venue encapsulated one "pod" of the building but closed down sometime in 2002, then moving to what was then .Zero club (now The Plug) on Matilda Street. Barfly vacated these premises soon afterwards, and left Sheffield altogether.On 2nd June 2008 the Brighton Barfly (formerly the Gloucester) closed down without notice.
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The Fly (magazine) References
* [http://www.barflyclub.com/ Barfly Club official site]
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