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| Whether you’re new to the Plymouth scene, or have just finally hit the big one-eight, you’re going to need to know the places to go to get the best enjoyment out of the Plymouth nightlife. There are plenty of clubs and pubs around Plymouth, and some more independent pubs in the outskirts too. In this article however, we’ll focus on the three main areas that are home to the best places in town. These are North Hill, Mutley Plain, and the City Centre (or ‘town’). |
| By day the streets of Plymouth are full of workers on their lunch breaks, or shoppers. By night the city transforms, and the pubs and clubs light up. The city centre is mostly just clubs, so if dancing or chart music isn’t your scene, please just give this article a read, and then give the clubs a try. They are definitely worth it when you get into it. |
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We’ll start with a night out in town. Depending on how early you want to get into town, whether you’re going to be pre-drinking with friends or not, determines which club you should go to first. The Derry’s Cross roundabout area is the one to think about. It houses clubs such as Revolution, Varsity, Walkabout, Kularoos and Union Rooms. If you’re going to get into Plymouth city centre early at night, between 7 & 9 o’clock, then Union Rooms is a good place to begin. It seems to have a good ‘start of the night’ vibe to it, and is a good place to get a few, less-expensive drinks on board. It also has a dance floor towards the back, and can pull a crowd if it is the right night. Between 9 and 10 o’clock you would probably go to Revolution, Kularoos or Walkabout. |
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Revolution has two floors, a downstairs which has a long bar and small dance floor at the end. They also sell pizzas during the night. The downstairs is often where hip hop, rap music is played; whereas upstairs plays more chart based, dance music. With a much bigger dance floor, upstairs opens at 11 o’clock, and features a bar on each side of the club.
Kularoos is a smaller venue, opposite Walkabout, and plays the best tunes from the resident DJs ‘til the early hours of the morning.
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Walkabout, normally packed out on Saturdays and Bank Holiday Sundays is a popular club, playing the newest beats in the charts, and has a giant dance floor, with one long bar as you walk in. Easily the largest single floor venue, it also has many large screens showing football or even your own texts messages that you’ve sent to the DJ. The high ceiling makes the club seem more spacious than the rest, and the only second floor area is the toilets at the top of the stairs at the back of the club. As an added bonus to people who enjoy some air, there is a closed off outside area, which you can go in if you want some air, or a smoke, without leaving the club. Varsity is a long room with a long bar parallel on the left as you walk in. It plays modern chart based music as well, and has a smaller dance floor at the back of the club, with tables and chairs on each side too. Often at the end of a night out in town people will either go home, or go up to North Hill, a ten minute walk (20 minute drunk walk). |
| North Hill is home to Cuba, Roundabout Pub, Skiving Scholar and Bac Bar, to name a few. Cuba is probably the most talked about of these venues, and is a three floor club with different music on each floor, and has a small outside area too. It is often where people finish their nights, and there is always a large taxi rank outside. The North Hill scene is directly opposite the main campus of Plymouth University and is therefore close to the halls of residence. This makes it a prime location for students. Roundabout has taken advantage of this, and every Tuesday, re-names itself “Poundabout”, because it sells many popular drinks for a pound and has discounts on many others. |
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North Hill is definitely the place to be on a Tuesday night. It is more of a classic pub, but does house a small D-floor upstairs for the dancer in you. The Skiving Scholar sits at the top of the road from the Roundabout pub, and is more of a classic pub. It has quite a small upstairs and is similar downstairs, though it’s still a popular location. After a night on North Hill, you might want to head on to Mutley Plain, and specifically Goodbody’s. |
| Goodbody’s is home to arguably the nicest burgers and food in the whole of Plymouth. The food goes down extremely well after a night out, and it is a well respected restaurant which is always open ‘til late. However if you were to begin your night on Mutley Plain, chances are you are more the classic pub sort. The Junction, Mutley Crown, The Hyde Park, Boomerang and Cafe Sol are all pubs with TV’s showing the day’s football or newest music videos. Each has its own vibe, so the best idea is to sample each over time, and decide which are your favourites. |
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The only other club worth mentioning because of its popularity with the locals, is Oceana on the Barbican. It is situated alongside Vue cinema and TenPin bowling in the large complex not far from the city centre. Oceana is best on a Wednesday night, or a Saturday, depending on whether a big ‘act’ is down for the weekend. They have played host to Plan B, Labrinth, and Joey Essex in the past couple of months. By far the largest club in Plymouth on ground level, it has several separate rooms, the two main ones playing different styles of music. The first, and usually more popular, is the ‘Ice Room’, playing the more modern chart-topping music. It has two bars on each side of the circular dance floor and is sometimes home to foam parties. The adjacent ‘Disco Room’ however plays music from the past 30-40 years and has a classic 70’s square, flashing-coloured dance floor. Playing the most classic tunes from the last generation, the disco style is still proving successful even with the younger adults of the 21st Century.The best advice is to give each and every one of these places a try at some point in your first 6 months of being on the Plymouth nightlife scene, and choose your favourite places from your own first hand experiences.
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