Established now as one of the top clubbing nights in Liverpool, Chibuku started out as merely a way…read morefor two Liverpool students to get the kind of night that they wanted to go out on. Started around ten years ago, Chibuku was a perfect antidote to the post-Cream, funky house phaze that had gripped the city and was leading Liverpool down a dane music cul de sac. Breaks and beats were the order of the day, a far cry from what was on offer elsewhere through the city and the night soon started attracting the type of leftfield DJs rarely associated with the Liverpool scene. Not only has the night expanded to a permanent residency within The Masque Venue but hosts all nighters at the much bigger Nation nightclub and can be found hosting slots at festivals around Europe, so too has their musical spectrum in keeping with recent trends and tastes. Recent DJs have included Annie Mac, Erol Alkan and Digitalism to ensure an eclectic mix.

OK so I know I'm supposed to be a scout for Manchester but I just couldn't resist this one- how…read morebetter to repay the citizens of Manchester for their hospitality than by letting them in on a secret that will enrich their lives? OK lean in and listen closely- forget The Warehouse Project and Sankeys, don't even speak to me about Area51, the best club night of your little north west lives lies in wait just 30 miles along the M62. Without a doubt Chibuku is the best thing that's ever happened to me whilst wearing both shoes. On par with Fabric in London and anything clubbing capital Leeds has to offer, Chibuku must be experienced to be believed. Named after a famous beer milkshake in Malawi Buku was started up for £40 by some students revolting against how corporate and dull the 1990's "super clubs" had become. It's ethos was simple- fun and stupidity, and though it has grown into something of a behemoth itself these days, its unchanged ethos has ensured it has remained pretensions free. Dancing in the main room which is an old theatre with the seats ripped out is an experience like no other. The stepped floor creates an ampitheatre-like effect where everybody has a view of that nights superstar DJ. Meanwhile upstairs in the loft chillout area many a mystical sage can be found dispensing hops fueled wisdom to a wide eyed throng of strangers. Buy your ticket. Turn up. Expect life changing results.

Once you've passed the bouncer at the door and entered this club, the sound of music playing as you…read morewalk up the staircase hits you full on! As the name of the club suggests, you will love this place if you enjoy pop music as the DJ will play both modern and classic numbers that remind you of the good old days! If you go in before 10pm, its free entrance like most clubs. For all those wishing to pole dance, it's an ideal place for you to strut your stuff!! Atmosphere is electric, typically on a Friday and Saturday night as you would expect and it's a fine place to hang out with friends depending on your music taste which can be considered a bit cheesy at times but absolutely nothing wrong with that! There is a big silver and shiny rotating mirror ball which also adds to the club's vibrant ambience. Popworld is in fact a small club with limited seats therefore a little more space would perhaps be better. When ordering drinks, you have to be careful you don't clash into anyone and cause any unwanted spillages because it does get really packed.

If you relish a huge cheese fest this is the place for you, Popworld is literally a world of pop…read more Situated amongst other bars and clubs in Liverpool city centre, Popworld does stand out due its garish colours, and the brightly coloured theme does not end at the front door. Inside is just as you can imagine, something similar to what I expect to find inside Elton John's garage! The club is ok, it's not my first choice of club, but it seems to be extremely popular with students in particular. Ideal for dancing, cheap drinks and classic pop music.

The Magnet is quite a funky place, and is one of the best bars for live music in Liverpool. It…read moreboasts a community of musicians and artists who give it It's identity. The resident DJ's play a mixture of jazz, soul and funk which really gives it a latin feel. The top bar area has a chilled out relaxing ambience where you can have a quiet drink with friends or snuggle up with someone in the cosy booths. The basement level, known as The Sink has a completely different mood, more of a club party atmosphere with a huge sound system. They host DJ's and live music throughout the week. Then there's another area, known as the Fish Tank which is really chilled but still has a decent variety of music, just not as "clubbish". Make sure you check out the website before heading down for a night out because sometimes it is ticket only entry which can be a bummer if you didn't know. Also, there can often be a big queue to get in, so expect to wait and even be turned away at the door if you don't look smart enough. Its 24 hour licence makes it extremely popular after hours so your best bet is to get in early.

The Magnet is the scene to be seen in the early hours of the morning. This is when it is at its…read morebusiest, as the late night license allows it to keep on partying once everywhere else has wound down. A venue that emulates 'cool', its history speaks volumes and promises that things can only get better. The venue consists of a ground-floor bar and seating area, and at the back you can usually find a DJ and an impromptu dancefloor just outside the loos. The vibe here is generally jazz, funk, soul and anything chilled out and groovy. Downstairs hosts various music events and is split into the main dancefloor area, with a stage and elevated DJ box, where you can hear anything from drum & bass to disco; and the fishbowl, which has more seating and a different atmosphere once again. The Magnet has been going since 1958 and was one of the city's first black venues, and you can still see evidence of this today. It is a club that has remained faithful to its roots, and always puts music and a chilled atmosphere top of its list of priorities. Whether its a stop-off on your way into town or a late night whistle-wetter, The Magnet is definitely the place to be!

I was excited when I heard about Roller City and couldn't wait to go. Unfortunately when I did I…read morewas very disappointed. The rink itself is small, has pillars in the middle and the floor is bumpy throughout. This makes it dangerous for learner skaters who are going slow as they suddenly find themselves going uphill and inevitably fall over. The skates available for hire are uncomfortable, cheap and nasty. They could have spent a little more on the skates and had much better quality. The drinks are expensive and the range of drinks at the bar is very limited. This could have been an excellent place but instead is a big let down and a waste of time and money.

Now something I never imagined to see within the city centre of Liverpool was a roller disco, but…read morehaving discovered Roller City on Mount Pleasant my love for Merseyside grew tenfold. I love the sheer retro beauty of a place like this, an establishment which has no right to be around in the modern age but survives on pure nostalgia. To be honest this place is not great it is nothing more than a laugh as a whole and something you have to take with a pinch of salt. If you remember not to expect to much then you will probably have a good time. So on the whole a nostalgic piece of fun, but it gets a bit tiresome after a while as you would expect with such a repetitive activity. There's a reason that places like this died out but it is nice to see that somewhere is still giving it a go.

The K... what can I say? If you're a regular in Liverpool city centre at the weekend, I find it…read morehard to imagine that you have never been in Krazy House, it is one of the famous venues for a night out - whether famous for good or bad, I've never quite been able to establish. The outside of the club is pretty garish with loud colours, this might set you into a false sense of security as I don't think the interior has ever seen a lick of paint. Cleanliness just doesn't exist in here, there are very rarely seats on the toilets, the place is just generally grimy and the smell is absolutely inexplicable! There are three independent floors, each with a separate genre of music and its own DJ and completely different clientele, in theory with something for everyone. Even though it seems I've given the Krazy House, the only way I can justify my 4 stars is if you go. It is basically a disgusting place of wonder where you have to go at least once in your lifetime.

Ah the Krazyhouse... Where to start? OK well lets start about 17 years ago when I first went here…read moreand it was known as Sloans. The golden years as I like to think of it. Its a lifetime ago, and you may wonder why I keep going back after all these years. Well my reasons are as follows: 1- There is no other decent rock club in Liverpool. The city centre is full of indie and dance nights, but none of these come close to a rock night. 2- The drinks are still inexpensive after all these years. The 2 for 1 offer has long stopped, but the value remains. You can still get a bottle for about £2 and a shot for £1.50, which is unusual in a city centre club. 3- The people are welcoming. The Krazyhouse generally has a good atmosphere, particularly on the 1st floor. There are no bad attitudes here. It doesn't matter if you're a teenager or middle aged, as long as you're here to have fun then people accept you. 4- There are 3 different dance floors, with different types of music. Generally the first floor has the heaviest music, the 2nd is more indie type music, and the 3rd floor is cheesy chart music. 5 - There are areas on or near each floor where you can chill out. You can get away from the dance floor and chat to friends. 6 - The entrance is cheap. It usually only goes up to about £5 late on a Saturday night. 7- There is a good presence of security milling around to ensure that if there is any trouble, it is stopped immediately. 8 - There is a cloakroom on the 3rd floor so you don't have to dance round your coat or chance shoving it behind a speaker. 9 - There is a snack bar which offers burgers, hot dogs, chips, veggie burgers, pot noodles, soft drinks and sweets. The food is cheap and cheerful and always hits the spot. 10 - The club has regular all nighters which last till 6am. This sort of night is rare unless you go to a dance night and usually you have to pay a lot of money to get into one of these nights. Even when it isn't an allnighter the club is open till 4am.

Blue Angel or The Razz as it is sometimes known is an experience that a student in Liverpool must…read morehave. The decor is shabby the toilets are awful and it is a sweaty and crowded mess at times but this is all part of the appeal. If you are a student searching for a hedonistic night of heavy drinking during the week then you could do alot worse than visit Blue Angel. The entry fee is two pound and various selected drinks are only a pound each, the speciality however is fat frogs a lethal mix of alcohol which is bright green and is a ridiculously cheap £3.00 for two pints! The music in Blue Angel is pure cheese, any anthemic and cheesy classic you can think of will be played and the crowd will love it. Another interesting note is that Blue Angel is officially the easiest place to pull in the UK so singletons should get on down there. It is not tidy or clean and it certainly isnt classy but Blue Angel is too much fun to turn down!

So have we established that this place is affectionately called The Raz not simply The Blue Angel…read moreas written above the door? What about the fact it's really s**t? The Raz is one of the most awful places in town and is likely to be filled with teachers and ex-students clinging to university days as it is with students who can dance ironically to the cheesey music because it's fun and stuff! It's obviously not my thing but if you like undrinkable beverages - everyone knows never to by a pint here - and The Foundations' Build Me Up Buttercup then this is the place for you. It's just a laugh though isn't it! The Raz is more complex than I make out, however, as it dispels the idea that it is only edgey, underground clubs that create vast swathes of sweat dripping from the ceiling and rivers of urine collecting near the toilets, this cute disco friendly place beats them all hands down.

I'd be the first to admit that Zoo isn't really my scene, but it happens to be plenty of peoples',…read moreand it's not my job to judge. Oh wait, yes it is! Still, I can't let my narrow opinion get the better of me, and Zoo deserves a fair trial, much as I can't stand the neon pink, the music, the VIP/celeb aspirations and the literal interpretation of its name. Nothing spells 'caged animal' more than a wannabe WAG attempting to traverse the red rope now. The decor's so modern it's gone all the way round to being tacky, but at least they have some bare brick walls, always a favourite of mine. I don't know if the zebra print is trendy or yet another nod to its name but we'll bear with that for the time being. It's very much attempting to reach the dizzy yet not exactly wonderful heights of Movida in London or Panacea in Manchester, but its cocktail and shooter menu just screams, grunts, yells Baa Bar. Toffee Tini? Chococo? Brain Damage? There's even a fricking Tinky Winky! Now I KNOW I've seen that one in Baa Bar. It's all a bit blonde, perma-tanned and six-packed for me, but if you like a bit of celeb spotting, a bit of house electro whatever, a gargantuan fish bowl cocktail, a Jagerbomb, animal print as far as the eye can see or indeed all of the above, then Zoo is worth checking out.

Taking up less floorspace than an upside-down pyramid, this bar was absolutely freezing when I…read morefirst visited in the depths of British springtime. With its great, open doorways, you get the feeling this tacky tan-towelled kind of place wants to show off how many dancers are packed inside although it just comes off as desperate. This was the club where I also spotted my doppelganger, lurking awkwardly through the bobbing mess of bleached highlights. I moved closer in an effort to see how much he resembled me and was about three feet from him when I realised I was stood looking at myself in a wall-sized mirror. I felt like I'd been cheated, both by Zoo Bar for lying about their dimensions, and my own brain.

I first visited this building when it was the shabby One 4 pool hall. For some reason, probably…read morebecause there was an offer on that appealed to our rigid frugality, we bought cocktails that made us look like we just stepped off a float from San Francisco Pride. Bear in mind this was in a pool hall. It's a wonder we weren't battered there and then. Now there's a new club taking up the building. The One 4 is out and Envi is in. I can't say it's much of an improvement. This is a recent annexe to the garish, pulsing clubland of Concert Square round the corner. The interior is all trendy and that and the staff were indeed quite friendly but the customers all bear the same rough scowl that you find carved onto every head in a place like this.

Been here a few times on a night out, Great location next Concert Square, drinks are reasonably…read morepriced, good music and a decent atmosphere.

The Baa Baa is situated just off Wood Street and Slater street and is tucked away so you might not…read morenotice it if you didn't already know it was there. The bar is nice downstairs, the first thing that strikes you is that the ceiling is full of mirror balls, which I am very jealous of. The bar staff are very friendly and are happy to suggest a drink or shot to try if you are a bit overwhelmed by the choice. They serve you quickly and efficiently, and seem to enjoy their jobs. The often remember what your last order was when you go back to the bar, making you feel like a valued customer. The drinks are cheap both in bottles and shots, sometimes being only £1 each. Upstairs consists of 2 bigger rooms, one which is often used a gig venue or for DJ's, the other has another smaller DJ box, and some tables and chairs. There is also an outside area which is excellent for the summer time. Now, no beating around the bush, the toilets are unisex. This can be a bit disconcerting at the start of your night, but you get used to it and after a few drinks you don't really care anymore. This is a great little bar, if you find yourself here be sure to try shooter bingo.

As you may have noticed from my previous yelp, the other Baa Bar in Liverpool is small, full of…read morechavs and generally not very good. This Baa Bar on Myrtle Parade however is much better, thanks to a few reasons. Firstly, it is twice the size of the one in Concert Square and includes an outdoor seating area for the odd day when the sun decides to come out. Inside it is colourful and interestingly decorated, a welcome change from its dark, dingy predecessor. Secondly, as well as offering the usual cheap Baa Bar shots and cheap bottles before 8pm, this bar also serves Wok-It noodles, adding another string to its bow. The combination of cheap drinks, good food and a friendly atmosphere has made this a popular student haunt, despite its location away from most other nightspots.