Further to that side note, I’d also like to mention that the following review is extremely biased due to the delightful effects of what is known as the green fairy upon the body and mind. Plus about six or seven double vodka and cokes.
Subway City- Tuesdays.
I’ll be honest, I still am not entirely sure where Subway City is, although I do have a memory of wandering across a highway with a certain ragamuffin mumbling ‘it’s opposite KERRANG!’. So, in that case it’s somewhere near Kerrang! Radio station and it barely costs anything to get there in a taxi from Birmingham city centre.
I think I would describe the security as reasonable. They did after all search my very menacing rucksack and removed the extra can of Strongbow I had run off with from previous watering hole and my can of lynx. I was a lot more upset about the lynx. They didn’t however spot the can of Strongbow I put in my inner pocket of my jacket or the deodorant that was at the bottom of my bag. I proceeded to find my friends and open my jacket flasher style proclaiming ‘but they didn’t find this one!’ at my half drunk can of Strongbow that had spilt all over my pocket. It also appears you can flirt your way back in if you get kicked out and also if you kick the little coffee table over but put it back they don’t mind too much.
Cost wise I was impressed. Well I would’ve been if I had any money at the time. £3 entry with no drinks card or £10 entry for 10 free drinks which get stamped onto a piece of paper. If you are in a large group do the clever thing and have some of you pay £10 and some of you not then steal each others drinks cards in a fight to the death. Especially if you’ve pre-drank. It’s entertaining and cost effective!
I have to say my first memory of the main room was walking up the balcony and spotting two young things in the corner engaging their primal instincts with various thrusts and moans. On that note I think you can start to assess if this is your sort of place. If you are a spirited young thing with indifference to free love continue on into the mildly sleazy dance floor and lose yourself in flowers, vodka and sweat. Also on that note for the ‘players’ amongst you I’d mention it’s extremely easy to pull here. And probably just as easy to pull an STD. Holla to the chlamydia people that accost you by the toilet. If I had been more sober I may’ve done it, purely for the pink glowstick.
The layout is pretty simple, bar and sofa area as you go in, which leads to the main room (complete with balcony), which (if you work it out) leads to another room at the back. There is also a smoking area toward the right of the bar. If you’re a claustrophobic smoker, I wouldn’t recommend, it gets pretty damn crowded. I spent most of my time in the main room, often on the balcony, until I got bored of watching two drunken young things I came with and stumbled down the stairs to go and terrorise the peasants. The main room is very grey, with very nice bricks, and a stage which apparently I fell on. I don’t remember. My bruises do though. The second room I remember having a red tinge. Although I spent most of my time trying to convince a girl to dance. She gave me a rose, score.
I remember someone telling me it was supposed to be 90’s night, I believe they played some of the regular anthems with albinos and mosquitoes etc. but it did descend into commercial music at some point- personally I don’t mind but others might’ve been upset. Turns out the DJs are pretty nice anyway, they did let another ragamuffin I came with dance on the speakers all night so she was lifted above us all like a dancing goddess of fun. Or it was subliminal foot torture, I’m not sure.
I just wish they hadn’t stolen my
lynx.
In general a very cost effective
and music-friendly place, if you’re up for a bit of brum clubbing on a Tuesday
night, go for it. I also hear the concrete outside is a cracking place for a
nap. Rating: 3 Stars