I had read about Metro online before my friend and I flew to London and it sounded a tad like the city's version of Foufs in Montreal so we gave it a hit on Tuesday for the Beautiful People night.

It was amazing! Cheap drink, awesome music - and the DJ played almost all our requests - and cute boys, too. I don't know what everyone's talking about when they say the door staff is rude, etc. - everyone was so nice to us. (Maybe that's because we unknowingly overtipped everyone, but that's another story...) One of the bartenders, Jonathan, is a sweetheart. At that end of the night, all the staff told us we ought to come back on Friday night, which we did.

Different atmosphere entirely! If they had been playing punk, rock and emo on Tuesday, Friday was all indie / folk shit with a completely different DJ who didn't play anything I recognized except for Bloc Party, and it was all indie boys in ill-fitting suits and ties. If cover had been 5 pounds on Tuesday, it was 8 on Friday, and shots were 3.5 pounds instead of 2. I felt like I was being ripped off a little bit, and we didn't stay until the end, but it was still good times.

If you're going to Metro, make a point of going on a Tuesday night!

This place rocks. Its not glitzy, but thats why we love it! Its not at all pretentious... anything goes! Its just really, really fun. Its impossible to feel selfconscious because everyone is just out for a good time... lots of crazy dancing! Quite a young crowd overall. Music rocks, and its even packed on a wednesday night. Check the music before you go on the website to make sure you'll like it.
But go! As long as you don't expect it to be beautiful you'll have a great time.

This is a great little venue, no its not huge nor is it shiny and new but the place rocks, the people are friendly and the service is great, Especially the cheery female bouncer!!

Firstly I would like to say that I think that Metro allowing themselves to be reviewed is like staring down the barrel of a gun screaming for the trigger to be pulled! And to be honest… after my experience… I am more than happy to be the one to pull it!

So, the irony being that I came across this apparently ‘acclaimed’ club through the listings in a well know London social magazine. Thus, I hope that this review may just help rescue what could end up being a disastrous deflating night out that would clearly indicate to your friends, peers and social goers that you can not organize a simple night out with your chums (this is advice from a scorned individual, suffering the embarrassment).

So you must be asking yourselves “what could they have possibly done to upset this clearly distressed individual?”
Well… let me tell you!

I was organizing a birthday night out for 25+ of us (a small yet profitable number for a small establishment like Metro). Anyway as I was saying, I made two detailed phone calls finding out prices at the door

“do we have to pay to see the band and then go into the club?”

“no sir, that’s ONLY ON FRIDAYS)”,

“cool so if we turn up before half ten its £6 for the night?”

“yes”

“cool so see you at ten, oh… and how much are drinks?” (I was doing my research).

So upon arriving at TEN (half an hour early with 30 people, they tried charging us £8 per person and then telling us that we would then have to pay again (wait for it) in ONLY ONE HOURS TIME to get into the club, something I was categorically told that we wouldn’t have to do!

(Me)
“But you said….”

(The door lady)
“Yea, it changes some times, but if you don’t like it doesn’t bother us WE DON’T NEED YOUR CUSTOM)

Clearly she hasn’t grasped the concept there her job is based and paid for by our custom (never mind, one day my dear).

I think Metro is pretty okay standard. I enjoyed my night there. Nothing to complain about though I was smashed.

I have seen some ace shows there and I saw Noel Fielding and Jack White too at Metro! It is one of the too few non-branded venues in London. Too small? Too crummy? Isn't that the point of Metro? That's rock'n'roll! If you don't like that then you're probably better off going to All Bar One.

Ignore the bollock brain who says Metro is crap. It's so cool. Metro is amazing for intimate gigs and the staff are lovely!

Metro? Absolute w**k! Metro is the daddy of all rubbish clubs. Too small too.

metro has good music most of the time, and odd looking people but I met Noel Fielding (Vince from the Mighty Boosh) there so I had a good night. I left early though as I got bored after two hours. Metro is a bit too small, though it does have cheap drink.

Metro is brilliant if you like the music, if you don’t like the music you’ll notice how crummy the place is and how repulsive the people are. Go to Metro on a night when they are playing "your kind of music" because aside from cheap booze and entrance fee there is no other reason to go.

Metro is one of my favourite student hangouts on Tuesdays and Saturdays. I love the music, the people and for once there are security staff that are really nice and top notch. Metro is a real little gold mine to have fun in. It's got my approval with two thumbs up!

If you're after a bloomin' good night out with quality, funky music, friendly staff and a good crowd, Metro is the place for you! At £1.50 for a vodka and mixer in Metro at the heart of central London, you can't argue!

Having driven down from Yorkshire to see Moses at the Metro, I was heartened to see a good size crowd there to cheer them on. Many of whom had also travelled a fair bit, Brighton and Southampton to name but two. The band played in their usual inimitable style to be told after twenty-five minutes they had time for one more song. Much booing from crowd. Sound man then told Moses off for talking to their audience, which is part of what makes them so popular, but averred and said two songs then. They played a three minute song and then he told them that was it. Much good humoured booing from crowd and cries of more, bloody ignoramus puts the house music on. LOUD. So not only did they not get to do another song they didn't even get a proper send off. Like an end of pier hook! I know there are time limits but what difference was another five minutes going to make, particularly as the next band on didn't care and they then pootled about for twenty minutes or so before starting anyway.

There are ways of managing things and this sound man managed to piss off all of Moses' very good-humoured fans. Having looked at the musical sounds they promote themselves as having, perhaps Moses weren't as hep as soung guy wished. They went down well though with new fans too. And if Moses fans hadnt stayed there'd have been about half a dozen people in to watch the next band. Not impressed at all. And it was £3 odd for a can of lager! Harumph! Us northern folk could buy a brewery for that!