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.