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Bar Music Hall
This venue's most recent (and most promising incarnation is Bar Music Hall. It's large and therefore rarely too crowded, and hosts some of the hottest nights in Shoreditch. Wednesday's Slipped Disco is all underground acid and clipped electro, and Saturday night's Foreign is all the rage with drag queen DJ Jodie Harsh and fabulous Molaroid, art projections, techno, electro, rave, pop, ragga and anything in between. Oh, and it's free to get in.
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Moose Bar
We bet you never thought you'd find a sky lodge in the Canadian Rockies in the middle of the West End? This wood-lined space on two floors has a simple ground-floor bar and a downstairs lounge/DJ'n'dance space with antlers for lampshades and cowhide on the seating. The cocktails are reasonable (around £7 to around £9), you can have a bite (of pies and nibbles) to eat and there's dancing until late on weekend nights.
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Medicine Bar
Still one of the coolest bars along Upper St, the Medicine Bar attracts 30-something clubbers and drinkers, as well as a younger crowd. One reason you'd come to this converted dark-red pub, with low sofas and dim lighting, is its music, ranging from jazzy funk to hip-hop; another attraction is minor celebrity spotting - you might catch sight of your fave DJ, model or TV star (if you can see through the crowds, that is).
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T Bar
A recent closure was a slap-on-the-wrist for wild and loose T Bar, which tends to host all-day club events on Sundays and raucous weekend nights. Now, with some bouncers brooding at the front door, it's still the same fun, with excellent DJs on Fridays and Saturdays. It's housed on the ground floor of the Tea Building, a creative hub for various hip companies cashing in on Shoreditch's aching coolness.
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Sun And 13 Cantons
Certainly Soho's oddest-named pub, the Sun is a music-industry mainstay and a great place for young hopefuls to network. Everyone from the Chemical Brothers (first London gig) to Underworld (global smash hit written here) has links to this place, and there are still regular DJ nights downstairs. A far better reason to visit is the historic décor and relaxed drinking vibe upstairs.
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Herbal
You’ll recognise Herbal by all the plastic grass stapled to its front wall. Inside is a two-level bar-club. The laid-back, grown-up loft upstairs has a small dance floor, seating and a window overlooking Shoreditch. Downstairs is more minimalist and can get very sweaty. There’s a mix of drum and bass, house, funk-house and hip hop, interspersed with live shows.
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Bar Rumba
A small club just off Piccadilly with a loyal following and fab DJs, specialising in hip hop, Latin, and drum and bass. It was relaunched in 2008, and has once again reasserted its appeal with drum and bass and hip-hop lovers. Movement is all about jungle, every other Thursday, while salsa and Latin urban dance parties are on at Barrio Latino on Tuesday.
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Cross
This is one of London's best venues, comprising several low brick rooms built under railway arches hidden in the wasteland off York Way. Sunday is run by Vertigo, a Continental-style clubbing operation, who bring over lots of Italian guest DJs. There's a great outdoor terrace for the summer months, too.
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Dusk
This rather remote stretch of Battersea Park Rd seems a truly unusual location for this glamorous, recently refurbished (and award-winning) bar but it's worth the trek. Staff make killer cocktails and there's a DJ (and sometimes live music) at the weekend.
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Bedroom Bar
A great place for a cheap post-pub night of dancing, Bedroom Bar has good cocktails, banquettes to lounge on, and enough floor space for dancing to the DJ's tunes.
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Café 1001
Popular and huge cafe with grills and cakes, lounge seating upstairs and live music. This place is rammed at weekends.
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