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Live
Clubs Featuring Alternative, Experimental, Electronic, Rock and
Pop Music in St. Petersburg
For a listing of live music events in St. Petersburg see
our What's
On in St. Petersburg section.
Moloko. Was
closed recently. Now there's a club Tsokol at
the same location - similar music, but not as
groovy.
Tsokol
The second incarnation of
the new defunct respected underground club “Moloko”.
The new club is determined to keep Mololko’s
trademark “warm atmosphere” and “positive
mood”. Beer on tap 50 rub.($2) Nevskoe,
70 rub.($3) Tuborg. Evening concerts, weekend
night party and more contacts with people.
Address: 3-rd Sovietskaya str., #2/3. Location:
M. Ploshad Vostaniya.
Open hours: entire week, besides Mn, 19:00-00:00;
Fr, Sa from 19:00 to the last visitior.
Entrance: from 150 rub.($5.5). web: http://www.zoccolo.ru/index.php?id=1
Fishfabrique.
A part of "Pushkinskaya, 10" cultural center. From
the 1994 FishFabrique (also called "Fishka" by St.Peterburgers)
has been one of the most popular clubs in St. Petersburg and
one of the best. It was the first club with alternative music.
Since that time almost every St.Petersburg band has played here.
Fishfabrique is a favorite place for local alternative musicians
and cult artists. Design of the club, that was made by well known
group of Russian artists "Rechniki" and "ACHE",
is also worth seeing. Table football (kicker), cheap bar, tiny
beer garden in the back in the warmer months, movies in original
languages on big screen, great location right off the main street.
Music: alternative, ska, punk, jazz, ethnic and foreign guests
sometimes(“Cleaning women” from Finland, for example).
Live concerts start at 9 p.m. from Thursday to Saturday, occasionally
even on Mondays. Entrance is from 50 to 200 rubles ($1.75 - $7US).
Sundays: movies from "Festival of Festivals" collection
(St.Pete independent cinema event). Monday - just fun, free entrance.
Address: Ligovsky prospekt, #53 or Pushkinskaya ul.,
#10. Location: Just next to Moskovski railway station or
Oktyabrskaya hotel. Directions: ìPloshad vosstanyaî
metro station next to Moskovski vokzal - railway station. Map:
D4 (object #2); Phone: (812) 164-4857. Internet: http://www.fishfabrique.spb.ru/
Che
Cafe-Club.
(PWT)Named after the legendary Cuban revolution hero, Che is aimed
primarily at trendy young people and trendy old people
who have enough dough. Open 24 hours. Live music nightly, sometimes
even twice: around 7 p.m. and at midnight, both live bands and
DJs; see what’s
on in St. Petersburg page for dates. There’s a
club card system but foreigners are often let in with no questions
asked.
Address: #3,
Poltavskaya Ulitsa. Location: metro Ploshchad
Vosstaniya. Tel.: (812) 277-7600.
Money Honey & City Club.
A popular rockabilly, rock'n'roll and country music club. The
interior is made in American style, there are three floors full
of entertainment. The first (ground) floor is a nice "rock'n'roll" bar,
serving quite cheap food and beer (possible to eat for $5 with
a drink!). The second floor has a bar, dancefloor, pool rooms,
and other games. The third floor is a kind of VIP lounge with
a view on the dancefloor. Watch out for security guys (former
militia employees) – they are pretty rude sometimes, do
not expect good manners and politeness. Former musical director
and old staff of City now operate Red Club, regularly inviting
famous western musicians, bands and DJs. Popular with young people, "cowboys",
and foreigners for cheap thrills and easy pick ups. Admission
(100 rubles – $3.5, normally) paid at the doors of Money
Honey will automatically give you access to City club.
Address: Apraksin dvor, #13. Location: metro
Gostini Dvor. Directions: walk from the metro Gostiny Dvor
and walk down Sadovaya street. The 3rd street on the left is Apraksin
pereulok. Phone: (812) 310-0549. Internet: http://www.moneyhoney.org/
Cynic. (PWT)
Self-described on its web site as a “marginal den”,
this is the most popular student bar in the city. Cheap grub
and beer, great selection of music and occasional free live gigs,
a bohemian audience of local and foreign students. Garlic breads
a specialty order from the bar and, when they're ready, get informed
by the barman yelling in the megaphone: "Zaberite grenki!" ("Get
your garlic breads!"). You can witness local and sometimes
foreign stars of all kinds getting drunk together with plain
mortals. Ventilation is very poor, which means if you don’t
like cigarette smoke – absolutely avoid this place after
7 p.m.
Address: Antonenko per. #4. Location: metro Sennaya
Ploshchad. Directions: walk out of Moskovski railway station
and take a right turn. Open hours: sun-thu 11.00-3.00,
fri-sat 10.00-7.00
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Orlandina. (PWT)
Temporarily closed! New rock club, run by alternative
music record label “CARAVAN” and
located in the same building that Pereval club occupied from
1995 to 1997. The place has been completely renovated and redesigned
by the artist Nikolai Kopeikin, became larger and lost a bit
of “hippie” flavor Pereval was known for. Concerts
every night at 7 p.m. Entrance 50 rubles ($1.7) (Monday through
Thursday), 100 rubles ($3.5) (Friday through Sunday). Club hosts
rock festivals with 5 to 10 bands playing short sets twice a
month.
Address: #36a, Ulitsa Mira. Location: metro
Petrogradskaya. No phone; call Caravan at (812)
110-6536 for information. Web: www.caravanrecords.spb.ru/orlandina/
Jambala. (PWT)
New reggae bar and restaurant throwing three live concerts
a week (reggae-dub-world music). Place has just opened so it’s
still to find its audience. Nice menu and selection of drinks
so that your stomach can have its fun too. Funny design compromising
very average shop or office style with apparent signs of Jah
presence namely Jamaican tri-colors, Marleys and Toshes staring
on you from the walls, you know. Located right between Vasileostrovskaya
and Primorskaya metro stations on Vassilievsky Island it’s
likely to attract Jah connoisseurs from surrounding neighborhoods
then clubbing crowd from the center. Though, keeping in mind
that winter
is on the way, pretty soon it will be so nice to spend a night
sipping rum
and thinking about the summer while listening to old
Jamaican songs of
freedom.
Monday-Thursday & Sundays 10.00 until the last rastaman, Friday-Saturday
10.00-5.00, It¡s smart to reserve a table in advance.
Address: #36a, Ulitsa Mira. Location: metro
Primorskaya or
Vasileostrovskaya. Phone: (812) 332 10 77.
Deep
Sound.
(PWT) continues the old city tradition of using bomb-shelters
in a peaceful way for underground music industry in particular.
There’s no room for big crowds, but quite enough
for several dozens of college students. Live concerts of rock
and pop bands 6 days a week, cool DJ parties on Friday nights
and a very reasonable admission policy sound very promising for
a rival of famed Griboyedov Club which turns 8 years this
year.
Affordable drinks and nice (if bomb shelter could ever be
nice and cozy) atmosphere guaranteed. Opened Monday-Saturday
20.00-6.00, admission 100-150 rbls
Address: #31,
Ul. Chernyakhovskogo (watch for a bunker in the yard). Location: Ligovsky
Prospect metro. Tel.: (812) 340-9111. Web: www.frontclub.ru
Liverpool. (PWT)
The Beatles tribute bar, with photos of the band and other memorabilia
all over. Live bands playing Beatles covers and 60s-70s music
at night. Ringo Starr gave a press-conference here before his
concert in St. Petersburg a couple of years ago. Opened Sunday
through Thursday, 11am to 2am.; Friday, Saturday, 11 p.m. to
5 a.m. Live concerts, 8pm to 11.30pm. Free entrance.
Address: #16, Ul. Mayakovskaya.
Tel: (812) 279-2054. Web: www.liverpool.ru
Stary
Dom. (PWT)
Formerly managed by punk band Korol i Shut has changed
its style to the opposite. Looking for larger crowds,
it’s soon to follow the beaten track of playing
Russian pop songs rotated on the radio and selling cheap
booze to kids from outskirts of town. Well now it’s
better to simply avoid it.
Address: #115, Pr. Metallistov
(Polyustrovo Hotel). Take minibus-taxi # 107 from Finlyandsky
Station. Tickets will cost between 80 and 500 rubles ($2.60 to
$16.25). Tel.: (812) 303-8200, 540-9344. Web: www.starydom.spb.ru
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Fakultet,
Was closed in 2006, used to be a very good club... Once
used to be a quite popular official club of the St. Petersburg
state
university
with
portraits
of
professors,
and a small
library
in the bar. However, at the moment works VERY irregularly,
so unless you know for sure something is going on in there,
don't
bother.
Funk, ska, reggae, Djs (eurodance). The bar serves cheap drinks
and light snacks. Club is defunct now.
Address: Dobrolubova prospekt, #6 (metro Sportivnaya,
1 minute walk from Peter and Paul Fortress). Map:
B2 (object #5); Opened: wed-sun 18.00-6.00, concerts
start at 22.00. Entrance: $2-3 (concerts)
Cultural center "Pushkinskaya 10".
ome to well known society “free culture”,
contemporary artists, musicians, independent theaters, writers
and others. It's existed since 1990, continuing and developing
the activity of non-conformists of 70-s and 80-s. The members
are independent representatives of St. Petersburg contemporary
art.
"Pushkinskaya, 10" is a pleasant, cosy place in the
centrum (just next to Moscovski railway station). The walls in
the yard
and inside the building are covered with graffiti, posters, flyers,
schedules of concerts, so that you’ll find the right
way there without any problems.
Here's what you can find behind the doors of Pushkinskaya,
10:
• The museum of non-conformist art –– collection
of non-conformist art, sometimes hosts debates about the art
scene.
• Pushkinskaya observatory –– hosts
art debates, gives young artists the opportunity to exhibit
• The Gallery of Experimental Sound (GEZ-21)
• The Factory of Found Clothing / The Shop of Traveling
Things
• Navicula Artis gallery –– exhibitions
of Russian and foreign contemporary artists, art debates, lectures.
• Art-Poligon –– the experimental exhibition
space
• The St.Petersburg Archive and Library of Independent
Art
• John Lennon's Temple
• Baza –– the shop where they sell vinyl, cds
with dance, alternative and experimental music.
• FOTOImage –– collection of contemporary
photography is said to be the only one in St.Petersburg, opened
to the public.
• Russian Poesy Fund –– founded in 1993
with the initiative of Iosef Brodsky. Charity evening, poet
readings,
contemporary art exhibitions.
• FishFabrique Club –– From the 1994 FishFabrique
(also called ìFishkaî by St.Petersburgers) has been
one of the most popular clubs in St. Petersburg and one of the
best. It was the first club with alternative music. Since that
time almost every St.Petersburg band has played here. Fishfabrique
is a favorite place for local alternative musicians and cult artists.
Design of the club, that was made by well known group of artists
ìRechnikiî and ìACHEî is also worth
seeing. Table hockey, cheap bar.
Music: alternative, ska (nofx!), punk, jazz, all spb bands
and guests (ìCleaning womenî from Finland and
more). Live concerts start at 9 pm from tuesday to saturday.
Entrance
is about 50 roubles ($1.75 US).
Sundays: movies from ìFestival of Festivalsî collection
(St.Pete independent cinema event). Monday - just fun, free
entrance.
Address: Ligovsky prospect, #53 or Pushkinskaya ul.,
#10. Location: Just next to Moskovski railway station or
Oktyabrskaya hotel. Directions: ìPloshad vosstanyaî metro
station or Moskovski vokzal (railway station where the trains
from Moscow and Novgorod arrive) , walk down Ligovski prospekt,
so that Moskovski railway station is on the left. The entrance
to the club will be on the right side of the street, or on
the
crossroads of Ligovski and Pushkinskaya, the entrance is from
Ligovski prospekt side. Internet: http://www.pushkinskaja-10.spb.ru/
Port (PWT)
Intended to blow the competition away when it first opened
in late 1990’s, with a great layout and loads
of space. This year club organized a number of rock and alternative
music parties and fests, inviting bands like Therapy? Einsturzende
Neubauten as well as some of the biggest Russian bands. Techno
and electronic music parties on Friday and Saturday nights
(at 10 p.m.). Club works Daily, 3 p.m. to 6 a.m. Entrance 50
to 400 rubles.
Some
more clubs...
Corsair
pub (PWT)
CLOSED in 2007. — it’s
not a club really, just a regular pub, though it was one
of the first places here that
started inviting live rockabilly and blues cover bands
to please beer drinking audience. Corsair works in this
mode since early
90’s. Good location helps to crowd this place up
on the weekends, pool table and monthly pool contests add
fun. Sunday
through Tuesday, 1 p.m. to midnight; Wednesday through
Saturday, 1 p.m. to 4 a.m. Entrance 40 to 50 rubles when
a band is playing.
Address: 14 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. M: Nevsky
Prospect. Tel.:
219-4184.
Manhattan (Kotyol) (PWT) — former art club with design
concept by renowned Leningrad art group “Mit’ki”.
Reasonably priced bar, billiard room and live rock bands playing
few days a week. Originally intended for the underground art
elite and trendy clubbers, it has since lost its charm, changed
management and direction a number of times and once again is
in decay. Daily, 2 p.m. to 5 a.m. live concerts start at 10
p.m., except Friday, Saturday (11 p.m.) Entrance 60 to 100
rubles after
9 p.m.
Address: 90 Nab. Reki Fontanki. Tel.: 113-1945. Internet:
Zoom
Café Club (PWT) — opened earlier this year.
Zoom is a nice, 40-seat literary cafe with good design and atmosphere.
Acoustic
concerts on Fridays – from rock to jazz & blues
and even classical music. Daily, 11 a.m.-midnight. Concerts
at 8 p.m. on Friday. Entrance fee when a band is playing:
100 rub.
Literary readings, 4 p.m. on Saturday. Dance parties,
mostly salsa, 9 p.m. on Saturday. 22
Address: Gorokhovaya Ul. M.:
Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 972 1805. Internet:
ArcticA.
Located at the Research Institute of Arctica and Antarctica,
this club is best-rnown for heavy rock and folk gigs
that often start very early in the evening. The home
of Pitergrind, the local death metal/grindcore festival.
700-capacity concert
hall, a separate bar room and internet-café. Straight ether football match,
especially Zenit football club matches.
Address: Beringa str., #38.
Location: M. Primorskaya. Contacts: 7(812) 715-48-38. web: http://www.arcticaclub.spb.ru/
Open hours: Disco night Fr, Sa 23:00-06:00. Concerts:
see What’s on S.Pb.Entrace: from 100 rub.($4).
Korol Plyushch.(King Ivy).
This club located on the city’s outskirts has been operating since January
and features concerts mostly by reggae, but also Latin and pop, bands such as
Afrodisiac, Aclee MaMa and I-Laska perform. Three rooms, design like Beer Museum,
not bad menu, good maintenance, around 100 covers. Sport TV, football matches.
Address: Engelsa pr., #111/1.
Location: M. Ozerki. Contacts: 7(812) 513-62-80. web: http://www.kpclub.ru/
Open hours: 14:00-02:00. Facecontrol.
Rocks club.
Most right and technically equipped rock club in the city. Constance concerts
rock band from Petersburg and more other cities, and sometimes world stars concerts.
Rocks all time ready to experiments and new forms concerts. Big hall about 1200
people, big scene, nice sound. Music political is a rock, r&r, alternative,
techno, dram&bass, electro. Wi-Fi-Mix zone.
Address: Admirala Lazareva emb., #22. location: M. Chkalovskaya, from metro to
left and up to Bolshaya Zelenina street, on embankment turn to left and more
70 meters.
Contacts: 7(812) 931-76-79. web: http://www.roksclub.com/
Maina.
A new ambitions live music club in the city’s northern outskirts, with
relatively expensive bar and restaurant. More different music (live & electronical),
more tasty meals(Mediterranean) about 400-600 rub.($15-25), more place to dance
and fun. Located in commercial center Lider. Best alternative other clubs, if
you live on northern part of city.
Address: Engelsa pr., #154.
Location: M. Prospect Prosvesheniya.
Contact: 7(812) 332-00-44. web: http://www.maina-spb.ru/
Open hours: 18:00-06:00. entrance: Mn, Tu, We – free; Th, Sa, Su – from
200 rub.
Tsypa.
A new bar in the popular indie-disco Datcha-style. The same
Djs that perform at Fidel and Datcha. However, Tsypa is a little cheaper and
has much stricter
face-control than Datcha. And Tsypa more rap, R&B and hip-hop bar.
Address: Kolomenskaya str., #4.
Location: M. Vladimirskaya/Ploshad Vostaniya.
Contacts: 7(812) 764-36-78
Concert
halls and sport arenas for bigger shows in St Petersburg
Yubileiny
Sport Palace. (PWT)
One of the bigger arenas for all kinds of events from sport shows
and games to rock concerts and
huge rave fests. Sport palace has two arenas: the main one
and smaller one, tickets usually specify where concert or show
takes
place.
Address: # 18 Dobroliubova Pr. Location: M: Sportivnaya. Tel.:
(812) 323-9315.
Oktyabrsky Concert Hall. (PWT)
Built on the site of Greek Orthodox Church that was taken down
in the 1970’s to make some room
for this concert hall. Poor acoustics, so it’s okay for
amplified concerts only, forget about operas and classical music
shows. Russian pop stars favor this place, because it’s
spacious enough for big shows but still more comfortable than
average sports stadium.
Address: # 6 Ligovsky Pr. Location: M: Ploshad Vosstania. Tel.:
(812) 275-1300.
Ice Palace (PWT)
Huge Olympic-size stadium was built exclusively to host World
Hockey Championship in St. Petersburg back in 2000.
Now also used for big pop and rock shows. Grate place for ice-skating
in the winter, by the way. Located bit off-center but close to
the metro station.
Address: # 1 Pyatiletok Pr. Location: M: Prospect Bolshevikov.
Tel.: (812) 118-6620.
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