Venues and Bars
The Lab
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existance! A great opening line from their website, The Lab is uniquely set within the backstreets of Northampton centre, a short walk from Aldi (bonus!) and The Charles Bradlaugh. It has a busy calendar of events through the week covering all genres of music, especially indie.
Dance wise there is a monthly dub, dnb and jungle night.
Address: 95-97 Charles St, Northampton NN1 3BG
Website: http://thelabnorthampton.club/
The Black Prince
The Black Prince is probably the most well known music venue in the centre, centring mainly on rock and with a full calendar through the week it is a busy place. A true pub by day with a fantastic drinks selection including real ale and cider, with the occaisional matinee event, and popular venue by night with professional events run through the year.
Home to Murmur, a dedicated dnb monthly night, Weekend Breaks, a bar based monthly night, licence until 3am. There are large record fairs held monthly with the summer versions accompanied by the Vinyl Underground DJs through the day in the large beer garden.
Address: 15 Abington Square, Northampton NN1 4AE
Maule Collective
A fashionable bar and craft beer brewery slap bang in the middle of town on the good looking St Giles street. In house beers added to guest beers make for a formidable selection. The modern design interior wouldn't be out of place in the centre of London or Copenhagen. Weekly vinyl sessions from a variety of DJs.
Address: 4 Derngate, Northampton NN1 1UB
Website: http://www.maulecollective.com/
Roadmender
The Roadmender is Northampton's equivalent of the O2, a sizeable venue hosting semi-major names across the board of all musical genres. Its the place to go for concert style gigs.
Larger name DJs appear here such as DJ Yoda, Andy C, LTJ Bukem etc
Address: 1 Lady's Ln, Northampton NN1 3AH
Website: http://www.theroadmender.com/
The Charles Bradlaugh
A large pub a short walk outside the centre of town, next to Aldi. A historic shoe factory converted to a Northampton Pub with delicious home-cooked food, car parking and summer trap Garden.
They hold regular dance related events and the occaisonal all dayer event.
Address: 1 Earl St, Northampton NN1 3AU
Website: http://www.thecharlesbradlaugh.com/
The Lamplighter
Another historical back street pub serving food and with a great beer line up - Northampton is definitely not short of places with great selections. This is a fairly compact two level pub with weekly DJs and live music, bar style hours so the typical 9pm-1am sessions.
Address: 66 Overstone Rd, Northampton NN1 3JS
Website: http://www.thelamplighter.co.uk/
