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                <title>Sydney Nightlife</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[After living in Sydney for several months the thing I miss most about the city is the nightlife - that and the commuting across the famous harbour (ocean spray in the morning is so much better than a grungy tube).<br><br>Of all the clubs, I recommend most are Home Club and Tank for rock solid nights... whereas Pontoon is perfect for a drink on the harbour.<br><br>Finally, Sounds on Sunday at the Greenwood is essential for cool clubbers.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cracow Life</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Cracow Life is a website about Cracow/Krakow that has soul! In particular I refer to the drink section to research good pubs and bars and night clubs for a piwo (beer), and there's usually loads of good public reviews too so you can get a flavour of what each place is like and how popular they are. They also have feature articles on things like nightlife and the various tourist attractions.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Shelter- the best nightclub in Shanghai</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Shelter is a dark tunnel that is currently beating all nightclub competition in the city by a mile. <br><br>Hip-hop, dub, techno and d'n'b all sound good in this underground spot where the drinks are reasonable, people smile while they dance and the pretentious need not apply.<br><br>No chrome, no flashy lightshows, no rolling dice, no sparklers in Champagne bottles, great music. A breath of fresh air (despite all the tobacco smoke).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mint Lounge</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fantastic basement club in the centre of Manchester. Great staff and good drinks. Just make sure you have your dancing shoes on...]]></description>
                
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                <title>Thekla</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A club with lots of character, the Thekla is a boat and consists of two floors and a heated deck. Brilliant food is served all day and in the evening it turns into a live venue, which is often followed by a club night. Whether the performers are well-known or up and coming, the Thekla always seems to get it just right.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Clockwork</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Clockwork is a big club with a warehouse feel and has played host to some of the best dub, hip-hop, electro, jungle and drum &amp; bass artists around such as Foreign Beggars, Klaxons, Hot Chip, Congo Natty and Easy Star All-Stars.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Reading Rooms Dundee</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Small, intimate, underground venue with original retro decor in the dark, Jute Mill area of the city centre. Great music policy featuring DJs like Don Letts, Norman Jay, Gilles Peterson, 100% Dynamite, Toddla T, Mr Scruff, Qool DJ Marv and bands such as Earl Zinger, The Bays, Antibalas, Fat Freddys Drop, Blackalicious. Mellow, chilled out crowd and great bar and door staff. A happy face, a thumping bass, for a loving race...]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Thekla social</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Someone had a genius idea of making an old boat into a club. The acoustics are great - equipped for both DJs and bands who can pump out their tunes to a resonating effect within the boat's hull. It offers a triple decker sandwich of floors, the top being a bar and (lucky for smokers) a large outside deck complete with heaters! Straight down to the bottom,  the hull becomes the main dance floor including a second bar. The selection of bands that play ranges from local to large, alternative to just plain awesome. Thursday is club night, Friday and Saturday if you want the next step up for music!]]></description>
                
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                <title>TokyoFoodie.com</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Everyone I know uses <a target="_new" href="http://tokyofoodie.com">Tokyofoodie.com</a> to decide on restaurants in Tokyo. Well-written and comprehensive articles by other food lovers are perfect there.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Coven II</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Coven II is a underground drum and bass club in just outside Oxford's city center. It used to be a gay club until it closed at the end of the 80s. It was then refurbished and reopened as Coven II in the late 90s and has since been the best D&amp;B club in the south of England. Not only is the building perfect; a ground floor and basement with balconies around the basement from the first floor, a pedestal for DJs raised around 15 feet off the floor, an eight foot sub-woofer located on the dancefloor and seating ares located in small caves in the wall. Recent huge acts to play there include Shy FX, Skepta, Mampi swift, Pendulum, Baraka, Skinny Man, as well as local MCs such as MC Choppa, MC Addict and MC TYG. <br><br>As well as a weekend saturday night Kinetic night, there is also a weekly gay night which has even attracted interest from MTV, and a Thursday student night with a different theme each week, including foam parties (with foam often reaching as high as the roof of the basement) snow parties, water fights (with over 2000 water guns provided) and fancy dress nights. There is also a thriving bar, as well as the main dance floor and smaller dance floor, and also an outside smoking area with heater lights and perfectly comfy seating. As well as being within five minutes of the city center and the Oxford train station, it is also just around the corner from a taxi rank. It can also be booked out for private parties regularly and the staff are all extremely outgoing and friendly, and will often get involved with the fun. That is why I recommend Coven II as one of the best nights out in the whole of the country.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Nation, Liverpool</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[One of Liverpool's biggest club venues. You're guaranteed to get your stomp on at any of the nights put on at Nation... from Chibuku Birthdays, Cream Nights to Medication... the DJs are tuned in and always raise the roof without fail.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Korova</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A music venue in the popular drinking area that is Concert Square. Go past all the awful chain bars and two-for-one drinking venues and escape to Korova just up Fleet Street. Wicked venue, illustrations and graphics cover the walls and there are booths in the bar to relax in. During the day there's good food and drink, of an evening you can catch a band or go to one of the club nights. Usually has something going on most evenings.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Logo bar</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This bar might appear a trifle tacky, but the great live music, good drinks and friendly service more than offset the dubious visuals. Here, one can enjoy good clean fun. Beer starts at 20RMB.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Zero Zero (00)</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This place is awesome, and so is the food. This was one of our first dinner stops and we still have fond memories of it. <br><br>But the cuisine is just the first chapter of the house, the other side of the thing is a great night! The cool and trendy DJs spin the latest e-music hits, while a crowd of young and beautiful people makes things even more interesting. Should you come down to Rio, give it a try. Zero Zero is located in Gávea, near the Planetarium.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Kulture</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The very latest bar to open, formerly known as the Standard. The Bar is now under new ownership and has had a massive investment with full-on club downstairs, comfortable seating throughout, even in the garden, and best yet, you no longer have to trudge miles out to sea to exercise your vocals as Tuesdays are now karaoke night from 8pm to 11pm. Lovely place with a very tastefully themed decor.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Supper club</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[When visiting Amsterdam, try the Supper Club, a great, chilled out place that includes a five-course surprise menu, which is fab. The music is great and is suitable for all ages. The meal finishes at about midnight, and then there is a nightclub to which you get free entry if you have the energy.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Ultra Lounge in Charlottenburg</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's a sort of lounge/nightclub. I think it is a restaurant during the day. I was stumbling around Zoologischer Garten on a Thursday night and some kid handed me a flyer which (out of character for me) I took and it said there was live music playing. So I went over there and when I went in I was really surprised. There was a great band doing covers of soul classics and some other things i didnt recognise with an amazing piano player (who looked like Pat from Saturday Night Live) who took solo after solo and did not disappoint. Not to mention that the place was very stylish, sheek but not expensive.  Most people were sitting down and listening to the music but another group was dancing. I had a great time there and went back twice during that stay. I heartily reccomend it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Crazy Pianos</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't associate the usually serious and austere city of The Hague with unfettered summer hedonism, but at the adjacent resort of Schevingen is the Dutch answer to Blackpool beach. <br><br>Check out Crazy Pianos, for example, for an irrevent mix of live music, comedy and the drunken teenage antics you know oh-so-well from back home. Frankly, it's just a great bit of harmless fun in an otherwise slightly dull part of the world.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Jazz Voyeur Club, Palma</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Roberto Menedez is a bit of a local celebrity. He was the driving force behind the Mallorca Jazz Festival and last year he opened the Jazz Voyeur Club on Carrer del Apuntadors in Palma. It has live music - jazz and soul most nights - and is the antithesis of the Puro beach bar. Where the latter is a dazzling white, outdoors Miami-style bar with local hipsters nodding to ambient tunes, the jazz club is small, dark and smoky. Nice.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Puro beach</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Palma Beach club/restaurant/spa and all-purpose temple of cool on a private promontory jutting out over the sea. Chilled out during the day getting louder as the evening progresses.]]></description>
                
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