SO WHAT’S THE RUBY LOUNGE ALL ABOUT?

“Rock ‘n Roll is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear””.

So spoke Frank Sinatra back in the 50’s but I’m damn certain Frank would have gotten just the kind of kick he was partial to out of a night at Ruby Lounge.Sure, the quote would be the same but this time he’d be smiling.

The Ruby Lounge is a bespoke 375 capacity live music venue (& 600 capacity club space) bang in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter and a venue Manchester has always deserved. A place for all that brutal, ugly, desperate and vicious Rock’n'Roll but all delivered withinthe kind of joint that doesn’t expect people to live with the lowest common denominator - quite the opposite.

The Ruby Lounge is flash without being showy. Lived in without being beat up. Rock’n'Roll without being clichéd. Timeless but not tired. The Ruby Lounge nods from the 21st century to all those perfect 1950’s Lounges and to a time where live venues gave a damn about the people enjoying them. It’s a perfect hang out with a loud-as-hell PA and a venue with all the trimmings.

Expect live shows and bands most every night - big, wild, loud, thrilling, smeared & sultry live bands. Great Rock’n'Roll bands - no filler.

The Ruby Lounge also opens real late with a selection of superb club nights stretching into the evening plus we’ve one hell of a great bar that won’t break the bank.

Frank of course also said… “Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy”.

So here’s what you get folks…

* A 375 capacity live music venue (that opens into a 600 capacity club) with a reasonably priced bar & a 4am liquor license.

* An awesome Turbosound live PA rig with all the trimmings plus a separate 40k club system.

* Full venue aircon throughout (and yeah, we actually turn it on).

* Becks Vier, Boddingtons, Guinness and Strongbow on draught plus a mighty range of bottles, spirits & specialty beers.

* A great looking chill out lounge area plus pool table.

* And much more besides including…

Bar offers, real clean toilets, cash machine, secure cloakroom plus door & bar staff with a smile thrown in.

It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) - we are really proud of this place.

 

WHO’S PLAYED THE RUBY LOUNGE SO FAR?

Agnes Obel, Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO, Acorn. Adem, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Alfonz, And So I Watch You From Afar, Apparat, Angus & Julia Stone, Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos, A Place to Bury Strangers, A Silent Film, Art Brut, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Airborne Toxic Event, Akala, Akron/Family, Alberta Cross, Amy LaVere, Al Duvall, Answering Machine, Arthur Delaney, Athlete, Autokratz, Azure Ray, Akira the Don, BabyBird, Blood Arm, Back Handed Compliments, Baddies, Boxer Rebellion, Band of Skulls, Baskery, Bear Hands, Ben Kweller, Ben Howard, Ben’s Brother, Besnard Lakes, Beth Rowley, Big Pink, Boy Least Likely To, Black Angels, Blitzkid, Blow Monkeys, Baxter Dury, Blue Gillespie, Bob Log III, Bone-Box, Boris, Boss Hoss, Ben Ottewell, Boy Crisis, Brakes, The Bravery, Brother, British Sea Power, Broken Family Band, Broken Records, Bromhead’s Jacket, Brute Chorus, Bryn Christopher, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Blitzen Trapper, Chairlift, Chapman Family, Cheek, Cheeky Cheeky & the Nosebleeds, Chief, Cinematics, Claire & the Reasons, Clik Clik, Codeine Velvet Club, Colin MacIntyre aka Mull Historical Society, Cults, Charlatans, Courteeners, Crippled Black Phoenix, Chameleons Vox, Curtis Eller’s American Circus, Coldcave, Crystal Fighters, Crystal Stilts, Cut in the Hill Gang, CW Stoneking, Cyril Snear, Dels, Damo Suzuki, Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards, Darwin Deez, Dave Arcari, DD/MM/YYYY, Dean Wareham, Deadstring Brothers, Delta Spirit, Detachments, Detroit Social Club, Dears, DJ Funk, Ducktails, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Dirtbombs, Doll & the Kicks, Drum Eyes, Duffy, Duke & the King, Durutti Column, Eamon Hamilton, Eileen Rose & the Holy Wreck, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed and the True Loves, Emiliana Torrini, Emmy the Great, Everybody was in the French Resistance… Now!, Example, Exit Calm, Flats, Factory Floor, Fresh and Onlys, Faint, Faust, Feeder, Findlay Brown, Fink, Fools Gold, Former Ghosts, Foy Vance, Frontier Ruckus, Francoiz Breut, Florrie, Frank and Walters, Frank Sidebottom, Frankie & the Heartstrings, Friendly Fires, Future of the Left, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Florence and the Machine, Gabriella Cilmi, Grandmaster Flash, Gary Go, General Fiasco, Ginger (Wildhearts), Glasvegas, Glen Matlock, Gordon Gano and the Ryans, Gloria Cycles, G Love, Gold Panda, God is an Astronaut, Gang Gang Dance, Gravenhurst, Group Love, Hammell On Trial, Handsome Family, Holy Ghost!, Handsome Furs, Har Mar Superstar, Haunts, Hawk and a Hacksaw, Health, The Heavy, Hefner, Hidden Cameras, Hip Parade, Hockey, Horrors, Hot Club De Paris, The Hundred in the Hands, Ignatz, Ian Broudie, Icarus Line, I Blame CoCo, I Like Trains, Idlewild, Imperial Leisure, I’m From Barcelona, Indelicates, Jack Penate, Jack Savoretti, Jah Wobble, James McCartney, James Walsh (Starsailor), James Yuill, Jamie Scott & the Town, Jesse Malin, Jessie Rose Trip, Jon Fratelli, JP Cooper, Jeffrey Lewis, Joe Gideon and the Shark, Joensuu 1685, John Cooper Clarke, Johnny Foreigner, Jolie Holland, Jonah Matranga, Jon Spencer, Jon Windle, Josh T Pearson, Joss Stone, Joy Formidable, Joell Ortiz, Juana Molina, Jim Noir, Kassidy, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Karima Francis, Kate Rogers, Keith, Kid British, King Creosote, King Kurt, Kanda Bongo Man, Klaxons, Laura Veirs, Leisure Society, Liam Frost, The Like, Lana Del Rey, The Lines, Lissy Trullie, The Lovers, Lucy Rose, Lowline, Lucy Wainwright Roche, M83, Man Like Me, Marina and the Diamonds, Max Tundra, The Moons, The Maybes?, Miserable Rich, Male Bonding, Manchester Orchestra, The Mummers, The Moons, Mayer Hawthorne, Mi Ami, Micah P Hinson, Mice Parade, Midas Fall, Mountain Goats, Moulettes, Moby, Modey Lemon, Mount Eerie, MC Lars, Mr Hudson, Mumford & Sons, My Vitriol, Mystery Jets, Natty, Neal Casal, Nell Bryden, Neon Neon, Nerina Pallot, New Adventures, New Pornographers, New Young Pony Club, Nizlopi, New Villager, Noisettes, North Atlantic Oscillation, O’Children, Otis Gibbs, Ocean Colour Scene, Oxbow, Paddingtons, Paloma Faith, Pan I Am, Parts & Labor, Pantha Du Prince, Parlotones, Passion Pit, Palace Fires, Performance, Pete & the Pirates, PVT, Phantom Limb, The Pierces, Pontiak, Professor Elemental, Portico Quartet, Prefuse 73, Priscilla Ahn, Puro Instinct, Rascals, Raveonettes, Ra Ra Riot, Real Dolls, Red Light Company, Retribution Gospel Choir, Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees, Ricky Warwick, Riding The Low, Robots in Disguise, Ringo Deathstarr, Ruarri Joseph, Rose Elinor Dougall, Ruby Suns, Satin Peaches, Saul Williams, School of Seven Bells, Scott Matthews, Scoundrels, Scout Niblett, Screaming Lights, Sky Larkin, Seerauber Jenny, Secret Machines, Shaky Hands, Shearwater, Sons & Daughters, Shout Out Louds, Silver Columns, Silversun Pickups, Soft Pack, Slow Club, S.C.U.M, Secret Sisters, Soft Toy Emergency, Solange, Sound of Arrows, Scanners, Sound of Guns, Sanchita Farruque, Soy Un Caballo, Stephanie Dosen, Still Corners, Strange Death of Liberal England, Surfer Blood, Soul Savers, School Of Seven Bells, Teddy Thompson, Teitur, Tribes, Tame Impala, Temper Trap, Thermals, These Are Powers, Thomas Truax, Thrills, Titus Andronicus, Toadies, Tom Vek, To The Bones, Tokyo Police Club, Tom Hingley & Kelly Wood, Tommy Reilly , Tonight is Goodbye, Tony Wright (Terrorvision), Transfer, Tune-Yards, Tweak Bird, 22-20s, Twilight Sad, Two Door Cinema Club, Ugly Duckling, The Union, Vast, Veils, Vessels, Violens, Virgins, Vivian Girls, Voluntary Butler Scheme, Von Bondies, Vortex, VV Brown, Wild Swans, We Are The Physics, White Denim, White Hills, Whitest Boy Alive, Wye Oak, The Whip, Will and the People, Webb Sisters, Wintersleep, Wolf Gang, Wolf Parade, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Yacht, Yo Majesty, Young The Giant, Young Rebel Set, Yelawolf, Young Legionnair, Your 20’s, Zombina and the Skeletones, Zombie Zombie, Zun Zun Egui…