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 350 capacity live music venue (& 500 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 350 capacity live music venue (that opens into a 500 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?

Acorn
Adem
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Alfonz
And So I Watch You From Afar
Angus & Julia Stone
A Place to Bury Strangers
A Silent Film
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
Airborne Toxic Event
Akala
Akron/Family
Alberta Cross
Al Duvall
Angus & Julia Stone
Answering Machine
Arthur Delaney
Athlete
Autokratz
BabyBird
Back Handed Compliments
Baddies
Band of Skulls
Baskery
Bear Hands
Beep Seals
Ben Kweller
Ben’s Brother
Beth Rowley
Big Pink
Black Angels
Black Bud
Blitzkid
Blow Monkeys
Blue Gillespie
Bob Log III
Bone-Box
Boris
Boss Hoss
Boy Crisis
Brakes
Broken Family Band
Broken Records
Bromhead’s Jacket
Bryn Christopher
Chairlift
Cheek
Cheeky Cheeky & the Nosebleeds
Cinematics
Claire & the Reasons
Clik Clik
Codeine Velvet Club
Colin MacIntyre aka Mull Historical Society
Courteeners
Crippled Black Phienix
Curtis Eller’s American Circus
Cut In The Hill Gang
Cyril Snear
Damo Suzuki
Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards
Darwin Deez
Dave Arcari
DD/MM/YYYY
Deadstring Brothers
Delta Spirit
Detachments
Detroit Social Club
Dirtbombs
Doll & The Kicks
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
Faint
Faust
Feeder
Findlay Brown
Fink
Florance and the Machine
Fools Gold
Foy Vance
Francoiz Breut
Frank and Walters
Frankie & the Heartstrings
Friendly Fires
Future of the Left
Gabriella Cilmi
Gary Go
General Fiasco
Ginger (Wildhearts)
Glasvegas
Glen Matlock
Gloria Cycles
God is an Astronaut
Grails
Gravenhurst
Hammell on Trial
Handsome Family
Handsome Furs
Hat Mar Superstar
Haunts
Hawk and a Hacksaw
Heavy
Hefner
Hidden Cameras
Hip Parade
Hockey
Horrors
Hot Club De Paris
Ian Broudie
I Like Trains
Idlewild
Imperial Leisure
Indelicates
Jack Penate
Jack Savoretti
Jah Wobble
James McCartney
James Walsh (Starsailor)
Jamie Scott & the Town
Jesse Malin
Jessie Rose Trip
Joe Gideon and the Shark
Joensuu 1685
John Cooper Clarke
Johnny Foreigner
Jolie Holland
Jonah Matranga
Jon Spencer
Josh T Pearson
Joss Stone
Joy Formidable
Juana Molina
Kassidy
Kate Rogers
Keith
Kid British
King Creosote
King Kurt
Klaxons
Leisure Society
Liam Frost
Lissy Trullie
Lovers
Lowline
Lucy Wainwright Roche
M83
Marina and the Diamonds
Max Tundra
Maybes?
Mayer Hawthorne
Mi Ami
Micah P Hinson
Midas Fall
Moby
Modey Lemon
Mount Eerie
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
Noisettes
North Atlantic Oscillation
Otis Gibbs
Oxbow
Paddingtons
Paloma Faith
Pan I Am
Parlotones
Passion Pit
Performance
Pete & the Pirates
Phantom Limb
Pontiac
Portico Quartet
Prefuse 73
Priscilla Ahn
Rascals
Raveonettes
Real Dolls
Red Light Company
Retribution Gospel Choir
Riding The Low
Robots in Disguise
Rose Elinor Dougall
Ruby Suns
Satin Peaches
Saul Williams
School of Seven Bells
Scott Matthews
Scoundrels
Scout Niblett
Screaming Lights
Secret Machines
Shaky Hands
Shearwater
Shout Out Louds
Silversun Pickups
Soft Pack
Soft Toy Emergency
Solange
Sound of Guns
Soy Un Caballo
Stephanie Dosen
Surfer Blood
Teddy Thompson
Teitur
Temper Trap
Thermals
These Are Powers
Thomas Truax
Thrills
Titus Andronicus
Toadies
To The Bones
Tokyo Police Club
Tom Hingley & Kelly Wood
Tommy Reilly
Tonight is Goodbye
Tony Wright (Terrorvision)
Tune-Yards
Twilight Sad
Two Door Cinema Club
Ugly Duckling
Vast
Veils
Vessels
Virgins
Vivian Girls
Voluntary Butler Scheme
Von Bondies
Vortex
VV Brown
We Are The Physics
White Denim
White Hills
Whitest Boy Alive
Will and the People
Wintersleep
Wolf Gang
Wolf Parade
Working For A Nuclear Free City
Yacht
Yo Majesty
Young Rebel Set
Your 20’s
Zombie Zombie
Zombina and the Skeletones