The Roxy

Gosh, this place has changed a bit. My previous visit was more than a decade ago and I mainly remember my friend being distraught after discovering her bag and passport had been nicked.
Fast forward to 2016 and I barely recognise the place. No more sticky floors and general grottiness. It’s slick and modern. Happy hour is fantastic value. The music gets gradually louder and dancing ensues.
Prices are decent considering how central the bar is. For pre-​drinks that spill into dancing, it’s a perfect choice.

Great Bar, Great atmosphere, and the drinks are not reasonable priced. Dancing here will make you dance all night trust me. When I went I remember thinking I’ll make the last train home and then I looked at the time again t it was 3am!!! The night went by so quick when you’re having fun.

As a 19 year old college student, I will never spend my money here again. I would highly recommend against this club. The staff was rude, the drinks were terrible and the music was honestly not good enough. If you’re looking to have a good time and dance, then adventure away from this building.
First off, a group of my friends studying abroad with me decided to go out to celebrate our best friends birthday. I stood in line at 11am 85% sober and showed the bouncer my ID. I held it in front of him so that he could easily access it to inspect it further. He then demanded to see my ID. I didn’t really understand what he was asking since I was holding my ID directly in front of him. It was when I rotated my ID that he finally took it from me and inspected it. The beginning of feeling disrespected.
My friends had told me about the clubs student discount, where students only pay £5 after 11 (I even checked online and asked the bouncer if my international student ID would work and he said they take all kinds). So when I went to pay after showing my license, I was charged £7 while I was holding up my student ID. None the less I was very upset.
I went downstairs and bought drinks at the bar.
Over priced and disgusting are the two words I would use to describe their drinks. My Long Island iced tea tasted like pure tequila and my gin and tonic was more tonic than gin. Overall terrible quality.
During my time there, one of the staff me members was going around mopping the dance floor. He came over to me and pushed me to the side and told me to move (more than once) with his wet fingers. Not only did he leave streaks of water down my arm but he continued to push me into my boyfriend and my other friends while we were trying to celebrate and have fun. I love to dance, but I couldn’t even enjoy myself because the cleanup staff couldn’t wait to do their job.
Lastly, as I was leaving the club with my boyfriend, the same bouncer who checked my ID asked if we were leaving the club. I responded to him with «Yes we are» and he then answered «Then go. Move! Quickly.» And shuffled us out the bar, like we were unwanted and he just could not wait to throw us out.
Overall this is the worst possible place to go out to have fun. Why spend your money at a place where they don’t respect you and treat you rudely? As a college student, I think this was the worst bar/​club I have ever been to. I would highly recommend going elsewhere. O’Neill’s is by far a million times better than Roxy will ever be.

OK. The Roxy, thought I loved it at first — until I went a second time.
This was one of the worst experience I have had in my entire life. I was verbally accosted by the security who proceeded to be inappropriate to my friends and I. Then, when walking from the ladies washroom I slipped and fell near the dance floor. A security guard/​bouncer was standing there watching, did not care, it turns out I slipped in vomit. YES, VOMIT. No one cared and my knees have been damaged from the fall ever since.
Do not come here, it is disgusting.

We got here at 2.10am — the club closes at 3.30am but they wouldn’t let us in, even after friends who were downstairs came upstairs to get us. They claimed that the «entry doors close at 2am and no one can come in after that». The bouncers were INCREDIBLY rude and lied about taking the entry TV screen down. Not worth wasting your time or money here.

The Roxy is a good environment with good music and the dance floor can be fun. However the staff is not very friendly and their ID verification process is completely absurd. Their deal on pitchers of alcohol is a also a complete scam. They put in «alcohol» from unlabeled bottles and apparently their version of a long island ice tea is coca cola with a splash of tequila flavoring. I was completely unaffected after drinking a pitcher to myself, if you go just make sure they use labeled alcohol bottles for your drinks.

Came here on our first night out in London trying to see the nightlife. After paying the core, and going downstairs, we realized we were out of our element. It seemed as if everyone here was 18, and yes I know the drinking age in the US is higher but still. All I could think of was high school hell! To quote my friend, she felt the only recourse was ‘to drink until you don’t notice the teeny-​boppers!’ Needless to say we left and went around the corner to Bourne & Hollingsworth. Best decision of the night!

The Roxy definitely has a younger crowd, which means the music is new, the beats are loud, and the cover is cheap with a student ID. And half-​priced cocktail pitchers. (Literally pitchers with straws.) You’re basically guaranteed to have fun.
The nice thing about The Roxy is that there’s room for either laid-​back conversation, or dancing (or both). Plenty of international students, which made for an interesting mix.

Great place for a few drinks during the happy hour (5pm-8.30pm) or in preparation for going out afterwards. Have been here a few times on a Friday night and have really enjoyed the atmosphere. It’s slightly hidden, down some stairs which is quite useful as many walk past without realising its even there. Music is slightly loud but always reasonably good and the bar staff are friendly but fast with service.

Check the theme for the day before going, it will really make a difference on your experience here. The drinks here are decent, though. My only dissatisfaction with the Roxy was their music, but I guess that was my own fault… :\

Fun night out not too hard on the wallet and good crowd!

OK first ask yourself what you are looking for in your Tuesday night. This little dive bar is pretty fucking ratchet but let me tell you I went here every Tuesday night for two months and closed the place. From one American to another, there are sexy British men here who will buy you all the two for one drink deals your liver desires. This place is gross, but it is a blast and one of the best places to go on a Tuesday. Dont bother on the weekend there are bigger fish to fry!

Stereotypical top 40’s club. Drinks are average priced, staff are fine. Cover charge was average. Toilet were ok. All in all it’s an ok club, but it wouldn’t be my first choice.

Cool place with screenings of the London Short Film Festival and also Premier League Matches. The Chips tasted a little like bacon, which I did not appreciate, but great atmosphere anyway.
Tolle Location mit ausgesuchten Filmen und vorn läuft Sport.

I was staying in London over the summer of 2011 and while I had no shortage of pubs to frequent (even one my friend referred to as the «proper old man pub») my girl friends and I were in dire need of a place to dance… inexpensively… any night of the week.
That is where the Roxy steps up to the plate!
Sure, it doesn’t have the fanciest lounge… sure, it’s underground and you may not have cell phone service… sure, the lack of windows adds to an increased amount of humidity that may be uncomfortable if you’re dancing like a raging lunatic all night (as I was on many occasion)…
BUT don’t let that deter you. The bouncers were really friendly, remembering my friend and I and letting us in promptly and free-​ly ;) … they have cocktail pitchers (I’d never heard of this before!) but if you’re looking to get wasted on a budget – BOOM… they have a varied crowd young, old, hipsters, suits, mod, what-​have-​you, not too much of any one scene so that you feel out of place… and the music varies so much that everyone gets a bit of what they like.
All in all, it’s a good place to party on a budget! Next time I’m in town I’ll definitely be sure to make a stopover!

The Roxy is not the type of place you can bring a ton of people and get free cover. That seems to be a trend with most places if you have a good guy/​girl ratio and have a good pack; but The Roxy doesn’t work like that.
Letting people through in pairs, this club first checks IDs and lets you through, then greets you with a cashier who collects 4 pounds cover. Not a bad fee, but there is no way around it. A few in my group left after being faced with the cover!
Inside, the ground is inexplicably completely covered with shards of glass. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it is as if 1000 people dropped their pint glasses and they just shattered everywhere. It’s extremely dangerous as there are a ton of people dancing everywhere. It’s a large place but seemingly every square inch is wet and bumpy with glass pieces.
This place attracts a young crowd (18 – 21), but had plenty of older folks as well. Seemed like a good range and people conducted themselves okay. One of my friends got absolutely clocked in the face by a drunk girl who sort of fell into his face with her fist. It was insane and out of no where.
The bathroom here is embarrassingly small for a place this big. I remember only one stall and two urinals with 11 guys crowded around in there waiting to use them. Its overall square footage is like the size of a single-​person bathroom but with squeezed-​in urinals.
The DJ here has a habit of cutting away from songs at their peak, something I absolutely don’t understand. Just as everybody is getting into it he’ll change it or blend it into another. His mixing skills are frankly sub-​par and he did a poor job of transitioning. At one point he screwed up and it was silent for a few minutes; people started yelling.
Overall The Roxy is a pretty big downgrade from some of the places around Oxford/​Piccadilly Circus area. Even on a Wednesday night it had a long-​ish wait to get in so this might be a place to pass over. That is unless you like shards of glass (some people are into that).

Great big dance club. Lots of space to hangout and tons of seating around the edges and a big bar with drink deals on regularly. Slightly strange ratio of dance floor to the rest of the space but people were dancing all over anyway.
Was here on a monday night and it didn’t really get poppin until about 12:00 that night. I felt a bit awkward because I think I was one of the older people there, lots of students cause a college is close by or something, but they didn’t seem to care so I got over it quickly.
I heard it gets really crowded on Friday nights though. Looking for a place to boogie in this area? This is the place.

This was the first club we went to on our first night in London. We basically found it because we got lost going to the club we actually wanted to go to, someone handed us a flyer and we said why not? It was sort of a bizarre night with the type of music that was playing and we had no idea any of the songs that they were playing at all. It was really empty when we first got there for at least the first hour and then it picked up afterwards and did get pretty fun. We had fun despite not knowing a single song they played all night long.
They had pretty good drink specials too as we all got huge pitchers of Long Island Ice Tea’s which were pretty strong and pretty delicious and well made for the price. They were reasonable for London prices from what I remember too.

I had loads of fun, but I was really drunk and don’t remember any details. Oh wait… dancing with friends was great, and the drink specials were pretty cheap… all the rest is a blur. According to the other reviewers, I was most likely the oldest person there, not that I would have noticed. I fit right in, everybody was super drunk. Good times.

I went on a Tuesday, it was fun but I think I’m edging out the the demographic. It seemed to attract 16 – 18 year-​olds.
That being said, the music on Tuesday is great. It’s a mix of indie and electronic. Everyone’s lively and super drunk (watch for glass). Drinks are on discount. I’ll probably end up here again.

Thursdays are now a really fun pop, 80s, bit o this bit o that night.
im biased: Im one of the DJs. but i do the opening spot and then just stay and dance the rest of the night. the other DJs are That Perfect Fumble (of Bloody Awful Poetry) who does Soundtracks at The Monarch in Camden on Saturdays (which is a blast) and Sean who has his hands in Feeling Gloomy at the O2 Academy Islington on Saturdays.
its an interesting mix of people also. theres a bit of t he Student crowd that the Roxy is known for, but also a good amount of 20 something professionals who know they can be hung over and exhusted on a friday at work.
come down and say hello. im generally dancing.