PRYZM is Brighton's largest and most commercial superclub, located on West Street near the seafront. It's designed as a full-scale nightlife complex with multiple themed rooms, each offering different music styles and atmospheres. The venue is known for big student nights, late-night parties, special guest DJs, and large capacity events.
Six themed rooms, each with its own decor and genre (e.g., disco, pop, R&B, club anthems). Three main club rooms + three exclusive bars, depending on the night. Music ranges from commercial chart hits to R&B, hip-hop, and party classics.
EPIK Wednesdays - Official student night for Brighton & Sussex Universities, with themes, competitions, and giveaways. WTF Fridays - Random themes, special guests, and high‑energy party vibes. LOVE Saturdays - The club's flagship weekend event, often paired with bottomless brunches, Dreamboys shows, and Bongo's Bingo.
Very popular with students and young clubbers, especially mid-week. Known for being busy, loud, and high-energy - classic big-room clubbing.
Wednesday: 10:30pm - 4am
Friday: 10:30pm - 4am
Saturday: 10pm - 4am
Hosts Dreamboys, Bongo's Bingo, and other ticketed entertainment.
Offers VIP booths, private hire, and large-scale event hosting (up to 2,400 guests).
Experience a night out like no other at Alcotraz, the city's most immersive cocktail bar, just a stone’s throw from Brighton's iconic seafront. Step into this thrilling prison-themed bar, where smuggling liquor is part of the fun, crooked guards turn a blind eye, and your mixologist serves up bespoke cocktails crafted to perfection. Perfect for those seeking a quirky bar with a twist, Alcotraz offers an unforgettable bar experience for hen and stag dos, date nights, teambuilding and after work drinks, or an adventurous birthday evening with friends. Combining theatrics, intrigue, and some of the best creative cocktails in Brighton, it’s no wonder this immersive bar is a favourite among the city’s best quirky bars.
Alcotraz is a fully immersive “prison” cocktail bar with actors playing guards, inmates, and a warden. You bring your own alcohol (BYOB) — they turn it into custom cocktails based on your tastes. No menu — every drink is tailored. You wear an orange jumpsuit and get assigned a “cell”. The experience lasts 1 hour 45 minutes.
Standing strong on Brighton’s infamous Marine Parade, Patterns has become the go-to destination to experience forward-thinking music in Brighton. The basement club acts as a safe space for club culture, welcoming hundreds of people through the doors week in, week out. Patterns also hosts plenty of live music, with regular jazz, indie and pop acts. Converted from an art deco hotel, 10 Marine Parade is an iconic building with a long and impressive musical history, previously Ted Potters Music Bar and the infamous Escape Club. Patterns Brighton is one of the city’s most iconic seafront venues — a hybrid bar, club, and grassroots live‑music space known for its underground electronic nights, live gigs, and vibrant weekend atmosphere. It sits directly opposite Brighton Pier and has become a cornerstone of the city’s nightlife since opening in 2015
The basement rave cave is designed purely for dancing; sonic enhancements come from an L’Acoustics sound system – a key component for live acts and DJs alike. Fridays at the venue are led by Foundations, formed in 2017 the brand works with the cities best promoters to explore the sounds of drum & bass, grime, dubstep, UKG, bassline and everything in between. Saturdays cater for house, techno, electro, disco and all manner of other genres, reserved for the venue’s, ‘Patterns with’, ‘Patterns invites’ and quarterly residency series amongst many other event concepts.
Located on Brighton Seafront the Volks has been leading the way in new and underground club nights in Brighton for over 25 years. Offering 2 rooms of unpretentious, unadulterated clubbing, if you're looking for that jumping, party atmosphere, make sure you pay us a visit!
The soundtracks regularly change between reggae, breaks, dubstep, drum & bass and disco. The venue also organises live bands a well as new and upcoming artists. Popular club nights at the Volks: Strictly Reggae – reggae music night every Monday from 11pm till 5am. Waybeck Wednesday – groovy 70s and 80s disco. Strategy – weekly Drum & Bass every Thursday. A staple of Brighton’s underground music scene for 25+ years, Volks is known for bass-heavy nights, drum & bass, jungle, dubstep, hardcore, and eclectic underground events.
The club attracts many different generations as it plays a variety of genres from different decades. The soundtracks regularly change between reggae, breaks, dubstep, drum & bass and disco. The venue also organises live bands a well as new and upcoming artists. Volks hosts a packed calendar of club nights, often multiple per week.
Examples from recent listings include:
- Hardcore Unlocked
- Rupture
- Sabotage Thursdays
- Future Dub Orchestra
