ROCK & JAZZ VENUES

ART CLINIC
  • Live rock concerts. Open Wednesday-Sunday, 8 pm to midnight. 20,000 R. 10 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa. Metro Mayakovskaya or Ploshchad Vosstaniya. Go under the archway and then another archway on your left.

    FISH FABRIQUE

  • Contemporary rock and pop music. Open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, 7 pm to midnight; Friday and Saturday, 9 pm to 5:30 am. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, 5,000-10,000 R; Friday and Saturday, 15,000 R. 10 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa, Apt. 15 (4th floor). Metro Ploshchad Vosstaniya. On exiting, turn left, cross Nevsky Prospect. Pushkinskaya is the first street on your right.

    GORA CLUB

  • Live rock concerts. Open Thursday-Sunday, 7 pm to midnight. 10,000 R. 153 Ligovsky Prospect. One tram stop from the Ligovsky Prospect Metro. The club located on the corner of Obvodnovo Canala Naberezhnaya and Ligovsky Prospect.. Enter from the embankment.

    JAZZ PHILHARMONIC HALL

  • Traditional, mainstream and modern jazz. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 8 pm to 11 pm. 30,000 R (foreigners), 20,000 R (Russians). Ellington Hall: open Saturday, 9 pm to midnight. 50,000 R (foreigners), 30,000 R (Russians). Tickets sold in advance at the box office, 2 pm to 8 pm. 27 Zagorodny Prospect. Metro Dostoyevskaya. Turn right, walk ten minutes down Zagorodny or take any trolley bus, two stops. Tel: 164-8565.

    KVADRAT JAZZ CLUB

  • Traditional and mainstream jazz. Open Tuesday, 8 pm to 11 pm. 8,000 R. 10 Pravdy Ulitsa. Metro Vladimirskaya. On exiting, turn left, follow Bolshaya Moskovskaya (turns into Pravdy Ulitsa), five minute walk.

    MONEY HONEY SALOON

  • Live rockabilly concerts. Open daily, 7:30 pm to midnight. Bar opens at 11 am. Monday-Thursday, 10,000 R; Friday-Sunday, men 15,000 R, women 10,000 R. Apraksin Dvor, Building 14. Metro Gostiny Dvor (exit on Sadovaya Ulitsa). Club located in the yard of the Apraksin Dvor department store. Go through the main archway in the middle of the store -- club is in the first building on your right. Tel: 310-0147.

    NORA CLUB

  • Raves, "unplugged" rock concerts. Open Monday, Wednesday-Sunday, 9 pm to 6 am; Saturday, 9 pm to noon. Invitations and club cards only. 153 Ligovsky Prospect. One tram stop from the Ligovsky Prospect Metro. The club located on the corner of Obvodnovo Canala Nabe-rezhnaya and Ligovsky Prospect, in the same building as the Gora Club. Enter from the corner.

    PEREVAL

  • Live rock concerts. Open Friday-Sunday, 7:30 pm to midnight. 10,000 R (men), 5,000 R (women). 31/33 Bolshaya Monetnaya Ulitsa. Metro Petrogradskaya. Walk down Lva Tolstovo Ulitsa or go two stops by any tram.

    POLYGON

  • Live rock concerts. Open Friday and Saturday, 6 pm to 11:15 pm. 15,000-20,000 R. Located in the Krasny Oktyabr House of Culture. 8 Blokhina Ulitsa. Metro Gorkovskaya. Tel: 238-8050 (noon to 5 pm); 238-8033.

    ROTTERDAM CLUB

  • Dance, reggae, rock and roll. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 7 pm to 2 am. Tuesday and Wednesday, 10,000 R (men) 5,000 R (women); Friday and Saturday, 15,000 R (men), 10,000 R (women). 69 Veteranov Prospect. Metro Prospect Veteranov. Cross Veteranov Prospect and take any bus or trolley bus two stops south. Located on the second floor.

    TAMTAM CLUB

  • Hardcore rock'n'roll and jazz. Live music only. Open Thursday-Saturday, 8 pm to 11 pm. 10,000 R. 49 Maly Prospect (Vasilevsky Ostrov). Metro Vasileostrovskaya. Turn left on exiting the metro, at the first intersection turn right, and go one block. Cross the street, turn left and take any trolley bus two stops. Club is on the corner of Maly Prospect and the 16th Liniya, in the four-floor building. No sign, but the entrance is right on the corner.

    TEN CLUB

  • Live rock concerts. Open occasionally. 10,000-25,000 R. 62 Obvodnovo Canala Naberezhnaya. Metro Push-kinskaya (fifteen minute walk). Turn right on exiting the metro, turn right again at the first street, and follow to the canal. Cross the bridge and turn left. Club is located in the yellow building after the factory (through the trees). Go under the archway, entrance is the first door on the right.

    UNION OF ARTISTS

  • Live rock and jazz concerts, art exhibitions. Open Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm to midnight. 10,000 R. 38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Metro Nevsky Prospect. Located in the building of the Union of Artists.

    VEGA'S LIVE

  • Rock concerts, raves. Open Friday-Sunday, 8 pm to midnight. Men 12,000 R; women 10,000 R. 32 Kommuny Ulitsa. Metro Ladozhskaya. Take bus #77, the "Ulitsa Kommuny" stop.

    WILD SIDE

  • Rock and pop live shows, all-night disco. Open Friday and Saturday, 10 pm to 5:30 am; Sunday, 7 pm to 11 pm. Friday, 30,000 R, 20,000 R (students); Saturday, 30,000 R, 20,000 R (students); Sunday, 12,000 R. 12 Bumazhnovo Canala Naberezhnaya. Metro Narvskaya. No signs, but look for parking spaces in front of the building and listen for music. Tel: 186-3466.

    For events' details see The Week's Petersburg Gig Guide