The Underworld Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Venue

Pros:

• "A great vibe, personal venue excellent for gigs, mosh pits were fun and everyone was respectful."
• "Very easy to see why this is regarded as one of the UK's best metal venues; great atmosphere, superb drinks."
• "Great night. The music was fantastic."
• "Everyone was incredible, kind and made my night safe and enjoyable."
• "This has always been one of my favourite venues in London to see rock & metal bands."
• "Visited Underworld for Camden Rocks, a night out, on Saturday 30th July 2021. The atmosphere was great."
• "Great venue for live music."

Cons:

• "No accessible entrance either."
• "Very disrespectful, rude and under qualified staff at the doors."
• "Security denied us entry and wouldn't even give a reason why."
• "Stay clear! Bouncers are all on some sort of power trip and don't like anyone having fun."
• "Being banned from entry to the club for literary no reason it's something I didn't expect from the place like this."
• "What can I say. The staff didn't like the look of us."
• "VERY rude staff (door, bouncers, bar) feels like you are being watched by the fun police."

Service & Staff

Pros:

• "Great little venue. Lovely attitude from all the staff we interacted with."
• "Bar staff had water on hand ready for when the gig ended."
• "The security guards were really good not overbearing but professional and stopped anything that happened before it became an issue."
• "Great vibes, lovely staff at bar and inside."
• "I had one of the best experiences I’ve ever had with staff at a venue ever at Underworld."
• "Amazing venue, a big shout out to the security on the door (particularly Jamil) for being really kind and friendly and looking out for creeps pestering girls!"
• "Staff were brilliant."

Cons:

• "It took an hour to get a round of drinks, and they tried to double charge us because the card machine ran out of paper."
• "Only thing that was pretty disgusting were the toilets.. maybe at concerts you have to clean them more often.."
• "A girl at the bar tried to charge me with 5 £ extra for two drinks."
• "They now charge 5% service fee at the bar, so a pint of lager cost me £6.83."
• "I was stopped by a member of security when entering the toilets."
• "The bar staff forgot the vodka to go in my coke."
• "Watch out for the absurd 12.5% service charge silently added on to even bar service!"

Prices & Drinks

Pros:

• "Drinks are near to normal pub prices, but expect to wait in line for a little bit."
• "No expensive tickets, no attitude, just die hard bands and die hard fans."
• "Good cheap night club, usually there are flyers being given out at the tube station to get money off entrance."
• "A great night out, drinks are really cheap and the music is awesome."
• "Average London pub prices for booze which is actually good for a music venue."
• "Really lovely staff, good price drinks."
• "Great choices of bands, staff are helpful and lovely to interact with, and they have a reasonable selection of drinks on tap."

Cons:

• "Expect pricey drinks (£6.30 for a bottle of Desperado, £25 for two double vodka and mixers)."
• "Drinks are a little on the pricier side."
• "The prices however are quite eye watering being in the centre of London. I recall paying £6 something for a Newcastle brown ale!"
• "Drinks are fairly pricey (2 pints of coke was just under £9), but that’s just how London is…"
• "However they have ramped up prices hugely since I last visited which made for a very expensive night."
• "Way too expensive."
• "Grossly overpriced scuzzy beer in plastic cups."

Facilities & Cleanliness

Pros:

• "The sound over the years has improved massively, and it's always a joy seeing bands there!"
• "The whole place is very clean."
• "One of the best venues to watch some of the best metal shows is the Underworld in Camden."
• "The venue has reached almost cult like status!"
• "Good venue for small gigs and it's one of the few left in Camden."
• "Such a small, intimate venue with surprisingly good acoustics."
• "The sound was some of the best I've heard in a small venue like this."

Cons:

• "The male toilets reek of decaying corpses and one sticks to the floor."
• "The toilets in this place are always a mess."
• "Only one of the toilets in the female toilets had a lock on the door."
• "Toilets are disgusting. Broken, no seats and filthy."
• "Bathrooms were pretty gross but that’s nothing new when it comes to venues like this."
• "The state of the toilets was also shocking, even by rock venue standards."
• "There was no toilet paper and only 2 toilets had a toilet seat."