PRYZM Birmingham

Haven’t been here since Gatecrasher owned it (c.2012), but in terms of size, location and sound system, this is one of the best clubs in the U.K. Back in the day, DJs like Hardwell, Kryder, Nicky Romero, Laidback Luke, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano played regularly, and the place was always packed as a result.I know it has a reputation for trouble these days (some of the recent reviews are worrying), but I can honestly say that I never experienced any in all the time that I went. Will make a point of coming up later in the year to see how things have changed.

Decent set up, but not happy with the music and DJ’s. £8 to get in, fair enough for a Saturday. Main floor was ok but went up to the cheese floor and the DJ was not playing cheese half the time. Main issue with both dance floors was that the DJ’s just kept talking over the music on their mics, it was constant. Just shut up and play music! People want to dance and enjoy the music, not hear a DJ go ‘throw your hands up’ every 30 seconds, it’s just irritating. Management need to listen to this because it got stupid, heard more of the DJ’s than actual music all night.

The club itself was buzzing in all 3 rooms, the vinyl room was a personal favourite because of the Shrek songs ;) Drinks were £2.50 that night (even for doubles) which greatly improved the experience so I'd recommend going on FIX Fridays if you plan on drinking. There's a photo booth inside & you can see a bar regardless of where you're standing. We were hoping to go to One Direction night, though the website was inaccurate and it was actually 80's themed in that room, luckily 80s-Y2k music has the same vibe as 1D and we were tipsy enough on £2.50 drinks not to be mad about it. It's not the friendliest place but not unfriendly either, I'm sure most people would love it but I'm used to becoming best friends with half the club by the end of the night in student cities!As with most places, some members of the security team were rude, even going as far to call a member of the party 'stupid' for not understanding their directions (the instructions weren't clear and it was loud inside, but either way being rude is unnecessary). Getting in was a stressful and honestly humiliating experience in some places. High security is great but that doesn't mean it needs to be a power trip. The security is fairly tight, but the male/female scanners seem unnecessary as it forces people into boxes. Otherwise the staff were very friendly!Entry was £8 that night

I have never left a review for anything but I feel like I have to. I have been on many a nights out yet I have never met such rude security staff. I understand if you have had a bad day but you can’t just shout at people and be super rude in the first instance. Please check your cameras to verify this but last night, when I arrived with my partner, there was no queue and the security man was talking to other staff on the side. They saw us standing waiting for them, I say, do you need our ID’s? No reply so I walk towards the entrance to the other security staff with the machines. Then all of a sudden the big fat security guard and a female staff member are *scream* at us and say where do you think you are going in their birms accent. We were very polite and said oh sorry, and they are like you skipped the queue and I say there is no queue, people are arriving behind us who is ahead of us? Then they keep repeating themselves and say you need to stand here and queue and I say we did and we are standing and queuing and we pass them the ID’s. I don’t know who they think they are literally screaming at us, just say guys wait, why did they both just command us? Ruined my whole night, You don’t know what people go through, I wanted a night out to enjoy myself and honestly the experience left me so upset, when I got tipsy I was honestly crying inside because all I could hear was the security man shouting at me and I felt like it triggered me into a dark place for no reason like why is he doing a job he clearly hates? My dad worked in security as a bouncer too and he was a scary bloke but he never ever would scream something at someone, I felt like he just found a reason to take our aggression on me and my partner when he could’ve just ordered us to do anything without shouting at us with his female staff member and there was no need to be rude as the situation was so trivial. I hope he realised he ruined my first night in Birmingham, he was verbally unnecessarily aggressive and I hope he loses his job. Do your job, u need to pay bills i get it but don’t ever speak to someone like that again. I didn’t deserve it, you don’t know what’s happened to me in my life this week and your behaviour has affected me. I would never recommend Pryzm in birms ever again, I used to go to another Pryzm in my hometown all the time and have never experienced security guards like this. Please don’t come here and you may want to off yourself because a man wants to flirt with female staff members and not do his job properly and instead of directing us to do something right he decides to scream. He ignored me, let me walk past him a couple steps on purpose so he could humiliate me with his colleague. They have clearly done it before because they repeated themselves and both said the same things.

Haven’t been here since Gatecrasher owned it (c.2012), but in terms of size, location and sound system, this is one of the best clubs in the U.K. Back in the day, DJs like Hardwell, Kryder, Nicky Romero, Laidback Luke, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano played regularly, and the place was always packed as a result.I know it has a reputation for trouble these days (some of the recent reviews are worrying), but I can honestly say that I never experienced any in all the time that I went. Will make a point of coming up later in the year to see how things have changed.

First time in Birmingham night out and we went to this place. Nice place, really pretty aesthetics. Decently priced drinks, Good diverse range of music in different rooms. It was actually a fun night out.They don’t do cocktails however and cloakroom line took a while but yh overall nice experience

Really love this club. If you're in the large room then the toilet is up the stairs but if you're in the small room then it's on your level. The staff are really accommodating and found the toilets to be clean at the start of the event and at the end also exteemly spacious. We've been a few times to an event there and are yet to be disappointed.

Very safe you get a proper search and metal detectors my friends felt really safe in this venue. The music is amazing and we have fun on the dance floor. Unfortunately the drinks are too expensive and put me off spending my budget for the night as I wasn't getting enough for my money so I saved over half what I planned to spend. The service at the bar is quick because no one can afford to drink.