Popworld - Nottingham

You know exactly what you're getting into when you descend those stairs – and that's precisely the point. This isn't the place for craft cocktails or sophisticated conversation; it's where you come to lose your dignity to Vengaboys while dressed as a traffic cone. The DJ knows their audience, cycling through every guilty pleasure from the 90s and 00s with surgical precision. The crowd is a beautiful mess of fancy dress enthusiasts, birthday parties, and anyone brave enough to request 'Mambo No. 5' unironically. Yes, the drinks are overpriced and yes, you'll wake up with glitter in places glitter shouldn't be, but you'll also have genuinely stupid fun. It's the antidote to Nottingham's cooler-than-thou venues – refreshingly unpretentious and proud of it.