The nightclub brand synonymous with growing up or studying in Birmingham is reopening on Broad Street with a student night tonight (13 March) followed by more clubbing on Friday and Saturday.
The venue began life in Paradise Street in 1972 before switching to Smallbrook Queensway in 2014. Its last night there on 1 March was sold out, with dancers living it up one more time right to the last record.
Now Snobs is opening in the former Velvet Music Rooms site on Broad Street between Granville Street and Bishopsgate Street. Existing staff will be joined by some new recruits.
Owner Wayne Tracey began to transform the venue at the end of October. A team of builders worked through the night early today to get it ready for a major Westside press preview that is set to include a live broadcast from the dance floor by Midlands Today from 6.30pm.
The structural work to transform the building included installing a new floor on the first floor level, which will be served by three staircases.
There are two rooms upstairs and one downstairs. Guests arriving at Snobs will be guided upstairs first so that their night feels ‘like a journey’.
The club has reinvented its love of faces with murals painted by artists from Mural Trader. Metallic faces designed by Jewellery Quarter-based architects Tibbatts Abel have been made locally.
Owner Adam Tibbatts helped to design Snobs on Smallbrook Queensway, following in the footsteps of late father Neil Tibbatts who worked on Snobs’ original designs. Earlier this week in a special Westside World interview, Adam predicted the new club would create a new boom on Broad Street.
With just 24 hours to before opening, the site was a hive of builder’s activity when club owner Wayne popped by to see how work was progressing – features will include a glitter ball DJ booth on the ground floor.
“After all of this hard work, we can’t wait to open now,” he said. “Our 1,380 capacity will be similar to Smallbrook Queensway,
“Some nights we might get 1,800 people in overall thanks to our one in, one out policy throughout the night.
“But you don’t want to dilute the atmosphere by making it too big – that’s what has made Snobs so special for more than 50 years.”
The new Snobs is served by Midlands Metro trams, bus routes galore and taxis, while local car parks include the Euro Car Parks sites on either side of Bishopsgate Street / Tennant Street.
For full details of the venue’s evenings and admissions policy visit the website here: https://www.snobsnightclub.co.uk/
Pictures and video by Graham Young / Westside BID
