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Sat
17th
Jul, 10

The Wright Venue is 1!

The Wright Venue is 1!
Friday 23rd July

The nightclub name that’s been on every ones lips in the last year, The Wright Venue celebrates its very first birthday on 23rd July and its been 12 months of top name DJs and live acts jam packed Friday and Saturday nights and special events from the Apprentice Live Final to Miss Universe Ireland at the 2700 capacity venue in Airside, Dublin.

50 cent, Rihanna and Tinie Tempah have all thrown party’s in the club and with a line up of guest Dj’s including Roger Sanchez, Adrina from The Hill’s and the Reverend Run from Run DMC, the next 12 months look like being even more spectacular.

So we intend to celebrate in style and to kick off proceedings there is a whole host of special happenings to look forward to. In the Main Room the coolest clubbing brand in the world Fierce Angel return with an all star line up of K-Klass & Mark Doyle together with live percussion & Saxaphone. Fierce Angel threw an amazing party at WV in April and with it being a complete sell out, they were a natural choice to headline the 1st Birthday Celebrations.

The Purple Room will feature Buck Taylor Europe’s top James Brown tribute artist, while in the Penthouse there will be a guest dj set by Paul Webb and a very special live performance from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Heralded as one of the best live shows in the world at the moment, this Chicago 8 piece return to Ireland to join in the WV celebrations direct from the main stage at Glastonbury where they played on the main stage with Gorillaz !


Wright Venue members will have get their invites in the post this week but for everyone else admission is on the door from 10pm priced just €15..

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Sat
17th
Jul, 10

Every Week the Irish Sun prints the Chart of whats happening on the Dancefloor at the Wright Venue – Check it out !

Every Week the Irish Sun prints the Chart of whats happening on the Dancefloor at the Wright Venue – Check it out !
Dean Sherry is the Saturday night main room resident at the multi award winning Wright Venue
in Dublin who celebrate their first birthday on Friday 23rd July with Ibiza’s Fierce Angel crew.
www.twv.ie

1. Monarchy. Love Get Outa My Way
2. Yolanda. We Speak No Americano
3. 1st Class. Higher State
4. David Guetta. Gettin Over You
5. Dub’D Out. In The Knas
6. Eric Morillo. Live Your Life
7. Deadmau5. Strobe
8. Ian Carey. Let Loose
9. Hardsoul. NRG

10. Kelis. 4th of July rmx

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Sat
17th
Jul, 10

The Dirty Dozen throw a party at WV

After an amazing Sunday show at Oxegen where they played their own set on the Vodafone Stage alongside The Prodigy and Professor Green before joining their homeboy Eminem on the main stage, Detroit hip hop legends D12 threw a party at the Wright Venue last Wednesday. Check the gallery for photos

In Dublin for a few days before continuing their European Tour next weekend, the 5 piece immortallised in the movie 8 mile joined Eminem’s Dj the Alchemist to party at the award winning club’s midweek party Wet n’Wild alongside residents Frank Jez & Tando.


D12 are the latest in a string of top hip hop talent to come and party at the Wright Venue in 2010 joining 50 Cent, Rihanna and Tinie Tempah ! The latest superstar party comes ahead of the club’s extravagant 1st Birthday Party on Friday 23rd July with the world’s coolest clubbing label Fierce Angel heading up a huge line up.

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Sat
17th
Jul, 10

Miss Ireland Universe is crowned at the Wright Venue


Friday 16th saw a star studded party at the Wright Venue as 21 of the country’s most beautiful battled it out on the catwalk to be crowned Miss Ireland Universe.
The Winner was Rozanna Purcell who goes to Last Vegas at the End of the year. Check out the Gallery for pics of the night and look check out her link on the Miss Universe website.

In other news Tinie Tempah headed up the posse who came to party at the Wright Venue on Friday to escape the mud of Oxegen. Tinie and his crew made their second visit to the Wright Venue in a month after coming last month to Rhianna’s end of tour wrap party. Dj’s Dean Sherry and Mark Downes as the biggest party in Dublin kicked on until late with the likes of Georgia Salpa, Rosanna Davidson, Karen Coster and Lisa Cannon partying until late in the Penthouse and a full house downstairs in the main room as the Wright Venue unveiled it’s new in house performers !

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Tue
22nd
Jun, 10

The Wright Venue Wins All Ireland Nightclub Award


From : Licensing World
The Wright Venue has been named Ireland’s best nightclub in Ireland’s national Licensing World Bar Awards. The Airside Business Park nightspot, located in Swords Co Dublin, beat competition from leading clubs in Dublin, Galway, Wicklow and Cavan to claim the Corona Extra Nightclub Award. The presentation was made to proprietor Michael Wright in front of 300 members of the Irish bar trade at a gala ceremony in the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin 4. Michael Wright, Group General Manage Alan Clancy and James Burgess, manager of The Wright Venue, accepted the Corona Extra Nightclub Award from Brian McGuinness of Irish drinks distributor Barry & Fitzwilliam. The brainchild of publican and owner of the Wright Group, Michael Wright, the nightclub can accommodate over 2,000 revelers and is a state-of-the-art premises modeled on similar sized operations in Las Vegas and London. The nightclub has become a must-attend VIP destination since opening last year and has appeared on various TV shows and was also the location of the finale of last year’s TV3 show The Apprentice. Nigel Tynan, editor of Licensing World and chairman of the Bar Awards, commented: ‘This Wright Venue is leading the late night entertainment market right now, this club offers its customers an exceptional level of service and brings a true VIP experience to its clientele. It has changed the Irish nightclub landscape and is a worthy winner of the Corona Extra Nightclub Award.’

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Thu
17th
Jun, 10

Leeroy Thornhill

Once one quarter of the most influential dance act in the world, Leeroy Thornhill has blazed a Robbie William’s esque trail through the dance music world establishing himself in the very upper echelons of all that is cool and credible in the world’s top clubs.
He returns to Dublin for this quarterly residency at the Wright Venue this Friday June 18th following hard on the heels of the club’s sell out Bank Holiday Sunday with Dirty Vegas doing a live sound system show in the club’s epic main room.
He jets into Dublin directly from a sold out Far Eastern where he played the region’s top clubs from Zouk in Singapore to the Apartment in Dubai and jets out the next morning to headline the biggest Greek Festival of the summer Brainstorm .
His Wright Venue show will be his last irish club show of the year as he rejoins his old band mates for their headline slots at all the major festivals like V, Bestival and Roskilde spinning the huge party sound that is Miami Bass and dropping in lots of Prodigy classics !

He headlines another huge weekend at the Wright Venue as the award winning club builds up to it’s first birthday weekend in July when none other than the immaculate Ms. Grace Jones will headline !

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Thu
27th
May, 10

Rihanna European Tour Finale Party @ WV


Rihanna throws a Party TWV Style

When it came to throwing a party to celebrate the end of her sold out European Tour, there was only one choice for Rihanna, The Wright Venue !

After coming out to check out our monthly urban Friday’s last week, Rihanna’s tour management asked the team at TWV
to put together a party for Rihanna to celebrate the end of her sell out European Tour which included 3 nights at the o2.

WV put together a carefully chosen guest list for the party held last night Urban Friday residents Frank Jez
and Tandoo sound tracked the night with Tinie Tempah and Pixie Lott, Mr. World Kamal Ibrahim amongst the guest dancing in the Penhouse.

Rihanna arrived fashionably late and set up camp in the Scarface Room where she and her band and dancers kept the vodka and Tequilla flowing while venturing out to hit the dancefloor en masse on lots of occassions.

She had a tour of WV’s infamous city room’s from the Club’s owners Michael Wright and Alan Clancy
and was particularly impressed by the New York Room where the dancing Pole was the centre of the party for lots of the night !

She as had all the guests had an amazing time and promised to come back to WV on her next tour in 2012!

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Wed
24th
Mar, 10

50 cent The Official Aftershow party

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One of the biggest world selling rappers 50 Cent hosted his after show party in the Wright Venue on Sunday ( 21st March ) after performing a mega gig in the O2. He was joined by G Unit, with special guests DJ Frank Jez on the desks in the main club and DJ Byron in The Penthouse. He surprised clubbers by mingling with them in the main club rather than hanging out in the VIP area.

50’s DJ, Wu Kid also played a set on the decks and got the crowd going wild!

Discovered by rapper Eminem in 2002 and signed to Interscope Records, 50 rose to fame with the release of his albums ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003) and the Massacre (2005) Both albums achieved mulit platinum success , selling more that twenty-one millions . Billboard named him #1 Rap Song Artist of the 2000-2009 decade.

Now on his fourth album, ‘Before I Self-Destruct’, with the first single “Baby By Me” featuring Ne-Yo is already burning up charts, and the video features Kelly Rowland as his love interest.

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Mon
1st
Mar, 10

The Wright Venue’s heart ‘beat again’ when JLS came to party!

img_7200 We were all ready and waiting for Marvin, Aston, JB & Oritse to arrive last Saturday 27th February! The boys had visited us back in November 2009, and enjoyed WV so much that they wanted to come back for more!

After their show stopping concert they arrived in style will a entourage which included the very sexy girl group Phacebook, who are supporting them on their tour, and partied in the very famous VIP room, Scarface.

Not only are the guys talented and gorgeous, they know how to have fun and party! They even came down to the main club and waved at all the guests who were dancing along to their hit track ‘Beat again’! JLS are most definitely fans of The Wright Venue, and we will be sure to see them again very soon!!

Check out the night for yourself and visit our photo gallery!

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Mon
1st
Mar, 10

Smirnoff Be There, Wedding Party

[SinglePic not found]Guests Celebrate Smirnoff Be There, The Wedding Nightat The Wright Venue, SwordsSMIRNOFF® celebrated the next phase of the SMIRNOFF® Be There campaign with a Smirnoff Be There, The Wedding Night at The Wright Venue,  on Friday 26th February 2010.Guests embraced ‘The Wedding Night’ as the theme and came in costume with ladies in dresses from 80’s puffballs to colourful bridesmaids dresses complete with hats and veils, whilst gents came dressed to impress in tuxedos and suits. Guests attending Smirnoff Be There, The Wedding Night party at The Wright Venue, included a selection of VIP’s, media and socialites.

Check out the night for yourself and visit our photo gallery!

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