After Dark Night Club over the last 5 years has been the number 1 Night Time Venue in the area along with 4 bars, 1 VIPs lounge, extensive Champagne Cocktails, Shots (not for the faint hearted), and amazing drinks deals and offers. Friendly Staff Offering Quality Helpful Service, Plush Surroundings, State of the Art Sound and Lighting System.
The best in Live Chart Topping Entertainment, Personal appearances i.e. Freemason Amanda Wilson, Stonebridge Therese, Uniting Nations, Sunset Strippers, Superfly inc, Armand Van Helden Tara McDonald WI-FI and many more.
What a Massive Clubbing experience wouldn't you agree?
Wet and Wild for the Lads and Ladies , Foam Parties, Gunge Karaoke, X-MEN for the ladies, Tours from Big Tunes, Ministry of Sound, along with some of the most sort after DJ's in the country play anything from Dance, Funky House, Garage, Soul, Retro, R'N'B and Cheesy Party that we all love to hate, with loads of fun & frolics along the way.
An exciting place to visit and let your hair down!
Welcome to the Biggest Party and Night Out!
We would like to take this opportunity by making you aware of other different services that we offer. We cater for a wide range of alternatives function for all customers, be it by day or night. Party bookings, Hen nights, Stag nights, Birthday parties, Work functions or any other excuse to Party. Or! If you prefer we will plan your event for you, with our in-depth party planning team, we cater for Private Hire/Conferences/Meetings/Training Seminars/Showcases/Taster Evenings and even Fashion Shows.
After Dark has become to local people part of the fabric of a night out in the town. Since May 2002 the club has seen people of all ages, nationalities and races come through it’s doors but the venue you see today is very different from how things started earlier in the millennium.
From the start Manager Steve Abel and his team were committed to bringing the clubbing public of Boston a nightspot that would leave a legacy on the town. Seasoned clubbers will remember venues like Club Ikon and Flames, names synonymous with a night out in Boston but not around anymore. Long term investment was the key and bringing something more unique to the area was a key remit for the owners.
Regular city-hoppers will be aware that in the late 90s there came a demand in urban centres for something more than a club on offer for the admission. With that in mind, the developers looked at teaming up an authentic dance venue concept alongside something a little more adventurous. And with that After Dark and Cactus Jack’s were born.
No shortage of planning went into this bold venture. Hand picked staff were highly trained by reputable Shaker Bartending and no expense was spared in the décor to ensure that the people of Boston got a place to party that they were long overdue. The unique two-venue-under-one-roof approach certainly paid dividends as record numbers of revellers flooded through the doors through the memorable summer of 2002. Cactus Jack’s had given the discerning customer a place to try cocktails and other beverages from all over the globe. Occupying the old Town Pump premises, it rapidly became equally popular s an annexe to the bursting at the seams After Dark next door as it was as the prebar of choice. Staff at Cactus Jack’s and After Dark quickly became proud of what they were achieving, and the footfall backed up their slogan for the venues as the place ‘where trends are set.’
Such was the popularity of Cactus Jack’s that into 2003 it became apparent that it was outgrowing the premises on Craythorne Lane and the insatiable demand of the local public for cocktails led to the management tying up a deal for it to be relocated onto Bridge Street into the old Club Ikon building. The popularity of the staff held true also with talented mixologists often commuting back from Derby and Nottingham Universities at the weekends to play a continuing role in creating that legacy. The management then had the dilemma of what to do with the vacant old Town Pump once Cactus Jacks had moved but some well earned sponsorship meant that the Red Square Vodka Bar was born. With the lucrative Christmas period approaching, the staff managed to refurbish the premises in 72 hours between Sunday closing and Wednesday opening so that the clubbing public now had 3 venues in which to enjoy the festivities!
Cactus Jack’s has since undergone another transformation more recently into Havana as the management are developing the cocktail concept by abandoning their much-loved Mexican theme for a more eclectic Cuban theme makeover. After Dark too has had it’s fair share of cosmetic alterations since then with the Town Pump building the focal point of these changes. In the constant drive to bring something fresh and fashionable to the town, the building has been a VIP lounge decked out in sumptuous dark wood and also a Jazz lounge complete with an outside mural. Fine champagnes and cigars from around the globe have been just two of the many diverse products that the staff have served up in a bid to keep their finger on the pulse.
But times have not only changed on a visual level but also in the staff of the two venues. As the area has welcomed students and workers from across Europe there has been an ever increasing need for bar staff to be multilingual in order to correctly serve the clientele. And so in recent years the clubs have seen employees from Portugal, Germany, Brazil, China, India and Latvia to name but a few. Clubbing has indeed become a global language understood and shared by all.
The desire of the management to serve the clientele has never dimmed in the face of these challenging times. A Sunday night venture to cater for our European cousins was seen through 2005 alongside the usual diversity of alternative nights, holiday giveaway nights, foam parties, P.As from such names as Ministry of Sound, student nights and even wet T-Shirt and boxer short competitions. The mission in 2007 remains the same as it did in 2002 when the legacy was born. Boston clubbers deserve city-style fresh concepts locally and anybody who hits the town on a Saturday night can appreciate that there is a team who is as dedicated to this approach now as they were back then.
Is there anything we've missed? No! I think we cover it all!
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