The Warehouse Project

This is an amazing venue, a truly unique experience. To see DJ sets from Rich Reason, Jaguar Skills & then the full on sonic explosion of the Prodigy in that setting unbelievable. Just being in the crowd was an event itself. The only downside: the toilets are basic - portaloos & barely hidden troughs that were leaking into the venue halfway through the gig. Not for the faint hearted (or weak bladdered). But I'd still definitely go again.

Visited several times over the years! Recently attended Hacienda and WHP Prodigy. The venue is HUGE! Depending on what room yr in will determine the sound quality. The main room sound isn't great. The layout is awful for getting to the loo's, which are porta loos. The toilet roll was topped up regularly, and there's fresh water, but the floors were soaked with water. Trying to get to the loo from the crowd is a real task as it's just too crowded, and u have to move through a queue to the bar also. The pluses are the venue is well situated near picadilly gardens, easy to get to the bus or train but a nightmare getting an Uber. Beware of taxis trying to charge 4 times the normal fare to get home!! It's also worth noting that the viewing platform at the back of the main room is a good spot if you prefer to be out of the main crowd! Great lights!!! ✨️ Drinks are very expensive, and Red Bull was a better option at £4 a can! No cider and limited choice on other drinks! Food is available at stalls. Cloakroom are a life saver! £7 for a medium (can get a couple of coats in). And paying in advance meant no queuing as you can get the locker number and code on the app before you go! Overall, it was not a bad experience, and I thoroughly enjoyed the events I have attended! I ❤️ Manchester!

A really great venue with friendly staff. Amazing vibe at the gig with fantastic space. Queue for the bar was a bit long although that can be expected, and we kept getting dripped on. Other than that a fab night!

The setting of the venue was amazing just like a underground atmosphere rave 🙌 😍 The Prodigy killed it as always and surprised at how great the 2 Djs were

Once you are inside this is a fantastic live music venue. There is lots of space inside and the sound is great all around. The security is very good and the staff inside do everything to ensure you have a great night.

The event was absolutely brilliant! I felt very safe, the atmosphere was friendly, chilled and all had a great time ever... Organized 5/5 Lights and special effects 4.5/5 Safe 4.5/5 Atmosphere 7/5

Big crowds, but 4 (5 summer terrace) huge location/ DJ stages. But I love it. Dirty toilets 🙃

Great music venue and good events. WHP has massive guests and there surely happen to be artists during the season who fit your musical taste. Overall the place is very big with a lot of space. There is the outdoor area for smoking and sometimes equipped as a stage. The toilets are not very cleaned however but for a big place with many people going like this one it’s also normal. Definitely recommended to have a go once!

Jumping jeepers it's Warehouse season again!!! Stop what you're doing, quit your your job, postpone the divorce, you don't want to miss a thing! From now until February if anyone needs me I'll be in a big dark tunnel under the railway station throwing out some shapes to the best DJs in the world and hugging people I would normally cross the street to avoid- it don't get no better than this Jon Boy! One of my greatest claims to fame took place here when Mike from Groove Armada dedicated Superstylin' to yours truly on my birthday after getting me and my friends in as a thank you for taking them around the old man bars of Liverpool after striking up an unlikely friendship in Cream. Tis a strange feeling indeed to spend an evening being asked by strangers if you are "THE Jay". I am SO the Jay.

My daughter and her girlfriend bought tickets to your event months ago and travelled up from London especially for the event. I was disgusted to hear they were turned away by the bouncers, stating we saw you walking up the road. They were not drunk but they were holding hands! We can only assume that the ONLY reason they were treated like second class citizens, sworn at and generally disrespected was because they were clearly a lesbian couple. I am furious that these two young girls were left to fend for themselves in Manchester because of your bigotry. The sad thing is they attended an earlier event and loved it so much they persuaded all their friends to come with them on Saturday. You have treated them appallingly and I personally want the world to know what kind of people you employ to man the doors of your events. You and your organisation should be thoroughly ashamed.

You can't get better than this when it comes to clubbing in Manchester. Whilst still living Liverpool I often came to Manchester clubbing and thought 'so where is everyone?', I found them ALL here! Yes hidden away in a dark underground car park under Piccadilly train station there are around 2000 whistling shape throwers that gather every week or so from the month of September through till Febuary every year. The Warehouse Project makes you feel like you truly are part of an underground scene again ......although in recent years it seems to have secured a few sponsorship deals (kinda ruins it). But hey this place is somewhere you can let your hair down and lose yourself (or lose your shoes if your like me ....no seriously is quite embarrassing when people are congratulating your other half for going home to get you another pair of shoes due to the fact you have lost them indefinitely down the side of a speaker). I would recommend that if you want to know what Manchester really has to offer you wiggle your way down to the Warehouse Project and party with the best of 'em.

I'm going to make clear this review is based on one visit to the Warehouse. I've never been a fan of venues that hold masses and masses of people, that's what outdoor festivals are for, or big arenas like the Apollo or the MEN arena. The Warehouse has got to be tried at least once though, just for the experience, because it is an experience like no other, I'll give it that. I snapped a Friendly Fires ticket, so my visit was more an indie electro type Warehouse night, commercialized if you like. Basically I wanted to see the London based trio and simply combined the virgin experience with the Warehouse to this affect. It was a bit stressful before we even reached the place. You hear so many things about the portaloos, the queues, the price of the drinks, the hardcore ravers. There's a reason why Warehouse is a year upon year success I reminded myself, but I couldn't help have a slight anxious voice in my head. Upon entry, the underground car park did give it this undescribable vibe. It was strange to be underneath the train station. It felt as if we had been unleashed and were free to roam endlessly in this almost alternative world. This curious, intrigueing feel didn't last though. Crowds halted the freedom to move, the portaloos along with the queues cranked up the anxiety. Maybe I shouldn't buy any drinks to avoid this. Stand in a queue to stand in another queue eventually. If this isn't enough there's always the co-ordination of when to go where and who with. There's no signal underground of course and it'd be a complete nightmare if you lost your group. I was especially disheartened to hear that Friendly Fires weren't due to appear until 2am. By this time I forgot the queueing, the portaloo situation and the drink prices and throwing shapes was my fascination. I missed any glimpse of Friendly Fires though. We weren't about to die trying to get anywhere near the middle never mind the front. So I'm not likely to frequent this place again. It's just not my scene, I understand why it is quite an institution to the Manchester scene just not simply for me. Warehouse Project runs annually from September to the New Year and few odd events like in Easter. I say give it a try at least and see what you come up with.

SO bad. Seriously. I read every bad review of this season's WHP but convinced myself it would be different on the night I went. It wasn't. If you're heading to WHP for a big night and you're really looking forward to it, please heed my advice and listen to what everyone else has been saying. I'll start from the beginning. The 10.30pm curfew? Really? For an event that goes on until 5am? Ridiculous. Doors open at 7.30pm which is a waste of tine. On the basis of those times alone, no one is going to stay for around 9 hours, and once you get there, you won't want to stay even a couple of hours. Myself and a group of friends travelled from Bristol and wanted to chill at our hotel, get some dinner, have a few drinks, but you just can't do that with a 10.30pm curfew. I took the advice of others and arrived for about 9pm, after a massive rush to get there, of course. Arrive any time after 9pm and you're herded from one queue to the next by unhelpful security staff. The queuing process. I understand that massive events like this need to be on top of things, but getting people to empty their pockets and bags on to a table in front of other people is not on. I refuse to put my purse, phone, keys etc on a table for people to potentially swipe. Now, my real gripe with the WHP...it was HEAVING. And not in a good way. Want to go watch someone in the main room? Good luck even getting in. Already in the main room and need the toilet? Yeah...good luck getting out. You just cannot move. It's so dangerous. You'll be in a constant queue all night, getting shoved left right and centre. I don't know why they released so many tickets but hey, guess what? You don't NEED to ram the venue to capacity. At least 1000-2000 fewer people and it'd still have been very busy. As someone below me has said, there was nowhere near enough security staff to accommodate this. I spent the whole night anxious and worried and not dancing because I just couldn't move. The sound is bad. I don't know why, because it shouldn't be, but it was. It was very...fuzzy? Leaving the venue, there's a load of taxis which is great, right? No. The black cabs wouldn't turn their meters on, instead giving us "estimates" - £30 to get into the city centre when it cost £7 to get there from the centre. What a laugh. No worries though, there's a shuttle bus...oh yeah, which you have to pay for. Cause the ticket wasn't expensive enough. I was with 3 other girls and as we're not from Manchester, we didn't feel particularly safe hanging around on a street, waiting for a bus. We just wanted to get back to the hotel. Well, we waited about an hour for the bus to even let us on after asking numerous security staff what was going on. Good to see the WHP organisers take the safety of their patrons seriously. Not worth the £30 I spent on tickets. My friends and I left after a few hours. Such a wasted night. If you're into your music and clubbing, don't bother with WHP. You will hate it. They don't have a clue what makes a great clubbing experience because this sure as heck aint it.

Taking underground clubbing to new lows (in the good way), The Warehouse Project has become the stuff of legend since it began, taking Manchester by storm every September. It really has put the city on the map - friends who live down south specifically migrate up north to attend a few of the Warehouse Project shows. Fair enough it has become more commercial in sponsorship and, to an extent, in the line up. This year Jack Penate, The Tings Tings and David Guetta are playing. Its still eclectic though with a great mix of local, UK and superstar names. Its almost all sold out but I'm tempted by Deadmau5 the day before New Years Eve. Last years' line up of parties was very special - Annie Mac, the Alkan, Boyz Noize, a Bestival reunion and the Chemical Brothers. This ain't glam - this is for people who love their music, have a gang of equally besotted friends and who can stay up all night. There's no posing - everyone's too wasted/ too excited. Going to the Warehouse Project is definitely a large one, put it that way...

Its a great venue but there isnt a lot there apart from the music

Excellent venue.

if you a fan of edm this is the place to be! the biggest names in the world come down every year and the feel to the place is just amazing! party people..this is the place to go!

i have been a keen warehouse go-er for years, it is with out a doubt one of the best all night parties in the country! Anyone who says it's no good, doesn't no how to have a party! Really excited for more than one event for the 2011 season!

Insane, incredible, deafening, epic, antics-galore and drunken are a number of many words that could be used to describe the Warehosue Project. This venue is primarily used for DJs to rave up this underground space along with some of Manchester's well-known bands every night of the week making this a very popular place to get tickets for and to entice students to turn up and stay until the knackered hour of 5am. Immense night!

bad sound system, over crowded, rude door staff, portaloo, crap dance floor, no atmosphere and totally not worth the hype or the effort

WHP used to be an iconic event for Manchester, being unique and edgy and putting music and having a good time first. Well haven't they just sold out big time. On what planet does an event that runs from 9pm to 5am close it's doors at 10:30pm? Even pubs have later entrance. The bouncers as ever were rude and condescending claiming that if we really wanted to go we should've been waiting from 8pm?! When we tried to explain the Metrolink trams had all been cancelled that was our fault too and they said if we wanted to come so bad we should have walked to 2 hour journey from out of town. We were then yelled at and told that it clearly says 10:30pm doors closing on our tickets, yet he refused to actually look at my e-ticket which doesn't say ANYWHERE the closing entry time. Other people being turned away had been waiting to get in for over an hour before the deadline and were still turned away after waiting in the cold. Clearly the venue was full by 11pm but given that at least 100 people were turned away that night (let alone the people still on their way to the event) with a ticket price of £25 each, you made an easy £2500 just from ripping people off and purposefully overselling. Given your market is 18 to 25 year olds - a generally low income age group, I can assure you if we spend £30 on a ticket, we expect to be able to use it. I'd heard Warehouse Project had lost it's edge and now I see why, you've decided it's more profitable to say a big F you to the very people buying your tickets than actually be a decent event anymore.