RICHARD BELL susses out the appeal of Clem’s in The Plain and is now furiously saving up to go back as a VIP as soon as is humanly possible.

Sometimes it can be difficult to differentiate between city centre clubs and others.

The city centre clubs offer a central location and of course late night bus services to provide a safe route home.

Being situated somewhere between can be a blessing and a curse.

Clems is in The Plain, which any student or East Oxford resident knows, resides on that little roundabout between the centre and the rest of the outlying regions.

Indeed, Clems is named after the street of St Clements that bridges the gap between the city centre and Headington.

As such the club acts as something of a bridge itself between the affluence of the inner city and the affluence of the dandier Brookes students.

Of course, you may have noticed that the key word here is affluence, in case repetition doesn’t grab your attention.

This venue is more of a Brookes favourite than a city favourite, but it has more than enough to bring the city folk along - with or without their wallets.

The drinks are reasonably priced and the music is affable even if it isn’t intoxicating.

But what really makes this place appeal to that ‘it’ crowd (okay, ‘loaded’ crowd) is the opportunity to spend more, to go above and beyond what any reasonable person would sensibly spend in its VIP room.

Yet despite this, the club has a little something for everyone.

It has music that anyone can dance to while remaining entirely unremarkable.

What sets the club apart however is it’s passion for variety; the downstairs room provides dance floor addicts with their fix for the night while the top floor plays a more serene mix of pop infused chill-out music.

Truly though the star of Clems is its VIP room – different music, different drinks but most crucially a different class of service.

Again the affluent aspect of the crowd comes into own here here (the VIP room doesn’t come for free but it is worth its weight in gold).

So if you want my advice, save up.

It won’t cost a mortgage, it’s far more fun, and it is full of GIRLS!