Qube Manager arrives!!!!

I have not long arrived in Doha,this idea of Qube having it`s own web site is already in the planning stages.

How come you are not yet on www.qatarbillboard.com -The First and ONLY Internet Billboard in the GCC?

Make your brand presence felt on the web too!

Tho me n my friends party hard, we dont plan to go to Qube.. the atmosphere is NOT good.. i`ll hv to agree with Kiara on the comment she posted, and sometimes if you are in a group of friends its not a good thingy... plus i believe Qube has a motive .. and a certain set of ppl are being targeted here ... atleast not us .. we dont mind paying the 30 bucks but then its just that we go once and we are like no its not happenin.. my friends were bugging me just few days a go (women) to go there .. and i was like no way if you want you can go have a look and call me if you like the place ... so i just waited for a minute or so and they just came back runnin .. they are like just GO! m like wot .. n they were like its like a Jungle out there ... i warned them .. but then being Crews no one already likes the place and when you say Qube to someone they are like NO WAYS ! but the only part i enjoyed was the Red Bull sponsored Joe metri and DJ Madjam event .. it was Fabulous !
Amazing place and amazing crowd .. we need such places ...out here .. i am sure the Qube can be the best place in doha for partying but some SERIOUS Changes needs to be done ! but hey if you are happy with some cheap people with cheap mentality entering the place and you are happy with 30 bucks a head ? i guess you are making business already ....

Where is Paloma? Is it another bar? it sounds good if the food are good and if they are crowded meaning they are popular place to go. Please let me know!
Thanks!!!

Do unto others, what you want to do unto you!!!

kiarajane/-a-t-/gmail.com

by word of mouth: each floor has been self designated to specific nationality business women, if you get my drift.

no dj music, just boring stuff, like any drinking joint.

why dont you have themes for the evening, like have a disco night, or jive or trance and play the music accordingly. create the environment for such a theme. get a dj to play the music, who wants to dance to a live band.....i dont, also promote the club for the right reasons, a place for all to have a good time, not for specific people to flourish.

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drive safe because someone is waiting for you at home

There is no space for club at city centre. Remember, that all available space has been taken by the famous "I SPY BOOKSTORE", where we all like to shop since November last year...

hey cool, ninfea,
i misunderstood you, the munute someone mentiones city centre, only debenhams and next comes to mind :-) and the food court and all the bachelors lined up against the railing on the weekends.

happy heart
drive safe because someone is waiting for you at home

Couldn't help but notice what han had to say on that thing in city center...

what about them, han ?

Never seen none go around groping girls, from that crowd... I've seen'em lebs sitting in starbucks squeezing butts tht walked past.

Any as a sworn in chronic bachelor... i do take offense to what u said. maybe u dont care.. dun matter...

Salty

What?!

I want to say that I feel sad because there is a night club in a Muslim country.

Weird but tru .. we write our hearts out and the manager is gone missing .. i bet he couldnt take the shocking tales ppl had to talk abt his club ?

Yo Manager .. WoZZZup ? wot u got to say ?
we all are waiting :))

hey even i am single guy .. Ogling ? urrmm.. hmm... Ewww .. no ways .. i am there 99% wid friends .. in fact i hv seen women ogling at my friends ! weeeiiird ! but i think they are ******s in doha .. a lot of em ! hehe, *sigh* we boys wudnt mind such oglings by women hehehe

butterfly no need to unleash terramax on me .. am sure we`d turn out to be gud friends ... hehe .. but hey its tru ! if u were to meet me in CC i`d show u atleast 1 in 10 women "Ogling" at you ... :|||

I say get rid of the dance floor and don't use "miami vice" as the inspiration for any kind of decor. If you could make a bar/club like this http://www.cooterbro... in Doha, well I might just have to get off the couch and hunt down a babysitter. Be sure to make note of the great beer list!

This thread here is a prime candidate for off-topic comments (five in a row) that need looking at by an administrator. Qatari, where are you?

I've been checking up on this thread waiting for a response from Mr Qube Manager, just to see it sidetracked by some silly 'stop the backed up labourers from ogling' posts.

Anyways, Mr. Manager - The fact that Qube is packed with patrons (who are ringing in the cash register) means there's no need to change anything right now.

I don't prefer to spend time there around the mostly male clientele and a bunch of working women. But that's just me.

IMHO Doha just needs more clubs catering to varied tastes rather than few trying to please all.

This a thread was established by someone who has a personal agenda against the CUBE!

The real manager is real busy keeping that place running. Instead of worrying about some ghostly posting critiquing and formulating feces about prostitutes, excessive alcohol consumption and many other negative things.

He could have a customer survey form giving at the door for its customer to fill out later on.

If you really believe, that this thread is going to change anything, about the Cube and his Inhabitants thing again. Is not going to happen.

They are making enough money, to worry about some minor person or religious fanatic making his opinion to be heard.

Grow up people, the Cube is here to stay for a long time.

About the prostitutes, I think is the man acting under the influence of alcohol, hormone frenzy predators. Can't control their drive. Specially the other Arab nationalities acting like they are special.

Lets not forget that not every lady that goes and enjoys her self in the cube is NOT A PROSTITUTE! Unless you feel like that.

do not fear I am still here...... I opened the forum to allow you to give input into the type of nightclub you would like to have here in Doha,it is interesting reading all your comments. Are these comments from people who wish to have valuable input into the development of a nightclub, or are they comments from people competiting against each other....????

The Qube is set to change, that is why they brought me, a nightclub manager of 14 years experience from England. These changes will not happen over night you will how ever slowly start to see some small changes introduced as we go along. For example' you will no longer be able to come to the club in sports wear, I personally feel that when someone comes to the club they must be dressed as if they are going out and not to the gym. you must allow me time to carry out my research etc it is no good me just imposing a nightclub on the clubbers of Doha without first finding what they want !!!
do we like RnB, dance etc?? This is the idea of the forum how often to you get to have a say in the development of a nightclub ??? do not use the forum to have a go at each other or make political statements, it must be constructive. I know there is a lot a of bad feeling about the club.
That is why I am here..... to give you a night club that you look forward to coming too.. and that there is a demand to get into the club..
My thoughts and ideas I will keep to myself until the time is right and the all will be clear...

repeat............sorry

happy heart
drive safe because someone is waiting for you at home

I for one think its good that Qube manager has taken the time and effort to host this forum in the first place. i have been a couple of times and it certainly isnt as bas as some on here suggest and it definitely isnt as good as it could be. why not have some nights with bands, some without and a few theme nights to boot as suggested. To those people who belive it is a den of inequity a simple solution.....Just dont go! to everyone else, keep an open mind and try it..you never know you may just enjoy it....

How about reggae music ... any fans ?!!

One Love ... One Heart

How about not another stupid night club. We have stupid night clubs, enough with the stupid night clubs.

Sorry.

Thanks man for giving us a chance to tell you what exactly we want...
am new here, i went to Qube once and ya its true about most of the people that r there,,,

but whats more important is the music, man the best suggestion mentioned so far is the Trans music and the use of good Dj's instead of a band...

a Dj that can play all types of music, Trans and whatever else,,, but i think that Trans is most suitable for such a place and mood!!

Gypsy, I hope the Qube be an educational institute to make people learn about shapes, motion perception, shape perception, color perception, how we see,

instead of drinks, the Qube shall serve video/audio educational tools on site.

been to the cube two times this week, seen the new guy working, he looks as he knows what he is doing, suppose we will see if he can do what they brought him here to do...
as for chinese ladies... didn`t see any.

Good luck Steve.

Yes bbskiu, but not everyone in Qatar is Muslim, and some Muslims choose to drink. So the Qube should stay a bar.

Ahmad44, Just go to the Irish Village in Dubai or the Irish Pub in Bahrain and see the people there, there are plenty.

Go look at Garvey's or Rugby Club. Lots of people want a pub that's not members only.

Specially one the serves good pub food.

qube does have too many ladies but not the ladies what mr alicat means, guesss he has been in the alley too long n begining to hear whispers after quite a few drinks. get ur facts ryt. all asian ladies are not chinese or hookers.
there r no chinese pickups in qube but all expatriates having a good time.

Do what you know best steve and remember you can not please everyone. Go the Master jay or global dj's forum n u'll find people crying there too.
there are a bunch of dj"s tring to make a quick buck by setting up these weekend stuff with crapy music and teenagers wobbling all around. Not the stuff you would want in your club.
stick to adult entertainment and keep the club going.
So best is to stop listening to all the false n crappy information and go about doing what you know best.
you can count on me coming to qube with my friends and hope to see some more entertainment.
all the best.

Steve - I'm so pleased i found this post.

I went to Qube for the first time this weekend and was so disappointed.

I was disappointd because of the waste of so much potential. The space that Qube occupies is amazing! It really could be the best club in town.

Instead it is awful.

Where I think you go wrong

- Live bands - A terrible call. The other bar in the ramada can have the live bands. That is the ramada prostitute bar. Don't bring second rate live bands into a nightclub. A good Dj is far more preferable

- Get a target audience - assuming that you want the bar to make money you have to find the most lucrative target audience and lure them in. Without a shadow of a doubt and whether or not you agree with their culture westerners will make a bar the most money because their culture is one of drinking to excess. Sorry but it is true. They are also among the most wealthy in this region. So this is the market you should be targetting. Simple economics no racism.

- Girls - girls bring guys. Fact. So make it fun and pleasant for girls. What do girls like ? Good music. Sometimes a little cheese (music term) but not a live filipino band with girls singing badly in hot pants. You may want to do the math on a tried and tested formula that works well in the middle east (jjs in Bahrain etc) and offer free drinks for women. You'd be surprised how little that costs you.

- Comfort - The non dancing space and the VIP space totally lack any kind of comfort. Think of the old leopard lounge in chelsea. I'm thinking big sofas arranged in squares. Conducive to talking and chilling (esp in VIP area) when not dancing

- Glamour - You need to improve your staff. It is a nightclub and the staff just aren't good enough. All the barstaff should be good looking (male and female) and funky. And the girls with the tequila bottles should be stunning and wearing hot pants, mid rift t shirts and cowboy hats. Ordinary is not why people go to night clubs

ONE thing that you shouldn't change - Dress code. Dress codes are for cheap places. Banning jeans is ridiculous in an age where jeans cost over $100 in many cases. All the most glamourous nightclubs I have been to in my life have no dress code. The clubs with dress codes include all those on Slough high street (a horrible town in UK). Don't be tempted. Wearing chinos and brown shoes does not make a club smarter and more funky than jeans and cool trainers

Please make a difference steve. Qube could be great but at the moment really really isn't

Hi Steve,

My family and I are moving out to Doha in the next 6-8 weeks.
My wife has been offered a job at Al jezeera and I have been trying to find out about the club scene over there.

I've been DJ'ing on the London scene for the last ten years and I'm a regular at Smartie Partie events /-a-t-/ Turnmills and a resident at London 'Calling' /-a-t-/ Thirteen. .
I play a mix of commercial dance and funky/Electro house.

If you are currently looking for DJ's I would be very interested in getting in touch with you.

Regards

Oli Daniels

Last night was a really good night for me and my friends. You could tell there was a new guy in town. there was, some changes to the music.There was some really good tracks played.

we were on the upper part of the club everybody was enjoying themselves, there was something different about the place there was more women and just really a better crowd of us up there. Maybe you should introduce some kind of membership just for that area...???

Mr qube manager !!!! you still didn`t come and say hello to us, I could see you were extremely busy, it looked like you was trying to talk to everybody in the club.

until next time. keep up the good work Mr Qube manager !!!

after running clubnights and festivals in the uk for 6 years, and working with many international bands on many continents i think i have a good idea of what makes a good club and a bad club.
examples of stuff i have run in the past

http://www.soxan.co.uk/

photos for above spanning 5 years and countless clubs (yes there is a picture of me (a guy) wearing a metalic green tafeta skirt): (http://www.getafixx....)

http://www.minichill...

I can come and discuss ideas with you one to one if you want, but i outline a few ideas below.

and im going to assume a couple of things at the outset

1) your setup (physicaly) is fixed, no major infrastructure is going to change
2)your staffing levels are not going to change
3)your door takings/throughput are fixed.

with those things in mind may i make the following suggestions

1)clientel - its pretty sleazy, hookers & men looking for hookers - get rid of them whatever your outcome - it attracts the wrong kind of clientel, and makes the right kind leave and never come back. no one likes a sweaty pawing man hitting on anything in a skirt. - have strict but cool bouncers that enforce your rules, your doorstaff are your first and last line of defence (dont go for the minimum wage guys get some good guys from a good crew that dont take bribes).

2)band - please the coverband thing is so last stand at the ok corall - when did anyone ever think that a bad coverband was a good idea?

3)lighting/club colour scheme/feel - its way too bright in the club bring the lights way down, the industrial thing is ok - but at the moment it just feels like ikea without the soft furnishings, need to break it up alot, lots of little areas or rooms is a great idea, still have a dance floor, maybe two in the main downstairs area.

4)get a vj or two- those wight walls are calling out for a great set of visuals.

4)have to eccho the idea that chinos & ben sherman is a bad idea - dress to impress is a far better idea - just get radical with dress style - think 80s newyork, invent a style and go for it. - keep an eye out in the photos for cleaning ladies, lara croft, men in skirts, cowboys and indians, summer holidays etc, all of which was non enforced, our punters randomly turned up dressed up enmasse

5)DJs - for crying out loud there is a massive community of doha expatriates that would kill to see a decent dj - most go to dubai get them to stop off here as well, i can give you the cell numbers of over a dozen internationaly renowned DJs and dance acts that would be happy to come out. there is also enough untapped dj rescources in doha to get you going - i can give you 3 names here already that could put a night on and rock a party for 5 hours no problem - there must be more.

Mike

Get rid of the coverband on weekends, or early in the night, and get a decent DJ.

Apart from that I have been to Qube a few times and had a good time. You really have tot ake your own crowd with you though.

im only coming if they have woodpecker cider. im not a big drinker but this is my fav drink

Steve,

My request is very simple, have a small section of the bar for soccer and formula 1 lovers. If you have done it, call me I will be there every weekend. This will be a good areas for ppl who have something in common to meet weekly besides dancing.

elan
elan_rajah/-a-t-/yahoo.com

At the end of the day western expatriates make up a very small number of the local population, most of which is made up of labourers from the sub-continent therefore the Qube caters to this. Its not terrible as someone said earlier brings some friends its a ball. Never seen any hookers there either, well not any girls that you would consider paying money for anyway !!. Ooohh harsh.

Heres to the old days of student bars, 1 pound a pint cider and no worries in the world except when and where you might get some action from !! Just like living in Qatar actually

i was only joking. i will look forward to given it a go. it doesnt sound that bad. just depends what people are looking for. i dont think it can be any worse than going round your local town and what people get up to. £1.20 in my local pub for a bottle.

Surprisingly enough, they don't seems to notice you Spiderman?

Just keep dancing, it will do you good!

Surprisingly enough, they don't seems to notice you Spiderman?

Just keep dancing, it will do you good!

You're getting better and better! I would like to know how to do that!

Just keep dancing, it will do you good!

Just keep dancing, it will do you good!

You have a big task ahead of you! Once a club has a bad name as you already know it is hard to change! It was said that all the 'ladies of the night' were not allowed in there and the first thing you notice when you walk in is them!

It is hard to know where to draw the line as how do you prove that they are or not? If that was surgested then you will be going down the Garveys line!

If anything if you managed to have a club that is the inbetween to Rydges and Paloma then you are on to a winner! The thought of a decent Irish bar seems to be popular with people at the moment and that is easy to do! Believe me i used to run an Irish Bar it is good fun for customers and Staff alike!!
Well good luck on your venture!

hi steve well i have been to the qube several times never again mate i worked as a doorman in the u/k for 20years sooner or later your going to end up with trouble inside couples and ladies only upstairs and 200 guys down stairs and no dress code pepole from the west like to dress up to go out and your mixing with pepole with no money cant dress and juts perv over western females you have to make somew changes asap maybe one or 2 nights a proper dj would make a nice change instead of mocha but hey your the manager

I'm afraid I have been to the cube Streve and can confirm that previous comments are true. It is known as a local 'knocking shop' which if u are female can put you off going there. The decor isn't appealing and there is no atmosphere to speak of. One of my work mates said "it's like Jarir bookstore - but without the books". It has potential but your 'clientale' are spoiling it. Re-think your door policy is my advice.