Fuel Bar and Nightclub

well… Ive been to this bar only one time in my life. The bartender chics were dressed up as bunnies (which is kind of a lame joke), but they were very friendly and attentive to our needs. The crowd there was kind of weird. We had one really drunk dude come and try to dance right on us. We had to tell him we were polygemist and our husband and third sister-​wife would not appreciate this (as we’re getting totally shitfaced and smoking cigarettes). And then our friend that lives in nashville told us to get the hell out of there if that tells you anything about what kind of place this is. Its a dance club that plays alot of techno remixes of hiphop and r&b. I have to admit though. not being from nashville the music is what made us go in and check it out. the parking there was definitely very akward. I recommend getting a cab if you plan on spending your evening at fuel because ironically you will be wasting a lot of fuel trying to find somewher to park. for my first and only experience in fuel i was not that impressed. I wish we could have found some where cooler to go. we ended up having more fun in our hotel

If your primary goal in life is to get laid, this is the spot. It’s a typical grind/​booty club where the alcohol is flowing more freely for the women than it is for the men.
The first time I visited Fuel, I witnessed a pretty bad fight. Tazers, stun guns, and pepper spray were involved. Then the cops showed up. All because two rednecks didn’t know how to have a good time.
The trouble is Fuel is that it encourages ass grabbing and bar dancing sans underwear going on. Wet T-​shit contests, bikini contests and such are ‘fueled’ by alcohol. This is the typical formula for a club of this type, so I won’t really fault them for it… Lots of DUIs leaving this place, I’d imagine.
It’s an over-​all tacky establishment. The décor looks like it was put together by a frat boy loser on a coke binge, and the more I look back on the time I spent in the place, the more I think about how unnecessarily Guido it is. The men that normally frequent the place are on a Guido factor of say 5 to 8. Not exactly a Guido overload, but the potential is there at any time to experience real life, live Night at the Roxbury. That’s kind of scary, right?
The club has video screens, which is pretty standard issue these days. And they are nicely positioned around the place. Why do I mention this, if almost every club on earth has them? It’s not that they have them, it’s what they put ON them. A club is pretty keyed into mood, if a club is done right. This place has no idea what it’s doing in this department. Why on earth do I say such things? Because when the club does something right like the music, something else takes away from the experience; for example throbbing, cool electronic-​hiphop/​hybrid music going, people dancing and feeling the love and the buzz of their warm blood… …what do they put on the screens? MTV Road Rules. Foreign channels without context to the mood they’re trying to set. During the night I spent at this club, I saw things like The Travel Channel, Rock of Love, etc. The ironic thing about this is they have a bar tender that looks almost exactly like Bret Michaels.
What should be on the video screens? Shots of people dancing, grinding, getting nasty; or better yet, as many clubs have, live video fo the people IN the club dancing, grinding, etc. That’s kind of the point, in that environment; pure decadence for it’s own sake. The video screens should be used to empower the patron to feel they are sexy, hot and in the hottest spot in Nashville. They don’t do any of that, though; they just make you feel lame for being in a place that likes MTV and other shitty cable TV channels so much.
As others have said, this place isn’t that great, especially when compared to other night clubs in the Nashville area. Maybe in the future they’ll get their act together and it’ll evolve to something more pleasant. I kind of doubt it, though.
The only plus I can give the place is that, as a male, the women I saw in the place were attractive. But that can be found nearly anywhere in Nashville, in my experience. There isn’t really a good reason to go to this place, with so many other good clubs out there…

Fuel Nightclub has a lot of potential to be a great club, but they still have a long way to go to get on par with the other top notch venues in town. Some strikes against them would include stuff like parking, its very hard to park nearby, and their booking schedule during the week is shaky. Booking during the week is really hit or miss, and mostly it’s a miss. They have good crowds on the weekend but it is mostly the 18 and up crowd, or people visiting from out of town.
That being said, the sound in the room is usually pretty good. The stage and lighting setup is pretty decent. The décor is a little cheesy, because they are going with a theme… the theme being ‘gas station.’ But, other than that, they have two great full bars, and events on the weekends to keep the crowds happy. This summer they are going to feature a bikini contest!