Club Reports: Remembering Metropolis & Matrix

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As we were leaving Live! At The Pointe at Pointe Orlando this past Friday night, we encountered this familiar view as we headed towards the garage. On the left, that vacant spot says the Museum of Ice Cream is coming and on the right, the Funny Bone comedy club (formerly The Improv) operates in there. 

The view was familiar because during the early 2000’s, nightclubs Metropolis and Matrix operated in those two spots. Do you remember them?

Metropolis on the left was the larger venue with plush decor set in red velvet. There was a dance floor to one side with a DJ booth (behind glass) overlooking it. There was a 13ft video wall at one end of the dance floor. The music was mostly Hip Hop during a period when Hip Hop was soaring and House/Dance was fading. There were also pool tables.

Matrix on the right was directly opposite and paid admission to one club typically got you into the other club and you could go back and forth. Matrix was the high-tech, high-energy electronic club with sophisticated light and sound systems. To me they played great Dance music like you’d hear on radio station WPYO 95.3Party at the time. But an oddly shaped dance floor, poorly located pillars and a DJ booth that was behind glass and removed from patrons limited its popularity as did the fading at the time music genre. Disney couple Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were known to socialize there. 

Both clubs were shuttered by 2005.