A UK duder visiting Nashville, Tennessee. Any tips?

Hey GB buddies. So I'm a UK member and I'm taking a very last minute trip to Nashville next week for work. I literally just found out about it. I'm there for six days and, as someone who's only visited the States when I went to Disney World as a kid, I'm pretty excited! So, of course, I'll be working, but I'm hoping to have some time to explore, too. Any forumers got any hot tips or must-do things to help me? Thought it was worth asking as this is the most America-centric community that I'm involved with! Thanks!

American girls love dudes with british accents. That's all I'll say.

Never been to Tennessee so all I'll say is: Get BBQ!

@insane_shadowblade85 said:

Never been to Tennessee so all I'll say is: Get BBQ!

One of my biggest fears of visiting Nashville. I'm a vegetarian. *gulp*

@Castermhief117 said:

American girls love dudes with british accents. That's all I'll say.

I'll chime with "keep the accent, but add 'y'all' to the end of every single sentence". Confuse the shit out of them.

Everyone plays some sort of instrument.

@bibamatt: You can just be a vegetarian in the UK then! Sorted, trust me eating large quantities of meat in a different time zone totally doesn't count...

@ThePickle said:

Everyone plays some sort of instrument.

This is the best 'fact' I've ever heard about anywhere ever. Ha!

@insane_shadowblade85 said:

Never been to Tennessee so all I'll say is: Get BBQ!

One of my biggest fears of visiting Nashville. I'm a vegetarian. *gulp*

Trade your knife for a revolver.

@Wampa1 said:

@bibamatt: You can just be a vegetarian in the UK then! Sorted, trust me eating large quantities of meat in a different time zone totally doesn't count...

Sounds legit.

@bibamatt said:

One of my biggest fears of visiting Nashville. I'm a vegetarian. *gulp*

You can order a beans-and-rice burrito at Chipotle. Luby's also has veggie dinners, but there's none in Nashville

Got family who live just outside Nashville and have been there many, many times. Do you like hockey or think you might? If so, check to see if the Nashville Predators are in town. And, actually, anywhere downtown around Bridgestone Arena is a good time. And yeah, it's a shame you're a vegetarian because Nashville has some amazing BBQ. I believe the "Loveless Cafe" is well-renowned. I ate there around Thanksgiving and it was quite good!

@Kingfalcon said:

Got family who live just outside Nashville and have been there many, many times. Do you like hockey or think you might? If so, check to see if the Nashville Predators are in town. And, actually, anywhere downtown around Bridgestone Arena is a good time. And yeah, it's a shame you're a vegetarian because Nashville has some amazing BBQ. I believe the "Loveless Cafe" is well-renowned. I ate there around Thanksgiving and it was quite good!

As a Canadian, I find your recommendation to someone from the UK to see a hockey game in Nashville to be quite surreal.

@MildMolasses said:

@Kingfalcon said:

Got family who live just outside Nashville and have been there many, many times. Do you like hockey or think you might? If so, check to see if the Nashville Predators are in town. And, actually, anywhere downtown around Bridgestone Arena is a good time. And yeah, it's a shame you're a vegetarian because Nashville has some amazing BBQ. I believe the "Loveless Cafe" is well-renowned. I ate there around Thanksgiving and it was quite good!

As a Canadian, I find your recommendation to someone from the UK to see a hockey game in Nashville to be quite surreal.

Hahaha. I bet. Believe it or not, though, Nashville is pretty into hockey. They call the arena "Smashville."

I haven't lived there in years, so take this for what it's worth, but when I lived there there was a lot of great restaurants (both big name restaurants and locally owned ones). It shouldn't be hard to find something to do really if you're into music or just hanging out in general. There's a nice mall there too.  A lot of sports bars. 
 
I used to like going to the hockey games. Their team is awful but they still usually put on a pretty decent show (at the time at least).  Also pretty easy to go to a concert out there, most bands play there at some point being that its a popular music town.
 
I can't remember anything else, but downtown Nashville is alright. 
Sorry, i don't have much specific- it's been almost a decade. There used to be a hard rock cafe there, but I have no clue if those still exist or not.

@Kingfalcon: If I were really into it, I would be angry about Nashville for stealing Mike Fisher away from my town, but I don't actually care that much

Bring me back a bottle of JD. Thanks mate.

@bibamatt:

Nashville is a town of great bars. You'll see music acts in small places that you'd have to pay good money to elsewhere. I'm no fan of country music but the scene there is pretty awesome.

The Grand Olde Opry is out in the 'burbs, but the downtown is where the fun bars and such are at to my knowledge.

@Kingfalcon said:

Got family who live just outside Nashville and have been there many, many times. Do you like hockey or think you might? If so, check to see if the Nashville Predators are in town. And, actually, anywhere downtown around Bridgestone Arena is a good time. And yeah, it's a shame you're a vegetarian because Nashville has some amazing BBQ. I believe the "Loveless Cafe" is well-renowned. I ate there around Thanksgiving and it was quite good!

Thanks for these tips! I'd actually love to see a hockey match. I'm a (casual) NBA fan and, seeing as basketball is more-or-less non existent where I live, I would've loved to see some basketball but it seems that Nashville doesn't have much going on with that, right?

@CornBREDX said:

I used to like going to the hockey games. Their team is awful but they still usually put on a pretty decent show (at the time at least). Also pretty easy to go to a concert out there, most bands play there at some point being that its a popular music town.

Thanks for the tips! Music stuff is all sounding good. I actually work in the music industry (the reason I'm going), so I imagine some concerts and stuff will be on the cards.

@Levio said:

@bibamatt said:

One of my biggest fears of visiting Nashville. I'm a vegetarian. *gulp*

You can order a beans-and-rice burrito at Chipotle. Luby's also has veggie dinners, but there's none in Nashville

Cool, thanks! I've done a tiny amount of research and it seems like there's actually a bunch of veggie and veggie-friendly places. Compared to places I've been in, say, France, it actually seems not too scary. I'll be staying in a house with a load of friends anyway, so I won't be relying on BBQ places every night! I'll be doing some cooking probably.

Hook up with Dixie Carter.

Accents are cool and I love the way the rest of the world pronounces aluminum. There is one word I suggest learning the correct pronounciation.

There ain't no 's' or 'y' in appalachian.

Happy to help! And you're right, no NBA action in Nashville. If you're up for a drive, you can get down to Atlanta in four hours. Although then you have to watch the Hawks play :).

@bibamatt: Look for a girl named Miley Cyrus and make her put on a blonde wig! Then make her sing as a person named Hannah Montana!

@Castermhief117 said:

American girls love dudes with british accents. That's all I'll say.

Not all British accents are sexy.

@MildMolasses said:

@Kingfalcon said:

Got family who live just outside Nashville and have been there many, many times. Do you like hockey or think you might? If so, check to see if the Nashville Predators are in town. And, actually, anywhere downtown around Bridgestone Arena is a good time. And yeah, it's a shame you're a vegetarian because Nashville has some amazing BBQ. I believe the "Loveless Cafe" is well-renowned. I ate there around Thanksgiving and it was quite good!

As a Canadian, I find your recommendation to someone from the UK to see a hockey game in Nashville to be quite surreal.

My thoughts exactly.

Mumps, Etc. was a pretty disappointing album

They probably have some sort of visitor's center. I would say the best thing to do would be to walk around town looking at things that interest you/asking people what they find to be great about Nashville, and if you want more info just head for the visitor's center.

Nashville is kind of filled to the brim with tourist trap bullshit. Still a fun city if you care about like country music or anything like that.

Tell everyone that you're a homosexual Muslim. Then they'll welcome you with open arms. Trust me.

@JasonR86 said:

Tell everyone that you're a homosexual Muslim. Then they'll welcome you with open arms. Trust me.

Only if you ask to get corn-hole'd

@hidys said:

@Castermhief117 said:

American girls love dudes with british accents. That's all I'll say.

Not all British accents are sexy.

Crikey.

I live in Tennessee, but I've never been in Nashville... just on the outskirts once. I could tell you a little bit about a few neat places to visit in Pigeon Forge and Ober Gatlinburg, but you ain't gonna be nowhere near there! Nashville is gonna have plenty of Country Music, though that isn't the birthplace of Country Music! Bristol, TN is.