Councils across London are cracking down on late night licences. Finally closing after 18 years in 2008, Trade never again found a permanent home as Turnmills itself was demolished; the site is now home to the most anonymous possible looking corner office block. Pete.. The very social cafe upstairs, the dense dry-ice on the main floor with the mesmerising lasers, hottest guys, new bizarre sounds, the knowledge that the rest of England was sleeping and had no idea that such hedonism was taking place on a Sunday morning and night (you missed out Warriors) all fuelled after an initial polite and orderly wait in line to see Nick (is he out yet?) Turnmills was the first and best, never surpassed and so fondly remembered, well as much as my pitted brain will allow. From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. Astoria in Charing Cross Road was London's largest live music club for years. Despite the epic interior, or perhaps because of it, the venue struggled to pull in the punters during its later years, blaming the recession for its eventual closure. The article was well written and for a change the comments are a nice read as well. We could party on until 1pm without worrying if the police were going to turn up, says Smokin Jo, who was resident DJ at the night. It hosted huge weekend parties that were at hit with House music fans. We had amazing nights, including joint parties with labrynth and raindance. When I was at DJ Magazine, Paul Oakenfold once said to me that important former nightclubs should, at very least, have a blue plaque on the wall. Have to confess my favorites were Frantic at the Academy, and The Fridge. Bagleys/Canvas, Kings Cross1991-2007Like a legal rave, Bagleys was a huge multi-room warehouse club that held some of Londons biggest Saturday night parties. However, I do hold dear the fact I took advantage of the last ever NYE at The End..needless to say Laurent Garnier did not disappoint:). Despite quality residencies from the likes of Hospitality and a body kinetic dance floor, the club eventually closed due to financial difficulties, blamed on delays with the upgrade to the Jubilee line. 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A great article , and so sad that many of these truly iconic places may be but a memory in the minds of millions . Peter Gatien produced the 1993 film A Bronx Tale after having produced it as a one-man play. London's lost nightclubs in pictures A new book by DJ and writer Dave Haslam offers a fascinating glimpse into London's clubbing history. Between 1987 and 1990, when police pressure forced its closure, Shoom was where the London dance club as we know it today was born. For more info on what we write about and why, see our About section. Some partners do not ask for your consent to process your data and rely on their legitimate business interest. Its also a shame to lose 93 Feet East recently too. After all they shaped todays society in one way or another. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Sign up to our weekly email. The venue stopped running the events to save its licence, but as a result lost a lot of money through cancelled bookings and by March 2010 was broke. Nick, the big bald black guy who always had a smile on his face, pretty much the master of ceremonies at Turnmills. And good to see you the other night (I was in the ridiculous blue jacket). Cans of beer Real friendships were made, some that lasted a few hours and some, decades. For more news and featuresabout London directly to your inbox sign up to our newsletter here. Im amazed u didnt mention that John Newman was the father of both Danny and Paul Newman. I think the last great night I had in a bigger club was Shelter at Egg in 2005. All this created the friendliest and most fun crowd on the clubbing scene. Clubs in Mayfair London are the most prestigious nightclubs in town. Punters at The Bubble Club, The Que Club, 1996. Something went wrong, please try again later. Were you a Crank? Great memories for me toobut pickling clubs in aspic is a sign of ld age, new generations inven their own vibes in new venues.Some of those big clubs that are eulogised here were seen at the time by older clubbersd as too corporate and bland. 2. With alternate Saturdays at Happiness Stan's/Fourplay at Smith's and the Jazz Bistro in Farringdon. Sad to see the blandification of London continues. 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Would have kept going there for anniversary, shame its closed but glad weve done it all at the best times, Im an Aussie that worked the doors at imperial garden, car wash gigs, sunny side up, cafe de Paris (wanky but fun). The history of London's 10 greatest live music venues The venue hosted international DJs as well as some seminal club nights such as broken beat fix Co-op and dubstep-founding FWD>>. It drew in big name DJs and its club night FWD>> was a rite of passage for many Londoners going out in the early 2000s. From the weekly FWD>> nights, where the UK bass scene emerged, to the broken beat nights Co-op, this was a club that managed to evolve and change while somehow remaining the same for over 20 years, a run that ended only when long-standing manager Charlotte Kepel felt the time was right to pull the plug in 2015. The single was written and produced by Ralf Ren Mau, and its cover artwork features . A string of London's best-loved night clubs have closed since 2000. These exclusive extracts and photos tell the story of. 9/10 you lose 1 point for making me feel old! But things turned sour after after a double stabbing took place in the club, leading to its licence being revoked. These might have often been dank, crumbling, smelly old places, but they are where countless people enjoyed some of the most intense and vital moments of their lives. If you were staggering down the Clerkenwell Road on a Sunday afternoon at around 4pm in the early 90s then you can consider yourself a true nightclub pioneer. Slightly off topic but I fear for the Camden Brewery bars license once the new posh flats open at Talacre. And since the turn of the Millennium some of our city's best party establishments have had to close. It always felt like it was on borrowed time after that. October 2018 the anonymous landlord of the former chapel won planning approval from Westminster council to upscale the venue into a major performance venue on the West End's arts scene with a restaurant and basement bar, run by Stone Nest. I used to go to Whoop it Up every Friday during 1998-2002; it was a fantastic place to go. Constant disagreements on how to regenerate the land behind Kings Cross Station went on for years. MoS is an institution, still respected by much of the dance music cognoscenti but derided in many quarters for having long since become the Bluewater of nightclubs; mostly now populated by coach parties from Essex. I will never stop thinking it was incredible. No Bar Rumba though? List of gentlemen's clubs in London - Wikipedia London Boys singles chronology. Darling, Fantastic article how about expanding the idea to the rest of the country. Taking Ecstasy for the first time and experiencing the euphoria of the blissed out Balearic beats at Space nightclub, Oakenfold and his wife Jenni came home and tried to re-create it in a 300 capacity basement gym on Southwark Street. Wednesday 10 June 2015. It was in King's Cross's golden triangle of night clubs which all shut down in the face of the area's redevelopment. Or many others, would not stop writing and remembering about them. Much better than the cross! These cookies do not store any personal information. Former DJ Magazine Deputy Editor Tom Kihl investigates what happened to the clubs that once dominated London's nightlife. I love this article! A club with really innovative nights and for the hardcore Metalheadz on a Sunday night. According to its owners, the time felt right to move on. I took a diversion myself up York Way a while back and took similar snaps of Bagleys and The Cross. Those Cranks days were the era that I fully embraced the concept of the 3-night sleepless weekender and other wonderous, if slightly unprofessional, ways to fill the hours between shifts. The place was a really important hub for the fledgling dubstep family, says 6Music DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who went to FWD>> religiously in the mid-2000s. Bagley's, King's Cross (1990-2008) Instagram The massive warehouse club in King's Cross was a close as you could get to a legal rave. Magic was created on those dancefloors and longstanding relationships and friends. In the early 2000s it incorporated the successful Pitt Street club Sublime in the late 1990s, run by Simon Page. A linchpin in London's dubstep scene, it was a shock for bass-loving partiers when the Shoreditch venue announced its sudden closure in 2015. The Norman-style Welsh Chapel was built in 1888 by James Cubitt for inner London's Welsh community and was empty for 15 years before it found new life as nightclub Limelight. All rights reserved. People from across the capital will flock to Herbal, an exposed brick warehouse which regularly hosted big name DJs. it probably was ha ! ; Beargarden Club - A St James's club in Trollope's Palliser novels; Bellona Club - Lord Peter Wimsey's club and location of a murder in Dorothy L. Sayers novel The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Billiards Club - Setting for the improbably tall . morning, Available for everyone, funded by readers. All the new secret location parties `I work in these days are usually stuck in cold,dirty and faceless arches. The triple-bowed frontage of the Ace Cinema viewed from the south-west. I am now all grown up at 42 with a respectable job and look like I am, a middle aged mum. I would also like to add The Blue Note to this list of sadly missed. Plus I think Friction was there for a bit to. But Crossrail was the final nail in the coffin for the much-loved Soho venue. Hes right. The End, The Cross, Turnmills and Bagleys were all favourites. A bare room with the most rudimentary of bars at one end (cans of Red Stripe or nothing) in a Hoxton basement, the place came to prominence in the Nineties and Noughties as an incubator for dubstep and for possessing one of the greatest sound systems ever owned by a nightclub. I remember me and my brother went up to Soundshaft one night (I was about 22), with, erm, a couple of associates.. The End and AKA, West End1995-2009A venue that just seemed to stick in the hearts of all who frequented it, the End was an intimate basement club run by Mr C and Layo, tucked just behind High Holborn. I remember one of their selling points was drinks at pub prices. so much fun should be illegal. Big small club! For me it was just a little bit over a year that I lived in London. Gaz ran a weekly night there from. Turning around and seeing floor fountains and Mail on Sunday readers sipping lattes and eating Danish pastries made my heart sink. Its a hardback coffee table monster, full of lovely photos and quotes. Anyway, as the corridor joined Soundshaft to Heaven (and Heaven being pretty legendry), I decided to go to the loo. Reminded me of my mis-spent but highly pleasurable youth on the dance floors of a London. Plus Lion & Unicorn and LGBTQ History Month, Black History Month 2022: 5 picks across Camden, Foodscape: own a vertical plot in Londons first urban farm, Queer Jubilee: Drag at Zabludowicz, Queer Britain and Mighty Hoopla, LGBTQ History Month 2022: top 10 Camden & Islington highlights, My Boy Danny: the acclaimed play tackling LGBTQ hate crime, Where to find the summer special issue and whats in it. Redferns/Getty Images . Great article, and Ill second and third and fourth what has been said here. Amen. Having recently celebrated its 50th birthday, Tramp has changed remarkably little in the half century since the small door on Jermyn Street in Mayfair opened its doors. RM 2HTCTTN - Ace Cinema, Alexandra Avenue, Rayners Lane, Harrow, London, 1983. Fact is we WERE around when these incredible bastions of modern culture were in their pomp negotiating a route through the tunnel room at Turnmills, walking up that incredibly long slope towards the cab rank at 5am after The Cross and getting hopelessly lost in those pokey rooms at the bottom of Bagleys.