I saw it open once in the first year. Tiny space and a novelty.
I really like Octan/Sankeys. That venue could be brilliant if it was ever managed properly. No one has ever got a proper grip of it. They have attracted a few good nights over the years but never put out a consistently popular weekly program.
The location is terrific. It has a good sized main room with vip to the side, the roof terrace is quite large and offers all sorts of possibilities and the basement could be reworked to make it a really good back room rather than a box with a bar. There is probably potential to put another floor on it too. If Pepe was ever serious about Space mk2, that could have been a good purchase, albeit a much smaller scale, but same location. It’s not as if anyone is going to get a licence for a brand new club anytime soon.