UK Clubs closing at an alarming rate

Sad to see lush closed.
It was the cornerstone of my clubbing youth. Seriously unreal memories!

Obviously music tastes changes with age but at the time this was peak lush, and with the typical rowdy lush crowd noise this set still gets me going.

 
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Obviously one was a dump and the other was a dump but with a decorated history, but Kingston Hippodrome and The Coronet both being razed on the same weekend is 😢

The Coronet has had more lives than a witch's cat but she's definitely a goner now
 
W_I_C said:
Obviously one was a dump and the other was a dump but with a decorated history, but Kingston Hippodrome and The Coronet both being razed on the same weekend is 😢
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Also Raffles in Dover I've just seen. Not one of my old haunts, but meant something to the acid house gen around my way
 
V good article. The annihilation of real clubbing spaces will have dire implications:

- Fewer people will get involved
- Fewer people still will experience djiing as an art
- with fewer venues, more people will end up at the same parties as people they would normally cross town to avoid. (ie freaks and townies in same room… what could possibly go wrong…)
- fewer clubs will take risks, meaning fewer local djs will get a lucky break
- more people than ever will rely on festies for music, where again risk-averse programming will mean a continuing dilution of what your grandad remembers as house music
- internatiomal domino effect as the same thing happens elsewhere

https://twitter.com/x/status/1637454278997450752
 
The Que club in Birmingham, one of the best clubs in the country, turned into property in the end. Big payday for the owners. Rinse and repeat across the country.
 
I think everything eventually will turn into popup events with occasional licences handed out. The days when every major town had a weekly dance scene are probably over. You’ll get more non-profits and cooperatives doing things, in conjunction with radio or other arts events. no bad thing imo supporting the grassroots. Eg in Newcastle there are guys like the lubber fiend in it for the right reasons. Finding regular venues will get ever harder so people will just have to use smaller spaces, shops, studios, galleries, churches, repairyards etc for one-offs
 
I listened to a podcast the other day (I think Triggernometry) where this young lady was explaining how Gen Z are not going out nearly as much as Gen X and Gen Y did back in the day. Gen Z socialise more on the internet, and can lead active social lives more or less from their bedrooms.

The result of course being that a lot of clubs will have to close when the Gen X and Gen Y stop going out. It'll be a totally different scene in a decade or two. I guess this is inevitable.

(Gen Z are also not having nearly as much casual sex as Gen X and Gen Y did BITD - which I guess is well deserved.)
 
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I listened to a podcast the other day (I think Triggernometry) where this young lady was explaining how Gen Z are not going out nearly as much as Gen X and Gen Y did back in the day. Gen Z socialise more on the internet, and can lead active social lives more or less from their bedrooms.

The result of course being that a lot of clubs will have to close when the Gen X and Gen Y stop going out. It'll be a totally different scene in a decade or two. I guess this is inevitable.

(Gen Z are also not having nearly as much casual sex as Gen X and Gen Y did BITD - which I guess is well deserved.)
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I last worked in a club (generic high street type one) 5-6 years ago now and even then people would drink at home and go out about midnight. Really affected things as it took a long time to build, spends per head were low etc

A few clubs I still know people at now are really trying to have to innovate with other events for different types of crowds to top up revenue (bottomless brunches, boozy bingos etc) - has helped with older crowds
 
Snowy said:
I listened to a podcast the other day (I think Triggernometry) where this young lady was explaining how Gen Z are not going out nearly as much as Gen X and Gen Y did back in the day. Gen Z socialise more on the internet, and can lead active social lives more or less from their bedrooms.

The result of course being that a lot of clubs will have to close when the Gen X and Gen Y stop going out. It'll be a totally different scene in a decade or two. I guess this is inevitable.

(Gen Z are also not having nearly as much casual sex as Gen X and Gen Y did BITD - which I guess is well deserved.)
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it’s partly economics, partly cultural. I also think a lot of cotton wooled kids have never been allowed to play out on the street, so people are driven inside. Throw in a few apps and bingo. Potentially v dangerous because you lose human empathy and then you get incels or bedroom terrorists ordering explosives and it doesn’t end well.

In any case, clubbing as i knew it is dead anyway. You see it on this forum every day. A lot of people don’t have the first clue. It’s not really their fault though. If the clubs are all shutting how would people know any different? i used to care about all this but what’s the point now? I just advise people to cling on to what they can before the whole ship goes down.
 
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