Going out in London/UK 2024 (or not?)

[sufi]

Apparently it's all over, the number of clubs in uk has dropped from 3000 in 2005 to under 1000 now, nightlife is dead, nothing happening on this early evening street where I'm sitting now apart from a stream of trudging commuters, im sitting outside this Greek cafe run by Albanians where at least there are tables one can sit down at in the drizzle and a Czech microbrewery with fairy lights a few doors down, nothing will be open by midnight,

London was a 24 hour city for about 2 weeks in 2013 if you knew where to look but has slumped back into its usual sullen twilight of huddled smokers outside stingy Victorian pubs, dancing is off the menu

...according to a bunch of complaining articles that seem to have been coming out all over almost daily (ok mostly in the guradnian by @danhancox)

Is that correct, has London and UK nightlife expired? Tell us your experiences please

 

[Corpsey]

I can't compare it to the glory years (London's and my own).

But I've recently been to some good nights at Corsica Studios, Ormside Projects and FOLD.

No doubt it is boring and gentrified etc compared to the 00s, let alone the 90s, but there's presumably still more active clubs in London than in any other British city, based on sheer size alone?

 

[luka]

i wouldn't go to any club that let corpsey in.

 

[maxi]

loads of people in London going out excited about music and clubbing every week, as always

im not really one of them so can't speak much to it, but some of my friends are

the main venues I think are MOT, ormside, fold, corsica, peckham audio

 

[version]

Corpsey said Stringfellows is banging.

 

[wild greens]

Late night pubs of London pretty useful

Late Pubs of London – Google My Maps

Teal: open til 2am. Purple: open til 3am. Burgundy: open beyond 3am. All free entry (normally). Information correct as of Spring 2023

www.google.com

I think it's fair to bemoan the lack of night culture if you can't be arsed dancing to be honest.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Lockdowns' fault

 

[sufi]

Lockdowns' fault

i think that excuse expired already
how are other cities/culture zones faring, i wonder if nightlife is similarly declining postpandemic all over?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

i think that excuse expired already
how are other cities/culture zones faring, i wonder if nightlife is similarly declining postpandemic all over?

In Sweden, 86% of the population across every age group go clubbing at least three times a week

 

[sufi]

My current favourite London clubs, Ormside Projects, Venue MOT and The Carpet Shop, are all grassroots, unshowy venues with brilliant sound systems and relaxed atmospheres, and all opened in the last decade – The Carpet Shop, only 18 months ago.

according to @mos dan in his garudian article
so that means there are at least 5 viable clubs in london no, plus oto that's 6

 

[sufi]

according to @mos dan in his garudian article
so that means there are at least 5 viable clubs in london no, plus oto that's 6

linky and a thread

 

[sufi]

Clubs were struggling even before Covid. In 2005 there were more than three thousand across the UK; by 2015 that number had nearly halved. At the latest count it’s down to 875.

fisher-citing jeremiad at lrb

Chal Ravens · Too Big to Shut Down: Rave On

Acid house wasn’t a genre of dance music so much as a new way of experiencing it: audiences dressed down, parties ran...

www.lrb.co.uk

 

[sufi]

feels like a campaign

 

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fisher-citing jeremiad at lrb

Chal Ravens · Too Big to Shut Down: Rave On

Acid house wasn’t a genre of dance music so much as a new way of experiencing it: audiences dressed down, parties ran...

www.lrb.co.uk

Shaka was raving about this piece the other day.

 

[sufi]

RIP Mean Fiddler himself

Vince Power: Mean Fiddler founder and live music giant dies at 76

Power set up Mean Fiddler in the early 1980s, a company which went on to have a key hand in the running of Reading Festival and Glastonbury.

www.rollingstone.co.uk

 

[WashYourHands]

Always worth scoping where old DiY’ers are playing