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Drum & Bass

46 venues with Drum & Bass in their music policy, across the UK and abroad.

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London

Fabric

Three rooms under the old Smithfield cold stores, with Room One's bodysonic dancefloor wired so the bass travels through the floor itself. Fabric has been central…

1,600 £15–£28
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Manchester

The Warehouse Project

A seasonal series rather than a permanent club, WHP takes over disused Manchester industrial space each autumn and winter. Its Depot Mayfield home is a former…

10,000 £30–£60
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Bristol

Motion

A former skate park turned warehouse complex beside the Feeder Canal, with connected rooms and an outdoor Marble Factory yard. Bristol's largest club environment.

2,800 £15–£40
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London

Drumsheds

A vast former IKEA warehouse in Tottenham converted by Broadwick into four connected halls. It is among the largest indoor club spaces in Europe and programmes…

15,000 £25–£60
Tim Green from Bradford
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Manchester

Albert Hall

A former Wesleyan chapel off Deansgate with the original pipe organ and stained glass still in place, used for gigs and large club nights.

1,600 £15–£35
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Edinburgh

Sneaky Pete's

A hundred-capacity room on the Cowgate that books far above its size, seven nights a week.

100 £5–£12
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London

FOLD

A Canning Town warehouse with a no-photography policy and long, late programming across techno, dubstep, garage and jungle.

500 £15–£30
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Edinburgh

The Bongo Club

A charity-run club on the Cowgate programming techno, drum & bass, electro, jungle and hip hop, alongside arts and community events.

350 £5–£15
Harry Bond
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London

The Cause

A club with a charitable model that donates profits to mental-health and community causes, now in a Docklands home after outgrowing its Tottenham yard.

1,200 £12–£28
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Edinburgh

Cabaret Voltaire

Built into the Edinburgh Vaults beneath the Old Town, a stone-arched club running house, techno and bass across two rooms.

600 £8–£18
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Exeter

Cavern Club

A small basement on Queen Street running live bands and alternative club nights since 1991.

250 £4–£12
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York

Fibbers

York's long-running live venue, going since 1992, and home to Distortion — the city's only weekly alternative club night.

280 £5–£12
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Glasgow

SWG3

A former warehouse complex on the Clyde with multiple event spaces, a yard and a year-round arts programme.

1,250 £15–£35
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Hull

The Welly Club

Hull's alternative institution, on a site used for entertainment for over a century, running indie, pop-punk, electro, 90s, rock and drum & bass nights.

600 £4–£12
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Bristol

Thekla

A 1950s cargo ship moored in the Floating Harbour, converted into a live venue and club. The hull room is one of the most distinctive spaces…

400 £6–£20
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Edinburgh

La Belle Angele

A 600-capacity room tucked down Hastie's Close, used for live shows and club nights across dance and indie.

600 £8–£20
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Birmingham

Lab11

A Digbeth warehouse club with an outdoor yard, central to Birmingham's underground programming.

900 £10–£25
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Bristol

Lakota

A Stokes Croft mainstay since the early 1990s, spread over three floors and central to Bristol's rave history.

1,000 £10–£25
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Northampton

Roadmender

A Northampton music venue with thirty years of history behind it — Radiohead, Metallica and Oasis all played here. It was forced to close in 2005…

900 £5–£18
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Oxford

The Bullingdon

A Cowley Road bar and back room running jazz, house and drum & bass nights alongside live music.

350 £5–£15
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Coventry

The Empire

A live venue and club on Far Gosford Street, co-owned by The Enemy's Tom Clarke, mixing touring gigs with club nights.

900 £5–£18
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Middlesbrough

The Empire Middlesbrough

Teesside's best-known live venue and club, in a former cinema, running Fang Fridays and Shangri-La Saturdays through to half three in the morning.

1,000 £5–£15
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Birmingham

The Mill

A converted Digbeth industrial building programming live shows and large electronic club nights.

1,000 £10–£25
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Norwich

The Waterfront

Run by the UEA students' union, and the home of Norwich's alternative and indie club nights as well as touring bands.

700 £5–£15
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Brighton

Volks

A low, tunnel-like club dug into the seafront at Madeira Drive, running dub, reggae, jungle and bass nights.

300 £5–£15
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Manchester

Joshua Brooks

A pub above and a low basement club below, with a 4am weekend licence and a house, techno and drum & bass policy.

400 £5–£12
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Birmingham

O2 Institute

Originally built as a chapel in the 1900s and now a multi-room Digbeth venue combining gigs with club nights.

1,500 £5–£20
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Nottingham

Stealth

A two-room club tucked behind Rock City, programming bass, house and drum & bass.

600 £8–£18
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Brighton

The Arch

A seafront arch club under the promenade, booking touring house and techno names alongside local residents.

600 £8–£20
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Shrewsbury

The Buttermarket

A Grade II listed former buttermarket by the canal basin, running live music and club nights across three floors.

1,000 £5–£15
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Bristol

Basement 45

A low, dark basement off Frogmore Street running jazz, funk, techno and bass nights.

300 £6–£15
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Leeds

Beaver Works

A multi-room warehouse south of the centre used for large-scale touring shows and all-night events.

2,000 £15–£35
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London

Brixton Jamm

A Brixton Road venue with an indoor room and a garden terrace, mixing live music with dance and commercial club nights.

600 £8–£20
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Wrexham

Central Station

A Wrexham music venue and club with a 900-capacity club room and a 550-capacity live space, and the main survivor of the town's club scene.

900 £5–£15
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Southampton

Engine Rooms

A converted industrial building used for touring live shows and large club events.

1,000 £8–£25
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Norwich

Epic Studios

A converted television studio north of the centre, used for large dance events and touring shows.

900 £10–£25
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Bournemouth

O2 Academy Bournemouth

A former Victorian theatre in Boscombe, used mainly for touring live shows with club nights alongside them.

1,900 £8–£25
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Oxford

O2 Academy Oxford

A three-room Cowley Road venue combining touring live shows with student and alternative club nights.

1,000 £5–£18
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Swansea

PlanB

A dance-focused club on the former Club Oxygen site, with two floors and a licence that runs through to sunrise on Friday and Saturday.

600 £5–£15
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Reading

Purple Turtle

A two-level Reading institution with a heated garden, live music and weekly club nights.

500 £3–£10
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Doncaster

The Doncaster Warehouse

A Doncaster club with a reputation for underground music and a harder-edged programme than the rest of Silver Street.

700 £5–£15
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Lincoln

The Engine Shed

Lincoln's largest venue, run by the University of Lincoln students' union on the Brayford waterfront, combining touring live shows with student club nights.

1,500 £5–£18
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Bournemouth

The Old Fire Station

Run by the Students' Union at Bournemouth University, and now the main survivor of the town's club scene, combining live gigs with DJ nights and silent…

800 £5–£15
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Birmingham

Tunnel Club

A railway-tunnel club in the Jewellery Quarter with a heavy sound system and underground bookings.

400 £8–£18
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Wakefield

Venue23

A Smyth Street live room and club that opened in October 2021 on the former Warehouse23 site, known for its sound system.

600 £5–£15
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Swindon

Level III

A Swindon live-music venue that doubles as the town's main club room.

500 £5–£15