Drum & Bass clubs

Venues with Drum & Bass in their music policy, across the UK and beyond.

Fabric

London · 1,600 capacity

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

Featured ★★★★★

The Warehouse Project

Manchester · 10,000 capacity

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

Featured ★★★★★

Motion

Bristol · 2,800 capacity

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

Featured ★★★★☆

Drumsheds

London · 15,000 capacity

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

Featured ★★★★☆

Albert Hall

Manchester · 1,600 capacity

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

★★★★★

Sneaky Pete's

Edinburgh · 100 capacity

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

★★★★★

FOLD

London · 500 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Bongo Club

Edinburgh · 350 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Cause

London · 1,200 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Cabaret Voltaire

Edinburgh · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Cavern Club

Exeter · 250 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Fibbers

York · 280 capacity

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

★★★★☆

SWG3

Glasgow · 1,250 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Welly Club

Hull · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Thekla

Bristol · 400 capacity

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

★★★★☆

La Belle Angele

Edinburgh · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Lab11

Birmingham · 900 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Lakota

Bristol · 1,000 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Bullingdon

Oxford · 350 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Empire

Coventry · 900 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Mill

Birmingham · 1,000 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Waterfront

Norwich · 700 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Volks

Brighton · 300 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Joshua Brooks

Manchester · 400 capacity

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

★★★★☆

O2 Institute

Birmingham · 1,500 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Stealth

Nottingham · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Arch

Brighton · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Basement 45

Bristol · 300 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Beaver Works

Leeds · 2,000 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Brixton Jamm

London · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Engine Rooms

Southampton · 1,000 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Epic Studios

Norwich · 900 capacity

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

★★★★☆

O2 Academy Bournemouth

Bournemouth · 1,900 capacity

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

★★★★☆

O2 Academy Oxford

Oxford · 1,000 capacity

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

★★★★☆

PlanB

Swansea · 600 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Purple Turtle

Reading · 500 capacity

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

★★★★☆

The Old Fire Station

Bournemouth · 800 capacity

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

★★★★☆

Tunnel Club

Birmingham · 400 capacity

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

★★★★☆