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Sub Club
Open since 1987 beneath Jamaica Street, Sub Club is one of the longest continuously running underground clubs in the world. The low arched room and its…
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100 venues with House in their music policy, across the UK and abroad.
Glasgow
Open since 1987 beneath Jamaica Street, Sub Club is one of the longest continuously running underground clubs in the world. The low arched room and its…
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Berlin, Germany
A former power station in Friedrichshain, running from Saturday night deep into Monday. Famous in equal measure for its Funktion-One rig, its no-photography policy and the…
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London
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…
Manchester
A former car repair garage in Salford with bare concrete walls and almost no production, running experimental electronics, noise and techno. Widely rated one of the…
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Ibiza, Spain
Two enormous rooms — the Club Room and the glass-roofed Terrace — and the venue where balearic beat took shape in the 1980s. Still the island's…
Manchester
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…
Ibiza, Spain
Built on the old Space site in Playa d'en Bossa, Hï pairs a Theatre room and Club room with production at the top end of what…
KlickingKarl
London
Opened in 1991 and modelled on the New York warehouse clubs, Ministry of Sound built its reputation on The Box — a room designed around the…
Bristol
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.
Ibiza, Spain
The cherry logo has been on the Ibiza skyline since 1973, making Pacha the island's oldest superclub. A whitewashed Ibicencan building with a main room, terrace…
New York, United States
The open-air centrepiece of the Avant Gardner complex in East Williamsburg, with a vast LED backdrop and a summer-season programme.
Phil Guest
Ibiza, Spain
An open-air poolside stage attached to a hotel, running daytime parties that finish as the indoor clubs open.
Dennis Brekke
Las Vegas, United States
A gold-toned room at Encore that opens onto a pool deck, consistently among the highest-grossing clubs in the United States.
London
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…
InvadingInvader
Las Vegas, United States
A three-level Caesars Palace club built around a kinetic chandelier that descends over the main floor, plus a terrace overlooking the Strip.
Ibiza, Spain
A low-slung building by the airport runway, home of Circoloco Mondays and the island's least polished, most revered room.
London
An artist-run space in two railway arches near Elephant & Castle, small enough to feel like a party and adventurous enough to book almost anything.
Edinburgh
A hundred-capacity room on the Cowgate that books far above its size, seven nights a week.
Newcastle
An independent club founded in 1993 on an explicitly anti-racist, anti-sexist door policy, playing soul, funk, reggae, hip hop and house.
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Aberdeen
A category B listed art deco ballroom on the seafront, with a sprung dancefloor mounted on steel springs — one of the finest dance floors in…
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Cardiff
Founded in 1983 as a Welsh-language social club, Clwb spans three floors of live music and club nights on Womanby Street.
London
A queer bar and basement club in Dalston, open from daytime through to late, with a policy spanning house, disco, techno and pop.
Sheffield
A working industrial site by day and a techno warehouse by night, home to the Hope Works and No Bounds programmes.
Glasgow
A small basement under Max's bar on Queen Street, booking electro, house and techno well above what the room's size suggests.
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Leeds
A small, low-ceilinged room with a Funktion-One rig that has anchored the Leeds underground since 1998.
Dundee
A converted hall on Blackscroft that reshaped Dundee nightlife, booking underground house and techno well beyond what a city of its size would suggest.
Glasgow
A velvet-lined room west of the centre with a disco, electronica and punk-house policy and a devoted regular crowd.
Harry Bond
London
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.
Stoke-on-Trent
Open since 1994 at the bottom of Brunswick Street in Hanley's cultural quarter. Its Electric Friday is the longest-running alternative club night in Staffordshire, with a…
Liverpool
A Baltic Triangle warehouse space combining club nights, live music and community programming.
Edinburgh
Built into the Edinburgh Vaults beneath the Old Town, a stone-arched club running house, techno and bass across two rooms.
Brighton
A seafront venue in a former tea room, mixing live shows with long-running club nights.
Leeds
A basement club off Briggate with a soul, funk, disco and hip hop policy, plus a long-running comedy night.
Sunderland
Open since 2006 on Holmeside, and the centre of Sunderland's independent scene, with a range running from nu-jazz and acid house to rock and roll.
London
A Brixton club built around a single room and a resident-led booking policy, giving one DJ a long Saturday residency at a time.
Glasgow
A former warehouse complex on the Clyde with multiple event spaces, a yard and a year-round arts programme.
Aberdeen
An independent, multi-purpose space in the merchant quarter, run by people who treat music, art and drink with equal seriousness.
London
A two-floor Shoreditch club best known for its long-running resident series, which hands a DJ a three-month run of weekends and lets them shape the programme.
Manchester
Four floors on Charles Street — bar, live room, restaurant and a basement club running house, disco, techno and hip hop.
Plymouth
A Barbican venue combining live music, burlesque and cabaret with a late discotheque.
London
A small Peckham arch behind a shopfront, with an eclectic policy taking in psytrance, Italo disco, house, techno, grime and dubstep.
London
A Hackney Wick warehouse with a courtyard, programming house, techno, disco, grime, garage and jazz across day-to-night events.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A converted 1930s market canteen in west Amsterdam with an ornate main hall and late licence.
Newcastle
A multi-room club by the Centre for Life, long recognised for its sound system and its Shindig house residency.
Miami, United States
A 24-hour club downtown combining aerial performance with a full DJ programme, open around the clock at weekends.
Manchester
Built into railway arches under Oxford Road station, with the curved brick giving the room its natural acoustics.
Edinburgh
A 600-capacity room tucked down Hastie's Close, used for live shows and club nights across dance and indie.
Birmingham
A Digbeth warehouse club with an outdoor yard, central to Birmingham's underground programming.
Bristol
A Stokes Croft mainstay since the early 1990s, spread over three floors and central to Bristol's rave history.
Glasgow
A bar and basement venue on Sauchiehall Street, mixing live gigs with house, soul and new-wave club nights.
Brighton
A two-floor venue on Marine Parade with a sea-view balcony and a strong underground booking policy.
Oxford
A Cowley Road bar and back room running jazz, house and drum & bass nights alongside live music.
Birmingham
A converted Digbeth industrial building programming live shows and large electronic club nights.
Inverness
A 100-capacity music and cultural arts space on Bridge Street, running club nights alongside live and arts programming.
Las Vegas, United States
Resorts World's flagship club, with a multi-level main room, moving stage elements and a connected dayclub.
Liverpool
A converted industrial complex hosting everything from warehouse raves to food halls and Bongo's Bingo.
London
A modern venue in the Outernet complex by Tottenham Court Road, used for live shows and large club events.
Manchester
A mill conversion in north Manchester with a courtyard and two rooms, favoured for long underground line-ups.
Manchester
A pub above and a low basement club below, with a 4am weekend licence and a house, techno and drum & bass policy.
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Bath
A converted Georgian building on Westgate Street combining comedy and live music with long-running club nights.
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Miami, United States
The Fontainebleau's long-running flagship, known for hip hop bookings and a heavily table-driven room.
London
A set of Hackney railway arches combining street food and bars with a club floor running house, disco, garage and soul.
Oxford
Oxford's LGBTQ+ basement club, just off Cornmarket Street.
Nottingham
A two-room club tucked behind Rock City, programming bass, house and drum & bass.
Brighton
A seafront arch club under the promenade, booking touring house and techno names alongside local residents.
Leeds
One of the oldest clubs in Leeds, open since 1979, with a Funktion-One stack and a mix of underground bookings and long-running LGBTQ+ nights.
Preston
One of Preston's largest spaces, with multiple stages given over to house and electronic events.
London
A Brixton Road venue with an indoor room and a garden terrace, mixing live music with dance and commercial club nights.
Brighton
A seafront venue on the former Coalition site, running weekly club nights alongside touring live shows.
London
Three floors plus a large terrace and garden, running some of the longest sessions in the capital.
Southampton
A converted industrial building used for touring live shows and large club events.
Norwich
A converted television studio north of the centre, used for large dance events and touring shows.
Nottingham
A multi-room bar in Hockley whose Stockholm room runs as a late club on Fridays and Saturdays.
Coventry
Coventry's best-known club, in a converted cinema on Primrose Hill Street, with several rooms covering house, RnB, indie and throwback nights.
Birmingham
The centre of Birmingham's Gay Village since 1969, over several floors with cabaret, drag and club nights.
Swansea
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.
London
A Shoreditch bar and club over three floors, best known for a rooftop that is themed and rebuilt each season.
Bristol
A bowling alley, bar and club in one building on Nelson Street, with club nights running late at weekends.
Exeter
A multi-storey club in a converted building off the high street, and the fixed point of Exeter's student circuit for decades.
Birmingham
A railway-tunnel club in the Jewellery Quarter with a heavy sound system and underground bookings.
Liverpool
A two-floor club inspired by the New York disco era, with a large sound system and a dressy weekend crowd.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth's busiest surviving club, on Guildhall Walk, drawing crowds from across the region even as the rest of the city's nightlife contracted.
London
A Soho club built around circus-themed cabaret performance, with table service and a hip hop, RnB and house policy.
Canterbury
Canterbury's largest and latest-running club, with three floors covering different policies and a Saturday licence that goes through to 6am. The lower level doubles as a…
Sheffield
The main club room of the University of Sheffield Students' Union, running term-time club nights and touring shows.
London
A long-running Soho bar with a basement club floor, playing disco, pop, house and dance to a mixed and LGBTQ+ crowd.
Manchester
A small basement off King Street with a house, disco and RnB policy and a smart-casual door.
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Newcastle
A city-centre club near the cathedral with a VIP-heavy layout, playing RnB, hip hop and house.
Cardiff
The main hall of Cardiff University's students' union, running large student club nights and touring shows in term time.
Southampton
A late-night Southampton venue running a wide spread of club nights, from pop and dance to old-school RnB.
Liverpool
A split-level Seel Street club and courtyard, long a cheap and reliable night in the Ropewalks.
London
A Hackney club running pop, club classics, house and disco.
Manchester
A multi-room Princess Street club programming chart, RnB and commercial house to a student-heavy crowd.
Lincoln
A multi-room Lincoln club on Park Street, long the anchor of the city's student circuit.
London
A Putney club playing house, disco, funk and party classics to a south-west London crowd.
Cambridge
A tiki-themed club on Corn Exchange Street running themed parties five nights a week, with two rooms of house, RnB, hip hop and chart on student…
Leicester
A two-room club on Market Place with VIP tables and a cocktail-led bar.
Blackpool
A large Market Street club running weekend nights and day raves through the resort season.
Milton Keynes
A landmark of the region's LGBTQ+ nightlife on Watling Street in Bletchley. Patrons were evacuated in the early hours of 26 April 2026 as fire took…
Bournemouth
Closed. A £750,000 relaunch as Sanctum folded within a month over management and health-and-safety problems.