Glasgow
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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49 venues with Techno 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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
London
A queer bar and basement club in Dalston, open from daytime through to late, with a policy spanning house, disco, techno and pop.
London
A Canning Town warehouse with a no-photography policy and long, late programming across techno, dubstep, garage and jungle.
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.
Edinburgh
A charity-run club on the Cowgate programming techno, drum & bass, electro, jungle and hip hop, alongside arts and community events.
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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.
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.
Manchester
A volunteer-run, member-owned social centre north of the centre, programming afrobeat, dub, jazz-leaning electronics and experimental nights.
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.
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.
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.
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Belfast
A Belfast institution across two rooms, combining touring live shows with weekend club nights.
Brighton
A two-floor venue on Marine Parade with a sea-view balcony and a strong underground booking policy.
Birmingham
A converted Digbeth industrial building programming live shows and large electronic club nights.
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.
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.
Bristol
A low, dark basement off Frogmore Street running jazz, funk, techno and bass nights.
Leeds
A multi-room warehouse south of the centre used for large-scale touring shows and all-night events.
London
Three floors plus a large terrace and garden, running some of the longest sessions in the capital.
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.
Doncaster
A Doncaster club with a reputation for underground music and a harder-edged programme than the rest of Silver Street.
Birmingham
A railway-tunnel club in the Jewellery Quarter with a heavy sound system and underground bookings.