Clubs

These old photos of empty German nightclubs are eerily familiar given these strange times

Let's face it, clubbing as we know and love it won't be back for some time, with a looming 'second…

4 years ago

First Floor’s Shawn Reynaldo on the perils of clubbing returning too soon

One of the best weekly newsletters on the electronic music scene is First Floor, helmed by Barcelona-based Shawn Reynaldo, which…

4 years ago

“It’s necessary for any period to build its cathedrals…” Manchester’s The Haçienda opened on this day in 1982

Legendary Manchester club The Haçienda opened on this day (21 May) in 1982, creating a legacy that would go on…

5 years ago

The story of U2’s legendary The Kitchen nightclub

Up until recently, if you sauntered along Dublin’s East Essex Street, you might have found an inconspicuous wooden door with…

5 years ago

Laurent Garnier on how The Haçienda ‘blew his mind’ in 1987… [October 1994]

Paris native Laurent Garnier, who celebrated his 53rd birthday last Friday, was an early convert to dance music – at…

5 years ago

Do not go gentle into that good night… What Ireland’s nightclub industry does next

Last weekend saw the closing of another ‘institution’ of Irish clubland - the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin - with a…

5 years ago

On the road again… what DJs played the most gigs in 2018?

Life, it has often been said, is one big journey, and that’s even more the case when you are a…

5 years ago

Bodytonic set to open Jam Park… you’ve come a long way, baby

Bad news is often contagious, and when the announcement was made on Friday 5th January about the impending closure of…

5 years ago

The New Years Eve lineup for HYTE Berlin is 24 hours of insane techno…

For those of us that want our 'Auld Lang Syne' to run well into the following afternoon, the lineup for…

5 years ago

20 bliain ag fás… Galway’s 110th Street hits a milestone

In November 1998, a young Kerry-born DJ, Cian Ó Cíobháin, threw a party for his friends in Galway Town Hall,…

5 years ago