London
London’s night lives under railway arches and behind industrial estates, because that is where the licences are. The result is a city of specific rooms rather than grand ones: go for the sound system and the booking, not the address.
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Open right now
Wednesday 15:51 local
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Rooms published
Saturday
Peak night
18+
Legal drinking age
Europe/London
Through the night
Peaks at 1 of 14 rooms around 18:00.
The rooms
Ranked by editorial score, weighted with freshness, impact and scene. The method is public.
fabric
Room One’s bodysonic floor still does something no other club in Britain does: you feel the bass through your feet before you hear it.
Corsica Studios
Two small arches under the railway with a booking policy braver than clubs ten times the size.
FOLD
The closest London gets to a Berlin weekend: a 24-hour licence, a no-photos policy, and a crowd that treats Sunday afternoon as prime time.
Ministry of Sound
The Box still has the best purpose-built sound in the country. The rest of the building is a brand; that room is not.
Village Underground
Heaven
Under the arches at Charing Cross since 1979, and still the front door of queer London for anyone arriving in the city.
Phonox
A single dark room built around long residencies rather than guest bookings, which is why the Saturday crowd actually knows each other.
XOYO
Jazz Cafe
Dalston Superstore
A bar upstairs, a basement downstairs, and the most reliable queer night in east London on almost any day of the week.
KOKO
The Cause
Drumsheds
Four connected sheds on a former IKEA site. Scale is the entire proposition; go for the line-up, not the intimacy.
Egg London
E1 London
The Pickle Factory
Colour Factory
Night Tales
Brixton Jamm
Lightbox
On the map
Clustered by district. Tap a pin for the room.
Pins are approximate. Verify the address before you travel.
Districts
Where to base yourself, and what each part of the city is for.
Brixton
2South London’s live and late axis.
Elephant and Castle
2Two of the city’s most important rooms sit within a few hundred metres.
Shoreditch
2The obvious answer, and still a good one after midnight on a Friday.
Tottenham
2Warehouse scale, far north, worth the Victoria line.
Farringdon
1Home of the one club everyone names first.
Hackney Wick
1Canalside warehouses. Where most of the interesting new rooms open.
Nearby scenes
Worth a train, a bus, or a change of flight.
One night in London?
Give the concierge your hours, your budget and your sound. Get a route through the city’s venues, with timings and door tips for each stop.