Is The UK Stopping Clubbing?

Official figures have confirmed that about 50% of UK’s nightclubs have closed in just 10 years.

17:57 10 August 2015

The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers has confirmed that the number of clubs in the UK is down from 3,144 to just 1,733 in the last 10 years.  The ALMR warns the closures will leave the UK worse off "culturally, socially and economically".

 

Chief executive Kate Nicholls said: ‘they are gone for good and we’re never going to get them back.’

 

Lohan Presencer, the boss of the Ministry of Sound, an iconic name in clubbing, admitted that UK clubbing is in a “challenging place” in 2015.

 

"I don't think the number of people going clubbing at the weekend is any different to where it was 20 years ago, but I do think they are going to different places.”

 

"With the advent of later pub opening hours, the smoking ban, student tuition fees and the squeeze that a lot people are under financially since the recession," he explains, "I think people are finding different ways and different places to go out."

 

However, Amir, a producer and DJ in London said clubbing trends “go in cycles.”

 

"I mean there was a hell of a lot of clubs out there and a lot of DJs - and now there are DJs on the main stage at festivals.

 

"They're essentially still playing house music so it just shifts in cycles and it will go back into the club."