DNB-oriented club in London

JSDNB

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Screw it, I'm just gonna confess it.
I'm 29 and my dream is to own a fully dnb-oriented club in London. Would you love to have one? Where? Would major labels agree to schedule labelnights under reasonable terms (which ones, in your opinion)? Does it still make sense to consider dnb as a proper business? What are the main issues with the dnb audience?

I'm really into dnb: I'm weekly following almost 400 selected labels, I've been living in London and I still crave for the old The End's vibe. Others may crave for the Blue Note's one. More others may crave for Cable's one...and so on. And Andy C's last recidency at Xoyo went down just fine.

Would you like a place to enjoy (say):
- 1st saturday of the month soulful or liquid stuff (Spearhead, Fokuz, or maybe some intelligent stuff like idk Cosmic Bridge or Astrophonica)
- 2nd saturday of the month dancefloor (say Ram/Hospital/Shogun)
- 3rd saturday of the month rolling, hard vibes (Metalheadz/Symmetry/Dispatch/Critical)
- 4rd saturday of the month technoid or dark vibes (Quarantine/Virus/Dread/Amar)

I wouldn't confess it elsewhere than a forum, but dnb is one of the most important things in my life. I'm sharing this with this board since I'm confident that I'll get some help, or I will get honestly blasted.

Hopefully, every comment will be useful to lead to a business plan. I'd like to thank you a lot in advance for you help, sarcasm or whatever you feel like to share.

I know you all have a developed music taste, but I'd like to get some feedbacks specially from promoters or senior promoters.

Thanks in advance! ;) (y)
Jack
 
Would definitely be a welcome addition to London, especially seeing as we've lost so many venues over recent years, particularly ones that support dnb. I have no idea whether major labels would agree to regular nights, but I do like the idea of having different sub genres regularly each month.

What I would say after running small nights of my own, is that it would be nice to give smaller promoters a chance too, as with the demise of so many clubs, it's harder and harder for smaller promoters to find suitable venues.

And it goes without saying....the system and equipment needs to be top notch and maintained, noone likes playing (or listening) to a shit sound system or playing on sketchy decks!
 
Too young to remember Blue Note, label nights weren't my thing when The End was around but I have very fond memories of Cable.

As much as Cable was a great club which supported Jungle/Drum & Bass - it hosted all kinds of nights there; Garage, Grime, Reggae - even some of that popular Bungalow muzak which is all the rage with the kids these days. I'm not sure a new London club which would host solely dnb nights would be economically viable in today's market. Bristol could be a different story though...

Plus, POLITICS.
 
it is a great idea, you could get different label in every Saturday with a different vibe from the other week, Friday nights you could push new talent forward and get a group of resident DJ's together that mix different sub genres with a different breakthrough artist every week

Fuck knows if it would work but if you could pull it off I would definitely be there haha
 
I don't really think there is a gap in the market. So many clubs are supporting dnb in London right now, The Nest, Egg, Fire & Lightbox, Fabric, XOYO etc.
 
Can this place(during the daytime) be a cafe that plays Loxy b2b English breakfast dubplates?

Or a quiet night time place that plays autonomic vibes while I smoke opium?

All while holding random Dillinja valve sound events?

(y)


Just wanna ad that TheEnd was the best club in London. Chattin wiv Fresh, Andy C n Bailey when the lights came on at 6am was Sikh. I got Andy Cs autograph cos I was even more of a douche 10yrs ago, If you believe it.
 
Mike plz..I don´t really think that you can fill Karl´s void with your ramblings.
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