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The Roundhouse is a Victorian engine shed for turning locomotives, converted in 1964 and taking 1,700 standing. KOKO was a theatre, then a cinema, then the Camden Palace, and reopened in 2022 after a fire with the auditorium restored and a tower of small rooms behind it. The Electric Ballroom has been a dance hall since the 1930s and an Irish one for much of that. Dingwalls sits on the canal by the lock, and the Underworld is beneath the World's End at the top of the road.\n\nWhat follows a show is thinner than the shows deserve. The market shuts, the pubs are busy and ordinary, and most of the crowd goes home on the Northern line.","note_links":null,"reading":null,"figure":null,"figures":null,"from":null,"country":null,"country_name":null,"also":null,"years":null,"plaque":null,"rank":null,"maps_q":"Camden High Street, Camden, NW1, London","in_area":{"slug":"camden","name":"Camden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Jazz Cafe","s":"jazz-cafe","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":109},{"n":"The Underworld","s":"the-underworld","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":139},{"n":"Old Camden Town","s":"old-camden-town","c":"tours","cn":"Guided Tours","m":175}],"near_same":[{"s":"kings-cross-at-night","m":1247},{"s":"soho-at-night","m":2850},{"s":"shoreditch-at-night","m":4486},{"s":"dalston-at-night","m":4739},{"s":"vauxhall-at-night","m":5781},{"s":"hackney-at-night","m":5954}]},{"slug":"dalston-at-night","name":"Dalston","area":"Dalston","address":"Kingsland High Street, Dalston, E8","station":"Dalston Kingsland","walk":1,"lat":51.548405,"lng":-0.075385,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":null,"hours_checked":null,"hours_extra":null,"photo_search":["Dalston London night","Kingsland High Street London"],"runs":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["clubs","dawn","livemusic","queer"],"deep":null,"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"venue_group":null,"geo":null,"geo_zone":null,"verdict":"Five hundred metres of high street with more underneath it than on it.","note":"Dalston's nightlife is almost entirely below ground, which is why the street looks quiet at midnight and is not. The licences run late, the rooms are small, and a night here is usually three or four of them rather than one.\n\nCafe OTO programmes improvised and experimental music six nights a week and is one of the few rooms in Europe where that is a full-time job rather than a Sunday. Dalston Superstore opened in 2009 as a gay bar with a basement and has been the queer anchor of the district since. The Ridley Road Market Bar is up a staircase behind a market stall. 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Mare Street has the Hackney Empire, a Frank Matcham music hall of 1901 that still works as one, and the Empire's programme runs from opera to drag on consecutive nights.\n\nMOTH Club is a functioning working men's club in Valette Street whose ceiling is covered in gold glitter, and which books bands who could sell out somewhere four times the size. Oslo is a converted railway building by Hackney Central. 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It is the only thing here that predates the rebuilding.\n\nEverything else arrived with it. Lafayette is a new room in the development behind the station, Kings Place put two concert halls on the canal at York Way, and Coal Drops Yard turned the coal sheds into shops with bars among them. The district this replaced was notorious - the streets behind the station were where London put what it did not want to look at - and the speed of the change is the thing most people who knew it before remark on.","note_links":null,"reading":null,"figure":null,"figures":null,"from":null,"country":null,"country_name":null,"also":null,"years":null,"plaque":null,"rank":null,"maps_q":"King's Cross, Goods Way, King's Cross, N1C, London","in_area":{"slug":"kings-cross-st-pancras","name":"King's Cross & St Pancras"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Lafayette","s":"lafayette","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":86},{"n":"Lethaby Gallery","s":"lethaby-gallery","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":120},{"n":"Coal Drops Yard","s":"coal-drops-yard","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":131}],"near_same":[{"s":"camden-at-night","m":1247},{"s":"soho-at-night","m":2414},{"s":"shoreditch-at-night","m":3239},{"s":"dalston-at-night","m":3744},{"s":"hackney-at-night","m":4821},{"s":"vauxhall-at-night","m":5222}]},{"slug":"peckham-at-night","name":"Peckham","area":"Peckham","address":"Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15","station":"Peckham Rye","walk":1,"lat":51.469525,"lng":-0.068035,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":null,"hours_checked":null,"hours_extra":null,"photo_search":["Peckham London night","Rye Lane London"],"runs":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["clubs","livemusic"],"deep":null,"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"venue_group":null,"geo":null,"geo_zone":null,"verdict":"A cricket-bat factory, a car-park roof, and a high street that does not stop at eleven.","note":"The Bussey Building made cricket bats until the 1950s and is now four floors of warehouse off Rye Lane, with club rooms, a cinema and a theatre in it, and the roof of the multi-storey next door has a bar on it from May to September. Between them they carry most of it: almost everything else in Peckham's night is a bar, a record shop with a licence, or a room behind a shop.\n\nThat is also the character of it. Rye Lane is a working high street - fishmongers, fabric shops, Nigerian and Caribbean groceries - and the nightlife sits in the gaps rather than replacing it, which is why the street after dark looks like a street rather than a strip.","note_links":null,"reading":null,"figure":null,"figures":null,"from":null,"country":null,"country_name":null,"also":null,"years":null,"plaque":null,"rank":null,"maps_q":"Peckham, Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15, London","in_area":{"slug":"peckham","name":"Peckham"},"bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Rye Lane","s":"rye-lane","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":31},{"n":"Forza Wine","s":"forza-wine","c":"views","cn":"Views","m":33},{"n":"Bussey Rooftop Bar","s":"bussey-rooftop-bar","c":"views","cn":"Views","m":87}],"near_same":[{"s":"brixton-at-night","m":2883},{"s":"vauxhall-at-night","m":4244},{"s":"shoreditch-at-night","m":6175},{"s":"soho-at-night","m":6541},{"s":"kings-cross-at-night","m":8220},{"s":"hackney-at-night","m":8283}]},{"slug":"shoreditch-at-night","name":"Shoreditch","area":"Shoreditch","address":"Curtain Road, Shoreditch, EC2A","station":"Shoreditch High Street","walk":6,"lat":51.52449,"lng":-0.080695,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":null,"hours_checked":null,"hours_extra":null,"photo_search":["Shoreditch London night","Curtain Road London"],"runs":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["clubs","dawn","livemusic"],"deep":null,"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"venue_group":null,"geo":null,"geo_zone":null,"verdict":"Where London's club scene moved in the nineties, and where it is now busiest at the weekend and better midweek.","note":"The warehouses emptied in the 1980s and the parties moved in, and by the end of the nineties Curtain Road and the streets off it were where London went out. That crowd has largely gone east, and what is left divides sharply: the weekend belongs to people who came in for it, and the rooms worth the journey are quieter from Monday to Thursday.\n\nThe ones that survived did it by being good at one thing. Nightjar is a basement with a house band and no sign on the door. Tayer + Elementary splits a single room into a standing bar and a seated one, and won the world's best bar for it. The Old Blue Last is a pub with a stage upstairs that has launched more bands than most venues four times its size. The Queen of Hoxton's roof is rebuilt to a different theme twice a year.","note_links":null,"reading":null,"figure":null,"figures":null,"from":null,"country":null,"country_name":null,"also":null,"years":null,"plaque":null,"rank":null,"maps_q":"Shoreditch, Curtain Road, Shoreditch, EC2A, London","in_area":{"slug":"shoreditch-old-street","name":"Shoreditch & Old Street"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Curtain","s":"the-curtain","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":36},{"n":"The Old Blue Last","s":"the-old-blue-last","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":44},{"n":"The Theatre, Shoreditch","s":"the-theatre-shoreditch","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":65}],"near_same":[{"s":"hackney-at-night","m":2571},{"s":"dalston-at-night","m":2684},{"s":"kings-cross-at-night","m":3239},{"s":"soho-at-night","m":3722},{"s":"camden-at-night","m":4486},{"s":"vauxhall-at-night","m":5006}]},{"slug":"soho-at-night","name":"Soho","area":"Soho","address":"Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":3,"lat":51.51317,"lng":-0.131325,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":null,"hours_checked":null,"hours_extra":null,"photo_search":["Soho London night","Old Compton Street London"],"runs":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["cabaret","dawn","jazz","queer"],"deep":null,"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"venue_group":null,"geo":null,"geo_zone":null,"verdict":"The oldest nightlife district in London, and still the one that runs latest.","note":"Old Compton Street has been the gay high street since the late 1980s, when the bars stopped painting their windows over, and it is still where the district's centre of gravity sits on a Friday. Round the corner on Frith Street, Ronnie Scott's has been running since 1959 and plays two sets a night, the second one to a room that has usually been drinking through the first. Bar Italia opened in 1949 and shuts for about three hours around dawn.\n\nWhat Soho is not is a club district. The rooms are small, mostly basements, and the night is built on moving between them rather than committing to one. It has also been rebuilt around its drinkers twice in twenty years - the Crossrail works took a block of it, and the rents have taken more - so several of the names that made it are gone and the ones that remain are the ones that own their freeholds.","note_links":null,"reading":null,"figure":null,"figures":null,"from":null,"country":null,"country_name":null,"also":null,"years":null,"plaque":null,"rank":null,"maps_q":"Soho, Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Old Compton Street","s":"old-compton-street","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":7},{"n":"Caf\u00e9 de Nata","s":"cafe-de-nata","c":"desserts","cn":"Desserts & Gelato","m":10},{"n":"John Logie Baird's first television, 22 Frith Street","s":"john-logie-bairds-first-television-22-frith-street","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":25}],"near_same":[{"s":"kings-cross-at-night","m":2414},{"s":"camden-at-night","m":2850},{"s":"vauxhall-at-night","m":2931},{"s":"shoreditch-at-night","m":3722},{"s":"dalston-at-night","m":5506},{"s":"brixton-at-night","m":5718}]},{"slug":"vauxhall-at-night","name":"Vauxhall","area":"Vauxhall","address":"Goding Street, Vauxhall, SE11","station":"Vauxhall","walk":2,"lat":51.48756,"lng":-0.122045,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":null,"hours_checked":null,"hours_extra":null,"photo_search":["Vauxhall London night","Goding Street London"],"runs":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["cabaret","clubs","dawn","queer"],"deep":null,"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"venue_group":null,"geo":null,"geo_zone":null,"verdict":"Railway arches, and the oldest surviving gay venue in London at the middle of them.","note":"The Royal Vauxhall Tavern has stood on Kennington Lane since 1863 and has been a gay venue since at least the 1940s, which makes it the oldest surviving one in London; it was given historic protection in 2015, the first building in the country listed for its importance to gay history. Everything else in the district grew up around it.\n\nThat everything else is mostly railway arches. The viaduct into Waterloo cuts the area into brick vaults, and the vaults took the clubs that wanted late licences and thick walls - which is how a district with almost no residents became the one that ran longest. It is not a place to wander: the arches are separated by roads built for traffic, and a night here means one room rather than several.","note_links":null,"reading":null,"figure":null,"figures":null,"from":null,"country":null,"country_name":null,"also":null,"years":null,"plaque":null,"rank":null,"maps_q":"Vauxhall, Goding Street, Vauxhall, SE11, London","in_area":{"slug":"vauxhall","name":"Vauxhall"},"bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens","s":"vauxhall-pleasure-gardens","c":"outdoors","cn":"Outdoors & Nature","m":86},{"n":"Bridge Command","s":"bridge-command","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":107},{"n":"The Royal Vauxhall Tavern","s":"the-royal-vauxhall-tavern","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":135}],"near_same":[{"s":"brixton-at-night","m":2808},{"s":"soho-at-night","m":2931},{"s":"peckham-at-night","m":4244},{"s":"shoreditch-at-night","m":5006},{"s":"kings-cross-at-night","m":5222},{"s":"camden-at-night","m":5781}]}]}