Nightlife

Where London goes out after dark, district by district: the jazz cellars of Soho, the basements of Dalston, Camden's stages, Brixton's sound systems and the railway arches of Vauxhall.

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Hackney

A Victorian music hall, a working men's club with a glitter ceiling, and warehouses by the canal.

ClubsLive musicCabaret & drag

Hackney's nightlife is spread rather than strung along one street, which is the first thing to know about it. 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.

MOTH 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. East of there, past the canal, Hackney Wick is warehouses - Colour Factory and the rooms around it - and is where the district's later end has moved as Shoreditch has got more expensive.

Where
Mare Street, Hackney, E8
Nearest station
London Fields · 2 min walk

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