In the last of John Burgess’ series exploring the counter culture featured at his celebrated club night, he describes the final stages of Bugged Out’s electronic odyssey
The End, the West End club where we held our night for seven years from 2002, was the perfect home for Bugged Out. It was big enough for us to have dream lineups, but intimate enough that you could make friends there. The place was owned, designed and run by two ardent club evangelists – Mr C of the Shamen and Layo of Layo & Bushwacka! – and the staff used to come in on their nights off, the bills were so unmissable. It was that kind of club.
Sadly, The End closed in 2009 along with a number of other much loved London venues. Turnmills, which had housed such significant clubs as Trade and the Heavenly Social, plus The Cross, Canvas and The Key in Kings Cross all shut their doors, leaving the capital’s clubbers bereft of regular places to go. Warehouse culture rose again as promoters like us were left with little choice but to put on nights in disused car parks and photography studios. For a while, the bespoke nature of the venue made club nights more of an event, and they also gave younger clubbers a taste of the illicit days of rave at the turn of the 90s. But there are only so many times you can enjoy a night out when queueing for the portable toilets takes up a large chunk of it.
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by John Burgess via Electronic music | The Guardian
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