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'Be the maddest one in the room': how to make a nightclub last for 30 years | Musique Non Stop

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

'Be the maddest one in the room': how to make a nightclub last for 30 years

Glasgow’s Sub Club is celebrating its 30th birthday, having weathered bad 90s techno, empty dancefloors and fake IRA gunmen. Its leading lights explain how they’ve carried on for so long

Thanks to a generation who prefer festivals, a class of gentrifiers who’d rather not have repetitive beats near their valuable real estate, and the need to please everyone from the police to local councils, it’s arguably harder than ever to run a nightclub. And yet Sub Club in Glasgow is now celebrating 30 years in the game.

DJs Harri and Domenic are permanent fixtures and hold the longest-running club residency in the world, having given up pretty much every Saturday night for 23 years. We asked them, along with the club’s manager Mike Grieves, about how they’ve lasted so long – and how anyone might hope to replicate their success.

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

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