Photograph: Jody Hartley
I went to the UK’s first proper club night in a year – and it popped off
This weekend, a ‘test event’ party gave 3,000 people in Liverpool a taste of freedom. Here’s what it felt like
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The whole room is bathed in an ecstatic glow. Immediate goosebumps, smiles on every face. After a year of enforced isolation, finally we are
out out again – and it feels really, really good.
This is the UK’s first legal, non-distanced club night since March 2020. The venue is Circus: a massive warehouse on Liverpool’s Bramley-Moore Dock. The line-up includes nightlife titans like The Blessed Madonna and Sven Väth. For 3,000 clubbers, for eight hours only, distancing and masks and hand sanitiser have been thrown out. In their place: hugs, snogs and very little general hygiene.