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GBR, London - Electrowerkz


Location info

Type: Club
Location: United Kingdom, London
7 Torrens Street
EC1V 1NQ

Contacts: Tel: 020 7837 6419
email: info@electrowerkz.com

Website: www.electrowerkz.com
 
Electorwerkz is the a venue for bands from the alternative culture, featuring anything from Black Metal to Goth Rock. It is most notably the host to the Slimelight club.

SEE ALSO: http://www.slimelight.net/Sportal/

The Slimelight is London's longest running alternative club dealing in industrial, power-noise, cyber-synth, ebm, cyber-goth, darkwave, trad + modern goth, plus crossover and related alternative sounds. The club has never been featured in listings magazines, but has a membership base of around 10,000. It is also probably the most well known club of its type in the world with a wide and varied mixture of nationalities in attendance on any given week.

Membership Scheme

The Slimelight has a Membership Scheme which entitles you to reduced price entry and the ability to sign in up to two guests. Sometimes non-members have to be signed in by a member, but as long as you look the part ( ebm / goth / darkwave / black scene etc ) it is not a problem to get in even if you don't know any members. Please note that you cannot become a member in advance of your first visit.
For more details about membership see Membership section.

Slimelight is open every Saturday from 10pm to 7.30am.

The Slimelight club (often referred to as Slimes by regulars) is the longest running goth nightclub in the world. It is an alternative music club which is open every Saturday (and on New Years Eve) from 10pm to 7.30am (when the London Underground transport network starts running) with 2 or 3 floors playing music genres such as darkwave, EBM, trad goth, gothic rock, futurepop, power noise, synthpop, industrial, and noise.

It is currently (2008) located at Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, Islington, London, UK (behind Angel tube station) where it has been since 1987, though it had a number of other locations previously. The building in which the club is currently situated in was previously an abandoned industrial complex, and the club started out in the early 1980s as a regular squat party in Ladbroke Grove. At that time it had the name the Kitkat Club.

The club's facilities were rather basic when it was first started in the late 1980s. The name comes from the fact that for a brief period in the summer of 1987 the club was held in a disused church on High Holborn, and "The Slimelight" is a parody of The Limelight, another famous club of that era also located in a church. Over the years the club has been renovated and upgraded to feature all the mod cons of a proper nightclub, however it retains much of its decaying, abandoned feeling, due partly to the architecture and partly the state of disrepair of some facilities.

The club itself was started by amongst others Simon Hobart, Big Mac, Dave "The Rave" Adrian CB, Jason McBain, Daz, Jez Moore, Michelle P, Paul Bridges and others. These founders left around 1989 to form the short lived but heavily subscribed "Wraith".

The club claims a membership of around 10,000 people worldwide, and has a loyal following of regulars who attend every week. Originally the club had a policy of "bring your own booze", but nowadays, due to licensing laws, the club has installed licensed bars, serving alcoholic beverages until 5am and soft drinks until 7:15am, with bars on every floor.

In the last few years the club has also put on many live shows including gigs from VNV Nation, Combichrist, Lahannya, The Crüxshadows, Xotox, Rotersand, Suicide Commando, Revolution By Night, Autoclav 1.1, Nitzer Ebb, And One, Melotron, Pneumatic Detach and Agonoize. It has also hosted a number of black metal acts in recent years, such as Rotting Christ and Archgoat.

The club has a strict no photography rule.


Past gigs

18.10.2008 The Lost Key Returns To Europe Tour
22.11.2008 Lacrimas Profundere: Songs for the Last View Tour 2008
22.03.2009 Sathanas + Nunslaughter: European Excommunication Tour
17.04.2010 Desecration (1)
18.09.2010 Prostitute Disfigurement
05.02.2011 London Massacre (2)
30.11.2012 Anaal Nathrakh: UK/Ireland Tour 2012
11.07.2013 Blood Red Throne: UK Tour 2013
22.09.2013 Psycroptic: The Inherited Sedition European Tour 2013
05.11.2013 Rotting Christ & Twilight Of The Gods: European Tour 2013 (1)
03.12.2013 Shining: Razors Over Europe 2013
02.05.2015 Skyforger: European Spring Tour 2015
20.10.2017 Countless Skies: Live In London (1)
09.04.2019 Author & Punisher: European Tour 2019
13.09.2019 Uneven Structure: UK & Dutch Tour 2019
14.04.2022 Primitive Man: European Spring Tour 2022
14.04.2022 Uniform: European Tour 2022
19.04.2022 Big Brave: European Tour 2022
17.06.2022 Vile Creature & Bismuth: UK Tour 2022
30.07.2022 Sadistic Intent: European Summer Tour 2022
10.08.2022 Svns Ov The Void European Tour 2022
17.11.2022 Demilich: European Headlining Tour 2022 (2)


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