Social clubbing and cultural is there anything new out there.
Britain’s night club industry contributes to at least 8% of Britain’s UK employment and annual revenues of £66bn.
A report from the Guardian in 2016 showed a huge decline from 3144-night clubs in 2005 to 1,733 in 2015. Another data report from the BBC in 2016 showed 50% of night clubs had shut down between 2007 to 2017 in London.
Michael Kill, CEO of Night time Industries association who has worked in the night club industries for over 25 years thinks the cultural is changing with consumers being more intelligent to how they spend when they go out to get pissed on a Friday night.
Michael said, “The last fifteen years has faced a cultural change in how people spend their Friday night, the West end will always have a premium rate like New York or Amsterdam and patterns of drinking has changed because back in the days it was the basic vodka and coke but today its grey goose or Ciroc with coke, which can be pricey and club goers have now responded to the cultural of street parties and festival so the decline in west end clubs has been due to diversity of social and cultural change across the country.”
The decline of clubs in the last decade can be attributed in part to dating online, smoking ban and other reasons according to young people aged between 18 to 35.
Mercy Kaindu 25 a student who has an addiction to night life said, “The West end has lost its Clubissh atmosphere especially for young people as most clubs are attracting people who are within the age range of my parents and that just puts me off clubbing in the West end. me and my girls prefer private arranged club events in East or South London as they are affordable with so much fun than overpriced central London.”
According to a recent document that was provided by International Music Summit in 2018 there was staggering 21% drop in clubbing venues in the United Kingdom and this was a stark contrast to the previous years which saw 1% percent increase in venues shutting the door.
A Club Mapping what has happened to London Night Life in Central London
Most young people working in Central London earning a good salary prefer a relaxing night out in the central part of the capital on a Friday night out after a busy week in the office.
Dennis Njobvu who is a co-partner in a construction company on Regents street in the Westend said, “I stopped going to London clubs a number of years ago because of the massive amount of discrimination I faced, you need to be in a mix group of other ethnics to enter a club as most clubs want to portray a certain image due to past experiences with huge large Black crowds with trouble.
“He further added that I feel it’s even cheaper going online to meet a girlfriend than spending in a club because it’s much cheaper as most of us young people go to clubs hoping to meet a partner.”
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