Europe’s oldest nightclub La Paloma in Barcelona re-opens
The oldest nightclub in Europe, Barcelona’s La Paloma, has introduced it has completely re-opened after a number of years of closure.
The historic baroque ballroom, which first opened way back to 1903, has been working a phased re-opening in current months after closing its doorways in 2007.
Now, it has confirmed the 1000-capacity venue will boast a full membership programme in Autumn 2024, together with units from the likes of Sizzling Chip, Nightmares On Wax, Improbable Man, Machinedrum and Theo Parrish.
Positioned on the border of the Sant Antoni and Raval districts of the Catalan metropolis, the membership is switching to its ‘tardeo’ or late schedule for the autumn and winter months, that means will probably be open between 19:30 and 02:00 on membership nights.
Different artists introduced for the season embrace Antal, Danilo Plessow B2B Hugo LX, Mainline Collective, Loco Bingo, Egyptian Lover, Luke Una, Mr. Bongo, Ruby Savage, GAZZI, Chico Blanco, Toy Tonics DJs and Bradley Zero.
As a part of its phased re-opening to this point, it has already welcomed the likes of Adrian Sherwood, David Rodigan, Gilles Peterson and Francois Ok.
The excellent news is a welcome respite from the difficult few years which have inflicted the reside leisure business. A report this week revealed, as an example, that the UK misplaced 480 nightclubs between June 2020 and June 2024.
The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) reported the large decline within the variety of venues nonetheless working, emphasising the pressing want for help and intervention.
The NTIA revealed earlier this 12 months that 31 per cent of nightclubs within the UK had been compelled to shut final 12 months. In Might, it was revealed that the primary three months of 2024 alone noticed a devastating lack of 67 nightclubs.
The NTIA has referred to as for fast authorities motion, explaining that the shuttering of nightclubs displays a broader disaster within the UK’s night time time cultural economic system. The affiliation has urged the Chancellor to increase enterprise charges aid within the Autumn finances as a method to ease the monetary burden on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and as a manner to make sure their survival.
In an analogous vein, again in January, the outcomes had been shared for 2023 – revealing a “catastrophe” that hit grassroots music venues throughout the 12 months.
Among the many key findings into their “most difficult 12 months”, it has been reported that final 12 months noticed 125 UK venues abandon reside music and that over half of them had shut solely – together with the legendary Moles in Tub. A number of the extra urgent constraints had been reported as hovering power costs, landlords rising fee quantities, provide prices, enterprise charges, licensing points, noise complaints and the persevering with shockwaves of COVID-19.