Everyone's favourite time of year is approaching and Club Antichrist, as usual, are planning a huge blow out Halloween party to celebrate. This year's festivities are headlined by Subsource recently on tour with Pendulum. Alternative music and fetish event Club Antichrist has announced it's line-up for their August date with hardcore industrialists Ultraviolence topping the bill. After their slot at Sheffield's Resistanz Festival the Completing the bloody bril….
Writer Will Coldwell takes a trip to the dungeons. Behind a PVC strip curtain covering the entrance of an unmarked warehouse in east London, Klub Verboten is starting to warm up. Techno echoes around the gaping industrial space, while the crowd — donned in leather harnesses, latex and rubber, dance and mingle in the dim light while abstract projections colour the walls. A narrow corridor leads into a second space, where dungeon furniture is placed around the bare room like exhibits in a modern art exhibition. Since its launch — and despite being a selective, members-only community — it has rapidly built a following for itself. Karl founded Klub Verboten to bridge the gap between techno nights and fetish parties, creating an event that evokes the kind of permissiveness that is commonplace in German nightlife, yet remains lacking in London.
Fourteen years ago, a club was founded in London. A club that combines elements of Goth and Industrial nightlife with kinky fetish clubbing. A club called AntiChrist. Despite the odd problems arising every now and again, like its original location being shut down, Antichrist has pushed on and remained a loyal place for alternatives and fetishists alike.
Looks like this article is a bit old. Be aware that information may have changed since it was published. London isn't topping any lists for Europe's sexiest city — I blame our flabby sun-starved skin, courtesy of the climate, too much Greggs, and an aversion to exercise cemented during cross country running at school. But that doesn't mean we don't like a bit of debauchery, whether it's a "Knicker Free Friday" or rolling round in oil on a plastic sheet. So here's a possibly exhausting, but by no means exhaustive look at where to rev your libido in London.