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Time Out
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
London Superclub Drumsheds Will Get a Major Overhaul Including New Queuing System and Security
The Tottenham venue will get a new queuing system and open its VIP area to all clubbers London's 15,000-capacity superclub Drumsheds, and the UK's biggest nightclub, will soon undergo a major transformation, with changes to the venue based on feedback from punters. In December 2024 the club in Tottenham's former IKEA had its licence reviewed after two people died after attending events at the venue. Following this there were crowd management issues on December 13, after the club introduced much more stringent security checks. After the review in January Drumsheds was allowed to stay open under new measures. Now the club has revealed it will undergo a serious redesign, based on feedback from clubbers. Drumsheds revealed the improvements, promising a 'new era' via an Instagram post on May 22. What will be different about Drumsheds? Firstly, entering and exiting the building should be a smoother process, as the venue has doubled the capacity for its queuing system and increased the number of search lanes. Inside there will be more space too as what was once the VIP area has been opened up to the public, offering more 'chill out' zones to all attendees. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DRUMSHEDS (@drumsheds) The sound in the main X Room has been improved, with additional subwoofers and a new 'acoustic draping system'. The venue has introduced more toilets, promising to make them cleaner, and opened new sober bars, offering low and no-alcohol drinks. Drumsheds has also widened the pavements around the venue in collaboration with Enfield Council, and increased its capacity for shuttle buses and vehicles, making getting to and from the club simpler. The venue has also promised more information points, better signposting and more visible set times. Finally, Drumsheds has teased 'better connectivity' (although we're not sure what this means just yet) and a makeover of its secondary Y Room, with a 'new design, new configuration and new experience'. The 40 best nightclubs in London in 2025. How to get cheap tickets to ABBA Voyage in London. Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke – from news and reviews to events and trends. Just follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel. Stay in the loop: sign up for our free Time Out London newsletter for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.
Time Out
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Time Out announced as media partner for NYC Pride 2025
New York's loudest, proudest celebration just got a little more fabulous: Time Out has officially been named a media partner for NYC Pride 2025. Produced annually by the nonprofit Heritage of Pride, NYC Pride is the city's marquee LGBTQIA+ event. This year's theme, ' Rise Up: Pride in Protest,' calls back to the movement's radical roots while urging allies and community members to keep marching, advocating and celebrating in defiant solidarity. The big day? Saturday, June 29. As the official media partner, Time Out will be rolling out citywide coverage all June long—online, in your feed and on the ground—spotlighting the trailblazing voices shaping LGBTQIA+ culture in New York. Expect stories that span theater, food, nightlife, art, activism and more, culminating in a Pride Digital Cover that lifts up some of the most inspiring figures in the city right now. Time Out's coverage will also include guides to what's happening, where to show up and how to support, plus day-of dispatches from the March itself, where the editorial and social teams document the people and moments that make Pride one of NYC's most meaningful celebrations. 'Time Out celebrates the best of the city, and as part of that, LGBTQIA+ voices and stories,' said Will Gleason, content director, Americas at Time Out. 'Now more than ever, we're proud to be shining a spotlight on how the LGBTQIA+ community is driving NYC culture forward.' The partnership follows a similar move across the pond, where Time Out London was recently announced as a media partner for Pride in London 2025. Chris Piedmont, NYC Pride's media director, welcomed the collaboration: 'We're excited to partner with Time Out to help tell these stories and uplift our city's LGBTQIA+ culture, events, and spirit.'
Time Out
07-05-2025
- Business
- Time Out
How much the cost of a night out in London has changed over 30 years
To millennials and Gen Zs, London in the '90s sounds like the promised land, full of cheap drinks, pubs that stayed open late and 50p tube rides. We know that things in 2025 are a lot more expensive than they were 30 years ago. But by exactly how much? Time Out wanted to find out precisely how much the price of a night out in London has risen since the 1990s, so with the help of old Time Out issues, we dug into the archive and compared the costs of going out in the Big Smoke from 1995 and 2025. To break it down, we compared the prices of drinks, public transport, taxis, club entries, cigarettes and drugs (because let's be honest, these are a big part of a night out for many of you). We also looked into how the quantity of pubs, clubs and bars has changed in the capital over the past 30 years. Here's what we worked out. If you had two pints at a pub, got the tube, paid entry to the club, had two more pints, got a Maccies and then took a 20 minute taxi home, in 1995 that would set you back £22.03, which is equivalent to £44.41 in today's money. In 2025 this would cost you £66.48, so we are paying at leat £20 more than what Londoners were paying in the '90s. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Time Out London (@timeoutlondon) Not surprisingly, most of the nightclubs that were open in 1995 are no longer operating today, but there are a few still standing. The entry cost to Koko (FKA Camden Palace) was £6 in the '90s, equivalent to £12.50 today. Today its median ticket price is £29.50, an increase of 136 percent. Back in the day a pint would set you back £1.60, worth £4 now. Today the average London pint cost has risen by 63 percent, costing £6.50. The average price of a 20-pack of cigarettes has risen from £2.59 (£6 today) to £16.48, an increase of 175 percent. The prices of drugs were one of the things that actually hasn't changed that much, and in some instances have even become cheaper. According to the 1994 Time Out Guide To Drugs, in the '90s one ecstasy pill cost £15, roughly the same as it does today. Weed was £25-35 per quarter ounce, while today it costs roughly £40 for four grams. Cocaine was £50-70 per gram, while today it is around £60-100. As for the number of drinking spots. There were 61,000 pubs in the UK in 1995, while there were 38,989 British pubs open recorded at the end of 2024 – a loss of 22,011 pubs and a decrease of 36 percent. At the end of 2024 London had 3,470 open pubs. We can estimate that in 1995 London would have had around 5,421 boozers. . And here's .
