East London’s iconic underground club Plastic People has closed.
The compact but supremely punchy space had its closing ‘Last Dance’ party on 2 January, with Floating Points and Four Tet offering up an epic six-hour set finale. The following evening saw a private shindig for ‘friends and family, including acts Abdul Forsyth, Benny Blanco, Paul Camo and Sean McAuliffe. Manager Charlotte Kepel commented: “We will not open again in 2015. Plastic People had great runs both on Oxford Street and Curtain Road. A fabulous time was had and it felt right to move on.”
Plastic People opened in the mid-1990s on major London thoroughfare Oxford Street. It then moved to Curtain Road in Shoreditch, East London in 2000. The club was synonymous with pivotal dubstep night FWD>>, broken beat jam Co-Op, frontier promoters Huntleys + Palmers, and a whole host of other deep, boundary-pushing house, techno and hip-hop events. Key DJ guests included Nick Hoppner, Gerd Janson, Prins Thomas, Michael Mayer, DJ Koze and Ivan Smagghe. Inevitably, the institution’s reputation grew and grew.
In recent times, the club had handed impactful residencies to Theo Parrish, as well as to Floating Points’ You’re A Melody event. There is no current word on what the now vacant Curtain Road site will become.
