Lost Venues

AIR is a 2,000 capacity superclub located in Digbeth, Birmingham in England. AIR started as a spray shop for buses, when in 2000 the building was bought by Godskitchen and converted into a club, originally named CODE. In June 2003,[1] CODE closed for a complete refit and reopened in late September 2003[2] under the new name of AIR. Improvements included an extra room of music being added to the two already in use (resulting in a lowered ceiling of the main room).[1] Along with the club's name change, the 3 spaces inside were named the Oxygen Arena, the Nitrogen Room and the Carbon Lounge.[3] The club features state-of-the-art lighting and sound systems. In 2002, Fergie (a resident DJ at the club for Godskitchen and Polysexual events in the early 2000s[4]) said "It is one of the best [sound] systems I've ever played on, throughout the whole world".[5]

In addition to Friday night's Godskitchen, AIR has hosted parties by Helter Skelter, Babooshka, Polysexual, Raveology, Hardcore Til I Die & Atomic Jam.

AIR is situated in an area of Digbeth synonymous with club culture, the "Custard Factory Quarter", named after the nearby Custard Factory, a centre for music and arts. Adjacent to the Custard Factory is the O2 Institute (formerly the Digbeth Institute), the original home of Godskitchen.

The 20-year lease contract originally taken out by Angel Music Group remains in place but, since 6 May 2012, the club has remained closed due to the slow demise of the Godskitchen brand caused mainly by a lack of direction and leadership and the high costs imposed by the Custard Factory landlords making it far cheaper to keep the doors closed than to open them.

The venue's owners Angel Music Group (also owners of Godskitchen and Global Gathering) ran 2 outdoor events utilising the car park area adjacent to its venue AIR in Birmingham in 2010 (Godskitchen Afresco) and again in 2012 (Godskitchen SixFiveTwelve). After the outdoor car park was successfully licensed by the then licensee and operations manager Nash Gooderham (when previous applicants had failed), both outdoor events were a success with capacities of 4000+ people and were arguably the first of their kind to take place in the city which set the precedence for similar events at other nearby venues. The 2012 event was the last time the venue was utilised before being closed and mothballed for almost a decade prior to the end of its lease with the Custard Factory.

Godskitchen has since moved to several venues including the O2 Institute, The Rainbow Warehouse textile factory and Boxxed in search of a new home for its brand and loyal fanbase.

In early 2022, the UK dance music brand Ravers Reunited announced that they were to hold an event at the venue in conjunction with Clubland X-Treme, an offshoot of the original Clubland brand. This event was held on Sunday 1 May.

It has subsequently been announced that Ravers Reunited will hold their New Year's Eve event at the venue in 2022, entitled Ravers Reunited Presents AIR NYE.

Following the success of the above event ravers reunited are holding their 2023 Nye event there also

SeOne was a legendary 3,000-capacity superclub located in the railway arches beneath London Bridge station (41–43 St Thomas Street), operating as a cornerstone of the capital's electronic music and rave scene from 2002 to 2010.

Before becoming a licensed venue, the space underneath the London Bridge arches operated informally as a daytime car park and a hotspot for illegal underground parties run by squatters.

In the late 1990s, the space was formalised into a rudimentary legal venue known as The Drome, quickly establishing a reputation for gritty, stripped-back rave culture.

Following redevelopment, the venue relaunched in 2002 as SeOne, billing itself at the time as London's biggest nightclub. It featured industrial aesthetics, massive multi-room capacity, and mandatory Clubscan ID security systems.

Spiritual Home of Raindance: The venue became famously intertwined with seminal promoters like Raindance, hosting massive multi-room events catering to breakbeat hardcore, jungle, happy hardcore, drum and bass, and classic house.

It stood out during the 2000s as one of the few large-scale commercial spaces in central London dedicated to authentic underground drum and bass and hard dance events on its landmark Saturday nights.

Hit hard by the late-2000s economic recession and increasing challenges filling its enormous capacity outside of peak Saturdays, SeOne officially closed its doors on 22 February 2010.

The space briefly reopened as a live music and club venture called Debut London later in 2010 before shutting down permanently. 

The historic arches were subsequently cleared and demolished as part of the broader London Bridge station redevelopment project.

The Warehouse on Union Street was a cornerstone of the South West clubbing and rave scene before closing its doors in 2004.

Club 103 (or C103) at 103 Union Street was part of the same massive building complex that housed the legendary Plymouth Warehouse.

The Warehouse operated inside the larger Millennium Complex on Union Street, and the overall venue layout stretched across multiple rooms and bars, including sections historically known as the Warehouse, JFK's, and C103. Both shared the famous Union Street nightlife strip in Plymouth, with C103 taking its name directly from its street number (103 Union Street).

The Complex:
The broader building hosted multiple club identities and rooms over the decades—such as Club Oz, the Warehouse (famous for 90s rave and dance events with promoters like Obsession and Dance Planet), and later rebranded spaces like Millennium and C103 Decline: Stood empty and neglected for years before facing minor fire damage.

New Ownership:
Acquired by Nudge Community Builders to return it to community use. Bought by Nudge Community Builders in 2022, the property is being transformed into a mixed-use community space, hosting local urban agriculture projects like a mushroom farm and workshops, charity offices, and public heritage events.

Current Redevelopment Plans Urban Farming:
Houses the City Farm House mushroom growing and educational workshop project. Community Space: Designated for local charity headquarters, co-working areas, and social enterprise spaces.

The Four Aces Club was a pioneering music and recreational space on Dalston Lane in Dalston, London. Based in a building that had formerly been the North London Colosseum and Amphitheatre and then a cinema, in the 1960s and 1970s the club became one of the first venues to play black music in the United Kingdom. 

It was credited with playing a significant "role in the evolution of reggae into dance music, from ska, to rocksteady, to dub, to lovers, to dancehall and the evolution of jungle.

In the early 1990s, it became home to the early indoor "rave scene" featuring acid house and hardcore under the name Club Labrynth, where The Prodigy made their first live public appearance. 

The club was closed down in 1997, when Hackney Council exercised the right to a compulsory re-possession of the premises.

Despite an active campaign to save the building it was demolished in 2007.

It made way for four residential tower blocks, in the new Dalston Square development, with the new Dalston Junction overground railway station aligning with urban regeneration plans for East London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics.