No one looks back and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep. But beyond a mere boogie, nightclubs play a vital role in shaping our collective and individual identity. Alex Andreou assembles an all-star spinning a-roundtable to chew on how COVID closures have impacted nighttime industries, why the pandemic has deprived us from more than a good party, and how culture goes beyond theatres and museums…

Mairi Mackenzie is a cultural historian and consultant curator for the V&A Dundee exhibition Night Fever: Designing Club Culture. Bay Sisouphanh is Head of Event Sales at London’s Village Underground. Mark Wood is one half of the London Readers Wifes who DJ at Vauxhall institution Duckie. 

• “You find your tribe at nightclubs.” – Mark Wood 
• “People will always find an outlet for that need for pleasure.” – Mairi Mackenzie
• “Forget about children going back to school. When can we send the gays back to nightclubs?” – Mark Wood 
• “There's a lack of perception around the value of nightclubs to the gaiety and the mental health of the nation.” – Mark Wood 

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/exhibitions/night-fever-designing-club-culture 

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