Shunt Club, London Bridge. Absolutely amazing.

[teecee]

Shunt update

Well Shunt has had a reprieve until July now - it was supposed to be closing down this week.

I agree it can be very hit and miss at times but when they get it right it can be fucking amazing but I try and go at least once a week (to get value for money from membership) -although sometimes it's just for a quick beer on the way home just to see what they've done with the entrance.

Saw a great jazz band last night and I'm not really into jazz but was shuffling and swaying with the best of them.

They've even turned it into a skate park in the past

Had a 1930's war room


and plenty of crap too it must be said

 

[Nixon]

I've been to two nights there in the last 2 months..I went the first time and said to myself I have to I have to come back on acid..and went back 2 weeks later to visions of excess and it was awesome.Love the space and atmosphere there..It is generally full of yuppies and people quite willing to pay 25 quid for a night.I noticed quite a lot of old old people too.Not like im ageist,but I find it hard to let go around the elderly middle/upper classes..

 

[quimcunx]

Well Shunt has had a reprieve until July now - it was supposed to be closing down this week.

Might go for my birthday.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I've been to two nights there in the last 2 months..I went the first time and said to myself I have to I have to come back on acid..and went back 2 weeks later to visions of excess and it was awesome.Love the space and atmosphere there..It is generally full of yuppies and people quite willing to pay 25 quid for a night.I noticed quite a lot of old old people too.Not like im ageist,but I find it hard to let go around the elderly middle/upper classes..

I wonder if I am one of the "elderly" people to whom you refer!

I have been to the Shunt Lounge dozens of times in the last few years, and never have I noticed that it was "full of yuppies", nor "elderly" people. Certainly, it sometimes fills up with pretensious, art college types, because they are the ones doing the pretencious, art college type installations, so that's not surprising Perhaps they are the "yuppies" to which you refer?

I am in my 50s, and my friend who has been a member since the early days, is also in his 50s, so I guess we are "elderly" compared to the above category of people?

One of the wonderful things about the Shunt Lounge is that it is different every week, so you never know what you will encounter, or who will be there to be part of it. Some of the installations are pretty naff, some of the performances are pretty naff, but many of them are spectacular, and innovative, and exciting.

If you have only been there twice in the last few months, I am not sure you are in a position to determine what it is "generally" like?

 

[D]

The whole station layout is going to change - walls knocked through, vaults opened up. Some of Shunt will become new circualtion space, some will be new shops/stalls. There will be no arts space. The SE1 club will also be demolished. But again, not till after 2012.

Oh no! This is one of the best places in London for a night of arts and crafts and performance and general social mayhem!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I think that's where I saw Back To The Planet years ago...

 

[paolo]

Favourite venue in London. I've see two shunt productions there and been for a few other random nights.

Very much a moment in time. Some very random and unlikely factors enabled it to be. We'll probably not see the likes again for a very long time.