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‘Nuke Them All’ Booted Out Of Hackney Strip Club - Skrufff.com

Reported by Tristan Ingram on April 24, 2008

London’s enormously hip (and best club of the moment) Nuke Them All was shut down by Hackney Council last weekend and unceremoniously ordered to quit their Hackney Road strip club Images.

Nuke Them All club chief Buster (of Anti-Social/ Yr Mum/ Yr Dad fame) ridiculed the council for banning his wildly successful party, blaming encroaching gentrification from Hoxton for causing the club closure.

“It's the same old story, and exactly why we left the gentrified Shoreditch triangle in the first place,” Buster told Skrufff. “What happens is some wanky trust fund son of an estate agent decides to buy up a flat next to an already established strip club then complains about the noise; specifically; the noise, the giant walking pyramids, the cake fights, the glow in the dark horses, the nudity and our clientele generally. But still, why move there in the first place?”

Buster pointed out that Images the venue will remain open as usual, declaring ‘apparently Crackney Council prefer strip clubs to Nuke.’

“The venue can continue with the daily fanny buffet but our brand of meat has been taken off the menu,” he quipped.

Following Hackney’s move, Buster and Nuke partner Fonteyn (of Computer Blue fame) immediately hooked up with City strip club The Edge and will be continuing their bi-weekly anything goes funfests on Sat May 3 as planned.

“I can confirm that we have hooked up with the Images nightclub staff again and taken over a new venue called the Edge Club in Commercial Street for Saturday nights only,” said Buster.

“We will have the same mix of strippers and dress-ups and even the same bouncers and drinks prices. Our new venue is also bigger, louder and darker, which are the key ingredients to a good nuking and there is a cave as well. So don't worry, the infamous glow in the dark room lives on,” he promised.

“We have been very lucky this time. Venues with good licensing are like gold dust in East London. More and more are closing forcing the real culture and art out of the East into more dangerous places,’ he added.

“Hoxton baked its cake and now the City boys are moving in to eat it, it’s the end off an era but the start of a new one, the refugees are moving out and colonising new undervalued spaces,” said Buster.

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(MAY 3rd: THE EDGE CLUB LAUNCH: The Thom (DUNST/CPH) - Live Perfromance, Louis La Roché (Peach EP launch), D.A.N.N.Y.B.O.Y (Smash & Grab / Punk), Fonteyn (Future Ecstasy Set)
Buster Bennett, Jamie Winter + loads more: @ The Edge Club, 157 Commercial Street, London, E1 6BJ. Near Spitalfields Market, opposite The Commercial Tavern)

Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)