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The enduringly popular G-A-Y remains one of London's defining gay institutions, especially among the under-25s. Started in 1976, the dance-and-cruise club spent most of its iconic years in Charing Cross Rd, in various sections of the London Astoria (a former cinema). Until the late 1980s the club night went by the name of Bang!, but was changed to G-A-Y in the early 1990s when taken over by Bang! DJ Jeremy Joseph. In 2008, anticipating the Astoria's much-protested demolition, Joseph...
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Address
Villiers St
London,
England
WC2N 6NG
Near: Villiers St
Hours
Mon 10pm—4am
Thu and Fri 10pm—4am
Sat 9.30pm—5am
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Address
Villiers St
London,
England
WC2N 6NG
Near: Villiers St
Hours
Mon 10pm—4am
Thu and Fri 10pm—4am
Sat 9.30pm—5am
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Reviews
Add a reviewOver crowded and slow bar service
Lame. Lame. Lame. Nice dance floor but the drinks are not going to get u tipsy especially the hard liquor. Save your pounds. Cheers to somewhere else.
Amazing!
Love this place! I have never been to a club as fun as this! The people, the staff...everything was amazing! It was huge I can not wait to visit London again just to visit this place! Bravo!
I haven't written a review for this yet?
I thought I did. Oh it is only the best club in the WORLD that I have been to.. no big deal haha.. (sarcasm).. If you find a better club than this place that is gay on this Planet then please let me know. You will win a quick way to my heart.
Simply an institution
To say a particular club night is an institution easy claim to make and there are probably few nights that are geninuely worthy of it. However, this is not the case for G-A-Y. There is no other venue that can attract a consistently high calibre of guest performers (Madonna, Adele, Kylie Minogue..). No artist is too big to appear at G-A-Y. The crowd is fun, young and free of attitude. The venue is impressively well run. The DJs serve up a slick menu of current pop as well as classics that define G-A-Y (including the mandatory play of "Better The Devil You Know" at 00.30). If you like pop music you simply cannot go wrong at G-A-Y.