Mastery (AWAITING NEW VENUE)

London's greatest fetish bar, The Backstreet, opened in 1985. By the early 2010s, the bar was somewhat in need of a boot up the arse. And sure enough, on Friday 31 January 2014, Bruce 'Brew' Hunter staged his inaugural "leather, smoke & submission" night, Mastery ("for men & their boys"), an instant success, on occasion pulling in up to 130 or 140 men. Hunter then kept it perky with Mastery offshoots, including his cigar-heavy Smokehouse nights. But then on 17 July 2022, after 37 years, Backstreet closed, leaving Hunter on the prowl for a new location. Watch this space.