Glastonbury’s Block9 to launch London pop-up venue

Organisers of Glastonbury’s Block9 have announced plans for a music and art pop-up in London, bringing the dance area to a major city for the first time.

Planned to launch in 2018, the installation will hit London first, before expanding overseas into Europe, with the ideology of bringing the best bits of Block9 to all new audiences.

Speaking to DJ Mag who revealed the project yesterday, Block9’s touring co-founder Stephen Gallagher said “We’re planning a brand new, stand-alone structure that can arrive in a city centre location, and is a piece of artwork in its own right from the outside, as well as a whole other world inside….. Creatively it’s early doors, but it takes the size and scale of the NYC Downlow, Genosys and London Underground, and mashes all of those together to make the mother****r of all experiences.”

Though a fixed location has yet to be confirmed, Gallagher teased his ideal intentions, adding “We’d love it to be on the Southbank, or the Royal Docks…. That’s an area that is going through a massive change at the moment, which fits the stuff that we do.”

Block9 has been the regular home for the likes of London Underground, NYC Downlow and Genosys, with its fixture at Glastonbury’s ‘naughty corner’ leading it to be one of the ‘go-to’ places after-dark.

More as we hear it.