Rock music fans rejoice: Liverpool is getting a new metal club

Liverpool is getting ready to welcome K1 Metal Club

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00:00Wood Street in Liverpool has played host to some of the city's most innovative

00:03rock and metal music venues and this summer it's getting ready to welcome K1

00:08Metal Club. We've done these crazy house reunion events every couple of months

00:12over the last few years and it's always been a really really good turnout and

00:15people have been saying that they want like a regular like Saturday night so

00:19we thought it's about time that we actually try and do it. The new

00:24space involving the team which dates back to the crazy house early days will

00:28be all about embracing metal and rock music. The original crazy house left

00:32behind a musical legacy which lives long in the memory of music fans having

00:37played host to some of the nation's leading bands before they became famous.

00:40So many of these like one-off rock nights in Liverpool like once a month

00:45twice a month but there's nothing regular where you know if you go every

00:48Saturday night there's going to be a metal night on and so that's what we're

00:51gonna finally try. This new incarnation at K1 Metal Club has involved a

00:56conversion of the former Camel Club also on Wood Street. It's definitely tough

01:00you just need to look around the country and places closing down and stuff like

01:03that people having a hard time but we've got quite realistic expectations where

01:07we're not creating something which is the size of what the crazy house was

01:11we're not expecting to get in 1,500 2,000 metal and rock fans in every week

01:16that just like isn't it isn't gonna be the case we've obviously had to find a

01:18venue which is a lot smaller but we think the atmosphere is gonna be a lot

01:22better with that kind of smaller venue we're not gonna be pressurizing to try

01:25and find 800 people to fill a floor and stuff like that and it means well we can

01:28probably fit maybe a few more kind of niche nights as well. Recent figures

01:32reveal a loss of 67 nightclubs in just the first three months of 2024

01:36equating to approximately five closures a week. Of these closures nearly four on

01:41average are independent businesses totaling 48 independent closures and 19

01:46managed or tenanted establishments. The Nighttime Industry Association has

01:50attributed much of this decline to a combination of factors including

01:53insufficient support during the pandemic, mounting debt burdens and

01:57soaring operating costs.