https://www.vexen.co.uk/slimelight.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2001
| Opening: | Saturday nights. Open from 10pm until 8am (or longer) |
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| Dance floors: | Two or three |
| Bars: | 2 or 3, serving alcohol until 3am. Coffee, tea, chocolate, water... etc, all through the night. It's cheap |
| Membership: | I'm a member. If you're not then you need to get signed in. Stand outside the club, flutter your eyelids at someone and ask them to sign you in. Some months, the membership policy is waivered. |
| Dress code: | You can wear anything. Be a goth, a punk, metaller, rivethead, male, female; whatever; or just come in jeans and a t-shirt (as long as you wont get self conscious of being normal) |
| Venue: | Elektrowoerkz, which is a paintball arena during the day. Multiple seating areas, pool table |
| Official site: | www.slimelightlondon.com |
Right Picture: Ia'Kat and Vexen (in white) |
| 1. The Industrial Floor | 2. The Dance Floor (normally the top floor) | |
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| 80s/electro/goth/industrial/ebm floor. It is very foggy! Much seating area, in a very gloomy area of the club. Great sofas there, too. | Techno/dark rave/industrial/noise. This floor is very loud, very heavy and very continuous. Frequently there are live bands on around 12 to 2 in the morning. | |
| 3. Basement Floor | Heavy | |
| Once or twice a month Slimelight has 3 floors. The last time I was there it played a very hardcore noise gabba kind of set. Music that is impossible to describe! Sometimes it is a traditional goth music floor. | Slimelight is a heavy club. Some people just can't do it.... it's not for everyone. It is very loud, and unless you know people it can be hard to get to know people. |
Personal Journal
From the 1990s I went to Slimelight once or twice a month for many years; soaking up the atmosphere and performing a routine of dancing chaotically, resting & having a drink.. and then more trance-like dancing for many fazed-out hours as it gets into the morning. I don't do drugs, speed, e, poppers, but survive mostly on alcopops and water. Good exercise, good meditation, and of course, an enthralling community.
Then once the trains are running, I'll go back to Camden to get breakfast & coffee in a cafe near the locks. I diarized some Slimelight visits in the late 1990s on LiveJournal:
2002 Dec 31 (New Years).