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ATELIER - gone CC Club, 13 Coventry Street, London W1
Another of my regular haunts, Atelier neatly fitted into that gap between Fruit Machine on Wednesdays and Fiction or Factory on Fridays, and guaranteed that I would neatly fit into a body bag after Crash or Up on Saturdays and DTPM on Sundays.* Resident DJs such as the more-than-a-bit-lush Luigi Rosi, alongside such stars as Femi B, Luke Hope and Mark Bambach span a comfortable blend of European and US house, giving me my first taste of an Ibiza vibe in London. The venue which played host to Atelier at the time was just as important, The End's clean, well-decorated and spacious interior having as much sex-appeal as the punters! Add to the mix some of the friendliest bar staff in town, and cope with Atelier not being quite as glamorous as it would have you believe, and you had one of the best midweek clubs in London. Always busy, with a reasonably priced bar, a free water fountain between the dancefloors, and with music worthy of the terrace of Space, it's a mystery to me why Atelier ever closed its doors. And despite what we had to read in QX every week, nobody ever called it “I'll tell ya!”...
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With most of its DJs switching to its replacement at The End, Discotec, it seemed that any chances of an Atelier revival were pipe-dreams, but in February 2003 Atelier relaunched at CC Club... Unfortunately, I couldn't make it down, and there's not been any word since on a continued revival. The ad on the left was found lurking on the Coco Latté website, but in the absence of any other publicity, it must have been a very, very private party indeed...
