Angela FergusonNorth West
Sankeys nightclub has announced it will return to Manchester nine years after it closed its doors.
Daft Punk, Bjork and The Chemical Brothers all played at the club, which said it would be reopening in January with a new 500-capacity space in the city centre after the original Ancoats venue shut in 2017.
Announcing that “a new era for Sankeys begins” in an Instagram post, organisers said phones would be banned from the venue.
The basement-style club will open on the weekend of 30 and 31 January, with tickets on sale from 09:00 GMT on Friday.
Sankeys, which opened in 1994, was previously based in Beehive Mill.
When it closed its doors in 2017, the club posted a statement on its Facebook page to say the building had been sold to a property developer and it was “with great regret and with a very heavy heart, we must close Sankeys Manchester with immediate effect”.
The club teased the reopening in an Instagram post in the summer as Oasis returned to play a homecoming gig in the city for the first time in 16 years, saying: “This week Manchester, and the UK, has been blessed with a homecoming of our very own, Oasis.
Justin Bieber refused entry
“We think Manchester deserves another homecoming…
“Definitely, maybe?”
Responding to the news, one social media user said: “Sankey’s was literally the reason I wanted to become a DJ, spent so many nights there dreaming of what could be.”
Another commented: “Seeing venues opening rather than closing is exactly what this city needs right now too.”
Justin Bieber was refused entry into the club in 2013 when he was on tour in the city.
At the time, the club tweeted: “Yes the rumours are true, we turned Justin Bieber away.
“He shuffles on stage and we can’t be having that in Sankeys now can we!”
