Crash
Muscle, house and the arch-club boom
Crash, in the railway arches on Goding Street, was one of the venues that defined Vauxhall’s late-1990s clubbing boom – a big, hard-house Saturday night and its notorious “Crash Afterhours” that carried the party into Sunday. Cavernous, sweaty and away from the reach of Westminster’s planners, the arches let a new kind of superclub thrive where the old West End scene could not.
Alongside Fire and the others, Crash made Vauxhall the centre of London gay clubland in the 2000s. It closed in 2013 as the arches came under redevelopment pressure – part of the slow squeeze that has reshaped the whole area.