The Printworks, which is a few minutes’ walk from Canada Water station, is essentially a massive industrial complex that used to be where newspapers including the Daily Mail were printed. But don’t let that put you off. After the presses stopped rolling in 2013, the complex laid pretty much dormant for a few years before being transformed into world-leading club. The space was deliberately left as raw as possible, with massive bits of machinery and a roll of print paper from the factory’s last run still sits in one of the presses.
There are six event spaces in total, which play host to all manner of cross-cultural activity from art shows, classical concerts, dining events and gigs. The main focus for clubbers is on one particular long, narrow room – the chamber for the presses –which acts as the main room for DJ events. 2023 is set to be Printworks’ final year before closure, so get down for a boogie while you can!