The Milk Club shuts up shop for now
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Written by BrusselsLife Team -
13 Dec 2005, 00:00
(Updated: 13 Dec 2012, 07:59)
After a little more than a year of music in the rue de Livourne in Ixelles, and after various run-ins with the locals and the local authorities, the Milk Club has decided to shut down to pick a new venue.
The Milk Club has its roots in the incredible story of Pablo Discobar, which took eight years to become one of the top venues for Belgian Disco-House music. All the top DJs in the world have mixed records there, often by accident or for fun. But the ‘Pablo’ could only hold 100 people. So in 2004, the Pablo became the Sixty and Pablo’s team created the Milk Club in the premises of an old nightclub from the 1980s (which had become a strip club in the meantime).
A superb little club of 300 or 400 people was born, with a completely white décor, very welcoming music, a sort of neo-nightclub drawing its inspiration from Chicago or Berlin’s electrohouse. You could dance to the performances of Robert Owens, a legendary house singer since 1986 or Bobby and Steve, the mad duo from the Ministry of Sound in London. And it’s Milk of course where you could hear concerts by Bamboola Prod and mixes by Lorenzo Ottati, Denis, Ugo, Geoffroy etc.
But then came the problems with people complaining of sleepless nights because of the noise. The trouble, which came in the form of complaints by locals, check-ups by officials and pressure from the local authorities in Brussels, made its mark. First it led to administrative closures and then slowly wore the organisers out. First it was the opening evenings – fewer of them. Then the noise – lower. Then the noise again – lower still. Then nothing because Milk decided to leave before everything turned sour.
No problems. Milk will be back very soon and we’ll keep you up to date on that here. The problems lie elsewhere – the right to have a party in a lively town. But that’s a big old debate.
A superb little club of 300 or 400 people was born, with a completely white décor, very welcoming music, a sort of neo-nightclub drawing its inspiration from Chicago or Berlin’s electrohouse. You could dance to the performances of Robert Owens, a legendary house singer since 1986 or Bobby and Steve, the mad duo from the Ministry of Sound in London. And it’s Milk of course where you could hear concerts by Bamboola Prod and mixes by Lorenzo Ottati, Denis, Ugo, Geoffroy etc.
But then came the problems with people complaining of sleepless nights because of the noise. The trouble, which came in the form of complaints by locals, check-ups by officials and pressure from the local authorities in Brussels, made its mark. First it led to administrative closures and then slowly wore the organisers out. First it was the opening evenings – fewer of them. Then the noise – lower. Then the noise again – lower still. Then nothing because Milk decided to leave before everything turned sour.
No problems. Milk will be back very soon and we’ll keep you up to date on that here. The problems lie elsewhere – the right to have a party in a lively town. But that’s a big old debate.
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