Opium is once again becoming a hub for dance music in Dublin City. In its previous incarnation, the Camden Street venue was a hotspot for house and techno fans to come together before a wide variety of local and international artists on an almost weekly basis.Dublin has been spoiled for choice over the last four years, since Hangar’s warehouse opened its rather battered doors to the public in autumn of 2014, only a couple of months after District 8’s well-received launch with Rødhåd.
These venues came along at just the right time, as only a few months down the line we were to lose our beloved Twisted Pepper, which had soundtracked the Dublin underground since 2008 and The Lost Society, a venue that played home to collectives such as Bruce Willis and Toast, student nights focused on dance music that helped to expose a lot of younger party-goers to a music/culture they might not have experienced elsewhere.