Club is shut a day after launch

nightclub.jpgA revamped bar and nightclub in Telford has been forced to close down just 24 hours after its launch night after attracting just four customers.

The DNA Venue Bar and Nightclub in Oakengates, formerly known as Insomnias and 42s, opened last Friday with a foam party after a huge refurbishment.

But club boss Alan McMahon said revellers refused to go into the nightclub, despite an offer of free entry.

After taking just £84 over the first two nights, Mr McMahon emptied the revamped building and gave the keys back to the building’s owner. Mr McMahon, from Gloucester, who has now started running a pub in Bristol, said: “We changed the two floors of the club and it looked fantastic.

“We opened the doors and there were plenty of people out in the town but we just couldn’t get them inside, despite offering free entry and a free entry drink. The people of Oakengates wouldn’t step foot in the place.”

Mr McMahon said he was also unaware a noise abatement order was in place so if he had been busy he would have been closed down anyway. He said the appropriate sound proofing would have cost £70,000.

This article was posted on December 21, 2007 at 11:47 am.
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11 Comments

  1. Dubs said: Dec 21st, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    Oh dear, how embarassing!

  2. andrew finch said: Dec 21st, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    now that is weird not that i know the area at all but a night with 4 punters ? got to be a first?

  3. Nutty said: Dec 22nd, 2007 at 1:32 am

    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

  4. Lorrie said: Dec 22nd, 2007 at 8:53 am

    Fantastic news

  5. English said: Dec 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    So funny! Wonder why no-one wanted to go in.

  6. Matt said: Dec 23rd, 2007 at 12:27 am

    So he bought a nightclub and failed to familiarise himself with the licensing conditions appertaining to the establishment that he had bought?

  7. Gee said: Dec 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 am

    No way, Looks like was worth the effort, Id of gone in for free beer!!

  8. Ben said: Dec 24th, 2007 at 10:10 am

    I wouldnt enter oakengates after dark full stop.

  9. Kovert0ps said: Dec 24th, 2007 at 10:38 am

    Hmmm .. 4 people I have more personalities in my head ..

  10. Dubs said: Dec 24th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    It’s strange considering when it was Insomnias the place used to be packed out?

    As I said previous, why would people change when there’s other cheese clubs up the road in Oakengates, or even Wellington?

  11. monchi said: Dec 24th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    The fact is that young urban music promoters from OUR area have managed to get more people through the doors than this guy ever could…..4 People! Hilarious! Whilst Urban music nights, organised by local promoters have got hundreds of people through the doors.

    Im completely satisfied hearing this news, i just hope that the next person in control realises that if they work alongside the people who have been doing well (Urban music)….GASP! Then they will probably find themselves in a much more profitable/comfortable posistion.

    Mr McMahon has blatently embarresed himself, He’s currently tucking in to a big plate of his own words in Bristol