Halloween Nightlife in London
The Dark Circus Party Halloween Special
This Halloween there will be plenty of things going bump in the night. Once the sun goes down the city comes to life (even for those beyond the grave). So be brave, step out from under the covers and party the night away at these devilish events.
Skylight gets a winter makeover with rooftop ice rink, cosy igloos and huts on top of Tobacco Dock.
Skylight Rooftop
Skylight Rooftop,
Tobacco Dock, Wapping Lane London, E1W 2SF
Attractions for Kids
Tobacco Dock, Wapping Lane, London, E1W 2SF
Tube: Rotherhithe Overground Station
From 31st October Skylight Rooftop gets a winter makeover themed around an urban apres skate bar and they're throwing a Halloween On Ice party to mark the opening. Dress up on Halloween and make your way to the three-story East London venue above Tobacco Dock in Wapping where they're hosting Halloween themed performances on ice. Your £5 ticket (£10 on the door) includes a free drink on arrival, trick or treat for free sweets, a prize for the best costume, spooky Halloween games and a DJ all night long. For the winter season the rooftop venue has a real-ice rooftop ice rink, seasonal cocktails, ice hockey goal shooting, DJs, cosy igloos and huts as well as some of the best views in the city.
The London Cabaret Club presents a weird and wonderful ghoulish cabaret show.
The Bloomsbury Ballroom, Victoria House, 37-63 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
Tube: Holborn Station
, Russell Square Station
Dates: 24th - 26th October 2019
The haunted 1920's Bloomsbury Ballroom takes inspiration from The Shining for three especially spooky nights as the London Cabaret Club presents a weird and wonderful showcase for the scariest season of the year. You'll be greeted by a host of spirits and transported through a tunnel of fear into the haunted ballroom. While enjoying the ghoulish cabaret show, filled with spine-chilling contortionists and spooky dance spectacles, you'll be treated to a seasonal menu of pumpkin risotto with parmesan and kale crisps alongside beef tartare, quail egg and parmesan shavings. Finish with oozing chocolate fondant and chilling vanilla ice-cream, homemade profiteroles with dark chocolate sauce and passion fruit tartlets. Try the trick or treat cocktails at the bar and dance in the decadent dungeon. Dress code: scary and stylish.
DJ Yoda invites you into the world of the upside down with '80s music and an audio-visual show.
EartH, 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH
Tube: Highbury & Islington Station
Dates: 26th October 2019
DJ Yoda brings a Stranger Things themed party to EartH Hall Hackney for a night of funk, hip hop, beats and dancefloor fillers complete with a hypnotising audio-visual show. Enter the world of the upside down through an audio-visual spectacular this Halloween. Submerge yourself in supernatural synths and ghostbusting grooves as the DJ brings the '80s back. Following the huge success of his Stranger Things Soundcloud mix, DJ Yoda unleashes it onto the dancefloor. Cult '80's theme costumes highly encouraged.
Champagne Charlie introduces live music and dance troupe the Gatsby Girls.
Secret Location, , London, XX1 0LL
Tube:
Dates: 26th October 2019
Clandestine 1920's pop-up cocktail bar the Candlelight Club is hosting an elegant Halloween Ball in a long-forgotten east London hall. Lit by candelabra and flickering jack-o-lanterns, Lord of Cabaret Misrule Champagne Charlie introduces live music from swing band the Bubbly Boys and Charleston dance troupe the Gatsby Girls. When the band aren't playing DJs the Bee's Knees play tunes by long-dead artists so you can show your best flapper moves. In the Cabaret Lounge, string ensemble the Creep Quartet play classic horror movie themes and musical androgyne Victor Victoria, of the award-winning East End Cabaret, is followed by gothic burlesque from Suri Sumatra, Jess Love's circus act, and magic and mind-reading from Neil Kelso. Indulge in a three-course dinner or reserve tables for Champagne and get your fortune told at this Halloween bash where artist Daniela will capture you in your best Gatsby ghoulish finery.
Don your best spooky costumes and party to the Monster Mash and Thriller.
O2 Academy Islington, N1 Centre, Parkfield Street, London, N1 0PS
Tube: Angel Station
Dates: 26th October - 02nd November 2019
Known for their extravagant and silly fancy dress nights, Club De Fromage is hosting not one but two Halloween parties, adding apple bobbing and a pretty scary stage show to the mix. Taking over Islington Academy on the Saturday before and after Halloween, the parties see the venue transformed with coffins, cobwebs and scary visuals on the big screen - all a disco loving, dancing zombie needs for a fun night out. Expect to hear all your favourite Halloween themed tunes such as Ghostbusters, Monster Mash, Thriller and more as well as the usual mix of pop and rock from the past 50 years. Dress up in your scariest, most gruesome and revolting outfit for massive sing-a-longs, hula hooping, air guitar battles and killer cocktails.
The iconic Club Kids provide inspiration for this flamboyant party.
Oval Space, 29-32 The Oval, London, E2 9DY
Tube: Bethnal Green Underground Station
Dates: 26th October 2019
Secretsundaze takes over Oval Space once again this Halloween for the Club Kids Halloween Party. Paying homage to the iconic New York set who rose to prominence in the '80s and '90s thanks to their flamboyant behaviour, outrageous costumes and gender fluidity (they're still considered an influence in queer culture today), the party returns for a third year. Secretsundaze will be joined by the one and only Prosumer, a Panorama Bar resident who plays for the NYC Downlow every year, for an evening of exceptional music comprising house, disco and techno. DJ collective Honey Soundsystem, whose roots were set down in San Francisco, makes its Secretsundaze debut alongside Montreal's D.Tiffany. In true Club Kids style, the dress code is all round fabulous, so don't hold back with your threads.
Free workshops shine a light on the dance of the dead.
Granary Square, Good's Way, London, N1C 4AA
Tube: King's Cross Station
Dates: 31st October 2019
Shining a light on the dance of the dead, the skeleton squad will rise from their Canalside graveyard to take over Granary Square and perform an illuminated routine on All Hallows' Eve. You can learn the steps of the afterlife at free dance workshops, then join in the performances as bone-y dancers and LED skeleton drummers interact with the audience as they perform their choreographed routine. Giant skeleton puppets circulate the square, prizes are awarded to the best dressed spooks and witches, and you can enjoy complimentary face painting as well as trick or treat handouts, directed by your skeleton host. Make no bones about, King's Cross is the place to be this Halloween.
The rooftop venue takes Halloween to horrifying new heights.
Sky Garden, 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY
Tube: Monument Station
, Bank Station, Cannon Street Station
Dates: 31st October - 02nd November 2019
Adding another fear factor to Halloween, Sky Garden is taking the occasion to horrifying new heights with a party 35 storeys high. The party will see the triple height venue transformed into a suitably spooky space with an evening of hell-raising tricks and treats, live music, freakishly fabulous cocktails and late-night dancing. Guests are invited to don their best fancy dress before dancing the night away to live music and hair-raising tunes from top London DJs which will take party-goers through to midnight... the witching hour.
Ibiza club night ANTS heads to fabric for a night of top class house and techno.
ANTS at fabric
Fabric Nightclub,
77a Charterhouse Street London, EC1M 3HN
Clubbing and Nightlife
Fabric Nightclub, 77a Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 3HN
Tube: Farringdon Station
, Barbican Station
Dates: 01st November 2019
Ibiza club night ANTS heads to London superclub fabric in Farringdon to host a Halloween night out on Friday 1st November, bringing their brand of sunkissed house and techno to one of the world's best known clubs. Five renowned DJs are on the decks to soundtrack the event, with Dutch duo ANOTR, Toolroom regular Eli Brown, Chilean DJ Francisco Allendes, Moon Harbour label head Matthias Tanzmann and the Chicago-born Secondcity making up the billing. Expect minimalistic house and techno beats.
Cavorting creatures fuelled by a bubbling brook of chilling champagne.
The Perception, W Leicester Square, 10 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6QF
Tube: Piccadilly Circus Station
, Leicester Square Station
Dates: 01st - 02nd November 2019
Enter a dark woodland and celebrate Halloween into the early hours at W London. The Soho hotel invites you into the Forbidden Forest for a Halloween party hosted in partnership with Veuve Clicquot. Expect compulsive beats, dark displays and cavorting creatures fuelled by a bubbling brook of chilling champagne. Enter in the hotel's The Perception bar for a night where primeval beasts emerge to join the witch-hunt and revel in the black magic of the backwoods. Alternatively, you're looking for an afternoon of fun-filled Halloween inspired tea and cake, try the W's special Afternoon Tea with the Globe Girls, when the glamorous girls stage a drag act as a sideshow to your tea on the Sunday before Halloween.
Antics DJs bring a thrilling Halloween party to the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town.
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden Street, London, NW1 8QP
Tube: Camden Town Station
, Camden Town Station
Dates: 01st November 2019
Antics DJs Richard Titchener and Matt Terris bring a thrilling Halloween party to the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town with scary decor, prizes for worst and best outfits and terrifyingly tunes to lose yourselves to. The resident DJ Antics will be bringing you the very finest hip hop, breaks, beats and floor-filling party tunes from the likes of Kanye, Beyonce, Missy Elliot, the Fugees and Drake among others.
A surreal and subversive party brought to you by Bourne & Hollingsworth.
EartH, 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH
Tube: Highbury & Islington Station
Dates: 02nd November 2019
Brought to you by Bourne & Hollingsworth, the people behind Cocktails in the City and The Blitz Party, The Dark Circus Party is a surreal and subversive party with acrobatic performances and theatrical performances. You're invited to enjoy a twisted and ghostly spin on the big top. Circus performers suspended from the ceiling turn wildly above your head as you mingle with the creatures of the underworld. In the recreated interior of a circus big top tent, festooned with colourful lights, red and white striped draping and tiered seating, freaks and geeks, contortionists and strolling performers welcome you into an abandoned circus. Cocktails include the Ringmaster's Poison and the Circus Royale while the dress code - sideshow freak, tragic clown or lion tamer - makes you one of the troupe.
Club party organisers elrow Town create a world of zombies and derelict haunted houses.
elrow Horroween
The Drumsheds,
Meridian Water, Argon Road London, N18 3BW
Concerts
The Drumsheds, Meridian Water, Argon Road, London, N18 3BW
Tube: Blackhorse Road Station
Dates: 03rd November 2019
After the sold-out elrow Town at Trent Park in the summer, the club party organisers are back but this time they're creating a world of zombies and derelict haunted houses for Horroween. In London's newest club venue, the vast Drumsheds, four giant, interlinked warehouses are filled with electronic music and a host of party goers, priests and monsters. Cobwebs and confetti bring a spooky atmosphere to the industrial warehouses where DJs play a marathon 10 hour show.