DIY London: partying on the periphery

Faced with ever-stricter licensing laws in the capital, a raft of organisers are keeping clubland alive by taking their experimental communities to the fringesIt has been two years since it felt as if London’s nightlife had truly hit rock bottom. Countless clubs had closed – Plastic People, Madam Jojo’s, The End, Dance Tunnel to name a few – climaxing in summer 2016, when superclub Fabric temporarily lost its licence over drug deaths, a high-profile case that threw the su