And we're back to our regularly scheduled "dead club spaces of Dublin" feature, as this is mostly turning out to be. There's a storied history here too, though, so at least we're keeping some lineage between the previous post and this
This history is already documented well elsewhere on the net - built as a cinema in 1934, converted to bingo use (as so many were), damaged by fire and closed; and then eventually converted to a theatre in 1986 with a ground floor music venue.
Like Andrews Lane, I saw a play here while in school. Like Andrews Lane, I can't remember what it was - 1990s childrens theatre in Ireland produced a lot of very unmemorable plays; and I also have an incredible knack of forgetting what happens in movies, books and plays, even ones I've seen loads of times (for instance, I think I've seen The History Boys four or five times, can't tell you anything other than it has Richard Griffiths in it).
However, I was in the ground floor music venue rather a lot more often, for events ranging from sparsely attended charity gigs through to full crowds for trance events, and also to see Paradise Lost in what was my last trip there in early 2018. At this stage, it was known the venue would be demolished and replaced with a hotel; but the closing date - early 2019 - had not been confirmed yet.
Similar to Andrews Lane, in its latter days, the Tivoli was rather a dump. But with a continuing loss of places to hold club nights, stage plays or even stage pantos, holding on to what we have is more important than ever, and this was another major loss.
Two regular events have survived the closure - the Tivoli Panto is now the Stadium Panto in the National Stadium; and the District 8 club night now exists in different locations in Dublin and Kildare.
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