Blow Up, the London club that is now in its 33rd year returns to Brighton Komedia Saturday 7th November 2026. This will be a club event, Blow Up founder Paul Tunkin will DJ plus live guests The Forty Fours.
Blow Up, a bona-fide legendary club night at the centre of the mid-Nineties Brit Pop explosion, cited as the catalyst and birthplace of the Britpop scene, influencing the style and sound of a generation. Blow Up was voted No.4 in Time Out’s Top Ten Clubs of the 90s, described as one of ‘5 Classic Clubs of Our Time‘ by Vox Magazine (alongside The Blitz Club, Shoom, The Roxy) and as ‘The club that changed the world’ by Melody Maker. Describing Blow Up in Time Out’s London Calling book as “the breeding ground of the Brit Pop sound” and in NME’s Original’s Blow Up was listed as a Top Ten Britpop Moment. In July 2022 Time Out once again listed Blow Up as one of the greatest London clubs of the past 40 years.
Blow Up was founded and launched by Paul Tunkin 16th October 1993 at the upstairs function room of a Camden Town pub the Laurel Tree. After just a few months, Blow Up had become the epicentre of a seismic musical and stylistic change in what was later called the Britpop scene.
The Forty Fours are currently completing their debut album for Blow Up Records. The album is expected to be released in the Autumn of 2026.
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THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE KOMEDIA STUDIO
STANDING CLUB NIGHT
AGES 18+
