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It is currently ( 2004) located at Electrowerx, 7 Torrens Street, Islington, London, UK where it has been for several years, though it has had a number of other locations previously. The building the club is situated in was an abandoned industrial complex and the club started out as a regular squat party.
The club's facilities were rather basic when it was first started in the late 1980s, perhaps one reason for naming the club the "Slimelight," though this is also a parody of another London club's name that was famous at the time, The Limelight. Over the years the club has been renovated and upgraded to feature all the mod cons of a proper nightclub.
The club claims a membership of around 10,000 people worldwide, and has a loyal following of regulars who go every week. Originally the club had a policy of "bring your own booze", but recently due to licensing laws the club has had to clamp down on this, and have installed proper bars, serving alcoholic beverages until 2am and soft drinks until 7:15am.
The club was immortalised by the goth metalGoth metal (also called Gothic metal is a crossover between doom metal , heavy metal music and goth music itself. It developed in the early 1990s in Europe and the United States. Goth metal has proven somewhat difficult to categorize. Some fans and musici band Killing MirandaKilling Miranda are a British goth metal band comprising Rikky (vocals), Irish Dave (bass), Alien Dave (guitar) and Belle (drums). They have produced 3 albums :"Blessed Deviant" and "Transgression by Numbers" on Nottingham's Nightbreed label, and "Consumm in their song The Ballad of Torrens Street.