Read this next: Queer the dancefloor: How electronic music evolved by re-embracing its radical roots At a time where many London clubs feel either over-policed or strangely segregated and the soundtrack of queer dancefloors for so long has been industrial-scale cheese, what Adonis offers up is the antidote. Unapologetically dark, debauched and banging, Adonis is breathing life into the new-gen underground club scene for a multitude of reasons. The room is at boiling point, but Adonis’s second birthday is just getting started.Ī converted mechanic’s workshop in the depths of London’s down-at-heel Tottenham might seem like an unlikely birthplace for a queer underground clubbing renaissance, but from the moment Adonis kicked open the doors of The Cause in 2017, it was clear that something very special was bubbling. Front and centre, Adonis resident Hannah Holland tears into her 1:AM set with Fold’s feverish track ‘Bend Sinister’ while dancers climb and claw at the cage that surrounds the DJ booth. Blood red lasers cut lines across a sea of sweat-soaked bodies that jack and undulate in a thick, humid haze.
