Boston’s Assembly Rooms nightclub to re-open after months of closure

The Assembly Rooms, in the Market Place, will re-launch on Saturday, September 28, on a monthly basis after being closed since January.

It is based in the Grade II listed building of the same name, which also houses a number of commercial units on its ground floor.

In March, Matt Clark, the building’s owner and director of the Activ Group of Companies, told a Local Democracy Reporter that a decline in the town centre’s footfall had made it difficult to keep a venue of the size of the Assembly Rooms sustainable. He noted, however, the operation had been a success for the first four years of its life, and said he hoped the closure would not be a permanent one.

From this weekend, Untouched Entertainment will be staging monthly events at the venue, with the first called Twisted Wonderland.

A spokesman for the business said: “Twisted Wonderland is nothing anyone would have seen before in Boston unless they have been to a superclub somewhere.”

They said the nightclub will be ‘completely transformed’ with thousands of pounds worth of decor and lights and other equipment.

“This is a massive risk for us as the nighttime industry in this and many market towns has been in a massive decline over the last five years,” they added. “But hopefully by bringing something amazing and on a new level we might re-ignite the nightlife passion of Boston people. You have to take that risk and bring something new to the table.”