Brooklyn’s famed Output Club will be officially closing its doors in 2019, and industry revelers are not dealing with it well.
The shocking announcement came a few hours after rumors spread throughout Twitter and other social platforms earlier this morning. Output’s founders and operators confirmed the news via a Facebook post, where they stated, “For our cherished home OUTPUT, it is that inevitable time of night when the last song has faded and the lights are coming up to signal the end of an epic journey.”
Tommie Sunshine was one of the first artists to share his thoughts. On his Twitter account, he posted a classic photo of the industrial venue and said, “Goodbye to Output. Had many great nights there. Sad to see it go.” Following this was an outpour of cries, confusion, and questioning about New York City’s nightlife.
While many club goers, DJs, and others part of the industry can’t seem to wrap their heads around how abruptly this came about, the venue’s post expressed that, “this sudden turn of events may seem shocking to many, but for those of us watching from the inside, we have seen the writing on the wall for some time.”
The venue will permanently close down on January 1, 2019. It will shut its doors forever with an epic New Year’s Eve marathon by John Digweed.
Output Brooklyn opened almost six years ago in 2013 and quickly became Brooklyn’s hot spot for house and techno music. Previous to this, revelers struggled to find a spot that welcomed these genres on a regular basis; Manhattan’s famed clubs offered mostly mainstream sounds, and it took both effort and being in-the-know to find a place that hosted the true sounds of the underground. Output launched Brooklyn back on the map, with countless industry mavens having played its decks over the years, like Danny Tenaglia, Seth Troxler, Adam Beyer, Eric Prydz, John Digweed, Nina Kraviz, Nicole Moudaber, and many more. The venue elevated the borough back up to its rightful place as one of the top clubbing destinations in the world.
And yet, due to “a confluence of factors contributed to the club’s misfortune…the mounting situation led to one unfortunate yet unavoidable conclusion; for OUTPUT to continue as a viable enterprise, the business model and mode of operation would need to change drastically, in ways that would likely betray the mission on which the brand was founded.” This would mean shutting its doors permanently, leaving industry revelers to wonder — if Output couldn’t make it, who can?
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