Whether you wanted to dance to a top DJ or down a few pints with your mates, Kent has been home to some first-class pubs and clubs over the decades. Sadly, some of our most loved venues have closed down, leaving us with just our memories of the times we spent there. Here, we take a look at some of the biggest, best places to be over the years - where we’d love to return for one more night out.
Amadeus/Passion, Rochester No nostalgia piece about Kent’s most iconic venues could go without Amadeus, the £5 million club at Medway Valley Leisure Park which opened in a blaze of glory in 1997. There’s a good chance a lot of people visiting it in its current form as a Hollywood Bowl have no idea of the mayhem that used to take place behind those walls, whether it be jamming to garage music, hooking up with fellow punters or throwing up after one too many shots. Every weekend, hundreds of glammed-up dancers would head to the club, make the most of £1 drinks before 11pm, buy grub from the burger bar and battling to keep track of your friends – it was a huge venue.
Lovingly labelled "Amadangerous", there even used to be a bus service taking people from pub to pub. It was sold in 2003 but the tunes kept coming for eight more years, ending life under the name Passion before it was finally time to say goodbye. All we have now are those memories, with punters often taking to social media to relive those heavy nights .
Atomics, Maidstone In 1991, Maidstone DJ Mick Clark converted an.