{"id":189310,"date":"2025-06-16T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189310\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:32:10","slug":"utterly-gutted-diners-speechless-as-huge-birmingham-venue-announces-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189310\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Utterly gutted’ – Diners ‘speechless’ as huge Birmingham venue announces closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brummies have reacted to the news Hockley Social Club will be closing at the end of this year\"HockleyHockley Social Club(Image: Hockley Social Club)<\/p>\n

Customers and regulars of an iconic Birmingham venue said the ‘future looks bleak’ after bosses revealed it would be closing at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

After opening in 2021 as a multi-purpose venue, Hockley Social Club confirmed this year will be the last.<\/p>\n

Operated by Digbeth<\/a> Dining Club, Hockley Social Club is one of Birmingham’s premier locations for street food, music and comedy.<\/p>\n

Read More: <\/strong>Iconic Birmingham venue announces closure and says ‘wrong part of town’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Announcing the news, Digbeth Dining Club said they were ‘immensely proud’<\/a> of what they had created inside the ‘beautiful space’.<\/p>\n

Chiefs confirmed December 31 will be the final day of trade and HSC will ‘go out with a bang’.<\/p>\n

The news led to an outpour of grief on social media. On Facebook. Chris Hoy said: “Utterly guttered, speechless.”<\/p>\n

Lisa Grew commented: “So sad, love this place but feel it could be so much better.<\/p>\n

“I feel it\u2019s got much more potential but lovely staff and wish you all well, we will support you till you close.”<\/p>\n

Michelle Randall added: “One of my favourite venues in Brum, I’ve had some great times here.<\/p>\n

“I hope you guys pop up somewhere else.”<\/p>\n

Chris Atherton said: “This is truly a sad day for Birmingham<\/a>. Another great independent that will be hugely missed, the future of the city looks bleak.”<\/p>\n

Neil Ormende posted: “Absolutely devastating news. Big love to all the team from us all at Birmingham Techno. We’re gutted but proud to have hosted events there.”<\/p>\n

And Richard Andrews added: “Whatever the next chapter contains, I hope it\u2019s as successful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brummies have reacted to the news Hockley Social Club will be closing at the end of this yearHockley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10314,748,393,4884,10970,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-restaurants","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hockley","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}