{"id":512471,"date":"2025-10-19T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512471\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:19:11","slug":"kokomo-nightclub-to-shut-for-the-last-time-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512471\/","title":{"rendered":"Kokomo nightclub to shut for the last time in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KokomoGlasgow?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Writing on Facebook<\/a>, the club\u2019s owners said Kokomo would cease operations on Sunday, 3 November, after \u201cone last weekend to remember\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They wrote: \u201cThis isn&#8217;t goodbye without a party. It&#8217;s your final chance to dance under the lights, sing your heart out and make one more legendary memory where it all began.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cLet&#8217;s send Kokomo off the only way we know how loud, wild, and unforgettable. Join us for the one last dance on Saturday 2nd November from 10pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This summer, the venue was put up for sale, with a listing asking for an annual rent of \u00a395,000.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The site has a main and secondary club room, as well as a VIP area, and can hold up to 400 people.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2015, pop star Madonna was forced to flee the venue after several hours of dancing as fire alarms were tripped at the nearby Bamboo club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  John Blaen, creative director at KOKOMO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/entertainment\/music\/music-news\/watch-madonna-evacuated-glasgow-nightclub-7049230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the Daily Record<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic to have an artiste of Madonna&#8217;s stature choose our venue for her private party. It was a privilege to have her in the club and see her having such a good time.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The dancers were having a fantastic time and one of them even brought a skateboard with them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One onlooker said: &#8220;No one realised it was Madonna coming out the club and by the time they recognised her she&#8217;d sped away into the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writing on Facebook, the club\u2019s owners said Kokomo would cease operations on Sunday, 3 November, after \u201cone last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-512471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115402215614360014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512471","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=512471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}