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Published: 8 November 2007

Key departs from Platform 12

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Platform 12
Canvas

EVERYBODY knows legendary club The Key – along with Canvas and The Cross in King’s Cross – will be closing down at the end of the year to make way for the developers to turn it into shops (boohiss).
What they don’t know is that The Key is throwing its doors open for the last time on New Year’s Eve – and who have they asked to host the night? The Platform 12 crew, of course. Anybody who’s watched the meteoric rise of the club – a fixture in the calendar of anyone in the know – won’t be surprised.
But for those who have never been – or God forbid, never heard of them – the phrase “you should get out more” was made for you. That’s because they put on, officially, one of the best parties known to the clubbing race.
Filled with the kind of happy campers you could imagine filled a field in the 90s – but less crusty – Platform 12 specialise in delivering the kind of electro disco beats that send buttoned-up City types into an air-punching frenzy.
The good news is you don’t need to wait until NY – the good people of Platform12 are giving us a taster of their wares on Saturday. The bad news is Clive Morley, the clever man who set the whole thing up four years ago, is moving to Sydney for a quiet life and a suntan, and this will be his last hurrah before he jets off.
But there are others to step into the breach, starting this weekend, including the Platform12 DJ regulars (I’m talking about you, Ladykilla) and the superstar DJ The Count of Montecristo, aka Herve, depending on who’s asking. The Key is almost certainly doomed – but Platform12 will go on.

• Platform 12 play Canvas on Saturday
www.platform12music.co.uk/

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