30 OLD COMPTON STREET
(FORMERLY G-A-Y BAR)
COVEN CASTS ITS GREATEST SPELL YET:
A NEW QUEER SANCTUARY RISES IN SOHO
London’s queer nightlife and cultural collective COVEN will open COVEN: HEADQUARTERS at 30 Old Compton Street — formerly G-A-Y Bar — on 19th June 2026, marking the first anniversary of the project’s inception. This is the first new LGBTQ+ club on Old Compton Street in over a decade, and it arrives just in time for pride.
After sitting empty since October 2025, the historic site enters a new chapter under the stewardship of COVEN founder Matthew Jacobs Morgan, as the East London-born club night expands into a five-storey permanent home in the heart of Soho.
Some spaces are built. Others are summoned.
What began as a one-off Christmas party in Hackney Wick has rapidly evolved into one of London’s most distinctive queer cultural spaces — a hybrid of nightclub, performance venue,...
