In much of contemporary club culture, DJ-centred programming has become the default to the point of hegemony. Computer Club exists as an antithesis to that norm, championing live hardware performance, open process, and collective learning.
This is non-negotiable. If people cannot be safe and respected, the rest of the manifesto is meaningless.
This is not a marketing line. It is a design constraint we choose, because culture should look like the world it claims to represent.
We reject the idea that visibility equals value. Our nights are built on shared labour and shared respect.
We want unknown names to become known through opportunity, not permission.
Computer Club is a place to meet collaborators, swap techniques, and leave with more than you arrived with.
We want more people to know how this music is made, and to feel capable of making it too.
A healthy scene is not imported. It is grown, nurtured, and repeated.
This is about dialogue, not clout.
Venues are not neutral containers. They are the infrastructure of nightlife, and they need protecting.
We want to create a unique and memorable experience at Computer Club; whilst technology is generally celebrated at these events, cameras are most definitely not! We wish to preserve the privacy, safety and wellbeing of all that attend.
Computer Club operates a no phones/cameras policy. The audience deserves the right to express themselves without the fear of being filmed/photographed/persecuted.
You may however, take photos of the artists, as that helps garner interest for them if you choose to share those on whatever platform you see fit. The audience is not part of your algorithm.
Computer Club is our attempt to practice utopia without pretending we can perfect it. We are not chasing a spotless ideal, we are building workable conditions: safety that is enforced, access that is designed in, and value that is shared rather than hoarded. In a culture that too often rewards status, speed, and spectacle, we choose slow infrastructure, mutual care, and the public good. We treat the night as a commons where resources circulate, and where difference is not merely tolerated but actively protected.
We believe community is made out of repeated gestures: an open call that widens the circle, equal pay that refuses hierarchy, a forum where knowledge becomes collective, a dance floor where bodies can exist without fear. This is how culture becomes more than entertainment. It becomes a civic space that keeps venues alive, grows local artists, welcomes visitors into real exchange, and makes room for futures that mainstream nightlife has not yet learned how to host. Computer Club is a promise we renew each time we gather: that we can make a night which leaves the city stronger and more connected than it found it.
There is a Discord server for Computer Club. This allows us to not only chat about Computer Club and what we plan between meet-ups, but also covers topics such as tech used and gives artists a way to connect with the wider community and share what they've been up to.
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