The Hush Club

02/11/2024

Doors open at 19:30 for our Halloween freak off at The Bell 💀 only £6.66 👺 COME GET YOUR FREAK ON 👻

18/10/2024

SPOILER ALERT 🚨

Great news alert! 🤩

The Hush Club will be looking to continue at Cafe Riva, Southbourne and, license application dependent, the next event may be in May! Brilliant to make this meeting happen with Simon at The Hush Club, Rob at Cafe Riva, and councillors Eleanor Connolly and Cllr George Farquhar tonight.

Thank you to everyone who has been in touch; we’ve passed on your love to Hush Club and Cafe Riva, something they also heard in a council meeting earlier this week. They shared their eagerness to be excellent neighbours and meet the council’s noise expectations.

The message is clear: our community overwhelmingly wants a vibrant music and entertainment scene! Pokesdown, Boscombe, Southbourne and Tuckton News, Southbourne Forum

17/10/2024

On Tuesday evening the community petition containing 4500 local signatures in support of our events at Cafe Riva Southbourne was presented to BCP Council for debate in the chamber. The support in the room was pretty much unanimous and very encouraging, we will now be taking that message back to the licensing committee, and requesting their permission to continue these events next year ✊🏼

We just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone that has contributed their time, signatures, support and positivity so far. A special thank you goes to Bob Smith-Thomas who organised and presented the petition, you’re a hero ❤️.

Bob is a local DJ, you can listen to his mixes 24/7 on his free DJBT radio app here 👇🏼

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/djbt-radio/id6642706784 (android version also available in the store) Thanks Bob x

13/10/2024

Halloween update coming tomorrow 👀

Keep it Hush 💥

08/10/2024

Last week I was incredibly lucky to be invited over to the wonderful Word of Mouth Ibiza by Darren Bell of Jezebell Music. It was a perfect Balearic Monday afternoon in a lovely beach side bar surrounded by amazing company. Thanks so much for having me ❤️

A perfect Monday afternoon in a sunny little beach bar on the coast of Ibiza. Massive thanks to Darren Bell at Jezebell Music for inviting me over to play.

08/10/2024

💀 💥 SHOCK 💥 💀

Yeah... We're as shocked as you to discover the promoter for the O2 Halloween show cancelled the event yesterday without any prior communication or discussion with us or any of the other artists.

Unfortunately he got spooked by the number of advance ticket sales at this time, and decided that the envisaged event would not be deliverable/was too financially risky. Wether that was the right call at this time will forever be up for debate. But it does highlight the importance of a major struggle in the industry today, larger scale local events heavily rely on advance sales, please show your future support where you can by financially committing to peoples visions as early as you can 🙏🏼.

We would like to sincerely apologise to everyone that had bought a ticket to the event, and to all of you that were excitedly planning on spending the evening with us. We're gutted too. We understand that refunds have already been given.

It's unknown if we will be able to host a Hush Club Halloween Bash elsewhere right now, which is a shame as its always a highlight of the year. But keep an eye out for updates.

Stay spooky 👻
Team HC x

13/09/2024

Another piece of factually incorrect reporting 🙄! Anyway, you all know the score. We are fighting for the petition to be accepted and debated by the Council in October. Thank you all again for the continued support. If you need a morning lol, check out the comments on the Echo site...

The Hush Club has thanked residents for their support after it held its final event at Cafe Riva during the Bournemouth Airshow.

03/09/2024

DEAD excited to announce we are heading down to the O2 Academy Bournemouth this Halloween 🎃 We’ve heard about the haunted Opera House, this is going to get proper SPOOKY 👻 Join us for Bournemouths biggest Halloween party! ☠️🏴‍☠️

O2 Priority tickets on sale now 👇🏼 only £13.

General sale from 5pm Wednesday via www.ticketmaster.com

JUST ANNOUNCED! O2 Academy Bournemouth are proud to be bringing you the saltiest Halloween Fancy Dress Party of 2024 at Bournemouth's very own haunted Opera House! With The Hush Club DJ’s bringing an eclectic mix of disco, funk, & house all spliced together with trade mark style and Halloween mixes!

Enjoy a live 'Band of Ghouls’ who will be rocking out some epic covers, and make sure you start the night off from 8pm with cocktail offers and the best of Halloween bangers to bring in the night! Expect pirates, surfers, sea creatures and mermaids from 8pm until 1am this Halloween. 🎃

Grab your Priority Tickets now 👉 http://amg-venues.com/haOb50Te7Jg

03/09/2024

View from the booth Saturday night at Cafe Riva…. You blow my mind 🤯! That was community spirit maxed out off the scale 🚀💥!

Whilst we try and put together some bits of footage we gathered along the way (please dm us any good vids/photos you took!), I just wanted to say a personal THANK YOU 💜 to the dancers, the DJs, the entertainers, the litter pickers, to Emily and all the Hush Club and Cafe Riva team behind the scenes… That really was very special. Si Kilmo x

Forever Danielle Moore ⚡️💔⚡️ We’re so sorry you had to leave. Thank you for the music x

28/08/2024

Here we go… Join us at Cafe Riva this weekend for Bournemouth Airshow 2024 🛩️! We will be raising money for the Homelessness Partnership BCP with Dorset Community Foundation whose mission is to support people and organisations locally to tackle homelessness in BCP ❤️.

Friday 4 - 9 We are bringing back the Friday night Disco! 🪩 With the legendary DJ Chris Wheatley () at the controls 🎧. Alongside many local parties, Chris also regularly DJs for Brixton Disco Festival, We Out Here Festival, Up On The Roof, the list goes on and on... Not to be missed! 💥

Saturday’s fun starts at 12:30 with the incredible Groove Om Yoga providing a free disco yoga session! 🧘🏽‍♀️ It’s the perfect way to start your day in the sun 🌞. A limited amount of mats will be available to borrow on the day, if you’ve got your own, bring it down. Following that we will joined by our fave Nick Shearer, DJ Roast Beatz, and The Hush Club DJ’s, taking you through to 9pm (Maybe a ‘Hush Club classics’ set from Si Kilmo?!) 💥. The wonderful Minky Moos Children's Entertainment will be bringing down a very special guest to meet the little ones 👶, Festidolls will be on site to get you looking right ✨, there will be bubbles 🫧 and bouncy castle action for the kiddos 🏰. Pizza from The DOUGH BOX BH 🍕and multiple other local food and drink options for you to choose from (come and try a Hush Club cocktail direct from the DJ booth!🍹). If you are planning on bringing your own food and drink, you will be expected to make a donation on entry 💳. Please put ALL of your rubbish in the bins provided. LEAVE NO TRACE 👣.

As always, The Hush Club strives to create a safe and inclusive space for the local community. This is a FREE event. Everyone is welcome, but this is only possible when you respect and look out for each other and the environment. Be kind ❤️. DON’T BE A DICK ✊🏼

Saturdays after party will take place at The Fez (below Makla Southbourne) from 10pm - 2am. This is a ticket only event. Your only guaranteed entry is with a discounted £10 advance ticket available here 👇🏼

🎟️ https://buytickets.at/thehushclub/1372486 🎟️
(Link also posted in the comments)

We can’t wait to see you all!
Big LOVE…
Team Hush Club⚡️💜⚡️x

27/08/2024

An update from Tom Hayes MP on our events at Cafe Riva. Please take a minute to comment in the link if you can. Your continued support is much appreciated 💜

We will release all the details of this weekends event on our socials tomorrow 👀 🥳 🛩️

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Lovely to talk with Rob from Cafe Riva, Southbourne today.

Great to hear Rob’s thoughts about how to make the area even better and the risk of The Hush Club’s Air Show event being its last at Cafe Riva.

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch to express their views on this risk. Unfortunately I’m not the decision-maker here. I’m trying to convene conversations and finding out more from all those involved. I’m trying to ensure every avenue is explored to protect events specifically and our local scene generally.

Southbourne has a thriving scene and it would be a huge shame to lose this and other events which make the area so interesting. Residents from across town enjoy these events and they spend money in our local economy, and this can happen in a balanced way which causes minimal disturbance to local people.

I’ll be taking this issue further forward with BCP Council this week. I’m keen to hear from people locally, so please do get in touch via the link in the comments on this post 🎵♥️

24/08/2024

Miami lands in Bournemouth Square for 1 night only…. Who’s coming? ⚡️💜⚡️

19/08/2024

There’ll be swinging and swaying, and records playing…. 👇🏼💥 Free bank holiday action here 💥👇🏼

14/08/2024

YOU DID IT!!! ✊🏼❤️ The petition will now be submitted to BCP Council for debate. Thank you so much, let’s hope your voices have been heard loud and clear.

The Councillor that has made the factually incorrect statement published in the Echo today has been contacted and asked to publicly correct or retract his comment regarding the discontinuation of Hush Club events at Cafe Riva.

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A PETITION to save The Hush Club events at a Southbourne cliff-top cafe has received over 2000 signatures.

12/08/2024

Wow 🤯 Just catching up on here after being away at an event all weekend. I cannot put into words how much all of your comments, support and signatures(!) mean to us 🙏🏼.

The Hush Club and Cafe Riva have consistently attempted to work together with the local authorities and residents to operate these community events within the BCP set licensing conditions. I really hope that after your incredible demonstration of how positive, inclusive and appreciated these events are by the vast majority of local residents, we can potentially discuss providing future events that work for everybody, without compromising the ethos of the Hush Club or the community surrounding it.

Thank you so so much for your support. It really means the world. Watch this space🤞🏼

All the love ❤️

Si Kilmo x

A special thank you to whoever created the petition!!! ✊🏼👇🏼 link in the comments*👇🏼

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* I’ve just read it needs 2000 certified signatures to be considered for a BCP council debate. It’s currently at 1477 😬

09/08/2024

It is with a heavy heart that we are forced to announce this years Airshow event at Cafe Riva will be our last at the site 💔. It has always been our spiritual home, and the magic created there by the local community will live on we hope, but due to a few local residents complaints, the environmental health have deemed The Hush Club and our 2 events per year as an ‘unsuitable act for the venue’. We have loved you sharing your stories from our events… From new born babies to 94 year old disco queens, you have been the most inclusive crowd we’ve ever known, and have been more than generous in raising thousands of pounds for local charity. So please, if you can, join us and the family for ‘The Last Dance’ @ Cafe Riva on August 30/31st. Full deets to follow.

Love and heart shaped loop-de-loops…

Let’s bow out in style 💥

Team HC ⚡️💜⚡️

26/07/2024

All the elements are lined up for a beautiful evening @ Riva! Suns out, drinks are flowing, Warm Agency providing the soundtrack right now… JOIN US ⚡️💜⚡️

20/07/2024

🔊Saturday 27th July Cafe Riva will be a vibe, but who's truthfully up for going home at 9pm? NO ONE!! So join us as we take over The Fez (Makla Southbourne) for some after hours basement action… Let the good times roll 🪩… Full deets in the link below 🎟️👇🏼🎟️

🚨THIS EVENT IS TICKET ONLY! LAST ENTRY 23:30! These will sell out so don't sleep 🚨

Advance tickets only £10💥… 👇🏼
https://buytickets.at/thehushclub/1323339