What did Erol Alkan actually post?
On September 16, Erol Alkan posted an Instagram teaser reading, in part: "January 2027 will mark 20 years since we closed our doors forever. But there is a light that never goes out. Got something to share with you, let's stay in touch." The post linked to a sign-up page for a new Trash mailing list. That's the entire announcement. No date, no venue, no lineup, just a promise that something is coming before the 20th anniversary of the night's last party in January 2007.
Why does one closed Monday night still matter this much?
Trash launched in 1997 at Plastic People in Soho as a weekly Monday session, then moved through The Annexe on Dean Street before landing at The End, where it closed for good in January 2007. For ten years it was Alkan's main platform, and the London floor where indie, electro, punk and nu-rave got mashed together into one night, a formula that helped define the electroclash and indie-dance crossover of the mid-2000s. LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bloc Party all played early UK sets there before they were festival headliners, and regulars reportedly included Amy Winehouse and Alex Turner. That density of future names, out of a weekly night nobody remembers as being especially big, is why one Instagram post about a mailing list is getting this much attention twenty years later.
So is Trash actually coming back?
Not officially, not yet. Alkan has confirmed nothing beyond the signup link: no venue, no date, no format, no word on whether this would be a one-off anniversary party or an ongoing night again. The January 2027 line in his own post makes a 20th-anniversary event around that month the obvious guess, but a guess is all it is. For now the only concrete move that exists is a mailing list.
"January 2027 will mark 20 years since we closed our doors forever. But there is a light that never goes out."
