What is opening inside the old PRYZM?
Mint XL takes over the cavernous PRYZM shell on Woodhouse Lane, a 2,500-capacity room that Mint is calling its most ambitious venue yet. It opens on Friday 25 September with a launch night curated by the platform system and led by two heavyweights: Fabric resident Craig Richards and FUSE founder Enzo Siragusa. Behind them comes a bill built for heads, Fumiya Tanaka, Perlon's Sonja Moonear, Francesco Del Garda, former Panorama Bar resident Prosumer, Truly Madly, Rich NXT and Voightmann, alongside long-standing Mint residents Annie Errez and Bobby O'Donnell.
Why does a reborn PRYZM matter?
Because of what PRYZM was. It was the corporate chain club, the sticky-floored student night that REKOM UK ran by the dozen until the company collapsed into administration in 2024, shutting 17 venues and cutting 471 jobs as the cost-of-living crisis gutted the high-street nightclub. Britain has spent two years watching rooms like that go dark. Reopening the same big-box footprint for underground music, at 2,500 capacity, is the rare story moving in the other direction.
The poster child of corporate clubbing, handed to Craig Richards and Enzo Siragusa. The symbolism is almost too neat.
Can the underground fill a big box?
That is the real question, and it is an economic one. A 2,500-capacity room is serious scale for music that usually lives in 500-cap basements. Mint has the local pedigree to try, Mint Warehouse and Mint Festival have earned the city's trust, and the opening lineup signals intent rather than caution. Whether a room that size can survive on Fumiya Tanaka and Sonja Moonear bookings instead of bottle service is the experiment everyone in UK clubland will be watching.
