How HOUSE ATLAS checks a club listing before we publish it — Editorial Policy
Nightlife moves faster than most travel content can keep up with. A club that had a legendary Saturday residency two years ago can be closed, renamed, or running a completely different night by the time you land. Publishing a venue page anyway — because it once mattered — is how travel sites end up sending readers to a shuttered address. This page explains how we try not to do that.
What a venue page has to clear first
The venue is confirmed to be currently operating. We confirm this first-hand against the venue's own site, its official social account, or a resident DJ's current listings — not a five-year-old festival lineup PDF. A closed or "on hiatus" venue does not get a page written as if it's open.
Door policy and pricing come from a primary source. Entry fees, guest-list rules, and dress code change often and vary night to night at the same venue — we source these from the venue or promoter directly rather than repeating whatever the last blog post said.
Genre and lineup claims are checked against the venue's own booking history, not assumed from a club's reputation. A room known for techno five years ago may run house nights now; we check current bookings before describing what a venue plays.
Keeping pages current
A club scene page is only as good as its last check. Where we can, we note when a detail — an opening night, a cover charge — was last confirmed, because "current" on a nightlife page has a short shelf life.
Corrections
Venues close between our checks; readers tell us when a page is wrong more often than we catch it ourselves. When that happens we correct the page itself and record what changed, rather than leaving an outdated listing live with no note.
Berkeley Suite in Glasgow is a working example: we re-verify its booking calendar and door policy each time the page is refreshed, rather than assuming last year's information still holds.
Who's behind this
HOUSE ATLAS is written and checked by the HOUSE ATLAS editorial team, one of several specialist sites under Jon&Coo. Each site covers a different beat, but all of them work to the same rule: if a fact can't be confirmed against a current, primary source, it doesn't get stated as fact.
FAQ
- How does HOUSE ATLAS confirm a club is still open before writing about it?
- We check the venue's own site, official social account, or a resident DJ's current listings first-hand, rather than relying on an old lineup or press release, before a venue page is published.
- Why do door policy and pricing sometimes look different from what I read elsewhere?
- Entry fees and guest-list rules change often and vary night to night, so we source them directly from the venue or promoter rather than repeating outdated blog posts.
- What happens when a HOUSE ATLAS venue page turns out to be outdated?
- We correct the article itself and note what changed — we don't leave a page describing a closed or changed venue as if nothing happened.