Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle will be shutting up shop in 2026
Over its 23 years in business, Corsica Studios, opened by Amanda Moss and Adrian Jones, has built a reputation for being one of the best clubs in the city. It’s played host to DJs like Four Tet, Bicep, Nina Kraviz and Fred Again, it’s been regularly voted as one of the best clubs in the world by DJ Mag, and soon it’ll be closing down.
The story first broke in the The Londoner, with sources citing an increasingly difficult operating environment, including dwindling profit margins and noise complaints from neighbours as reasons behind the closure. Corsica Studios is housed in railway arches close to Elephant & Castle station, an area that’s undergone significant development and gentrification in recent years.
In 2018 that club received £125,000 by Delancey, the real estate company behind the Elephant & Castle town centre development, for soundproofing. In 2023, planned expansion of the Delancey project put Corsica Studios “under threat”, with Southwark Council offering the venue an alternative location nearby. Sources told Southwark News that year that the cost of relocating, soundproofing and licensing a new space would be “unviable”.
Now the owners have made a statement, in which they say the club is “not on the receiving end of any noise complaints from local residents” and are “not being forced out by the developers or the council”. They have been working the council, the GLA and the Music Venue Trust to secure a long-term future for Corsica Studios, which “will in time, be a refurbished, soundproofed venue with a solid, long-term lease and a range of legal measures that will give the venue protection from any potential noise complaints from surrounding neighbours”.
That means that changes to the building in its current format will need to happen, which is why the club will be closing its doors, at least for a while. In an interview with The Guardian, Corsica Studios co-founder Adrian Jones revealed that once the space is vacated at the end of March, Delancey will soundproof it and then offer it back in 2027 to be refitted, with the Corsica team getting first refusal on the space. Whether they end up taking it back remains to be seen.
Corsica Studios as we know it will be going out with a bang though, with a series of events between 31st December 2025 – 29th March 2026 celebrating all the artists, parties and promoters that have passed through since it opened.
Key Information
Address | 4/5 Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
For more information | corsicastudios.com
