Students arriving in Liverpool at different points in recent decades will have all seen the city change in many ways - but a lot of them have at least one thing in common.
Medication, the iconic student club night, started in the mid-1990s and was held at the same venue for two decades, ushering many young students into Liverpool’s nightlife.
While the event still runs at a different venue, it was the original Wednesday night event at Nation that a generation of club goers remember most clearly.
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Held every Wednesday in Nation, the huge, warehouse-style club in the city centre, Medication was a whirlwind of a night that packed in hundreds.
Founded by Marc and Jason Jones, who were inspired by iconic club night Cream and wanted to create a combined university night, Medication became legendary.
People who went regularly remember it for a huge range of reasons.
The cavernous venue it was held in, the always packed dance floor and its themed multiple rooms loom large for many.
For many students, it was not just the first major night out they went on in Liverpool but they first big club event they went to full stop.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly what made the original Medication special.
Speaking to the Echo back in 2016, founder Marc Jones described going to the event as a “rite of passage”.
He said “We’ve had 20-odd glorious years. People have made life-long memories and met their future partners there. They’re in amongst the best years of people’s lives, it’s what student life is meant to be, and that’s what I don’t want to be lost.”
Mr Jones was speaking ahead of what would be Medication’s last event at Nation and at what many consider to be an end point for the original event.
Along with the iconic Kazimier, Nation had made Wolstenholme Square one of the centres of Liverpool’s nightlife.
But redevelopment plans for the square meant both venues were demolished.
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Many in the city mourned the loss of both the original Medication and Cream, the iconic club night that predated it.
But while Nation did not survive the redevelopment, Medication lives on today, still welcoming students.
Suspended, like other club nights, for much of the pandemic so far, it returned in June this year.
While nightlife in the city has changed hugely in the city since the event was first held, and though it is now run in a different space, Medication holds a specific and permanent place in Liverpool’s nightlife history.
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