Manchester’s Warehouse Project has beaten some of the most renowned nightclubs across the globe to be named the ‘world’s favourite’. The club, at Mayfield Depot in Piccadilly, scored highest over a range of social media stats, coming just ahead of London venue the Printworks.
The numbers have been crunched by the website DJ Tech Reviews, and takes in the likes of Tik Tok views, Google reviews, Instagram followers and other data. WHP landed a total score of 8.31, narrowly beating Printworks’ 8.27.
The Warehouse Project has amassed at staggering 81.8 million views of related content on Tik Tok, has over 277,000 followers on Instagram and more than 490,000 related Instagram posts. It also has a Google Review score of 4.5, with Google search results increasing 105% from 2019.
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The Manchester club, which has been housed in Mayfield Depot since 2018, beat Printworks, Ibiza superclub Ushuaia, Berlin club Berghain, Bootshaus in Cologne, London’s Fabric, Pacha and Amnesia in Ibiza, Space in Miami and Green Valley in Brazil to the top spot.
The club was founded by Sacha Lord and Sam Kandel in 2006, after the pair met working for Sankey’s Soap in Ancoats, as a seasonal event, running from September up to New Year’s Day.
Its first parties were held in the old Boddington’s Brewery near Strangeways, before moving to a railway arch on Store Street under the tracks of Piccadilly Station. There the club quickly became one of the most renowned in the UK for its forward-thinking programming, attracting clubbers from across the country.
It briefly moved to the Victoria Warehouse in Salford for one season, before briefly moving back to Store Street from 2014 to 2018. Once it had secured its licence, it then moved operations to the former rail depot at Mayfield, a vast space with a 10,000 person capacity.
Since then, it’s played host to every major DJ in the world, from Carl Cox and Aphex Twin to Deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin, as well as being a gig and festival venue, with the likes of Homobloc and Repercussion holding its events there.
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