I get goosebumps in here - Blackpool DJ Jason Fubar's amazing plans for Club Sanuk reinvented as 'Soundbox'

For years, the doors have been closed - but some places refuse to stay forgotten.

Now, a new vision is taking shape at one of Blackpool’s best loved nightclubs, a reinvention or better described - a revival - for the modern world.

And the man behind it is Blackpool DJ Jason Fubar who said on his social page ‘Get ready people, this is coming back.”

He’s talking about the old Club Sanuk - an idea he has teased for several weeks but one which he is going to make happen.

On his Tiktok page, the legendary Blackpool DJ - owner of iconic Retro Lounge - takes his audience through the corridors, the ‘small’ room, under crumbling ceilings and staircases that many 1990s clubbers will remember. And he explains his vision, his plans for ‘Soundbox’

“People think I'm mad taking on a nightclub in this day and age,” he said.

“It's an old nightclub, I have a lot of history with it.

“I'm here in the Springfield Road entrance - a few of you might remember it as ‘Time’.

“It was Stringfellows for a little while, the Cabaret of Angels and then it was Sanuk.

“And when people say 'oh mate, are you mental? - they've not seen the scene that I envisage.

“It’s more underground, more dance music orientated, more in-line with what cities do these days.

“I've done it already three or four times in my career in this town and I'm going to do it again.

“All it needs is a spark and some imagination and more important - good music - that's why I got into this game, the love of dance music from Acid House right art the beginning to Italian House to Funky House to Techno , to Trance, everything.

“I get such a buzz when I come up here, its the high ceiling that does it.

“That fear to feel excitement gives it that. The first time I walked back in here I got goosebumps, I really did.”

He points out the crumbling ceilings and a ‘naughty, naughty room, musically’ that’s going to be turned into a bar-less room like they have at the big clubs in Ibiza.

“I'm getting a proper little buzz on about this place - the dark, smoky naughty little room with a stage, there isn’t even going to be a bar - a great little adventure.

“It’s an event space. Nightclub is like a dirty word at the moment, unfortunately, the way that the industry has gone.

“Not just in Blackpool but the whole of the UK. It has become a bit of a tarnished symbol of days gone by.”

Reeling off all the places the Promenade venue has been before - including The Bizness and Main Street - Jason confirmed it would be an events space, maybe used a couple of times a month and it will be called Soundbox.

"Get ready people, this is coming back.”