Almost from the beginning of licences being rolled out, clubs were coming under fire from the police, local councils and corporate entities. By 1996, many of them were being closed down. This chapter explores the initial article in the Islington Gazette, ‘Borough Turning into A Second Soho’, together with licensing documents held at the Islington Local History Centre. In so doing, the chapter argues that these and other clubs in Islington in the 1990s (and beyond) weren’t only closed due to complaints by local residents about noise coming from them, but due to the perceived undesirable nature of the audiences and promoters that were attending and running these clubs, as well as the second (and third) wave of gentrification in the borough.