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Clubbers make emotional return to dancefloor for UK pilot event


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lubbers returned to the dancefloor for the first time since the pandemic began at a pilot event for 6,000 people.

Revellers, who all had to produce negative coronavirus tests, did not have to wear face coverings or social distance.

Club night Circus hosted The First Dance at the Bramley-Moore Dock warehouse in Liverpool on Friday.

Crowds packed the floor to dance shoulder-to-shoulder and some were seen hugging and kissing each other.

Others sat on friend’s shoulders for a better view of the stage where Circus founder and DJ Yousef, Lewis Boardman, Sven Vath, The Blessed Madonna and Jayda G entertained.

Fatboy Slim is among the acts due to perform on Saturday.

In the queue outside the venue, Liverpool University student Elliott Cause, 20, said: “I feel like this is a big moment for the UK.

Fatboy Slim is among the acts due to perform on Saturd

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“I feel like uni students have been struggling without this, I feel like this will do a lot.

“You can already see people are so up for it, the energy’s great.”

Sam Murphy, 20, who is from Belfast, said that after starting at Liverpool Hope University last September, he had the “worst freshers ever” because of coronavirus restrictions.

He said even tearing ligaments in his foot and having to wear a protective boot had not put him off attending the first club night since March 2020.

He said: “No chance – the first thing I said was give me a boot and let me out.”

Sam Newson, the event producer, said the pilot was ‘vital’

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Mr Murphy, from Belfast, said he had done a coronavirus test on Thursday and again on Friday morning and would take another in five days.



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