KOKO marks 125 years by making the kebab shop the main event

London music venue KOKO is marking its 125th anniversary with a new brand campaign that turns one of nightlife’s most familiar rituals into the star: the post-club kebab shop.

Directed by Eoin Glaister and produced by Stink Films, the film launches the venue’s autumn 2026 season.

Set inside a fictional takeaway, the film follows its weary owner as generations of music fans pass through across different eras.

Australian producer DJ Boring also appears, recast as an ’80s punk. Rather than put the venue itself at the centre, the idea looks at the people and places around a night out that become part of its memory.

The creative mechanism belongs naturally to the culture KOKO wants to celebrate.

It also taps into a wider run of campaigns treating club culture as lived experience rather than borrowed aesthetic, including Specsavers’ over-50s club guestlist.

For a venue that first opened as the Camden Theatre in 1900, the campaign avoids a conventional heritage retrospective.

Stink and Glaister make 125 years of nightlife feel current by focusing on the small, recognisable rituals that happen after the music stops.

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