A crowd at the now shuttered Houston electronic music dance club The DiveAs a teenager growing up in Sharpstown in the 1990s, Suraj Kurian would spend his nights venturing out to illicit raves in downtown warehouses, dancing to new kinds of electronic music streaming out of Europe and other American cities.
Kurian, 47, had held out a sliver of hope that they might be able to reach an agreement, but conceded the club's closureon Dec. 16. He said that the building was suffering from serious maintenance issues that Kurian, a healthcare worker by day, and his wife were expected to fix with their own money. They offered to buy the place, but the owner wouldn't sell. A proposed rent hike was the last straw.
He said the venue was especially important for fans of the latter genres. Drum and bass legend Goldie, in fact, was one of the last DJs to perform at The Dive, in mid-October. Kurian said Goldie was scheduled for a 90 minute set, but ended up playing about four hours, until 5 a.m., because of the energy the Houston crowd brought to the bite-sized venue.
The Dive opened in 2017, about 10 years after the building's former tenant, a hole in the wall called The G.R.A.B., went out of business.had forced the rave community deeper into the shadows by the early 2000s, but even as Kurian got older, the bug he caught as a teenager never went away.
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