Located in London’s artist, musician and fashionista saturated mecca of all that is cool – grimy and vibrant Dalston – and promising an antidote to “mainstream generic commercial clubbing”, The Nest has a brilliantly seedy interior, reminiscent of a trashy Lower East Side dive bar, and if you’re a regular reader you’ll know that’s exactly the sort of thing we love. With swanky member’s clubs and genteel establishments continuing to flush the edginess out of Shoreditch, there’s reasonably a level of concern that heavily backed venues will deliver a similar level of gentrification to East London’s next untouched outpost of cool, but seemingly with that potential erosion of creativity and vibrancy in mind, The Nest are promoting a unique bursary award – a monthly grant that seeks to nurture creative talents in the local community. Offbeat, unconventional and decidedly cool – The Nest captures the essence of Dalston whilst promising to stay true to its location’s energetic grittiness…