{"id":624081,"date":"2026-10-08T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624081\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:16:11","slug":"aucklands-sapphire-nightclub-shuts-its-doors-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624081\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland\u2019s Sapphire Nightclub shuts its doors after eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Known for hosting hip-hop club nights, the underground club has been a student haunt since opening in 2018. <\/p>\n

Artists including Lil Uzi Vert, Central Cee and Trippie Redd have appeared at the bar over the years as it became a hub for the Auckland scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of this happens without the people,\u201d the post continued, thanking staff for being its \u201cheart\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the rest of our amazing team, past and present: thank you for the energy, the loyalty, and the countless late nights. You were the heart of Sapphire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post also thanked clubgoers for their continued support.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to every single one of you who came through, celebrated with us and made this place your own: thank you for eight years of love and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The venue had already shut for a month after nearby bar Mr Murdoch\u2019s<\/a> caught fire on June 25.<\/p>\n

Other establishments across Auckland have closed this year, including Ponsonby bar Deadshot and Karangahape Rd institution Verona Cafe and Bar.<\/p>\n

The latter had been a fixture of the city centre throughout the 1990s and 2000s, inspiring the Elemeno P song Verona, but went into liquidation in April.<\/p>\n

Auckland Museum announced on social media yesterday that Verona\u2019s iconic signage would be added to its collection.<\/p>\n

\u201cA popular community hub for K Rd denizens for over three decades, the sign outside \u2013 made from a former freezing works carcass slider adorned with gold sequins \u2013 was instantly recognisable to passers-by.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for hosting hip-hop club nights, the underground club has been a student haunt since opening in 2018.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,51,3952,115,6789,6741,13845,8127,8985,42,302,32739,43,99386,10903,54915,57343,40,38,41,39,6923,1530],"class_list":["post-624081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-calls","tag-closing","tag-doors","tag-eight","tag-end","tag-era","tag-headlines","tag-its","tag-marking","tag-news","tag-nightclub","tag-popular","tag-sapphire","tag-shuts","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-what","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}