A city centre nightspot is to get a £500,000 facelift and a new name.

Creation in West Street, Brighton, is due to reopen as an 1800-capacity venue called TRU on Friday June 1.

The nightclub has previously been known as Sherry's, Pink Coconut and Paradox.

Owners Luminar Leisure, a national firm which runs more than 200 clubs across the country, are installing 300 mirror balls in an inverted pyramid over the main room.

They are also opening a roof terrace for smokers to use when cigarettes are banned in public places on July 1.

General manager David Joyce said: "The venue has been operating as a nightclub for decades now so it has plenty of history.

"It has played host to some the UK's biggest events and DJs including Brighton's very own Fatboy Slim on many occasions and I'm sure TRU will keep up that tradition."

Luminar also owns the neighbouring Event II, which is currently being refurbished at a cost of £5 million.

For ten years the club was Brighton's biggest nightclub venue, playing host to big-name acts including Robbie Williams, The Chemical Brothers, Embrace and Ice T.

The refit is expected to involve ten weeks of asbestos removal work.

The venue, in the Kingswest building on West Street, is due to reopen in September as superclub Oceana.

There are already eight Oceana clubs in the UK, including those in Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham and Bristol.

The clubs house different rooms, including separate nightclubs, restaurants and bars, aiming to offer "the world in one night".

Each room is themed according to a different city, such as Venice, Tokyo, Sydney, New York and Reykjavik.

Luminar director Steve Dennis said: "Oceana is going to change West Street completely and it will greatly improve it."

Creation bosses pledged to provide futuristic 'headcams' for bouncers after a night of disorder in February led police to close it down.

At a Brighton and Hove Council licensing committee hearing, Luminar, which reportedly bought Creation from The Nightclub Company for £1 million in 2005, promised the club would not offer discounts on drinks at weekends.

After talks with police, it decided to drop Leisure Sec, the agency supplying Creation's door staff, and employ Brighton firm Resolve.

Creation operates a Clubscan system, which checks proof-of-age documents such as passports, driving licences and ID cards, The club sparked controversy by banning an entire town last November.

Door staff told The Argus that Crawley's "troublemakers" were no longer welcome.

Creation admitted it had been turning Crawley revellers away for months by checking the ID of everybody who went through their door.

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