Why we may not be dancing in nightclubs quite as soon as we think After 15 months of closure, the return of nightclubs holds the key to our "summer of fun". Then why are club owners being left in the dark? The Ministry of Sound is planning to reopen on June 25th Credit: Ministry of Sound Where will you be when the clubs reopen? On June 21, all jabbed up and with somewhere to actually go, nightclubs have been designated as the sites at which the starting pistol is jubilantly fired on a predicted ‘third Summer of Love’. Merry summer, Covid is over, let’s party like it’s 1999. Or, even, 2019.