Nine Lives

Nine Lives is a low-lit Bermondsey basement bar that blends serious cocktails with a custom high-fidelity sound setup. It is not a purist, hush-everyone-down kind of listening room; it is more of a neighbourhood cocktail bar where the music is curated properly and given room to breathe. That makes it useful for the directory because it shows the more sociable London version of the listening bar: good drinks, good sound, and no feeling that you’ve wandered into a vinyl monastery.