Three friends from Portsmouth have worked together for seven weeks to ready the Moon Shine club for its opening on October 29.

The venue, that will take the place of the former Lounge club at 1 Granada Road, will include a dancefloor and speakeasy themed cocktail bar, as well as space for live music.

One of Moon Shine’s owners, Harrison Hart, was looking forward to its debut. The 25-year-old said: ‘It will be a club and music venue all in one.

‘We’ve got bands already booked in to play as well as DJs and we will have themed night for different types of music.’

Following the club’s opening, it will hold a house themed night on October 30 and a disco night on October 31.

It comes as The Lounge closed its doors several years ago. Before then the site was the Harry Limes Showbar.

One of the other owners, 26-year-old Yannick Rowe, said: ‘It’s a community music project in Portsmouth built by the people of Portsmouth, trying to represent the Portsmouth music scene. I think we are covering all types of music.

‘It’s nice to be able to regenerate the area and bring back something that’s a bit upmarket.’

Owners Harrison and Yannick also run an electrical company together. And the other owner, Jeff Gibbs, runs an interiors firm.

Together they have regenerated the venue.