Matt V 

My gf and I “met” here (we had previously met through our mutual friend before but we didn’t really connect until our mutual friend’s birthday party here) 4 years ago, and now looking back, we would love to use the space to have our wedding – sad to see that it’s a Marshalls now.
I remember when this place was still Sega City Playdium which too closed down as video game consoles became what they are today and no one would go to the arcades anymore.
Signs of the times. 

12:31 am on July 10, 2013 







ksab

Circa was one of the first clubs I attended when I turned 19. Now at 25 I can honestly say I am completely over and tired of going to clubs to party. They are all boring,repetitive and generally the same. Circa was my absolute favourite club, until this day it still remains my favourite. No other club has EVER been able to top Circa for me. My heart broke when I heard it was closed. I had some of the best memories there when I was still an undergrad. I loved everything about it, it’s dark, cynical, mysterious wonderland theme. I loved that every time I went there it was like a new adventure. I would always get lost! And that is so much more fun than being packed like sardines in a tiny matchbox club. I am very sad that Circa is gone and I often walk by the building and can’t help but get upset when I see the vacant, empty state it’s in. A building that once was so full of life, music, laughter, noise, excitement.  I wish Circa would reopen it’s doors. 

3:24 pm on June 6, 2013 







Nim 

Great Article. Lots of details. and although a disaster it takes a huge risk and alot of balls to open a super club like that. Kuddos to Peter for taking a vision and turning it to reality. 

9:42 am on October 28, 2012 






Mona G 

I met some of my best friends and had the best times at Randomland. I only have the best mems. 

6:04 pm on October 23, 2012 







oize

I remember going there opening night. Complete disaster. Huge lines for drinks, bars looked like that had just been stocked (this story provided insight as to why, thank you) and credit card/debit terminals weren’t working. Couple that with the fact that if you lost your friends in the club you were FUCKED. Cell phone service was atrocious in that building.
ADD programmed some great events there, though. It’s just too bad that, like Victor said, the city was shifting towards smaller venues on Queen and Ossington like The Social to party and hipsters didn’t want to travel to doucheland to party on a weekly basis unless there was a must-see DJ. 

4:51 pm on October 23, 2012 







Da Clubber 

WOW time does change peoples minds…. Circa was a mess right from the start and Peter G was arrogant and thought he was the club king…..
They hired no proven promoters who had a track record of holding down a party… Any Joe blow can pack the new hot spot but it takes someone who knows how to keep it fresh…
Peter Gatien is no Charles K. in deed 

7:36 pm on October 22, 2012 







VictorStorm 

Peter Gatien is no Charles K.
By the time Circa was opening, Clubland had a target on it’s back and Toronto was shifting away from a mega-club type city into more of a bar type with King street and Ossington about to explode. 
Had Circa opened 10 years before it did…they might have had a chance at success. It will forever be known as financial disaster of epic proportions. ….and nothing else! 

4:05 pm on October 22, 2012 






Brian 

The place was amazing, too bad they were not bringing the wright dj’s, that place deserved superstar international dj’ that is like Tiesto instead, they were going local, gay, and hip hop. Toronto will never see a mega club like that again, it was too beautiful for Toronto, Toronto does not have a world class nightlife. 

2:35 pm on October 22, 2012 






Markus 

That place was a dud from the begging. Hordes of suburbanites descended on that area and ruined the authentic nightlife that was happening in that area. It turned into a bunch of bros puking, fighting and yelling. If there was anything decent from Circa it would of birth a new night in the city. Everything that started at Circa thankfully died there. No one misses that tourist trap cesspool. 

2:21 pm on October 22, 2012 






AG 

Markus – clearly you never set foot in there on a Friday night… 

2:34 pm on October 22, 2012 







Mister E Man 

Circa was the best…the ballroom on a Friday night was the best thing I’ve ever witnessed in Toronto nightlife and at that point I had been partying for a good 10-15 years. It will never be duplicated, thanks to everyone who made it possible! 
 
1:23 pm on October 22, 2012