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New gig venue to open in Brixton
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 June 2011
A company called Omni Assets has invested £600,000 to turn Brixton club The Fridge into an all new 1500+ capacity competitively priced live music venue to be called Electric Brixton, according to Music Week. The new space is due to open later this year.
Omni’s Operations Director Steve Forster says he hopes the new South London venue will help compensate for the closure of some high profile central London gig spaces in recent years. He told the trade mag: “There simply isn’t a rock venue the size of the Astoria in London anymore, so we’re hoping to fill that gap in the market”.
Confirming the new venue will be offering some favourable deals to woo existing live music and club promoters, Forster added: “We’ll promote the odd event in-house, but I don’t think that will be a significant part of our business as there are some fantastic promoters out there who can do a much better job than us – it’s a volume game so we want to be open as much as possible, mixing live with club nights”.