More appointments have been made to the event programming team at Outernet, the new central London entertainment complex adjacent to Denmark Street and across the road from where the old Astoria venue used to be situated.
The new complex has two venues in it. The bigger venue, with a 2000 capacity, has now been named HERE. Meanwhile, a smaller space based around the old 12 Bar venue in Denmark Street will be known as The Lower Third. It was originally thought that space would continue to be known as 12 Bar, although there was a dispute with the founder of the old venue over the rights to that brand.
Leo Green - who was formerly Director Of Live Events at Live Nation and has worked at other London venues like The O2 and Ronnie Scotts - was previously confirmed as Artistic Director for the main venue at Outernet. And now several other people have been confirmed as members of the wider Outernet Live team.
Chloe Mitchell - who previously worked at Flat Iron Square and Omeara - becomes Programming Manager, while Nicolas Matar and Simon Denby both join the team as Electronic Music Directors. Matar has previously DJed in Ibiza and run clubs in the US, while Denby is co-owner of dance music promoter Percolate and co-founded the Waterworks and Body Movements festivals.
Confirming all this, Karrie Goldberg - who is heading up the Outernet venues alongside Robert Butters - says: "We are THRILLED to be joined by this epic team of experts to launch these groundbreaking new venues this summer. We are proud to be a completely independent venue space, open to all promoters and live entertainment operators and we look forward to showing you what the programming team have been busy working on in the coming months”.
As Goldberg notes there, the two new venues will both open this summer.