the legendary Nambucca venue on London’s Holloway Road would be closing its doors, having “tried everything they could” to stay afloat.
Championing new and upcoming acts, they’ve played host to early gigs from the likes of The Libertines, Florence + The Machine, Frank Turner and Wolf Alice.
The venue’s final night as Nambucca will take place this weekend on Saturday (May 14).In a statement that was issued when the closure was announced, the Music Venue Trust said of the issues facing the UK’s grassroots gig spaces: “Gentrification, development, noise, rent demands, excessive charges, poor working conditions, there are so many challenges.
However. everything we deal with eventually comes back to the same core problem. That problem is ownership.“Like 93 per cent of music venues in the UK, this venue operator does not own the venue.
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