The Garage (London)

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The Garage
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The Garage (London)
Location20-22 Highbury Corner
Highbury
London, N5
England
Public transit Underground no-text.svg Overground roundel (no text).svg National Rail logo.svg Highbury & Islington
OwnerDHP Family
Type Music venue
Genre(s)
Opened1993;31 years ago (1993)
Website
thegarage.london

The Garage is a live music and club venue in Highbury, North London. It opened in 1993 and has a capacity of 600. The upstairs room, also known as the Grace, has a capacity of 150. [1]

The venue has hosted a number of underplays,[ clarification needed ] with the Killers, Jack White, Mumford & Sons Suede Sugababes and The 1975 being among some of the most recent[ when? ] acts to play the venue. [2] [3] [4] [5] Other acts who have passed through the doors include Green Day, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paramore, Oasis and My Chemical Romance. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

The Garage was originally a Temperance Billiard Hall which quickly gained a reputation for serving great pies, as well as being a haunt for local villains in the sixties. [13] The Highbury Mob often used the Billiard Hall as a meeting place. It became the London Town & Country Club 2, a sister venue to the Town and Country Club (now the Forum in Kentish Town), which is when the first live music events began to be programmed in the building. [14] [15]

In 1993, the building was officially reopened as the Garage with Pulp being the first big name to play the venue in May 1993. [16] The venue was renamed the Garage by Mean Fiddler, after the Lex Garage which was once next door. In 2007 it was taken over by MAMA & Company. [17] Jazz Cafe and The Borderline were also included in the acquisition, incorporating them in to the MAMA Group's estate from August.

In June 2009, the Garage was relaunched as the Relentless Garage with joint naming rights with Relentless Energy Drinks.It was taken over by DHP Family in 2016. [18] This led to a complete revamp of the whole venue in March 2017 to create an all day bar as well as an intimate 150 capacity venue, The Grace, upstairs. A new layout, bar, sound and lighting system for the Garage was also added.

It is booked by Conrad Rogan & Scott Kennedy

The Garage has had acts such as Harry Styles, Jack White, Alt-J, Mystery Jets, Rina Sawayama, Jax Jones, Tory Lanez, the Rifles and War Child’s 25th anniversary shows in performance. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

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References

  1. ↑ The Garage production specs http://static.thegaragehighbury.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Garage-Venue-Specs-20142.pdf Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "The Killers rush from Wembley Stadium gig to play tiny London club show - NME". NME. 23 June 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Jack White announces intimate shows in Los Angeles, New York and London - NME". NME. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Mumford and Sons play intimate Garage XFM show in aid of War Child - NME". NME. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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  20. ↑ "Wolf Alice, Alt-J & More For War Child BRITs Week Shows". Radio X. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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  22. ↑ "UP NEXT – JAX JONES | The Garage". thegarage.london. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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