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| Location | 2 Clifton Rise / 325 to 327 New Cross Road New Cross, London, SE14 |
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| Capacity | 1400 |
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| Closed | 2020 |
The Venue was a music venue and nightclub in a former cinema located in New Cross, London, England.
The building first opened as a cinema named the New Cross Super Kinema in 1925. This was shortened to the New Cross Kinema in 1927, [1] and further to just Kinema in 1948. During this time the building also housed the New Cross Palais de Danse. [2] It became the Gaumont New Cross in 1950. [3]
After this it was an Irish traditional music and Irish country dance hall named The Harp Club. [4] In the 1970s the club hired out its rooms for reggae nights. [5] By the late 1980s it had also become a venue for genres such as indie pop, goth, and acid house. [6] [7] [8]
It opened as The Venue in April 1989. [9] [10] Artists to perform there included Oasis, [11] Pulp, [12] Suede, [13] Blur, Lush, [14] Radiohead, [15] Chumbawamba, [16] Teenage Fanclub, [17] Mudhoney, Hole, [18] Front Line Assembly, [19] Current 93, [20] The Melvins, [21] Shed 7, [22] The Cardiacs, [23] and Subhumans. [24]
Boxer Dominic Negus was a bouncer there for a time. [25]
By the 2000s the majority of live concerts there were tribute acts, [26] and it largely functioned more as a DJ-oriented nightclub. [27]
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