The Fridge reopening as Electric Brixton
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Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Excellent news. It's a great space and with £600,000 being ploughed into it it should have some top spec sound and lighting gear. Let's just hope the bar prices aren't extortionate and the security aren't a bunch of meatheads. If they get it right it should be a big success.
southlondoncity
New Member
Great, I look forward to seeing those pictures
This morning I saw a couple of men working on the sign outside so I imagine things must be moving along fairly quickly
This morning I saw a couple of men working on the sign outside so I imagine things must be moving along fairly quickly
editor
hiraethified
I took a look around yesterday. It's looking very nice indeed!
More: http://www.urban75.org/blog/a-look-inside-the-electric-brixton-formerly-the-brixton-fridge/
More: http://www.urban75.org/blog/a-look-inside-the-electric-brixton-formerly-the-brixton-fridge/
story
Changing the facts
Yay for the Fridge! 
Have to start practicing saying Brixton Electric... or Electric Brixton, was it?
Anyway, good pics, editor.
But the Scala is entirely shit. Unless it's their only UK gig, even if I want to see the band, I don't go. Even if it's free, I don't go.
Have to start practicing saying Brixton Electric... or Electric Brixton, was it?
Anyway, good pics, editor.
But the Scala is entirely shit. Unless it's their only UK gig, even if I want to see the band, I don't go. Even if it's free, I don't go.
editor
hiraethified
The building has taken a fair bit of damage over the years, with some club alterations taking big chunks out of some original features. They're putting some details back in, although they're not doing a total restoration, so that top panel won't be coming back.Looks fantastic!
Although I guess they're only restoring the surviving detailing, not replacing the bits that are missing - see the missing panels in that shot?
They have taken out an awful lot of the shit that had accumulated over the years and removed some of the really jarring features (like the piles of scaffolding that were either side of the stage). The end result is much better sight lines and a much nicer looking venue.
The ceiling - parts of which were fire damaged in the 80s - will be covered by a velvet drape, and they're building an outdoor smoking area. The blue/gold colour scheme looks lovely and I think they're doing a pretty good job of this. It's going to be great having the place open again!
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Yeah but it's established and promoters use it and it's a good location.
It would actually take a lot to tempt me to the Scala and as for SBE - no way.
My favourite rooms are Electric Ballroom and the Forum.
ajdown
Posting in this thread
Try Street Pastors. They've made a huge difference in other parts of the country and I reckon Brixton would benefit hugely from a team.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
The security were well heavy handed.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Very cool that the new venue will be used to train sound engineers
That's from 2009. The old Fridge website detailed it fully, they used it to train too... (or said they were on the website)
E2A: Still there: http://www.fridge.co.uk/fridge_specs.html
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Very cool that the new venue will be used to train sound engineers
It did in its last incarnation as well.
....Which Kanda noticed before me.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
I sure hope the security is not the old crew. Very unpleasant is a bit of an understatement. then again there was the once when I met a nice guy there.
Good venue for gigs. I remember squatting the stage at the end of a RDf gig there and we actually had people dancing before the stage manager cuts the sound off.
Good venue for gigs. I remember squatting the stage at the end of a RDf gig there and we actually had people dancing before the stage manager cuts the sound off.
T & P
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Back when I used to occasionally go, in the late 90s and early 80s, there was a gay club on Saturdays there, if memory serves. It wasn't Antipodean-dominated then. On Fridays there were various themes I think; a fondly remembered one was Escape from Samsara, a really good trance club night. Good times were had in that venue
editor
hiraethified
It's a long story but that gear was all put in, then taken out and now it's all going back in again!Very cool that the new venue will be used to train sound engineers
snowy_again
Slush
The concept of AJ being a prog dance fan has addled my brain!
Wasn't Love Muscle there on a saturday, or was that just in the Piano Building / Sub Club?
Oh yes... they were indeed on consecutive nights...
I know one group of lads who arrived all ready to Escape from Samsara on a Saturday, only to discover they had the wrong night... To their enormous credit they decided to give Love Muscle a go - and one of them had a very surprising, and formative, encounter.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I ended up at a gay night there - not sure it was LM - where bizarrely the downstairs space seemed to be occupied by a mixed Italian school party. Went for a wander upstairs and was told in the friendliest terms by someone coming down the stairs that I really shouldn't...
/straight shame
/straight shame
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
It could have been the making of you!
