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London’s Buffalo Bar closing, Liverpool’s Kazimier and Nation at risk
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 14 November 2014
The gig-hosting Buffalo Bar in Highbury, North London, is to close on 31 Dec after over fourteen active years.
A statement from Buffalo Bar HQ posted on Facebook reads: “We have been served a very short notice period from our new landlords. They remain undecided what to do with our space. It will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Make of that what you will”.
It goes on: “We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been involved with us; all the promoters, the DJs, the many thousands of bands and, of course, all the staff who’ve pitched in over the years”.
The bar will host one ‘Last Stance’, a live event on NYE, as a fundraiser for its full-time, soon to be unemployed staff. Tickets and details here. In the meantime, bands who’ve played its stage over the years will be headlining a series of farewell dates, starting with The Subways on 3 Dec.
Elsewhere in (possibly) bad news for independent music venues, the Kazimier – and also Cream-hosting nightclub Nation – in Liverpool may apparently be ‘at risk’ thanks to, reports the Liverpool Echo, “multi-million pound plans to rip up Wolstenholm Square to create new apartments, shops and leisure facilities”. No one ever got properly excited by leisure facilities. NO ONE. Anyway, said plans will be proposed to the local council next week.
Promoter of the Nation-based Medication night Marc Jones, one man hoping the local council throws the plans back in the developers big fat faces, informs The Echo: “We are returning to the dark days before the Capital Of Culture. The live music scene in Liverpool is dying on its feet. Every city has the same city centre now which has the same shops where no-one can find anything independent. But we want bands to be playing here, in smaller, grottier venues. We want to create a hub of independence. That is what made Liverpool famous. Plans like this take the soul out of the city”.
So, that’s all fairly doom and gloom-y. Happy Friday to all!
