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New Camden bar run by The Old Blue Last and Birthdays team to open
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 2 September 2014
The team that runs The Old Blue Last and Birthdays have announced that they are opening a new venue, taking over The Record Club in Camden and rebranding it as The Stillery.
On the shift up north (London speaking), events boss at The Old Blue Last and Birthdays Ross Allmark said: “I guess the first thing is that we didn’t want to open another bar in East London. It really felt like sometime last year the whole area reached saturation point and people were just opening bars in east because that’s the accepted logic. Customers have started to experience launch-fatigue”.
He added: “For us Camden was the natural choice; when I was in my late teens and I started travelling into town it was the first area I visited, and for me will always be synonymous with alternative night life in London. The opportunity to contribute to that tradition, and hopefully bring something a little different to it, is really exciting”.
Like OBL and Birthdays, The Stillery will put on live music, though will have a less busy schedule in this regard than its sister venues. Explains Allmark: “Music is right at the heart of what we do, but with so many great venues in the area it wouldn’t make sense for us to set up another space geared solely to live stuff, so The Stillery will be a hang-out first and foremost. The live stuff will happen when something comes along that we really, really believe in”.
Due to open later this month, the new venue will operate a ‘members only’ policy after 11pm. Though membership is free and you can sign up on the door, so don’t go letting anyone who’s got it tell you they’re special.
UPDATE 2 Sep 12:48pm: The original version of this story stated that Vice was the owner of The Stillery. Although the same team behind The Old Blue Last and Birthdays will run the new venue, Vice is not involved in this new venture.
