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Bull & Gate up for sale
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 17 November 2011
North London gig venue the Bull & Gate is up for sale, if you have £2.7 million to spare. The family who own the pub venue are reportedly keen to pursue new projects, though the sale possibly indicates times are still hard at the grass roots end of the live industry.
The estate agents managing the sale say they hope a new buyer will capitalise on the Kentish Town property’s musical heritage and keep it as a gig venue, though they admit the building “will obviously appeal to investors and developers” who might have quite different plans for it.
Of course a number of smaller gig venues in North London have disappeared in recent years, including The Flowerpot also in Kentish Town, The Luminaire in Kilburn, and if you go back a few years the Tally Ho opposite the Bull & Gate. The closures are probably in part due to a general shift east by London’s new music community, though, of course, the team behind The Flowerpot did find a new home quite near by at The Wheelbarrow on Camden High Street.
