The Garage (London)

The Garage is a live music and club venue in Highbury, North London. It opened in 1993 and has a capacity of 600. The upstairs room, also known as the Grace, has a capacity of 150.^[1]

The Garage

The venue in 2008
Location	20-22 Highbury Corner Highbury London, N5 England
Public transit	Highbury & Islington
Owner	DHP Family
Type	Music venue
Genre(s)	Rock, metal, hip hop, pop
Opened	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Website
thegarage.london

The venue has hosted a number of underplays,^{[clarification needed]} with the Killers, Jack White, Mumford & Sons Suede Sugababes and The 1975 being among some of the most recent^[when?] acts to play the venue.^[2][3][4][5] Other acts who have passed through the doors include Green Day, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paramore, Oasis and My Chemical Romance.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

The Garage was originally a Temperance Billiard Hall which quickly gained a reputation for serving great pies, as well as being a haunt for local villains in the sixties.^[13] The Highbury Mob often used the Billiard Hall as a meeting place. It became the London Town & Country Club 2, a sister venue to the Town and Country Club (now the Forum in Kentish Town), which is when the first live music events began to be programmed in the building.^[14][15]

In 1993, the building was officially reopened as the Garage with Pulp being the first big name to play the venue in May 1993.^[16] The venue was renamed the Garage by Mean Fiddler, after the Lex Garage which was once next door. In 2007 it was taken over by MAMA & Company.^[17] Jazz Cafe and The Borderline were also included in the acquisition, incorporating them in to the MAMA Group's estate from August.

In June 2009, the Garage was relaunched as the Relentless Garage with joint naming rights with Relentless Energy Drinks.It was taken over by DHP Family in 2016.^[18] This led to a complete revamp of the whole venue in March 2017 to create an all day bar as well as an intimate 150 capacity venue, The Grace, upstairs. A new layout, bar, sound and lighting system for the Garage was also added.

It is booked by Conrad Rogan & Scott Kennedy

The Garage has had acts such as Harry Styles, Jack White, Alt-J, Mystery Jets, Rina Sawayama, Jax Jones, Tory Lanez, the Rifles and War Child’s 25th anniversary shows in performance.^{[19][20][21][22][23][24]}

References

1. The Garage production specs http://static.thegaragehighbury.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Garage-Venue-Specs-20142.pdf 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
2. "The Killers rush from Wembley Stadium gig to play tiny London club show - NME". NME. 23 June 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
3. "Jack White announces intimate shows in Los Angeles, New York and London - NME". NME. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
4. "Mumford and Sons play intimate Garage XFM show in aid of War Child - NME". NME. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
5. Hall, James (17 October 2013). "Suede, The Garage, review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
6. "Live in concert iat The Garage in Islington - April 1, 1994". Getty Images. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
7. "Franz Ferdinand Setlist at Relentless Garage, London". setlist.fm. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
8. "Fred Perry Sub-Sonic Live, Temples, Telegram and The Merrylees". 1883 Magazine. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
9. "Jagwar Ma London / September 2014". www.fredperry.com. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
10. "Review The Garage London May 2002". Red Hot Chili Peppers fansite, news and forum - thechilisource.com. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
11. "Paramore Setlist at Relentless Garage, London". setlist.fm. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
12. "My Chemical Romance Setlist at Springloaded 2004". setlist.fm. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
13. "General Natter". Barnsbury Boys. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
14. "ROCK / The mourning after: RIP the T&C? North London's best-loved". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
15. "The Town And Country Club 2, London - Live Music". www.45worlds.com. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
16. "PulpWiki - 15th May 1993 - The Garage, London (live)". www.pulpwiki.net. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
17. Fildes, Nic (15 August 2007). "MAMA'S PLANS FOR SWEET MUSIC". The Independent. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
18. "DHP Family buys London Live Nation venues [updated] | IQ Magazine". IQ Magazine. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
19. "HARRY STYLES [SOLD OUT] | The Garage". thegarage.london. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
20. "Wolf Alice, Alt-J & More For War Child BRITs Week Shows". Radio X. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
21. "MYSTERY JETS – JETROSPECTIVE: CURVE OF THE EARTH | The Garage". thegarage.london. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
22. "UP NEXT – JAX JONES | The Garage". thegarage.london. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
23. "TORY LANEZ (SOLD OUT) | The Garage". thegarage.london. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
24. "THE RIFLES – FIVE NIGHT STAND: BIG LIFE | The Garage". thegarage.london. Retrieved 29 August 2018.

External links

• Official website
• Thousand Island on Facebook

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