086 VENUE
HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN LONDON, UK
EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA When you bring together one of the UK’s most forward thinking entertainment groups and one of London’s most fashionable boroughs, the level of expectation on a venue is always going to be pretty high. Such was the case with Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, one of the MAMA Group’s most popular live music venues. The group itself is a live venue and artist management company that owns and operates a number of live music venues and festivals in the UK, with a portfolio that includes six London venues and four regional venues: The Forum in Kentish Town, The Borderline, The Jazz Cafe, The Garage in Islington, The Barfly; The Institute in Birmingham, The Picture House in Edinburgh, The Ritz in Manchester and East Village Arts Club in Liverpool. The latest addition to its successful staple is Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, a 450-capacity live music venue, bar
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and restaurant, situated in the heart of Shoreditch, London. Before the MAMA Group took ownership, the venue already had a glowing reputation from the cool set in London, an underground haven where the best new bands from across the world would come and tear it up on the small stage, a place where you saw the next best thing and were seen doing so. In short, it was a reputation of a particular kind of quality that many felt couldn’t be improved upon. But MAMA Group has, with the help of audio solutions from TC Group brands, Tannoy and Lab.gruppen. One of the Hoxton originals, Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen is a multi-room venue, with a main bar, a second bar and restaurant area, and then the venue itself providing a separate space for live music and club nights. With that kind of multi-purpose usage and a quality