KOKO (venue)
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KOKO is a music venue at the bottom of Camden High Street in Camden Town, London near Mornington Crescent tube station. It has a capacity of 1,500 and was previously known as the Camden Palace.
The venue was opened on 26 December, 1900 as The Camden Theatre and had a seating capacity of 1,600. In 1909 it was renamed to the The Camden Hippodrome and it became a full time cinema in 1911. It closed in 1940 for World War 2 and reopened as a BBC theatre in 1945. In 1970 it became a music venue called The Music Machine and was then bought by rock stars Steve Strange and Rusty Egan (Visage) in 1983 and named the Camden Palace. It closed in February 2004 and re-opened in September 2004 as KOKO. The previous industrial fittings of the Camden Palace were removed and it was repainted in a dark red colour.
Since then it has hosted concerts for bands like of Coldplay, Madonna, and Babyshambles and has regular weekly club nights.
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KOKO Marquee Club | Mean Fiddler | Ministry of Sound | Scala | Turnmills |
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