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The Fridge
Venue
Location: Brixton, London
Spaces: 1
Layout: theatre style
Promotions: Escape from Samsara
Pendragon
Love Muscle
Licensing
Capacity: 1,500
Licensing authority: Lambeth
Business
Opened: 1985
Owner:
[website]
The Fridge is a nightclub in the Brixton area of South London, founded by Andy Czezowski, who had run the near-legendary Roxy during punk music's heyday in 1977. It was originally started in 1981, in a small club at 390 Brixton Lane, and claims to have been the first British club to have such innovations as video screens and a chill out lounge. The Fridge was undeniably at the heart of the early 80s New Romantic movement, and booked such acts as Eurythmics and the Pet Shop Boys before they were well known.

In 1985, as a result of increased popularity, the club moved to its current location; a converted 1913 cinema. Since then it has hosted a variety of club nights, mostly dance music, trance and more recently mainly hard dance.

Andy Czezowski

Contrary to the contribution of a former Wikipedian, Andy Czezowski is not the well known drag queen, styling herself as Yvette. This is in fact Ian Hunter-Meek.

Recent Events

On Saturday 15 April 2006, the nightclub was raided by 200 police officers in a crack-down on drug dealing. The music was stopped and the lights turned up, as officers searched clubbers. Cocaine, ecstacy and cannabis were found, resulting in 11 arrests and further cautions. [link]

External links


Major London nightclub venues
Astoria | Electric Ballroom | The End | Fabric | The Fridge | KOKO

Marquee Club | Mean Fiddler | Ministry of Sound | Scala | Turnmills

 


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