The Crobar Soho Has Closed It’s Doors

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Over the weekend, it was announced one of Londons legendary rock bars, The Crobar, will not be reopening at its current location.

The bar, which has been in Soho since 2001, has been a favourite of many music fans and bands alike. The bar was a favourites of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, even hiring out the space to host a Foo Fighters’ Wembley Stadium after-party in 2008.

Other notable artists who visited the Crobar included Slash, Alice Cooper, Slayer’s Kerry King, and Gwar.

The venue made the announcement to their social media pages on Sunday (20th), in which they state “It is with more sadness and anger than I have the words to express that I have to announce that The Crobar will be unable to re-open at it’s current location.”

Going on to say “If the insurance companies had paid out, we could have paid the rent and the staffs wages and survived. If the landlords had given us a rent discount or holiday, we could have survived.”

“Sadly, our idiot government did not make either of them do what’s right, and now the bar and music industries are in tatters.”

“Years and years of hard work by pub, bar and venue owners across the country have been destroyed in the blink of an eye, and all because of the greed of a few ‘land barons’ Why did our government let this happen? Oh, that’s right, they are the land barons!”

The post went onto explain the future plans for the bar saying “On the up side, my 7 year old daughter pointed out to me that all I have to do is open a new Crobar, so that’s what I’m going to do.
I aim to open a new Crobar with both a bar and a live music venue. It will require crowd funding, and I suspect it will be a year or so before opening will be viable, but fuck the greedy insurance companies, fuck the greedy short sighted landlords and fuck our brainless government…….we will be back!”

The message ends with “Long live Rock n’ Roll 🤘”

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Dear All, It is with more sadness and anger than I have the words to express that I have to announce that The Crobar will be unable to re-open at it’s current location. If the insurance companies had paid out, we could have paid the rent and the staffs wages and survived. If the landlords had given us a rent discount or holiday, we could have survived. Sadly, our idiot government did not make either of them do what’s right, and now the bar and music industries are in tatters. Years and years of hard work by pub, bar and venue owners across the country have been destroyed in the blink of an eye, and all because of the greed of a few ‘land barons’ Why did our government let this happen? Oh, that’s right, they are the land barons! On the up side, my 7 year old daughter pointed out to me that all I have to do is open a new Crobar, so that’s what I’m going to do. I aim to open a new Crobar with both a bar and a live music venue. It will require crowd funding, and I suspect it will be a year or so before opening will be viable, but fuck the greedy insurance companies, fuck the greedy short sighted landlords and fuck our brainless government…….we will be back! Long live Rock n’ Roll

A post shared by The Crobar (@thecrobarsoho) on Sep 20, 2020 at 12:17pm PDT

Although it’s sad to see the end of The Crobar in its current form, we are excited to see what the future will hold for this legendary bar.

The Crobar isn’t the first, and won’t be the last music space that will have to announce its closure over the coming months. Many venues are still in dire need of support as opening socially distanced is just not viable, recently a petition was created to extend furlough scheme for those in the events industry. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329174