One of the primary venues behind Brick Lane's switch from no-go area to tourist hotspot, the Vibe bar has spent 20 years offering groundbreaking events.
Sadly, as FACT point out, the team behind the venue have decided to call it quits. In a statement on Facebook, the Vibe bar organisers confirmed that the curtain will fall on November 11th.
Bar owner Alan Miller explains that "airport-style security" have helped to drive up costs and – he claims – turned clubs into "prisons".
"We do not, however, have any time for bitterness. Music & events have proven to be a catalyst for creativity in the whole post war period. From Carnaby Street in the Swinging Sixties, Kings Road in the Seventies, Camden in the Eighties and Brick Lane in the Nineties and Noughties…night time activity, brings together talent and youth from the worlds of fashion, art, business and technology all of course merging with the thing that touches our souls…music."
Check out the full statement HERE.
The final Vibe Bar party takes place on November 11th.
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