Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington, creators of The Fridge in Brixton have forged an innovative new partnership with the prestigious Alchemea College of Audio Engineering to re-launch it as a state-of-the-art live music venue hosting a unique course for ‘Live Sound Training’.

Simultaneously, former Borderline and Mean Fiddler Group Promoter Barry Marshall-Everitt’s company House Of Mercy Ltd. have been retained to book and promote The new Live side of The Fridge, while live music industry legend Alan ‘Nobby’ Hopkinson has been appointed Head Of Live Sound.

As a result, regular live music concerts are set to return to The Fridge in Brixton for the first time in 15 years…AT LAST A GOOD LIVE MUSIC NEWS STORY!!!

Equidistant to Brixton Tube with the O2 Academy (turn left out of the tube instead of right!), the 1,100 capacity Fridge is a theatre cinema boasting a full size performance stage, proscenium arch, fantastic acoustics and perfect sightlines for all 1,100 standing customers in the auditorium and balcony and an 80 capacity VIP bar that can double as an after-show / album launch / acoustic room.

Alchemea have already sent a construction team in to build two new classrooms, while The Fridge is upgrading four new dressing rooms, new toilets, showers and production offices, plus it has plans to refurbish the lobby and fascia.

Alchemea, who are making The Fridge the home of their new Live Sound Training Course, are installing a world class PA system consisting of a d&b audiotechnik J-series PA system, Digidesign Venue Profile HD64 front of house console and a Midas XL3 Monitor desk. This course from the audio experts will give their students a unique 'hands on' experience of concert production as it happens; all the good, the bad and sometimes the down right ugly......perfect training.

New live Head of Sound Alan 'Nobby' Hopkinson’s work with Tool, Rage Against The Machine & Joan Armatrading is legendary. He was nominated this year as one of five engineers for the TEC award for Outstanding Creative Achievement for 2008 for Tour Sound Production with Tool. The other nominees mixed Bruce Springsteen, The Police, Justin Timberlake & Roger Walters.

New booker / promoter Barry Marshall-Everitt, who booked for the Borderline and Mean Fiddler for 7 years, was voted ‘Promoter Of The Year’ by the readers of Time Out in 2001, the same year that the Borderline won Time Out’s ‘Venue Of The Year’ award.

The Fridge began when legendary punk Roxy Club founders Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington opened their new club shortly after the riots in Brixton in 1981. It was originally located in a small club above Iceland at 390 Brixton Road with a radical decor that included beat-up fridges, a Pyramid of broken TV’S showing John Maybury videos and (fake) dead cats hanging from its ceiling, before relocating to its present position on Brixton Hill in 1985.

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