Power Lunches Arts Café in Dalston is closing

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Power Lunches Arts Café in Dalston is the latest venue to announce it is closing. We think it’s incredibly important that every reads the Power Lunches’ statement:

“Hi everyone and thanks for your kind messages. Yes I’m afraid we are closing, in the last year it has become financially unviable for us to carry on without compromising the integrity of what power lunches is known and loved for.

We all know it it has become increasingly difficult to do good stuff in a city that is so focused on making a profit without much concern for anything else but we’ve had 4 great years and we hope everyone will remember us fondly knowing we did our best to support independent bands and promoters in London.

There is a chance we will reopen at a new premises in the new year but in the mean time please give DIY Space for London all your support and come and help us go out in style on the 19th.

Thanks to everyone who played , promoted, bought drinks, hung out, danced and made Power Lunches Power Lunches. Peace Love & Best wishes everyone at PL xxx “

In our report to the Mayor of London, and in our presentations to parliament, the House of Lords, Ed Vaizey, John Whittingdale, DCMS, DCLG and others we have repeatedly said the same thing for the last year:

It is commercially non-viable to run a grassroots music venue in the UK, especially in London, and until everybody, the government, cultural sector and the music industry, works together to make it viable these venues will continue to close.

Cut the costs. Deregulate. Agent of Change.

These issues aren’t complicated, just act.