Academy Music Group

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Academy Music Group (or AMG) is a leading owner-operator of music venues in the United Kingdom. They operate a number of medium sized venues, the majority of which (until Jan 2009) took the name Carling Academy after their sponsor Carling. Some of these academies also contain smaller venues used for less well known acts. These typically take the title 'Carling Academy 2'.

The Academy Music Group, has formed a new partnership with the O2 phone network to allow customers of the company to receive priority access to tickets at the venues. The new deal sees eleven UK venues renamed O2 Academies from 1 January 2009 with O2 phone customers able to buy tickets to gigs up to two days before non-O2 customers in the UK",^[1] as part of a £22.5m deal between telecommunications company O2 and music promoter Live Nation who own 51% of the venues.^[2]

Academy Music Group currently owns and operates the following venues:

• O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (Capacity 2,000)

• O2 Academy Brixton (Capacity 4,921)

• O2 Academy Birmingham (Capacity 3,000) (Until September 2009 as is scheduled for demolition, The Academy is moving to the former Dome nightclub premises on Bristol Street in Birmingham)

• O2 Academy 2 Birmingham (2 Configurations: Capacity 600/400)
• O2 Academy 3 Birmingham (Capacity 289)

• O2 Academy Bristol (Capacity 1,900 clubs/1,600 gigs)

• O2 Academy 2 Bristol

• O2 Academy Glasgow (Capacity 2,500)

• O2 Academy Liverpool (Capacity 1,200)

• O2 Academy 2 Liverpool (Capacity 500)

• O2 Academy Newcastle (Capacity 2,000)

• Carling Academy 2 Newcastle (Capacity 400)

• O2 Academy Islington (Capacity 800)

• O2 Academy 2 Islington (Capacity 250)

• O2 Academy Oxford (Capacity 1350)

• O2 Academy Sheffield. Acquired in November 2007, formerly Roxy Disco Nightclub. Full renovation needed on time of acquisition costing £3,000,000 according to the Sheffield AMG website, opens April 2008. Former capacity is 2,500.

• O2 Academy Leeds. AMG acquired the former Town and Country club in Leeds city centre and opened it in October 2008. (Capacity 2,300)

• Leeds Academy 2 (Capacity 400)

• O2 Academy Brighton. Newly acquired. Due to open in 2008

• O2 ABC Glasgow (Capacity 1362) Newly acquired venue located in Glasgow City Centre

• O2 ABC2 (Capacity 350)

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[edit] External links

• Official Website