Barfly (club)
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Barfly is a chain of live music venues nightclubs in the UK operating as part of the MAMA Group. It has venues in Brighton, London & York. They regularly feature live music. Their club nights tend to feature rock, alternative and independent music. Barfly began as one club (originally at The Falcon pub before moving to The Monarch in 2000 which was then renamed The Barfly) in Camden Town, London in 1996. A second venue was opened in Cardiff in 2001 and others followed. Following the acquisition of Mean Fiddler, Channelfly (Barfly parent company) became MAMA Group. MAMA Group Plc was founded in 2002. We are a public company focused on music and media businesses.
The Group has three divisions: -Live Music, which includes the Barfly network of live music venues, the Hammersmith Apollo, the Jazz Cafe, the Forum and the Borderline in London and also holds interests in live music events including the Lovebox festival; -Artist Services, which includes artist and producer management, music publishing, merchandising and investments in recording businesses; and -Consumer, which includes The Fly, one of the UK's widest distributed music magazines, Campus Group, a collection of specialist media and marketing agencies working for clients interested in the student and wider youth audiences and a ticketing business.
The Barfly opened in Brighton, in the Gloucester Nightclub in Gloucester Place.
Until 2003 Barfly ran a venue in Sheffield in the now defunct National Centre for Popular Music. The venue encapsulated one "pod" of the building but closed down sometime in 2002, then moving to what was then .Zero club (now The Plug) on Matilda Street. Barfly vacated these premises soon afterwards, and left Sheffield altogether.
On 2 June 2008 the Brighton Barfly (formerly the Gloucester) closed down without notice. One day later the same happened to Cambridge Barfly with the company placing "closed for refurbishment" signs on the doors to these venues. An Article in the Cambridge Crier [1] from the 13th of January 2009 said that the Cambridge Venue would open again, though the timing is unknown. It has since been converted and is now a Wetherspoons bar.
On 17 February 2009, the Glasgow Barfly also closed down without notice.
During late May 2009, Barfly Liverpool was sold to local bar owners and transformed into the Masque nightclub and music venue, the building also contains The Masques little brother bar - Ink, a free entry daily rock'n'roll bar and the only tattoo studio themed venue in the North West of England.
In August 2010, the Cardiff Barfly closed down.
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