London Forum

London Forum

Location	Kentish Town, London
Opened	1993 (As London Forum)
Owner	MAMA Group
Capacity	2,450
Website	www.kentishtownforum.com

The appearance of the London Forum as of 2007 before the renovation.

The London Forum, or sometimes Kentish Town Forum is a well-known venue for concerts in Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom owned by the MAMA Group. The venue was built in 1934 and was originally used as an art deco cinema. After the closure of the cinema, The Town & Country Club was established on the site as a new music venue. This was bought by Mean Fiddler in 1993 and renamed The London Forum.

In 2007, MAMA Group purchased the Forum from Mean Fiddler and spent £1.5 million refurbishing it. It now boasts a fully seated option as well as a new PA and light system. The refurbishment also created a new bar and increased the capacity from 2,300 to 2,450.

Notable acts who have performed at The Forum

• Athlete
• Bauhaus (their two last-ever UK gigs)
• Bowling For Soup
• Chase and Status
• Coheed and Cambria
• Coldplay
• The Corrs
• Current 93 (played two shows with their friends commemorating David Tibet's 50th birthday in May 2010)
• The Dead Weather
• Deftones
• Cathedral (due to play the last show of their 21 year career at the Forum on December 3rd 2011)
• Fugazi (played their last concerts to-date here on November 2, 3, 4, 2002)
• Gorillaz
• Gustavo Cerati
• Hard-Fi
• Incubus
• Dead By Sunrise
• James Brown (played his second to last London shows here in June 2005)
• Killing Joke (original line up for the first time in 20 years)
• King Prawn (their last ever London show and live DVD was at The Forum)
• The Lemonheads
• The Libertines (one of their performances at The Forum was named amongst the top 100 gigs of all time by Q magazine.)
• The Magic Numbers
• Marillion (June, 2007 - filmed and released on CD and DVD as Somewhere In London)
• Miyavi
• Mudhoney
• Oasis
• PJ Harvey
• Porcupine Tree
• The Presidents of the United States of America
• Pulp
• The Quireboys
• Scala and Kolacny Brothers (2011)
• Skindred (their biggest London show to date, was filmed professionally and played on Scuzz TV in the UK)
• Sum 41
• Tangerine Dream (November, 2008 - filmed and released on CD and DVD as The London Eye Concert)
• Thunder
• The Vaccines (2011)
• Van Morrison (the last artist to perform at the Town and Country Club, and the first to perform at The Forum)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic (first ever London show)
• The Who (first UK shows without John Entwistle)
• Wu-Tang Clan (2011 Rebirth Tour)

External links

• read more about Summer Line
• London Forum web site