We know a lot of you have been waiting to hear about whats been going on with White Heat over the past few weeks. About a month ago our home of ten years, Madame Jojos, was shut down due to a serious incident of disorder outside. On Thursday the council decided to revoke the venues licence rendering us homeless and its staff, our friends, out of a job. Weve been forced to cancel all of our foreseeable shows at the venue and its probably going to be impossible to have one last hurrah at Jojos for old times sake. In the last year or so weve had some incredible shows, there was Lordes first ever UK show, Cyril Hahn, Slaves, Yuck, The Orwells, Eliot Sumner, RAC, The Preatures, Chuck Palahniuk(!), Le Youth, Broods, Baio, Spector, Big Deal and Deap Vally to name a few. Going even further back through our memories of Madame Jojos weve been lucky enough to have The xx, Adele, Klaxons, The Kills, The Horrors, Factory Floor, Cold Cave, Sleigh Bells, Savages, HTRK, Wild Beasts, Crystal Fighters, Liars, Mystery Jets, Foals, Friendly Fires, Jamie T, Health, Slow Club, Crystal Fighters, Wild Beasts, Joy Formidable, Rolo Tomassi, Chairlift, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, We Were Promised jetpacks, The Juan Maclean, Zebra Katz, Azari & III, Disclosure, Gold panda, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Connan Mockasin, Two Door Cinema Club, Breton, Theophilus London, Young Fathers, Anna Calvi, Twin Shadow, Veronica Falls, Vaccines, Shabazz Palaces, Grimes, Chromatics, Purity Ring, Foxes, Say Lou Lou and many many more. Over the ten years weve been there weve put a lot into how the venue looks and sounds to make it the best live experience possible and to try and be one of the best places to watch new bands in London. So it really is gutting to have to announce that White Heat at Madame Jojos is no more. Wed like to thank every single person whos come to a show and/or partied with us late into Tuesday night, the literally thousands of bands weve had play (many of you played three or four times – 9 in one case Young Knives!), all of the agents and managers and tour managers and engineers and door people and flyering people and journalists and everyone who, over the years, has had a hand in making White Heat what it was, including Cilla Black. For now were going to weigh up our options and try to work out what we can salvage from this. Weve put on a party every week for the past ten years so its in our blood, dont expect to hear nothing. Thank you all for everything youve helped us create so far. Love from Matty, Marcus and Olly. x
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:13:01 +0000
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