The Sound Lounge, London
 The Sound Lounge exterior and outdoor seating area | |
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| Location | 216-220 Sutton High Street, Sutton, London, SM1 1NU |
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| Public transit | Train: Sutton station. Buses: 80, 164, 280, S1 |
| Opened | 2020 |
| Website | |
| www.thesoundlounge.org.uk | |
The Sound Lounge is a
vinyl record shop, and, in addition to music, also hosts visual art exhibitions, theatre and dance.[2][3][4][5]
Locations, past and present
The venue's previous locations were first Merton Abbey Mills, then Tooting, then Wimbledon and then Morden before occupying the former premises of Sutton's Royal Bank of Scotland on Sutton High Street.[6][7]
Activities
Following the easing of lockdown, the Sutton and Morden venues had a limited opening in April 2021 for outdoor food and drink consumption and, at the Sutton venue,
food insecurity
.
Additional initiatives include the installation of a
sound engineers.[8]
Carbon neutrality certification
On 1 July 2021 the venue became the country's first grassroots music venue to be certified as
allotment garden on site for zero-carbon produce for the café.[9]
References
- ^ "The Sound Lounge". www.thesoundlounge.org.uk.
- ^ "Sutton Modern Government document" (PDF).
- ^ "'The risk is enormous': UK live music still in crisis after reopening". The Guardian. 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Our plan to rebuild: Sound Lounge speaks on first live event after industry hardship". Your Local Guardian.
- ^ "South London's Sound Lounge Defies All Odds To Open New Live Music Venue". www.recordoftheday.com.
- ^ Wimbledon Guardian
- ^ "Pair have 13,000 reasons why Sutton should be home to new music venue". Your Local Guardian.
- ^ "The Sound Lounge speaks on nerves, excitement and future plans amid reopening". Your Local Guardian.
- ^ Gallop, Joe (16 July 2021). "Sound Lounge becomes UK's first carbon neutral grassroots venue". Access All Areas. Retrieved 17 March 2022.