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Scala

Four floors of a 1920 cinema, stacked so you can hear the band from the stairs.

GigsLateWorth it for the building

It opened on 26 April 1920 as the King's Cross Cinema, seating about thirteen hundred, and closed as an Odeon in August 1970. The Scala repertory cinema moved in from Tottenham Street in 1981 and ran all-night double bills until a court case over an unlicensed screening of A Clockwork Orange finished it.

As a music venue since 1999 it uses the whole building — the old stalls, the circle, a bar at the top — and the layout means the room feels full at any size of crowd.

Where
275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL
Nearest station
King's Cross St Pancras · 3 min walk

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