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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
The Deptford arts centre that was a Rock Against Racism stronghold, burned down in 1978 and came back four years later.
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The Albany Institute opened in 1899, built by a Victorian charity and named for the Duchess of Albany, who cut the ribbon. It ran as a charitable institute for the neighbourhood until 1972, when a Brighton company called the Combination moved in with a brief to turn a forbidding Victorian building into something between community work and art.
What followed made it briefly one of the most important rooms in London. As the Albany Empire it became a centre of Rock Against Racism and staged fifteen benefit gigs, with Dire Straits, Squeeze and Elvis Costello among the people who played them. On 14 July 1978 the building burned down. Arson was suspected and never proved. The company re-opened in the basement that December, then in the rebuilt main hall a month later, and raised the money for a new building on Douglas Way - which Diana, Princess of Wales opened on 18 May 1982.
That is the building now: a flexible hall in the round, seating about 300 or holding 500 standing, with rehearsal rooms, a garden and a vegetarian cafe that cooks what the garden grows. The programme is theatre, music and spoken word with a strong Deptford accent, and includes Meet Me at the Albany, an arts club for the over-65s that has been running long enough to have won prizes for it.
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