Performance venues

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, and the rooms above pubs where things start. 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

Tell us what we can do better, or what you’re trying to discover.

Village Underground

Three hollowed-out Jubilee line carriages on the roof, and a Victorian warehouse under them.

GigsLateWorth it for the building

A derelict Victorian warehouse off Great Eastern Street, opened as a venue in 2006 and still independent, which almost nothing else of its generation in east London is. The main room is one long brick-and-steel hall; the programme is put together with outside promoters and collectives rather than in-house, so it swings between club nights, live sets and things that are neither.

The carriages on the roof are the reason people recognise it from the street: hollowed-out Jubilee line stock, hoisted up there and used as studios, a fixture of the Shoreditch skyline for years and closed to everyone else. The rooftop, with a bar and access to the carriages, has now opened to the public for the first time.

Where
54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ
Nearest station
Shoreditch High Street · 4 min walk

On here now

Coming up

NearbyPerformance venues

NearbyOther Categories

See more nearby listings

Submit a correction for this listing.

Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.

Which area are you in?