Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue
After 10 years of avant garde mayhem, the rough-diamond Salford venue is set to close. Its founders look back on their artistic free-for-all and explain how its spirit will continue ‘The White Hotel is similar to the Highlander and Keith Richards. It’s immortal,” declares Austin Collings. Collings is the artistic director of the Salford venue – housed in a former MOT garage – that over the past decade has become a generator for underground culture in the north-west. A programme that has spanned
Andrew Weatherall
Austin Collings
Ben Ward
Bertolt Brecht
Blackpool
Damo Suzuki
Diana
Manchester Collective
Salford
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Raves, théâtre de Brecht et reconstitution des funérailles de Diana : le White Hotel tire sa révérence, salle de concert la plus audacieuse du nord de l'Angleterre
Après dix ans d’expérimentation artistique débridée, la salle mythique de Salford ferme en janvier. Ses créateurs racontent son esprit libre et ses projets de renaissance à Blackpo...