Quarry is the latest victim in the closure of live music venues across the UK in favour of new development projects. Quarry is an independent grassroots music venue that also serves as a recording studio and arts space. The venue opened back in 2020 on Love Lane inside an unused railway arch in an industrial area of the city centre. The Quarry team announced in late November that they would be closing in 2025 due to plans to turn the units on Love Lane into a luxury apartment complex.
This comes as no surprise, as for a city with musical history buried so deep in its bones, it seems that supporting music venues has become unimportant. Liverpool has benefitted for decades from the tourism brought by musicians who, had they not had access to independent venues like the ones that are closing every year throughout the UK, would have never had the fame that attracts millions to the city every year. This is not a problem unique to Liverpool (or the UK for that matter), as according to Music Venue Trust, a charity that supports grassroots venues in the UK, 125 live music venues permanently closed in 2023.
Luckily the Quarry team are not giving up so easily and have already started hosting a series of events to support them in opening a new venue - Quarry 2.0 - including a gig which was headlined by Liverpool collective STONE. In addition to this they have also set up a GoFundMe. If you can, please go and support Quarry, we can’t lose another venue!
Thanks for reading,
Kat xx
SAVE QUARRY!
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