Oxford’s the Cellar launches Cellar Forever crowdfunder

Faced with a catastrophic reduction in capacity to 60, the grassroots UK venue is calling on "people power" to secure its long-term future

Artists including Radiohead, Foals Gaz Coombes (pictured) are backing the Cellar Forever campaign

The Cellar, the last family run grassroots music venue in Oxford, UK, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £80,000, in a “last-ditch” bid to stay open.

The formerly 150-capacity venue, which opened in 1998, is renowned as an incubator of emerging talent, with Foals, Young Knives, Stornoway and Glass Animals all having cut their teeth at the Cellar. It has also hosted shows by artists including Mumford & Sons, Friendly Fires, Noah and the Whale, Youth Movies, Deerhoof, Fuck Buttons,…

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