New nightclub and music venue Amber’s opening in Manchester

A brand new nightclub and music venue is ready to open in Manchester later this yr. Discover extra particulars beneath.

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Amber’s, a 1000-capacity music venue on Oxford Street in Manchester, will open its doorways on December 5. They’ll provide reside music and membership occasions throughout two rooms at an “inexpensive value level”.

To rejoice the opening night time, the venue is holding a launch occasion with an unannounced line-up that includes “among the world’s finest DJs alongside up-and-coming selectors and world-class residents,” per a press launch.

It will mirror their upcoming weekly ‘Saturdays at Amber’s’, which is able to function unannounced artists solely revealed post-event, with tickets priced at £5. For occasions in December, tickets will go on sale subsequent Friday (November 1) at 10am. You possibly can signal as much as pre-sale entry through their website, which is able to assist you to purchase tickets 24 hours prematurely.

In an announcement, a consultant from the venue mentioned: “At Amber’s we wish the music, sound and vibe to be the rationale you come again. We purpose to convey among the finest artists on this planet to our membership, to play at an inexpensive value level, with the deal with sensible music and sound, each single week.”

Amber’s opening comes at a time of disaster for UK venues and follows the latest information that North West England suffered the worst music venue closures within the nation final yr. “We’re completely conscious of the local weather in the meanwhile relating to nightclubs and venues in hassle,” says Amber’s co-founder Hutch. “So we purpose to foster an setting the place promoters, artists and attendees can thrive and develop collectively.”

In December, Mark Davyd, the CEO of Music Venue Belief, advised NME that 2023 had been the worst yr for venue closures. He mentioned: “It’s been the worst yr ever for venue closures,” he mentioned. “The rise of prices and vitality is extraordinary and no one appears to care, the rise in rents is simply astonishing with landlords making an attempt to generate income again they may have misplaced throughout COVID by quickly growing rents past the potential for what may be paid.”

And an MVT report from January echoed his feedback, discovering that grassroots venues are going through a “catastrophe”. That is regardless of, because the Belief’s COO, Beverley Whitrick, telling the Home of Commons, “23.6million folks visited a grassroots music venue within the UK in 2023, which is a rise on the earlier yr. Generally folks say to us after they ask about closures, ‘Is it that persons are not concerned about going anymore?’ In fact, that’s not the case in any respect.