London’s KOKO groups up with Coca-Cola for brand spanking new studio providing free time to rising artists
London’s legendary KOKO venue has teamed up with Coca-Cola for a brand new studio that provides free studio time to rising artists.
The Camden spot introduced the brand new partnership on Thursday (February 6), which is able to embrace the Coca-Cola Recording Studio, located throughout the Home of KOKO.
Opening on March 10, it can function “a full-time artistic dwelling for up-and-coming artists”, providing free studio time and sources. Choose artists may even be invited to play on certainly one of KOKO’s levels.
KOKO Studios managing director Seb Croft has stated: “As a long-standing, impartial venue, KOKO has at all times taken dangers, supporting new expertise as a result of we imagine in them even when others could not. This partnership with the enduring Coca-Cola model is especially rewarding, because it permits us to assist artists in a approach that we’ve by no means executed earlier than.”
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“Having such a dynamic platform in a single constructing, the place artists can create, file and carry out will enable an thrilling new period of creativity for KOKO.”
The partnership may even introduce the unique Coca-Cola Field within the KOKO Theatre, which is able to provide the prospect to win elevated live performance experiences, in addition to queue bounce entry and premium viewing for over 250 reveals per yr on the venue.
In 2022, KOKO reopened as a “state-of-the-art stay music venue spanning 50,000 sq. ft, with ambitions to ship an unrivalled expertise for stay music followers”.
It had been shut in 2019 for a deliberate £70million refurbishment, however suffered a lot of main setbacks, together with a fireplace breaking out in January 2020 after which the long-term results of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the many new options of the restored KOKO are its high-spec broadcasting, recording and livestreaming capabilities, in addition to a four-storey extension which homes the KOKO Studio.
“After three lengthy and epic years of development and restoration, I’m excited to announce that we’ll be returning KOKO to the musicians, artists and followers subsequent spring with a superbly restored theatre and stay music providing that may hopefully be a really distinctive and unparalleled expertise for everybody coming by way of the doorways,” CEO and founder Olly Bengough stated on the time.
“We’re as dedicated as ever to guard our 120 yr cultural legacy and to help the subsequent technology of musicians and London’s dynamic and ever rising music scene.”