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London music venue Brixton Academy to reopen with Nirvana and Smiths tribute acts


Concert hall’s licence was suspended after two people were killed in a crowd crush in December 2022

Brixton Academy is to reopen for the first time since it closed in December 2022 after a fatal crowd crush resulted in two deaths. More conventional acts will appear the following month, with the indie band Editors on 2 May and a two-night residency by the Black Keys on 7 and 8 May. In December, the family of Hutchinson urged Asake to make an appeal to fans for information about the crush.

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