Paradiso

The main hall balcony, which puts you level with the rose window and above the crowd

A Dutch Reformed church emptied of its congregation in 1965 and was squatted, then legalised, as a music venue in 1968. The pews went, the organ stayed for a while, the stained glass remained, and the building has hosted everyone from the Rolling Stones to whoever is selling out rooms this month.

The main hall is a balcony-and-floor arrangement that keeps a fifteen-hundred-capacity room feeling intimate, the small hall upstairs books the acts that will fill the main hall in two years, and the club nights run until four.