Info

Mon-Tues: 5PM – 10.30PM

Wednesday 5PM- 12 midnight

Thursday: 5PM – 2AM

Friday: 5PM – 3AM

Saturday: 5PM – 3AM

Sunday: 5PM – 12AM

We look forward to welcoming you to Hootananny. We have an over 18s license. You are required to bring your ID and show it when the box office is open after 11pm, regardless of age. The box office will scan your ID in compliance with local licensing requirements but also in compliance with GDPR regulations. Please check our privacy policy. The club can turn down entry on the basis of age, inebriation, prior bad behaviour. Our license requires it to be a proprietary members club to which only members gain entrance after 11pm who may be turned away on the basis of age, inebriation, prior bad behaviour. Admission is at the box office.  The club holds AGMS every April to which all members are invited.  We look forward to welcoming you to all our gigs before or after 11pm.

Hootananny Brixton is an inclusive venue. This is our Access statement.

Contact Details: Hootananny office 9-5pm, Email info@hootananny.co.uk. The telephone is not always answered for the pub/venue/backpackers hostel, as the receptionist multi-tasks: the number is 020 7737 7273

Venue Description: From the beer garden, there is one step to access the pub entrance. There is also a further step to enter the door. There are two ramps available there which security will assist in putting in place when required.

How to Apply: Personal Assistant tickets: Please arrange at the box office on the night. Hootananny Brixton offer a PA ticket at no additional charge to a Deaf or disabled customer who cannot attend our venue without support. You may be asked for evidence.

Accessible viewing area: If you require a high stool to watch the show, please ask at the box office on arrival or speak to a bar manager on shift. We can place the high stool to the left near the front of the venue or at the back of the venue. The position at the front is backed by a dog-leg of two walls with a soundproofed blocked-in large pub window on one side.

Travel Guide and Arrival Guide: We do not have our own car park, however, there are accessible street parking options available on Arlingford Road. Drop off point 45 metres from Morval Road to entrance, 25 metres from Brixton Water Lane to entrance. There are a number of bus stops within very close proximity to the venue Brixton Tube is 0.5 miles and Brixton Rail station is 0.7 miles from the venue.

Toilets: We do not have an accessible toilet in our venue, but we do have an agreement with the White Horse Pub, Brixton Water Lane, which is 0.3 miles away. Our standard toilets are step free, with 690mm minimum width of the corridor.

Customers with Medical Requirements: We welcome customers who may need to bring food, drink, medicine or medical equipment to manage a medical condition. Please advise the box office on arrival.

Assistance Dogs: We welcome assistance dogs. If you intend to bring one to a busy night, we advise the venue maybe at capacity and you may like to discuss bringing your dog inside the venue with the duty manager of the night

Strobe Lighting: We have strobe lighting in the venue. We have signs advising customers of strobe lighting.

Respite space: If you have need of a respite space, either go to the chill out bar or the beer garden or if you need a moment more secluded you can ask security or box office staff for access to the box office. Or you can speak to a bar manager on shift if it is a free gig with no box office.

Hootananny aims to ensure equality and diversity at the venue

• We will not tolerate behaviour which makes customers, staff or acts feel unsafe
• We schedule staff training in equality, diversity and inclusivity in the workplace
• We programme diverse Acts and invite a diverse audience

Hootananny is a dog friendly pub in the beer garden and the pub bar. We are also a live music venue with a second bar, which can be loud and busy particularly at weekends. So on busy nights after 9pm we ask that dogs are taken home. All assistance dogs are welcome.

On October 12, 2023 Hootananny Brixton Venue CIC was incorporated with Companies House. It is a not-for-profit social enterprise that is owned and operated by its members for the benefit of the local community in Lambeth and the surrounding areas. Our admission charges cover both the show costs and the performer fees. Any surplus generated from events promoted by the CIC beyond that goes towards enhancing the local grassroots music scene, as per our objects. Please note that as a not-for-profit organisation we benefit from cultural exemption of VAT on any admission charges to live music events, further supporting our community purpose. The pub and backpackers hostel remain a Ltd company.

We have a cloakroom every Friday and Saturday night from October 1, and on some midweek gigs if they are booked out.

Hootananny aims to create a safer space

• We will not tolerate behaviour which makes customers, staff or acts feel unsafe
• If anyone on the premises feels unsafe we invite them to communicate this to our security and staff to ensure offending customers, staff or musicians asked to leave
• We are part of the Ask for Angela scheme; Ask for Angela is there to help vulnerable people, primarily women, in public places. If you go to the bar and ask for ‘Angela’ the bar staff will know you need help getting out of your situation and will call you a taxi or help you out discreetly – without too much fuss
• We have had training with the Campaign for Good Night Out so that we can better understand, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment and assault in our spaces