 The Sound Lounge exterior and outdoor seating area | |
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| Location | 216-220Sutton High Street,Sutton, London, SM1 1NU |
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| Public transit | Train:Sutton station. Buses: 80, 164, 280, S1 |
| Opened | 2020 |
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| thesoundlounge | |
The Sound Lounge is agrassroots live music venue onSutton High Street inSutton,South London. The venue hosts live performances including blues,Americana, folk androots music.[1] It incorporates aplant-based,carbon-neutral café and avinyl record shop, and, in addition to music, also hosts visual art exhibitions, theatre and dance.[2][3][4][5]
The venue's previous locations were firstMerton Abbey Mills, thenTooting, thenWimbledon and thenMorden before occupying the former premises of Sutton'sRoyal Bank of Scotland on Sutton High Street.[6][7]
Following the easing of lockdown, the Sutton and Morden venues had a limited opening in April 2021 for outdoor food and drink consumption and, at the Sutton venue,vinyl record sales at the Union Music Store within. A women's theatre event took place in June 2021, and Sunday jazz afternoons with vegan roast are planned. In addition to its normal meal sales, the venue works in conjunction withTime Out Youth Project at theSutton Life Centre to provide free meals for young people withfood insecurity.
Additional initiatives include the installation of acommunity garden, free hot drinks for local residents suffering fromsocial isolation, and activities for pre-school children. The venue also provide training for disadvantaged people aiming to becomebaristas andsound engineers.[8]
On 1 July 2021 the venue became the country's first grassroots music venue to be certified ascarbon neutral by the CarbonNeutral company. A wide variety of measures have been put in place to achieve neutrality. In addition to the fully plant-based menu for the café, the venue also obtains all of its energy fromrenewable sources, sends no waste to landfill and maintains anallotment garden on site for zero-carbon produce for the café.[9]
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