Venuewatch: Cross Kings and Stags Head

Sad news from Snipe: The Cross Kings in, erm, Kings Cross has shut itself down in protest at the behaviour of the brewery:

it’s now boarded up after a dispute with Enterprise Inns, the Cross Kings’ management complaining about being “bled dry” by the firm on its Facebook page.
Despite the Cross Kings’ busy diary of events, they say they were given just a week’s notice before the bailiffs’ arrival on 9 July.

Snipe's Darryl Chamberlain also says that things are looking grim for the Stags Head in Hoxton, another Enterprise-owned venue whose management are finding things sticky.

Clinic in the clinic

Some bad news for Clinic fans:

Due to continuing illness the Clinic gig at The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen has been cancelled and is due to be rescheduled for next year. The promoter has started refund procedures with wegottickets and musicglue so all people who bought tickets will be contacted by the ticketing agent and refunded. Sorry to everybody who bought tickets, we were really looking forward to this.

This was supposed to be taking place on Thursday.