The CLF Art Cafe

London, United Kingdom

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4 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
No
Take-out
No
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
No
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Noise Level
Loud
Music
DJ, Live
Good For Dancing
Yes
Coat Check
Yes
Smoking
Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No

Description

Specialties

An authentic 120 year old Warehouse multi level space The Bussey Building AKA The CLF Art Café hosts leading events in Music, Theatre, Film, Animé, Art, Comedy + more. Grass roots to cutting edge — Bestival to Secret Sundaze, The South London Soul to Train to The Royal Court Theatre, The Jungle Brothers to Adamski via MJ Cole + Roa and Phlegm Art Exhibitions — the list goes on and on and on.

Best of all the venue is down to earth without pretention. From the smiling happy security at late night events, to the mirror free ever evolving large yet intimate Interior, where different artists and promoters turn the venue into anything from an Alice In Wonderland Themed Forest to a spectacular 3D Visually Immersive space.

History

Established in 2007.

2007 Mickey Smith [The CLF] joined forces with Peckham Vision in order to fight the proposed demolition of then CIP House [The Bussey Building] and an area the size of x4 football fields for the creation of a tram storage depot in teh heart of Peckhams Town Centre.

Mickey alongside Eileen Conn, site owner Jonathan Wilson + Architects Benny O’Looney and Adam Khan put into action a plan to save the building. Renaming CIP House with it’s original moniker ‘The Bussey Building’. Which was step 1. The CLF were then tasked with Step 2: Putting the building on the map, showing just how important it was to the community and Peckhams future. After 3 years of The CLF staging literally hundreds of events, exhibitions, meetings and yet more meetings — 2010 everyone finally came to their senses + we finally got TFLs planning permission withdrawn and later that year our own accepted to create a new Multi-​level Art Centre. AKA The CLF Art Café or as it is more widely known The Bussey Building.

Meet the Business Owner

Mickey S.

Business Owner

Bussey Building /​CLF Art Café founder, producer and DJ. ‘Jazzheadchronic Mickey Smith’ has been successfully promoting and DJ hosting his own progressive — eclectic jazz fused globalistic events for over twenty years. From South East Asia. where [after 5 years of sell out events like the Rebirth Of Cool Club Nights or Cool Vibe Review w/​Gil Scott Heron, Lonnie Liston Smith, DJ Krush, Dj Shadow + More] he is still known as The Godfather of The Hong Kong Underground scene — to London where amongst things, he founded and runs The CLF [Chronic Love Foundation] and The Bussey Building AKA The CLF Art Café. Catch him Monthly /​Bi-​Monthly as host of nights like The South London Soul Train, The Funk Soul Rare Groove Review and Batukarma 21st Century Latin-​spired sessions + at numerous nights which he also promotes and DJ hosts at The Bussey /​CLF. Including The Jungle Brothers, Mark De Clive Lowe, Adrian Sherwood, Congo Natty, Jazzie B, Wunmi, Adamski + more