The Latest Breaking News from Brixton Academy

EXCLUSIVE The 70s ska and pop band’s frontman says they have played the South London venue ‘a couple of times’ and is ‘pleased’ it might soon be welcoming back music fans

Form an orderly queue: Brixton Academy is set to reopen after Lambeth council agrees it can have its licence back

From The Clash to Rihanna, the legendary venue has hosted them all. Then tragedy struck and it closed. Shannon Mahanty looks at whether it will remain shut forever

The south London music venue faces permanent closure after the Metropolitan Police urged the council to strip the venue of its licence.

The petition follows the Met Police's call for Brixton Academy's permanent closure following the crowd crush that resulted in two deaths in December

Venue could close permanently after two people were killed in a crowd crush in December

After a fatal crowd crush at the London venue in December, the BBC has spoken to a guard who says hundreds were let in for cash

Security guards at Brixton Academy regularly took bribes to let people into shows without tickets, a whistleblower has claimed. Mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23, died in hospital after a crush at the venue in December. They were at the Academy for a gig by Afro…

Whistleblower tells BBC’s File on Four some members of his team would allow ‘a couple of hundred’ extra people into venues in exchange for money