A builder daubs white lines across the new balcony floor of a Victorian church building in north London, while down below a fridge is about to be wheeled in.
“We only had that arrive on Friday,” says Union Chapel’s interim managing director Kathryn Dixon as she points at a low stage jutting out into the room.
Since the 1990s, Union Chapel in Islington has built a reputation as a famed music venue within a working church.
It’s hosted everyone from Adele, Amy Winehouse and Ed Sheeran to Nick Cave, Mavis Staples and Noel Gallagher, and only last week was voted the city’s top music spot by Time Out, external.
And now the chapel’s Sunday School, which was only recently falling into disrepair, is set to begin hosting its own performers, with a new space for both emerging artists and those who the chapel has served for more than 200 years.
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