Join us as we unveil the new look Big Chill House just in time to kick start the Bank Holiday weekend celebrations.

Unleash your creativity and help us decorate the house – seriously! We invite you  to create a mural for one of the central rooms at the venue as we want to immortalise your artistic flair!!! Also – bring a picture of you and your friends in fancy dress and you we will hang it on our walls!

Elsewhere Robin and Partridges’ Cult Of The Forest will be on hand with Pagan initiation ceremonies whilst there’ll be live photography on the night as our team will be on hand with a travelling stage set taking photos of people a various stages and uploading them to the House’s Facebook page for you to tag post-event.

- How do I get my FREE drinks* you ask?

Well you have 2 options…

- You can download and print your FREE drinks voucher here. Bring this along with you on the night to swap for a wristband at the door.

- Alternatively you can text ‘Value’ to 64446 and get the new location aware app, mCentive (iphone and Android only). On the night as you approach the Big Chill House, the free drinks voucher will appear on your phone and with that you will get your FREE drinks wristband from us!

*Whilst stocks last – get down early!

- About the re-design

After 5 years as one of North London’s favourite haunts The Big Chill House is pleased to announce the venue will be having a complete refurbishment – reopening on Thursday 28^th April. Assigning the services of architect, maker, and general all round creative, Lucy Tauber to oversee the project, Lucy has undertaken a concept study of The Big Chill festival to understand what makes the festival so unique and special and she has interpreted this into the venue refurbishment.

The challenge to design and build a bar for The Big Chill has been really exciting. Understanding and interpreting some of their founding principle has meant I have had the chance to be really experimental, to create unexpected and playful spaces, and to work with and present some of the best creative people in the industry today. 

Downstairs will be completely revamped with a new bespoke dining room and large and messy ceiling installation, made with up and coming East London designer Fred. The fixed seating at the front of the bar is being ripped out and replaced with a new shop front to create a more inviting space and encourage engagement with the street outside.

As well as new bespoke furniture, there will be a dining counter inside the front windows with laptop points and individual Angle Poise fittings for people to take inspiration from hectic Kings Cross. The room will be dominated by a mural by Chris Bianchi / Le Gun depicting the festival landscape.

The dance floor, DJ and stage area will feature a 14metre artwork across by London street artist Jim from End of the Line. The mezzanine space, renamed The Nook and Cranny will be transformed into a surreptitious space, keeping the cosy feel but will become much naughtier and enticing with artwork by Miss Led.

Moving upstairs, Lucy Tauber will be working with illustrator Stephanie von Reiswitz / Le Gun to transform the snug with a new take on the traditional Georgian Drawing Room, a development of an idea first created for the Big Chill bar in Bristol. The space will be elegant and unusual, and perfect for intimate live gigs, comedy clubs, banquettes or for private hire. Get married here!

The seated area at the entrance of this room will become The Games Room, an unexpected homage to kids toys and bedrooms of the 1970’s offering a complete contrast to all other spaces in the building, again representing the elements of surprise you will encounter at the festival.

And there’s for guest at the launch party to take part too! The new Snug on the ground floor will be a left blank, and people will be encourage to draw their interpretation of the festival…. More on that below!

 In Lucy’s words The Big Chill House will feel like The Big Chill Festival has come home!

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