There must be people in London who haven’t been to the Brixton Academy, in the same way there surely must be people who have never seen Holland Park at dusk or walked along Brick Lane at dawn, but are they real Londoners?
Up until it closed in January, the Academy was one of the most iconic venues in the city, a place that always looked incongruous among the toy town terraces of Stockwell Road, a gigantic spaceship of a ballroom hovering south of the river.
