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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

Behind an ornate, European-Gothic facade on Dyke Road stands one of Brighton's more unusual music venues. The Grade II listed building dates from 1867, when it was designed by the architect George Somers Clarke as the Swan Downer School for poor girls, who were taught here for some seventy years before the premises passed through a long series of other uses. Since the late 1960s the building has been a fixture of Brighton nightlife, trading over the decades as Sloopy's Nitespot, Fozzie's Club a...