{"id":325529,"date":"2025-08-07T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325529\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:35:18","slug":"bristol-venue-the-crofters-rights-to-reopen-as-the-croft-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325529\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol venue The Crofters Rights to reopen as The Croft in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Crofters Right originally featured a bar, a 110-capacity live music room, and a club space for 250 people. It\u00a0 is widely considered to have been a cornerstone of DIY and grassroots music in Bristol, an enviable list of DJs and bands played during its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>It was shuttered in July 2024, with its then-owners citing &#8220;significantly reduced customer numbers&#8221; as a result of the cost-of-living crisis as one of the primary reasons. Initial plans to re-open the following month were stalled, and the Stokes Croft address has remained unoccupied since.<\/p>\n<p>News of the return comes just weeks after one of Bristol&#8217;s biggest electronic music venues, Motion, closed for good after failing to negotiate a new lease with the building owners. Read DJ Mag&#8217;s report on the club&#8217;s history\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/djmag.com\/features\/how-motion-bristol-shaped-generation-of-south-west-raving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in May,\u00a0Bristol music venue Mickey Zoggs also <a href=\"https:\/\/djmag.com\/news\/bristols-mickey-zoggs-reopen-new-space-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reopened in a new location<\/a>.\u00a0The Bristol pub and community space that is home to local station Noods Radio\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/djmag.com\/news\/bristols-noods-radio-hq-mickey-zoggs-facing-eviction-after-mortgage-falls-through\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bristol\u2019s Noods Radio HQ, Mickey Zoggs, facing eviction after mortgage falls through\">had been closed since late last year<\/a>\u00a0after being evicted by the landlord of its previous home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crofters Right originally featured a bar, a 110-capacity live music room, and a club space for 250&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988222091968451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}