Welcome back, Brixton. How we've missed you

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.

- Dylan Jones

And now it is back. Properly back. After closing down earlier in the year following a crowd crush and two deaths, the Academy will soon be allowed to reopen. At a hearing last week Lambeth council agreed that the Brixton Academy could have its licence reinstated if it met 77 "extensive and robust"conditions, to promote public safety, which means it will soon return to normal service, curating memories for yet another generation of concert goers.