Roxy RIP

Sadly the roxy art house has now closed for good as from the 29th October 2010 due to the financial difficulties of its parent company. The old bowry and church was a great venue for the arts, hidden door festival was one of the last venues there and I am proud to have been a part of the last event at this historic venue. The building was also home to the embassy gallery who will have to relocate to a new premises in the near future. The management team from the roxy released these statements upon its closure:

"We, the former employees, are saddened to announce the closure of the Roxy Art House as of yesterday, 28 October 2010. This is due to the bankruptcy of the charity who owned the Roxy, Edinburgh University Settlement."

"We know what these events mean to you, they do to us too. Our sincere apologies. Please trust that no-one is more disappointed than we that these events won’t be going ahead.

"We would like to thank all of you who have crossed our threshold since January, when the new management took over. Artists, musicians and our life and soul – the revellers. Thank you all so much.

"Looking back over the past 10 months and seeing how far we have come, and how much distance we have covered in trying to realise that goal [of creating a multi-arts space for Edinburgh], we feel proud. And, as much fun as it has been, we would like to stress that we always looked at the Roxy as a project that needed to be commercially viable – which it was."

We will all be very sad to see it go, it truely was a brilliant venue to work in and it shall be sorely missed. It will be interesting to see if any new venues of this type spring up or the multi arts venue is slowly slipping into disregard.