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Soho Estates planning to re-open Madame Jojo’s
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 22 February 2016
Soho hangout Madame Jojo’s is returning, apparently, it having been shut down in 2014 after a “serious incident of disorder” involving the venue’s security staff. The operators of the space – an important venue on the London cabaret scene and home to decade-old industry music franchise White Heat – subsequently lost their licence.
Despite the drama surrounding the closure, many saw the shutting down of Jojo’s as yet another nail in the coffin of Soho’s cultural past, assuming the building would be repurposed into offices, apartments or some horrible bar. But the MD of Soho Estates, which owns the property, told London Live last week – according to Thump – that the plan is to open a new venue on the site using the Madame Jojo’s name.
Though quite what that venue will be like remains to be seen. John James told the London TV network that the current venue space “isn’t fit for purpose”, but that he had plans to “build a bigger and better basement club which is going to re-appear as Madame Jojo’s”. Quite what that means, we’ll see if and when it happens, I guess.
