The Blind Tiger Club, Brighton

The Blind Tiger Club was a mixed music, arts and community venue in Brighton, England, which opened in 2010. The venue closed in 2014, and "Time Out" described the venue as "semi-legendary", in its round-up of Brighton's live music scene that year. In 2015, Gigwise included the club in their list of the UK's Greatest Lost Venues.
History.
The Blind Tiger Club was located at 52-54 Grand Parade, opposite the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts and close to the Royal Pavilion. The premises had been licensed for drinking and entertainment since they were originally built in the mid-1800s.
From its creation and for most of the 20th Century the premises traded as 'The Norfolk Arms'. In the 1990s, the venue was renamed 'Hector's House' after the children's television show Hector's House which screened on the BBC from 1965 to 1970.
As 'Hector's House', the performance of live music and DJs became more important to the licensed premises, with the space gaining a reputation as "a showcase for up and coming bands" and one of Brighton's key small live music venues, regularly taking part in The Great Escape Festival and other annual arts events.
In December 2013 the venue's financial difficulties led the director to make an appeal for members of the public to donate money to prevent it from closing, stating that unless funding was secured within the next few months, they would "fail in (their) mission to evolve the business into a stable social enterprise". These ongoing financial problems, compounded by a Noise Abatement Notice issued under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, led to the venue's permanent closure in May 2014. Outcry over the closure of the venue fed into national concerns which were building up by 2014, contributing to the creation that year of the Music Venue Trust.
The venue remains a licenced premises and is now a BrewDog pub.