The Tabernacle officially re-opened on Carnival weekend, August 2009. You could say the first six months were a little busy – the venue hosted music from the likes of…Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen, Take That, Jamie Cullum, Jarvis Cocker, Speech Debelle, Brett Anderson, Finlay Quaye, Filthy Dukes, Scouting For Girls, Delphic, Miike Snow, Corrine Bailey Rae, James Rhodes, James Marsters, Medium Rare Cabaret…laughs from…Peter Serafinowicz, Stephen Merchant, David Walliams, Kojo, Tim Key, Stewart Lee…talks from…Vivienne Westwood, Lord Gawain Douglas, D J Taylor, Sir Robert Irwin, Dan Cruikshank, Luke Wright, Last Tuesday Society…and regular old friends…Bookslam, London Jazz festival, Carnival comedy club, Portobello Film Festival, Pan Jazz, Hendricks Lecture Series and the Portobello Panto.
