Sound venture for Hollihead

Chef Garry Hollihead is to open a live music venue in Islington, north London.

Hollihead, executive chef at the 100-seat Embassy restaurant in London's West End, plus Mark Fuller, chief executive at Embassy, and Gina Clough-Campbell, managing director, are teaming up with Artists Network, fronted by Dave Stewart of 1980s pop group the Eurythmics, to open the Marquee Club.

As well as live music, the venue will feature a 100-seat restaurant with an Amer-ican/British menu. The menu will be overseen by Hollihead.

The Marquee Club will open in July this year at the new N1 development in Islington.

The new club follows in the footsteps of the original Marquee Club, based in Soho and famous in the 1960s as a venue for up-and-coming bands such as the Who and the Rolling Stones.

Before opening Embassy in November last year, Hollihead was executive chef of London restaurants Sugar Reef and Red Cube. Fuller was a director at the two restaurants, along with Jimmy Lahoud and Marco Pierre White. Clough-Campbell was general manager of Sugar Reef.

The two restaurants were sold to Chorion last June for £7.5m.